BB: WIAC: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[badgerwarhawk]

I believe the conference rule has changed.  Rather than count them as losses they simply do not count them at all.  So you can have a situation where teams do not play the same number of games and their position is determined by w/l percentage of the conference games they have played. 

Point and Platteville played 23 games in 2007 while the rest of the league played 24.   

 

[Dagger]

yeah I knew they didn't count them as losses, I just think it is foolish to not allow them to make them up at another date down the road.  You get one day to replay the games and then they are lost!  Three years ago, and maybe it was against stout or something, but the games on a sunday were cancelled on saturday, and then of course it was beautiful on sunday, and then monday it was crappy and they were cancelled again and then could not be made up.  Well point either almost didnt make the tourny that year or almost lost a seed (I don't remember) because of those two games, because they had the same number of losses, but two (presumably) fewer wins.  I just think that if both teams can find a way to play the games, and you would think that those two conf. games are more important than non conf games, that the league would allow them to do it!

[Dagger]

I won't forget seeing a major leaguer earning a pension get taken away in a squad car for fighting in a D-III game. Getting Henry out of your dugout was quite a battle too. What a drama-filled day that was! And I'm with you; I saw some crazy heat-of-the-moment stuff that doesn't need to be detailed. I was/am just curious, like I'm sure we all are, what it was like to be on the field during something like that. Well, that and your gameplan for survival and whatnot.

So you stayed clear of Vince, Korey and Lucas? Good call. Self-preservation is a great human instinct, isn't it?

well the game plan once you get on the field is really....well you really don't have time for a game plan!  At least I didn't.  I guess it all depends on the type of person you are too, I mean I went out to break stuff up and just be a good teammate, I wasn't out there to beat somebody up!  However there were clearly others who were looking to do just that.  Several guys had a specific target and you could see them looking around for them and then taking off after them, while others just wanted to fight the first person they ran into.  My game plan was to play peace maker and try to talk some sense into the guys that were bashing each others faces in for no reason!  I mean everything happens so fast you just react and my reaction was to not get suspended because I actually enjoyed playing college baseball, and so I found our best players and made sure that they were not doing anything stupid so that they too could continue to play.   Like I said before as I was wondering around the piles of human just kind of taking it all in, because well I wasn't going to make a dent in any of the fights, not to mention that most of them were already in full action and had guys breaking them up already.  From what I have seen there are the fighters and there are the ones who make sure nobody actually kills anyone!  I walked around until I found a fight or a near fight that didn't have the (non-fighters) present and then tried to step in/protect our guys.   I'm sure all of that would have changed had somebody stepped up to me and jacked me in the face though!

[Brewers20]

Does anyone know why Brad Demmin didn't start either of the games agains St. Norberts?  I see he came in at the end of the first game for an inning, but he didn't appear in game two at all.  I'm guessing something happened at practice, because he played complete games in the DH agains Marian.

[Dagger]

UWO fight #2 was much more tame than the first one I endured at that field.  As you all probably know our catcher got taken out at the plate for no reason, and against all conference rules, by a UWO player who had no problems last year taking out catchers for fun...and unfortunately taking them out for extended periods of time!  so that happened, and in this scenario I'm now a senior of course, and so I run in from short and start jawing at the baserunner and then all h@ll breaks lose and the next thing I see is the wave of UWO uniforms coming at me and bloom...shortly thereafter one of our players got dragged back to the backstop by a hoard of UWO men and they had a little episode back there.  I ran into one of UWO's better/bigger players first and basically just ended up holding him in one place, as I thought he kind of had that look in his eyes!  So I really didn't do much in the second one either...this one was more of the one isolated fight behind home plate, and then a bunch of dirty looks and F bombs!  UWW UWO fight was several violent fights scattered all over the place!    What you have to take into consideration while you're out there is what am I going to do and what is the purpose/outcome of doing that and is it worth it.  For never really being a violent type going and starting a fist fight wasn't worth it.  Like I said before if somebody would have started something with me or someone on my team near by I would have had no problem jumping in and throwing some punches...ultimately your purpose out there is protect your guys, I chose to do so by making sure some of the other guys were occupied.

I think the best part of the second one, as I was a little more relaxed this time around and could take more of it in, was the umpires reaction!  They just about crapped their pants, the home plate ump stood his ground and helped clear the fight behind the plate, but the base ump looked like he was on fire and ran out of the mob screaming! haha...Everyone was pretty well in control, and I didn't have any issues with my captive, other then him trying to get away to go fight someone...I just held on and told him it wasn't worth it...actually have photos of this too if you don't believe any of my facts!

all in all it was a pretty tame fight other then the one brawl by the backstop!  The best part about the fights though is that after it's all said and done you still have to go play the rest of the game...not sure I've had that much adrenaline for a couple innings ever before, so that was quiet the rush playing the rest of those games.  Never do you want to pound a team more badly than after something like that happens!  Made for an intense finish to both games!

[Titan20]

Does anyone know why Brad Demmin didn't start either of the games agains St. Norberts?  I see he came in at the end of the first game for an inning, but he didn't appear in game two at all.  I'm guessing something happened at practice, because he played complete games in the DH agains Marian.

Brad had a pinched nerve from practice the day before and was unable to squeeze his hand

[Brewers20]

Does anyone know why Brad Demmin didn't start either of the games agains St. Norberts?  I see he came in at the end of the first game for an inning, but he didn't appear in game two at all.  I'm guessing something happened at practice, because he played complete games in the DH agains Marian.

Brad had a pinched nerve from practice the day before and was unable to squeeze his hand

I see.  Thanks for the update.  Will he play this week?

[OshDude]

"my captive" is the best choice of words I've seen on here in a long time. Thanks for the posts, Dagger.

[Titan20]

Does anyone know why Brad Demmin didn't start either of the games agains St. Norberts?  I see he came in at the end of the first game for an inning, but he didn't appear in game two at all.  I'm guessing something happened at practice, because he played complete games in the DH agains Marian.

Brad had a pinched nerve from practice the day before and was unable to squeeze his hand

I see.  Thanks for the update.  Will he play this week?

as far as i no he is going to play v stout

[BoBo]

UWW takes the 1st game of the rescheduled DH at Stevens Point 7-5.  No details available at this time. 

The second game should probably be just about over or over, but no score posted as of this time.  After the results of the games at Oshkosh, this has to be at least a mild surprise, UWW taking the first 3 games of the set at Point with a chance to sweep the weekend.

[BoBo]

Stout took game 1 vs Platteville 13-5 and is tied in the nightcap 8-8 going into the top of the 9th...Platteville scored 7 in the first and 1 in the 2nd to take the early 8-0 lead, only to have Stout claw their way back into it, with single runs in the 2nd, 4th and 5th and a 5 spot in the 3rd.  Platteville's 7 in the first came on only 2 hits, 1 error and 5 walks.  Platteville is mounting a threat in the top of the 9th with 2 on via singles after the first batter grounded out.

[BoBo]

Whitewater is leading Point in the top of the 9th, 4-3 according to the Point website.

EDIT:  UWW takes the DH by identical 7-5 scores.  Important weekend sweep in Point by the Warhawks!!

[badgerwarhawk]

The website is confusing.  It says Point lost 7-5 but the previous scores were reported differently.  For instance Saturday's Point losses were recorded 2-7 and 7-9.  Today's first game was recorded as a loss 5-7.  WHITEWATER'S website is reporting it as a 7-5 WARHAWK win so I assume that we did win and for whatever reason whoever put it on Point's website changed the format. 

I wasn't sure what to expect out of this series.  I was hoping we'd at least split and I figured after the Oshkosh losses we really needed to take 3 out of 4 to keep things interesting.  But winning all four is a big boost.  Now I just hope we've got the pitching to get through this weekend's series against LaCrosse.  They seem to be playing very well right now.

[Barber Greene]

Whitewater is leading Point in the top of the 9th, 4-3 according to the Point website.

EDIT:  UWW takes the DH by identical 7-5 scores.  Important weekend sweep in Point by the Warhawks!!

Important? I'd say huge, Bobo, huge!!!

[badgerwarhawk]

Rob Coe: 8 for 15, 8 RBI, 5 runs scored