BB: SLIAC: St Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[#1PantherFan]

Maryville University defeated Saint Vincent by a score of 6-3.

[VideoDawg]

Blackburn took it on the chin 7-5. No box score yet.

[peripheral1]

BC gave the game away today. It also didn't help they struck out 16 times in 27 outs. Cadle can stroke it. Watch for him. Ward ineffective (missing spots) All 4 in rotation pitched. Home town kid took loss. Nothing new, BC will go on spring trip without a win. And a happy b-day to their coach.

[theoneandonly]

Blackburn's Freshmen John Wasson was  2-3 yesterday with a 2 run homer and a single. Good start for the new guy. Also two other new comers for blackburn swung it well. Adam Cadle who had a triple and 2 rbis and Tony Matecki. Matecki had a double with an rbi.

Pretty bad start for the beavers. Like stated above, they struck out 16 times against a pretty weak Millikin team. Blackburn should hope to cut those stikeouts WAY down or it could be a LONG season.


On the maryville side, Henkleman stays hot and stretches his hitting streak to 5 games, and Bunton picks up his fourth triple of the year...

I have an idea for all the SLIAC teams though, how about you all send in your box scores to SLIAC.org so people who arent around as much can get updates!

[theoneandonly]

here are some of your noteable name players at Maryville and how they are doing

Allerdissen 5-24  .208 1 double, 2 rbi's, 1 run, 1 walk, 4 stolen bases

Henkleman 8-25 .320 1 double, 4 rbi's, 2 walks, 1 stolen base

Bunton 6-19 .316 4 Triples, 3 rbi's, 3 runs, 4 walksm 2 stolen bases

Huckstep 6-18 .333  5 Walks

Stenzel 5-24 .208 2 rbi's, 2 runs, 1 walk

That is all for now.

[theoneandonly]

Todays Games:
Principia Vs. Ozark Christian
Principa Vs. St. Louis Christian

Webster vs. Illinois College


Principia COULD come out of todays contests with a 2-0 record. I dont know much about Ozark Christian but i do know that principia always beats st. louis christian, they just dont have much to work with at that st. Louis Christian.

Webster will have a legit competitive game today. IC returns 3 of its top 5 hitters from last year. Baran who batted .412 with 16 rbis, and 12 stolen bases in 14 attempts is back. Wherley who batted .380 with 3 homers, 17 rbis, and 9-9 in stolen bases, and Allemang who batted .359, and finally Vandeford who only batted .268 butdrove in a team high of 20 rbis. On the pitching end, they seem to be a little weaker. Losing Collignan wasnt a big hit, but losing Eilerman was. With the two top strikeout pitchers gone IC is going to have to look towards two of their better pitchers from last year. Cripe who posted 3.53 era with a 3-2 record and 19 strikeouts to 8 walks is likely to get the start, or Williams who was 4-0 with a 3.33 era and 15ks-4BB.

All in all i think webster has the hitting to beat ICs pitching but their defense needs to show up to hold down their hitting. Should be a great game.

[VideoDawg]

The key to Webster will be the pitching they recruited this season. They have a lot of innings to replace. I don't think the hitting will be a problem for them all season.

[JAdaPrince]

Game recap from last night and spring break notes are now available .... Click Here

[ready2win]

Webster played well yesterday winning 8-0 over Illinois College (IC) they were lead by Dakota Huey's 4-4 day with 2 2Bs and 1 RBI, Zach Little had a 1-4 2 RBI day and John Combs 2-4  1 RBI got the first HR of the season for Webster and Broughton's 8 scoreless innings 4 hits 1 BB and 9 k's. Andrew Fuiten 1-2 1 RBI 2 BB but a rough day at the dish for Alex Raetzloff  as he goes 0-4 with 2Ks and 1 BB. On another note Principia becomes the first SLIAC team to 2-0 as they beat Ozark Christian 18-7 and then win a nail bitter to St. Louis Christian 14-13.  I think ALL the SLIAC coaches are crazy if they think MacMurray is bad enough to play close to St. Louis Christian. Congrats to Prin for starting 2-0 but who in the SLIAC wouldn't have playing the 2 games they did yesterday? Fontbonne commits 6 errors and loses to Wash U 6-4.  Fontbonne was led by Justin Juergensmeyer 2-4 and Jason Nikolaisen 3-4 with 1 RBI.

On the slate today we have:
Greenville @ Birmingham Southern and @ Capital @ 1:00 and 3:30 pm
Principia vs Lincoln Christian @ 6:30 pm

Still yet to see action is:
Westminster but scheduled to play Grinnell @ home this weekend
Eureka but scheduled to play Dallas in Texas this weekend
MacMurray but scheduled to play Monday
SLIAC Record to date: 5-8

[depew24]

Well that wasn't much of a game. Eric Broughton came in with his new pitching motion and really threw off the IC hitters. Coming into this game there was little doubt that WU would take this game. They only problem was the offense didn't really get going. This is little to worry about if your pitching can be that good as well as stellar defense. The real test will come over Florida.

[saint_9]

I just got back from watching Fontbonne play and I have to let my feelings be felt about something. I am sick and tired of going to baseball games just to watch the worst umpires ever. Today at Fontbonne's game was the worst officiating I have ever seen, and I have gone to little league games so I have seen some bad umpping. They were the worst kind of officials because of instead of officiating (which is their job) they wanted to become the show. Instead of letting the game be the entertainment they thought "hey look at me. Look at what I can do." They threw out Fontbonne's assistant coach for arguing a call at second when the coach clearly was not talking at the moment. It was hideous. They also missed many plays by not paying attention to tag ups. I understand that it is a very tough job to try and watch everything on the field and that no one is going to get every call right, but it was just an add on for these officials. I thought that the umps thought that they get paid more for throwing people out and holding up the game. I was just astonished. I feel bad for both of the teams that had to put up with that. It is a game and your job is to make calls, not think you are on a reality show and get your 15 minutes of fame. All I say is let the players be the show, and do your job. It gives umps that do a great job a bad name. Not all umps are bad, but the ones that officiated at this game were. I am just begging the SLIAC to find the good umps so we can all just enjoy watching these great players play baseball.

[peripheral1]

Blackburn lost to four time national champion Marietta College 11-6 in Memphis,TN on Saturday night. Still can't get the bats going with another nine strikeouts.

[peripheral1]

In from Clinton, MS... Mississippi College 14  Blackburn 4

[peripheral1]

Blackburn lost to Loyola of New Orleans 13-3.

[glkballmvp7]

So before we talk about conference play, we should take a look and get an update about last year's flop, the Fontbonne Griffins. With a 15-19 record last year, things would appear difficult for them in '09. Well after 6 games, they look like a totally different team. But you may as well count them out since they never are capable of winning key conference games. I would expect the same this year.

With little leadership from Senior Captains Justin Juergensmeyer and Dan Horn, they look to be headed down the same road. Horn has trouble with all sorts of his game. It looks as though his breakout season last year will be put on hold this Spring. He boasts a .208 average, not even half of what he put up last year. He seems to struggle in clutch situations and looks to be faded.

BTW: I agree with you "videodawg" about Willy and Willey.

On a side note, don't be fooled by sophomore Jason Nikolaisen. He'll have to avoid being suspended again this season if he wants to help his club. Besides, his texas leaguers are about to expire. Trust me.