Agreed, airball, lot of wins to be had on that schedule!

Wasn't all that familiar with Stevens, but after doing some digging (very detailed record book on their site) turns out they have been pretty good for a while.  From 2001-11, when the last coach (John Crane) was there, they went to seven postseason tournaments (5 conference, two ECAC) and played in four championship games (3 conference, 1 ECAC) and went to regionals in 2002.  Also had six 20+ win seasons, including five of last seven years before the coaching change after 2011 season.

Program looks like it was bad before that, never more than 12 wins in a season...looks like Crane got it going in the right direction and that is continuing under Kristaps Aldins today.  Hope they make it competitive in the E8 this season, will be great for the league to possibly get 3 in!

Looks like Ithaca's consecutive games cancelled due to weather streak might finally come to an end this weekend, as they are scheduled to play Old Westbury Saturday.  Must be itching to get started, and to finally get outside before their annual jaunt to the West Coast.

Saw Fisher has gotten some solid pitching based on the scores, who are their guys they are counting on other than D'Amato?

Regarding Stevens' improvement, I see that they are 23-1 vs. the CUNY last two seasons, 24-35 vs. everyone else, and 1-9 vs. Bombers.

Figures rain comes into play, actually been a decent spring for the 2nd straight year for a change...chalk it up to global warming I guess.  Hope they get it in, be a nice preview for the NCAA's and could settle the top seed esp. if Ithaca wins, I'd think the committee would just go by the numbers if they split the season series.

The NCAA rule for "forfeits" are if a game is called off/cancelled before it has started, it counts as a no-contest.  However, as Mr. McGraw astutely pointed out Fisher appears to be getting credit for the two wins, which I think is the right thing to do.  It's one thing to cancel non-league games as punishment, but doing so to conference games hurts the opponent and the league overall, and with no AQ each game carries a lot more weight than in most other leagues.  Fisher looks to be NY's best shot at a Pool C, hope they keep on keeping on.

Utica has been a disappointment over the years, this year even more so as they appeared to improve a little (relatively) last season and then had the airport incident, although they appeared to compete well (again, relatively) at Stevens over the weekend.  Just not a lot of emphasis or support from the administration I would wager, maybe this new AD will change that.

It also appears Hoboken's own Cake Boss might have some competition in town with all of the cupcakes and cream puffs Stevens had on their schedule this year...looks like the won the CUNY title 

Based on the strength of schedule/region winning percentages as per d3baseball.com, I would wager the initial regional rankings are going to look something like this:

1.  Ithaca (17-2, .895 in-region, .5937 OWP)
2.  Cortland (23-4, .852 in-region, .5712 OWP)
3.  Union (17-4, .810 in-region, .5403 OWP)
4.  RPI (20-7, .741 in-region, .5391 OWP)
5.  St. John Fisher (15-9, .625 in-region, .6098 OWP)
6.  Farmingdale (20-5, .800 in-region, .4584 OWP)

After those you have a handful of teams over .500 with solid OWPs, most notably New Paltz (14-11, .5486 OWP) but this group should make up the rankings.  Old Westbury and Staten Island have solid to very good in-region marks but OWP (308th and 341st nationally) takes them out of the discussion.  You could also include Farmingdale in that group as their OWP is weak, hence Fisher taking the 5 spot over them, but seems like the committee always gets the Skyline leader in the rankings.  Fisher could conceivably take the 4 spot over RPI as well based strictly on the numbers and wind up being the top NY team put up for a Pool C, with Ithaca taking the Pool B.

So as to the E8 getting two in, if Fisher picks up some more wins and wins the ECAC (heard they're bringing it back this year?) they'd be a strong candidate, as their OWP is currently 10th in the nation and tops among eligible teams (Utica is #1, probably because they can't schedule themselves )...