BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[wordsmith]

Just got the call

WNEC 14 TEE 3

YIPPEE

[363dp]

WOW great win for WiNEC. Another win like that tomorrow and they will be ready to go to the regionals and cause some major problems!

[wordsmith]

They have to win their conf tourney since it is unlikely they would get an at-large.

That will be a difficult task with several quality clubs in TCCC this year.

Time will tell, but for today it is a good Victory.

[EasternCtFan]

What the @$%#$#%@ happened today? never saw this coming.

[hockeyfan77]

USM  beat Salem State   11-10  to improve to 17-3 ( 1-1 in the LEC)...


Next up for USM:

Tomorrow @ U-Mass Boston  @ 3:00



Just a note for all the KSC fans:  I heard today that Sat DH with USM could be moved to Sunday due to the weather...No matter the day: the games can be heard here



http://people.usm.maine.edu/jkessler/athletics/

[wordsmith]

KSC 18 Amherst 12

Yet more good news for the swampies

[dgilblair]

Just got the call

WNEC 14 TEE 3

YIPPEE

Congratulations Word and the WNEC team for a well played game.  That was a good old fashioned ass whipping.  Very well done and the third base coach seems like a classy guy as well as the players.  Nice team.

[dchevy5]

KSC keeps on hitting, but pitching and defense still a huge issue.  21 hits and 18 runs today against Amherst, but gave up 12.  Need to play better against USM on Saturday (or Sunday).

USM seems to keep winning the close games, another one run victory for them today.

[Jcon8958]

UMB wins there 4th striaght game last night verus lasell 17-3 they have USM this afternoon @ home in a real test.

[santeezy06]

This is my Friday picks:

Plymouth State vs.   Keene State      a no brainer here, KSC will win this one.
Rhode Island College vs.   UMass Dartmouth, I'll take RIC, they need to get out of this slump.     
Southern Maine vs   UMass Boston, USM will smash this team today, even though UMB has a lot of confidence coming off these not so big wins.     
Western Connecticut vs   Eastern Connecticut, I'm picking TEE to win this one but that WCON team can hit a ball.

Doubleheaders on Saturday:

Keene State vs  Southern Maine, USM will take these two in a tough sweep.     
Eastern Connecticut  vs Rhode Island College, I'm hoping for a split but the way RIC has been playing prob a sweep in favor of TEE.   
Plymouth State vs  UMass Boston, UMB should sweep if they don't use everything they got today against USM.     
Western Connecticut vs  UMass Dartmouth, I'll say split depending on the pitching on UMD.

[KSCfan]

Good win for the ol swamp birds yesterday in a good ol slugfest.  Pitching still a major issue for keene but talking about that is like beating a dead horse.  Keene on a bit of a roll winning 4 in a row, mighty big test this weekend with USM.  Here is KSCfan's half-baked predictions for the upcoming LEC weekends. Can i also say that i love the conference games on friday as well. 

Friday
KSC hitting keeps on coming as they roll Plymouth 12-4 in the romp in the swamp
Southern Maine pounds UMB and i can hear JCon crying from Boston already 9-2
Eastern beats Western in the battle of the Nutmeg/Constitution state.  After they dropped one to UMD they beat Plymouth 20-0 the next day, just lost to WNEC today will beat Western 13-0
Toughest pick of Friday UMD beats RIC, RIC is reeling

Sat
Western sweeps UMD. Western plays well and thier hitting is enough to beat the Corsairs
Eastern sweeps RIC, Eastern is too good. I think the rest of the LEC with the exception of JCon wants to see a split. 
Plymouth splits with UMB.  Just cause i want to get Jconn riled up, Plymouth has to have a surprise somewhere in the year
Keene State SWEEPS USM. No other reason then i am a homer, and that logic worked last week against RIC and you dont mess with a winning streak

[Jcon8958]

My predictions for Friday and Saturdays games...

KSC Beats PSU- KSC has to much for PSU
ECSU Beats WCSU- Western can hit the ball but I just dont see them beating Eastern after Eastern just got embrassed last night.
UMD Beats RIC- RIC has no real pitching control to speak of they have walked 123 batters in 23 games not to mention they have thrown 31 wild pitches in 23 games and personally I think UMD is a better baseball team.
UMB beats USM- Say what you will but there are alot of factors in play here USM is prob going to be thinking about tommorows games thinking they can just walk over this team.(which they cant) UMB in the last 4 games has scored 56 RUNS let me say that again 56 RUNS. I just see them being able to hit USM pitching who let up 15 runs earlier in the week and then 10 yesterday. You arent going to score 10 plus runs every game.

Ok Now for Saturday

UMD Splits with WCSU- Armstrong has a solid outing versus this team in game 1. But UMD comes back and wins game 2 going away.
ECSU Sweeps RIC-Gilblair and Musson shut RIC Offense down and everybody hits for ECSU going to be a long day at home for RIC.
USM Sweeps KSC- After UMB beats them today USM will come back firing on all cylinders tommorow they may end up splitting but gut tells me USM takes both.
UMB Sweeps PSU- There will be no sneak up here the beacons are starting to come together. Andriano had a big time outing last week versus UMD and I expect that to cont. versus PSU

[dchevy5]

My picks for this weekend:

Friday:

KSC beats PSU.  Hard to beat KSC without very good pitching these days and PSU hasn't shown that they have that.

USM over UMB- a no brainer.  Would be a MAJOR upset otherwise, but, we have seen major upsets this year in the LEC, haven't we.

ECSU over WCONN, but I hope Western throws Armstrong and beats TEE.

RIC over UMD.  Ric has gone through some tough times lately, but they have some very good athletes and should prevail in this game.

Saturday:

Western sweeps UMD.  The ride is over for the Corsairs (my alma mater, by the way).

Eastern and RIC split.  As I mentioned above, RIC has some good athletes, and also, some very good arms.  Their pitchers need to improve their command and STOP WALKING so many batters.  If RIC is in the game late, they have some very good relief pitchers to turn to. 

UMB splits with PSU. 

KSC and USM.  Um, let's see.  I obviously want an Owl sweep, and that is not at all out of the question, but common sense says that, wait, never mind about common sense.  Owls sweep USM.  You heard it here first, well, actually second, because KSCFAN also called it.

Have fun everybody.  Should be a great LEC weekend. 

[wordsmith]

Some more picks to consider for LEC weekend:

Friday:

Swampies hammer Plywood State

Boys of Flannel out gun the Drive-Bys

TEE returns to form and claw their kissin'-cousins to the south

Village People disco their way out of contention with a loss to the UMESS-D


Saturday

UMESS-D & WorstConn - Lindsay Lohan and gal-pal are splitsville as will be the outcome of this match-up in Hattie Green's backyard (that ones for you DChevy)

TEE continues the punishment by taking two from the Village People

Plywood State surprises by winning both vs. JCon's UMESS Drive-Bys (Sorry JCon)

Rumor has it, given the two powerful offenses, USM has installed goalposts (football, the oblong type for all you New England Revs clowns) for extra point and field goal attempts. Another split. Over-under on the two games combined anyone? Eye say 35

Word 8)

[KSCfan]

Ill take the over, is this the price is right where you cant go over, if that is the case then i will take 42