BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[KSCfan]

Bandbox that keene plays in?  UMBbaseball have you ever been  to the swamp? 330 down the lines 385 in the ally and 410 to center with a wicked wind, and its cold and damp.  I would hardly say that Keene plays in a bandbox.  Yeah you talk about consistancy but Callahan would of have to been consistant to be at .471.  McCormack is a great player for sure but Callahan has better numbers.  And if everyone else hits the terrible pitching shouldnt his numbers be better than Callahans because he would not only hit the elite teams in the LEC but also the weak teams, so using that logic McCormack should be hitting .500  I dont see how thier scoring in all sports are notorious for favoring.  DOes this mean that when a basketball team hits a 2 they count it as a three?  I dont understand that comment.

[wordsmith]

Speaking of All-LEC teams -

A real quirky thing happened a few years back. In 2004 Tip Fairchild was named to the Second Team LEC as a pitcher. Then a few weeks later (USM did not play in the post season that year), he is named to the NEIBA All-New England first team and then later as a Third Team All-American.

So 2nd team LEC, First Team All-New England, 3rd Team All-American. How did this happen? Two guys from EastConn --> Ryan DiPietro, and Joey Serrfass beat him out in the LEC.

  Saturday, May 29, 2004

                   Fairchild Named ABCA Third Team All-American

     GORHAM, Maine  --  Sophomore pitcher-infielder Tip Fairchild (Monmouth,
Maine/Monmouth Academy) of the University of Southern Maine Huskies baseball
team has been named to the NCAA Division III All-American third team as selected
by the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA).  The All-American teams
were announced Thursday evening as part of the NCAA Division III National
Championship festivities in Grand Chute, Wisconsin.
          Named to the NEIBA All-New England first team and All-Little East
Conference second team earlier this month, Fairchild had an outstanding
sophomore season.  He compiled a 9-1 record with three saves and a staff low
1.41 ERA. 

As for KSC playing in a Band box, I just got off the phone with Dick Clark and he said he knows band boxes and band boxes have been his friend for years and the Swamp is no band box!

Word 8)
   

[ecfaninri]

LEC posters.....
I will take the unbiased approach in that I don't that you can just the ROTY, POTY, and Top pitcher until AFTER the LEC tourney. Why? because each team only sees a team twice. Case in point Eastern did not play UMD and WConn in doubleheaders. The way it shook out was that those teams only saw Matt Fontaine ( oddly enough both times two weeks apart) They didn't get a chance to see Gilblair or Musson. Some other teams with rainouts had to reschedule games into a doubleheader format. Clearly that scenario is not a good way to judge performances. All the talk about Callahan and McCormack being rookie of the year - I see the stats but I didn't see anything that jumped off the page when we played them. Maybe it will be different in the tournament. Musson, Gilblair, and Fontaine should be in the discussion for pitcher of the year. Parke should be in the discussion for the player of the year.

[dchevy5]

As far as ROY goes, I say Mccormack play and I am very, very impressed.  In ANY OTHER YEAR he should get ROY.  But for this year, how can you argue against Callahan.   His BA is 64 points higher, his slugging % is an unbelievable 243 points higher.  Also, in 26 fewer AB's, Callahan had 13 more total bases and 16 more RBI, as well as 5 more home runs.   No comparison in my opinion.

By the way, I am using Words stats so if there are any errors in my numbers above, please direct your comments to him.

[Jcon8958]

ECfanni thats a good idea accept the voting takes place before the LEC tourney so that Idea is shot....

The ROY of the year should be split i would say since after the first 2 weeks of the season that Mcormack has been far and away the Rookie in theleague without a doubt cant really argue that point i mean come on four straight rookie of the week awards pretty much speak for themselves.

[Jcon8958]

Check that 5 straight weeks and Lebrun takes the pitcher of the week.....

[ECSUalum]

Annoying, the ECSU  baseball game feed off of WECS was lost at top of 9th inning

ECSU leading 8-4

Anyone have final score.

Shult pitched well, 1- Bad inning with ECSU errors was reason for Tufts runs.  Tingley, in relief , fantastic

[dgilblair]

Annoying, the ECSU  baseball game feed off of WECS was lost at top of 9th inning

ECSU leading 8-4

Anyone have final score.

Shult pitched well, 1- Bad inning with ECSU errors was reason for Tufts runs.  Tingley, in relief , fantastic

8-4 final and Shult pitched a nice game tonight. 

Coach - Flaherty USM - no brainer
Co-Rookie - Callahan KSC - numbers don't lie, much. If I'm starting a team and had to pick one of the two it is...
POY - D'Alfonso USM - but I'll take Perkins
Pitcher - 7-0 is going to be tough to beat but I think a lot of guys could go 7-0 pitching for that team. I would take Musson over Therrian.  I really think he is being overlooked at 6-0 and he did beat the best team in the country.

[ECSUalum]

Annoying, the ECSU  baseball game feed off of WECS was lost at top of 9th inning

ECSU leading 8-4

Anyone have final score.

Shult pitched well, 1- Bad inning with ECSU errors was reason for Tufts runs.  Tingley, in relief , fantastic

8-4 final and Shult pitched a nice game tonight. 

Coach - Flaherty USM - no brainer
Co-Rookie - Callahan KSC - numbers don't lie, much. If I'm starting a team and had to pick one of the two it is...
POY - D'Alfonso USM - but I'll take Perkins
Pitcher - 7-0 is going to be tough to beat but I think a lot of guys could go 7-0 pitching for that team. I would take Musson over Therrian.  I really think he is being overlooked at 6-0 and he did beat the best team in the country.

D,

Many Thanks, goes from ECSU VS Tufts to RAP MUSIC!!!!

See you for Wheaton on Wed. and WCSU on Sat.

M

[KSCfan]

You know i was thinking about the LEC tournament this year, and i came up with this thought.  In years past pitchers would get 1 regular start in the tournament and then 1 start on short days rest and or a couple of innings where they are tired out of the bullpen.  Now with this new format top notch starters are going to get two starts on regular rest if thier team makes it to the next round.  Ill use Gilblair for instance, he will start game 1 against western im assuming, then he comes back the next weekend for the 4 team double elim and he is on normal rest.  This new format really benefits teams with top heavy rotations, where in years past the team with deep pitching is rewarded. 

On another note here is KSC fans bracketology for the LEC tournament
Keene
USM
Eastern
RIC

all advance to the round of four (see my earlier predictions for games and thoughts on it)

Round of 4

RIC vs USM- USM rolls on this one with some big offense and win
Keene vs Easterm- going to best game of the LEC tournament, rematch of Gilblair and Raymond.  THier earlier matchup in the year was very good, im going Keene over Eastern as the pitching holds out in the ninth this time as the owls find a way to win


Winners Bracket - Keene vs USM- Keene upsets USM with the best outing of the year from either Vogt or Riley, thier bats do work and keene wins a slugfest

Losers Bracket Eastern vs RIC Eastern beats up on Rhode Island much to Jcons delight
Eastern vs USM- Eastern beats USM behind Tingley of all people.  Either he starts or comes out of the pen and Eastern knocks them off

Finals- Keene pitches good enough and they outhit Eastern to win in an upset of the LEC leaving Eastern and USM waiting for at large bids, which they both get, and one of them is shipped to NY where they win that regional and go the D3 CWS in Wisconsin

Come on did you expect anything else with my predictions??

[wordsmith]

You know i was thinking about the LEC tournament this year, and i came up with this thought.  In years past pitchers would get 1 regular start in the tournament and then 1 start on short days rest and or a couple of innings where they are tired out of the bullpen.  Now with this new format top notch starters are going to get two starts on regular rest if thier team makes it to the next round.  Ill use Gilblair for instance, he will start game 1 against western im assuming, then he comes back the next weekend for the 4 team double elim and he is on normal rest.  This new format really benefits teams with top heavy rotations, where in years past the team with deep pitching is rewarded. 

On another note here is KSC fans bracketology for the LEC tournament
Keene
USM
Eastern
RIC

all advance to the round of four (see my earlier predictions for games and thoughts on it)

Round of 4

RIC vs USM- USM rolls on this one with some big offense and win
Keene vs Easterm- going to best game of the LEC tournament, rematch of Gilblair and Raymond.  THier earlier matchup in the year was very good, im going Keene over Eastern as the pitching holds out in the ninth this time as the owls find a way to win


Winners Bracket - Keene vs USM- Keene upsets USM with the best outing of the year from either Vogt or Riley, thier bats do work and keene wins a slugfest

Losers Bracket Eastern vs RIC Eastern beats up on Rhode Island much to Jcons delight
Eastern vs USM- Eastern beats USM behind Tingley of all people.  Either he starts or comes out of the pen and Eastern knocks them off

Finals- Keene pitches good enough and they outhit Eastern to win in an upset of the LEC leaving Eastern and USM waiting for at large bids, which they both get, and one of them is shipped to NY where they win that regional and go the D3 CWS in Wisconsin

Come on did you expect anything else with my predictions??

KSCFan,

Hey dude far out man what you be smokin'?

Word will go out on a limb and say one and quite possibly two of the top 4 seeds in the LEC will not make it to Gommorrah. I will reveal my:

4 to Gommorrah after today's games are completed.

Word 8)

[Jcon8958]

I am going to hold of til friday to make my predictions on the first round of the tourney.
And KSCFAN they have not started yet I believe it is in about 2 weeks or so they start practicing with the seasdon kicking off at the end of may.

[santeezy06]

RIC falls to Wheaton 19-13 after a slugfest, but as usual our pitching couldn't get it done.

I look forward to the upcoming weekend.

[Jcon8958]

And ecfanni I dont think that you see anything in any player unless he plays for ECSU to say that nothing jumped off the page with both of them is absurd. These are the best 2 freshman since in my option Oconners came in at ric and even though I would have called Castillo far from a rookie when he came in (I believe he was 24) But come on man Mcormack reached base 6 out 10 AB versus ECSU.  Come on man wat do players have to do to impress you ECSU fans?

[kscer]

I think we had a couple of good ROY's last year in a split.  Callahan's numbers are, however, that much better. It would be interesting to look at POY vs ROY to see who followed through to win POY after being ROY.
Perkins should get player of the year but i think Alphonso will get it because of USM's winning the regular season. It will be ironic when KSC beats USM in Willamantic for the New England Regional crown, while Eastern runs through New York and we get two teams to Appleton. Keene's been sandbagging pitching this year, even Howe doesn't know it, only Testo. Wait and see. and I ain't been smokin since I don't remember when...