BB: OAC: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Dr. Acula]

Sheesh, talk about a confidence booster heading into ONU.  Mount loses 15-0 at home to Allegheny.  Quick thoughts on this thumping:

The pitching match up wasn't exactly apples to apples.  Mount went Johnny Whole-staff with a couple guys who haven't pitched much (or at all) getting knocked around late as they gave up 3 in the 8th, 7 in the 9th.  But they also had a couple guys who they count on in the pen get hit around too.  Allegheny had Davis, their ace, go 8 innings.

Raiders were just sloppy again today.  3 wild pitches, 4 passed balls and 5 errors.  That's gross. 

They need to get the scoring going.  1 unearned run in the last 19 innings isn't the way to go into a crucial "get your season back on track" DH.  They just haven't been getting the hit with RISP lately. 

Perhaps I'm crazy, but I still think they sweep ONU.  I think Carlino and Clarke come through with good starts and hopefully the bats do enough to win it.     

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W&J beats Marietta, 12-10 in 10 innings. Lot of pitchers on both sides, but a second straight western PA team gets a non-conference win against MC that it really needed after a rocky start.

Neither Byers nor Herstine pitched at all, which was a little surprising.

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Andrew Doring saw his first action of the season for John Carroll, starting and pitching 2 scoreless innings against Ohio Wesleyan.

I had them as the primary contender to Marietta in the preseason in the league. If he's right, they may yet be.

[motorman]

Berg wins the first game of the top 25 matchup with Case 3-2. Sr 2B Joe Staab drove in all 3 runs for Heidelberg.

[ADL70]

CWRU wins nightcap 6-1  John Fortunato CG 1 R 5H  both games were 9 innings

Aggregate CWRU 8 Berg 4

[motorman]

I don't think the aggregate means a thing, each team gets 1 W and 1 L.

In the nightcap, Derek Hug must have been tired of legging out triples as he hit his 1st home run of the season.

By the way Dr A, he is a tight end, not a WR on the Berg football team.

Saw forecast that there may be 3 inches of snow in the Findlay/Tiffin area Sat. They haven't moved Muskingum games yet but would bet they don't play Sat.

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Seems like Palm was almost banking on that throwing Hendrixson 3 innings, and Manner 3 innings in Game 2.

Did both teams go in looking for a split? Heidelberg threw their better pitching in Game 1, CWRU in Game 2.

Is that normally an overnight stay for Muskingum for a Saturday game or do they go up day of?

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CWRU wins nightcap 6-1  John Fortunato CG 1 R 5H  both games were 9 innings

Aggregate CWRU 8 Berg 4

Pretty crazy that two teams with the offensive numbers they have only managed 12 total runs in 2 games.

[motorman]

Seems like Palm was almost banking on that throwing Hendrixson 3 innings, and Manner 3 innings in Game 2.

Did both teams go in looking for a split? Heidelberg threw their better pitching in Game 1, CWRU in Game 2.

Is that normally an overnight stay for Muskingum for a Saturday game or do they go up day of?

That would seem to be the smart thing to do, given the weather forecast. If there is virtually no chance you are playing on Sat, why not use your closer as much as you need him today?

Maybe Case went in looking for a split. That certainly looks like their philosphy when you save your ace for the 2nd game of a DH. Especially when the guy with the 2nd most starts on your team has an ERA over 9. Hope you get lucky in the first game and if you don't your ace is there to salvage a split since you are facing the other team's #4.

It isn't an overnight stay for Muskingum. The story on Berg website said a decision would be made before Muskingum's bus was to leave on Sat.

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Seems like Palm was almost banking on that throwing Hendrixson 3 innings, and Manner 3 innings in Game 2.

Did both teams go in looking for a split? Heidelberg threw their better pitching in Game 1, CWRU in Game 2.

Is that normally an overnight stay for Muskingum for a Saturday game or do they go up day of?

That would seem to be the smart thing to do, given the weather forecast. If there is virtually no chance you are playing on Sat, why not use your closer as much as you need him today?

Maybe Case went in looking for a split. That certainly looks like their philosphy when you save your ace for the 2nd game of a DH. Especially when the guy with the 2nd most starts on your team has an ERA over 9. Hope you get lucky in the first game and if you don't your ace is there to salvage a split since you are facing the other team's #4.

It isn't an overnight stay for Muskingum. The story on Berg website said a decision would be made before Muskingum's bus was to leave on Sat.

Yeah the forecast definitely doesn't look good. I'm not saying anything bad about Palm using Hendrixson, just that he definitely seemed to be playing the forecast there from the start, not starting Hendrixson at short was a pretty good sign that he'd be the first out of the pen.

O'Driscoll is the #4? I guess I thought Manner was...guess it's still pretty fluid.

It seems like Heidelberg planned to go with Fluharty and Hendrixson from the start, which makes me wonder if they knew Case was throwing a FR in the first game. Or it could be like you said that Case knew what Berg would do and went opposite. Hard to say...just interesting.

[Dr. Acula]

Looks like everything is PPD to Sunday.  ONU at Mount is the only one I didn't see anything about, but I have to think it's coming any minute.

[motorman]

Looks like everything is PPD to Sunday.  ONU at Mount is the only one I didn't see anything about, but I have to think it's coming any minute.

Berg and Musky going to try again Monday, hopefully this crappy white stuff is gone by then. Hard to believe snow on the ground now and Tues it is supposed to be in the upper 60s.

[Dr. Acula]

BW/Etta is pushed back to 4pm.  All others pushed to Monday too. 

[Dr. Acula]

Etta radio guy just said it's supposed to be 72 there Tuesday.  Crazy.  Must be windy as heck there today as BW is having all kinds of trouble with infield pop ups.  3-2 Jackets after 4.

[Dr. Acula]

4 runs off of Byers is about as much as you can reasonably hope for.  9 walks, a HBP and 5 errors isn't going to cut it when you're in the field though.  You can't give Etta that many free passes and extra outs.