BB: WIAC: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[biggio34]

Since were declaring my Tommies dead with the loss of Schuld, I thought I'd lay my regional pre-season order out and see how it flies.

1) UW-Whitewater (they've owned the WIAC since 01, don't see that changing)
2) St. Thomas (Deeper this year than years past, a little young)
3) Point (Great staff, depth but seem to lose games they shouldn't to lesser teams)
4) Oshkosh (Good talent, good recruiting, health Ruebens, will contend for WIAC)
5) St. Olaf (Very good pitching and revamped roster, will be in the MIAC final)
6) St. Scholastica (lost a lot of offense, but they return a good core of players)
7) St. Johns (The MIAC darkhorse, very solid will steal games from UST & STO)
tie 7) Bethany Lutheran (offensive , 2 legitimate starters if Hallahan is healthy?)

Please add detail on two things if you can...

1.  Olaf's revamped roster?  Who did they get that is going to put them back into contention?  I believe they lost the Jones boys who were two of their best bats the last few years.

2.  Is Hallanhan's health in question?

Also, I don't remember STU ever lacking depth.  So if they are deep again this year, sounds like the same old song.  Interesting top 7!

[MIACLUV]

* Olaf had a great recruiting class last year that will fill the holes left by the Jones' Also another good crop of Twin Cities kids this year make them a team to keep an eye on. Along with the Nelson kid being healthy will give them some pop in the middle that they lacked last year.

* As for the Hallahan situation, a source that works with the Dad's baseball service put it to me, "he got hit around pretty good in the league he was playing in down in Illinois and that he was not healthy so he had to be shut down." Also I saw no mention of him on the Bethany site in their fall wrap up, which makes me believe he didn't throw this fall. Not sure the extent of his health, but I'm sure their getting him ready for spring.

[BigPoppa]

* Olaf had a great recruiting class last year that will fill the holes left by the Jones' Also another good crop of Twin Cities kids this year make them a team to keep an eye on.

Every team thinks they have a great recruiting class coming in EVERY season. I am not saying that the Oles do NOT have a great class, but find me evidence of one coach that does not think he had a solid class coming in and I'll find you a coach that is unemployed.

[biggio34]

* Olaf had a great recruiting class last year that will fill the holes left by the Jones' Also another good crop of Twin Cities kids this year make them a team to keep an eye on.

Every team thinks they have a great recruiting class coming in EVERY season. I am not saying that the Oles do NOT have a great class, but find me evidence of one coach that does not think he had a solid class coming in and I'll find you a coach that is unemployed.

Didn't take long to find one... check out Crown College, they are so impressed by their last few recruiting classes that they are displaying their 2008 roster on their website.

http://www.stormathletics.com/mens-sports/baseball/roster.html

UMAC basebll, catch the fever!

[tommiegun]

* Olaf had a great recruiting class last year that will fill the holes left by the Jones' Also another good crop of Twin Cities kids this year make them a team to keep an eye on.

Every team thinks they have a great recruiting class coming in EVERY season. I am not saying that the Oles do NOT have a great class, but find me evidence of one coach that does not think he had a solid class coming in and I'll find you a coach that is unemployed.

Didn't take long to find one... check out Crown College, they are so impressed by their last few recruiting classes that they are displaying their 2008 roster on their website.

http://www.stormathletics.com/mens-sports/baseball/roster.html

UMAC basebll, catch the fever!

Haha, sad. I think even sitting here now, fat and with a shredded rotator cuff, I could be a stud at Crown.

[mr_b]

Didn't take long to find one... check out Crown College, they are so impressed by their last few recruiting classes that they are displaying their 2008 roster on their website.

http://www.stormathletics.com/mens-sports/baseball/roster.html

UMAC basebll, catch the fever!

They did manage to win 5 games that year!

[ballfan55]

Just curious which of these schools moved to Wisconsin?

[biggio34]

Just curious which of these schools moved to Wisconsin?

Apologies, you are right, this discussion is out of place on the WIAC board.  Let's all head to the UMAC board and recommence the brutality!

[badgerwarhawk]

The WARHAWKS have rescheduled games that were to be played in the MetroDome.  We will be playing a pair of doublehitters against Concordia Moorhead in their place.  These doublehitters are scheduled to be played in Omaha, NE.  On the Florida trip the WARHAWKS will play St Olaf, St Thomas (2), Mount Vernon Nazarene and a Minnesota Twins minor league spring training team in addition to several reserve games scheduled. 

[badgerwarhawk]

Unable to find a stadium in Omaha in which to play because of the weather and field conditions the WARHAWKS were forced to find another opponent in the eleventh hour.  They were successful in scheduling a pair of single games against Washington University in St Louis the first of which was played today.  The WARHAWKS hammered Wash U 11-1.  The WARHAWKS scored two runs in the first inning, 4 in the second, 2 more in the fourth and seventh and a single run in the eighth on eleven hits.  Wash U's single run was scored in the fifth.  Riley Tincher picked up the win going 5 innings giving up 7 hits and the run which was earned.  He had 3 K's and walked a pair.  Four relief pitchers finished the game holding Wash U hitless and striking out 4 without a walk.  Dan Putnam went 3x5 (3 RS), Rob Coe 3x5 (4 RBI, 2 RS, Double, Home Run).  Andrew Eichstaedt went 2X5 ( 2 RBI, 1 RS, Double).  Jeff Donovan was 2X5 (1 RS, Double) and Matt Beyer was 1X3 (1 RBI, 3RS, Double).    Eight of the WARHAWK runs were scored with two outs.

The two teams will play again tomorrow.    

[cubs]

Dan Putnam went 3x5 (3 RS), Rob Coe 3x5 (4 RBI, 2 RS, Double, Home Run).  Andrew Eichstaedt went 2X5 ( 2 RBI, 1 RS, Double).  Jeff Donovan was 2X5 (1 RS, Double) and Matt Beyer was 1X3 (1 RBI, 3RS, Double).

Safe to assume that Oshkosh signed off on the waiver allowing Eichstaedt to play right away?  I thought if you transferred inside the conference after playing two years at a school (ala Shane Manor) you needed to sit out for one season before you were allowed to play.

[biggio34]

Dan Putnam went 3x5 (3 RS), Rob Coe 3x5 (4 RBI, 2 RS, Double, Home Run).  Andrew Eichstaedt went 2X5 ( 2 RBI, 1 RS, Double).  Jeff Donovan was 2X5 (1 RS, Double) and Matt Beyer was 1X3 (1 RBI, 3RS, Double).

Safe to assume that Oshkosh signed off on the waiver allowing Eichstaedt to play right away?  I thought if you transferred inside the conference after playing two years at a school (ala Shane Manor) you needed to sit out for one season before you were allowed to play.

Is that a WIAC rule?

[badgerwarhawk]

Yes, it is a WIAC rule.  I don't know the circumstances of Eichstaedt leaving Oshkosh but I can say with confidence that we wouldn't be playing him if he wasn't eligible.   

It didn't take him long to make his presence felt.  He had two RBI in his first at bat.

[ballfan55]

Maybe the fact he didn't play two complete years and quit part way through his second season had something to do with it.

[cubs]

Maybe the fact he didn't play two complete years and quit part way through his second season had something to do with it.

Shouldn't matter....  He used two years of eligibility up, regardless of if he played the full season or not.