BB: MIAC: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[mnblaster]

3) Carleton 6-4 (Games Left: Mac, St. Thomas, Concordia, Bethel, Olaf)
Carleton will not make the playoffs.  At best they split with Macalaster, Concordia, and Bethel and get swept by Olaf and Thomas.  They may finish 12-8, but that is a long shot for them and still in the past 12-8 isn't a shoe in either.

My Predictions
1) St Thomas 17-3
2) St. Olaf 14-6
3) Bethel 13-7
4) Mac 13-7
5) Augsburg 12-8
6) Hamline 9-11
7) GAC 8-12
    Johnnies 8-12
    Concordia 8-12
    Carleton 8-12
11) St. Marys 1-19

Let me know what you think.  The math might not add up, I did it all in my head.  There will be a fight for that 3rd and 4th playoff spot.

I am waiting for an updated explaination on these picks.

I was at the Thomas /Carleton game. I heard the officials talking in the parking lot as they were putting their equip. for the game. They were discussing whether or not Thomas would be upset at the umpiring assgnments as the season drew closer to the end........now I get it, the umps care what Thomas thinks!!

Thomas was darn lucky to get out of there with a win.

No way Kacz should be Player of the Year with his current stats, I don't think stolen bases is enough for the title.

The Top Four is wide-open at this point.

[dukes]

Disappointed to see that St. Olaf and St. Scholastica DH was called off, I always look forward to games between the top teams in the region.

[TommieFan2012]

WOW! Tommies take down the gophers 6-3!

[ECSUalum]

: University of Minnesota  04/28/2009 

  Boxscore 
 




 
Courtesy: University of Minnesota
http://gophersports.com/


The Minnesota baseball team (27-13) dropped a 6-3 decision to St. Thomas (24-8) on Tuesday, Apr. 29 at Siebert Field.

Minnesota was led by freshman Justin Gominsky (Mahtomedi, Minn.) who reached base three times, and was 2-for-3 with a home run, two RBI and a stolen base. Freshman Sam Ryan (Lake Elmo, Minn.) also reached base three times, and was 2-for-3 with a run and a stolen base.

Senior Jon Hummel (Lakefield, Minn.) was also 1-for-2 with an RBI, while Derek McCallum (Shoreview, Minn.) reached base three times, was 1-for-3 and had a career-high two stolen bases.

Sophomore Phil Isaksson (Eau Claire, Wis.) took the loss to fall to 0-1, as he gave up four hits, three runs, one walk and two strikeouts. Allen Bechstein (Apple Valley, Minn.), Tyler Oakes (Jordan, Minn.) and Scott Fern (Eau Claire, Wis.) each pitched one shutout inning out of the bullpen for Minnesota.

The Tommies' starter Matt Schuld pitched six innings, gave up six hits, three runs, walked four and struck out five. Brady Gibbs and Brandon Stone combined for three scoreless innings out of the bullpen. Stone picked up his second save, as he retired all four hitters he faced.

St. Thomas jumped out to a 3-0 lead with three runs in the top of the first. Matt McQuillan led off the game with a double to right field, moved to third on a ground out and came home to score on an RBI double by Roy Larson to make it 1-0. Brian Schmitz was hit by a pitch and Tom Wippler singled to right field to load the bases. Taylor Rahm brought home Larson on an RBI fielder's choice groundout, and Schmitz scored on the same play on a throwing error to make it 3-0.

Minnesota got a single run back in the bottom of the second to cut it to 3-1. O'Shea was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and Ryan reached on a single to make it first and second and no outs. Both runners moved up on a ground out by Gominsky and O'Shea scored on a ground out by Hummel to cut the Tommies lead to 3-1.

St. Thomas added a single run in the top of the third to take a 4-1 lead. Larson led off the inning with a walk, Leslie singled to make it first and second and Wippler moved both up with a sacrifice bunt. Rahm reached on an error by the third baseman to plate Larson to put St. Thomas ahead 4-1.

Minnesota scored a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth to cut the lead to 4-3. Ryan got things started with a one-out single, and Gominsky followed with a two-run homer to cut it to a one-run lead.

The Tommies moved their lead to 5-3 on an RBI single by Larson in the top of the sixth inning. St. Thomas tacked on a run in the top of the eighth in an inning that was aided by two Gopher errors.

Minnesota entered tonight's game with a .975 fielding percentage, but committed a season-high five errors on the night. St. Thomas did not make an error on the night.

The Tommies were led by Larson who was 2-for-4 with two runs, two RBI and a double. McQuillan reached base three times, and was 2-for-3 with two runs on the night. Schmitz and Wippler also had multi-hit games for Tommies, while Rahm knocked in a pair of runs.
 
Minnesota will be back in action on Friday, May 1 at 6:35 p.m. when it faces Iowa at Siebert Field. The Golden Gophers and Hawkeyes will also play games on Saturday, May 2 at 2:05 p.m. and Sunday, May 3 at 1:05 p.m. The final two games can be heard on KLBB (1220 AM).

[biggio34]

WOW! Tommies take down the gophers 6-3!

WOW!! St. Mary's take down Tommies 5-4.

[BigPoppa]

WOW! Tommies take down the gophers 6-3!

WOW!! St. Mary's take down Tommies 5-4.

Emotional let down after last night?

[BaseballFan]

WOW! Tommies take down the gophers 6-3!

WOW!! St. Mary's take down Tommies 5-4.

Emotional let down after last night?

or maybe they should of used their ace Schuld for games that matter instead of taking down the gophs

[OshDude]

WOW! Tommies take down the gophers 6-3!

WOW!! St. Mary's take down Tommies 5-4.

Emotional let down after last night?

or maybe they should of used their ace Schuld for games that matter instead of taking down the gophs

UST used its top 3 against Minnesota.

[biggio34]

If the Oles take care of business against Hamline, there will be a nice tie atop the MIAC going into the final weekend.

Two questions though?

1) Who holds the tie-breaker between St. Thomas & St. Olaf?

2) Does Denning bounce those three guys that faced the Gophers on 4 days to face Gustavus or hold them for Sunday at St. Scholastica?

[Gustie13]

A few guys have chances to break some MIAC single season records this year:

HRs- K Johnson needs 2 hr in 4 games to break the record of 10 (5 way tie)
2Bs- Pierce needs 3 2bs in 2 games to break the record of 13 (3 way tie)
Runs- C Jones needs 8 runs in 4 games to break the record of 33 (Sprout, StO, 2000)
Hits- T Oesterlin needs 10 hits in 4 games to break the record of 39 (Sherer, GAC, 2004)
BA- Erik Nelson is hitting .568 with 4 games to go, .596 is the record (Dold, SJU, 1993)
--Does anyone know why this Erik Nelson kid has only started 11 of StOs 16 games?--

None of the pitching or team records are in jeopardy of falling.

[TheSportsFan]

Hamline leads Olaf 4-0 after two innings

[BaseballFan]

WOW! Tommies take down the gophers 6-3!

WOW!! St. Mary's take down Tommies 5-4.

Emotional let down after last night?

or maybe they should of used their ace Schuld for games that matter instead of taking down the gophs

UST used its top 3 against Minnesota.

I would say top 1 and 2 of their next 5 and those 2 pitched less than 2 innings...still surprised though that they used their top pither and a couple other top guys. At least the other 2 can bounce back on the weekend but Schuld cant pitch against the MIAC teams. So makes me wonder if Denning wanted Schuld to pitch against CSS on sunday

[biggio34]

Hamline leads Olaf 4-0 after two innings

Looks like Olaf lost 5-2.  Anyone have an update?

[supermiac]

*Yawn*... is the MIAC still even playing baseball...?

[Gustie13]

There must not be any carleton baseball fans checking this board. first playoff appearance and not a mention?