BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

[old scot]

A week later and not a word mentioned about Denison's no hitter by Park Smith. I guess they have no fans that veiw the baseball board.

[woosterbooster]

Wooster splits a doubleheader with Ohio Wesleyan, winning 5-2, then losing 4-2.  No other information yet.

[old scot]

Wooster beats Spalding 10-4 on 3/11, per Spaldings web site. No box scores available. Just thought I'd post it here for Wooster fans because Woo's web site doesn"t seem to update in a timely fashion.

[woosterbooster]

Wooster now has the Spalding boxscore up, which reveals that the gamescore was 12-2, indicating that the Spalding website is as spotty as their pitching staff.

Wooster is still looking for offense where they can find it.  To this end, John Warren is once again receiving some at bats and showing that he can swing the stick as well as pitch. 

Off day today, Heidelberg tomorrow. The SPs are 4-1, having scored 62 runs already this season.  Possibly Adam Samson will face them on three days rest, having only pitched six innings in his last outing.  Otherwise, I don't know who it might be. 

[old scot]

Red flag after Wooster's first four games. 25 K's in 121 AB's. One strike out every 4.8 plate appearances.

If the boys can't put the bat on the ball, all the more reason to play small ball.

[ScotsFan]

I think it still might be too early to go raising red flags about Wooster's offense just yet.  After all, this is the first since last fall that the Scots have been able to even be outside of the gym for practice.  And they arrived too late on Saturday to get any practice in as well.  So, they had a round of batting practice before stepping into live pitching for the 1st time this sping against Albion.  And Wooster has also had to face some quality pitchers as well.  Albion threw their #1 agaisnt the Scots and OWU threw out their 2 best vs. Wooster.

One note of concern I have is in regards to the health of Anthony Trapuzzano.  In an article in the Wooster Daily Record yesterday, it mentioned that Trap was battling a shoulder injury.  Pettorini mentioned that he is real interested in seeing how Trap's shoulder responds the day after working as hard as he did on Monday.  It didn't seem to affect his performance as he went 5.1 innings giving up 2 runs on just 2 hits while striking out 5.  Pettorini also mentioned that he hit 88 mph on the radar gun which he was surprised to see this early.  Hopefully it's nothing more than the usual aches and pains that accompany early spring practice.  Wooster can't afford to put a pichter of Trap's quality on the shelf.  Especially since the Scots look to be built around their pitching as opposed to their offense for a change.

[woosterbooster]

From the Wooster website, the Scots down Heidelberg, 5-2.  No boxscore up yet on either school's site.

[Spence]

I think it still might be too early to go raising red flags about Wooster's offense just yet.  After all, this is the first since last fall that the Scots have been able to even be outside of the gym for practice. 

Isn't this the case for pretty much everyone you've played as well (other than maybe Spalding, who is just not good)?

Not trying to say anything one way or another about whether Wooster is good or not -- way too early for that -- but I thought most of the teams they played we're from as far or even further north. It's been a crappy winter in the Great Lakes states no matter what.

[countyroad]

Box Score

http://www.heidelberg.edu/sites/herald.heidelberg.edu/files/b031308.htm

[woosterbooster]

As good, and as deep, as Wooster's pitching appears to be, it's still a difficult task to manuever a staff down in Florida.  For instance, the Scots already need to begin to prepare for next week's back to back league doubleheaders against Allegheny.  They'd definitely like to align the rotation to include Samson, Trapuzzano, Barnes, and DeGrande to face the Gators but that would mean holding back their best in some of the upcoming contests, Stevens Point and Wash and Jeff being the beneficiaries.

Maybe like this:   

March 9 vs. Albion (Samson)
March 10 vs. Ohio Wesleyan (2) (Trapuzzano and Barnes)
March 11 vs. Spalding (DeGrand)
March 13 vs. Heidelberg (Samson
March 14 vs. Anderson (Probably Barnes, giving Trapuzzano's shoulder the extra day)
March 15 vs. Fontbonne (Barnes or Trapuzzano)
March 16 vs. Stevens Institute of Technology (DeGrand)
March 17 vs. Wis.-Stevens Point (2) (Samson and Unknown)
March 18 vs. Washington & Jefferson (Unknown)
March 20 vs. Allegheny (2) (Barnes and DeGrand)
March 21 vs. Allegheny (2) (Samson and Trapuzzano, again giving Trap an extra day)

[ScotsFan]

March 17 vs. Wis.-Stevens Point (2) (Samson and Unknown)
March 18 vs. Washington & Jefferson (Unknown)

You must have a lot of faith in this Unknown kid to want to throw him back to back against UWSP and W&J...   

[woosterbooster]

The number of discrepencies between the schedules of the various schools is unbelievable.  The name of the opponent seems to be the only item that is consistently in common.  The scheduled game time is almost always different and sometimes one school claims there will be a doubleheader while the other insists it will be a single game.  This shouldn't be that hard.

It would be nice if the people at Russ Matt baseball in Florida added a section to their website that included results.  That seemingly wouldn't be that hard, either, and in this day and age even uploading boxscores would be a piece of cake.

[old scot]

What is the Russ Matt baseball about? Their web site seems to present it as a tournament. Is there a tournament winner or is it just a central location where teams can compete against each other?

Scots fan, I agree. They should have an updated result on their web site as to games played.

[woosterbooster]

It's not a tournament, but more than a central location.  I believe that once teams choose to participate, for either a week or two, the Russ Matt people do the scheduling of games.  It's just that, though, a bunch of games.  If you Google Russ Matt you'll find their site, and it's possible to download their total spring schedule in a .pdf format.

[ScotsFan]

Wooster swept a DH from Anderson yesterday by the scores of 7-5 and 8-5.  Anderson had won 6 in a row coming into yesterday's DH including a sweep of OWU.

Matt Barnes picked up the win in the opener despite giving up 5 runs in just 4 innings of work.  Wooster was benificial of some Anderson miscues as they scored 4 runs in the top of the 5th to secure the win.  Three of the runs were unearned...

In the nightcap, freshman Justin McDowell had a pretty solid outing until the 6th.  He allowed one run over the 1st five innings and had 2 outs in the 6th before he ran out of gas.  Anderson tagged him for 4 runs before the inning was over.

Mark Miller notched saves 3 & 4 on the season as the Scots are now 6-1.