BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

Bishopleftiesdad · January 28, 2016, 12:57:17 PM

Looks like OWU's schedule is closer to be finalized. Looks like they we be at Fort Myers and Port Charlotte this year in the spring. They will be playing Rockford and Alvernia in Fort Myers, Moravian and Nichols in Port Charlotte
http://www.battlingbishops.com/schedule.aspx?path=baseball

Bishopleftiesdad · January 28, 2016, 01:01:38 PM

Dr. Acula,
Looks like Mount is coming to Delaware.

Dr. Acula · January 29, 2016, 12:59:26 PM

I saw that. Unfortunately, I usually have little to no chance of watching much D3 baseball before April 15th so I won't be there.

Bishopleftiesdad · January 29, 2016, 03:27:41 PM

Sorry to hear that. Good luck to Mount this year.

Dr. Acula · January 30, 2016, 11:34:54 AM

It's just the price you pay in this profession. But it still stinks to miss the majority of the regular season (and March Madness) every year. The good news is we live in Ohio so with the D3 baseball I'm pretty much just missing sitting in a winter coat to watch a ballgame!

Bishopleftiesdad · February 08, 2016, 06:13:12 PM

http://athletics.kenyon.edu/roster.aspx?path=baseball
Kenyon's 2016 roster...

countyroad · February 09, 2016, 09:30:34 AM

Wooster's schedule and roster is posted.

Schedule: http://www.woosterathletics.com/sports/bsb/2015-16/schedule
Roster: http://www.woosterathletics.com/sports/bsb/2015-16/roster

Bishopleftiesdad · February 10, 2016, 04:18:03 PM

Mideast preview is out.

http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2016/01/preview/mideast-preview

Wooster, Alegheny, then OWU.
I do not agree with that order. I would flop OWU and the Gators. Wooster deserves to be up there until someone knocks them off. Wooster's schedule is much tougher than last year.

Pops33 · February 11, 2016, 04:34:36 PM

Wooster's schedule does appear to be more difficult than last year. I agree that based on the "known" returning players, those appear to be the 3 strongest teams. The order may be up in the air, they all return a lot of talent. You cannot count out the unknown though. Who knew that Zullo, a freshman, would be pitcher of the year. Who knew that Lackner would hit 17 home runs and be an All-American. There is a lot of underclass talent across the conference that will most likely play big roles again this year.

I think Wooster has too much offensive firepower returning to not be considered the favorite. OWU and Allegheny both look very strong and could easily win the conference. The actual order really does not matter until the conference tournament. As we saw last year, usually the hottest team at the time wins.

Bishopleftiesdad · February 11, 2016, 07:24:28 PM

Pops I agree. Inlikebto look at the home away spliys on offense. Wooster last year was a much better offense at home. Those should be tje three favorites. nut come tourney time it could be the team tjat gets hot.
OWU did very well last year against some of the OAC powers. They neat BW and crushed the Berg. Theu did not lose much. So I have high hopes for the Bishops.

Pops33 · February 12, 2016, 08:53:12 AM

I heard through the grapevine that the NCAC has changed the end of the year cross over series a little bit. The two #1 seeds will play each other instead of playing the #4 seed from the other division. Both #1 seeds would have automatic qualification for the conference tournament for being the regular season division champion. I believe that the main reason is to improve the strength of schedule for the league's two best teams. I don't know if they will have a separate regular season champion as well as a tournament champion as a result of this change, but it is possible. The rest of the schedule would most likely be #2 vs #4 and the #3 seeds playing each other during the cross over weekend. If this change is true, I believe that it is a good thing for the league.

Bishopleftiesdad · February 17, 2016, 03:59:54 PM

Wabash has their roster posted.
2016 Wabash College Baseball Roster
http://sports.wabash.edu/roster.aspx?path=baseball
It looks like they are loading up for 4 years from now. Over half the roster is Freshman, 21 to be exact and a third of those are pitchers.
11 So
5 jr
4 seniors

From the 4 seniors there is really only one real contributor, David Oliger, he started all 38 games and had a .340 avg. So. Cole Harlacher, .313 avg,
Pitching wise they have there lowest ERA guy from last season back Jensen Kirch, 2-6 with a 4.92 era

I predict you will see a very young team this year. I imagine that coach Stevens will give plenty of young guys opportunities.

Bishopleftiesdad · February 18, 2016, 11:29:03 AM

Denison has posted the 2016 roster:

http://denisonbigred.com/sports/bsb/2015-16/roster

Roster is starting to get some decent numbers back. The roster has 35 players this year.

FR - 7
So - 11
Jr - 10
Sr - 7

Not a huge Freshman class, 7 players, none form Ohio again. No real warm weather states either unless you include Va.
2 pitchers, 2 Catchers and 3 other position players.

I think they will have a tough task replacing Montes, Mulligan and Apfelbach's Bats.
Huarte returns as well, but they are lost most of there starting pitching from last year. They have a total of 14 pitchers listed on the roster.

Bishopleftiesdad · February 18, 2016, 11:33:06 AM

Looks like Denison is spending their spring break in Texas. They should have a very good SOS playing the likes of Trinty, Texas Luthern, and MHB. The other Texas teams on there schedule will not hurt either.

Pops33 · February 19, 2016, 09:22:25 AM

First action of the season tomorrow for the NCAC teams. A Good NCAC vs OAC match up in Allegheny vs. John Carroll in West Virginia. It will be the first action for both teams. Also, Wabash travels to Georgia to play LaGrange. It will be the first action for the Little Giants, but LaGrange already has 8 games under their belt. Should be a tough test for them just from that standpoint.

Both are playing double headers on Saturday and a single game Sunday. Excited for the season to get started. Let's play ball!