BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

Bishopleftiesdad · April 05, 2015, 09:36:02 PM

I am looking at the NCAC teams SOS.
http://www.d3baseball.com/seasons/2015/schedule?tmpl=sos-template

Team	SOS Rank
Allegheny	12
Ohio Wesleyan	69
Hiram	113
Wabash	123
DePauw	148
Kenyon	159
Denison	248
Wooster	256
Wittenberg	282
Oberlin	314

Thoughts?

Bishopleftiesdad · April 05, 2015, 09:43:39 PM

It is not a good thing that the two teams at the bottom also have the worst strength of schedule.
Gheny really stepped up with a tough schedule. Wooster being 18-3 helps the East teams SOS.

countyroad · April 06, 2015, 01:12:06 PM

I am really most interested to see how Wooster does against H'berg, BW & ONU. Wooster seems to be winning the games they're supposed to win so that is worth something. I was hoping for a sweep of Kenyon but I'll take 3 of 4. Morris from Kenyon pitched pretty well in the game they took from Wooster.

Bishopleftiesdad · April 07, 2015, 07:06:16 AM

In D3 poll Wooster jumps to 17, and Ohio Wesleyan, makes their first appearance with 13 votes.

Road, I have to agree, I am interested to see how Wooster does against that competition. Ohio Wesleyan has played those teams. It wil make a nice comparison.

countyroad · April 07, 2015, 08:28:21 AM

When I saw the poll I had this hunch that voters saw Wooster @ 25 last week and said to themselves, "shoot, I forgot about Wooster," and more voters voted for them this week.

Wooster's offense seems to be doing well. They really put up the stats against the lower end pitchers. Wooster's pitching needs to step up. They have decent arms but no real true ace. At least that's my impression from reading box scores and stat sheets.

Overall though Wooster has done better than I was expecting. It's encouraging.

Pops33 · April 07, 2015, 07:16:00 PM

I believe that the people that know Wooster understood that they had a huge senior class graduate and wanted to make sure they were for real before voting for them in the polls. I think they have proven themselves to the voters with their record. Their offense seems to be pretty good, but I agree with CountyRoad that they still have some work to do in the pitching department.

Ohio Wesleyan has a great resume as well, with wins over OAC foes Otterbein, Baldwin Wallace, and Heidelberg. The series with DePauw this weekend is a big one. DePauw started off slow, but seem to be putting it together just in time for conference play. Looking forward to seeing how this one plays out.

Bishopleftiesdad · April 07, 2015, 09:34:12 PM

Zullo pitching for Ohio Wesleyan.
Baseball vs Ohio Christian 04-04-2015: http://youtu.be/KUVq0xsKRyQ

Bishopleftiesdad · April 07, 2015, 10:45:22 PM

Ohio Wesleyan catcher Aaron Caputo named NCAC player of the week.
http://www.battlingbishops.com/news/2015/4/6/BA_04062015_1.aspx

countyroad · April 08, 2015, 08:19:57 AM

Quite a week for Caputo! Congrats to him.

Looking ahead to the weekend it appears the rain will move out of the region. Wooster will be taking on Wabash down in Chillicothe at VA Memorial ballpark. Wooster's schedule shows it as a 3 game series?

Pops33 · April 08, 2015, 10:13:46 AM

My understanding is that Wooster vs. Wabash is considered an out of conference series. They are in separate divisions so I believe that it will not be counted in their division/conference standings. Someone can correct me if I am wrong.

countyroad · April 08, 2015, 11:22:14 AM

Seems logical to me Pops.

Bishopleftiesdad · April 08, 2015, 11:27:44 AM

You are all correct. the Wabash Wooster conflagration, is considered OOC, so it will not effect the conference standing other than Win % which I beleive MAY BE one of the tie breakers. So there is only a indirect effect on the standings.

Bishopleftiesdad · April 10, 2015, 09:16:55 AM

It looks like Ohio Wesleyan's games against DePauw may be moved to a turf field. I am not sure where.

Bishopleftiesdad · April 10, 2015, 12:15:07 PM

NCAC conference predictions
East
Kenyon sweeps Oberlin.
Gheny takes 3 of 4 from Hiram, Hiram is improving and will probably be playing a meaningful games in the crossover, but not strong enough to split with the gators.

West
Denison sweeps Witt, enough, said.
Ohio Wesleyan takes 3 of four. Not overly confident, I think Depauw is better than their record. The split with Denison last week does not give us enough info to get a good bead on the Tigers. Ohio Wesleyan has beat some really good teams this year. I am not convinced that Depauw has the pitching to to hold Ohio Wesleyan in check. I could be wrong here, but I hope I am right. I think the worst out come, for ohio Wesleyan will be a split.

OOC
Wooster takes 3 from Wabash. Ohio Wesleyan swept Wabash, I am interested to see how this turns out. This is a bit of a measuring stick, between the East and the West.

Pops33 · April 11, 2015, 06:46:55 PM

Kenyon splits with Oberlin today. Kenyon scored 6 runs in the first inning of the first game and then only scored 2 more the rest of the day. The Kenyon offense was very potent last week versus Wooster. Wonder what happened. Of course, Wooster's pitching has had trouble stopping most offenses lately. Their last 4 games, Wooster has allowed 16, 9, 9, and 11 runs. Good thing Wooster's offense is putting up numbers.

Wooster split with Wabash.
Allegheny swept Hiram today.