Regarding the non-use of Wolf, I noticed he had DH'd all three games, despite primarily playing 1B when he wasn't pitching all season.  I'm guessing he must have had some sort of arm issue to not only not throw an inning but not play defensively either.

Agreed, their senior class was legit and they were as good as anyone we saw all year, and Gardner should get a shot somewhere in the draft, hard throwing lefties with nasty offspeed stuff are always in demand...

In regards to the tournament, you make a good argument regarding throwing out the regular season.  But if you look at a similar league like the Capital (CAC), they don't have an automatic bid either but they do have a postseason tournament.  This year only Salisbury earned an NCAA bid, and they were the only one that deserved to go.  But in past years they've gotten in 2 and even 3 teams (York, Mary Washington) in as a result of one team winning the regular season and another winning the postseason tournament.  The E8 2nd and 3rd place teams would stack up favorably to those types of programs, so affording them the same opportunity might help the E8 get more than one team in.  The ECAC winner is not a lock to get a bid despite Fisher getting in last year via that route, and based on the 0 Pool C's out of NY this year, it might be worth looking into something along those lines.

Saw that with the SUNYAC moving away from the tournament as well, do you think it will help or hurt everyone else's chances of winning the league?   

In regards to Ithaca's tournament performance, I think the big issue with them is they didn't play a meaningful game for almost a month.  Their final conference weekend against Fisher was 3 weeks ago, and even though they had some non-league games in there against some good teams, they had the Pool B bid wrapped up, and since the E8 has no playoffs and they opt to not play in the ECAC, it seemed like they lost their edge.

It seems odd that the E8 doesn't have a tournament, as they are apparently the only baseball conference in any division of college baseball that doesn't have some sort of postseason.  And evidently the reason they don't is because Ithaca doesn't want one.  Take a look at RIT...their 1st weekend was rained out, they had a bye the next, and got swept 4 by Ithaca after a long layoff the following weekend.  After that they went on to win 11 out of the next 12 league games.  I'm sure they would have liked another shot at Ithaca in a conf. tourney...and it was a similar situation last year, with RIT finishing a game behind them in the standings after splitting 2 DH's on the final weekend.  You would think a playoff would be beneficial to the league, perhaps giving them an opportunity to get a B and a C since they have no automatic bid.

Should be interesting year next year, Ithaca and Fisher sustaining some key losses to graduation, RIT returning Dornes and Tosh and a good nucleus, and Stevens could be a factor, as well.  They had a brutal year but looks like they've had  some good teams in the past, and were mostly 1st year players and they faced a really tough non-conf. schedule (Eastern CT, Salisbury, Wooster, Kean, TCNJ, Hopkins) in addition to league play.  Saw them at Fisher and they played them tough, losing 3 1-run games.

Good luck to Cortland in Wisconsin...tough draw w/Trinity out of the gate!