BB: NACC: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

[WLCALUM83]

Here's an update on Concordia-Chicago:

http://www.northernathleticsconf.com/releases/2008_03/20080312b.html

[bigdog55]

Concordia Chicago Cougars move to 9-1 after beating Webster and Wartburg on Sunday.  This week they are scheduled at North Park on Tuesday.  Are they the team to beat in the NAC?

[WLCALUM83]

At 2nd in NAthCon in hitting and with the opposition hitting for a low average against them to this point, they could be.

Does Edgewood's high ERA surprise anyone?

http://northernathleticsconf.com/sports/baseball/statistics/2008/lgteams.html

[Just Bill]

Edgewood's whole season so far surprises me.  Although they have played good teams in UWW, Piedmont and LaGrange.  I think they'll be ready to go for the conference season when they return from Fla, but 9 games in I thought they'd have more than two wins.

[bigdog55]

Concordia Cougars beat North Park 11-5 today.  It seems that CUC has found its power with 6 home runs over the weekend and 3 today.  Big match up this weekend with Augie

[WLCALUM83]

Bittersweet news regarding Maranatha baseball here:

http://www.mbbc.edu/page.aspx?m=28

[WLCALUM83]

3/24 NAthCon Final:

Augustana 3, Concordia-Chicago 2

[WLCALUM83]

3-25 NAthCon Finals:

      (All sources are box scores off NAthCon's site).

Augustana IL 11, Benedictine 9 (W -Doyle  L -Thompson  Augie put up a 5-spot in 5th inning which was the difference, per NAthCon box score)

Rockford splits with Beloit, 9-8 and 7-9, 1st game 10 innings. (1st game, Regents' Smith drives in winning run with a one-out single)  (2nd game Beloit gets an 8-1 lead and Regents comeback falls short. Regents pitchers of decision:  Jones won the opener, Patterson saddled with the loss,)

[baseman201]

Tough loss against Augustana (13th ranked team in the nation) on Monday for CUC, but they came back with a huge win over Wheaton today. 

I think they have shown so far that they deserve their top 25 ranking (#25 in the recent poll).  Their power is coming around (finally) and they have proven they can beat some of the better teams around. 

With an 11-2 record, beating Wheaton and just barely losing to Augie, I think they are definitely the team to beat in the conference this year... hands down.

They start NAC play this Saturday against Dominican so we will see.  But everyone better watch out this year.

[WLCALUM83]

Other 3-26 NAthCon Finals:

North Central (IL) 11, Rockford 2  (5 run 3rd broke it open for North Central, Regetns' Durlak took the loss, as indicated on NAthCon box score)

North Park 8, Benedictine 5 (a 2 run 8th inning gave North Park all the cushion it needed, IL Eagles' Ready saddled with loss-per Benedictine box score).

All other games were either postponed or rescheduled.

[WLCALUM83]

Following NAthCon games have been postponed:

3-29:  Concordia-WI @ MBBC
           Marian @ Edgewood
           WLC @ Lakeland

3-30:   Edgewood @ WLC
            Rockford/MSOE (per MSOE site)


3-29 scheduled games still on:

         Rockford/Aurora
         Benedictine/MSOE  (moved to Ben home field per MSOE site)
         Concordia-Chicago/Dominican  (moved to CUC's home field per Cougar site)

   

[WLCALUM83]

3-29 NAthCon Finals:

Rockford sweeps Aurora, 7-5 and 11-2  (Regent website indicates that a big 1st in the opener and a 4-run 6th in the nightcap were the differences. Brockman went yard and had 5 RBI in Game 2   Game 1:  W -Findlay, L - Mueller  Save - Clay  Game 2;  W- Durlak, L - Friend.

Concordia-Chicago swees Dominican, 4-1 and 4-2 (CUC account shows the following:  G 1 winner -Kudlik, L - Eiffel  Save - Gernand.  G 2  W -Meyers, L - Davey, Save - Gehrand)o

MSOE/Benedictine  --checked both school's websites, scores yet to be posted.

[WLCALUM83]

Benedictine swept MSOE yesterday 9-1 and 3-0. (A 7-run 5th was difference in Game 1. Callahan and Grear were the winning pitchers of record, per Ben press release.)

[WLCALUM83]

3-30 NAthCon Finals:

Benedictine swept Dominican, 1-0 and 4-2  (Game 1:  W -Flott, L- -Batchelor,  IL Eagles' Kevin Ross drove in the only run of the opener in the 6th inning.  Game 2:  W -Thompson, L - Hunoway, Brendan Keane knocked in the go-ahead runs in the 4th. All above info per Dom box scores.)

Concordia-Chicago splits with Aurora, 9-10 and 12-0  (Game 1:  W- S Salazar, L -Hantel, Save -Koudelke.  Potential tying run on 2nd when Koudelke got Walker to make an out at 1st base to end it. Game 2:  W -Leyhane, L -Vietorus:  Cougars scored in every inning but the first. Serie went yard. All info as on CUC box scores.)

[old 40]

AU has been quite strong in baseball for the past several years. Has there been a drop off in talent? Has the lack of an on campus diamond hurt recruiting also? I hope they can climb back into the mix and challenge for the title. Any thoughts?