Day 5 - Championship Day
May
2008
A little cool this morning but the skies are blue and although there is ample sunshine, it is mostly cloudy. It is Cape Cod weather. The field is getting a touch up now so the field logos will look good on the video. The white will be very white, the blue, very blue.
Today we crown a champion. Will it be Trinity or Johns Hopkins. Yesterday the UW-Whitewater Head Coach said he was already working on the movie script but he had his team coming in against all odds and winning the Walnut and Bronze trophy everyone has started out this season competing for.
Will Trinity meet the fate of the 1954 Cleveland Indians who won 111 game but fell 0-4 to the New York Giants or will Johns Hopkins be like the Red Sox in 2004, 3 games down too the Yankees.
Trinity will have to get their bats going unless they can shut down a Johns Hopkins offense that found their stoke yesterday. Trinity has trailed in only 12 games this year and none in this tournament as the Bantams put their runs up early and made the lead stand. This is what they have done in the regional and here in Appleton.
Never give up on the Blue Jays, they know what it takes to win and believe that they have the team that can end the dream of a perfect season.
Hey its a great day for baseball and why not - lets play two.
May 27th, 2008 at 11:54 am
No offense, but I’ll settle for just one game today.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
You might want a little offense.
May 27th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
I like that Trinity is starting their ace. Why give JHU the momentum if Trinity had help him out of a possible game two?
May 27th, 2008 at 1:30 pm
Playing both teams at Denison, Trinity this year and Johns Hopkins last year, I have to say I’m very interested in this matchup.
We faced Kiely and he was pretty much unhittable. For me I would like to see Trinity win this in one game that is because it would be the first time ever, and it would also be awesome to say we were one of their closest games of the year, being up 2-1 going into the 6th when the wheels fell off and we lost 3-2, being one of their closest games. Well this will be a good one!!!
May 27th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
true, but can you imagine the momentum JHU will take if they beat the Trinity ace, hand them their first loss, and get geared up for game two!
May 27th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
No doubt about that, Dukes…
…looks like a heck of a game going on right now, too.
May 27th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Alright, well, so we got our second game. New poll on the front page, too, speaking to the momentum questions raised above here.
May 27th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Holy mackeral…lets see if the Jays can hold on.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
3-2, tying run on second and — the video goes out?
What’s up with that?
May 27th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
WTF??? The video cut out??? You’ve got to be kidding me…
May 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Trinity scores tying run with a single. Jays make a pitching change.
Bants have runners on first and second with two out.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Why no video? Did it cut for everyone?
May 27th, 2008 at 5:15 pm
I’m at work and I thought my boss pulled the plug on my network connection. Turns out the video stopped broadcasting for everyone…
May 27th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
Hopkins gets a flyout to center…3-3 heading into the ninth.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
Trinity leaves bases loaded when Ryan Piacentini flies out. They got the one they needed, but still missed a big opportunity.
Off to the Top of the ninth tied at 3.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Video is back up…
May 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Best 19 minutes of my life. Thanks.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Now I’ll watch the Tiger Woods commercial for the 11th time.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Evan — is there a secret to getting it? It won’t load for me.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
I’ve watched it at least 20 times…
May 27th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
edit: it is up for me now.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
There we are.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Anyone care to explain to me why Kiely or Barnard isn’t finishing this game?
You’ve got 3 all-american pitchers and none of them is finishing the national championship game in a 3-3 tie. I have no words.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
Rob Pietroforte for President
May 27th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
WHOLE
LEE
KRAPP!
How the heck do you IBB the bases loaded and put more pressure on. Congrats to Trinity and JHU on a great way to finish the season.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Congrats to the Bantams. Couldn’t be prouder of them.
May 27th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Wow…that sounds like about the worst ending to a championship game I’ve ever heard of.
I’m glad my computer wouldn’t show the video stream, honestly.
May 27th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
That’s not to take away from either of the teams of course.
Just seems like a great epic drama that ends with someone getting seltzer down their pants.
May 27th, 2008 at 6:06 pm
Glad I didn’t pay for the video, but a blackout is still frustrating in this day and age. What bad timing! Would this happen during a Div. I game?
Of course, the fact that my school is now a National Champion (in something other than squash) overwhelms all technical glitches.
May 27th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
I lost video, too, and figured it was just me. I really hope CSTV replays the game like they did the one last year on their network.
May 27th, 2008 at 6:34 pm
Wouldn’t mind seeing the first 17 innings.
May 27th, 2008 at 6:39 pm
Why cannot the professionals get their sophisticated technologies to work? Do the specifications of the hosting facility need to be tightened? Do we need a new producer on the D3 level? How can the NCAA continue to accept such marginal performances at D3 activities? The outside face of NCAA D-III, from the Championship presentations to the accuracies (inaccuracies) in the Handbooks is less than “best practices” should permit.
It makes be appreciate the pride that goes into the “amateur” websites at D3sports.com and “professional” attitude and pride that is taken here by Pat Coleman and his crew.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
SquashBabe — nice.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
SquashBabe:
Indeed. Are you a current student or a graduate? I was friendly with a few of the female squash players during my Trinity days.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I also lost the video in the bottom of the 8th. Since the same thing happened yesterday during the 9th inning of whitewater-hopkins, I suspect they simply didn’t have the server capacity they would need when the games got tight and late and more people switched from ’stats’ to video and crashed the server. Or similar. Just a guess.
Anyways, if you think that was bad.. Tampa planned to videocast their games at the DII series, only to find out after the fact that the facility itself lacked adeqaute bandwidth to do so. That was tough to take after hearing some Sauget official brag about how he took the series away from Montgomery because of his wonderful facility. Tampa is playing right now - audio only.
As to CSTV, last year they televised, not just webcast, the entire DIII series on tape delay. They did put it up on the web later. But I asked them and they said they “were not having that event this year”. Perhaps they will still put up the final game(s), they didn’t say. Yesterdays semifinals were not webcast on CSTV. I think CSTV was just the carrier, not the producer.
May 27th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
Congratulations to the Trinity Bantams!! The perfect season would have been amazing but a National Championship is incredible and the result of years of hard work by Coach Decker and his players in building up the program. Way to go Bants!!
May 27th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
Starting pitcher, Chez Angeloni of Johns Hopkins was named the Most Outstanding Player of the tournament. He was joined by teammates 1B Matt Benchener, 3B Todd Emr, P Ryan Kealy, and OF Jon Soloman. Two members of the team were from the 2008 Champions. The Trinity (Conn.) players on the team were P/DH Chandler Barnard and P Tim Kiely. The remainder of the team included Garrett Dorn from Linfield and a trio from UW-Whitewater, Joe Munn, OF Ben Prather, and 3B Kevin Zalnis.
May 27th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
Couple of things about today:
Watched/listened to both games today… very impressed with Hopkins. Also impressed with the way Trinity simply didn’t get rattled when down.
Secondly, I too experienced the web problems. I actually complained to CSTV and got a rather quick response:
“Mr McHugh,
Sorry for the inconvenience, there was a brief loss of connectivity
on-site. We immediately contacted the producer at the field and were
able to get the connection restored in under ten minutes - the feed is
back up now but let me know if you experience any further issues.
Best,
Ben
Ben Homer
Coordinator, Client Services
CBS College Sports Network
85 Tenth Ave, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10011
212.342.8750″
I haven’t responded… but the delay was far longer than 10 minutes and it was inexcuseable!
Finally, for those of you who don’t know me, I work fulltime as a News and Sports Producer for the ABC affiliate in Baltimore.
May 27th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Well… what I was trying to say before accidently hitting “submit” was:
I had a lot of our newsroom huddled around my computer watching that second game at the end. No one wanted to walk away and most in the newsroom who weren’t watching were asking for updates. Oh, and we were on the air with the 5PM show and I had to get into the booth for the 6PM show. We had our priorities a bit off!
Anyway, I have always tried to push the fact that D3 is just as exciting as D1 to a lot of people in this newsroom… and some get it. However, that game might be a good way to prove it. People were still talking about it a few hours later and I bet they will be talking about it tomorrow when I get back to work!
June 3rd, 2008 at 11:34 am
How is Kurt Yacko not a first team All-American??? I mean there was talk about him being the player of the year.
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Jim Dixon reported that Kurt’s name was submitted (I assume by his “sponsor”, e.g., SID or coach) for consideration as a shortstop. There were plenty of good shortstops out there.
June 4th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Wow, how was he not submitted as a utility player. Great hitting numbers and unbelievable pitching numbers, not to mention was on a World Series participant.