BB: UMAC: Upper Midwest Athletic Conference

paulisdeadman · March 08, 2010, 07:25:56 PM

Not sure on the schedule, they beat Wisc Lutheran 4-0 and 14-2 today.

biggio34 · March 08, 2010, 09:40:43 PM

Quote from: paulisdeadman on March 08, 2010, 07:25:56 PM
Not sure on the schedule, they beat Wisc Lutheran 4-0 and 14-2 today.

Five pitchers used in their DH today... still no Dorris. Anyone know anything here? Looks like Hallahan was very good again picking up his 3rd win of the season already.

BASEBALLLOVER18 · March 09, 2010, 04:26:50 PM

Bethany split today with Penn State - Altoona lost 7-5 and won 10-5. BLC can pitch it man! Greibrok got hit hard, but after that it was business as usual still no dorris though. They play benedictine on thursday. A side note: UMAC Player of the Year Justin Schwecke is starting to hit his stride .... BEWARE UMAC!

tommiegun · March 09, 2010, 04:30:01 PM

Justin Schwecke was the UMAC player of the year last year? He's pretty decent but WOW.

MIACLUV · March 09, 2010, 04:51:58 PM

Bethany sure is working hard to throw that Pool B bid away. Winner of the UMAC should get a bid, but the way the Top 2 in this league are starting, there is reason for concern UMAC fans. St. Scholastica's 2 losses aren't bad being that they were to the #1 team in the country, but they will need to play clean and limit mistake games. Bethany on the other hand has lost a couple games against teams they should beat. Should be a good year to watch!

biggio34 · March 09, 2010, 05:14:51 PM

Quote from: tommiegun on March 09, 2010, 04:30:01 PM
Justin Schwecke was the UMAC player of the year last year? He's pretty decent but WOW.

You are right, he is a decent player. He is a decent player who had outstanding numbers. Not sure how you pick a Player of the Year other than by the numbers. Even if he wasn't the best player in the conference his numbers were, so the selection was justified.

biggio34 · March 09, 2010, 05:16:16 PM

Quote from: MIACLUV on March 09, 2010, 04:51:58 PM
Bethany sure is working hard to throw that Pool B bid away. Winner of the UMAC should get a bid, but the way the Top 2 in this league are starting, there is reason for concern UMAC fans. St. Scholastica's 2 losses aren't bad being that they were to the #1 team in the country, but they will need to play clean and limit mistake games. Bethany on the other hand has lost a couple games against teams they should beat. Should be a good year to watch!

Was the Bethany split today that bad? I don't know much about the team they played other than their record isn't very good.

MIACLUV · March 09, 2010, 05:32:58 PM

Quote from: biggio34 on March 09, 2010, 05:16:16 PM
Quote from: MIACLUV on March 09, 2010, 04:51:58 PM
Bethany sure is working hard to throw that Pool B bid away. Winner of the UMAC should get a bid, but the way the Top 2 in this league are starting, there is reason for concern UMAC fans. St. Scholastica's 2 losses aren't bad being that they were to the #1 team in the country, but they will need to play clean and limit mistake games. Bethany on the other hand has lost a couple games against teams they should beat. Should be a good year to watch!

Was the Bethany split today that bad? I don't know much about the team they played other than their record isn't very good.

Lets break down this shall we.....
Altoona in that past has been a decent team, but this years squad's a little worse. There losses have been to Emerson who was 13-15 last season not by anyones account an above average squad, were swept the day before by Salve Regina who went 18-23, and Mary Washington who is off to a good start at 6-0. But when you have Greibrock on the mound who is at least servicable you need to get that sweep. So in my opinion that is a BAD loss.
As far as an earlier post about Schwecke, no doubt he's a good player, but we'll see how he goes now that he's not a surprise to anyone they are going to play. A good teammate should be nicer to Greibrock, he had a rough outing that's all.

paulisdeadman · March 09, 2010, 08:13:54 PM

PSU Altoona won the ECAC south last year (kind of like the NIT for east coast schools) and were ranked preseason #3 in there conference. So i wouldnt say the are horrible, i wouldnt say they are great either. That being said 6 and 2 isnt a bad start. Last time i checked most teams dont finish the season undefeated.

MIACLUV · March 10, 2010, 09:50:43 AM

Last time I checked Bethany hasn't made an NCAA tournament, they have a team that can do that and losing games to teams that are picked to finish #3 in the south division (there's a north as well) isn't helping. Keep it up UMAC and the MIAC for sure will get 2 bids and the WIAC can slot 3.
And come clean with the Dorris thing, he's obviously not hurt otherwise the Bethany "fans" on this board would be letting us know by now. My pre-season push for him as an All Region guy is getting murdered by him not pitching. Academics? He's on the roster, but is he eligible? What's the mystery?

biggio34 · March 10, 2010, 11:15:46 AM

Quote from: MIACLUV on March 10, 2010, 09:50:43 AM
Last time I checked Bethany hasn't made an NCAA tournament, they have a team that can do that and losing games to teams that are picked to finish #3 in the south division (there's a north as well) isn't helping. Keep it up UMAC and the MIAC for sure will get 2 bids and the WIAC can slot 3.
And come clean with the Dorris thing, he's obviously not hurt otherwise the Bethany "fans" on this board would be letting us know by now. My pre-season push for him as an All Region guy is getting murdered by him not pitching. Academics? He's on the roster, but is he eligible? What's the mystery?

Regardless of their past, losing games that you shouldn't lose in an already tight Pool B race is not a good thing when you still have alot of tough teams coming on the rest of the schedule. You have to take care of business against the weaker opponents so you have some wiggle room for inevitable losses that will come against the better squads.

paulisdeadman · March 10, 2010, 11:20:20 AM

And last time i checked they werent eligible because they were a 2 year and then the probabation period for the NCAA.

MIACLUV · March 10, 2010, 11:25:39 AM

Quote from: paulisdeadman on March 10, 2010, 11:20:20 AM
And last time i checked they werent eligible because they were a 2 year and then the probabation period for the NCAA.

Sorry but they've been eligible for a few years now, and were only a loss or two away from the tourney last year.

paulisdeadman · March 10, 2010, 11:34:15 AM

They became eligible the summer of 2008, making 2009 the first year that baseball would have been able to make the tourny. Seems to me that almost making the tourny in your first year is pretty good, but let me guess MIACLUV will have something diff to say. Why so negative?

biggio34 · March 10, 2010, 11:37:47 AM

Quote from: paulisdeadman on March 10, 2010, 11:34:15 AM
They became eligible the summer of 2008, making 2009 the first year that baseball would have been able to make the tourny. Seems to me that almost making the tourny in your first year is pretty good, but let me guess MIACLUV will have something diff to say. Why so negative?

MIAC'ers are just trying to hold the UMAC down paul. If we band together, and our teams both have good years, maybe we can earn some respect for the UMAC. Then again, maybe not.