BB: NESCAC: New England Small College Athletic Conference

[Rick Vaughn]

Williams has made a big comeback, but Tufts still leads 13-11 in the 8th.

[KSCfan]

They are chanting lets go jumbos in NH

[JustAFan]

Bowdoin leads Williams 6-1 after 5 complete. The winner plays Tufts in the title game at 4:30.

[JustAFan]

Bowdoin eliminates Williams 7-3 and now faces Tufts in the title game. Not certain if they're playing 7 or 9.  Under some bizarre tie breaker rule if Bowdoin beats Tufts they will be NeSCAC champs even though it would be Tufts first tournament loss since they are not going to play an "if" game...the tour ament ends with this game.

[JustAFan]

Tufts beats Bowdoin 6-1 to win the NESCAC title and free up the at large berth.

[KSCfan]

And they are dancing in the streets of the Little East!

[Rick Vaughn]

Tufts playing very good ball heading into Regionals...Curious to see that the likely Freshman of the Year in the conference, Bowdoin's Oliver Van Zant, did not throw at all during the tournament.  Does anyone have any insider information?

[speedy]

Tufts playing very good ball heading into Regionals...Curious to see that the likely Freshman of the Year in the conference, Bowdoin's Oliver Van Zant, did not throw at all during the tournament.  Does anyone have any insider information?

Van Sant has an arm injury . .

[Rick Vaughn]

http://athletics.trincoll.edu/sports/bsb/2009-10/news/Baseball_90910

Good to see - Wood had an unreal year and was the only NE DIII player drafted!

[Rick Vaughn]

It's been a terrible spring in the Northeast for the weather, but the NESCAC didn't lose any league games this weekend.  Trinity and Tufts sweep Colby and Bates respectively.  Trin swept, but it was a close series with two one-run games. 

Wesleyan took two of three from Hamilton and in the biggest shock of the weekend Midd sweeps Williams.  Midd came in 2-4 while Williams came in 12-2 and riding a ton of momentum.  Looked like the Ephs had a big edge, until Midd whacked them in all three games.  10-3, 17-9, 9-0 beatdowns! 

My take on the NESCAC this year (before seeing this weekends results):
West (winner hosts): Williams, Amherst, Midd, Wesleyan, Hamilton
East: Bowdoin, Tufts, Bates, Trin, Colby

After this weekends results:
West: Midd, Amherst, Wes, Williams, Hamilton
East: Bowdoin, Tufts, Trin, Bates, Colby

[ECSUalum]

Rick,

Saw Hobbesy's video clips of Coach Casey and his top players, and of course watched the team play @ Mansfield in the NCAA NE Regional.  Its obvious that Tufts has a Class Act coach, class players and class program!!!  Best of Luck to the Jumbos in 2011

[Rick Vaughn]

How does the NESCAC tournament not have live stats?  Typical Amherst amateurism...

Anyone at the games?  I would love updates!

[Rick Vaughn]

Baseball America's Small Colleges preview...Not too sure about the validity of this ranking, but they should be pretty good.  BA just wanted to write about AmHerst's MLB pedigree.

http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/college/season-preview/2012/2612881.html

[ECSUalum]

Nice article on Kevin Heller of the Lord Jeffs:

http://www.ncaa.com/news/baseball/article/2012-03-08/heller-ready-lead-lord-jeffs

[JustAFan]

Great start for Bowdoin today, sweeping Commonwealth Coast Conference pre-season favorite Endicott 3-1 and 3-0. Christian Martin picked up where he left off last year in the first game, giving up just 4 hits and 0 earned runs in 6 innings, and Oliver Van Zant did him one better in the second game, pitching a 1 hit complete game 7 inning shutout. Junior Dan Findley had 2 hits in each game to lead the Polar Bears attack.

Bates is also off to a good start, coming back from its Georgia trip with a 5-2 record and then sweeping an always solid Worcester State team this past weekend in the cold at Central Connecticut, 15-4 and 3-0.  Freshmen Nate Pajka and Mekae Hyde combined for 3 home runs for Bates in the opener while senior Kyle Alexander upped his record to 2-1 with 6 innings of 3 run ball.  In the second game junior Mike Antonellis pitched a complete game 7 inning shutout for his first win of the season.

Finally, MIT took a pair of 7 inning games from Trinity this weekend in the Bantam's season opener, 4-0 and 4-2.  Sophomore Peter Burrows pitched 4 innings of shutout ball in the opener for Trinity, but 3 walks and 3 errors resulted in 4 unearned runs being charged to senior Ed Donovan in the final 3 innings of the opener in a game in which MIT only had 4 hits to 3 by Trinity. In the second game Trinity sophomore starter Ryan Carr was charged with the loss, giving up 4 runs, only 1 earned, over 4 innings on 5 hits and 4 K's. Senior James Ramsey did not pitch for Trinity this weekend. The Bantams open up their southern trip this coming weekend against Endicott.