Hey guys, I just wanted to chime in on the 3 at large bids.  I'm pretty sure 3 at larges has NEVER happened before and will probably never happen because of d3's lack of fincial support from the NCAA shipping teams out and so forth.  Last year was probably the best instance of it was last year with Curry, Wheaton, Southern Maine or EConn (I forgot who won the LEC), and WPI all deserving of an at large. Curry had a very decent win total, Wheaton had a 30 win season and was at one point number 2 in the poll, EConn and Southern Maine were EConn and Southern Maine, and WPI (eventually getting the at large) had a great season but was bounced by Wheaton in the NEWMAC tourney. It's all about money in the NCAA and in my opinion you will NEVER see a 3 at-large team region, no matter rankings, RPI, win totals and all that jazz. If you did New England last year could have very serioulsy had 4 teams with at large bids.

Feels good to have baseball back in swing.  WPI looking sharp without Fahey throwing 8357398473 innings, Eastern goes down once but puts up big runs in the loss, WNEC looking good.  Wheaton going to start their spring trip soon, curious if they can hold up to their very early national ranking of 20th with losing so much pitching. Going to be funn

Willows478, I posted this on the General New England site a little while ago.


Hey guys, I followed a little d3 baseball in New England the past couple of years and it seems in the NEWMAC that the power tide may be shifting however Wheaton has to be considered the favorite year in and year out.  Just the overall dominance they have displayed since they've been a team has been unthinkable.  What is it now, something like 9 out of the 11 NEWMAC championships have gone there (I'll dig it out after).  I will say Babson will have another deep run with returning pitching but losing those two key guys at 2b and the OF will hurt.  Wheaton also has their own problems but it will not be on the offense side, they lost one position player in All-New England selection Nick Pecora, but return every position player from a team who won 30 games last year. Their struggles will come from pitching from both the starting and bullpen aspects.  They lost 3 starting pitchers most notable All-American Adam Gingras (playing anywhere??).  They also lost their All-New England closer in Josh Simmons as well.  WPI may be in the mix depending how they recruited in their off-season however you can't replace All-American Conor Fahey, he was their ace starter and closer for that matter, without that kid WPI doesn't win much of anything, but we will see.  As for Clark I just don't see them reloading and recruiting enough talent on both the pitching and hitting side of the game to keep up with Wheaton and Babson, unless they bring in a couple of big bats and one go to ace I think this comes down to Wheaton and Babson and whether or not some of the Wheaton young kids can step up.

Hey guys, I followed a little d3 baseball in New England the past couple of years and it seems in the NEWMAC that the power tide may be shifting however Wheaton has to be considered the favorite year in and year out.  Just the overall dominance they have displayed since they've been a team has been unthinkable.  What is it now, something like 9 out of the 11 NEWMAC championships have gone there (I'll dig it out after).  I will say Babson will have another deep run with returning pitching but losing those two key guys at 2b and the OF will hurt.  Wheaton also has their own problems but it will not be on the offense side, they lost one position player in All-New England selection Nick Pecora, but return every position player from a team who won 30 games last year. Their struggles will come from pitching from both the starting and bullpen aspects.  They lost 3 starting pitchers most notable All-American Adam Gingras (playing anywhere??).  They also lost their All-New England closer in Josh Simmons as well.  WPI may be in the mix depending how they recruited in their off-season however you can't replace All-American Conor Fahey, he was their ace starter and closer for that matter, without that kid WPI doesn't win much of anything, but we will see.  As for Clark I just don't see them reloading and recruiting enough talent on both the pitching and hitting side of the game to keep up with Wheaton and Babson, unless they bring in a couple of big bats and one go to ace I think this comes down to Wheaton and Babson and whether or not some of the Wheaton young kids can step up.