BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[wordsmith]

UMB takes care of USM 6-5 today. Look I am not here to jump on coaches for the way they manager there teams. But in the 9th inning with 1 out Ben Ives was brought into the game nd he pitched 8 full innings on Saturday let up 5 runs sso I would say it pretty safe to assume he through over 100 pitches pretty easily. My question is this how do you bring back a guy to throw again 2 days after he throws 100 plus pitches to close out a game??

JConn,

Great observation. USM is famous or infamous for burning out pitchers. Saw it with Fairchild, Adams, Connors, Bergeron, etc. Too bad.

Word

[Old Man]

Word - NC - no comment on USM - pretty good pitchers you mentioned - I think the LEC is wide OPEN - good wins today for KSU, UMB, WCSU and RIC

KSU - 18-6 (4-1)
RIC - 17-8 (4-1)
ECSU - 16-6 (3-2)
UMB- 14-9 (3-2)
USM - 11-11 (3-2)
UMD - 11-12 (1-4)

Predictons for next saturday -

UMD and UMB - Split
KSU takes 2 from RIC
ECSU takes 2 from Plywood
WCSU and USM Split

thoughts?

OM

[hockeyfan77]

UMD and UMB - UMB takes both
KSU takes 2 from RIC
ECSU takes 2 from Plymouth
WCSU and USM  USM takes both

[KSCfan]

Good in conference win for Keene yesterday.  With the Eastern loss to Western, it lands Keene in first place along with RIC. Making these Saturday games even bigger than before.  I guess its fair to say in the LEC every conference game is the biggest game!!

Keene is getting some solid pitching to right now.  Winn steps up and gives you 7 strong innings and then you get an inning each out of two relievers.  Pitching wins games in the LEC, because all teams can swing it.  Look at Saturday, the bullpen blows up and they lose to Eastern, today pitching does well, and they win going away. 

Jconn great point about USM and the pitching.  I think that Flaherty is feeling the .500 season, and felt that he needed that game yesterday.  Basicailly he made a LEC playoff move on a conference tuesday.  Not great for the kids arm, and seems like a bold move for a Tuesday conference game.

Predictions for Saturday, get your brooms out.....

Keene Sweeps RIC
UMB sweeps UMD
USM Sweeps WCSU
ESCU Sweeps Plymouth

[wordsmith]

Predictions for Saturday.....

Keene Splits with RIC
UMB splits with UMD
USM Sweeps WCSU
ESCU Sweeps Plymouth

Word

[kscer]

Western Beats Eastern! Who would have thunk it.

[KSCfan]

keene got whacked by western new england 14-1... ouch

[ECSUalum]

Western Beats Eastern! Who would have thunk it.

kcer,

WCSU always get pumped up when they come to Willimantic, (Mansfield).  I believe they have beaten Eastern 3 yrs in a row at the Eastern Baseball Stadium. No guarantees of a win when they come to town, at least for Eastern!
This year, Western has a LOAD of hitting and with the Eastern bullpen serving up gopher balls they just unloaded again (grand salami).  All credit goes to Western.
BUT....Today, Tom Darby did a great job starting for the Warriors giving up no runs, on 5 hits, strucking out 6 in 6 innings of work for 19 to 7 win vs Bridgewater St in Mansfield.  The offense has been great so far this year really coming around as they came east from CA and AZ. Offensively Eastern has provided plenty of runs to win games, but the relief piching has been poor, thus, the come from behind wins by Eastern opponents.   But to Easterns credit, they have lost +/- 10 starting Seniors over the 2 years, and have a relatively young team this year, which bodes well in a couple years, so I need to be patient.  Keene should do very well this year, and, I think, look to be the LEC champion this year.

IMHO, Marietta College will win their 6th NCAA D-III National Championship this year, the first CWS Championship repeat since Glassboro St, (now Rowan U), did it the first two years of NCAA D-III.  Marietta College have a dominating team again this year and a loooong tradition of playing in the D-III CWS.  I think Keene or Wheaton will most likely represent New England in Appleton WI in 2012.

[wordsmith]

See where Ryan Flaherty, son of HOF Ed Flaherty, made the roster of the Baltimore O's. Congrats.

I think I've told the story before but after the first couple of practices in the fall of my son's freshman year at USM I asked him about any kids that stood out and the overall talent level of the squad. Remember in those years there was Delorme, Adams, Lang, Marshall, Fairchild, etc. He told me about those guys but said Dad, there is a skinny kid here who is better than anybody, I think he is a sophomore. I don't know his name and haven't seen him on campus but he is great. A few days later we talked and he told me that kid was the Flaherty's son Ryan and was a sophomore......in High School!

Word

[ECSUalum]

Word,

Went over to the 2008 Vanderbilt U Baseball site when Ryan was a senior, his coach called him the best ss in the country. He put up some outstanding stats over there and looked to be one of their HR leaders.   Congrats to Ryan and to Coach Flaherty and we wish ryan the best of luck in the Majors!!!!!!!!

[hockeyfan77]

See where Ryan Flaherty, son of HOF Ed Flaherty, made the roster of the Baltimore O's. Congrats.

I think I've told the story before but after the first couple of practices in the fall of my son's freshman year at USM I asked him about any kids that stood out and the overall talent level of the squad. Remember in those years there was Delorme, Adams, Lang, Marshall, Fairchild, etc. He told me about those guys but said Dad, there is a skinny kid here who is better than anybody, I think he is a sophomore. I don't know his name and haven't seen him on campus but he is great. A few days later we talked and he told me that kid was the Flaherty's son Ryan and was a sophomore......in High School!

Word

I remember his high school team played a couple of games @ USM and he hit a no doubt shot that went about 450 feet over the right field fence and off the top of a tree....There are only 2 players I have seen hit a ball that far: Vinnie Degifico and Anthony Delfonso and at the time I think Ryan was 16....He was/is pretty damn good....

[hockeyfan77]

USM beat Colby 8-5 today to improve to 12-11 (3-2 in the LEC)....Next up for USM:


Sat April 14  12:00 Western Conn (DH)

[wordsmith]

See where Ryan Flaherty, son of HOF Ed Flaherty, made the roster of the Baltimore O's. Congrats.

I think I've told the story before but after the first couple of practices in the fall of my son's freshman year at USM I asked him about any kids that stood out and the overall talent level of the squad. Remember in those years there was Delorme, Adams, Lang, Marshall, Fairchild, etc. He told me about those guys but said Dad, there is a skinny kid here who is better than anybody, I think he is a sophomore. I don't know his name and haven't seen him on campus but he is great. A few days later we talked and he told me that kid was the Flaherty's son Ryan and was a sophomore......in High School!

Word

I remember his high school team played a couple of games @ USM and he hit a no doubt shot that went about 450 feet over the right field fence and off the top of a tree....There are only 2 players I have seen hit a ball that far: Vinnie Degifico and Anthony Delfonso and at the time I think Ryan was 16....He was/is pretty damn good....

The Nova Seafood American Legion Team came to Keene and played in the Gubby Legion Tourney. Keene had a pretty good squad that year and was lucky enough to defeat Nova. It was one of the few losses for Nova that year as they went onto win the Legion National Championship. Ryan had an outstanding Tourney. One of many future Major Leaguers to play at Alumni Field. Andre Either, Mike Flanagan, David Bush, Brian Wilson, Jeff Keppinger, Ryan Flaherty, Alfredo Amezaga, Jeff Fulchino, Andy LaRoche, Tim Stauffer, Chris Lambert, Stephen Strasburg....the list goes on and on.

Word

[LEC Fan]

Upcoming games this weekend in the LEC...

RIC 17-8 (4-1 LEC) travels to KSC 19-7 (4-1 LEC) to battle for #1 in the conference. Keene has been unbeatable at home this year and should show up for the challenge..KSC will need to get to RIC ace David Hoey (3-0 1.44 ERA) who has been having quite the year down in Providence. Keene sweeps and controls #1.

Eastern 17-6 (3-2 LEC) heads up to northern NH to take on Plymouth 10-11 (1-4 LEC). Warriors overmatch the Panthers and sweep.

UMASS Boston 14-9 (3-2 LEC) takes on UMASS Dartmouth 12-12 (1-4 LEC). Boston just beat USM and Dartmouth may be on a slide. Beacons take both.

USM 12-11 (3-2 LEC) takes on Western 10-14 (1-4 LEC) and the Huskies need a sweep to stay in the picture. Western has some offense and USM lacks pitching, split in Maine.

[hockeyfan77]

Game 1.     


Final     WCSU    5      USM.    6


Game.  2


Final    WCSU.     7    USM.  21



USM improves to 14-11 (5-2 in the LEC).....Next up for USM



Sunday April 15. @ 1:00. @ Wheaton