BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

Bishopleftiesdad · April 06, 2013, 07:55:15 PM

West
OWU and Depauw split.
8-3 Cooper gets the win. Cooper did well most of the game. One time striking out the side. I do not believe he walked anyone. I will have to view the stats. Depauw was sitting on the fastball. Very few batters swung at the curve.
3-9 Sega gets the loss.

Looks like Witt may be coming back to earth. They lost two to a resurgent Denison team, 3-2, and a crushing 14-2.

Wabash loses two to NCAC east member Wooster in a non-conference game. 0-4, 2-5

East
Wooster see Wabash above.

Kenyon Crushes Oberlin in DH today, 17-3, 12-7.

Allegheny sweeps double header with Hiram, 4-0, 10-0.

DagarmanSpartan · April 07, 2013, 07:12:53 AM

Gang,

I'm really looking forward to CWRU's upcoming DH with Wooster.

Should be a GREAT matchup!

Spence · April 07, 2013, 07:07:52 PM

Very good weekends for Denison and DePauw. Wooster should cruise through their next 8 league games, but I think D and D might be the top two teams in the conference.

Bishopleftiesdad · April 07, 2013, 10:14:07 PM

As much as I would like to disagree with you Spence, I cannot.

If OWU would have pulled a split with Depauw this weekend, then there could be some argument. Alas we they did not. Last year's strength, Pitching, best ERA in the conference, has become this years weakness.

One, two and three starters were very good last year. and while they did not always in they helped us keep it close and allowed us to get some good wins. This year Cooper is still in form. Hock looks like he will be good, but after that starters are a question mark.

We lost one to graduation, another who is a senior and is not playing. Our other senior starter is still trying to get back to form.

Pitching cannot give up 9 runs in one inning and expect to win.

We are not going to win a lot of one one run games until we stop our opponents from scratching out a run, and cut down the errors at critical points.

It doesn't look like we are ever out of a game (unless it is marietta

, Spence). Even after giving up 5 runs we were able to scratch our way back and get back in the game. We still lost.

Fortunately we are just 25% through our conference schedule. next weeks games against Denison are now very important. I do not think any other NCAC teams have a chance to take more than two from them, most probably will only get one.

Wabash has only played 25 % of there league games as well, but they have the meat of there conference games coming up. Denison, Depauw, and Us. They had their Bye week this week so they will not get much of a chance to recover. I believe they have to travel to both Denison and Delaware as well. Those are long trips.

Depauw played there last hope conference games today. They travel to Witt and Wabash.

OWU started 1-3 last year i conference play and still made the NCAC tourney. Lets hope they can do it again.

With the crossover games, there could be three west teams. I just do not want to be in the 4 spot and have to play Wooster in the cross over. The path is clear now for them to get to first place in the east. I would rather be in 2 or three and facing 3 or 2 from the east.

old scot · April 09, 2013, 07:24:42 PM

Woo downs BW 9-3. I don't know what to make of the Scots this year. Time will tell.

Bishopleftiesdad · April 09, 2013, 09:34:16 PM

Quote from: old scot on April 09, 2013, 07:24:42 PM
Woo downs BW 9-3. I don't know what to make of the Scots this year. Time will tell.

OWU beat BW in Florida. I feel the same way about OWU. We also beat Case Thomas More and OTT.

No one from the NCAC is going to get a pool c. Wooster always plays well in the NCAC tourney. I cannot imagine that they will do poorly in the crossover, so clearly they will get to the tourney.

Bishopleftiesdad · April 11, 2013, 01:35:40 PM

This weekend

East
Wooster vs. Hiram. This should be a Scots sweep. No more to be said.

Kenyon and Witt play in a NCAC non-conference DH on Friday and Saturday. This will be interesting, both teams are 3-5 in the NCAC. Kenyon lost 3 of those 5 to wooster, While Will list 4 of their 5 to Denison. This will be an interesting match up to to apparent Middle of the road teams.

Oberlin vs. Allegheny, The gators are 4-0 in the conference, but all those wins came against Hiram. Oberlin is 4-2. I say the Gators get at least a split and move to two in the standings.

West
OWU vs Denison. OWU needs at least a spit. They cannot afford to lose 3, or god forbid 4 of these games. They need to take at least two and hope to do well against Witt and Wabash. This is possible, OWU played better than the scores appeared, against Depauw. It will be interesting to see what Deegan does with his rotation. Innings wise it looks like Colgain may be the number one, but I have not seen him pitch in that position so far in Conf. play. Could be Duxbury or Murphy as well. OWU's number 1 is probably already set, but after the Depauw series I would not be surprised to see them shake up the rotation.

Wabash vs. Depauw. I think the best the lil giants can hope for is to take 1 of 3. JT Miller is a stud and I can see him getting the win. I do not think the rest of Wabash's rotation can take on Depauws hitters.

Witt vs Kenyon.

Anybody else have an opinion. Where are the Wabash posters? Some of you had a lot to say in the Fall. I expected to see you here in the spring.

Ralph Turner · April 12, 2013, 10:27:19 PM

Done.

Quote from: Wooster Booster on December 29, 2005, 03:10:56 PM
Here are the baseball web pages for all of the NCAC schools, preceded by the NCAC site itself:

NCAC Baseball: http://www2.northcoast.org/baseball/index

Eastern Division

Allegheny: http://alleghenygators.com/index.aspx?path=baseball&tab=0

Hiram: http://www.hiramterriers.com/sports/bsb/index

Kenyon: http://athletics.kenyon.edu/index.aspx?tab=baseball&path=baseball

Oberlin: http://www.goyeo.com/index.aspx?path=baseball&tab=baseball

Wooster: http://athletics.wooster.edu/base/default.php

Western Division

Denison: http://denisonbigred.com/sports/bsb/index

DePauw: http://www.depauw.edu/athletics/mens/baseball/

OWU: http://bishops.owu.edu/baseball.html

Wabash: http://www.wabash.edu/sports/baseball

Wittenberg: http://www4.wittenberg.edu/news/athletics/baseball/index.html

Or here: http://www.d3baseball.com/conf/NCAC/2013/schedule

Bishopleftiesdad · April 13, 2013, 06:09:02 PM

Yup Ralph, except for the OWU games that's were I get my info.

Spence · April 13, 2013, 06:29:26 PM

Really good sweep for OWU today. Really kept Denison quiet at the plate and did some hitting of their own.

Bishopleftiesdad · April 13, 2013, 06:42:11 PM

Thanks Spence.
I did not expect OWU to pitch the Rotation in this order, but I am glad they did. Sega (SEEGUH) pitched very well. Cooper did not have his best stuff, but battled through 7 innings.

The offense came through, They got to Duxbury early. Poor Ben Steele must have a ball magnet on him they could not seem to keep from hitting him.

Colgain pitched very well but the bats did not help him. Denison never hung there heads and fought till the end in both games.

OWU moves into third place. in the west.

The surprise for me in the east today has to be Oberlin. They won the first 4-5 and are winning 10-5 in the 7th. Going to be an interesting couple of weeks.

Spence · April 13, 2013, 07:10:42 PM

How fast things can change in the NCAC.

OWU could lead the West with a sweep tomorrow. If they get swept, they could be last.

Bishopleftiesdad · April 13, 2013, 11:57:52 PM

I wish, even if Owu sweeps tomorrow they are only 5-3. That at best puts them in 3rd. Depauw and Denison are 6-4. OWU is going to need some help.
The challenge for all the west teams is to finish in the top three to put them in the best position to get into the tourney.
Every team in both divisions has a chance to play for a spot, except possibly Hiram.

Spence · April 14, 2013, 01:43:16 AM

Quote from: Bishopleftiesdad on April 13, 2013, 11:57:52 PM
I wish, even if Owu sweeps tomorrow they are only 5-3. That at best puts them in 3rd. Depauw and Denison are 6-4. OWU is going to need some help.
The challenge for all the west teams is to finish in the top three to put them in the best position to get into the tourney.
Every team in both divisions has a chance to play for a spot, except possibly Hiram.

5-3 is percentage points better than 6-4, or 7-5. If DePauw splits and OWU sweeps, Bishops are in first and Denison would be 6-6.

Bishopleftiesdad · April 14, 2013, 09:30:01 AM

I realized late last night that I was incorrect.

Thanks Spence. Some big games today.