Midwest Regional at Prucha Field in Whitewater, Wis.           
1. St. Thomas
2. UW-Stevens Point
3. UW-Whitewater
4. Case Western Reserve
5. Benedictine
6. St. Scholastica
Four Midwest teams, one Mideast teams, one Central team                                               Isn't this 5 Midwest regional teams ? ?                                                                                                                                                                             

Whats wrong with Vogelesang from CSS.  I see he hasn't played in a couple of weeks.

short time ago there was some discussion on the difference between 7 and 9 inning games.  In the WARHAWK/LaCrosse weekend series the WARHAWKS held leads in the seventh inning in three of them and lost all three.                                                                                                                                                                                         

But if you look at the box scores La-Crosse would have won all 4 games if they were only 7 inning games also.  At the end of 7 innings La-Crosse was leading in all 4 games.

A real nice ballpark.  Probably about 320-330 in left with a high screen fence.  Probably about 315-320 in right with a high screen also.  Very nice field in excellent shape.  Probably one of the best fields around.

Cubs, my feathers are back in place and all is well.  Lets go Midwest regional teams and bring back another title whomever it shall be.  Hopefully some teams from other regions will not be shipped into this region.  The teams in this region might not have the best records but they are some of the best teams in the nation.  There records are not as good because of the strength of the teams they play and the strength of their schedules.  The bottom teams in this region have drastically improved and make this one of the top regions from top to bottom.  There are not a lot of pushover teams anymore.  Witness the strength from the top to bottom of the WIAC and MIAC.  Almost anyone can beat anyone on any given day.

Was not taking a "jab" at anyone.  I was just responding to the comment made of how W-W would beat up on CSS. I totally respect your conference as one of the preeminent conference in D3 and loved how WW basketball and football teams won it all.  Great to see the Midwest do well on the national scene.  Most of your posters are real humble and respect your opponents but some of you have no respect for other teams. When someone else says anything about your teams you like to jump down their throat and show how superior you are and how inferior they are.  Would love to see a Midwest team win the baseball title whether it be a WIAC,MIAC,or UMAC team.  I respect all of the Midwest teams and cheer for them all.

Cubs man, One game went 8 innings and the other game CSS was the home team.  CSS would have had 3 at bats to La-Crosse's 2 at bats.  No BIG difference.

Cubs man, remember CSS has played with and beaten your league-leading La-Crosse team both games of a DH.

You are right,Bethany has been very frustrating this year.  They are pretty young and struggled defensively earlier this year.  Could have won 2 of the games against CSS if they had made the plays in the field,but CSS also didn"t play very well defensively either.  Lost 13-10 with 4 errors and 6 unearned runs and lost 6-2 with 4 errors and all the runs unearned.  But that is part of baseball and is the difference between winning and losing.  Bethany has won their last 9 games by big scores but like you pointed out they are against the bottom teams of the UMAC so it is hard to gauge where they are at at this point.  Bethany"s biggest problem is CSS has their number.  They can"t seem to find a way to beat them.  They have lost to them in every way possible.  They have lost big,close,in the last inning,etc.  CSS seems to find a way to beat them every time.  BLC can't seam to get that last out that they need to beat CSS.

Big Poppa, I agree with you.  My problem was with your statement "The UMAC is terrible outside of CSS".

I have to believe that Davis won't pitch this year.  Like you said, he hasn't pitched since the 1st series of the year so I would believe that is a season ending injury.  Should be good series for both teams.  Remember,  CSS swept a DH from La-Crosse earlier this year and they could have beaten St Thomas in both of the games they played earlier so they should be ready.

Granted the bottom half is terrible and CSS is the best but Northwestern and Bethany are pretty decent teams.  Northwestern split with Oshkosh from the GREAT WIAC conference earlier this year and is a very competitive team this year. Bethany is 3-4 with the MIAC conference teams this year and their losses are to some very tough teams this year[St Johns-2,Coe-2,CSS-3,Macalester,Buena Vista].  Bethany lost to Macalester in 12 innings with their top 3 pitchers unavailable after being used against Coe in a 3-game series over the weekend while  Macalester used all of their top pitchers.  Really believe that CSS would be in 2nd place in the MIAC and Bethany would be above .500 and in the upper half of the conference.  It is not these teams fault that the rest of their conference is that bad.  They can only play the schedule given to them.  They are trying to really increase the strength of their out of conference schedule by playing as many of the tougher teams as they can.  Bethany has played 4 MIAC teams and plat St Thomas next week and also played Coe and Buena Vista, two of the best programs in the ILAC conference.  Css plays St Thomas,Whitewater,Washington U,Buena Vista,Keyston and La-Crosse.   By the way, CSS won both games of a double-header against La-Crosse this year.  La-Crosse is the current leader of the WIAC conference.

CSS has not really relied on one pitcher this year.  They have been basically using a 4-man rotation so I would guess that you will see whichever pitcher is up on their rotation.  As far as Whitewater cleaning up on CSS, I highly doubt that.  CSS is a very good team and can play with all of your supposedly vastly superior WIAC teams.

Definitely agree that BLC is not as good as last year.  While their pitching is not as good, what has really been hurting them this year is their defense.  Lots of errors this year which has been putting their pitchers in a lot of 4 and 5 out innings.  Seem to have a hard time hitting against the better pitchers.  Also think that CSS is not nearly as good as last year at this point.  Seem to be weak at the bottom of their order.  Miss Lewis at the top of their rotation and Link in their lineup and not as strong defensively as last year.  Flagstad is a stud and Moody and Vogelesang are tough hitters and their 2,4 and 6 hitters are pretty good but there 7-9 hitters look weak from what I saw. 3rd baseman really struggled this weekend in the field. Don't know how they have played previously but this is what I saw this weekend.  Still early in the season,hopefully they will both improve.

Don't think you will see 6 HR's this weekend.  Last years game when CSS hit 6HRs and BLC 2 there were about 40 mph winds blowing straight out. Miserable conditions,cold and windy. The last 4 HRs were hit in the last innings against BLC's seldom used pitchers when the game was already decided.  We'll see how these teams respond.  Neither teams record is very good.  I would imagine both teams are disappointed with their season so far.