Quote from: theoneandonly on March 31, 2010, 09:33:59 AM
4 home runs against  blackburn sounds about right for Neece. They have always seemed to have trouble against that guy. He is having one heck of a season thus far.

Agreed seems like this guys been around forever, actually 5 yrs IIRC. Hes always put up great #'s

Congrats go out to Webster DH Joe Biagini for earning a national accolade as he was named the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association's Division III National Hitter of the Week.

Link to article http://www.websterathletics.com/news/2009/4/30/SB_0430090322.aspx

Anybody know where the conf tourney is held in Highland? Not too familiar with the IL side, too bad we cant make a stop at Fast Eddies this year before the conf tourney, was nice having it at Gordon Moore, nice field to play on.

The comeback kids pulled it out this time defeating MacMurray 13-9 to earn their 3rd consecutive SLIAC conference title. Hats off to MacMurray who made the game very interesting, they hit the ball well all game fortunately some timely late inning offense combined with walks by MacMurray sealed the deal for Webster. And last congrats to Joe Biagini on providing the game winning grand slam bottom 8, 2 outs, bases loaded, doesnt get much bigger than that, the kid was clutch.

Quote from: MyArmHurts on April 18, 2009, 09:56:46 PM
Does anyone know what the deal is with that song that Maryville plays around the 5th inning or so when they all stand out in front of the dugout and do the little fist pump thing?  Its a techno song.  I ask because I wanna know and I wanna download it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pe9yMtg3K00&feature=related

Not that it matters for conf tourney seeds but another interesting matchup coming up this weekend Fontbonne has a chance to overtake Maryville for 2nd place in the SLIAC, they'll have to take 2 out of 3 to get it done. Fontbonne is coming a tough loss vs a solid program in Illinois Wesleyan so we shall see...

Batting avg
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1. Norvell, John, MUBS........  .524
2. Huckstep, Robert, MUBS.....  .452
10.Allerdissen, Bill, MUBS....  .387
15.Henkelman, Chad, MUBS......  .358

Should be an interesting test for WU pitching tonight as Maryville has the majority of the hot bats in the SLIAC.

Quote from: HangEmBangEm on April 14, 2009, 01:40:19 AM
I actually think its going to go exactly how this season has. If Webster sweeps the conference, which looks very possible, no team they play will have confidence going into it. Every team in this conference has already been beaten mentally by the dominant play this far. When you see teams that have beaten you get beat badly by another team, it knocks down the intensity level and the hope to win. I don't think any team believes they can beat Webster at this point. Now having said that, Maryville does have a chance to beat Webster. No one can say they don't because anything can happen. But, if somehow they do, it will give confidence going into the tournament. But if Webster goes undefeated in conference play, I think they win the tournament easy like they would have last year.

I agree with the above quote 100% mental edge is a big factor in victory. Webster has not lost a conference tourney game in what the past 4 - 5 years? Then again I have to play devil's advocate in saying that anything can happen, who would've thought Fresno State would've knocked off a powerhouse like Georgia for the NCAA Div I title?

Quote from: Ralph Turner on April 12, 2009, 10:28:01 AM

Quote from: SillyAC 07 on April 12, 2009, 08:13:07 AM
Why haven't I heard much talk about Dakota Huey. The kid is hitting .422 and leads the team in stolen bases. Correct me if I am wrong, but he went to Murry State and transferred to Webster mid-way through his freshman year, right? I like what I see from him.

Welcome to the boards SillyAC 07.

Discussion about individual players on the boards comes in the three types:

1)  A serious fan of the conference who generally discusses numerous players from that conference that s/he has seen.  I don't think that the SLIAC board has that specific fan yet.

2)  A booster from the team in question (Webster in this case) who brings up player names and news about the team.

3) Relatives and close friends of the player mentioned.

Webster has had a good year.  I see that Andrew Fuiten's Fielding percentage is only .775.  Did he not make the move to LF easily?

Forgive him hes our protege as we were both senior OF's when he was a freshman we brought him up well. Hes on a tear now and making us proud! Moving infielders to OF has become a common practice since '06 for Webster.

Very unlike Blackburn not to be running thats usually their forte, they win by forcing other teams into mistakes in pressure situations, interesting stat as stated above 0 stolen bases? Even when they're down big it wouldnt suprise me to see Neal coaching aggresively.

Suprised that this game wasnt closer Blackburn usually plays tough at home, always windy out there. Guess the rivalry has somewhat fizzled out.

Must be a lot of good Neal stories out there I have some good ones and didnt even play for the guy, I guess you would remember the '05 SLIAC conf tourney, first game WU vs BB WU was the visiting team. Our leadoff hits a ground ball to the SS who boots it. I glanced into the BB dugout and see clipboard slammed to the ground papers go flying everywhere,  no kidding first play of the game lol you can guess whose hand that clipboard flew out of. Extremely competitive coach nonetheless.

Quote from: VideoDawg on April 07, 2009, 06:05:53 PM
I was hoping base throwing would be a tradition. What was the story behind that?

Does anyone know.

Dont remember exactly how it happened but if I recall correctly it was a game back in '05 WU vs Blackburn @ GCS. It had been raining off and on the whole game and WU was up 4 - 0 going into the 6th when the game was suddenly called due to weather. Since 5 inn had already been completeted the win to WU and Neal went nuts stormed out of the dugout as well as multiple BB players. After arguing with the ump for several minutes Neal procedes down the 1st base line rips the base outta the ground and tosses it into RF.

And now that were on the topic of BB antics again who can forget the infamous boot? Alot of BB fans used to make the trip across the river to GCS well theyd sit on the 1st base side w/a boot connected to a rope. Whenever WU would make an error the boot would be tossed well onto the field near the 1st base line and reeled back in. Not sure if they do that anymore but BB fans were always well prepared for the opponent, always knew your name  where you're from, your current stats, hell sometimes they knew your parents names lol. Always fueled the fire for a great rivalry.

Like i said before my opinion is biased when it comes to Blackburn so take it with a grain of salt sorry if i offended ya. Guess its not like it used to be though as far as attendance goes. Used to be nuts on the weekends at least when we came to town stands were packed.

Quote from: VideoDawg on April 07, 2009, 02:44:15 PM
Hey, Washedup

Welcome to the board. Sounds like you played? Whose your team?

We just got over talking about bush league programs so I think we are all wanting to move on. I only wish I had seen the base throwing incident. It has become legendary. I mentioned Blackburn in one of the earlier posts and their past shinanigans. They have been very colorful in the past (a very generous description). Anyway who do you see as the top four finishers this year?   

Former WU player here im over it then not sure how much has changed in the past few years but IMO Blackburn gets everything they deserve believe me. Nevermind my biased opinion though ive only seen a few WU games this year been busy with work so from what Ive seen so far and heard (have a few good friends that coach for fontbonne) id have to say:

1)Webster
2) Maryville
3) Blackburn
4) Fontbonne