BB: SLIAC: St Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Ibrahimovic]

Neece Mashes.

[theoneandonly]

Neece Mashes.

Agree'd

[theoneandonly]

Blackburn got off to a solid SLIAC start yesterday. Eilerman took home the W in the 18-1 victory of MacMurray. I will stick with Eilerman as the player to watch for Blackburn.

[#1PantherFan]

Greenville travels to Principia today for the first conference game for both clubs. Gametime is 6:00 for the 9-inning contest.

[theoneandonly]

Im looking for greenville to dominate Prin tonight.. Should come back 1-0 and tied for first with blackburn.. and yes I know its only one game into conference.. but still! haha

[#1PantherFan]

Im looking for greenville to dominate Prin tonight.. Should come back 1-0 and tied for first with blackburn.. and yes I know its only one game into conference.. but still! haha

A 1-0 start would be better than the 0-9 conference start last year!

[#1PantherFan]

Im looking for greenville to dominate Prin tonight.. Should come back 1-0 and tied for first with blackburn.. and yes I know its only one game into conference.. but still! haha

A 1-0 start would be better than the 0-9 conference start last year!

Greenville prevails against Principia 12-1. We didn't really dominate as the score might suggest. We were dominated for the first five innings by Principia hurler Greg Ball. He walked four and hit two batters, but allowed no hits. Heard that he spent the first semester this year in Hawaii, so he didn't have the conditioning Coach Paciorek would normally prefer, therefore he was on a pitch-count of 70 pitches. He was at 74 thru five innings, so he gave way to Robbie Nickell, who maintained the no-no thru six innings. With one out in the seventh Greenville managed to bust out with seven runs. Senior catcher Brian Deadmond busted up the no-hitter big time with a two-run homer to left. Junior transfer David Massengill (3-0) was dominating himself for Greenville as he went seven innings, allowing five hits while striking out eleven and walking three.

[#1PantherFan]

Greenville stayed perfect in SLIAC play (5-0) with a doubleheader sweep today over Blackburn 18-7 & 13-3. The main hitting star of the day was Stefan Neece who went 6 for 7 in the doubleheader with 4 HR's (3 in game 2) and 12 RBI's. The 4 HR's gave him 6 on the year and also established a new Greenville College career mark with 38.

[theoneandonly]

4 home runs against  blackburn sounds about right for Neece. They have always seemed to have trouble against that guy. He is having one heck of a season thus far.

[WashedUP07]

4 home runs against  blackburn sounds about right for Neece. They have always seemed to have trouble against that guy. He is having one heck of a season thus far.

Agreed seems like this guys been around forever, actually 5 yrs IIRC. Hes always put up great #'s

[#1PantherFan]

Today's game (4/7) @ Blackburn vs. Greenville has been postponed and will be played tomorrow (4/8).

[#1PantherFan]

The scheduled DH between Greenville & Eureka yesterday, that was to begin at 2:00, was changed to a single 4:00 9-inning game when the scheduled umpires did not show. When contacted, they had it on their schedules for tomorrow. We were able to contact an IHSA (high school) umpire, and recruited another experienced umpire from the crowd. They both did an admirable job. Anyway, now to the game. Our starting pitcher Derrick Hudnut, struggled in the 1st inning and it was 7-0 after the first inning. Daniel Covert came in and got the final out in the inning. We scored one in the bottom of the 1st (Stefan Neece HR). We got 2 runs in the third to make it 7-3. They scored 1 in the top of the 4th (8-3). We scored 2 more in the bottom of the 4th (8-5). We added another run in the 6th (David Massengill HR). Finally, with 2 outs in the bottom of the 4th, Neeces's 2nd HR, a 2-run shot, ties it at 8-8. In the meantime, Covert has been doing a fantastic job on the mound (7 1/3 innings and 1 run). Covert finally came out in the top of the 9th with a 2 ball, no strike count on the batter, and they brought in Matt Leefers. He wound up walking the batter and then struck out the next guy trying to bunt. He then got the next batter to ground into a double play 5-4-3. In the bottom of the 9th, Kenny Trager led off with a base hit. Juan Mondragon came in to pinch run and stole 2nd. They intentionally walked Kye Winter. Adam Wallace then doubled over the left fielder's head for a 9-8 Panther win!! A great team effort!!

Greenville & Eureka will play a DH next Wednesday @ Eureka beginning @ 2:00.

[depew24]

WU seems to be rolling through the SLIAC again this season. Not shocked.

[BigPoppa]

WU seems to be rolling through the SLIAC again this season. Not shocked.

Will be fun to see how they play against Greenville who is hot on their heels for the #1 seed.

[BigToughGuy]

WU seems to be rolling through the SLIAC again this season. Not shocked.

Will be fun to see how they play against Greenville who is hot on their heels for the #1 seed.

It will be fun to see when Greenville plays Webster and Fontbonne to see if they can hold on to a #2 seed. Greenville has played turds all year and have played some close games (or even lost) to teams that Webster has crushed.  Neece is a great hitter and his stats are incredible, but clearly the product of a cupcake schedule thus far.