BB: OAC: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Looks like the Berg is getting on a bit of a roll:

http://athletics.heidelberg.edu/sports/bsb/2013-14/players/christhomastas0

[Dr. Acula]

37-2?!  Northland is 0-8 so they're clearly not good, but man!  I especially enjoyed that their starter was in long enough to throw 155 pitches and give up 22 runs.  That's a lot of work in early March.  Talk about taking one for the team.  Those two kids fell on the sword. 

[Dr. Acula]

Mount moves to 7-0 with a 14-4 win in game 2 against Aurora.  DH with Waynesburg tomorrow wraps up the trip as it looks like the game with St. Vincent will not be made up.

The bad thing about playing the 7 inning DH's is that they've only used 3 relievers through 7 games I think.  Tough to get innings for everyone if the starter only leaves you an inning or so to work with.  That's why that St. V game being lost stinks because they were going to start Bekelsky (who had relieved already) so at least a couple other guys would have seen innings in that 9 inning game midweek.  Oh well.  I wonder if they'll use the pen liberally tomorrow just to get some guys game action. 

[motorman]

Yes Dr. Acula, I did survive that marathon DH but just barely. Defense was really bad in those first 2 games but has been improving ever since. Even the 4 errors against Neumann weren't as bad. Palm has to be liking the offense. Today was a very over matched Northland team, only 15 kids on their roster. Fluharty was good against Thiel and Huber put up a game effort against Adrian. After those first 2 days was very afraid of what Berg would look like vs Adrian, but of the 5 runs by Adrian, 2 scored on bases loaded walks and 1 on a bases loaded HBP.

Thomas was dominant today vs Northland and had a very good inning to close out the game vs Thiel. Today he shut them out over the first 6 innings, nothing hit hard, a bloop and 2 ground ball singles to go against 6 Ks.

Heard it got into the 50s up there today, get those snow piles thawed out so we can play when we get back.

[Bishopleftiesdad]

Good to hear that berg did so well. Glad they beat Adrian.

[Dr. Acula]

So close!!  Matt Murzynski was 2 outs away from a perfect game in the opener against Waynesburg today before giving up a solid single.  He settles for the shutout 5-0. 

[Dr. Acula]

Mount will head home from FL undefeated for the first time I can ever remember after beating Waynesburg 15-1 in the 2nd game of the DH to finish 9-0.  Back in action next weekend against St. John's (MN) in Alliance (so we'll call that tentative at best).

Good luck to the rest of our OAC squads starting their spring trips this weekend.  Hope everyone plays well OOC and racks up some W's.

[Dr. Acula]

Berg has won 6 straight after coming back from down 7-2 late against Alvernia.  They've got Wooster on Monday which will be very interesting.

JCU is 4-6, but they've lost to Case and split with Allegheny in WV.  In FL lost to Adrian, Widener, Augustana and split with Moravian.  None of those are bad losses in my mind although I would have liked to see them snag at least one win against that Case/Adrian/Widener/Auggie group. 

Wilm sadly finished 0-8 on their trip.  Looking at the scores they appeared to be fairly competitive.  They lost 6 of the 8 games by 4 runs or fewer so it wasn't like they were getting drummed.

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Berg has won 6 straight after coming back from down 7-2 late against Alvernia.  They've got Wooster on Monday which will be very interesting.

JCU is 4-6, but they've lost to Case and split with Allegheny in WV.  In FL lost to Adrian, Widener, Augustana and split with Moravian.  None of those are bad losses in my mind although I would have liked to see them snag at least one win against that Case/Adrian/Widener/Auggie group. 

Is Doring injured? I don't think he's pitched yet for John Carroll which would make a big difference.

Heidelberg has been a bit fortunate so far in that their opponents seem to like not throwing their best against them. Alvernia coached itself into a loss today, leaving their ace reliever in mothballs and DHing their best starter.

Berg's best pitcher appears to be a freshman.

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Still not a huge fan of playing Wooster, but having it the first game of the spring trip certainly adds to the anticipation of starting the week!

Hagen vs. Byers.

[Dr. Acula]

I was kind of bummed there are no live stats for that one.  Etta was up 2-0 when I checked the scoreboard a few minutes ago. 

Berg is up 6-1 on Montclair St.  Musky dropped their opener to Domincan 7-3 this morning.  BW plays later.

[Spence]

I was kind of bummed there are no live stats for that one.  Etta was up 2-0 when I checked the scoreboard a few minutes ago. 

There were. Sometimes it doesn't show up on d3baseball. Check the Marietta site. Also an audio link is almost always there.

7-3 final. The only threat to Byers was himself. 7IP, 3H, 1R, 5BB, 6K. Marietta broke it open late against the bullpen. Hagen pitched quite well, but was the losing pitcher.

Interestingly, Wooster's first two relievers on a team with 16 seniors were a soph and a FR.

MC up 3-1 on Salem State in the second game. Herstine very good so far. Both MC starters in the 90 mph range on the gun.

[motorman]

Berg has won 6 straight after coming back from down 7-2 late against Alvernia.  They've got Wooster on Monday which will be very interesting.

JCU is 4-6, but they've lost to Case and split with Allegheny in WV.  In FL lost to Adrian, Widener, Augustana and split with Moravian.  None of those are bad losses in my mind although I would have liked to see them snag at least one win against that Case/Adrian/Widener/Auggie group. 

Is Doring injured? I don't think he's pitched yet for John Carroll which would make a big difference.

Heidelberg has been a bit fortunate so far in that their opponents seem to like not throwing their best against them. Alvernia coached itself into a loss today, leaving their ace reliever in mothballs and DHing their best starter.

Berg's best pitcher appears to be a freshman.

Maybe the other teams #1s are lucky they weren't facing the Berg offense. They saw Moravian's #1 and scored 14 in that game. They also beat Adrian with their #5, Huber and he goes against Wooster tomorrow. I also don't think you can make a statement that their best pitcher is a freshman after 3 relief appearances.

I do agree with you that Alvernia coached themselves into a loss, but for other reasons than you stated. They pinch hit for their starting 3rd baseman because he struck out in his first 2 plate appearances and the kid they put in made the error that allowed the tying runs to score. They also pinch hit for an OF who had 2 hits in his previous 2 ABs. Also, they pulled the starting pitcher who had only thrown just a little more than 60 pitches and was holding Berg in check.

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Berg has won 6 straight after coming back from down 7-2 late against Alvernia.  They've got Wooster on Monday which will be very interesting.

JCU is 4-6, but they've lost to Case and split with Allegheny in WV.  In FL lost to Adrian, Widener, Augustana and split with Moravian.  None of those are bad losses in my mind although I would have liked to see them snag at least one win against that Case/Adrian/Widener/Auggie group. 

Is Doring injured? I don't think he's pitched yet for John Carroll which would make a big difference.

Heidelberg has been a bit fortunate so far in that their opponents seem to like not throwing their best against them. Alvernia coached itself into a loss today, leaving their ace reliever in mothballs and DHing their best starter.

Berg's best pitcher appears to be a freshman.

Maybe the other teams #1s are lucky they weren't facing the Berg offense. They saw Moravian's #1 and scored 14 in that game. They also beat Adrian with their #5, Huber and he goes against Wooster tomorrow. I also don't think you can make a statement that their best pitcher is a freshman after 3 relief appearances.

I do agree with you that Alvernia coached themselves into a loss, but for other reasons than you stated. They pinch hit for their starting 3rd baseman because he struck out in his first 2 plate appearances and the kid they put in made the error that allowed the tying runs to score. They also pinch hit for an OF who had 2 hits in his previous 2 ABs. Also, they pulled the starting pitcher who had only thrown just a little more than 60 pitches and was holding Berg in check.

Yeah, y'all also did a good job of making Moravian's last guy the D3baseball.com reliever of the week. Then their #2 guy only allowed 1 earned. I'm sorry but scoring 37 against some recreational team and getting 22 against a team whose freshman starter walked 8 guys in 3 innings (and 17 for the team in the game) doesn't impress me much.

Alvernia could have pitched Weinhold and/or Becker-Menditto in relief and given themselves a lot better chance to win. Instead they throw Weinhold against Bluffton and get beat anyway because they took *him* out too early. I can only guess they were trying to make sure they had Weinhold against Gettysburg. But holding Becker-Menditto just makes no sense at all.

And Adrian didn't throw Robinson for some reason. I assume Montclair will throw their ace tomorrow against Marietta.

Oh well, makes the OAC look better I guess.

[motorman]

Could maybe Adrian didn't thorw Robinson was because he pitched the day before? Like Berg, they didn't fiddle with the rotation based on who they were playing maybe? So they threw their #3 in their 3rd game in FL and Berg used #5 and we should be embarassed about beating them?

Papa pitched Montclair's first game before coming to Florida so I guess he would be their #1. From what I saw with my own eyes and not from looking at live stats, Marietta won't have any problem with Montclair.

Why don't you take issue with the cupcakes Mount went 9-0 against instead of bashing the pitching choices of Berg's opponents? Don't think they have played any teams that went to regionals last year, not to mention playing 7 inning DHs. So Berg had one weak sister and played 6 of 10 vs 2013 regional participants.

This whole line of discussion looks like setting up an excuse ahead of time if Wooster had beaten Marietta and Berg beats them today. Oh, we had to face their best pitcher and you guys beat someone lower in the rotation.