BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Bishopleftiesdad]

My take on OWU's pitching so far this season.

What should have been a strength coming into the season, with 3 starters expected back and with several players prepared to step in the fourth, has become an issue. The rotation lost one senior who is no longer playing and the other senior has yet to return to form.

The rotation has two quality starters right now.
Cooper is doing well. it looks like he is starting to get his walks under control. His Era is 1.66 and his strike outs are starting to rise.
Hock is also doing well he has two starts against really quality teams and did well. He pitched against Marietta in Florida, for four solid innings only giving up 2 earned runs before hitting his early season pitch count. He had another start against a quality team, Thomas More and gave up 3 earned runs with 4 strike outs, and only 1 walk, in 7 innings.

Possible quality starters.
Munger is a freshman and played very well in Florida beating a pretty good Wheaton (ill) team. In six innings he did not give up a earned run. He did not strike anyone out and did not walk any one. His other start against a quality team came against Case. His first two innings went well, but after that he was having problems getting strikes called. He did get 3 strike outs but they came in the first two innings. He ended up getting 6 earned runs. He is a freshman and should continue to improve.

The 4th starter will probably cone from a group of 3, Adkins, Sega or by committee.

With Hock out of the Bull pen and into the Rotation this could be an issue. Two of the relievers from last season have been ineffective this year. Adkins has done well, but he may end up in the rotation. Sega could end up here as well and has done very well as a reliever in the past. Marker could also end up being a bright spot here. Hopefully one of the freshmen can step up as well.

Closer
Clearly Buckey is our closer and he has done pretty well there.

This is just my opinion.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

OWU plays Otterbein today at Littick field in Delaware. First pitch is scheduled for 4:00.
Tomorrow OWU plays ONU at Littick field. First pitch is 4:00.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

OWU beats Ott 5-3 tonight.
Ott looked good on the mound and hitting. Their SS made several good plays. Owu scored 5 runs in the bottom of the 8th.

Hock and Munger pitched well.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Denison crushes John Caroll, 17-4. Scoring 3 in the first 7 in the third, 2 in the fifth and 5 in the sixth. All on 20 hits.

It was relly a pitcher by committe for Denison. I rhink every starter got at least one inning.
Denison
PITCHERS         IP   H   R   ER   BB   SO   HR
Kyle Colgain        1.0   1   1   1   0   0    0
Tim Duxbury        2.0   0   1   0   0   3    0
Ian Barry               2.0   0   0   0   2   3    0
Connor Murphy     2.0   2   1   1   0   2    0
Georgie Montes    1.0   0   0   0   0   1    0
Ryan Loehnert      1.0   2   1   0   0   0    0
Totals               9.0   5   4   2   2   9    0

[Bishopleftiesdad]

On April 1 Oberlin beat Blufton 18-8, then lost 2 -3.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Wabash beats Rose-Hulman 4-1 today.

[TexasDad]

Thanks for all the updates.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

I will have a few more Tonight or tomorrow.

OWU plays ONU tonight. I want to say OWU should win, but you never know. Depends on our pitching.

Depauw plays Wash U. in a DH. I do not know much about Wash U. They have a good record, but I am not sure how good those teams our. The only common Reference point I have is Case Western, and they lost to them twice.

Muskingum plays Wooster. Wooster should blow them out.

Witt vs. Capital, We still won't know much about Witt after this game. . Capital has a 11-7 record and is 2-2 in the OAC with but they have not beat anyone of consequence.

[jos s]

Wash U has a very good team ...came out #28 in the pre-season polls....    Wash U vs Depauw should be a good game, expect Wash U to take both

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Thanks Jos,
Hows their pitching, Depauw has been putting up lots of runs.

[jos s]

 they have a nice staff...relief is a little thin, but solid starters.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

West
OWU beats ONU 14-5. OWU used pitchers who had pitched mostly in relief all year. Priddy and Adkins I think both had one other start this year. Just my observation and talking to some Dad's of ONU players. They start a lot of Freshmen, and they have the potential to hit very well, But currently they either are not using their pitching or they just do not have any. One dad told me they have one guy that is really pretty good. Austin Price. He has 25.1 inning in 20 some games and pitches as often as he is ready. The rest of the time they seem to cobble it together, with no other guy getting more than 16.2.

Depauw splits with Washington U., 7-9, and 2-1. Depauw used 4 pitchers in the first game and five in the second. That is pretty common in the NCAC. With Conference play on the weekends you do not want to burn a starter, so you give a lot of pitchers a few innings so they are ready for relief or their regular start on Sunday.

Witt lost to Capital in Lancaster yesterday 5-4.

Wabash was idle, after beating Rose Hulman on Weds. 4-1 Weds.

Denison was Idle.

East
Wooster beat up on Muskingum 14-1 no surprise there. Wooster used 9 pitchers giving no one pitcher more than an inning a piece.

Kenyon was idle, They are in the part of their schedule where they only play on the weekends. They spend 2 weeks in Florida and get most of their non conference games in then.

Oberlin was Idle after splitting with Bluffton on the first, 18-1, and 2-3.

Hiram Has been Idle since March 30th and does not play till the sixth. There only game during that stretch was against Mount Union, Which was postponed.

Allegheny has been Idle since the 30th as well, when they beat up on poor Keuka. They do not play till the 6th when they start conference play against Hiram.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

In the Top 25 Wittenberg is on the board in the ORV with 33.

[Dr. Acula]

West
OWU beats ONU 14-5. OWU used pitchers who had pitched mostly in relief all year. Priddy and Adkins I think both had one other start this year. Just my observation and talking to some Dad's of ONU players. They start a lot of Freshmen, and they have the potential to hit very well, But currently they either are not using their pitching or they just do not have any. One dad told me they have one guy that is really pretty good. Austin Price. He has 25.1 inning in 20 some games and pitches as often as he is ready. The rest of the time they seem to cobble it together, with no other guy getting more than 16.2.

Price is basically their entire staff.  He's pretty good.  He will start every OAC game possible.  Case in point, he started against Etta, got hit around and exited in the 1st and came back and started the next OAC DH a couple days later.   

[Bishopleftiesdad]

West
OWU beats ONU 14-5. OWU used pitchers who had pitched mostly in relief all year. Priddy and Adkins I think both had one other start this year. Just my observation and talking to some Dad's of ONU players. They start a lot of Freshmen, and they have the potential to hit very well, But currently they either are not using their pitching or they just do not have any. One dad told me they have one guy that is really pretty good. Austin Price. He has 25.1 inning in 20 some games and pitches as often as he is ready. The rest of the time they seem to cobble it together, with no other guy getting more than 16.2.

Price is basically their entire staff.  He's pretty good.  He will start every OAC game possible.  Case in point, he started against Etta, got hit around and exited in the 1st and came back and started the next OAC DH a couple days later.   

Probably the new coach and the tougher schedule but what happened with Magni, Last year he pitched 31 innings and had a decent Era. This year he is not getting much time on the mound. This year he has all of 10.1 innings.

Note: I am aquainted with Matt, Son has played with him once in the Fall and they have been in the same travel ball club, although on different teams.