BB: NCAC: North Coast Athletic Conference

[smedindy]

Wbash roster is up:

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

[earlhamalum]

Baseball Team Split against Taylor this weekend down in Centre KY.  EC 1-1

[woosterbooster]

Wooster opens their Ft. Myers, Florida trip with back to back doubleheaders, facing Albion on Sunday the 12th and Carroll on Monday the 13th.  Making it even tougher is the fact that the first DH is sort of a twi-nighter, with game one beginning at 4 PM.  The following day's twin bill starts at 10 in the morning.  So Wooster will be playing there first 4 games of the year within a 24 hour span.  That's not just tough on pitching, but tough on everybody.

I've been trying to get word from WKQT if they'll be broadcasting any Florida games, but they've not answered my emails.  I'm going to give them a call tomorrow, if I remember, which is iffy.

[ScotsFan]

I've been trying to get word from WKQT if they'll be broadcasting any Florida games, but they've not answered my emails.  I'm going to give them a call tomorrow, if I remember, which is iffy.

If I remember correctly, it seems as though the Florida games are broadcast on WKVX, am 960.  Don't hold me to that, but, if they are going to be broadcast, that would be my guess as to where they would be broadcast.  Hopefully the Scots can get off to a good start down in Florida to ease some of the sting from last night's heartbreaker on the hardwood.

[imderekpoe]

Looks like a good but tough schedule for the Scots this year with 4 games in Florida against ranked opponents (2 each vs Rowan and St. Thomas), plus a home game against Marietta and a home-and-home series with Otterbein when they get back to Ohio.  Wooster has a ton of home games scheduled this year.  Hopefully they get to play more than the 5 that they did last season!

Here's to another good season on the diamond for the Scots! 

[wally_wabash]

Wabash is off to a good start in Arizona.  The LGs split with Rochester Tech on Sunday and pitched a pair of shutouts yesterday vs. Monmouth.  Freshman Andy Weeks tossed a two-hit, seven strikeout game in the nightcap. 

Billy King is off to a great start at the plate for Wabash...in four games he's 8-13, scored five runs, driven in 5 runs, and swiped two bases.  The homecoming trip for Billy is certainly treating him well. 

Wabash plays a pair today vs. Wartburg. 

[ScotsFan]

Wooster has a ton of home games scheduled this year.  Hopefully they get to play more than the 5 that they did last season!

You aren't mistaken about that!  I was just browsing the schedule and notice that they have a string of 15 home games in a row!  They finish the season with 15 of their last 19 games at home!

One thing I noticed that seemed a little strange is that they have the NCAC semi-finals scheduled to take part at Ohio Northern.  It seems kind of an odd site to hold NCAC tournament games at an OAC school?

[formerd3db]

ScotsFan:
On the other hand, perhaps not.  Ohio Northern has hosted the NCAA Regionals for baseball on several occasions in past years.  They do have nice facilities for that, so perhaps that is why they were chosen.  Yet, you would think the NCAC would want to hold their own tournament at one of their own member's baseball facilities.

[wally_wabash]

More on Wabash's Arizona trip....the two shutouts yesterday came against Monmouth, a team nationally recognized at 28 in the D-III preseason poll.  Today's games are against #3 Wartburg...so the competition is quite good for Wabash in Arizona. 

[wally_wabash]

Not quite so good for the LGs today.  Wabash dropped a pair to a formidable Wartburg team by scores of 7-3 and 18-6.  I wonder if pitching depth wasn't an issue for Wabash today (six games in three days). 

Wabash falls to 3-3 on the Arizona trip.  Wabash plays two vs. Coe College tomorrow. 

[woosterbooster]

Wooster's schedule doesn't say that the NCAC semifinals are at Ohio Northern.  Those are two different items.

April 29-30: NCAC Tournament Semifinal Series (No location given as this is generally at the home field of the regular season division winner.)

May 3rd: at Ohio Northern (Just a regular season game, plopped in there between the league semifinals and finals.  My bet is that it eventually gets cancelled as these games usually do due to one team or the other having to makeup a league contest or just needing to rest their pitchers for the tournament.  Not sure why they schedule games at this time in the first place.)

May 4-5: NCAC Tournament Championship Series (at Springfield, Ohio) (This is starting to annoy me, that Wittenberg gets to host this year after year. Yes, it's a nice facility, but there are others, and Springfield is not centrally located. Plus, one team should not have home field advantage over and over.)

[zosobob]

Things are looking good again this year, GO SCOTS!

[wally_wabash]

Wabash concluded their Arizona trip with a pair of huge wins over Wisconsin Lutheran.  Wabash's final two games in Phoenix were cancelled by rain leaving Wabash with a 6-4 record for the trip.  Up next for Wabash is a single nine-inning contest at Depauw on Tuesday.  Wabash has lost 13 straight games to their archrivals...the last win for Wabash in the series was in 1999.  Needless to say, Wabash is way overdue in this series. 

[woosterbooster]

The first pitch of Wooster's first game with Albion should be on the way right about now, weather permitting in Fort Myers.  Unfortunately, no radio broadcasts that I can find, so I'll just have stick with watching D1 hoops. 

[imderekpoe]

The Scots get off to a good start by beating Albion 6-0 and 16-1.  Another DH against Carroll on Monday.

Go Scots!