Ecfaninri- in my opinion, you throw your ace in the first round game if he's on full rest.  To throw your number 4 would be sending the wrong message to both your team and the team you're playing against.  "Schult can beat the 8 seed, but we need to save Shawn, Will and Matt for the better teams". Throw the ace if he's ready.

...Which makes one wonder if he is in a position to be publicly questioning that certain team's flaws in this forum.

Moc-

If you check out "nebaseball44"'s e-mail address, it becomes very clear which program he is involved with, and in what capacity he is involved.

Spec-

Check out the definition of an "in region" game.  Wheaton beat TCNJ twice, and Hopkins/william patterson once each.  Those are in region wins as well.

Quote from: TheGNAC on March 31, 2009, 10:05:26 AM

Quote from: d3ball123 on March 31, 2009, 09:23:25 AM
"THE GNAC's" Top 4 Pitching Stats:

Wheaton: 18 Games, 3.69 ERA, 163 Hits, 77 Runs (65 Earned), 42 BB, 128 K

ECSU: 15 Games, 3.50 ERA, 117 Hits, 75 Runs (51 Earned), 54 BB, 126 K

USM: 14 Games, 5.21 ERA, 135 Hits, 80 Runs (66 Earned), 44 BB, 98 K

Trinity: 15 Games, 4.24 ERA, 113 Hits, 84 Runs (56 Earned), 76 BB, 107 K


If pitching wins, Wheaton and ECSU have separated themselves to this point, in my opinion.  And for those that may argue that Trinity and USM have potent offenses to make up for the discrepancy, consider the following:

Trinity: 8.9 runs scored per game
USM: 10.6 runs scored per game
ECSU: 10.2 runs scored per game
Wheaton: 10.8 runs scored per game

Thoughts?

I've contended for a while now that I'm not sure Southern Maine has the pitching to win the region this year, no matter how awesome they are offensively. Therrien's performance over the weekend is obviously encouraging, but the other 3 teams, Trinity included, all have a bonafide All-American ace. USM doesn't. Although Trinity probably has the least amount of pitching depth out of the four.

Still, when Wheaton can run out a one-two of Bernardini-Gingras with Barnes and Simmons at the end of games, that's just silly. Same at Eastern, with Gilblair-Fontaine-Musson and Dutton and Wojick at the end of games.

Obviously the national polls agree, as Eastern and Wheaton are the #1 and #2 teams in the land as of today.

I agree.  I decided to throw the stats out there in order to validate your top 4, and somewhat contend KSCfan's statement that the "top 4 of NE clearly have pitching."

"THE GNAC's" Top 4 Pitching Stats:

Wheaton: 18 Games, 3.69 ERA, 163 Hits, 77 Runs (65 Earned), 42 BB, 128 K

ECSU: 15 Games, 3.50 ERA, 117 Hits, 75 Runs (51 Earned), 54 BB, 126 K

USM: 14 Games, 5.21 ERA, 135 Hits, 80 Runs (66 Earned), 44 BB, 98 K

Trinity: 15 Games, 4.24 ERA, 113 Hits, 84 Runs (56 Earned), 76 BB, 107 K


If pitching wins, Wheaton and ECSU have separated themselves to this point, in my opinion.  And for those that may argue that Trinity and USM have potent offenses to make up for the discrepancy, consider the following:

Trinity: 8.9 runs scored per game
USM: 10.6 runs scored per game
ECSU: 10.2 runs scored per game
Wheaton: 10.8 runs scored per game

Thoughts?

"Lots of good hitters on the dang bench, guys are bringing the coach water in the dugout, offering him their ranch seeds just so they might get an at bat.....never seen such a thing."


Huh?  I don't understand the correlation between this sentence and an undefeated start.

I just saw on the Brandeis website that their game today with Wheaton has been postponed.  Are other games getting changed because of cold weather??  This seems a little excessive to me...

I've been paying attention to these boards for a while, and decided to sign up so I can throw in my two cents.

The GNAC, I think your poll is dead on.  10-0 is 10-0, and that deserves the top spot at this point in the year (regionally and nationally).  Last year it took too long for Trinity to overtake the top spot, though there was nothing more they could have done throughout the year to prove their case.

KSCfan, I'm curious about why you think RIC "should of beaten" Wheaton.  From what I saw in the box score, RIC was up 5-4 after five innings with their ace on the mound against Wheaton's number 5 starter.  Wheaton's bullpen gave up a run in the 7th, but other than that they were solid.  RIC's bullpen gave up 5 runs in the 8th, and 5 runs in the 9th (all earned runs).  Wheaton was the better team that day.  Thoughts?