BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Bishopleftiesdad]

The Ohio Wesleyan Battling Bishops will be competing in the Snowbird Classic during Spring Break again this year.
http://snowbirdbaseball.info/tournament-info/2017-participating-teams/

Wooster and Denison are also competing as well.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Happy Thanksgiving to all my d3 friends. I am thankful for my family and friends, especially my wife, who brought 3 boys and baseball into my life.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Looks like Wabash is joining Oberlin in teams heading west for spring Break. Wabash will be in Tuscon, 3-4 to 3-11. I am interested to see who they play against out there. 
http://sports.wabash.edu/schedule.aspx?path=baseball

Oberlin will be out there 3-18 to 3-22

http://www.goyeo.com/schedule.aspx?path=baseball

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Depauw is heading south. They do not take a standard spring trip like most schools. They are going down to Millington TN. at USA stadium to play a couple of games, then heading over to rhodes and then Greenville.

http://depauwtigers.com/sports/bsb/2016-17/schedule

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Here is Denisons unofficial schedule.
http://denisonbigred.com/sports/bsb/2016-17/schedule
I do not see any spring trips but I believe they will be going to the snowbird classic. They are listed on the http://snowbirdbaseball.info as a participating team.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

No Spring trip listed on Witts schedule.

http://www.wittenbergtigers.com/sports/bsb/2016-17/schedule

May be because the late coaching change. Hopefully they put one together. The last few years they have played some really bad teams on their trip.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

No schedule yet for the Bishops. It looks like they are also scheduled to go to the snowbird classic.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Wooster probably takes the award for how far the school goes to recruit. Ryan Farrell a Freshman SS, hails from the American School in London, England.
http://woosterathletics.com/sports/bsb/2016-17/bios/farrell_ryan_rmkp

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Practice gear for OWU is in. I hope they stick with the classic W of the last couple of years on the cap though.

https://mobile.twitter.com/OWUbaseball1/status/822209196473090048/photo/1

[Bishopleftiesdad]

A sad loss for for baseball.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Coach1984/status/822116981667139584

So sorry to hear we lost a dear friend, awesome gentleman and OWU Hall of Fame baseball player Glenn Butterman this week. #owugreat

[Pops33]

Starting in 2018 the NCAC will go to a more complete Round Robin format.  I do not know the exact parameters, but I found the 2018 league schedule on the NCAC website.  They will also be playing some mid-week league games and NO cross over series the weekend before the conference tournament.  The link to the future schedules is below.

http://www.northcoast.org/mediacenter/Future_Schedules/Baseball/2018-21_NCAC_Baseball_Round_Robin_Schedules_-_Approved_-1-16-17-.pdf

I would like to hear more details if anyone is aware of them.  Will they play just a DH versus everyone?  Will there still be an East and West division?

It should make for an interesting schedule.

[Dr. Acula]

That looks a lot like a full round robin of DH to me.  The geography of the NCAC schools and the uncertainty of OH spring weather always make this a risky proposition.  From a competitive standpoint it's a no brainer.  Everyone plays everyone.  You rotate home and away each year.  What could be more fair?  But maybe someone who remembers better can remind us...hasn't this been attempted more than once?  It's a LONG haul from Allegheny to DPU or Wabash.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

yes this was attempted several years ago, but week ends only/ You would play a double header against Wabash on Saturday then a DH against Depauw on Sunday. Ther was no midweek games and one rainout played havoc with the schedule.
Allegheny and Wooster were tied, but they were rained out. Allegheny found a field and tried to get a reschedule.  Wooster refused so it went coin flip and Wooster won.
The next year it went back to the East west format, and a year later the cross over began.

I like this because it leaves Sundays open for make ups. You can also schedule games with out of conference foes. However if you have to have a makeup, you cancel the OOC game. Very similar to how the OAC does it.
The only problems I see with this is you lose some of those OOC games during the week. It will also force Kenyon to play during the week. Kenyon and Oberlin (they may have changed) do not play games during the week once they get back from Spring break. And some of the teams have 3 Away games in a row, each and every year this is in place.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Hopefully they will play Big Boy games and do 2 9's instead of a 7 and a 9. I doubt it though. And Pops33 +1 for the find.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Too bad it is still one 7 and one 9
http://www.northcoast.org/mediacenter/Future_Schedules/2017-20_NCAC_Baseball_Schedule.pdf
check out page 2