Is anyone watching USt-Carthage? Is it as ugly as it sounds? 4 errors, 4 walks, 10 runs, and not even out of the 3rd yet??

don't really think you can say it bit them in the arse since they still won the playoffs.

USt took advantage of the short Dundas CF fence (360 if I recall)- after hitting 10 HR in 35 reg season games they hit 11 in their 4 playoff games at Dundas (0 in their 1 playoff game at Northfield).

boy, not many people picked Augs over USt...

Quote from: supermiac on May 10, 2010, 05:05:21 PM

Quote from: BigPoppa on May 10, 2010, 03:13:28 PM
I really wanted to see Macalester get in to see what kind of damage Murray could do the tourney.

I was looking over his stats and Schuld's earlier today to see how they matched up and everything. Mac reaaaally used him a lot this year on short-rest it seemed, which might have caused a couple slip-ups for Murray along the way. Both are great pitchers, but I think Schuld has an enormous advantage in terms of rest and the team that's playing behind him. Nonetheless, I think he finished with something outrageous like 115 k's in 80 innings this year pitching almost every series. I would have loved to see a rematch between Schuld and Murray (a little revenge for my Tommies ), but I think the tournament is already going to produce some good games as is.

Concordia can flat out hit the baseball. I've been seriously impressed with the way they came out and played in conference. If there is any team that could potentially steal a Pool A in the MIAC, it's Concordia. That being said, I don't think St. Thomas will throw Schuld in the first game for exactly that reason. Augsburg isn't really a "gimme" game, but St. Thomas' pitching is stacked top-to-bottom, so holding Schuld for the second game is really nothing to get worried about.

This is what I have:

St. Thomas over Augsburg
Cord. over St. Johns

St. Johns over Auggies
St. Thomas over Cord.

Cord. over SJU

Cord. over UST
UST over Cord. to win conf. tourney

I'm not cutting Murrey any slack for his workload, there were 4 other pitchers that threw 40+ conf innings.

USt sweeps StO 19-4 and 2-1 to keep the Oles out of the MIAC playoffs. Playoff teams are USt, CC, SJU, and Augs. Concordia's matchup against BU tomorrow is simply for CC's playoff seeding.
USt's pitchers held Tyler Jones to a 1-7 afternoon, so he finishes with 37 hits, 2 shy of the MIAC record.

The line for the winning pitcher: 3.2inn 12h 4bb 11er. Wow.

Paging through the conf stats, looks like Tyler Jones has a good chance of breaking the single season hits mars (set by GAC's Ben Sherer in '04). None of the other records are in jeopardy.

I hate to make my first post of the year negative, but are there some mitigating circumstances that would explain why the two premiere pitchers of the league (Schuld and Murrey) are carrying In-Conference ERAs of 4.66 and 4.65?

Thats a big blow to the nationals, sounded like they had big plans for him. Hopefully he can come back strong in 2011   

Dan Kaczrowski was drafted yesterday. I assume he'll be leaving the Saints and going to the Diamondbacks organization, who drafted him 786th overall.

Big question to me is if/when Denning tries to bring Schuld back after going 12inn on Wednesday.

This scenario is why I originally said StO should be the favorite, they've been able to save more pitching than USt.
They could come back with either Mathison or Sommer this morning, both of whom have Ws over USt this year (albeit, an ugly win in Mathison's case), while USt will have to counter with Stone, Gibbs, or Licht, all of whom have lost to StO this year.
Then add in that the USt-CSS game ended around midnight and they have to turn around and play again at 10am...

Not saying USt can't win it, but I think StO should be the favorite.

Anyone on hand to see UST's 7 run 8th inning? Sounded like a few singles with a couple walks, pb, and wp sprinkled in.

I think all the awards were no brainers.
Adams was up there with Wins, ERA, and Ks.
Johnson tied the HR record and had an incredible OPS.
Freshman of Year Erik Nelson almost set a new batting avg record.
Coach of Year led perennial doormat Carleton to the playoffs.

I disagree with the Midwest Regional Preview. From the preview:
Cinderella- UWSP
Bust- StO
Favorite- USt (slightly ahead of CSS).

With the way the bracket sets up, I think StO has to be the favorite, even if you don't like they're the best team in the region. They play the 6 seed to start out and if they win they play the loser of CSS-SNC. They could be in the 3rd rd winners bracket and have faced the 6 and 4 seeds.
Biggest potential to bust should be USt. They're not the #1 seed but they're considered the favorite and they'll have to beat UWSP and CSS back to back.