BB: NESCAC: New England Small College Athletic Conference

[Old Spartan]

What are the field conditions in Maine, Vermont and Northern Mass at this point?

[frank uible]

Williamstown is currently having a snow (very wet) storm.

[Nuke LaLoosh]

Tufts field I know has a tarp, I'd guess there will be baseball in Medford this weekend.

No idea how Trinity's field looks, must be hard keeping a field that has a right field ten feet higher than it's infield.

On a baseball note, has anyone else taken notice that Colby, yes Colby, is 6-1...New coach up in Waterville may mean new times for the Mules.

[Rick Vaughn]

The weather in Williamstown does not matter for another few days.  Williams is playing Midd in Arizona.

[speedy]

Trinity-Bowdoin  series has been delayed by a day due to poor weather conditions in Hartford (moved from Friday-Saturday to Saturday-Sunday).

[frank uible]

Today's weather in Williamstown may matter if it contributes to, or causes, unplayable wet grounds next week.

[Bostonian]

Looks like Williams isn't missing the offense they lost to graduation...10-4 over the Mid in game 1. Would love to know if Britton pitched...

[frank uible]

Britton started - no box score yet.

[Rick Vaughn]

Benz threw 7 allowing one earned run for Williams and really outpitched Britton.  This is big for Williams b/c after such a great freshman year, Benz was pretty inconsistent early last year.  Surprising to see Britton start the first game.  He started the seven inning game in every series last year.

[Rick Vaughn]

Scores up on the NESCAC site.  Trinity 1-0 over Bowdoin.  Kiely with a four-hit shutout with 12 K's.  Wood with a solo shot.  Bates HUGE upset over Tufts 8-6.  No box score, but very unexpected win for Bates because it is likely either Protano or Telian started that game.  Wes and Amherst split.  The Herst frosh Keegan continues to impress.  All for now. 

[Rick Vaughn]

Williams sweep: 8-3 and 11-10.  Horwitz K'd 11 in six innings in the first game.  Williams wins a slugfest in the 2nd game.  Huge for playoff positioning.  Williams still needs more pitching depth, but they can hit their way to victory against lesser pitching and battles good pitching.

[espinoza]

What happened to Midd? It seems like williams dominated offensively as well as defensively. Midd now has some serious work to do to get into the tournament.

[Rick Vaughn]

After losing the first game to Bates, Tufts got mad.  26 runs in one game and a DH sweep to come back.  The Jumbos have some serious work to do against Bowdoin and Trinity. 

Midd really misses Noah Walker at shortstop.  He was such a strong defender and provided a lot of pop in the middle of that line-up. 

Wes will not lay down for anyone.  They have gotten a lot better this year, at least with the bats.

[espinoza]

you're right, walker is a huge hole in their team. I did not think that he would be missed that much, but I was wrong. Wesleyan is a better hitting team, but they are still very susceptible to good pitching. Dominguez is a good hitter though.  Woodworth left his starters in too long, and let a 2-0 game slip to 4-0 even when it was obvious the starter was losing steam. Wes came back in the game, but his handling of the pitching staff throughout the series put them in bad situations. They should use Gabel more. He shut down Amherst in the first game and then did not pitch again until the end of game 3, when Wes had little hope of coming back.

[Rick Vaughn]

The winner this weekend appears to be the weather.  Colby vs. Bowdoin is the big series of the weekend, but the Friday game has already been pushed back as well as Saturday's DH.  They are scheduled to play Sunday in Medford.  The fact that they didn't schedule on Saturday makes me think that the Tufts-Williams DH on Saturday maybe be moving to Tufts.  This weather is brutal.