Regionals day 2: Sleep optional
May
2007
If you stayed up until the end of that 16-inning game between Wheaton and Curry last night, like I did, you’re probably heavy into your caffeine provider of choice by now. But to watch Curry relievers Eric Lochiatto and Cory Moore go toe to toe with a New England power was fascinating to watch.
Hopefully Curry’s gutty performance on Day 1 will be long remembered.
But even that is overshadowed by the incredible individual performance by Jordan Baitinger of Ripon. The no-hitter first came to my attention after five innings, when I was updating the Scoreboard page. I checked back in in the seventh, tuned in for the eighth, and set up John McGraw, our broadcaster for the New York regional, to do a ESPN-style live lookin for the ninth inning.
Kudos to St. Olaf’s Mike Ludwig for a great call of the game and making it available on the Net.
What’s left for Wheaton? Surprisingly, their pitching staff might be in good shape. Chris McDonough went the first seven and a third and is obviously unavailable. Josh Simmons threw the 13th-16th and faced 16 batters in his four innings. But Keith Pescosolido and Pat Martin threw just two innings each.
So we had a game that tied the longest game in NCAA playoff history and the first no-hitter since 1980.
What a night. Only hope that Day 2 can live up to Day 1. And with elimination games Mid-Atlantic, West and Central today, there should be plenty of drama.
Like yesterday, let’s keep each other up to date on what’s going on here on the Daily Dose. The door is open.
May 17th, 2007 at 11:04 am
Great job by the D3-cast people. I can’t imagine being up at the end of the night like that and back on the air at 9-something AM.
May 17th, 2007 at 11:53 am
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzhuh?
May 17th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
bridgewater is eliminated by emory, 10-1
emory to face methodist tonight
May 17th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
hi guys…there’s no radio for the Austin College/Pomona-Pitzer game, so I was curious if anyone knew how AC got their four first run innings? wait, now it’s five runs…
anyway, any updates would naturally be appreciated.
May 17th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Why is WNEC the home team vs EConn when they are both 1-0 and EConn is the higher seed?
May 17th, 2007 at 2:18 pm
to jekelish: “there’s no radio for the Austin College/Pomona-Pitzer game”
no, there isn’t, and it could be that you and i are the only ones who are interested. maybe that’s why they don’t have radio or live stats or something going on, huh?
May 17th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
WNEC is the home team because they were a visiting team yesterday. ECSU was a home team yesterday. The rules attempt to even out home and away advantage over the course of the tournament. The rules to determine home/visiting team in the NCAA Tournament only get more complicated as the tournament wears on.
May 17th, 2007 at 2:42 pm
I wondered the same thing in the Williams v St Joeseph’s gaem in New England. That makes sense, but seems to take away the advantage of being the higher seed…. just assumed higher seed would be home all the time.
May 17th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
One would think that would make sense.
Home/away has been kind of painful for us to wrap around so far. We’ll see if we can get better data on who’s home and away ahead of time.
May 17th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
I’ve always thought that would be a much better idea, too. You can try reading the guidelines out of the championship handbook, but I warn you that it will likely give you a headache.
http://www.ncaa.org/library/handbooks/baseball/2007/2007_d3_baseball_handbook.pdf
May 17th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Thanks Bill! Just what I need another headache… Have enough of them from work.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
Austin College and Pomona-Pitzer are in extra innings…however, on the scoreboard there’s no 10th inning slot…any chance we could find out what’s going on there?
May 17th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
jekelish: the score was just updated, but the extra innings still aren’t showing.. austin is trailing by 2….
May 17th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
just saw that. oh well, i knew that AC’s lack of pitching depth would haunt them.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
wouldn’t you know it? the 10th inning box is now showing..
May 17th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
The readers spoke and we listened.
After last night’s games we rewrote our extra-inning functionality. Still had a bug that didn’t appear until a game actually got there.
May 17th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
hey, admin….. great job !!! you didn’t know it, but when i was working, i tested computer programs… i know all about those evil “bugs”….
May 17th, 2007 at 3:40 pm
well…. so much for that…. enjoy the other games, fellas..
May 17th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Really feeling the effects of the lack of sleep the past two nights …
May 17th, 2007 at 4:39 pm
I don’t know why they can’t schedule those extra inning games for earlier in the day!
May 17th, 2007 at 5:27 pm
did augustana lose their game today? the scoreboard still shows it in extra innings, but the next game has already started…
May 17th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
no… i finally found it… they won in 11 innings 6-5..
May 17th, 2007 at 5:46 pm
by the way…. i decided to play the game with D3FanInSCAC ….. anybody else playing? no? well then…. in that case… his first list was for Conference Champs / Not Rated. there were 22 on this list at the beginning. 10 of them have now been eliminated. the other 2 lists of teams have been a bit more successful with only 1 from each list being eliminated to this point. i find this very interesting. wonder if the “any given Sunday” rule applies here as well?
May 17th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Seed upset in the Mideast: Hope 5, Wooster 3. Wooster leaves the tying run on base in the 9th as they don’t get as fortunate as they did in the opener against Mount St. Joes.
The Marietta-Otterbein winner will be the only undefeated team left in the regional.
May 17th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
#6 Augustana actually beat #2 Illinois Welseyan 6-5 in extra innings today and eliminated IWU in the process. IWU stuggled the last week of the season losing their final four games… all in post season play (0-2 in CCIW tourney and 0-2 in the NCAA regional). OUCH!
May 17th, 2007 at 7:19 pm
This pitchers’ duel has gone through 12 at Auburn — Cortland and Trinity tied at 1-1. Jimmy Dougher finally came out after 11-1/3 inn
May 17th, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Yeah it can be confusing sometimes Bill and B2. And what a great game in Auburn. 2-1 in 13+.
May 17th, 2007 at 8:16 pm
In the Mideast Region, Marietta breaks through in a pitching duel to manufacture 3 runs in the bottom of the 5th. Heading to the sixth:
OTT - 0
MAR - 3
May 17th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
TCNJ dropped an 8-6 decision to Johns Hopkins in the Mid Atlantic this afternoon.
With the prospect of facing Kean with a win today, TCNJ went with their #3 pitcher against JHU’s #1 — holding back their #2 to potentially face Kean’s #2.
Huge advantage for Kean to be the #1 seed in a 7 team region when their #2 pitcher doesn’t go to the mound until every other team has already played two games.
May 17th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Trinity wins 2-1 in the bottom of the 13th… on an error. Great game… but Cortland’s achille’s heel bit them today… infield defense. the run scored by Trinity in the 8th was on an infield ground ball and they didn’t get the out at first… not sure if Dougher didn’t get to first in time or the throw to him wasn’t good. Anyone see it and can clarify that?
May 17th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Otterbein’s right fielder Hutchinson robs a 2-run homer to end the sixth. These teams are bitter rivals, having played over 10 times in the last 2 seasons. You can hear the intensity on the radio. Heading to the 7th:
OTT - 0
MAR - 3
May 17th, 2007 at 8:35 pm
John McGraw, our broadcaster at Auburn, says it was a good flip and the pitcher just wasn’t there in time.
May 17th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
Marietta is in the driver’s seat in the Mideast Regional with a 4-0 win over Otterbein. A HUGE pitching performance by TJ Knowlton, as he gets the complete game shut-out.
May 18th, 2007 at 1:38 am
Thanks to all about the home/away info, i’ll read up, but it seems the most logical method would be if the higher seed always was the home team.
May 18th, 2007 at 9:00 am
B2… I agree with you on that. There should be a reward for being the higher seed. The #1 seed gets the easier draw, but having the lower seed would at least be something for the lower seeds through all the games… makes the seeding mean something after the first game.