BB: OAC: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Dr. Acula]

Ouch.  Wilm blows a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the 7th.  Meadows hits a walk-off bases clearing double to win it 4-3.

As crazy as this sounds...would Meadows be the front runner to be both Pitcher of the Year and Player of the Year today?  His offensive numbers are sick.  .464 BA, 5 HR, 13 2B, 30 RBI, 31 R, .582 OBP, .798 Slug.  But his pitching numbers are pretty darn good.  5-0, 2.25 ERA, 36 IP, 38 K, .237 OBA.  Those are going to land him near the top of the conference in a lot of categories right now I'd think. 

[Spence]

I think it's too early for frontrunners.

But MC, BW and Otterbein are threatening to make it a race for 4th with everyone else. OTT has JCU this weekend, BW has Wilmington to go to 7-1. Carroll is the only team with less than 4 losses right now at 4-2 but facing Mount Union and Otterbein in a 3 day span.

[EttaFan1]

Muskingum is not a good baseball team right now. They couldn't hit a barn door with a boat paddle last night.

Marietta hits bad pitching really well.  (And even though the wind was blowing hard, the three home runs hit in the second game were stroked out without wind assistance.)  3 HRs and 4 Triples in the second game last night.  18 total hits in game 2.  28 hits and 28 runs in the two game set.     

Water is wet. 

Solid outings by both Mulvey and Byers.

I'm wondering if Carithers was the guy Coach Brewer was speaking of, as he pitched pretty well for an inning. 

Jordan Grilliot is hitting the ball really well right now, and last night it must have looked like a beach ball.  Alex Toth continues to amaze.  He has been ridiculously good behind the plate, and now he is having an incredible year on the offensive side of things.  Perhaps the biggest suprise, offensively, is the hitting of Brian Gregorich.  He was the "weaker link"in the batting order a year ago, and now is hitting at an impressive clip.  Hopper seems to be struggling a bit at the plate, and Brock's numbers have not been particularly impressive yet. 

Saturday's series with 'berg is a big series for both schools.  Both really need to win 2 to achieve their goals.  There is probably more pressure on 'Berg given they are at 2-4 in league play.  Slipping to 2-6 would put them in a very difficut spot.

MC's next Four OAC series are all against the group of "contenders":
Saturday @'Berg
Tues vs. Ott
Next Sat @JCU
The following Sat: vs. BW

[Spence]

Check your private messages, EttaFan.

Also, question for well really anyone that can answer it.

All OAC games are canxed for today. If that happens again tomorrow (which is possible), what takes precedence for Saturday...the scheduled games, or the postponed ones?

Could be worse...Minneapolis is expecting 6-10 inches of snow today and tonight and then that has to melt.

[EttaFan1]

Marietta had this problem last year or the year before.  The scheduled games for Saturday would likely take place on Saturday, and then the makeups would be pushed to Sunday or perhaps Monday (I seem to remember John Carroll wouldn't play on Sundays?).  Marietta, had a twinbill with Capital(?) get pushed all over the place due to weather/exams etc. and they playe around the other league games on the schedule. 

Watch, I will end up being wrong.  It will only be the 12th time or so today. 

'Berg and Northern slated for Sunday.....

Now if Saturday's gams are not playable at Peaceful valley, do Saturday's games get pushed to Monday?

[EttaFan1]

Congrats to the Schaly family and the pioneer program for Coach Schaly's induction to the national college baseball hall of fame.

http://pioneers.marietta.edu/news/2013/4/11/BB_0411134754.aspx?path=baseball

[Dr. Acula]

Mount takes game 1 at JCU 4-2.  Carlino improves to 5-1 with a CG.

BW beats up on Cap 9-2.  Havens is an impressive 7-1 now. 

[Dr. Acula]

Headed toward a couple splits.  Cap leads BW 10-3 in the 9th.  JCU up 5-2 on Mount in the 7th. 

[motorman]

Marietta had this problem last year or the year before.  The scheduled games for Saturday would likely take place on Saturday, and then the makeups would be pushed to Sunday or perhaps Monday (I seem to remember John Carroll wouldn't play on Sundays?).  Marietta, had a twinbill with Capital(?) get pushed all over the place due to weather/exams etc. and they playe around the other league games on the schedule. 

Watch, I will end up being wrong.  It will only be the 12th time or so today. 

'Berg and Northern slated for Sunday.....

Now if Saturday's gams are not playable at Peaceful valley, do Saturday's games get pushed to Monday?

Berg vs Marietta off for tomorrow. Heard there was a pond in the outfield and the creek is expected to flood.

The scheduled games do take precedence, would throw somebody else's schedule out of whack if they didn't. Think it is up to the 2 teams to agree on a makeup date as soon as possible.

[EttaFan1]

Heck berg might not play all weekend if the field is that bad. I'm sure the pioneers would be happy to have them travel down to Marietta where the field is in fantastic shape. 

[Dr. Acula]

Headed toward a couple splits.  Cap leads BW 10-3 in the 9th.  JCU up 5-2 on Mount in the 7th.

Both BW/Cap and MUC/JCU split.  The Mount offense struggled in game 2.  2 runs, 5 singles, 13 strikeouts in 9 innings.  With JCU a split is holding serve I guess, but they need a sweep soon.  ONU tomorrow would be a good chance to get to 5-5.  They really need to assert themselves and get some confidence by putting together a good DH.  They're 7-9 when Carlino doesn't start.  That needs to improve in the 2nd half of the season obviously.

[Spence]

Heck berg might not play all weekend if the field is that bad. I'm sure the pioneers would be happy to have them travel down to Marietta where the field is in fantastic shape. 

That's what they're doing in Wisconsin. Stevens Point is apparently going to play at Whitewater because of field availability. La Crosse is probably under 6 inches of snow right now so who knows what they'll do.

This spring has just been a complete mess in the north.

Hopefully Heidelberg's field doesn't get flooded.

[Dr. Acula]

ONU takes the opener at Berg 4-3.  They're knotted up at 3-3 in the 8th of game 2.

[Spence]

Berg won the second to get the split.

Minteer and Huber pitched and so will be unlikely to see action the next two days. IMO Heidelberg really needed a sweep out of this.

They more or less have to get at least two wins against MC and B-W, with them probably throwing their best. Anything less put them with 8-9 losses and Mount and John Carroll still to come.

[Dr. Acula]

Big sweep yesterday for JCU. They surrender just 3 runs in the DH.  Cydrus and Collier went for Ott so they'll need Meadows to throw well at Etta tomorrow otherwise they could go from 6-2 to 6-6 in 72 hrs.

Mount is at ONU today in a make up. Price threw a CG against Berg yesterday so the Raiders need to take advantage. It'll be Murzynski and (?) today. Bekelesky?  Pryor?  Someone else?  Whoever it is today would be a great day to sweep, get to 5-5, and have some momentum for Cap tomorrow.