BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[hockeyfan77]

USM again failed to show up and UMB made them pay by beating them 5-3:  USM falls to 29-13 on the season:



Next Up For USM:


Who knows?

[AllStar]

USM again failed to show up and UMB made them pay by beating them 5-3:  USM falls to 29-13 on the season:



Next Up For USM:


Who knows?

They should certainly get an NCAA bid, I would think.  However, a strange LEC Tournament so far.

Today, UMass-Dartmouth will play UMass-Boston in an elimination game, while Eastern Connecticut and Western Connecticut will play for a trip to the finals.  Not exactly what I would have predicted.

[BostonBaseball]

This has definitely been a tough tournament to predict to this point. I would think USM gets one of the at large bids.

The LEC has done a good job with the coverage of the tournament. Much better than any other conference tournament I have seen so far.

[ECSUalum]

Congrats to the Western Connecticut Colonials in making it to the LEC tournament final with ECSU.  UMass Boston did a pretty good job with the tournament, however it was painful listening to the Beacon play by play guys... you would have thought UMB was the top team in the country!!!

[hockeyfan77]

USM again failed to show up and UMB made them pay by beating them 5-3:  USM falls to 29-13 on the season:



Next Up For USM:


Who knows?

They should certainly get an NCAA bid, I would think.  However, a strange LEC Tournament so far.

Today, UMass-Dartmouth will play UMass-Boston in an elimination game, while Eastern Connecticut and Western Connecticut will play for a trip to the finals.  Not exactly what I would have predicted.

I think USM will get a bid(especially now that UMB is out) but with the way they have played recently, it's not looking promising for a run of any sort....USM runs into to many outs(4 times they got picked off against UMB) and they have been playing flat recently...I just hope getting spanked in two straight games in the LEC tourney(for the first time in program history) is a wake up call....

[beaconsnation]

Congrats to the Western Connecticut Colonials in making it to the LEC tournament final with ECSU.  UMass Boston did a pretty good job with the tournament, however it was painful listening to the Beacon play by play guys... you would have thought UMB was the top team in the country!!!

Hey ECSUalum, as someone who has watched the entire Beacons athletics department work tirelessly throughout the tournament thank you for the backhanded compliment. If you would like to provide play-by-play for the games, maybe you should reach out to the LEC or UMass Boston sports information department about doing the games. I'm sure that your insight would be so much better than the professional broadcasters UMass Boston employs-including the Jim Nantz Award winner that did multiple games this week.

The fact that you have incessantly derided the Beacons play-by-play broadcasters on these boards shows that you are either petty or oblivious. This is Division III, this is college athletics, point me to an unbiased play-by-play broadcaster employed by a university ,and not a conference, and I will point to 1,000 more who are looking through very tinted glasses. I cannot count the amount of times throughout this tournament that the broadcasters have complimented ECSU players, along with players of every team with insightful commentary behind it. Every broadcaster I've had the pleasure of listening to at UMass Boston has done the research to provide both sides of the story, something I can't say the same about for the majority of broadcasters in the LEC, New England or Division III in general.

[ECSUalum]

Congrats to the Western Connecticut Colonials in making it to the LEC tournament final with ECSU.  UMass Boston did a pretty good job with the tournament, however it was painful listening to the Beacon play by play guys... you would have thought UMB was the top team in the country!!!

Hey ECSUalum, as someone who has watched the entire Beacons athletics department work tirelessly throughout the tournament thank you for the backhanded compliment. If you would like to provide play-by-play for the games, maybe you should reach out to the LEC or UMass Boston sports information department about doing the games. I'm sure that your insight would be so much better than the professional broadcasters UMass Boston employs-including the Jim Nantz Award winner that did multiple games this week.

The fact that you have incessantly derided the Beacons play-by-play broadcasters on these boards shows that you are either petty or oblivious. This is Division III, this is college athletics, point me to an unbiased play-by-play broadcaster employed by a university ,and not a conference, and I will point to 1,000 more who are looking through very tinted glasses. I cannot count the amount of times throughout this tournament that the broadcasters have complimented ECSU players, along with players of every team with insightful commentary behind it. Every broadcaster I've had the pleasure of listening to at UMass Boston has done the research to provide both sides of the story, something I can't say the same about for the majority of broadcasters in the LEC, New England or Division III in general.

Case in point, during the first game ECSU played with USM your announcers had to have mentioned it seemed twice/inning how UMB had won 13 games in a row vs ECSU losing the last 6... it was incessant and absurd.  Everyone knows its a brand new season in the LEC tournament.  It would have been more suitable to discuss the later aspect then to sound like a broken record.
And, its obvious YOU have not listened to much D-III streaming, because there are quite a few broadcasters, (baseball, basketball, soccer etc) who do their job and present an unbiased commentary of the game vs a "legend in your own mind" attitude.
If you have read these boards, you know I am one of the biggest critics of ECSU, and give credit or not where it is due!!
Good luck to the Beacons on their NCAA Regional bid

[ECSUalum]

USM again failed to show up and UMB made them pay by beating them 5-3:  USM falls to 29-13 on the season:



Next Up For USM:


Who knows?

They should certainly get an NCAA bid, I would think.  However, a strange LEC Tournament so far.

Today, UMass-Dartmouth will play UMass-Boston in an elimination game, while Eastern Connecticut and Western Connecticut will play for a trip to the finals.  Not exactly what I would have predicted.

I think USM will get a bid(especially now that UMB is out) but with the way they have played recently, it's not looking promising for a run of any sort....USM runs into to many outs(4 times they got picked off against UMB) and they have been playing flat recently...I just hope getting spanked in two straight games in the LEC tourney(for the first time in program history) is a wake up call....

The Huskies and Coach Flaherty always come up clutch when it counts.  Good luck to them in the NCAA regionals!!

[beaconsnation]

Case in point, during the first game ECSU played with USM your announcers had to have mentioned it seemed twice/inning how UMB had won 13 games in a row vs ECSU losing the last 6... it was incessant and absurd.  Everyone knows its a brand new season in the LEC tournament.  It would have been more suitable to discuss the later aspect then to sound like a broken record.
An its obvious YOU have not listened to much D-III streaming, because there are quite a few broadcasters, (baseball, basketball, soccer etc) who do their job and present an unbiased commentary of the game vs a "legend in your own mind" attitude.
If you have read these boards, you know I am one of the biggest critics of ECSU, and give credit or not where it is due!!
Good luck to the Beacons on their NCAA Regional bid
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3 points:

1. Either you only listened to one of the three ECSU games this weekend or you're extremely lazy in your argument. Also to that one extremely trite point, the juxtaposition that was discussed time and time again in that game vs USM was a 7-game USM winning streak vs a 6-game ECSU losing streak-making the result all the more surprising. Go back and watch the game, the tape doesn't lie. Also when a team is riding the nation's second-longest winning streak into a postseason tournament and just lost, it is a talking point, especially during a 3-hour long baseball game.

2. Don't make assumptions about other people that you don't know to be true. As a Beacons alum myself and a huge supporter of all the teams on campus, I've been disappointed time and time again by poor webcast quality and broadcasters who couldn't take the time to get pronunciations, much less read up about some of our athletes enough to scratch the surface level. This is a problem endemic of all young broadcasters, if there's no one to show them the ropes, they don't learn how to go about preparing for a broadcast. It's especially true of Division III where most schools can't afford to invest in their webcasts. It's one of the biggest reasons I'm such a fan of what ECSU has done over the past couple years with a group entirely made up of students. My point wasn't that everyone was bad, just that sadly more often than not the research isn't put in.

3. Good luck to the Warriors today. Coach LaBranche has done a great job rallying his team this week and they've been fun to watch.

[ECSUalum]

  I watched 95 % of the games played this week, and I am NOT a novice at this, which you seem to assume, unsurprisingly

BTW I thought it was deplorable to play that last game yesterday evening in those conditions, when they knew today was going to be good weather.  Now WCSU team is wasted for the game with Eastern,  not air to which ever team won!!!

[beaconsnation]

I watched 95 % of the games played this week, and I am NOT a novice at this, which you seem to assume, unsurprisingly

BTW I thought it was deplorable to play that last game yesterday evening in those conditions, when they knew today was going to be good weather.  Now WCSU team is wasted for the game with Eastern,  not air to which ever team won!!!

At no point did I say you were a novice, I just think you're wrong and speaking about stuff you might not know as much about. I enjoy the fact that you are one of the few people who cares about the LEC and DIII enough to post, but you're few comments about broadcasting over the years have shown bias and

As to your second point, you're making a claim you don't know everything about. Any decision at this level has to go through multiple parties, everyone involved had to agree to play and did so.

[BostonBaseball]

It's nice to see some passion in here again..only thing it's missing is JCon to chime in.

[ECSUalum]

I watched 95 % of the games played this week, and I am NOT a novice at this, which you seem to assume, unsurprisingly

BTW I thought it was deplorable to play that last game yesterday evening in those conditions, when they knew today was going to be good weather.  Now WCSU team is wasted for the game with Eastern,  not air to which ever team won!!!

At no point did I say you were a novice, I just think you're wrong and speaking about stuff you might not know as much about. I enjoy the fact that you are one of the few people who cares about the LEC and DIII enough to post, but you're few comments about broadcasting over the years have shown bias and

As to your second point, you're making a claim you don't know everything about. Any decision at this level has to go through multiple parties, everyone involved had to agree to play and did so.

Why in God's name would anybody want to play a game in that MESS last night.  Especially when today was beautiful!! Stuff I don't know about???  Spare me!!!  And YOU continue to post like you and the Beacons know about everything, just proves my point!! Legends

[beaconsnation]

I watched 95 % of the games played this week, and I am NOT a novice at this, which you seem to assume, unsurprisingly

BTW I thought it was deplorable to play that last game yesterday evening in those conditions, when they knew today was going to be good weather.  Now WCSU team is wasted for the game with Eastern,  not air to which ever team won!!!

At no point did I say you were a novice, I just think you're wrong and speaking about stuff you might not know as much about. I enjoy the fact that you are one of the few people who cares about the LEC and DIII enough to post, but you're few comments about broadcasting over the years have shown bias and

As to your second point, you're making a claim you don't know everything about. Any decision at this level has to go through multiple parties, everyone involved had to agree to play and did so.

Why in God's name would anybody want to play a game in that MESS last night.  Especially when today was beautiful!! Stuff I don't know about???  Spare me!!!  And YOU continue to post like you and the Beacons know about everything, just proves my point!! Legends

Well at least we can agree on one thing-the Beacons ARE legends! Great year for the team and for the athletic teams across the board! Glad we have a fan in you.

[ECSUalum]

Great job by Western coming out after playing under miserable conditions last night and playing a great game!!
Congrats to Coach LaBranch and the Warriors for coming up clutch, after a tough regular season, and winning the LEC Tournament in Beeeeeconville!!