Ouch!
May
2009
Overall not quite what I had expected. The first day is usually full of memorable games. Number ones going against number ones. Well-rested team ready to start the tournament. We had the sun shining and the stage set but the games did not come.
Wooster and Carthage came the the closest but ended up being a blowout as McDowell settled down and Karpen heated up. Not even the Kean head coach had good things to say about their performance in a win against a very good Trinity team. Coach Keith Osik gave us our headline and that said it all about game three. The Tommies never let up against Chapman and winner of the quickest game of the night was never in doubt.
That was yesterday and for the first two games it is win or go home as all four teams will be fighting to extend their time here in Grand Chute. In out final set, winning will be more important to getting closer to the goal all had coming to Wisconsin.
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May 23rd, 2009 at 11:03 am
Indeed, hopefully a more memorable Day Two.
I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the Carthage fans tailgating out in the parking lot each of the pat two days when we’ve arrived here, more than an hour before game time. Yesterday the tailgate was in full swing at 8:30 a.m.
We had just a sprinkle of rain this morning but it didn’t delay a thing.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I understand that the world series is going on right now but I just took a look for the first time at the DIII All-Americans. I first off would like to say congrats to everyone on the list, you all deserved it. Now being the homer that I am because I attended W&J i have one problem with a kid who was left off the team. I will just leave you his stats and you can see why this has me a little puzzled as to why he is not on there. Thanks and best of luck to all the remaining teams in the tournament.
Washington & Jefferson
Jim Pasquine
*Hitting Stats*
.481 bating avg (6th nationally) in 189 at bats
730 slugging %
530 on base %
Hits 91
Runs 66 RBI’s 58 8hrs 15 doubles 4 triples 21 stolen bases
*Pitching Stats*
5 wins 3 loses
4.9 era
58 innings/48 strikeouts
teams hit .210 against him
just a thought for you guys..thanks
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:33 pm
It sounds like rain is coming. About a half-hour or so, according to the stadium operations folks.
May 23rd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Who do you think will win it all?
I’m going with Kean.
Trinity is going to go two and out just like Kean did last year after winning it the year before.
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:00 pm
I picked Kean in the pick em.
May 23rd, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Could be tough to get this first game in before the rain hits.
May 23rd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Rain beginning to pick up here between games.
May 23rd, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Game starts.
May 23rd, 2009 at 3:41 pm
Looks like the link on NCAA.com for video for this game is incorrect. Here you go:
http://all-access.cbssports.com/player.html?code=ncaa&media=128538
- Pat
May 23rd, 2009 at 4:06 pm
And it looks like we’re in the clear weatherwise for a while.
May 23rd, 2009 at 4:54 pm
Chapman leads 3-2 going to the Chapman bottom of the 8th. Irsfeld has a complete game going for CU.
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:08 pm
Chapman wins 4-2. Irsfeld gets a complete game win. Chapman got 3 unearned runs in the win.
R-H-E
CU 4-9-1
FSU 2-6-4
Farmingdale joins Trinity CT for the trip home.
Imagine… New England and New York are gone.
May 23rd, 2009 at 5:31 pm
On their loss to Chapman, Keith Osik said “Tough way to go out. We have a long ways to go to compete here with a program that got underway four years ago.”
May 23rd, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Would have helped if Osik had had his ace available, but they weren’t going to win the tournament regardless.
And neither is Chapman without their ace. Lucky to be moving on.
Ithaca still the last to win out of New York. Not sure why they don’t just combine the NE, NY and MA regionals and make them interchangeable.
May 23rd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
Not sure why they don’t just combine the NE, NY and MA regionals and make them interchangeable
1) There is a New England regional (8 teams) and there is a New York regional (8 teams). Massachusetts does not have a regional – you see, Massachusetts is in NEW ENGLAND.
2) Why don’t they combine them? Well, let’s think about that. Where would the 8 teams be distributed to?? Why don’t they combine them? Because Division III baseball is strongest in New England, New York & New Jersey. New England Regional had three teams ranked in the top 10 for the course of the season. Three teams who were ranked #1 during the season.
3) Over the past several years a team from New England has been shipped out to either the NY or NJ regionals (at large bids sometimes, other times League champions). At least two of those times the team from New England advanced to Appleton.
4) Why don’t they just combine the regions? Because someone actually cares about Division III baseball – and wants the best of the best to play in Appleton (of course, the regions DO need to be realigned – but it’s not in the Northeast that they need to be combined … ) as of right now, we have a National Championship that does not allow the best teams in the country to advance.
May 23rd, 2009 at 7:42 pm
MA is the Mid-Atlantic regional.
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:29 pm
Sorry, I’ll abbreviate Mid-Atlantic M-A from now on to avoid that confusion.
JLH, I think we agree more than you think we do.
The regional system doesn’t really impact anything for those three regions. The committee could, within the rules and without a flight, ship almost any team to any of the three regionals.
I think if they just named the regionals Northeast I, II and III, (more in line with the “administrative” regions) the regions would naturally be more balanced and we wouldn’t as often have the very problem you pointed out. Though ECSU could have beaten Babson if they wanted to win; no way Trinity beats them without throwing Bayer.
If not these 3, which regions do you think should be realigned and in what way?
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:32 pm
This has really been yawnstipating baseball in the first 7 games. The only close games featured some truly bad defense.
Wooster should be rooting for a St. Thomas win tonight, IMO.
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:36 pm
Wooster has just been relentless today against Kean.
Now Wooster 10-0 vs Kean in the Kean bottom of the 8th.
May 23rd, 2009 at 8:45 pm
2 out lightning for Wooster. All game.
Lot of tournament left for Kean, who still hasn’t thrown Bartlinski or Feneis. And Aich didn’t throw today.
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Watching the NCAA webcast…
If I were doing the drinking game on the words “crooked numbers”, I would be under the table by now.
Going to the bottom of the 9th, Wooster 14, Kean 1.
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:38 pm
Final Woo wins, 14-1.
May 23rd, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Indeed. I’m wondering what one has to do to get this gig. I’m pretty sure I and someone from this board could do the job as well as these guys. Maybe better.
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:25 pm
Simons looks terrible. Everything up in the strike zone, not on balance. Not sure how a short guy misses up so much.
May 23rd, 2009 at 10:49 pm
This new guy has a release point lower than Dan Quisenberry. We’re talking soil creep here.
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:07 pm
Dangit I thought this might be a closer game than it has been so far.
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:48 pm
The tourney has been an interesting collection of teams…almost a selection of “haves” and “have nots” for this season.
So far, the teams that have not won a championship
Going to Appleton:
NE: Trinity CT (2008) and gone
NY: Farmingdale (Last New York Region team to win the D3WS was Ithaca in 1988.) and gone
MA: Kean (2007) in the loser’s bracket
S: Shenandoah (Last South Region team to win the D3WS was NCWC in 1999.) losing 15-2 in the 6th and still not out of trouble.
C: Carthage in the loser’s bracket
W: Chapman (2003) in the loser’s bracket
ME: Wooster in the winner’s bracket
MW: St Thomas (2001) dominating Shenandoah in the second round.
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:55 pm
Sorry about the above post…
No edit or delete function on the blog…
It looks tough on teams coming out of the loser’s bracket as of tonight and Wooster looks 50-50 as being a first time winner.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:01 am
Kind of like 2002. CUA, Lakeland, CNU, TCNJ and RPI were all there with Carthage, MC and ECSU. Carthage lost out early but the other two “old heads” met in the championship.
I really expected more from Shenandoah, and this might not be it for them in the tournament. Excepting 06 (which both NCWC losses were really close), when the Dixie Conf team wins the South, they usually win at least one in the series, if not more.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:04 am
Tomorrow is the season for Wooster. If they win, they can punt Monday and have a chance to win one game Tuesday. If they lose, I see very little way they can win. And they’ve got a guy with a torn labrum and a guy who relies on trickery to do it with.
Surprise St. Thomas’s reliever is anyone of value, considering they have their own depth issues on the mound, albeit not as severe as Wooster’s IMO.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Also Ralph, Kean and Shenandoah look to me like teams that could come through the loser’s bracket. Kean because they have plenty of pitching left and Shenandoah because of their offensive capability.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:14 am
How’s that drinking game going now?
May 24th, 2009 at 12:20 am
They actually haven’t said the magic words as often this game. Maybe someone got to them in between games.
May 24th, 2009 at 12:53 am
Thanks for the info Spence.
How much depth does Carthage have in its pitching staff for Shenandoah?
I have it that Kean and Chapman are in for a rematch. Kean probably wins. Chapman has either Luzar or Matamoros on the mound. (Kitchens absence has really hurt them.)
I predict that the Tommies beat Wooster.
On the drinking game, actually I was drinking a Diet Coke, and it looks like I will be up all night.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:07 am
Spence — D3baseball.com put in a bid to broadcast the games but we were not selected. I think with John McGraw as the primary and me as the secondary PBP guy we would do better than this.
May 24th, 2009 at 10:40 am
In response to “jlh22″, I spoke to an individual about getting the best 54 teams and his reply, NCAA does not want the best 54 BUT wants equal opportunity of participation in D3 Baseball.
May 24th, 2009 at 11:05 am
A more accurate response to the “best 54 teams” is that those “best 54 teams” have equal access to the National Championship at the beginning of the season.
32 conferences have post-season tourneys that determine the Pool A bid. This season, I counted about 160 teams that participated in the post-season tourneys.
The Northwest Conference ended in a tie, George Fox and Pacific Lutheran. Because those 2 teams had already used up their allocated number of weeks for the sport of baseball, the NWC had to appeal to the NCAA to permit a one-game playoff to determine the bid, which GFU won.
Therefore 33 conferences had playoffs to determine who got into the NCAA tourney. The clamoring that we get from the fans are for the 13 Pool C bids, (essentially “do-overs” for teams that failed the first time). The number of at-large bids is determined by funding criteria across all of D3. The recent expansion of Pool C bids has allowed more high quality teams back into the tourney.
If you look critically at why a team is not in the playoffs, then you can almost see the game, or the inning, why that team beat themselves.
“In Division III especially, if you don’t beat yourself, you’re going to win a lot of ballgames.” — St. Thomas coach Dennis Denning after the Shenandoah win last night (May 23rd, 2009).
Shenandoah was a beneficiary of a “do-over”, a Pool C bid. NCWC won the USA South AC tourney and the Pool A bid. They should consider themselves lucky.
May 24th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Conferences that do not have a post-season tourney to determine the Pool A bid…
Southern California IAC
Michigan IAA
Northwest Conference
May 24th, 2009 at 11:58 am
Re: Announcers.
Are they really that bad?
May 24th, 2009 at 1:49 pm
Yes.
May 24th, 2009 at 1:54 pm
John, they combine lack of familiarity with D-III with just not being that good. Woodall has a few decent anecdotes but doesn’t add too much, and the pbp is pretty humdrum. Like last night they kept talking about how Shenandoah was trying to get their young guys some experience…no they weren’t, they were trying to avoid using an arm they might need later on that clusterf*ck of a game. There’s not a lot of pure entertainment value either, though I will admit that these first two days pretty much constitute a worst-case scenario for a broadcast team.
Ralph, Carthage hasn’t thrown Trace Ruffie, who some said might be their ace though the guy that threw yesterday was their 2nd team A-A and has the best stats. Ruffie doesn’t appear to be dominant from his numbers, but neither was the guy UST threw against Shenandoah. I think Shen would rather see a pitcher come right at them. Most good hitting teams do.