BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

[countyroad]

Wooster defeated Heidelberg last night 16-8. Heidelberg scored 7 of their runs in the 9th. Tyler Schuch started for Wooster and went 5 1/3 only giving up one hit in his first appearance of the season on the mound. Man is that great to see! He's also hitting .398 on the season.

Wooster hosts Oberlin for their upcoming weekend series.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Ohio Wesleyan beats Marietta 12-7. Van Winkle batted .1000 with 3 home runs, he was about a foot away from having four. Ohio Wesleyan heads to Springfield this weekend, against Witt.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

The rankings are out and listed below.  Looks like they used the records as of Sunday 4/19 even though they are dated 4/24.  So it does not take into account Wooster's decisive wins over John Carroll and Heidelberg this week, as well as Ohio Wesleyan's win over Marietta yesterday, or any other action so far this week.

MIDEAST REGION
rank	Institution	In-Division win-loss pct	Overall WL Pct
1	Heidelberg	24-6-0 ( 0.800)	24-6-0 ( 0.800)
2	Baldwin Wallace	21-7-0 ( 0.750)	21-7-0 ( 0.750)
3	Adrian	24-7-0 ( 0.774)	24-7-0 ( 0.774)
4	Ohio Northern	23-7-0 ( 0.767)	23-7-0 ( 0.767)
5	Wooster	24-5-0 ( 0.828)	24-5-0 ( 0.828)
6	Marietta	18-12-0 ( 0.600)	18-12-0 ( 0.600)
7	John Carroll	21-9-0 ( 0.700)	21-9-0 ( 0.700)
8	Anderson (IN)	20-10-0 ( 0.667)	20-10-0 ( 0.667)
9	Thomas More	22-7-0 ( 0.759)	22-7-0 ( 0.759)

There is still a lot of action between these teams the next couple of weeks. 

Congratulations to Wooster being ranked. I am not sure what Ohio Wesleyan has to do to get people to take a look. Was it because we were so bad last year and everybody is just waiting for us to collapse?

[mideastfan2]

^^^  the FINAL regional rankings are the ones to worry about.  These will fluctuate in the coming weeks, especially because many of these teams will play each other.

In the past, history has shown that the Regional Rankings can change A LOT from week to week, and even from the 2nd to last rankings, to who actually gets IN to the post-season.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Thanks for the reminder mideastfan2, I am aware of that. Just a little frustrated. I know that the rankings can evern change from the final public to the last secret. The best way is to win youyr pool A bid.

[Westside]

Bishop - just curious, but who do you think Ohio Wesleyan should replace? I don't know much about this region other than the big names that are known nationally.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Should replace is a bit strong, Would like to see replace is probably more appropriate.
Right now, Marietta. we will see next week, we won last night 12-7, against them. We only faced Herstine for an inning. He came in in relief. Ohio Wesleyan has beat Heidelberg, 22-7, Baldwin Wallace, 8-4, Brockport state who is regionally ranked 2-1.

We also lost to BW early, 5-10, and Marietta 3-8.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

And Westside thanks for coming over and posting

[motorman]

Most definitely after this week, Marietta doesn't deserve to be regionally ranked. After losing today, they now have the 6th best overall record in the OAC. There is no justification for being 6th ranked in the region.

[countyroad]

Wooster swept Oberlin over the weekend and secured the divisional championship. Their record stands at 30-5. I never could've imagined they'd be where they are right now at the the start of the season. They still have an opportunity to accomplish plenty more.

They have two big non-league games this week on the road at ONU and BW. Both were ahead of Wooster in the last regional rankings so there's plenty of motivation.

[NCACfan22]

Does anyone know what the tiebreaker would be if Depauw and OWU end up in a 1st place tie in the West Division? They split in their regular season series.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Here it is as I understand it. 
You look at the team immediately below them, in the standings, and compare records against that team. who ever has the better record wins.
If Denison is the third place team:
OWU, 3-1
Depauw, 2-2
If Wabash somehow is the third place team
OWU 4-0
Depauw 3-1

In both of those scenarios OWU owns the tiebreaker.

I hope OWU takes both from Witt today so we do not need to worry about it.

[NCACfan22]

So with OWU and Witt splitting today...can anyone speak definitively about what the tiebreaker is?? I have heard that next in line for the tiebreaker is "Aggregate Head-To-Head Runs" which would give Depauw the advantage, but I can't speak for sure on this.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

If you checK the ncac site it looks like Depauw won the tie breaker. They host Oberlin.
http://www.northcoast.org/sports/bsb/2014-15/releases/weeklyrelease-4-27-15

[countyroad]

Wooster lost last night to BW8-3. That's a 2 game losing streak. Both to ranked OAC foes. They were outscored 11-4 in those two games.