Quote from: Bump_and_Run on May 13, 2009, 10:42:03 PM

Quote from: OshDude on May 13, 2009, 09:17:07 PM
Some random notes from today
• Was sitting near a guy doing book. He had Schuld at 185 pitches. For comparison's sake the Beloit SP Rick Krajewski threw well under 100 in game 1.
• Word is UST SP Brandon Stone is injured and is expected to miss the regional. There's supposedly another UST P who's iffy.
• Crazy bad at-bats all day. UST/UWSP was like an extra-inning Olympic softball game. Seemed like there was a runner on 2B with no out quite often. Of course it took a dong to get the mother over.
• Wind was blowing in hard from CF during the first game. Anything in the air was an out.
• Koback and Arch made some spectacular diving catches in the OF.
• Agneberg and Krajewski had awesome mixes. Neither light up guns, but Krajewski's fastball even look like it broke and Agneberg's curve tilt was nasty.
• Very little wind in game 2. The little wind that blew was toward the LF corner. Guess what? There were two oppo wall scrapers to LF (Arch's and Schmitz's HRs went about 325 apiece). Rahm's walkoff was a bomb – 380-ish to LF.
• UST turned some gutsy DPs, the most impressive of which was 1 out with runners on 1st and 3rd in the 8th. Thomas hit a semihard one-hopper to Schuld 5 feet in front of the mound. The runner broke from 3rd and was meat, but Schuld wheeled and got a bang-banger at 2nd and then another at 1st. Another was after Koback was on 2B with 0 outs in the 10th. And that was one after UWSP had a leadoff 2B in the 9th and failed to score (Spurney 5-3 ... not a bunt, Surman F9, Rennicke F9). UWSP had soooo many opportunities.
• To say UST had problems with the bats is understating it. Williams was just blowing batters away. Some guys, even in the middle of the UST order, were not even close to touching him, except when Schmitz dropped the barrel on one pitch of course. Was fairly certain the game would end whenever Point decided to clutch up and/or play situational ball. I'll be wrong again sometime soon.
• The matchup in game 3 was going to be Burg vs. Hillesheim. Pretty sure it was Hillesheim, anyway. Water in my face doesn't help my vision. Burg for sure, though.

Check that SNC was throwing Wotacheck not Hillesheim.  As for the UWSP vs UST game, wow what an ugly last 9 innings.  Not one player could clutch up in that game, besides the walk off bomb.  How a team can have 4 hits through 15 innings is unreal, then to win on top of it! wow.   

By ugly I mean the hitting aspect, I believe in the last 9 innings there was only one error, but UST had 4 for the game

Quote from: OshDude on May 13, 2009, 09:17:07 PM
Some random notes from today
• Was sitting near a guy doing book. He had Schuld at 185 pitches. For comparison's sake the Beloit SP Rick Krajewski threw well under 100 in game 1.
• Word is UST SP Brandon Stone is injured and is expected to miss the regional. There's supposedly another UST P who's iffy.
• Crazy bad at-bats all day. UST/UWSP was like an extra-inning Olympic softball game. Seemed like there was a runner on 2B with no out quite often. Of course it took a dong to get the mother over.
• Wind was blowing in hard from CF during the first game. Anything in the air was an out.
• Koback and Arch made some spectacular diving catches in the OF.
• Agneberg and Krajewski had awesome mixes. Neither light up guns, but Krajewski's fastball even look like it broke and Agneberg's curve tilt was nasty.
• Very little wind in game 2. The little wind that blew was toward the LF corner. Guess what? There were two oppo wall scrapers to LF (Arch's and Schmitz's HRs went about 325 apiece). Rahm's walkoff was a bomb – 380-ish to LF.
• UST turned some gutsy DPs, the most impressive of which was 1 out with runners on 1st and 3rd in the 8th. Thomas hit a semihard one-hopper to Schuld 5 feet in front of the mound. The runner broke from 3rd and was meat, but Schuld wheeled and got a bang-banger at 2nd and then another at 1st. Another was after Koback was on 2B with 0 outs in the 10th. And that was one after UWSP had a leadoff 2B in the 9th and failed to score (Spurney 5-3 ... not a bunt, Surman F9, Rennicke F9). UWSP had soooo many opportunities.
• To say UST had problems with the bats is understating it. Williams was just blowing batters away. Some guys, even in the middle of the UST order, were not even close to touching him, except when Schmitz dropped the barrel on one pitch of course. Was fairly certain the game would end whenever Point decided to clutch up and/or play situational ball. I'll be wrong again sometime soon.
• The matchup in game 3 was going to be Burg vs. Hillesheim. Pretty sure it was Hillesheim, anyway. Water in my face doesn't help my vision. Burg for sure, though.

Check that SNC was throwing Wotacheck not Hillesheim.  As for the UWSP vs UST game, wow what an ugly last 9 innings.  Not one player could clutch up in that game, besides the walk off bomb.  How a team can have 4 hits through 15 innings is unreal, then to win on top of it! wow.   

Quote from: augiefan on May 09, 2009, 08:43:28 PM
Beloit beat SNC 9-6 to sweep their 3 games in the tourney.

Both St Norbert and Beloit get into the tournament, both making the Midwest Region being played at Tidleman Field in Oshkosh Wisconsin.  St. Norbert recieved the 4 seed, and Beloit recieved the 6 seed in the 6 team bracket.

Quote from: ShineTime on April 13, 2009, 08:35:16 AM
I know this has been talked about before but why don't more pitchers hit?  I heard Joel Delorit for UWSP can rake and hit over 20 HR'S in high school.  Why not let some of these guys bat if their that athletic?  Pitchers usually are your most athletic players.  Point really screwed up a few years ago not letting Tyler Techlin at least DH.  He was one of the best hitters the Appleton ever seen and never got an opportunity to hit just because he was a pitcher.  I know Zimmerman and Endl both hit but who else in recent years got a chance to swing it.  Point also could've let J.C. Reinke hit but I can understand why they didn't with the lineup they had already.

Joel Delorit hitting 20 HRs in High School is absolutly false!  He had maybe 2 or 3 his Senior yeah of high school, tops.  He was a contact hitter, not a power hitter. In Legion Baseball he hit 1 home run in 2006 and 1 home run in 2007.

Quote from: The Roop on April 08, 2009, 11:57:19 AM

On a more important note: Do they sell beer at the game(s) that Beloit plays at Pohlman Field and Road Ranger Stadium ?? Both are off campus = tremendous marketing opportunity.

haha I laughed when I read that, maybe if I shouldn't have? Anyways, Ripon beat Beloit(ranked 25th) 9-1, then lost the second game 3-2 in 10 innings.  In other action, St Norbert swept Carroll 13-2 and 13-3, both in 7 innings.

Quote from: The Roop on April 05, 2009, 08:55:06 PM
Grammar alert

It's loss, not lose. Their, not there and on a spelling note it's Lawrence not Lawerence.

1 more win and Beloit will equal their conference total for last year. Something tells me they might be for real.

Ohhh, your the person that corrects everyone's spelling on a message board?  Okay, I'll make sure to spell check everything from now on!

Quote from: BigPoppa on April 02, 2009, 08:55:11 AM


BTW- if Carthage/Ripon/SNC/IWU had beaten those same teams by the same scores would you feel that they should not be ranked either?

To be honest, its all in the schedule.  If they played a bunch of cup cakes in their non conference like Beloit did I would certainly not think they are a top 25 team, in the NATION.  But I would expect them to get some votes, but not be ranked 26th.

St. Norbert split with both Stevens Point(6-1 Win, 11-1 lose) and Oshkosh(5-4 Win, 7-4 Lose) in there last 4 games.  In other games...
Beloit swept Carrol
Ripon took 3 of 4 from Lawerence