Ha gang:

It's almost show time.

Hawk,  good luck to your son. It's a great day when you can watch your son play a little ball.

Behrend may be the team to beat, with Frostburg in 2nd. Frostburg has a very young team with a lot of potential.  If Frostburg's sophmores and juniors come to play, Behrend will be in for a battle.

Any word on any recruiting home runs this spring? Or what studs have transferred???

With the season well under way, who are the top seniors, suniors, soph's and freshman sop far?

Frostburg got swept by Lake Erie. I think they could be in for a long season. Sources indicate Lake Erie looked good. For Frostburg, apparently the seniors are struggling, too many errors and their coach is still playing with the lineup. Sometime change has a rough path.

I reviewed of the preseason pole, I think La Roche and Pit will finish ahead of Frostburg.

Penn State should finsh No. 1 if their bats stay alive and infielding stays consistent, and La Roche will probably have the consistency to finish 1 or 2 this season, and if Pitt's bats get hot, then they will finish a strong 3rd.

For Frostburg, I belive 4th place. They apparently played well this weekend, and if the senior leadership stays strong and the infield can produce at the plate, they should finish pretty strong. The problem for Frostburg is center and left field. You have 7 players for 2 positions. Thats a problem-maybe good (good talent pool) and maybe bad. (there is already talk of players transferring).



2008 Baseball Preseason Poll
(Regular season finish in 2007)
1. Penn State Behrend (4)
2. Frostburg State (T-1)
3. La Roche (T-1)
4. Pitt-Bradford (5)
5. Medaille (T-1)
6. Pitt-Greensburg (6)
7. Penn State Altoona (9)
8. Mount Aloysius (7)
9. Lake Erie (8)
10. Hilbert (10)

I was looking at the schedules for the other AMCC teams and I noticed that Frostburg is not making a trip south-that could be a BIG MISTAKE.

Lake Erie - going to Arizona 3/4-3/9

Medaille- going to Florida 3/14-3/19

Penn State (Behrend) going to Florida 3/9-3/15

Pitt-Bradford going to Arizona 3/8-3/14

Pitt-Greensburg - going to Florida 3/9-3/14

Considering they have not even practiced on the field yet (apparently except for their trip to North Carolina), can they be competitive this year? I guess it remains to be seen. Are they having budget problems?

Now that we are almost ready to crank up the season, any last minute news. I did hear that some top teams in the conference may have been hit with player eligibility issues (grades, etc...)

Frostburg: WOO. I did not hear about the off campus trouble-what is that all about.

I did hear that one of the freshman catchers Frostburg recruited is not returning and one of their freshman pitcher recruits may be ineligible due to grades. That means at least 2 of their top 5 recruits probably will not be on the field in the spring.

I also heard that other schools are shaking out their freshman also. That first quarter is tough!

I have watched Frostburg close, if Frostburg can develop and keep their freshman, they will be major contenders.

Didn't Frostburg go overseas a few years ago?

Can anyone clarify Coach William Shields status with Frostburg. I am hearing conflicting data.  Has he resigned or is he just coaching a summer league? Hopefully he is staying and my information is wrong. I have heard that he is doing a good job with the new coaching transition.

William Shields-Frostburg's assistant coach resigned. Apparently some of the players never new about if until they saw it on Frostburg's website. Things just keep on getting better over there. WHY would you not tell your players before it is released to the public.

I did hear that Frostburg got beat bad and they could be in trouble this spring. I will tell  ya that the recruited freshman class will have to produce (they will have to mature quick). The soph and jr.'s are the potential weak link. The seniors have good leadership.

It was my understanding that one of the freshman pitches may be hurt, and potentially out for the season, and one of the freshman outfielders had some kind of finger injury so he missed a good part of fall practice, but he is expected to be ok I believe.

Whether the players will respond to their new coach will have to be seen.

I think Frostburg's work in the off-season will determine its success in the spring. IT'S A LONG SEASON.

From what I heard, Coach Robertson should thank the 2 GA's for keeping the team in tact, especially the freshman recruiting class, who from all indication, probably would have followed McKnight to any school he was hired to coach before the school year started.

Apparently, some schools tried to get some of the fesh/soph to transfer but they refused. I don't think FSU's athletic director or FSU's administration had much to do with that.

If I was FSU's coach, I would keep Sidorowicz and Shields around for a "while".

Where did Main transfer to?

I would agree, but it would depend of how quick Frostburg's freshman class can get adjusted to the big show and contribute. FSU's soph./jr/sr class may not be enough. FSU had some good players transfer.

Penn St (2)
Greensburg (3)
Altoona (possibly 4th)

Never leave out Erie or Roche

I am going to go out on a limb: If FSU's soph/jr and current recruiting class stayes in tact and matures (some of these freshman just turned 18), they could make a run for the NCAA III championship (much to my dismay).

However, some other AMCC teams (Erie Roche Penn-Bre)  have some very good returning players and also had a good recruiting class.

Who will win the AMCC?

Teams to watch?

Seniors to watch?
Juniors to watch?
Sophmores to watch?
Freshman to watch?


It's almost time folks!!!!!

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FROSTBURG STATE 
HILBERT COLLEGE
LA ROCHE COLLEGE
LAKE ERIE COLLEGE
MEDAILLE COLLEGE
MOUNT ALOYSIUS COLLEGE
PENN STATE ALTOONA
PENN STATE BEHREND
PITT-BRADFORD
PITT-GREENSBURGl