BB: WIAC: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[badgerwarhawk]

What are your thoughts on the Whitewater-Superior series?  The pitching rotation should have a nice long rest before the WIAC tournament not having to play any more conference games after tomorrow.  I know I'm not a big hit on here but can you give me some advice as to good hotels in the area for the WIAC tournament? 

I don't see us not winning enough games to take the conference regular season championship outright.

There are two hotels in WHITEWATER.  The Best Value Inn (formerly Super Eight) and Baymont Inn and Suites.  BIS has an indoor swimming pool.  Some people, and most of the visiting teams, choose to stay in either Janesville or Fort Atkinson.  Fort has a nice Holiday Inn Express, a Super Eight and an America's Best Value Inn.  Fort is about 9 miles from WHITEWATER.  Janesville is about 20 miles and has a full selection of hotels.  You can check them out here....

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=janesville+wi+hotels&aq=&aqi=&aql=&oq=janesville+wi+hotels&gs_rfai=&fp=a86c207b1c79523e

[cubs]

WHITEWATER clinches at least a tie for the WIAC regular season championship with an 11-1 win in Superior.  Aaron Lietner goes seven innings and gets the win.  Jeff Donovan, Matt Beyer and Rob Coe all hit home runs.  The WARHAWKS scored five runs in the top of the first.  

Game two in progress.  

It appears as if the Game #2 result won't even matter, as La Crosse is taking it to Point in Game #2 of their doubleheader, 12-4 in the 6th inning.

Congrats to the Warhawks on their 6th regular season WIAC Championship in the last seven years.

[badgerwarhawk]

LaCrosse wins 15-5 in 8.

Thanks, cubs. 

[BoBo]

WHITEWATER clinches at least a tie for the WIAC regular season championship with an 11-1 win in Superior.  Aaron Lietner goes seven innings and gets the win.  Jeff Donovan, Matt Beyer and Rob Coe all hit home runs.  The WARHAWKS scored five runs in the top of the first.  

Game two in progress.  

It appears as if the Game #2 result won't even matter, as La Crosse is taking it to Point in Game #2 of their doubleheader, 12-4 in the 6th inning.

Congrats to the Warhawks on their 6th regular season WIAC Championship in the last seven years.

Warhawks take game two 10-2. Jeff Donovan gets the win going 7.2 innings, 5 hits, 2 runs, 1 earned over Wink (8 hits, 5 runs - 3 ER). WW scores 6 in the last 2 frames to break open a close game. Five UWS errors ruined their opportunities (6 unearned runs)

[cubs]

Things should be AWFULLY exciting next weekend!!  Although Whitewater and Point have the #1 and #2 seeds locked up (unless Superior wins a game tomorrow) the race for the #3 seed involves four teams.

So here is where things stand going into next weekend:

Platteville 9-11
Superior 8-10 (2 vs Whitewater tomorrow.)
Oshkosh 8-12
La Crosse 8-12

Platteville controls their own destiny...  If they win three out of four over Superior, they take the #3 seed.  The only way it wouldn't happen is if La Crosse swept Oshksoh.  Even if Oshkosh swept La Crosse they would lose the tie-breaker since Platteville beat Whitewater once and Oshkosh went 0-4 against Whitewater.

Am I missing anything?

[szlongball]

What are your thoughts on the Whitewater-Superior series?  The pitching rotation should have a nice long rest before the WIAC tournament not having to play any more conference games after tomorrow.  I know I'm not a big hit on here but can you give me some advice as to good hotels in the area for the WIAC tournament? 

I don't see us not winning enough games to take the conference regular season championship outright.

There are two hotels in WHITEWATER.  The Best Value Inn (formerly Super Eight) and Baymont Inn and Suites.  BIS has an indoor swimming pool.  Some people, and most of the visiting teams, choose to stay in either Janesville or Fort Atkinson.  Fort has a nice Holiday Inn Express, a Super Eight and an America's Best Value Inn.  Fort is about 9 miles from WHITEWATER.  Janesville is about 20 miles and has a full selection of hotels.  You can check them out here....

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=janesville+wi+hotels&aq=&aqi=&aql=&oq=janesville+wi+hotels&gs_rfai=&fp=a86c207b1c79523e

Thanks for the hotel info. Congrats on winning the conference.

[szlongball]

I have never intentionally tried to piss anyone off on here but know I have made people upset.  People take things the wrong way all the time.  Stating I feel Point isn't a legit national title contender without Koback too me isn't that big of a deal but I guess I can see how some people think it's insulting.  Of Course there's plenty of other great players like Fritz, Richter, Jirschele, Arch, and so on but from what I see pitching always wins in the end.  I realize Koback wasn't dominating as a pitcher last year during the season but guys throwing 92-93 are rare especially guys that can go 7-8 innings and still hit 90.  He's gone I realize it so I won't talk about it any longer. 

Nice to throw 90 + mph, but if you have no control, who cares if you are still hitting 90+ in the 7th or 8th inning?  Good hitters will wait and crush the ball somewhere. Jordan Zimmerman was a great pitcher for Point and i'm sure he had more than just a fastball. Nix could throw over 90 but had no control.  I think you need to be cautious with Kody. See what happens when he is healthy and back on the mound. As far as the hitters you mentioned, Fritz is ON FIRE. The rest are not consistant enough for the Pointers to do some serious damage. These are great kids, but you need solid production from your offense top to bottom to also help you win games.

[badgerwarhawk]

The WARHAWKS completed the series sweep of Superior today winning by scores of 17-7 (7 innings) and 10-4.  Jason Hooper (5-2) picked up the win in the first game going 5.2 innings giving up 6 runs  (4 earned) on 7 hits.  Kyle Lee and Brock Liston pitched in relief.  The WARHAWKS put this one away early scoring 7 runs in the first and 7 more in the fourth.   Jordan Stine (2x4, 1 RS, 2 RBI, Double), Ben Kuhlmann (3x5, 2 RS, 1 RBI), Rob Coe (2x4, 2 RS, 3 RBI, Double) and Mike Kenseth (2x4, 3 RS, 2 RBI) had multiple hits.  Travis Wessels and Matt Beyer each had 2 RBI.  Nineteen WARHAWKS played in the game.

Superior led 1-0 in the second game before the WARHAWKS took the lead for good with a pair of runs in the fourth.  WHITEWATER added another pair of runs in the sixth, five in the eighth and a single run in the ninth.  Riley Tincher (11-0) got the win with a 7.1 inning, 4 hit, 11 strikeout effort.  Tom Kerndt finished the game.  Stine (2x4, 1 RS, 3 RBI, Double), Jeff Donovan (2x4, 1 RS, 3 RBI, Home run) and Coe (3x5, 1 RS) had multiple hits.  The WARHAWKS had five stolen bases and sixteen players saw action.  Attendance for the second game was listed as 15.

[MIACLUV]

I know that Point is good, but late in the season dropping games to Lawrence is not good when battling for a C bid. Not conceding the WIAC tourney to the Warhawks quite yet, but as the #1 seed in this "tournament" they have a decided edge.

[cubs]

That's a bad loss for Point no matter how you want to slice it.....  Their "B" squad should still be able to beat Lawrence's "A" squad....

shinetime/pickleshiner/kirbypuckett is probably on suicide watch as we speak.....

[pickleshiner]

The worst thing I could've done last night was stay up until 10:00 to see the Point-Lawrence score.  I told my wife I don't know why I'm up I'm sure Point won by 15 or 20.  I stayed up watching the Suns-Spurs and caught the final and didn't get a minute of sleep on top of having a sinus infection.  I don't see how Point is ranked #4 in the regional rankings after losing to Lawrence and 2 to LaCrosse but I guess there's not a whole lot of better options out there.  Hopefully Point will wake up and take all 4 at Stout and be ready next Friday when it matters.  I'm actually to stunned by the Lawrence Taylor news to be on suicide watch over the Pointers play the past week. 

[Just Bill]

I don't see how Point is ranked #4 in the regional rankings after losing to Lawrence 

The rankings are as of Tuesday's games. Obviously the Lawrence game hasn't been factored into the rankings yet.

[TitanBystander]

Interesting to see Travis Helland back in the line-up today for Oshkosh....  Now he isn't an All Conference type player, but it could give the Titans a bit of a shot in the arm.  I guess only time will tell...

I'm so slow on the uptake this week (Work gets in the way of all the fun stuff), but looking at the game summaries, it looks like Helland started Game 3, played 1 inning in the field, then was pulled in the second.  Hopefully he didn't re-injure something.  Anyone know what's up or did Lechnir throw a 5 year guy a bone by starting him a game even with an injury?   

[eccfbaseballer]

I agree Point should take 4 games from Stout this weekend.  Stout may get O'Connell back and have lost 10 games by one run and 2 games by 2 runs!

[badgerwarhawk]

The WARHAWKS rounded out the regular season with a pair of wins over Concordia (WI) by 7-4 and 12-1 scores.  Trailing 3-2 in the first game the WARHAWKS scored four times in the sixth and once in the seventh to put the game away.  Jeff Donovan got the start and went five innings giving up four hits, two runs (one earned) and striking out four.  Eric Schmitz (2-0) got the win with two innings of relief.  Kyle Lee and Ben Versnik each pitched a hitless inning to finish the game.  Ben Kuhlmann (2x4, 2 RBI, Double), Ryan Leavitt (2x4, 1 RS, 1 RBI, Double) and Matt Beyer (2x4, 1 RS, 2 RBI, Double, Triple) had multiple hits.  Jordan Stine (Double) also had an RBI.

The WARHAWKS scored twice in the second and third innings and then put the second game out of reach with five runs in the fourth, one in the sixth and another pair in the seventh.  Aaron Leitner (6-1) started and went five innings surrendering a single run on two hits.  Tom Kerndt, Jason Hooper, Andrew Bauer and Riley Tincher all pitched a single inning in relief with Kerndt, Hooper and Tincher each striking out two.  Rob Coe (3x4, 3 RS, 3 RBI, Home run) led the thirteen hit WARHAWK offense.  Daniel Putnam (2x4, 1 RS, 2 RBI, Home run), Mike Kenseth (2x4) and Ryan Leavitt (2x4, 1 RS, 3 RBI) had multiple hit games.  Jeff Donovan (Home run), Stine, Kuhlmann and Nick Rechlitz all had RBI. 

WHITEWATER concludes the regular season with a 35-4 record.