BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[hockeyfan77]

USM defeated Wis.-Whitewater 7-1 yesterday to improve to 10-3 on the season.....Next up for USM: Tue    2 April   at Endicott          3:30 PM    

[KSCfan]

Keene drops another yesterday to amherst 8-0.  Bats were quiet.  Keene falls to 5-10 and plays babson today at 330

[kscer]

Bats stayed quiet for KSC, losing to Babson 14-4. This takes me back to 2004.

[Boggsy789]

Panthers sneak past Rivier 1-0, strong pitching again by PSU allowing just 2 hits. 

[ECSUalum]

Go to today's Eastern Baseball Pregame show with Nick Aconfora on LECTV to hear interviews with Brent Palella, Eastern closer loser Matt Purnell and finally, Coach Holowaty's view of his team vs the teams in the Little East at the start of Conference play.  Nice job by all.

Today pitching dual with Roger Williams, a Mike Reimer solo blast was all ECSU needed
Score by Innings                               R  H  E
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Roger Williams U....   000 000 000 -  0  3  1
Eastern Connecticut. 001 001 00X -  2  6  1
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Eastern Connecticut   ip  h  r  er  bb  so   
Brent Pelella W, 1-0  7.0 3  0  0   1    5   
Tyler Cyr                   1.0  0   0  0  0    0       
Matt Purnell S,3        1.0  0   0  0  1    1 

Yesterday vs Manhattanville :

Score by Innings                                R  H  E
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Manhattanville......     010 100 000 -  2  8   4
Eastern Connecticut. 020 020 310 -  8 13  0
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Pendergast 4 iin of strong pitching,  Pat Barnett the win, Sam Kosterich and Matt Purnell to close it out 

[LEC Fan]

USM and Eastern off to strong starts as usual. PSU the surprise of March! Hopefully they can keep it going into LEC play.

Biggest surprise (maybe not for everybody) is Keene at 5-11. They lost again last night to Babson 14-4 and are not off on the right foot in New England. Hopefully their first LEC doubleheader shows something different but with a tough LEC (as it looks right now) who knows where the Owls will be in 2-3 weeks! Best of luck!

[kscer]

Tomorrow will be a turnaround day for KSC. They will sweep at RIC, regain their confidence, and come storming back. They will find a stopper in the bullpen and a strong bat in the middle of the lineup, and the sun will shine and Spring will arrive in glorious warmth and send winter's weather packing. And the infield will make no errors and turn four double plays.

[AllStar]

Tomorrow will be a turnaround day for KSC. They will sweep at RIC, regain their confidence, and come storming back. They will find a stopper in the bullpen and a strong bat in the middle of the lineup, and the sun will shine and Spring will arrive in glorious warmth and send winter's weather packing. And the infield will make no errors and turn four double plays.

So far they are continuing in the same trajectory...down 7-1 after just 2 innings.

[KSCfan]

Keene splits with ric. Not what they were hoping for but better than sweep. Still struggling


Where is everyone on board??? I actually miss jconn. I figured he would be all over keene right now??  Boards been creepily quiet

[Boggsy789]

10 wins by Plymouth State in the month of March, that is the most in school history for that month.  This is not an April fools joke.

[KSCfan]

Boggs your boys are hot.  A split with eastern, plymouth winnings some games, and doing it against a quality team like Eastern shows me something.  I know that they played sister marys school of the blind in the beginning of the year, but a win against eastern on a conference sat is no joke.  Panthers are on the raise it would seem

[Boggsy789]

I've been saying it all along that I think my guys play the softest schedule in the conference.   But that's two straight vs. East Conn after the shut out win in the LEC playoffs to eliminate them last year.

[wordsmith]

An interesting read relating to scholarships at various levels of college ball.

Crunching the Numbers: Baseball Scholarships

http://www.active.com/recruiting/articles/Crunching_the_Numbers__Baseball_Scholarships

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[hockeyfan77]

USM defeated Endicott today 5-1 to improve to 11-3 on the season....Next Up For USM:  Wed    3 April   at   Bowdoin          4:00 PM

[ECSUalum]

Baseball: It's Warriors, Dramatically
By Bob Molta on April 2, 2013 10:00 PM
They come up big in final innings to trip Montclair in ten, 9-8

MANSFIELD, Conn. - All-New England senior first baseman Joe Balowski (Berlin) broke out of a 3-for-36 slump with two hits - including the game-ending two-out RBI single in the bottom of the tenth inning - to boost the No. 23 Eastern Connecticut State University baseball team to a 9-8 victory over Montclair State University Tuesday afternoon at the Eastern Baseball Stadium.

Balowski's game-winning hit - which followed a two-out double by senior centerfielder Mike Riemer (Ellington) --  capped a late surge by Eastern (13-5-1) as the Warriors scored three runs in the eighth to tie the game at 6-all, and a two-run rally in the ninth which forced extra innings.

It marked the seventh time in the last nine meetings between these nationally-competitive rivals that the game was decided by two or less runs. The two teams have combined for six national titles.