BB: WIAC: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Dagger]

Point has a full infield tarp also...it was the timber rattlers old tarp.  It has some holes in it from a slight mishap on the way back from appleton (flying out of the back of the truck! haha...but it gets the job done.  It has also been beaten up by us shoveling snow off of it and that kind of fun stuff, but it's an infield tarp nonetheless and it sure beats having nothing at all.  Point is slowly building up their facilities and trying to bring them up to a par with the other big dogs!  It will get done sooner or later, bloom is too committed to the team to allow otherwise, but Point has one of if not the smallest budget in the conference for baseball!  It makes things very difficult to try and spruce up the grounds...there's other issues that have slowed progress with the university and some stupid rules that make no sense, but expect the grounds at university field to look much more impressive over the coming years!  They have a good start already with the new duguouts.  They are looking to build more permanent seating as well as a party deck down the line in right field (I believe could be left?).  so it will be a pretty cool atmosphere when that gets completed, unless plans have changed.

[Titan20]

anyone no the point superior game one final?  or no where there is a link to the game?

[badgerwarhawk]

Point won 10-7 and 9-2.  The details are linked on Superior's website on the schedule and results page.

[cubs]

He was talking about today's 11:00 AM Point/Superior game, not Saturday's......

[cubs]

According to Superior's website, the completion of Game #1 has been moved from an 11:00 AM start to 1:00 PM.

Apparently Stout's connection has frozen, with Stout leading Whitewater 1-0 in the Bottom of the 1st inning.

[cubs]

Through seven innings, Stout has opened up a 6-1 lead over Whitewater. 

A couple of points of interest:
1.  The Warhawks second leading hitter on the season. Sam Petrasko, is absent from the Whitewater line-up.  Just getting the game off, or is there more to it?

2.  Ethan Smallbrook, the starting pitcher for Stout today, has a grand total of 14 IP and an ERA over 6.00 going into today.   Pitcher's day maybe?

[TitanBystander]

According to Livestats on Stout's web site, Stout wins game #1 6-1.  Smallbrook throws a complete game 8 hitter. 

[cubs]

Game #1 Finals
Stout 6
Whitewater 1

Point 9
Superior 5

Whitewater's offense continues to struggle, and has really cost them the past couple of days....

[Dagger]

Looked like WW really shook up the lineup today in game one!  Not sure the reasoning, if it's just to get some guys a little time, or if it's Vo sending his starters a message that they're not going to keep on playing if they don't get it done!  My bet is on the latter, but that's just me

Big win for Point in game one, if they can hold off the jackets and get the sweep they are looking pretty good coming down to platteville next weekend.  If Point can take both from UWO they can afford to slip up a little down in platteville.  I see it as a split against the titans, and 3-4 from platteville.  I havn't looked too closely at the standings, but I believe if that happens then one loss from UWO would put point on top for the first time in the bloom era (correct me if I'm wrong on that scenario, kind of busy right now so again I didn't look at the standings).

[cubs]

I see it as a split against the titans, and 3-4 from platteville.  I havn't looked too closely at the standings, but I believe if that happens then one loss from UWO would put point on top for the first time in the bloom era (correct me if I'm wrong on that scenario, kind of busy right now so again I didn't look at the standings).

If UWO/Point split on Wednesday like you predict, it will all come down to who does better over the weekend, since both Oshkosh and Point would be tied, at 13-7 going into the final weekend.  I believe Oshkosh would hold the tie-breaker over Point as well, so even if UWO drops one to Superior, Point would have to sweep Platteville for Point to come out on top. 

All of this will be MUCH more clear following Wednesday's set of games.....

(It appears Whitewater will bounce back and take Game #2 from Stout today, so they will be two out in the loss column going into Wednesday's games.  They will DEFINITELY be hoping for a UWO/Point split.

[Bronko7]

Bench clearing brawl in Superior today, hopefully more info comes out soon.

[titan2000]

I think the Superior SS laughed at the Point 1B when he tripped on the ice fishing tip-up between 2B and 3B.  The Pointer took exception and hit the Superior SS with the ice skimmer.

[badgerwarhawk]

Looked like WW really shook up the lineup today in game one!  Not sure the reasoning, if it's just to get some guys a little time, or if it's Vo sending his starters a message that they're not going to keep on playing if they don't get it done!  My bet is on the latter, but that's just me

That would be my bet too.

WARHAWKS win game two 13-3 and salvage a split with Stout.  I think as the season has progressed it's become obvious that we simply haven't fielded a team as competitive of those of the recent past.  It doesn't mean that we couldn't get on a roll and make a run but I've been waiting for it to happen and it just doesn't seem to be.   Since the sweep of Point we just haven't been consistant.  Taking the remaining three games from Platteville is critical.

[dukes]

Looks like Superior beat Point 5-2 in the second game. Good for them. While it hasnt been as good of a year as some predicted for Superior at the beginning of the year, they also would never have won some of these games even a few years ago.

[ShineTime]

Anyone know why Point Catcher Rennicke didn't play today?  I am not shocked that Superior took the 2nd game today as I was one of the ideots that predicted them to finish top 4 at the beginning of the year.  Looks like Oshkosh is going to take it with Point possibly finishing 2nd or 3rd although they have 6 really tough games left.