BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

[ScotsFan]

Wooster remains in first in the East with a not so surprising sweep of Hiram. 

The surprise of the day in the East comes from Oberlin where the Yeomen swept the first two from Allegheny to take over 2nd place just a game back of the Scots and a game ahead of the Gators!    Oberlin also split with Kenyon last weekend and Kenyon swept the first two from Witt in non-conference action yesterday.

[ScotsFan]

Wooster and Denison getting some love in the D3baseball Top 25 this week checking in with one vote each... 

[DagarmanSpartan]

Wednesday's DH with Oberlin should be a good one.  Who are Oberlin's best players?

[jos s]

Case has a great lineup of games coming up.   8 wins in the last 10 games , facing teams with a .676 win %  hopefully will help them continue to gain respect in the region.

[DagarmanSpartan]

Well, we only managed a split with Oberlin, BUT, we swept Depauw today.

[old scot]

Woo sweeps 2 from the Obies Sat. 7-0 and 15-5. Lose the first game Sun. 3-1 in 14 innings. Scots get 15 hits for 1 run, while the Obies get 5 hits for 3 runs. How does that happen? I guess the answer is thats baseball. Hagen throws all 14 for the Scots. Pettorini gets tossed in the 10th.
Don't know any other details but I'm sure there should be some reason why the Scots didn't manage a win.

[Spence]

Hagen threw 14 innings? In a regular season game? Why?

That is the longest outing in D-III since 1997.

[woosterbooster]

The box score shows that Hagen faced 47 batters yet threw only 132 pitches.  That's an amazingly low 2.8 pitches per batter and under 10 pitches per inning.  Hard to believe, considering he struck out nine.  I wasn't there, but did Oberlin swing at and put the ball in play on the first or second pitch whenever they didn't strike out?  Yeah, Oberlin's pitcher gave up more hits, but they combined to throw 199 pitches, 67 more than Hagen.  I'm not sure I can buy these numbers. 

[Spence]

The box score shows that Hagen faced 47 batters yet threw only 132 pitches.  That's an amazingly low 2.8 pitches per batter and under 10 pitches per inning.  Hard to believe, considering he struck out nine.  I wasn't there, but did Oberlin swing at and put the ball in play on the first or second pitch whenever they didn't strike out?  Yeah, Oberlin's pitcher gave up more hits, but they combined to throw 199 pitches, 67 more than Hagen.  I'm not sure I can buy these numbers.

If that's accurate, it is really efficient. That answers the question, amazingly. Hard luck...that's baseball.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

OWU and Witt split for the weekend
Wabash and Denison split for the weekend.
3 teams tied for third.
Next weekend decides it. Wabash at OWU and Depauw at Witt.

Should be a big battle for third. No one wants to face Wooster in the cross over.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Did you all know that Denison is now in the East and Wooster has moved to the west? 

http://www2.northcoast.org/baseball/weeklyrelease/4-22-13

[ADL70]

Did you all know that Denison is now in the East and Wooster has moved to the west? 

http://www2.northcoast.org/baseball/weeklyrelease/4-22-13

It's corrected in the full text.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Yup looks like they corrected it. Sometimes I wonder who proof reads these things.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Cross overs should be set. If I understand the Tie breakers correctly it should be as follows. (NCAC site does not have standings correct )

Denison (1 in west) vs Kenyon (4 in east)
Depauw ( believe they will be 2 since they split with Den and took 3 from OWU) vs Oberlin (3 in East)
OWU (number 3, Split with Denison, but lost 3 to Depauw) vs Allegheny (2 in east)
Witt (number 4, took 3 from Depauw and split with OWU, But lost 3 to Denison) Vs. Wooster (1 in east)

Wabash (5 in west) vs Hiram (5 in east)

We will know for sure when they update the schedule on the NCAC site.


these series will be considered regular season games, but it will be best of 3 games series with the winners advancing to the tourney.
My thoughts are with Wabash's Andrew Rodgers, who's elbow was dislocated on a play at first. I hope for a speedy recovery.

[EttaFan1]

Cross overs should be set. If I understand the Tie breakers correctly it should be as follows. (NCAC site does not have standings correct )

Denison (1 in west) vs Kenyon (4 in east)
Depauw ( believe they will be 2 since they split with Den and took 3 from OWU) vs Oberlin (3 in East)
OWU (number 3, Split with Denison, but lost 3 to Depauw) vs Allegheny (2 in east)
Witt (number 4, took 3 from Depauw and split with OWU, But lost 3 to Denison) Vs. Wooster (1 in east)


these series will be considered regular season games, but it will be best of 3 games series with the winners advancing to the tourney.

Please help me understand....

If Wooster drops two of three to Wittenberg, they are out of the tournament? (same for the other series...)  Seems odd that a team who earned their stripes through the regular season could be eliminated by playing three games against someone from the other division, or is this considered part of the tournament?
Are they three nine inning games, or are there some 7 inning games in the mix as well?