BB: WIAC: Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[OshDude]

Oshkosh splits with Luther – W 7-5, L 5-9. UWO pitchers (Luther had 20 combined hits) and the defense (four errors, seven unearned runs in the two games) struggled. Thought it must be said that Luther committed five errors, which led to six unearned runs scored by Oshkosh.

Pretty ugly boxscores. But I wasn't there, so I can't say for sure how ugly it was. Rubens gave up a lot of hits and didn't make it out of the fourth inning in game two. Not a good sign for UWO.

EDIT: The loss will not count against UWO (nor the Luther win) because the second game ended due to a time limit and the teams didn't complete six full innings.

UWO is 3-0 on the season. Luther is 0-1.

[badgerwarhawk]

The WARHAWKS  took on Augsburg College in the MetroDome Friday night and split the doublehitter. 

Adam Dominick pitched five complete innings surrendering a single hit and Kale Olson and Aaron Dott finished the game allowing 3 hits and striking out 5.  Tom Corcoran went 3x4 with a double, triple, 2 RBI's and 2 RS in the 8-0 win.

Randy Johnson took the loss in game two despite throwing five complete with 6 strikeouts and allowing only 4 hits.   Augusburg pushed a run across in the fourth and padded the lead with five runs in the sixth on 2 walks, 3 errors and a wild pitch.  The final was 6-2.

WW is 3-1 and idle until 3/19. 

[Slinger45]

Joey Hostrawser of UWS threw his first bullpen to live hitters Sunday night and was 88-89 and even hitting 91.

[BaseballFan]

Joey Hostrawser of UWS threw his first bullpen to live hitters Sunday night and was 88-89 and even hitting 91.

Hopefully he threw strikes and didnt walk anyone. Thats a really good velocity so hopefully he has the control to go with it and some decent off speed stuff or it wont make that big of difference with the better wiac teams

[Slinger45]

For those who arent aware of Joey...he was all but set to go the U of M until he had UCL problems, after lots of hard work and rehab hes getting towards 100 percent.

From what I say his command was just fine.

[for2n8john]

Reporting scores from Phoenix RussMatt tourney:
UW-Stout & LaX are down here, plus a lot of MIAC teams.

Haven't found the boxscore spot on the tourney webpage yet.

UW-Stout beatup Macalester 13-2.  Doornik pitched 6 solid innings.  I think it was 8-1 when he came out.  Everyone from Stout hit.  Mac started a freshman, Yohd(?).   He battled gamely for 4 innings before exiting.

Doubleheader against Augsburg today.  Probably Hansen and vilstrep starting. 
LaX plays  DH against st. Johns today. 

[Slinger45]

UWS is now 5-1

Swept a doubleheader from Bethany Lutheran Sunday 12-4 and 3-2
Bouvine and Saufley both getting wins to go to 2-0 each

Split a DH with Grinnell College today.

[Just Bill]

Haven't found the boxscore spot on the tourney webpage yet.

And you won't either.  These spring break tournaments don't keep boxscores.  You'll have to go school-by-school to find them, and some may not get up until the team returns.

[OshDude]

Anyone know when/if Point SP Brandon Hemstead will return? Hard to fill out a pitching staff without an all-conference guy. A healthy Hemstead could get Point back on top. I'm actually surprised with how competitive SP's been against some good teams without its horse. Maybe Point will be better than I thought afterall.

But Point really needs to shore up that D. I don't know what the field condidtions are like where they are playing, but 17 errors in seven games obviously isn't getting it done. SP booted nine balls in the DH with Wooster, which didn't exactly pick it either, especially the 3B. SP has a ridiculous .931 FLD%, although opponents have a rather poor .938% themselves.

[BaseballFan]

Anyone know when/if Point SP Brandon Hemstead will return? Hard to fill out a pitching staff without an all-conference guy. A healthy Hemstead could get Point back on top. I'm actually surprised with how competitive SP's been against some good teams without its horse. Maybe Point will be better than I thought afterall.

But Point really needs to shore up that D. I don't know what the field condidtions are like where they are playing, but 17 errors in seven games obviously isn't getting it done. SP booted nine balls in the DH with Wooster, which didn't exactly pick it either, especially the 3B. SP has a ridiculous .931 FLD%, although opponents have a rather poor .938% themselves.

Well typically teams are going to have a lot of errors in their first couple games outside because they only get one practice before those games. They have had 15 errors in the 5 outside games. But on the other side 6 errors in a game is no excuse. How do pitchers have that poor of a fielding percentage, so much for pitchers being "athletes"

Stevens Point will be very competitive, they always are with Pat Bloom as coach plus they play a very difficult schedule so a lot of their SP get work against solid teams. But I think they need to go 3-1 in their last 4 games in florida with a split against Otterbein. They dont want to come back from florida with a losing record

[OshDude]

The SIDs have spoken. They say hardly anything will change. The baseball predictions have not been hard to do for years, but I hope Superior makes the league more interesting this year.

http://www.uwsa.edu/wiac/baseball/2008prev.html

The Pointer bats have been speaking lately against some good teams, including roughing up one of the best pitchers in the nation in a loss to Wooster. I think Surman and Spurney will be the keys to keeping the offense rolling.

[badgerwarhawk]

WARHAWKS pick up a 3-2 win over Worcester College in 10 innings.  The winning run came when Tom Corcoran doubled and drove in Jordan Stine who had gotten on base as a hit batter and advanced to scoring position on a wild pitch.  Adam Dominick threw six solid innings before being relieved by Kale Olson who picked up the win.  Billy Johnson was credited with a save.   WW improves to 4-1 and faces Jamestown Community College today.   

[Just Bill]

BW,

Is that a Varsity Reserve game against JCC?  You can't play a 2-year school and have it count on your record.

[badgerwarhawk]

The schedule reads Jamestown CC (varsity reserve).  I didn't know if that means they're sending their reserves to play us, reserves to play reserves or what exactly.  We also play them again on 3/25 and the schedule reads the same. 

[Just Bill]

I would guess that UWW is playing their reserves against JCC.  NCAA teams can't count games against Community Colleges on their records, but a lot of them play reserve games in Florida to get more guys playing time.