BB: WIAC: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[badgerwarhawk]

I'm going to become a Finladia fan.  I'm tired of the yearly letdowns of being a Pointer baseball fan.  Not that they don't have winning seasons but they just have too much talent to lose to Oshkosh this year.  Apparently Oshkosh is 1,000 times better than I thought.

It's easy to understand your frustration given the way you overreact to virtually every game played. 

[szlongball]

Hopefully Jordan Zimmermann can recover completely and have a successful pro career. He has at least made it to the pros as oppossed to the Whitewater pitchers previously drafted(jury still out on Dott).

We all are biased towards the schools that we have ties to. Not saying Bloom is better than Lechnir or anybody else in the WIAC.

Does the name Bob Wickman ring a bell.  Zimmerman can only hope to have the career Wickman did.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Wickman

Perhaps you meant to say recently drafted.

For the record I think Zimmerman is one hell of a good pitcher and I hope he has a long and successful MLB career.

Both Lechnir and Bloom have done pretty well for themselves.  

Sorry about that, yes I meant recently drafted.

[Dagger]

I saw derek jeter make an error once...so following the logic of our favorite poster, he's clearly the worst defensive player in all MLB.  Doesn't matter that maybe it took a bad hop or a bug flew in his eye, he's at least 1,000 times worse than the next worse defensive player because he should have made that play!  Never mind his decade and a half of service in which he has cemented himself as a great defensive player, because the whole body of work means nothing.  That single play regardless of all other facts of life just cemented him as the worst defensive player ever!

Sadly that isn't even dramatized a little bit from some of the comments that have been made...Why waste your time making yourself out to be a complete moron.  Nobody on here wants to read that garbage!  Contribute something that makes sense just once...

[szlongball]

I agree with Dagger!!!

[badgerwarhawk]

Point plates 5 in the ninth but comes up short 13-10 in game one.
Game two: Point 2 (back to back triples from Douglas and Fritz), Oshkosh 1 (2 out home run) after one.
Point adds an unearned run in the second. 3-1 after two complete.

[pickleshiner]

So get pissed at me because I'm upset that Point is once again extremely underachieving.  I'm not going to sit back and say good job boys when they lost to a terrible Oshkosh team.  I don't care if it's at oshkosh there's no excuse whatsoever.  Oshkosh has lost way too much to be able to beat Point.  As far as never posting anything important on here it's BS I have just as much or more baseball/UWSP knowledge than probably 75% of people on D3.  Game 2 is do or die for Point today if they lose their looking at starting the WIAC possibly 0-6 after Platteville sticks it to them this weekend.  Platteville will be facing Lorenz and Van Beck.  We could see over 100 runs scored in 2 games on Saturday since Platteville will be throwing their bottom pitchers also.

[Brewers20]

So get pissed at me because I'm upset that Point is once again extremely underachieving.  I'm not going to sit back and say good job boys when they lost to a terrible Oshkosh team.  I don't care if it's at oshkosh there's no excuse whatsoever.  Oshkosh has lost way too much to be able to beat Point.  As far as never posting anything important on here it's BS I have just as much or more baseball/UWSP knowledge than probably 75% of people on D3.  Game 2 is do or die for Point today if they lose their looking at starting the WIAC possibly 0-6 after Platteville sticks it to them this weekend.  Platteville will be facing Lorenz and Van Beck.  We could see over 100 runs scored in 2 games on Saturday since Platteville will be throwing their bottom pitchers also.

100 runs? Come on man.

[badgerwarhawk]

Point gets 3 runs in the third on a RBI single from Jirschele and a two run home run from Krueger. 6-1 after 3.

[Brewers20]

9-1 after a Surman 2 run single....check that 11-1 after a Jirshele 2 run homer...too bad pickleshiner is a Finlandia fan now. LOL

[pickleshiner]

Here's the deal I'm not happy with a split and never will be.  I expected a lot from this year's team and never anticipated they would have 5 losses already.  Nice to see Jirsch stick it to his old team though.  I would love to get together with everyone on this site and down about 25 1/2 barrels before the Point-Platteville series this weekend and talk Point sports I mean every sport including women's and Coach Egner.  Egner is big time.

[Brewers20]

Game two of Point and Oshkosh is postponed in the 4th inning due to rain with Point leading 11-1.  It will be continued on April 14th at 11am when Point travels back to UWO for the 2nd double header of the 4 game series.

[OshDude]

I don't have much to add since the games were streamed and had live stats, but the wind made it a hitter's day. It was gusting toward RF, where most of the HR's went. Most days, a majority of those balls are either outs or doubles. But Mrkvicka's and Richter's were out most days, most parks.

It took too long for Delorit to find it. Once he did, he was pretty good for a few innings. Kanny left everything up in the last two innings. That'll happen when the pitch count gets up there. It was a simple equation ... Kanny > Delorit.

Lechnir has quite a patchwork D going thanks to injuries/quitter. Hiroskey can't even throw overhand yet grinding it out. Some fairly bad D all day by both teams. An Oshkosh infielder couldn't field a ball and an UWSP outfielder helped UWO by playing on the warning track and still not getting to the wall for fly balls. And anything shy of 380 feet was a single to CF for UWO.

Bloom just shook his head all day. So did I. Conditions weren't great, but that was a sloppy, weird Game 1 of the WIAC season.

[badgerwarhawk]

The WARHAWK/Platteville twin bill rescheduled yesterday to today has been rescheduled to tomorrow.  That means both teams will be playing six games in three days.  WHITEWATER will play Stout Saturday and Sunday and Platteville takes on Point both days. The pitching staffs will be taxed to the max.

[szlongball]

I don't have much to add since the games were streamed and had live stats, but the wind made it a hitter's day. It was gusting toward RF, where most of the HR's went. Most days, a majority of those balls are either outs or doubles. But Mrkvicka's and Richter's were out most days, most parks.

It took too long for Delorit to find it. Once he did, he was pretty good for a few innings. Kanny left everything up in the last two innings. That'll happen when the pitch count gets up there. It was a simple equation ... Kanny > Delorit.

Lechnir has quite a patchwork D going thanks to injuries/quitter. Hiroskey can't even throw overhand yet grinding it out. Some fairly bad D all day by both teams. An Oshkosh infielder couldn't field a ball and an UWSP outfielder helped UWO by playing on the warning track and still not getting to the wall for fly balls. And anything shy of 380 feet was a single to CF for UWO.

Bloom just shook his head all day. So did I. Conditions weren't great, but that was a sloppy, weird Game 1 of the WIAC season.

Seems like whenever Point plays in Oshkosh weird things happen.

[cubs]

Point is still in the last 6 years Oshkosh has not gone on to Appleton. Point doesn't have the history that Oshkosh has for being successful for 40 years. It is a world of what have you done lately, not 7 years ago. For Point to have only 1 more trip than Oshkosh in the last 7 years doesn't really matter to me. Point has started to establish itself as a quality program, that was the point I was trying to make.

I guess it's all about how you want to spin it....  Below you will find the number of Regular Season WIAC Championships (ties included) over the past six years.

Whitewater-5
Oshkosh-2
Stevens Point-1

Now obviously this doesn't include the WIAC Tournament, which Point has absolutely dominated as of late.  I guess I just put a little bit more weight in the regular season, because it shows what team was the best over the long haul, and not who was the best over one weekend.  As you can see, both Oshkosh and Point have quite a bit of work to do to get to the same level as Whitewater.