BB: WIAC: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[tomt4525]

Based on what they return which is essentially Erickson and their lack of recruiting or getting junior college transfers.  They were very mediocre last year and now lose doornik also and he was supposed to be one of the few bright spots returning.

Do you know what their recruiting class includes??  A lot of times in D3 baseball recruiting, kids don't announce where they are going and thus people don't find out until the roster comes out.  Transfers happen at semester, like Luke Thomka last year...I would be willing to bet once the roster is on the Point website, their will be some names nobody new about. 

As far as bright spots, they have a ton of young kids returning that I expect to improve.  Ray Greco and Cole Erickson are stars...Stanicek and Diedrick are guys that I think are bright spots with playing well as freshman at the end of the season.  Pitching depth I've thought should be a strength coming into this season as well.  Guys like Ben Miller coming back, Spaeth had a solid year....that incoming freshman that greyshirted or whatever...want to say Zach Miller??  He had a lot of good things said about him.

WW is loaded, their preseason rankings are well deserved.  Point isn't any slouch though.  I'm looking forward to seeing them next week against St Thomas.

[badgerwarhawk]

WARHAWKS nonconference:

Minneapolis: St Thomas (DH), Concordia-Moorhead (DH)

Spring Trip: William Patterson, Webster, Rutgers-Camden, Southern Maine, Clarkston, Union

North: St Scholastica (H)(DH), Ripon (A)(DH), Concordia-WI (H), Milwaukee School of Engineering (H), St Norbert (A)(DH) and Benedictine (H)(DH). 

[badgerwarhawk]

WARHAWKS

Position players lost: Trent Diekvoss (OF), Dane Burman (C), Justin Wegner (C), Alex Hallenbeck (OF),
Pitchers lost: Curtis Morgan (RHP), Lake Bachar (RHP), Connor Hurst (LHP), John Olejniczak (LHP)

Position players returning (at least 10 starts):  Name, BA/SLG%/OB%, RBI
Daytona Bryden (OF): .400/.543/.497, 15
Cal Aldridge (IF): .398/.629/.472, 43
Steve Chamberlain (IF): .361/.420/.421, 27
Blake Fleischman (IF): .347/.568/.385, 38
Matt Wary (OF): .333/.441/.383, 12
Jordan Kuczynski (IF): .288/.346/.335, 30
Austin Jones (OF): .263/.381/.311, 4
Will Helbing (OF): .200/.318/.307, 13
Aaron Markley (IF): .240/.280/.361, 4

Pitchers returning (appeared in at least 9 games): W-L, ERA, IP, K-BB, OBA
Heath Rentz: 6-0, 2.42, 52, 40-10, .259
Mike Nompleggi: 2-3, 3.09, 58.1, 41-14, .234
Ankur Shah: 5-2, 3.13, 54.2, 11-32, .251
James Georgakas: 2-0, 1.80, 15, 9-5, .226
Riley Gruetzmacher: 0-0, 3.60, 10, 9-6, .302
Austin Jones: 0-1, 4.97, 12.2, 16-7, .235
Matt Langlie: 1-0, 6.97, 10.1, 3-5, .292


Note: This assumes those underclassmen eligible to return are returning.  I do not know that for a fact and I don't have any information on recruits.   

[badgerwarhawk]

WARHAWKS

Position players lost: Trent Diekvoss (OF), Dane Burman (C), Justin Wegner (C), Alex Hallenbeck (OF),
Pitchers lost: Curtis Morgan (P), Lake Bachar (P), Connor Hurst (P)

Position players returning (at least 10 starts):  Name, BA/SLG%/OB%, RBI
Daytona Bryden (OF): .400/.543/.497, 15
Cal Aldridge (IF): .398/.629/.472, 43
Steve Chamberlain (IF): .361/.420/.421, 27
Blake Fleischman (IF): .347/.568/.385, 38
Matt Wary (OF): .333/.441/.383, 12
Jordan Kuczynski (IF): .288/.346/.335, 30
Austin Jones (OF): .263/.381/.311, 4
Will Helbing (OF): .200/.318/.307, 13
Aaron Markley (IF): .240/.280/.361, 4

Pitchers returning (appeared in at least 9 games): W-L, ERA, IP, K-BB, OBA
Heath Rentz: 6-0, 2.42, 52, 40-10, .259
Mike Nompleggi: 2-3, 3.09, 58.1, 41-14, .234
Ankur Shah: 5-2, 3.13, 54.2, 11-32, .251
James Georgakas: 2-0, 1.80, 15, 9-5, .226
Riley Gruetzmacher: 0-0, 3.60, 10, 9-6, .302
Austin Jones: 0-1, 4.97, 12.2, 16-7, .235
Matt Langlie: 1-0, 6.97, 10.1, 3-5, .292
John Olejniczak: 0-0,6.98, 19.1, 14-11, .280

Note: This assumes those underclassmen eligible to return are returning.  I do not know that for a fact and I don't have any information on recruits.   

John Olejniczak was actually a fourth-year player last year; the roster listing was incorrect. He has graduated and is gainfully employed, which I'm sure we all celebrate.

Thanks for the correction.  I had thought that might be the case but went with the roster listing.  I'll correct my post.

[ShineTime]

Let's be realistic who can come close to matching the talent on whitewaters team besides la crosse?  They will have a lot of short games this year as the other wiac teams may be awful this year unfortunately.

[Baseball Geek]

Platteville opens today, La Crosse opens this Sunday, and Point on Tuesday, but final rosters have not posted online. It seems in previous years they posted on or around March 1 ... do all the WIAC teams post at the same time?

[TitanDoubles]

Platteville opens today, La Crosse opens this Sunday, and Point on Tuesday, but final rosters have not posted online. It seems in previous years they posted on or around March 1 ... do all the WIAC teams post at the same time?

With UW-Oshkosh's first game being next Friday I would be willing to guess that sometime in the middle of next week being the time that you see a final roster from them.

[ShineTime]

Points roster is up looks like they got a d1 transfer who will pitch and they have a lot of arms.  No ray greco guessing he transferred to whitewater or d1 school.

[tomt4525]

Points roster is up looks like they got a d1 transfer who will pitch and they have a lot of arms.  No ray greco guessing he transferred to whitewater or d1 school.

Greco is still in school at UWSP, don't know why he isn't on the roster...maybe an injury??  No Luke Thomka on the roster either, anybody have information on him??

[tomt4525]

Greco tore his labrum and had surgery so obviously out this season.  Thomka also got injured but haven't heard specifics on the injury.  Terrible injury luck already for the Pointers as those are two very valuable guys.

[cubs]

La Crosse opens the season last night with a split against St. John's..... 

Boushley picked up where he left off in 2016 scattering five singles through seven innings, however it wasn't good enough as SJU's Nick Noack no-hit the Eagles for a 1-0 victory.  A pair of two-out fielding errors is all that kept Noack from throwing a seven inning perfect game.

UWL was able to salvage a split behind the arm of Jameson Lavery in the nightcap as he throws seven scoreless innings and the Eagles get 3+ hits from Prissel, Heili, Schmitt and Stolzman for a 6-0 victory.

[cubs]

Points roster is up looks like they got a d1 transfer who will pitch and they have a lot of arms.

So Kawlewski pitched two years at Indian Hills and then pitched about 20 innings at Rhode Island in 2014-15.  It appears he didn't throw at all last season, so it will be interesting to see what he looks like after the lengthy layoff.

[cubs]

Points roster is up looks like they got a d1 transfer who will pitch and they have a lot of arms.  No ray greco guessing he transferred to whitewater or d1 school.

I had heard he transferred to a D2 in Illinois, but that is apparently different from what tomt4525 has stated so I have no idea....

[cubs]

Based on what they return which is essentially Erickson and their lack of recruiting or getting junior college transfers.  They were very mediocre last year and now lose doornik also and he was supposed to be one of the few bright spots returning.

Do you know what their recruiting class includes??  A lot of times in D3 baseball recruiting, kids don't announce where they are going and thus people don't find out until the roster comes out.  Transfers happen at semester, like Luke Thomka last year...I would be willing to bet once the roster is on the Point website, their will be some names nobody new about. 

As far as bright spots, they have a ton of young kids returning that I expect to improve.  Ray Greco and Cole Erickson are stars...Stanicek and Diedrick are guys that I think are bright spots with playing well as freshman at the end of the season.  Pitching depth I've thought should be a strength coming into this season as well.  Guys like Ben Miller coming back, Spaeth had a solid year....that incoming freshman that greyshirted or whatever...want to say Zach Miller??  He had a lot of good things said about him.

WW is loaded, their preseason rankings are well deserved.  Point isn't any slouch though.  I'm looking forward to seeing them next week against St Thomas.

I don't remember seeing Diedrick on the roster.....

I am curious to see how the trifecta of greyshirts perform, in P Zach Miller, IF Jordan Carlson, and UT Angel Ramirez....  All three were pretty highly regarded coming out of high school.

[tomt4525]

Points roster is up looks like they got a d1 transfer who will pitch and they have a lot of arms.  No ray greco guessing he transferred to whitewater or d1 school.

I had heard he transferred to a D2 in Illinois, but that is apparently different from what tomt4525 has stated so I have no idea....

He's still listed in the student directory at UWSP.