MBB: North Coast Athletic Conference

[ScotsFan]

As a Woo alum, it pains me that Kenyon will have the best sports facility in the conference. I wish Wooster was the proud owner of this bad boy (of course, woo would have to have a larger gym ).

I believe that plans have been made to renovate Wooster's sports facilities, in particular the Armington Physical Education Center and the start date is somewhere around 2010 or so.  I think there was an article in the Daily Record about this over the summer.  I don't know what all the renovations would include, but it sounded pretty substantial.  I know that field turf for Papp was mentioned and a facelift for Timken and the nautatorium was also mentioned.

Here is a link to that article I mentioned:

Armington P.E.C. Facelift

From the article, it sounds like it is going to be a very nice complex when it is done.  It just won't be done for a while...

[sac]

But are they going to improve the golf course?

[WooMix]

From what I heard when I was there (2005), they are going to move everything in the direction of the baseball field.  Its going to be a megacomplex.  That will mean that the golf course is likely going to suffer some major size reductions because all the fields will have to be moved too.  Maybe we'll lose a few holes or so but that will be fine I guess becasue we have another golf course right by the Gault's residence.

[DarkSide-D]

Thanks for the article Scotsfan.  Its an interesting read.  The PEC is definately in need of renovation.

[ScotsFan]

But are they going to improve the golf course?

LOL sac!!!   My guess would be that the golf course will be untouched, although it could use a bit of a facelift.  The college golf team doesn't use LC Boles as it's home course.  They play on the Wooster CC golf course, so there really isn't any need to make improvements to LC Boles.  It's really not that bad of a course to tool around on, plus it's convenient for many of the locals.  If it's a nice day and I'm in the mood for a quick 9, LC Boles can't be beat.

What I gathered from the article was that the addition of the field turf at Papp would allow soccer, lacrosse and field hockey to be played there as well as football, allowing the addition to Armington to be done where the field hockey and soccer fields are now as well as into the hill between Papp and the soccer field.  I would guess that the baseball field would go untouched. 

[woosterbooster]

"To accomplish all of these goals, the college is planning on building onto the east end of the P.E.C.  Adding onto that end will enable Wooster to keep its field hockey fields and maintain the aesthetics of the campus' north end."

To me, it seems as if they plan to leave the current field hockey and soccer/lacrosse fields intact, building only directly eastward down the hill into that wooded area.  I hope that's the case, as part of the campus's ambiance is all of that grassy space.  Besides, if the soccer/lacrosse field wasn't in its present location, we left-field line baseball fans would lose a pleasant between-inning diversion, even if we only barely understand the rules.

Aside: One of the most hilarious things in all sports is when a foul is commited in women's (not men's) lacrosse.  The referee gives the ball to the lady who was slighted, placing it in her stick.  Then, she and ALL of the women in the surrounding area are placed in the supposed exact positions that they occupied when the foul ocurred.  The ladies then strike Heisman-like action poses, frozen like statues, until the whistle is blown and play continues.  Always gets a grin out of me.

[jscwittfan]

Aside: One of the most hilarious things in all sports is when a foul is commited in women's (not men's) lacrosse.  The referee gives the ball to the lady who was slighted, placing it in her stick.  Then, she and ALL of the women in the surrounding area are placed in the supposed exact positions that they occupied when the foul ocurred.  The ladies then strike Heisman-like action poses, frozen like statues, until the whistle is blown and play continues.  Always gets a grin out of me.

I agree.  I've worked some of our women's lacrosse home games for 2 years now, and I still have no idea what the point of that is.  We always say it looks like "freeze tag with sticks."  It is one of the funniest things to watch, just because everything has to be perfect.  Silly women's lacrosse.

[waterboy]

I would just like to say the attendance for the Witt-Allegheny game (623) is probably about 500 more than a usual game, no joke.  For some reason, games with Witt always tend to draw much more of a crowd than usual on "campus."  Campus is in quotes because there is a lack of a following from the community at large.  Meadvillians don't exactly show up in force like the Wooster or Witt faithful.  I would also like to point out half of the attendance is usually from the visiting team.  That was always one of my gripes while I attended school there, particularly because I went to every single game.

earlhamalum,

Don't worry, Miller will get his POW.  Maybe the NCAC is just saving it for next week pending the result of the Woo-Earlham rematch.

[WoosterBNel]

Yeah it is pretty sad about the lack of fans that Allegheny brings out to gym on game day. But the fact of the matter is that if big Dane Borchers doesn't give a yeoman effort in this game you could've gone ahead and put a clinch next to the good old boys from Wooster in the division standings.

[woosterbooster]

Below are the current NCAC attendance figures taken from the NCAC website.  Can those numbers for Earlham possibly be correct?  Averaging 51 souls per game?

ATTENDANCE

Team          Home Games   Total   Avg
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Allegheny         8        3328    416
Denison           5        2117    423
Earlham           6         304     51
Hiram             7        2240    320
Kenyon            5         992    198
Oberlin           7        2107    301
Ohio Wesleyan     5        2162    432
Wabash           12        7160    597
Wittenberg       10        7759    776
Wooster           8       13831   1729

[smedindy]

I doubt that's right. Some schools are not good about putting attendance in their box scores at all. We had no reported attendance when Wabash traveled to Wooster, nor did we have attendance when Wabash went to Hanover, either.

I think we need to fix a game earlier. At Colorado College, they had one of the tourney games there a home game for us, which is dragging the Wabash average down.

[sac]

Once upon a time I strode across the fairways of LC Boles.  We played each hole twice to make 18, using different tees each time.  All I remember is it was cold, rainy and Ohio Wesleyan was sweet.

The next day we played Wooster CC and were delayed an hour or so because of frost, it never got above 45 but at least it was sunny.

This may have been the year we had exactly one snow free week in Michigan to prepare for our annual attempt to qualify for Nationals.  Which consisted of 4 or 5 trips to Indiana and Ohio.  That year we played at Muskingum, Wooster, Tri-State and Ball State.  Needless to say with one week of practice we didn't make it.

The bonus is I got to play the Scarlett course at Ohio State and Eagle Sticks in Zanesville.

Some day when I'm in a better mood I'll let you in on the time the Hope golf team traveled 4 hours in pouring rain to a tournament we weren't entered in.   Ooops!

[billy_pilgrim]

Earlham nearly never puts in attendance figures for its basketball games...and when they do it is far from an official number.

[woosterbooster]

Some day when I'm in a better mood I'll let you in on the time the Hope golf team traveled 4 hours in pouring rain to a tournament we weren't entered in.   Ooops!

Now, I just gotta ask you this.  Why would a team drive 4 hours in the pouring rain to play in a tournament even if they were entered in it? 

[sac]

Some day when I'm in a better mood I'll let you in on the time the Hope golf team traveled 4 hours in pouring rain to a tournament we weren't entered in.   Ooops!

Now, I just gotta ask you this.  Why would a team drive 4 hours in the pouring rain to play in a tournament even if they were entered in it? 

That brings up a whole other set of issues, lets stay on topic.

Something silly about no lightning, no standing water your good to go.  They actually played that day.........thankfully we just turned around and headed back home.......for 4 more hours.