BB: OAC: Ohio Athletic Conference

[108 Stitches]

Not supposed to be above 32 on Sat. Or Sun... Metal bats are unstable below 50..... Great call to cancel games.  I've seen metal bat explode and hurt players.

Holy cannoli 32 degreeeessss. Fogetaboutda bats.... I am unstable below 50!

How you guys deal with this early season "baseball weather" I have no idea.

BTW Dr. Acula you have my all time favorite screen name, nice.

Hoping for a warming trend coming your way gents.

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Not supposed to be above 32 on Sat. Or Sun... Metal bats are unstable below 50..... Great call to cancel games.  I've seen metal bat explode and hurt players.

Have seen baseball played WAY below that. Think my personal record low was in the 15 neighborhood for a trip to Heidelberg. And that was in Ohio...I'm guessing in Wisconsin and Minnesota they play in the 30s regularly.

[OshDude]

Not supposed to be above 32 on Sat. Or Sun... Metal bats are unstable below 50..... Great call to cancel games.  I've seen metal bat explode and hurt players.

Have seen baseball played WAY below that. Think my personal record low was in the 15 neighborhood for a trip to Heidelberg. And that was in Ohio...I'm guessing in Wisconsin and Minnesota they play in the 30s regularly.

Yeah, 30s is shorts weather for some up here, but it's rare that games are played with temps that low. Playing in the 40s is common.

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Not supposed to be above 32 on Sat. Or Sun... Metal bats are unstable below 50..... Great call to cancel games.  I've seen metal bat explode and hurt players.

Have seen baseball played WAY below that. Think my personal record low was in the 15 neighborhood for a trip to Heidelberg. And that was in Ohio...I'm guessing in Wisconsin and Minnesota they play in the 30s regularly.

Yeah, 30s is shorts weather for some up here, but it's rare that games are played with temps that low. Playing in the 40s is common.

Coach Schaly would go to pretty great lengths to play a ballgame, especially since if you travel to play in the OAC, the games aren't made up if you don't play.

Could be worse...home opener here in Grand Forks is April 19th...North Dakota's first THIRTY games are away from home -- either road or neutral. Not sure why they even bother.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Thanks for the heads up Acula, You actually gave me a +1.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

And just as we are ready to get going, the weather forecast kills the opening games for the weekend.  Now Marietta waits until March 10 when they arrive in Florida get things started.

Marietta rescheduled their games with Anderson but were not able to reschedule Depauw. Marietta will play Monday at noon in Xenia vs Anderson in a double header starting at Noon.

Is Monday a holiday? Or will these students be away from class?

[d3baseball411]

"Is Monday a holiday? Or will these students be away from class?"

I found this link that lists all US observed holidays.  Quite helpful.

http://www.researchmaniacs.com/HolidayCalendar/Year2013.html

[EttaFan1]

Not supposed to be above 32 on Sat. Or Sun... Metal bats are unstable below 50..... Great call to cancel games.  I've seen metal bat explode and hurt players.

Interesting, since there is a significant part of the early season after the florida trips where the temps aren't even close to 50.  Heck the first two nights of the CWS in appleton in 2011 were below 50.  The regional here in SE Ohio in May were below 50.....

If there is that much of a safety issue, it would be a major problem in a lot of places!

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Expecting about 40 in Xenia tomorrow.

Not expecting any bat explosions.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

BW won swept Wabash today, they are now 5-0 to start the season.

[motorman]

Heidelberg opens up with a 9-7 victory over Moravian. Berg fought back from early 2-0 and 3-2 deficits to score 6 runs in the 5th and take command. Sr Tyler Fruhwirth started and Sr Teddy Lowe picked up the win in relief with a save from Fr Kyle Fluharty in his first collegiate appearance.
Berg bats were led by Jr 2B Joe Staab with 3 hits and 2 RBI, So 1B Eric Monroe with 3 hits, Jr LF Ben Blystone with 3 hits, Fr CF T J Harkness with 2 hits and 2 RBI, and Jr RF Arneal Squibb with 2 hits and 2 RBI.

[Dr. Acula]

The fun has started now. We have a bulk of the teams playing this week down south. Cap is wrapped up.  They started off rough, but rattled off 5 straight to finish up 5-3. We'll see if that translates into OAC wins.

As bishop said BW swept Wabash to move to 5-0. They took 3 from Shawnee St to open things.

ONU split with Hiram and JCU split with Bluffton yesterday.

To motorman and anyone else in the sunshine right now have fun and since I'm stuck in the cold I hope you get sunburned!  Haha.

[EttaFan1]

Marietta getting ready to start their twinbill with Anderson.

Mike Mulvey in Game one.
Steve Bascom in Game two, lefty.  Haven't had a good lefty in a few years.

Game 1:
Marietta defeats Anderson in the first game 4-3 in 10 innings.  Mulvey pitched 7 innings, allowed 3 runs.  Brockmeier earned the win, pitching three scoreless frames.  The young middle infield handled themselves well defensively, and freshman Tyler Packanik (2b) pushe across the go ahead run in the top of the 10th.  The two were also able to combine for a game ending double play.  Aaron Hopper threw out what would have been the go-ahead run at the plate in the bottom of the 8th.  I apologize, I don't have the offensive numbers handy, and the link for live stats wasn't working. 

[motorman]

Berg goes to 2-0 with a 7-2 win over Thiel. 10 hit offensive attack was paced by Jr SS Andrew Zenczak with 2 doubles, a BB and a HBP in 4 plate appearances with 2 RBI. Also adding a pair of hits were Jr LF Ben Blystone and Jr RF Arneal Squibb. Fr DH Derek Hug hit  a 2 run HR in his first collegiate AB to finish off a 3 run 2nd inning which opened the scoring. On the mound, Chris Thomas got his first win of the season with 8 strong innings, with 4 Ks, 2 BBs, 4 hits and 2 earned runs allowed. Thomas didn't allow the first hit of the game until 1 out in the 5th inning. Red shirt freshman Adam Manner pitched a scoreless 9th.

First double header of the season tomorrow with games vs Dominican and Alvernia tomorrow in Fort Myers.

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Not to steal Ettafan's thunder, but Marietta got the sweep, 7-3 behind sophomore lefty duo Stephen Bascom and Anthony Knittel.

Interesting factoid (that took me a while to find!). Bascom got the win without striking out a batter in six innings, becoming the first Etta Express starting pitcher to get a win without a strikeout since May 7, 2005 when Mike Mooney got the win at John Carroll.