BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[dchevy5]

Random thoughts while waiting until 7:10 AM to check-in online for flight to Phoenix tomorrow.

KSC departs for Arizona today.  First 2 games Saturday against College of NJ, who are off to a 2-4 start.  Hopkins on Monday.  NJ beaten by Wheaton yesterday on 1 hitter.

Looking over the early stats on LEC website and wondering how Nick Ross of WCU can have a batting average of .615 and an OBP of .600.

Temps in the mid  to upper 80's in Phoenix for most of the week.  Not too hard to take.

Armstrong has struggled on the mound so far.  He was picked by someone to be POY in the LEC,  Still can be.  Pitched a great game in the LEC tournament last year against Keene.

Great start for ECSU yesterday.  3 called K's in the first inning.  Are you kidding me?   Four homers, too. How was the weather for that game?  Did anyone attend?

[Jcon8958]

I picked armstrong and or Andriano to be pitcher of the year.

Beacons fly down to FLA today open up tommorow lets see how things unfold going to be a great year im sure for this young squad.

Now as far as RIC goes im sure everyone is shocked that they are 7-0 but I have been following the teams they are playing and I think aside from Plymouth state they probally have the weakest oppostion. There only real test is today versus a overrated cortland team. The teams combined recored that they have played is 11-15 (and elms doesnt have the scores for there games yesterday posted and i assumed they lost cause they are a weak baseball team.) Now with that being said 7-0 is very impressive I would like to see how this team does versus a quality opponents.

[ECSUalum]

Random thoughts while waiting until 7:10 AM to check-in online for flight to Phoenix tomorrow.

KSC departs for Arizona today.  First 2 games Saturday against College of NJ, who are off to a 2-4 start.  Hopkins on Monday.  NJ beaten by Wheaton yesterday on 1 hitter.

Looking over the early stats on LEC website and wondering how Nick Ross of WCU can have a batting average of .615 and an OBP of .600.

Temps in the mid  to upper 80's in Phoenix for most of the week.  Not too hard to take.

Armstrong has struggled on the mound so far.  He was picked by someone to be POY in the LEC,  Still can be.  Pitched a great game in the LEC tournament last year against Keene.

Great start for ECSU yesterday.  3 called K's in the first inning.  Are you kidding me?   Four homers, too. How was the weather for that game?  Did anyone attend?

Safe trip chevy, we leave on Monday.  Weather looks to be beautiful, should give all the teams a rela good WARM-UP

Weather in Hoboken yesterday was cloudy and 55F.  Did not attend but watched LIVE STATS off SIT web

[KSCfan]

Wow eastern in a slugfest.  I was also impressed with the backwards K's.  How in the world if Shawn is blowing up the strikezone can they take so many looking.  Shawn is always around the plate please swing the bat stevens!  Great start to the evil empire.  RIC 7-0 jumps off the page at me, i dont care who you play a win is a win is a win.  YOu have to beat the bad teams as well.  We will find out how good they are today against cortland, and wheaton when they get back to NE.  

Looking forward to sat for Keenes DH against TCNJ.  I have heard that some guys have impressed the coaches and dont be surprised to find some rooks in the starting roles for sats DH.  Some of these new guys im sure will either play thier way in or out of the starting lineup by the end of the trip.  

Word- that is to bad about the WNEC coach.  If i see him i will tell make sure to wish him well.  Is he still going down to zona?  going to be hard to throw bp on crutches.  That is to bad and i hope a speedy recovery for him

[wordsmith]

Word- that is to bad about the WNEC coach.  If i see him i will tell make sure to wish him well.  Is he still going down to zona?  going to be hard to throw bp on crutches.  That is to bad and i hope a speedy recovery for him

KSCFan,

Yep, he is headed to 'zona as we speak. BP is out, fungos are out, visits to the pitching mound are out, and coaching first base is out. Major bummer.

Good luck to all of the LEC Teams

And Go WNEC 8)

Word

[dgilblair]

Well, it was a nice first game for TEE.  Bass getting things started for the offense with a homer and Hobbes with two on the day.  Five pitchers doing some work on the mound,  Fontaine must be starting Fridays game as he only threw on the side. Everyone was in one piece after the game, so that is good.  The conditions at the game were the best we have had in the last four years, I was real happy with that.  The weekend looks good for NY. 

KSCfan, the Stevens coach said the same thing after the fifth K, ( IS ANYONE GOING TO SWING THE BAT TODAY) the next batter hit a groundball to short.  RIC 7-0 is good start to the young season reguardless of who they are playing.  A win is a win this early in the year.  RIC knows it has big battles coming soon.   

Word, speedy recovery for your guy, dchevy and all have a safe trip to the 80 and sunny land.

[ecfaninri]

DGilblair...
It sounded like Shawn just had everything going yesterday. It's going to be scary if Parke and Bass can set the table for Shawn and Melvin. Hobbes is just going to be on a mission after last year. Friday's game will be a good test against Farmingdale. I'm sure the boys were just glad to be outside playing a game. Yes, Matt will be throwing Friday. It will be interesting to see who follows him up and who throws Saturday.

RIC lost a tough one today to Cortland State, but Fournier pitched well by striking out 12 in 6 plus innings. They return north 7-1. I agree, it doesn't matter who you are playing in the early going...you just need to play.

See you in Arizona

[KSCfan]

RIC coming back from FLA 7-1 is a huge statement to the rest of the LEC.  Ric seemed to swing the bats well and after they hung tough with Cortland yesterday they could easily make the "LEC 3" the "LEC 4"

[hockeyfan77]

USM will play two games tomorrow vs Old Westbury and they will play the make-up game from last week against Farmingdale...The game against Suffolk will probably be made up in April...Just some info...

[kscer]

I was looking over the bios on the Keene Roster and it looks like they have some potential impact players that nobody knows about, both offense and defense. I think the pitching will be better than anticipated. LEC will come down to best defense in the end and my edge goes to KSC. No hedging, they repeat. 
Chevy, if you see this say hello to everyone out there and enjoy your last time through.

[ECSUalum]

                           R    H  E
ECSU                 12  16  5
SUNY Farm.         5    8   3

ECSU sloppy on the defense 5 errors, however Gilblair, Schult, and Musson hammered the ball, (11 hits combined),with Cousineau homering.

Fontaine, Musson, Kukucka and Wojick pitched well

See FSU website for box

Albertus Magnus this Saturday and SUNY Old Westbury this Sunday

Not the strongest teams so far but as KSCFan stated, you have to win these games

[363dp]

Had the pleasure of talking to "words" son today before their game vs the college of the Yankees. Word, not only do you know baseball, you know how to raise a son. Very nice young man, very much enjoyed talking with him. The game before WNEC/TCNJ was Johns Hopkins vs Wheaton. Nice early season match up. Gingras was better than Angelino today and his defense was also better. Good chance both of these teams will qualify for the regionals.

[Jcon8958]

Rough start to the season for UMB. They were swept by MCLA they scored some runs but the young pitching just didnt show up today.

2 games today versus trinity see if they can get a big win over the defending Champs would be a huge boost to this young  team.

[wordsmith]

363dp,

Thank you and thanks for taking the time to talk with him. He called late last night and told us how nice you were to him and how much he enjoyed the conversation.

Good luck to Wheaton, er, well not today, but going forward.

By the way KSC is up 3-1 vs the Grand Funk Railroad Lions in the 5th. Now if anyone figures out that obscure reference, I will buy them dinner. I promise. Owls have local frsh Jeff Pelkey on the mound performing quite well.

Here be da link to the Owls games today.
http://www.teamline.cc/free_listen?teamcode=2737&eventcode=5&status=PFU

Word

Update- Owls 15- Grand Funk 4, 8th inning- Freshman Cody Callahan - Seekonk Mass is currently 4-5 with 8 RBI. 2 dbls, 1 single and a 3 run-HR. Welcome to college baseball young man. 8)

[ecfaninri]

Boy it looks like the swamp owls are off to a good start leading 15-4 in the eighth inning out in zona. It's good to listen to LEC baseball on-line. This freshman Callahan is having a monster of a day 8 RBI's. It must feel good to get out of the cold and hit somebody else besides batting practice pitchers.