BB: MIAC: Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[tommiegun]

Game One from the corner of Selby and Summit: Tommies 12, Cobbers 0.  Schuld chucks a gem.

[pickleshiner]

What's Schuld's record and ERA this year?  Is he going to be 1rst team all american?  I hope they go to the Illinois regional this year or Point gets shipped out.  That regional would be too stacked with Whitewater, St. Thomas, Point, and St. Scholastica.

[tommiegun]

The Midwest Region is stacked every year.  I don't imagine anyone getting shipped out.  As in the past, they may ship in a weak team from another region and make it a 7 team dance.

[Gustie13]

Paging through the conf stats, looks like Tyler Jones has a good chance of breaking the single season hits mars (set by GAC's Ben Sherer in '04). None of the other records are in jeopardy.

[Gustie13]

USt sweeps StO 19-4 and 2-1 to keep the Oles out of the MIAC playoffs. Playoff teams are USt, CC, SJU, and Augs. Concordia's matchup against BU tomorrow is simply for CC's playoff seeding.
USt's pitchers held Tyler Jones to a 1-7 afternoon, so he finishes with 37 hits, 2 shy of the MIAC record.

[tommiegun]

From Mid April... I still think that St. Thomas will end up winning the league (although I am the first to admit I have decidedly purple tinted spectacles).  They are the most talented and experienced team and at some point they are gonna realize this ain't no intramural kick ball league and stop booting it all over the place.  So I'd put them #1.

Not having seen many of the other contenders play, shooting purely from by prophetic hip I'd say...:

2. St. John's
3. Concordia
4. Augsburg

Something about St. Olaf just seems to be "off" this year; I could see a late season collapse in their future...





If only my calls in Twins games could be this good.  I think I'm about 1-20 at the professional level...

[biggio34]

From Mid April... I still think that St. Thomas will end up winning the league (although I am the first to admit I have decidedly purple tinted spectacles).  They are the most talented and experienced team and at some point they are gonna realize this ain't no intramural kick ball league and stop booting it all over the place.  So I'd put them #1.

Not having seen many of the other contenders play, shooting purely from by prophetic hip I'd say...:

2. St. John's
3. Concordia
4. Augsburg

Something about St. Olaf just seems to be "off" this year; I could see a late season collapse in their future...





If only my calls in Twins games could be this good.  I think I'm about 1-20 at the professional level...

Maybe this is your year!  So what is your call for the Twins in 2010?

[MIACLUV]

Anyone want to give there predictions on how the Tournament shakes out?
I'll go with mine right now:
Game 1: Tommies over Augies (too much Schuld)
Game 2: Corn Cobs over Johnnies
Game 3: Tommies over Cobbers
Game 4: Augies over Johnnies (Johnnies out)
Game 5: Cobbers over Augies (Augs out)
Game 6: Tommies over Cobbers it'll only need 1!

Tommies pitching is to deep for anyone in this tournament to pull it off. Thanks for playin.

[biggio34]

Anyone want to give there predictions on how the Tournament shakes out?
I'll go with mine right now:
Game 1: Tommies over Augies (too much Schuld)
Game 2: Corn Cobs over Johnnies
Game 3: Tommies over Cobbers
Game 4: Augies over Johnnies (Johnnies out)
Game 5: Cobbers over Augies (Augs out)
Game 6: Tommies over Cobbers it'll only need 1!

Tommies pitching is to deep for anyone in this tournament to pull it off. Thanks for playin.

What makes you think St. Thomas will throw Schuld in game 1?

Also, I think St. Johns will win a game or two in the tournament.  You have the correct champion, but I'm not sure they will be beating Concordia in the championship.

[BigPoppa]

I really wanted to see Macalester get in to see what kind of damage Murray could do the tourney.

[supermiac]

I really wanted to see Macalester get in to see what kind of damage Murray could do the tourney.

I was looking over his stats and Schuld's earlier today to see how they matched up and everything. Mac reaaaally used him a lot this year on short-rest it seemed, which might have caused a couple slip-ups for Murray along the way. Both are great pitchers, but I think Schuld has an enormous advantage in terms of rest and the team that's playing behind him. Nonetheless, I think he finished with something outrageous like 115 k's in 80 innings this year pitching almost every series. I would have loved to see a rematch between Schuld and Murray (a little revenge for my Tommies ), but I think the tournament is already going to produce some good games as is.

Concordia can flat out hit the baseball. I've been seriously impressed with the way they came out and played in conference. If there is any team that could potentially steal a Pool A in the MIAC, it's Concordia. That being said, I don't think St. Thomas will throw Schuld in the first game for exactly that reason. Augsburg isn't really a "gimme" game, but St. Thomas' pitching is stacked top-to-bottom, so holding Schuld for the second game is really nothing to get worried about.

This is what I have:

St. Thomas over Augsburg
Cord. over St. Johns

St. Johns over Auggies
St. Thomas over Cord.

Cord. over SJU

Cord. over UST
UST over Cord. to win conf. tourney

[hkchang]

I just saw the Cobbers play Bethel this Sunday and needless to say I was not impressed. If the wind were not blowing in from center/right center the Royals would have hit at least 3 more homeruns than the lone one that they did. The Cobbers did not look good at all hitting. The majority of the hits that they had were off the end of the bat, or little seeing-eye singles that found holes just out of the middle infield's reach. Also, in the two games, I believe the Cobbers had one hit to the opposite field (Krause's lead off double to start game 1). They pretty much tried to pull the ball from what I could see.

It's a sad year for the MIAC and really shows how down the conference is as a whole when (in my opinion) two pretty poor teams get into the playoffs (Concordia and Augsburg) and Olaf is left out. This should be a cakewalk for the Tommies into regionals. And I too would have liked to see/hear about a Schuld/Murray Rematch

[Gustie13]

I really wanted to see Macalester get in to see what kind of damage Murray could do the tourney.

I was looking over his stats and Schuld's earlier today to see how they matched up and everything. Mac reaaaally used him a lot this year on short-rest it seemed, which might have caused a couple slip-ups for Murray along the way. Both are great pitchers, but I think Schuld has an enormous advantage in terms of rest and the team that's playing behind him. Nonetheless, I think he finished with something outrageous like 115 k's in 80 innings this year pitching almost every series. I would have loved to see a rematch between Schuld and Murray (a little revenge for my Tommies ), but I think the tournament is already going to produce some good games as is.

Concordia can flat out hit the baseball. I've been seriously impressed with the way they came out and played in conference. If there is any team that could potentially steal a Pool A in the MIAC, it's Concordia. That being said, I don't think St. Thomas will throw Schuld in the first game for exactly that reason. Augsburg isn't really a "gimme" game, but St. Thomas' pitching is stacked top-to-bottom, so holding Schuld for the second game is really nothing to get worried about.

This is what I have:

St. Thomas over Augsburg
Cord. over St. Johns

St. Johns over Auggies
St. Thomas over Cord.

Cord. over SJU

Cord. over UST
UST over Cord. to win conf. tourney

I'm not cutting Murrey any slack for his workload, there were 4 other pitchers that threw 40+ conf innings.

[supermiac]

I really wanted to see Macalester get in to see what kind of damage Murray could do the tourney.

I was looking over his stats and Schuld's earlier today to see how they matched up and everything. Mac reaaaally used him a lot this year on short-rest it seemed, which might have caused a couple slip-ups for Murray along the way. Both are great pitchers, but I think Schuld has an enormous advantage in terms of rest and the team that's playing behind him. Nonetheless, I think he finished with something outrageous like 115 k's in 80 innings this year pitching almost every series. I would have loved to see a rematch between Schuld and Murray (a little revenge for my Tommies ), but I think the tournament is already going to produce some good games as is.

Concordia can flat out hit the baseball. I've been seriously impressed with the way they came out and played in conference. If there is any team that could potentially steal a Pool A in the MIAC, it's Concordia. That being said, I don't think St. Thomas will throw Schuld in the first game for exactly that reason. Augsburg isn't really a "gimme" game, but St. Thomas' pitching is stacked top-to-bottom, so holding Schuld for the second game is really nothing to get worried about.

This is what I have:

St. Thomas over Augsburg
Cord. over St. Johns

St. Johns over Auggies
St. Thomas over Cord.

Cord. over SJU

Cord. over UST
UST over Cord. to win conf. tourney

I'm not cutting Murrey any slack for his workload, there were 4 other pitchers that threw 40+ conf innings.

Well looking at the outings where he did not pitch well, it was on 2-3 days rest after throwing a CG or starting back-to-back DHs. Not to mention throwing CGs every time he went out there... I think in the case for Mac, it was a good idea on paper to have him relieve against several teams along the way or throw back-to-back series, but it just didn't work out in reality for whatever reason.

Regardless, I think it should be noted that Schuld and Murray are two of the best pitchers to ever pitch in this conference, and I really wish there was another opportunity to see them square off. I'm glad to see that even within a season where the conference as a whole is down, there is something like a good pitching rivalry that draws some attention to the conference and region.

[supermiac]

I just saw the Cobbers play Bethel this Sunday and needless to say I was not impressed. If the wind were not blowing in from center/right center the Royals would have hit at least 3 more homeruns than the lone one that they did. The Cobbers did not look good at all hitting. The majority of the hits that they had were off the end of the bat, or little seeing-eye singles that found holes just out of the middle infield's reach. Also, in the two games, I believe the Cobbers had one hit to the opposite field (Krause's lead off double to start game 1). They pretty much tried to pull the ball from what I could see.

It's a sad year for the MIAC and really shows how down the conference is as a whole when (in my opinion) two pretty poor teams get into the playoffs (Concordia and Augsburg) and Olaf is left out. This should be a cakewalk for the Tommies into regionals. And I too would have liked to see/hear about a Schuld/Murray Rematch

Considering all the splits St. Thomas had this year in conference, I wouldn't call this a cakewalk. Their pitching is probably the best in the country top-to-bottom, but recently they've had trouble scoring runs. Who knows, my money is on the Toms but I wouldn't say anything is a given.