BB: LEC: Little East Conference

ECSUalum · January 12, 2013, 07:13:54 PM

ECSU 2013 schedule. No Socal, AZ or FL!!!!
http://www.easternct.edu/athletics/men_baseball/bb-schedule-13.htm

Hobbesy · January 15, 2013, 03:57:30 PM

New blog post is up with some thoughts on the best hitter in New England. Who is it?

http://ned3baseball.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/january-musings-whos-the-best-hitter/

Vote for who you think is the best on my facebook page!

http://www.facebook.com/NED3Baseball

KSCfan · January 16, 2013, 12:44:23 PM

Two LEC hitters in hobbs blog post. An LEC bias? I think not!

Good blog post from Hobbs, Those are two of the better hitters for sure not only in NE but in the country. I was looking at Keenes schedule and to say it is strong is an understatement. I personally think its a great move by Coach Howe and Keene State. They play WNEC a constant NE power in their opening weekend, and also play WNEC again, ST Joes, and Wheaton. Throw in the usual strong LEC schedule of Eastern and USM and some of the other good teams and you have a great test for your team. These are the teams that you will play if you make the regional tournament, and I think if Keene can win some these games then it will put them in great shape come tournament resume time.

Remember what Ric Flair said..."To be the man you have to beat the man" and Keene is defiantly going after that.

Baseball starts soon!

Hobbesy · January 17, 2013, 04:42:59 PM

Thanks KSC-

Left the LEC out of my latest post - who's the best pitcher?

There are some guys that can be considered but I thought these four were the best.

Thoughts?

http://ned3baseball.wordpress.com/2013/01/17/january-musings-whos-the-best-pitcher-in-new-england/

Boggsy789 · January 20, 2013, 03:42:09 PM

Speaking of juggernaught non conference schedule, look at the PSU Panthers opponent list this season. Batten down the hatches.

Double dips vs SUNY Maritime (17 Wins), CCNY (6 wins), Lasell (11 wins), Southern Vermont (9 wins) and four games vs. UW Oshkosh (15 wins) to kick off the season.

Also on the schedule-
Rivier (5 wins)
DH w/Lyndon State (5 Wins)
DH w/ Colby College (16 wins)
Middlebury (14 wins)

That's 18 games vs. teams who didn't get to 18 wins last year and 7 games vs. teams who didn't get to 10 wins.

Coach McManus is only 52 wins shy of 500 career wins, i'm predicting we cut that in half with a 26 wins season this year.

KSCfan · January 22, 2013, 08:41:47 AM

Boggsy-

Whats up with that? Doesn't that seem a little easy of a schedule. Is coach M trying to build the program by putting together some cont winning seasons, and he feels this is the best way to do that? Maybe the program looks better if they say we made it to the LEC finals last year, and in 2013 we went on to win 25-30 games. We are a team on the rise? Do people think this is a wise move by the Panthers? Maybe Coach M is more concerned with program building and come consistency for the program rather than going to the Regional? Winning breeds confidence, and confidence helps you win..... maybe onto something

Hobbs- good choices. I cant point at anyone right now in the LEC and be like that is a NE dominant pitcher. There are no Fairchild/Serfass/Gilblair/stromgren type pitchers that stand out to me. Maybe i am wrong butto me anyway, not seeing any top New England arms that are almost a win every time they go out to the mound

ECSUalum · January 24, 2013, 03:40:01 PM

Hey 7, go to the new England thread, where i posted the 2013 d3 baseball preseason baseball poll... WCSU GOT VOTES!!!
Good Luck to the Colonials in 2013, looking forward to seeing Bierfeldt and Co. Congrats on Conners 1st Team ALL America Status!!!
D3baseball.com 2013 Preseason All-America team
First Team
Pos Name, School AVG R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB-Att FLD%
C Ryan Schilter, UW-Stevens Point .370 39 60 19 2 1 36 22-25 .989
1B Kevin Callahan, Illinois Wesleyan .355 42 66 17 0 11 54 1-2 .967
2B Tim Wilson, Linfield .404 34 67 17 1 3 23 20-25 .965
3B Mike Rubino, Western New Engl. .376 43 74 17 4 1 50 0-1 .923
SS John Adornetto, Cortland State .374 44 58 10 2 0 31 13-18 .962
OF Conor Bierfeldt, Western CT .430 48 61 16 6 10 50 7-9 .838
OF Tyler Pfeffer, Whitworth .379 51 74 23 4 12 61 7-8 .978
OF Nick Stein, Coe .355 43 59 12 4 7 37 20-23 .958
DH Brian Mauro, DeSales .407 30 61 15 0 8 44 1-2 .994
UTL Dylan Thomas, St. Thomas .358 23 39 8 2 6 33 3-3 .958

Bishopleftiesdad · January 31, 2013, 02:58:28 PM

2013 Little East Coaches poll released.
http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2013/01/Midatlantic_preview

ECSUalum · January 31, 2013, 08:23:41 PM

http://www.littleeast.com/sports/bsb/2013/news/20130131-base-preseason_poll

2013 Little East Baseball Preseason Coaches' Poll
Rank Institution First Place Points
1 University of Southern Maine 4 58
2 Eastern Connecticut State University 2 53
Keene State College 1 53
4 Rhode Island College 1 42
5 University of Massachusetts Boston 31
6 Plymouth State University 21
7 Western Connecticut State University 18
8 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 12

kscer · February 02, 2013, 10:30:07 AM

Quote from: ECSUalum on January 31, 2013, 08:23:41 PM
http://www.littleeast.com/sports/bsb/2013/news/20130131-base-preseason_poll

2013 Little East Baseball Preseason Coaches' Poll
Rank Institution First Place Points
1 University of Southern Maine 4 58
2 Eastern Connecticut State University 2 53
Keene State College 1 53
4 Rhode Island College 1 42
5 University of Massachusetts Boston 31
6 Plymouth State University 21
7 Western Connecticut State University 18
8 University of Massachusetts Dartmouth 12

This seems about right. Now we will see who comes to play, who gets hurt, and what havoc weather will wreak on pitching staffs.

wordsmith · February 02, 2013, 11:59:39 PM

Congrats go out to Dan Moylan who will head across town as he has been named Baseball Head Coach for Keene High School. Dan will leave his position as Asst. Coach at KSC.

http://www.sentinelsource.com/sports/local_sports/keene-high-hires-baseball-coach/article_86c90726-e170-56e6-aebf-6ebda5b8358b.html

Word

kscer · February 03, 2013, 09:02:20 PM

Great to see scores from actual games. Spring is comiing!

7express · February 04, 2013, 01:59:01 AM

So Western Connecticut receives 3 votes in the preseason top 25 poll (http://wcsuathletics.com/sports/bsb/2012-13/releases/20130124hwwc83) with only Eastern (12 votes) and USM (10) garnering more yet were picked 7th in the conference?? Something doesn't add up.

7express · February 04, 2013, 02:00:51 AM

And our full schedule: http://wcsuathletics.com/sports/bsb/2012-13/schedule

Florida March 22-27 (our spring break is the week of the 25); first series is a double header @ William Paterson March 3.

KSCfan · February 04, 2013, 08:03:15 AM

Congrats to Coach Moylan. Very good coach and will be missed at KSC. I wonder who they plan on bringing in to replace him. He was obviously very good with the catchers, as well as the hitters. Little bit of a difference going from Keene State and Necbl to keene high.

Yeah express, i dont know how western gets national votes and picked 7th