BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Dr. Acula]

There will be live stats on the kean website for the wooster/kean game tonight at 6 pm

Thanks HeyScots.  Here's the link for anyone interested:

Kean Live Stats

[HeyScots]

Wooster 4
Kean 1

Final

Great pitching performance by Barnes and Kean also had 5 errors to help out the Scots a little.  Kean is the second top 10 team Wooster has beat already this year.

[ScotsFan]

Wooster will go for the 2 game sweep vs. Kean today.  Looks as though Wooster is going up against Kean's 2 best starters so far this season.

Kean got absolutely pummelled by Carthage in 2 games prior to their games with the Scots.  Carthage scored 26 runs in those 2 games.

The loss for Kean's starter yesterday was his first.  And it looks as though the guy that should start for Kean today (Diaz) is their #1 coming into the seaon.  His only loss of the season was a 2-1 loss in their season opener vs. DeSales.  I'm assuming that Matt DeGrand will get the start for Wooster today.

Should be another good one between these two nationally ranked opponents!

[mideastfan2]

Looks like Wooster is off to a great start.  Hopefully Cathage and Kean stay in the rankings, or else those wins won't look as nice at the end of the year.

Regardless, Wooster is obviously one of the top teams in the country once again, and I'm sooooo happpy that they will be playing MAR and HEID once again this season.  It's great to see the top teams in the region square off before the regionals!!!

Good luck to Wooster this year!  Looks like the mideast is going to be a strong region AGAIN, maybe one of the powers will get shipped out this year when May rolls around so we can get 2 of them to the Series

[countyroad]

Looks like Wooster is off to a great start.  Hopefully Cathage and Kean stay in the rankings, or else those wins won't look as nice at the end of the year.

Regardless, Wooster is obviously one of the top teams in the country once again, and I'm sooooo happpy that they will be playing MAR and HEID once again this season.  It's great to see the top teams in the region square off before the regionals!!!

Good luck to Wooster this year!  Looks like the mideast is going to be a strong region AGAIN, maybe one of the powers will get shipped out this year when May rolls around so we can get 2 of them to the Series

I really wish I could see Wooster play.  I've lived in Columbus 3 years now and haven't been able to catch one of their games since I left Wooster.  I'd really like to see them play Heidelberg or MC but theres no way I can pull off a weekday game.  I thought about driving down for the Marietta game but I doubt I would make it by 7:00.  I've been wanting to see a game at Marietta for a while and what better game than to see them take on Wooster. 

My best chance to see them may be at the NCAC tournament in Chillicothe. 

[ScotsFan]

Looks like Wooster is off to a great start.  Hopefully Cathage and Kean stay in the rankings, or else those wins won't look as nice at the end of the year.

Regardless, Wooster is obviously one of the top teams in the country once again, and I'm sooooo happpy that they will be playing MAR and HEID once again this season.  It's great to see the top teams in the region square off before the regionals!!!

Good luck to Wooster this year!  Looks like the mideast is going to be a strong region AGAIN, maybe one of the powers will get shipped out this year when May rolls around so we can get 2 of them to the Series

I'm guessing that Kean and Carthage will both be in the mix to get to Appleton at season's end.

Also, its refreshing to hear a Marietta fan happy to see Wooster on their schedule.  I know looking at it from a Wooster perspective, I think it only helps to go out and challenge yourself against, not only some of the best competition in the region, but some of the best competition in the country as a whole and that's what you get when you face Marietta and Heide!  Especially given the comparitively weak nature of the NCAC as a whole, Wooster needs challenges like Marietta and Heide thrown in to keep them sharp.

And you are right about the Mideast looking like quite the powerful region!  Two teams in the top 5 and 5 teams in the top 20 as well as 2 others in the receiving votes category!  If the NCAA decides that one of the powers get shipped out, I think they could look at it as a blessing depending on where they got shipped to! 

[HeyScots]

Countryroad...the regional this year is in Marietta and Im sure there will be great competition there, including a few Marrietta vs. Wooster games so maybe you can make it out for that.

Also the wooster/kean game today at 3 will have live stats on keans website.

http://www.sidearmstats.com/kean/baseball/index.htm

[bufordscot]

Looks like Wooster is off to a great start.  Hopefully Cathage and Kean stay in the rankings, or else those wins won't look as nice at the end of the year.

Regardless, Wooster is obviously one of the top teams in the country once again, and I'm sooooo happpy that they will be playing MAR and HEID once again this season.  It's great to see the top teams in the region square off before the regionals!!!

Good luck to Wooster this year!  Looks like the mideast is going to be a strong region AGAIN, maybe one of the powers will get shipped out this year when May rolls around so we can get 2 of them to the Series

I really wish I could see Wooster play.  I've lived in Columbus 3 years now and haven't been able to catch one of their games since I left Wooster.  I'd really like to see them play Heidelberg or MC but theres no way I can pull off a weekday game.  [font=Verdana]I thought about driving down for the Marietta game but I doubt I would make it by 7:00.  [/font] I've been wanting to see a game at Marietta for a while and what better game than to see them take on Wooster. 

My best chance to see them may be at the NCAC tournament in Chillicothe. 

sounds to me like you need to have a mysterious stomach virus that day and make it.

[HeyScots]

kean 16
wooster 15

final


Tough loss for the scots but ill tell you what...this showed us something about this team other then how talented they are.  When you get down by 12 runs against the #6 team in the country with their ace on the mound I would be willing to bet that 99% of the teams in the country would have easily given up and would have waited to play another day.  This comeback by Wooster shows the character of this team as well as the leadership.  I know every player in that dugout believed they could come back and thats what they did.  Unfortunately they fell a little short, but what a great performance by wooster and also give credit to kean for a great game as well.

[old scot]

Nice start of the season for the Scots.
After reveiwing todays defeat against Kean, the  following was true. After DeGrand got shelled in the second, the Wooster pen could not stop the bleeding. Wahl and Meizner came in to throw gas on the fire.Hopefully, this will not be a sign of things to come.
On the offensive side,  Van Horn seems to be a solid addition at the plate and the mound. Groezinger and Co. seem to pulling their weight.
I'm looking forward to a strong run through the NCAC and The Mid-East region.

[old scot]

HeyScots, welcome aboard. I can't  believe the Washington Wildthings didn't give you a shot. That being said, its good to have another ex Ster-Baller to contribute to the board.

[ScotsFan]

Good points heyscots.  I think another telling stat from yesterday's game is that opposing teams better beware of giving the Scots extra outs!  After Groezinger's leadoff homer in the 4th, it looked as though that would be Woo's lone run of the inning.  That is until the pitcher dropped a fly ball that would have been the 3rd out.  Wooster then proceeded to score 6 more runs in the inning with that extra out!

I too like the fight we saw from this team yesterday.  Kean is a very good baseball team and for Wooster to nearly pull off an epic comeback against the Cougars' ace no less? 

And oldscot.  The bully is giving us some reason of concern, but I'm not all that worried just yet.  I think a lot of it has to do with guys just settling into their roles coming out of the pen.  And I think a lot of it has to do with the coaching staff trying to figure out just who they can trust to give the ball to if needed.  Clearly, Wahl doesn't appear to have it.  He has made 3 appearances this spring and none of them have gone well.  After allowing one run in one inning of work in the season opener, Wahl got rocked in his 2nd appearance vs. OWU.  He came on in the 9th to promptly give up 4 runs while failing to get out of the inning.  And then, yesterday, he came on in relief of DeGrand and promptly gave up another 4 runs that ended up blowing the game wide open for Kean.  Until he gets things figured out, I'd have a hard time giving him the ball in anything but mop up duty.

[HeyScots]

Wooster 16
Becker 5

Final

[HeyScots]

Skidmore 1
Wooster 3

Final-13 innings

[ScotsFan]

Wooster won game one of their double header with Kenyon today! 

Final:

Wooster - 13
Kenyon - 7

Justin McDowell had another strong outing going 6 and giving up 2 runs.

Can someone tell me how much longer Landon Wahl is going to keep getting opportunities to get knocked around?  He came on in relief of McDowell in the 7th and proceeded to get hammered to the tune of 5 runs on 6 hits and couldn't even get out of the inning.  Meinzer had to be brought on to record the final out of the game.  Seems like a pretty safe bet that Wahl shouldn't see the field unless the Scots lead is more than 10 runs...