BB: SLIAC: St Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Ralph Turner]

Top of the 10th, Evan Hilberg in relief for Linfield.

Webster -- Andrew Fuiten at the plate, out swinging.

Greg Steen -- flies out to RF.

Dakota Huey HBP

Tom Kotis pinch-hitting for Webster .  Huey is caught stealing.  Third out.

Linfield is coming to bat in the bottom of the 10th.

Chung, Bachofner and Davis up in the bottom of the 10th.

Chung is on, E-6.

Bachofner bunts safely down the first base line.  (It is frustrating when the announcer does not announce who made the plays.   3-1, I assume.)

Brian Kerr is pinching and intentionally walked.

Van Cleave up, one out runners on 1st and 2nd, pops up in the infield.

Kevin Mills up, two outs, HBP.

Rhett Fenton singles home the winning run on the first pitch. Chung scores.

Final Linfield 4-3.

[Jack Parkman]

Who is the home team?

[furbug]

Linfield is home team

[Jack Parkman]

I got it now.  I am easily confused

[furbug]

What a shame! Congratulations to Linfield on the comeback, but congratulations to Webster on a terrific season and for representing the SLIAC with distinction. Thanks, Ralph, for that play by play.

[Ralph Turner]

What a shame! Congratulations to Linfield on the comeback, but congratulations to Webster on a terrific season and for representing the SLIAC with distinction. Thanks, Ralph, for that play by play.

I was brought up by my dad listening to "radio baseball".

Lots of great memories there... 

[furbug]

I was brought up by my dad listening to "radio baseball".

Lots of great memories there... 
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As kids in NJ, my brother and I listened to the Brooklyn Dodgers games with Red Barber regularly. Your play-by play reminded me of those old ticker tape broadcasts, where you had to sweat out each play with the ticker going but not knowing.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Congratulations to the Gorloks on a stellar postseason run!  Beating the #1, #2, and #3 seeds en route to the title game - not bad for a 6th seed!

Adrian finally broke through for the MIAA - first conference team ever in the World Series.  Has the SLIAC ever sent a team, or was this the closest they've come?

[Ralph Turner]

Congratulations to the Gorloks on a stellar postseason run!  Beating the #1, #2, and #3 seeds en route to the title game - not bad for a 6th seed!

Adrian finally broke through for the MIAA - first conference team ever in the World Series.  Has the SLIAC ever sent a team, or was this the closest they've come?

This was the closest ever.

It was also the first time that Webster had contended for a Regional title.

[Pat Coleman]

Great run for Webster. That's one of the great things about baseball, IMHO.

[WU_SID]

Gorloks have four players earn All-Central Region honors from the ABCA

First team

2B - Alex Raetzloff
OF - Andrew Fuiten
P - Brett Mueller

Second Team

OF - David Umfleet

Raetzloff, Fuiten and Mueller are now eligible for All-American honors

[theoneandonly]

Lets put this season into perspective, Webster is pre season 26th in the nation. Maryville who is making the transition to division 2 only lost 2 starters, one of which was hurt for most of the season. SO technically they are returning 8 starters. RUMOR mill says that Neece has had to have tommy john surgery which will put greenville out of any contention. Westminster is always a solid ball club and fontbonne looks good too. Macmurry, well not much to say there, eureka is getting better, and principia is always a sleeper. Blackburn, you never know but they lost a good core from last year and for being Division III player to watch holdman their first basemen only hit about .215 last year. So i'll put down my predictions and just see how it all works out.

Webster (1)
Maryville (2)
Westminster (3)
Fontbonne (4)
Eureka (5)                   This is NOT my predictions for the tourney though
Blackburn (6)
Greenville (7)
Principia (8)
MacMurray (9)

Definatly also looking forward to spaulding joining the sliac, dont know much about them, but its always good to see a growing conference.

[Deep Six]

Let's really put this season in perspective. Can the Gorlocks repeat as champs? The preseason 26th Nationally ranked team are they as good as advised. I think so regardless of what conference they play in they beat a few teams last year whom were in power conferences and Nationally ranked. Maryville is a pretty good team and should be up there in the top 4 teams. Word on the message board is the most feared SLIAC hitter Neece is recovering from surgery so we will see what happens to Greenville also they don't have Justin Litteken their all conference starter from last year don't know what happen since he was only a Sophomore. Westminster should be a top 4 teams as it proved it last year. Don't know about Fontbonne alot of new faces so don't know what to expect but they should be decent and fighting for the 4th spot. Also, Blackburn lost a good core from last year but they have always been a good team so they will be fighting for the fourth spot as well. Eureka who has been moving up in the SLIAC lost their all conference ace Benji Cashdollar to graduation but they still have potential to be a contender. Principia was tied with MacMurray for last in the SLIAC last year in 2007 they were a surprise and last year was their down year. Don't know what to expect from this year they won all three of their conference games on the road and beat one postseason team (Maryville). Last and not least MacMurray. They were tied with Principia last year in the bottom. They were an up and down team with Greenville they set a SLIAC record for runs scored in a game winning 25-19. They can score but their pitching and defense were terrible at times especially at shortstop. They return everybody except their catcher who was not impressive and they add a few new faces so we will see what happens.
1st SLIAC Conference games are March 11th 2009  3:00 PM  Maryville  @  Westminster  
Preseason Predictions:
Webster(1)
Maryville(2)
Westminster(3)
Greenville(4)
Blackburn(5)
Fontbonne(6)
Eureka(7)
MacMurray(8)
Principia(9)

[theoneandonly]

bold choice with greenville at 4. I also know a few people at blackburn who has said that the starting center fielder, slayton, who also lead the team in home runs will be leaving the school for the army. kudos to him on that. also lost the side armed bloodworth to transfer and reliever gvillo as well. however they did bring in three solid jr. college transfers, a pitcher, 3rd basemen, and outfielder, but there will still be a major hole in centerfield without slayton.

[ready2win]

I think that the number 4 spot is wide open it is unknown to which team could pull it out we will have 2 see what happens in conference play but we know Blackburn, Fontbonne, and Greenville will all be in the hunt with Eureka and MacMurray and even Principia looking in maybe. Blackburn losing one of their top players meet be hard for them to cope with but only time will tell with that. But Greenville returns many of their same nucleus from last year so some others guys around Neece will have to step up until he can play.