BB: WIAC: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[badgerwarhawk]

Jeff Donovan was named the UW-Whitewater baseball athlete of the week for his performance over the three game series played on March 10-11 at the Metrodome. Over the three game series UW-W defeated Augsburg College 12-2 and then went on to defeat Hamile University in a double header 18-1 and 13-1 respectivey.

Over the three game series Donovan had a .583 batting average accompanied by two home runs, a double, and eight runs batted in. He totaled fourteen total bases including a stolen base.

[eccfbaseballer]

It looks like Oshkosh, Whitewater, and Point are the top three. Who will finish 4th? And what happened to Ben Sebesta?

[cubs]

It looks like Oshkosh, Whitewater, and Point are the top three. Who will finish 4th? And what happened to Ben Sebesta?

In all honesty, I think there is a bit of a gap between #1 and #2, and the rest.  Point and Whitewater seem to be a notch above the other five teams this season.  It could be a great race however between the other five teams for two spots, as I believe Superior is improved, and there was only four games seperating La Crosse, Platteville, and Stout last season.

As far as Sebesta, I had heard that he chose to not play this fall.  I'm not sure if they are related, but I also heard he needed surgery this winter so he might not have been healthy enough to play anyway.

[OshDude]

It looks like Oshkosh, Whitewater, and Point are the top three. Who will finish 4th? And what happened to Ben Sebesta?

In all honesty, I think there is a bit of a gap between #1 and #2, and the rest.  Point and Whitewater seem to be a notch above the other five teams this season.  It could be a great race however between the other five teams for two spots, as I believe Superior is improved, and there was only four games seperating La Crosse, Platteville, and Stout last season.

As far as Sebesta, I had heard that he chose to not play this fall.  I'm not sure if they are related, but I also heard he needed surgery this winter so he might not have been healthy enough to play anyway.

Is it a four-team WIAC tourney this year?

[cubs]

It looks like Oshkosh, Whitewater, and Point are the top three. Who will finish 4th? And what happened to Ben Sebesta?

In all honesty, I think there is a bit of a gap between #1 and #2, and the rest.  Point and Whitewater seem to be a notch above the other five teams this season.  It could be a great race however between the other five teams for two spots, as I believe Superior is improved, and there was only four games seperating La Crosse, Platteville, and Stout last season.

As far as Sebesta, I had heard that he chose to not play this fall.  I'm not sure if they are related, but I also heard he needed surgery this winter so he might not have been healthy enough to play anyway.

Is it a four-team WIAC tourney this year?

I was just going off of last year's set up, as I still haven't seen anything on the WIAC site or anywhere else about the three team double elimination set-up that has been rumored.

[Just Bill]

The 2010 sport code for baseball shows a three-team tournament: http://www.wiacsports.com/baseball/200910Code.pdf (page 9)

[badgerwarhawk]

Point tabbed favorite by conference SIDs.

http://www.wiacsports.com/baseball/2010Preview.html

[TitanBystander]

From the WIAC pre-season write up:

UW-Oshkosh
Head Coach:  Tom Lechnir; 22nd season at UWO; 647-221-1
Letterwinners Returning/Lost:  14-11
Starting Position Players Returning/Lost:  6/3

UW-O lost only 3 starting position players?
Brad Demmin
Jason Fosler
Justin Jerschele
Ben Sebesta
Brock Wettenkamp
Now toss in Travis Helland (injury).  Seems like a lot more than 3 lost to me. 

Seeing that it's a three team WIAC tournament this year, I've got UWW and UWSP as locks.  Oshkosh, LAX, and P-ville look to be in a dead heet for the last spot from where I sit.

Titans can ill afford to drop "bad losses" this year (like years past) to Platteville & Superior.  Prediction;  Final tournament spot sill be decided the last weekend of the WIAC season between LAX & UW-O.  Series winner plays on, loser goes to the BBQ.     
   

[cubs]

From the WIAC pre-season write up:

UW-Oshkosh
Head Coach:  Tom Lechnir; 22nd season at UWO; 647-221-1
Letterwinners Returning/Lost:  14-11
Starting Position Players Returning/Lost:  6/3

UW-O lost only 3 starting position players?
Brad Demmin
Jason Fosler
Justin Jerschele
Ben Sebesta
Brock Wettenkamp
Now toss in Travis Helland (injury).  Seems like a lot more than 3 lost to me.

In all fairness, UWO had 10 different guys start at least 20 games last season....

As far as your list:
Brad Demmin-Only started 15 games, including just 2 WIAC games.  (Wouldn't count)
Jason Fosler-Started 32 Games (That's 1 starter lost)
Justin Jerschele-Started 40 Games (That's 2 starters lost)
Ben Sebesta-Started 37 Games (that's 3 starters lost)
Brock Wettenkamp-Started 24 games, but only 2 of the final 14 games of the season (The Superior finale and 11-0 loss to Point.)  Can understand why he wasn't marked as a "lost starter" since he wasn't starting much the last half of the season.
Now toss in Travis Helland (injury)-Helland was healthy when this survey was likely turned in.

That seems pretty accurate then, to say there were 3 starters lost (Fosler, Sebesta, and Jirschele)

As far as six returning starters:
Hiroskey-Started all 40 Games
N. Fadness-Started all 40 Games
Berger-Started all 40 Games
Kannenberg-Started 23 games, which all came in the last 25 games of the season.
Eichstaedt-Started 24 games, including the final 13 games of the season.
Helland-Started 11 games, once he returned from inury, including 9 of the last 14 games of the season.

I can see why it was listed as 6 returning starters.  That number doesn't include M. Fadness, who started 21 games last season as well, but only a handful the last half of the season.

[TitanBystander]

From the WIAC pre-season write up:

UW-Oshkosh
Head Coach:  Tom Lechnir; 22nd season at UWO; 647-221-1
Letterwinners Returning/Lost:  14-11
Starting Position Players Returning/Lost:  6/3

UW-O lost only 3 starting position players?
Brad Demmin
Jason Fosler
Justin Jerschele
Ben Sebesta
Brock Wettenkamp
Now toss in Travis Helland (injury).  Seems like a lot more than 3 lost to me.

In all fairness, UWO had 10 different guys start at least 20 games last season....

As far as your list:
Brad Demmin-Only started 15 games, including just 2 WIAC games.  (Wouldn't count)
Jason Fosler-Started 32 Games (That's 1 starter lost)
Justin Jerschele-Started 40 Games (That's 2 starters lost)
Ben Sebesta-Started 37 Games (that's 3 starters lost)
Brock Wettenkamp-Started 24 games, but only 2 of the final 14 games of the season (The Superior finale and 11-0 loss to Point.)  Can understand why he wasn't marked as a "lost starter" since he wasn't starting much the last half of the season.
Now toss in Travis Helland (injury)-Helland was healthy when this survey was likely turned in.

That seems pretty accurate then, to say there were 3 starters lost (Fosler, Sebesta, and Jirschele)

As far as six returning starters:
Hiroskey-Started all 40 Games
N. Fadness-Started all 40 Games
Berger-Started all 40 Games
Kannenberg-Started 23 games, which all came in the last 25 games of the season.
Eichstaedt-Started 24 games, including the final 13 games of the season.
Helland-Started 11 games, once he returned from inury, including 9 of the last 14 games of the season.

I can see why it was listed as 6 returning starters.  That number doesn't include M. Fadness, who started 21 games last season as well, but only a handful the last half of the season.

Point being that the "Returning/Lost" section of the WIAC write up is eniterly misleading.  A passing bystander would look at it & say "Hmm..Oshkosh returns a lot of players, they should be WIAC contenders".  In my opinion, Oshkosh lost A LOT more than they returned.  That goes for position players as well as pitching staff.  They are contenders, but only for the third spot in the WIAC tournament.  Hope I'm wrong, but that's the way I see it.

[cubs]

Thought the UWO schedule was set. Noncons are the four cubs mentioned, Lawrence, St. Norbert and Marian. Am I missing something?

Speaking of skeds, check out Edgewood's if you have not already. Probably the toughest (SOC, UWO, UST, UWSP, UWP) I saw in making the 2010 in-region masterlist.

I was looking at their 2010 Practice Schedule, and saw the two "DH vs TBA's".  Here is the link:

http://www.titans.uwosh.edu/Baseball/PracticeSchedule.html

If they add those two DH's, that puts them at 42 games...  For some reason I thought 40 games was the maximum that is allowed going into the WIAC Tournament.

Good catch. UWO apparently found two partners for 3/25 – CSS and Augsburg. CSS and Augsburg already had a morning game scheduled for that day.

Problem is, the CSS site has the Saints vs. Augsburg @ 9 a.m. That's the stated time of UWO vs. Augsburg on the Titan site. Who knows what the deal is, but if KT has it on the UWO site, I'm buying it. Maybe Augsburg swapped CSS for UWO. As it stands, the SID sites don't yet match up.

Well it appears that UWO has changed their schedule again....  Instead of single games against CSS and Augsburg, the Titans will now square off in a DH against Bethany Lutheran March 25th.  Should be an interesting match-up!!!!

[BoBo]

Whitewater 5
Hope College 3

Game one of a scheduled DH in Winterhaven, Florida in the Warhawks 1st game of their spring break trip. Details have yet to be posted.

EDIT: WW takes game two 11-3 - still no details posted.

[badgerwarhawk]

Otterbien canceled their scheduled games against the WARHAWKS who are scrambling to pick up a pair of games.

Limited details are available on the two wins over Hope.  Riley Tincher picked up his second win in the first game.  The WARHAWKS trailed 3-2 after four innings in game two.  Daniel Putnam stroked a two-run double in the fifth and Travis Wessels a two-run double in the sixth.  Eric Schmitz and Ben Versnik struck out seven consecutive hitters between the fourth and sixth innings.  Schmitz was pitching in the fifth so he may have gotten the win.   

[BoBo]

Warhawks lose their first of the season (5-1), at the hands (& bats) of SUNY-Cortland (9-5) in Florida 17-9. UWW led 4-3 after 2 complete. Cortland State then ran off 11 unanswered runs between the 3rd and 6th, putting up a touchdown and XP in the sixth. The Red Dragons totaled 20 hits on the day to UWW's 14. Whitewater's defense suffered 6 errors, including 3 by SS Mike Kenseth. Matt Beyer led UWW offensively, going 4-5 at the plate 1 HR, 2 runs scored and 3 RBI's. Ben Kuhlman also had a 3 RBI day with a a 1-2 1BB performance.
Aaron Leiter took the loss, going 5 innings, 11H, 7R (6 earned), 1BB, 1SO. Of the relievers, Eric Schmitz was hit the hardest, 1/3 inning, 4H, 7R (all earned), 1BB, 1HBP.

Games continue tomorrow with a breakfast in Winterhaven 8am varsity game vs Salem State (MA) followed by a JV game vs Kalamazoo College at 11:30.

[cubs]

Point's DH with Washington and Jefferson was postponed by rain, after just two batters today.  The DH will be made up on Wednesday, March 24th, taking the place of the scheduled DH against Otterbein.  Point's starting line-up was pretty similar to their opening day line-up.  Except for having a few changes as far as the actual order, it was the exact same guys starting.