BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

[Spence]

I think you'll find your answer here...

http://bit.ly/OWCr9r

Spoiler alert, it's not as long as you probably think.

[motorman]

I think you'll find your answer here...

http://bit.ly/OWCr9r

Spoiler alert, it's not as long as you probably think.

If you can't answer a simple question, which in no way was directed to you in the first place, why waste space posting unless you just cannot stand to be without my attention for a single day. Was much easier than your crappy link to go to the Hiram website and read the story. By the way, if anyone else is curious, it was 2008 the last time Hiram beat Wooster.

[Spence]

If you can't be bothered to go to a school website to find an answer to a question, you deserve whatever chiding you get.

Twice in a week that you've acted like something hadn't happened in ages and you were completely wrong. Maybe you should go looking for answers rather than asking silly questions.

[motorman]

It's been over 6 years since they beat Wooster, I think that's a long time. I was too busy watching baseball on the Big Ten Network to look up the exact date. Excuse me for asking someone from the NCAC if they knew. I pity you that you crave attention so badly that you have to answer my every post.

BTW that rant about cable TV was the funniest thing I've read on here in ages. Even funnier than moving Thurs to Friday. Guess the moderator agreed with me since he was the one that answered.

[Spence]

You can't watch TV and surf the Web? That's what you get for having cable. Do you not have wireless either? Maybe your phone still has a cord too? Is it rotary?

I didn't look up the exact date either, I just looked up the game story on the site which it turns out was written by someone who gets paid to disseminate information for the college's sports teams. Lo and behold, the information you asked about was there. You could have done this just as easily as I did.

I guess we have differing views on time and history.

[TexasDad]

Bishops---Nice to meet you on Saturday. Your son pitched well on Sunday. Good luck the rest of the way. Maybe the teams will meet again in the Conference tournament. Its baseball. Stranger things have happened.

[wally_wabash]

Wabash and DePauw split again on Sunday.  DPU won game 1 14-11 with a three-run walkoff in the 8th inning (which was apparently an extra inning).  Wabash came from behind to win game 2 5-4 with a three run homer in the 7th by Tyler Owensby.  Game 2, originally scheduled for 9 innings, only went 7 because...well I have no earthly idea.  Presumably because the first game went one extra inning so now that all of a sudden counts as the "long" game of the day?  It's asinine.  Pick a length of game, people.  Just pick one and go with it.  Baseball doubleheaders shouldn't play out like a choose-you-own-adventure book. 

The weekend split makes the West division a three horse race.  Denison (8-2) and DePauw (6-4) still have two to make up at some point.  Wabash (6-2) and Denison have a big four gamer coming up this weekend (Friday/Saturday instead of the usual Saturday/Sunday).  Wabash also hosts OWU in the final division series in a couple of weeks giving Wabash 8 straight games at the Goody to close out the conference season.  Going to be an exciting couple of weekends here to close this thing out. 

[Spence]

Wabash and DePauw split again on Sunday.  DPU won game 1 14-11 with a three-run walkoff in the 8th inning (which was apparently an extra inning).  Wabash came from behind to win game 2 5-4 with a three run homer in the 7th by Tyler Owensby.  Game 2, originally scheduled for 9 innings, only went 7 because...well I have no earthly idea.  Presumably because the first game went one extra inning so now that all of a sudden counts as the "long" game of the day? It's asinine.  Pick a length of game, people. 

Yep, I think that's the reason. Not disagreeing with your opinion on it.

Most of the 7 inning stuff IMO is a remnant from when Daylight Saving Time extended into April, and so early season games had to be played earlier in the day or the DH shortened or there was a danger of not finishing (which sometimes happened anyway). With DST starting about the time most teams get back from spring trip now, it's not really much of a problem, and conferences should just play 9 inning games.

[TexasDad]

Big series in Crawfordsville this weekend between Denison and Wabash. Hope Denison is up for it. Got their tails handed to them yesterday by La Roche. Those guys can swing it.

Good luck to all this weekend.

[wally_wabash]

Big series in Crawfordsville this weekend between Denison and Wabash. Hope Denison is up for it. Got their tails handed to them yesterday by La Roche. Those guys can swing it.

Good luck to all this weekend.

The LGs also dropped their midweek game to RHIT down at the Nehf by a score of 2-0.  0-15 from the top four in the order will get you shut out every now and then. 

Not terribly surprised that Wabash and Denison both had some "meh" midweek games right before a make it or break it conference series.  I'm planning on heading down to the Goody to catch one or both of the games on Saturday.  Those are going to be huge, important games.  Division on the line kinds of games.  Should be fun. 

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Bishops---Nice to meet you on Saturday. Your son pitched well on Sunday. Good luck the rest of the way. Maybe the teams will meet again in the Conference tournament. Its baseball. Stranger things have happened.

Thanks, it was nice meeting you as well. I always like meeting people from this board. He started strong but did not quite keep it up. It was good to see your son play as well. He will do well at Denison.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Walter,
In four years of watching my son play ball, division games have always been 7 & 9 innings. Tomorrow's games will be 7 & 9 innings.  They schedule a 7 in the event that the first game goes extra innings.  Last weeks games with Wooster were different, both NCAC teams one from the East, one from the West.

The 7 & 9 thing is a recent development (2012). Prior to that it was all 7s. I'd prefer to see the weekend series be three 9 inning games like the rest of civilization.  Grown up baseball games are 9 innings long. We should be doing that.

I would like to see 3 9's as well.

[wally_wabash]

Walter,
In four years of watching my son play ball, division games have always been 7 & 9 innings. Tomorrow's games will be 7 & 9 innings.  They schedule a 7 in the event that the first game goes extra innings.  Last weeks games with Wooster were different, both NCAC teams one from the East, one from the West.

The 7 & 9 thing is a recent development (2012). Prior to that it was all 7s. I'd prefer to see the weekend series be three 9 inning games like the rest of civilization.  Grown up baseball games are 9 innings long. We should be doing that.

I would like to see 3 9's as well.

Friday-Saturday-Sunday would be ideal because then if you're going to catch a bad weather day, you can adjust and play two one day to work around the weather.  But that'll never happen here and I'm not really sure it should, honestly (the spring sports schedule is already a nightmare on class schedules).    And then it's really, really easy to break ties when teams play three games h2h instead of four.  But that's just me.  The schedule as it is I'm sure is something more or less agreed upon by the ADs and coaches in the league and they're obviously more plugged into the minutiae that drives the decision to squish four games of varying lengths into a weekend, so I'll quit griping about it.  At least until you see a similar rant in 2015. 

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Wally,
I agree. I would love to see a single game on Friday and a DH on Saturday. It may also make scheduling easier for Out of conference games. Some of those could be scheduled on Sunday. I may make scheduling harder though to. Three game series instead of four would mean more open dates to find games for. It would really only add three games to the schedule though.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

http://www2.northcoast.org/baseball/index
No updates since 3/31 wonder whats up with the site.