BB: OAC: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Dr. Acula]

BW beat Denison in what looked a good game.  9-6 was the final, but BW plated a pair in the bottom of the 8th to get some breathing room.  BW is 7-2 now.

Also, looks like Etta is beating up on OWU so far.  12-0 currently.

[EttaFan1]

Marietta wins 18-1.

Owu plated an unearned run in the bottom of the ninth. Ugly 7th inning for the bishops.

Pioneers get a day off tomorrow (jv game) and then play webster, who Marietta eliminated in the Cws last year and then Wheaton (Il) before the big one against Wheaton mass.

Brockmeier pitched 5 innings but seemed to struggle. Owu couldn't get a timely hit. The pioneer bats are scorching right now.

[Spence]

Their first guy did fairly well but threw 80 pitches in 4 innings. That must have been his limit because they didn't seem to have much left after him.

Brockmeier may have been equal parts lucky and good, leaving 11 on base in his 5 shutout innings. 3 times the bases were left loaded.

Sounded like Byers was the only truly dominant pitcher on the day. 2 perfect innings.

Them throwing short outings today makes me think they're making another start on the trip, and this was their bullpen day in between starts.

Shortstop continues to be the only trouble spot in an otherwise excellent defense.

[Dr. Acula]

I was hoping Washington (MD) would be a fairly stiff test for Mount.  They won 28 games last year.  But it appears they lost a couple studs to graduation and are 5-5 this year so far.  It will be interesting to see who gets the ball for the Raiders since they're down to #6 today.  Maybe a committee day as teams are known to do in FL.  Find out in about 15 minutes I suppose.

[Dr. Acula]

Horning struggled with his command today and didn't make it out of the 2nd inning, but it didn't matter at all.  The Raider offense put up a 10 spot in the 3rd and 7 more in the 4th.  Final was 25-8.  Mount is now 5-1 with Albion tomorrow for a double dip. 

[Spence]

Horning struggled with his command today and didn't make it out of the 2nd inning, but it didn't matter at all.  The Raider offense put up a 10 spot in the 3rd and 7 more in the 4th.  Final was 25-8.  Mount is now 5-1 with Albion tomorrow for a double dip.

Has Mount ever been ranked?

[Dr. Acula]

Horning struggled with his command today and didn't make it out of the 2nd inning, but it didn't matter at all.  The Raider offense put up a 10 spot in the 3rd and 7 more in the 4th.  Final was 25-8.  Mount is now 5-1 with Albion tomorrow for a double dip.

Has Mount ever been ranked?

No, I don't believe so.  Definitely not ever in the D3.com era.

[Dr. Acula]

Mount takes game 1 from Albion 4-1.  Carlino gives up a run in the 1st and then settles in to pick up the win tossing 5 shutout innings after that to go to 2-0 on the year.  Albion got a couple guys on in the 6th, but back to back strikeouts got Carlino out of the jam.  The only negative was that the Raiders struck out 9 or 10 times I believe (it was audio only so I'm not certain).

[motorman]

Marietta lost to Webster 3-2 in 10 innings. Were down 2-0 with 2 outs in bottom of 9th and tied it on a throwing error by pitcher. Gave up a lead off walk, sac bunt and RBI single in top of 10th.

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Mount takes game 1 from Albion 4-1.  Carlino gives up a run in the 1st and then settles in to pick up the win tossing 5 shutout innings after that to go to 2-0 on the year.  Albion got a couple guys on in the 6th, but back to back strikeouts got Carlino out of the jam.  The only negative was that the Raiders struck out 9 or 10 times I believe (it was audio only so I'm not certain).

Surprised to see them go with their top 2 against Albion rather than Hope, but maybe no one else was ready.

Win two tomorrow and I think Mount Union is ranked in the next poll.

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Marietta lost to Webster 3-2 in 10 innings. Were down 2-0 with 2 outs in bottom of 9th and tied it on a throwing error by pitcher. Gave up a lead off walk, sac bunt and RBI single in top of 10th.

Man you're quick!

Yeah Webster's ace Dooley (who was used as an Andy Lowe-ish reliever last year) was very good, and their reliever did well also. Sounds like they didn't give much to hit.

Jason Byers again pitches well but gets no run support. He's gotten 0 runs in 15 innings...maybe it's a freshman hazing thing.

Marietta has Wheaton (Ill.) later today followed by Wheaton (Mass.) tomorrow! Will be interesting to see who pitches in the late game today; suspect Mulvey goes tomorrow.

EDIT: Mulvey pitching against Wheaton. It's his 5th day, but I expected them to keep him for tomorrow. I guess it's Bascom tomorrow?

[Dr. Acula]

Mount takes game 1 from Albion 4-1.  Carlino gives up a run in the 1st and then settles in to pick up the win tossing 5 shutout innings after that to go to 2-0 on the year.  Albion got a couple guys on in the 6th, but back to back strikeouts got Carlino out of the jam.  The only negative was that the Raiders struck out 9 or 10 times I believe (it was audio only so I'm not certain).

Surprised to see them go with their top 2 against Albion rather than Hope, but maybe no one else was ready.

Win two tomorrow and I think Mount Union is ranked in the next poll.

I think they had to.  They had used 6 starters and those guys were on full rest.  Not ideal, but this way their "OAC rotation" guys all get 2 starts down south. 

They did do the job and swept Albion.  12-3 was the final in the 2nd game.  7-1 overall.  Soph Anthony Morino is smoking hot right now.  16 for 29 (.552) with 5 2B, 14 RBI in 8 games. 

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Marietta gets the split, 10-5 with Mulvey pitching 7 solid innings of 3 hit ball.
Anthony Knittel struggled in the 8th inning and Jordan Carithers struck out 2 and allowed 0 hits and 1 unearned run in the 9th.

That's two straight good relief outings by Carithers.

[motorman]

Sound like Dr. A, had too much time on my hands, so I did a little research. I know NCAA strength of schedule is only for in region games, so I compared the records of the opposition so far for the top 6 teams in the OAC as of right now. I only included D3 opponents since I am not ambitious enough to search for the non D3 opponents records.


                           BW       Mount        Berg         Ott            Etta           JCU

W-L                   22-37     40-55       49-43       6-14         25-38        43-49
Win %                .373       .421         .533         .300         .397           .467

JCU and Etta have lost to the best opponents, but they are also the only teams they have played with winning records. Berg has beaten a pair of 8-3 teams and a 7-5, but lost a bad game to 3-7 Salem State. Mount's only loss is to 4-7 Franklin and Marshall, haven't faced an opponent over .500. BW also lost to only opponent with winning record and 2-3 OWU. Ott's only D3 games have been vs. 3-7 Earlham.

[OshDude]

Losing to Salem State isn't bad. Seven losses aren't ideal, but that's a tough noncon schedule for any team.