BB: NACC: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[Just Bill]

2017 early returns...

CUC is 5-2 with a nice win over top-10 St. John Fisher... Aurora 5-0 and putting up over 10 runs per game... Rockford also 5-2... Lakeland won their first three in Florida but were swept by Hiram yesterday... MSOE already wrapped up their Florida trip going 2-6.

Edgewood (March 9), Marian (March 10) and WLC (March 13) have yet to open the season.

[Jim Dixon]

2017 early returns...

CUC is 5-2 with a nice win over top-10 St. John Fisher... Aurora 5-0 and putting up over 10 runs per game... Rockford also 5-2... Lakeland won their first three in Florida but were swept by Hiram yesterday... MSOE already wrapped up their Florida trip going 2-6.

Edgewood (March 9), Marian (March 10) and WLC (March 13) have yet to open the season.

An early stumble for CUC but they appear back on track.  Even the HC knew that the third game of the season was suddenly a big game after starting 0-2.

[Just Bill]

One more week before conference games start...

Edgewood 7-2
Aurora 10-3
Concordia Wis. 6-5
Concordia Chi. 7-6
Benedictine 5-5
Dominican 5-6
Rockford 5-6
Wis. Lutheran 4-5
MSOE 5-7
Marian 4-6
Lakeland 3-6

Edgewood with a nice start, but hard to tell how good their opponents have been. One loss was in extras to Augustana who is like 10-1. Good test for them with Wheaton and Bethel this weekend... Aurora's offensive numbers are silly, video game type numbers... Virtually everyone else hovering around that .500 mark, with CUC and BU both playing a few ranked opponents.

[Captain_Joe08]

Yesterday's Scores:

Illinois Tech 12-5 Wisconsin Lutheran 4-10
Wabash 9-8 Aurora 8-4
Benedictine 5 Fontbonne 3
Northland 10 Edgewood 6
Bethel (MN) 14 Edgewood 5

Lakeland vs Roosevelt was PPD.

[Just Bill]

Time for conference play!

STANDINGS        NACC   ALL
Edgewood          0-0   8-4
Aurora            0-0  10-6
Concordia Wis.    0-0   6-5
Benedictine       0-0   7-6
MSOE              0-0   7-7
Rockford          0-0   7-7
Concordia Chi.    0-0   8-9
Wis. Lutheran     0-0   6-7
Dominican         0-0   5-8
Marian            0-0   5-9
Lakeland          0-0   3-7

Saturday
Rockford at Edgewood
Wis. Lutheran at Concordia Wis. (WLC's home game, moved due to conditions)
Dominican at Aurora
Benedictine at MSOE
Concordia Chi. at Marian
Finlandia at Lakeland (NC)

Sunday
Aurora at Concordia Wis.
Marian at Rockford
Edgewood at Dominican
MSOE at Concordia Chi.
Lakeland at Benedictine

[Captain_Joe08]

Saturday's Scores

Edgewood 2-14 Rockford 1-13
Concordia Wisconsin 4-14 Wisconsin Lutheran 5-2
Benedictine 6-9 MSOE 1-10
Concordia Chicago 10-16 Marian 1-4
Lakeland 6-4 Finlandia 3-6

Sunday's Scores

Aurora 5-5 Concordia Wisconsin 6-3
Rockford 9-4 Marian 4-8
Edgewood 6-3 Dominican 3-0
Concordia Chicago 8-14 MSOE 2-9
Benedictine 2-7 Lakeland 3-2

Standings as of 4/4


1. Edgewood 12-4 (4-0)
2. Concordia Chicago 12-9 (4-0)
3. Benedictine 9-8 (2-2)
4. Concordia Wisconsin 8-7 (2-2)
5. Aurora 11-7 (1-1)
6. Wisconsin Lutheran 7-8 (1-1)
7. Lakeland 5-9 (1-1)
8. MSOE 8-10 (1-3)
9. Rockford 8-10 (1-3)
10. Marian 6-12 (1-3)
11. Dominican 5-10 (0-2)

Thoughts

Edgewood has 4 games this week against CUC and BenU to prove that they are going to be contenders this year coming up this weekend.

I still think CUC will be on top as the dust settles. They have played a rather rugged non-conference slate and the record reflects such. Still surprised that they are receiving votes still but like previously stated, the voters could be cutting the Cougs some slack with their schedule.

To a degree the same applies to BenU what I stated above. But splitting series with MSOE and Lakeland of all teams, is not how to start the conference slate.

This may be a bit homer, but I think WLC is showing that they may be better than the conference poll may be telling.

Game Schedule Tue-Fri

4/4

Aurora at Dominican (DH)
Maranatha (1-8) at WLC (DH)-PPD No makeup date announced yet.

4/5

Aurora at Carthage (9-9) (NC)
Concordia Wisconsin at UW-Oshkosh (8-7) (NC)

4/6

Lakeland at Maranatha (1-8) (NC DH)
Concordia Chicago at North Central (IL) (5-7) (NC)

4/7

Dominican at North Central (IL) (5-7) (NC)

[Just Bill]

This may be a bit homer, but I think WLC is showing that they may be better than the conference poll may be telling.

I don't know man. Currently 11th in team batting average and 11th in team ERA. I know stats don't tell the whole story, but that's tough to overlook.

[Jim Dixon]

This may be a bit homer, but I think WLC is showing that they may be better than the conference poll may be telling.

I don't know man. Currently 11th in team batting average and 11th in team ERA. I know stats don't tell the whole story, but that's tough to overlook.

Hope springs eternal.

[Captain_Joe08]

This may be a bit homer, but I think WLC is showing that they may be better than the conference poll may be telling.

I don't know man. Currently 11th in team batting average and 11th in team ERA. I know stats don't tell the whole story, but that's tough to overlook.

Hope springs eternal.

Prolly.....but at least they'll look competitive in conference play.

[Captain_Joe08]

Saturday Scores

Benedictine 8-12 Edgewood 2-8
Rockford 6-6 Wisconsin Lutheran 4-5
Concordia Wisconsin 10-4 Dominican 4-2
Lakeland 10-16 Marian 11-12
Concordia Chicago 13-12 Aurora 0-4

Sunday Scores

Wisconsin Lutheran 3-9 Dominican 7-4
MSOE 9-20 Lakeland 3-4
Aurora 3-11 Rockford 8-6
Concordia Chicago 17-7 Edgewood 7-5
Benedictine 8-2 Marian 2-4

Standings

1. RV Concordia Chicago 16-9 (8-0)
2. Concordia Wisconsin 11-7 (4-2)
3. Benedictine 12-9 (5-3)
4. Edgewood 12-8 (4-4)
5. Aurora 14-10 (4-4)
6. Rockford 11-11 (4-4)
7. MSOE 10-10 (3-3)
8. Marian 8-14 (3-5)
9. Wisconsin Lutheran 8-11 (2-4)
10. Lakeland 8-12 (2-4)
11. Dominican 6-15 (1-7)

[Captain_Joe08]

Weekend Thoughts:

Edgewood got knocked down a few pegs by getting swept by BU and CUC over the weekend. Still think they will have a pretty solid chance of making the conference tournament.

We still have a logjam of teams at .500 in conference play. Will be interesting to see who will break through that.

That Lakeland pitching staff got rocked in their four games Saturday and Sunday and managed to get one win out of that. Giving up 52 runs (46 earned) in 36 innings hurts.

Tuesday-Friday Matchups.

Tuesday, 4/11

Maranatha (1-14) at MSOE (DH)
Wisconsin Lutheran at Carroll (5-17)
Concordia Wisconsin at #3 UW-Whitewater (16-2)

Wednesday, 4/12

Northland (3-11) at Lakeland (DH)
Benedictine at St. Norbert (14-6) (DH)
North Central (IL) (9-7) at Aurora
Dominican at Chicago (14-5)
Beloit (8-11) at Rockford

Thursday, 4/13

Marian at Ripon (5-16)
Maranatha (1-14) at Edgewood (DH)

Friday, 4/14

Illinois Tech (6-17) at Marian (DH)

[Captain_Joe08]

Saturday Scores

Concordia Wisconsin 16-4 Concordia Chicago 3-10
Aurora 25-19 Lakeland 6-1
Benedictine 12-7 Wisconsin Lutheran 2-3
MSOE 17-14 Edgewood 3-3
Dominican 11-10 Rockford 1-2

[BigPoppa]

Saturday Scores

Concordia Wisconsin 16-4 Concordia Chicago 3-10
Aurora 25-19 Lakeland 6-1
Benedictine 12-7 Wisconsin Lutheran 2-3
MSOE 17-14 Edgewood 3-3
Dominican 11-10 Rockford 1-2

How does Lakeland give up 44 runs in a DH?! And Edgewood allow 31?! These aren't national powers they are facing.

[Ryan Stoppable]

Saturday Scores

Concordia Wisconsin 16-4 Concordia Chicago 3-10
Aurora 25-19 Lakeland 6-1
Benedictine 12-7 Wisconsin Lutheran 2-3
MSOE 17-14 Edgewood 3-3
Dominican 11-10 Rockford 1-2

How does Lakeland give up 44 runs in a DH?! And Edgewood allow 31?! These aren't national powers they are facing.

Clearly the ball is juiced. But only the ones that Aurora and MSOE were hitting with.

[Just Bill]

This is not your grandfather's MSOE. They can crush the ball.