Quote from: Rick Vaughn on February 21, 2007, 02:50:07 PM
This year will be different in the NESCAC b/c we will be short two crazy coaches (Barnard and Hamilton's little league coach).  On that note, any opinions on the craziest coaches in the league?  Here are my rankings:

1.  Barnard -- The most antisocial person on the face of the earth
2.  Thurston -- The old two fingered hand shake
3.  Casey -- Don't know as much, but he just seems nuts
4.  Woodworth -- Low talker and Wes players say he is clueless
5.  Midd's pitching coach -- smokes cigs behind the dugout between innings
6.  Hamilton's little league coach -- hit fungoes last year with a metal bat...not a metal fungo, but just a regular bat

Any others feel free to add

Stupid list.  Hamilton has a little league coach?  Wesleyans's players should look in the mirror.  The talent level there is lacking.  If you can fault Woodworth for anything, it's unfortunate recruiting.  They should kiss his a$$ for putting them in a uniform. 

Quote from: Rick Vaughn on March 01, 2007, 03:52:08 PM
Once again the NESCAC gets slighted on the national stage.  Returning POY doesn't even get a player to watch mention after being 2nd team All American and hitting .500 the year before.  Is that a Sports Info or coaches thing that team or individuals do not get any mention on any stage.  Collegiate Baseball, D3baseball.com, and ABCA only give Williams and Trin team to watch status in the New England preview. 

That's re-god damn-diculous.

Rick Vaughn, you're a bit of a whiner, eh?

Quote from: Rick Vaughn on March 01, 2007, 03:52:08 PM
Once again the NESCAC gets slighted on the national stage.  Returning POY doesn't even get a player to watch mention after being 2nd team All American and hitting .500 the year before.  Is that a Sports Info or coaches thing that team or individuals do not get any mention on any stage.  Collegiate Baseball, D3baseball.com, and ABCA only give Williams and Trin team to watch status in the New England preview. 

That's re-god damn-diculous.

Hey Rick Vaughn, it sound like the NESCAC should be slighted they way they mock its programs...

Quote from: Rick Vaughn on March 01, 2007, 03:52:08 PM
1.  Barnard -- The most antisocial person on the face of the earth
2.  Thurston -- The old two fingered hand shake
3.  Casey -- Don't know as much, but he just seems nuts
4.  Woodworth -- Low talker and Wes players say he is clueless
5.  Midd's pitching coach -- smokes cigs behind the dugout between innings
6.  Hamilton's little league coach -- hit fungoes last year with a metal bat...not a metal fungo, but just a regular bat

Trinity opened the season taking two from Worcester State with an impressive display from several freshman.  Baseball Heaven in Yaphank, New York (Long Island) is a great facility that will be fantastic when completed.

OS

Any word on where some of the better NESCAC players played over the summer? Did any get invited to wooden-bat leagues? I heard that Joe Vladek was disappointed that he didnt get drafted. Is he going to play semi-pro ball anywhere?

I know that Protano, from Tufts, was very impressive in Colorado. I also know that Driscoll, from Bowdoin, got hurt playing in the NECBL with Pittsfield. I would assume Donahue, from Amherst, played in the Cape, but I heard he was hurt, too.

I think Vladeck deserved a shot, too, but his velocity never got to where it needed to be. Lemieux, from Bowdoin, was signed to play independent ball. I think that was it from the NESCAC.

Quote from: JeffRookie2 on March 13, 2007, 02:23:56 AM
Any word on where some of the better NESCAC players played over the summer? Did any get invited to wooden-bat leagues? I heard that Joe Vladek was disappointed that he didnt get drafted. Is he going to play semi-pro ball anywhere?

Dan Benz from Williams pitched for the Genesee Valley Riverbats of the NYCBL last summer, and is on the roster again for this upcoming summer.

Quote from: JeffRookie2 on March 13, 2007, 02:23:56 AM
Any word on where some of the better NESCAC players played over the summer? Did any get invited to wooden-bat leagues? I heard that Joe Vladek was disappointed that he didnt get drafted. Is he going to play semi-pro ball anywhere?

Vladeck pitched in Belgium for the freaking Brussels Kangaroos...

http://www.brusselskangaroos.org/index.php?pg=news&step=article&id=56

Tufts took 2 in N.C. today. Adam Telian shut out Lawrence and the bats came alive against Guilford. they lost their opener to Endicott yesterday. If Tufts is going to challenge for the NESCAC, they'll need consistency from their starting pitchers. Telian could have a breakout season, but Protano, Rice, and Lopez are also going to have to get guys out.

The Tufts box scores indicate the Jumbos got solid contributions from two freshman pitchers in their first two wins--Jordan Goldberg and Thomas Hill. Absent from the box score (and not listed on the Tufts roster) was Brian McDonough, one of their better hitters last year as a freshman. Is he hurt or did he transfer?

Brian McDonough transferred to Marist...not sure why...I don't think he leaves the bench there.
The killer for Tufts was Mike Colebrook transferring after one semester to Assumption. He was supposed to be a key pitcher this year. Couple that with Simon and Narva being out for the year and it makes for a thin staff...and Greensboro took advantage of that thinness yesterday.

Goldberg has pitched veyr well, as has David Gibbs, Tommy Hill, and Alex Perry. Casey brought in a good group of pitchers this year...even though the best one left after a semester.

You're right about Colebrook being a big loss for Tufts.  In Assumption's spring trip he had a 0.64 ERA allowing just one earned run in 14 innings in games against St. Rose and Stonehill.  He would have been the leader of Tufts' pitching corps the next 4 years. Now he's the #2 on a solid Assumption team in a program that's really on the upswing in DII. McDonough has 7 at bats in Marist's first 13 games. 

A quick summary of games of note played by NESCAC teams during their  spring trips over the past 10 days (recognizing you shouldn't read too much into spring trip games):

In the only games to date pitting NESCAC opponents against each other, Bowdoin split with Hamilton, losing the first game 5-3 and winning the second game, 9-8.

NESCAC teams have mixed success in spring trip games against teams from other New England conferences. 

Tufts lost to a good Endicott team 7-4 in the Jumbos' opener. Later in the week Tufts lost to Methodist 3-2 the day after Endicott beat Methodist 6-5. Tufts' loss to Methodist dropped its record to 3-3.

Williams split with UMass Boston, 4-8 and 6-1, and then beat Eastern CT 7-4 to move to 3-1 on its trip.

Amherst lost to Babson, 17-16 in 10 innings. Babson finished its spring trip with a 5-1 record, with its only loss coming to Trinity, 4-3, in the first game of a doubleheader in which Babson bounced back to beat Trinity in the second game, 5-2.  Amherst drops to 2-4 with the loss, including a 2-1 10 inning loss to a good St. Lawrence team.

In addition to its split with Babson, Trinity beat St. Lawrence 10-4, swept  a good Worcester State team 2 weeks ago, and also beat Plymouth State yesterday 9-3 to move to 6-1 on its spring trip and perhaps establish itself as the early season NESCAC favorite.

Wesleyan swept UMass Dartmouth 12-3 and 4-3 to up its record to 5-6 on its two week spring break trip.

Bowdoin played several state colleges, losing to Fitchburg State 5-4 but then beating MCLA (10-4) and Westfield State (12-5).  Yesterday Bowdoin lost to Western New England College, 5-3.  The loss dropped Bowdoin's record to 4-4 but it might still be characterized as a good loss since WNEC is once again very good this year, and proved that yesterday by beating the preseason #1 team in DIII, Otterbein, 4-1. 

Finally, Bates split with the Elms, 4-5 and 3-1, in its spring break opener.

Colby and Middlebury open up their spring break trips this Saturday.

Trinity is now 9 and 1.  Following their split with Babson they defeated North Central 10-5, St. Lawrence 10-4, took two from Plymouth St 9-3 and 9-4 and also swept Fredonia St.

The Bantams take on Hamilton in a double header tomorrow.

ranted its hard to read Spring Break results, but they are consistently scoring a lot of runs.

OS

Trinity's Florida schedule is pathetic... Plymouth St, Fredonia, Hamilton....why on Earth Decker schedules so many awful teams is beyond me. It serves no purpose whatsoever to be scheduling doubleheaders with teams that are so weak...even the wins won't help much in strengthening their index.