BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[wordsmith]

Nice win (any win is nice) today for the Owls.  Continued to hit well, pitchers held them to one less run than they scored, and defense bad.  Callahan had a quiet day but others picked it up.  Hopkins is very big, reminds me of USM, and can hit.  Will be very tough when it is all said and done- as usual.

Keene's pitching is a concern on one hand, but they have some very good arms that have been making their first ever college appearances, and will only get better.  I see a lot of high scoring games, but by tournament time,  I think the staff will have come a very long way.  The LEC will be a war this year.

Word- spoke to your boy this morning.  Very nice young man.  I remember him as a very hard-nosed player who gave his all.  I especially remember his outstanding defense in center field.  Some amazing diving catches.

WNEC is having a very bad week so far in more ways than one.  Bad enough they start 0-3, but yesterday they had no umpires and had to wait over 2 hours to start their game.  Today, they had a 10:00 game on Snediger 1 (KSC-Hopkins on Snediger 2 at 9:30), but the sprinklers were on all night (stuck?) and the field was flooded and unplayable.  They then got pushed back to 7 PM tonight as no other fields were available.

KSC has been very fortunate.  In four years, no problems at all such as WNEC has had this week.

Dchevy5,

Thanks for the kind words. He always played to the very best of his ability. Too bad about him...he was a decent hitter until he tore his labrum in his senior year of high school. He never seemed to recover. We called him Crash for all the times he ran into centerfield fences.

Word

[hockeyfan77]

5. Southern maine still yet to play.  THey are 1-1 but i think that it is far to early to offer any kind of analysis on them yet.
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USM is actually   2-1....

[santeezy06]

RIC in a tough one currently 9-4 top of 6th going MIT's way. In a game where nothing seems to go right pitching struggling, defense and offense struggling. We'll see if they can pull it off, theirs still alot of game to go.

[ecfaninri]

santeezy...
Ain't getting any better going into the 9th - down 14-6. But its nice to see RIC has a live feed of the game.

[santeezy06]

ecfaninri,

Terrible game by the boys today, as I said earlier pitching was horrible and defense and offense weren't much better. This was one of the worst performances I have seen out of this team in 4 years of following them. I'm glad they have the live stream for most home games though. They'll need to tighten alot up before thursday or I feel a crushing coming on to Wheaton.

[wordsmith]

KSC 15- 1 William Paterson in the 6th. Owls have sub'd liberally.

Offense is rollin' rollin' rollin'

WENC wins their first (sorry no TCCC site so I gotta brag here). Someone pulled a Bull Durham and turned/left the sprinklers on all night long.

Word

[ecfaninri]

Seems like KSC had some pitching today.

[wordsmith]

Seems like KSC had some pitching today.

Pitching was better from what I was able to hear. Lots and lots and lots and lots of Freshmen pitchers on the roster.

I don't think I have ever seen so many freshmen pitchers on one roster. Have a look. 12 by my count.

http://www.keeneowls.com/sports/bsb/2008-09/roster


WNEC won 35-6 today for real
Word

[dgilblair]

ECSU wins a tough one today.  http://nutmeg.easternct.edu/athletics/men_baseball/ecbb0317.htm
Schmiemann got the win, first of many for him I hope.  Not a stellar game for us, couple of guys thrown out at the plate, with Kingsley dislocating his pinky finger sliding into home.  That sucks he was really having fun and doing some good things.

Albertus has played a couple nice games against us and they gave Maine a run for their money on Long Island this past weekend losing 5-1. 

ecfaninri, I did talk to Matt today before teh game, he said wasn't real happy with his performance against Farmingdale on Friday.  I told him he looked fine and oh by the way they did beat USM the next day so I guess he didn't look to bad.  He pitched well again tonight. 

[KSCfan]

Owls offense looking a lot more like USM offense lately.  Def exciting to see the owls hit the ball around the park as well as they have.  The young pitchers seemed to be holding ok so far.  I have also noticed that the owls have not thrown Chevy yet.  I dont know if he is going to spot start either tommorow against Roger Williams, or Following day against Ponoma.  Chevy5 im sure you prob have a better idea.  SHould be getting back to Pelky and Boden either tommorow or Friday.  I am excited to see how that works out because i want to see if Pelky can put together a couple of solid starts in a row, and if Boden can bounce back from getting roughed up last time.  The owls are going to need these young arms to make some noise in NE this year. 

[wordsmith]

I mentioned earlier that WNEC beat-up on a team yesterday 35-4.

But did ya'll see this score??? 


Tenn. Temple  71  Birmingham-Southern  12  Final   

71 runs
You score 12 and still lose by 59

I coached a game where my team led 21-0 after the first half inning. It was one of the most difficult coaching experiences I ever had. We stopped stealing at 15-0. Game took about 3 hours to play 5 innings. Scored ended at 38-0, and I got called-out in the paper the next day for running it up . Funny the other team walked in like 18 or 19 runs. I asked the reporter the next day what would you have done, he replied he would have had the players go up to bat and swing at the first 3 pitches to intentionally strike out or to bat opposite handed. To which I replied "You never played baseball did you?" Nope was his reply.

I think he is off saving whales or spotted owls now in some remote part of the planet.

Word 

[KSCfan]

Wow what team puts up 79 runs, dear lord that is some serious production.  I thought that WNEC's score was bad yesterday but that is nothing to that.  Its funny when you talk to people that have never played the game and they like to offer thier "advice" on what they would of done.

[LEC Fan]

Guys I also saw that score of 71-12 but did some research, the final score was 12-7 there was a typo on the score...I was shocked when I first saw the score on the D3 so I went to the individual websites for the school and one of them had the score at 12-7. We probably would have heard more about it if it was 71 runs!!!!!

Word, I also have the pleasure of knowing you son for quite some time and he is such a great kid, I do recall his "ESPN Highlight Reel" catches! I hope he can recover quickly and safely from the knee but I would think the injury is just another notch in the belt for him!

Goodluck to the LEC teams finishing up there spring trips and for those who are just beginning!

[wordsmith]

LECFan,
Thanks for the nice comments, yep another notch in the belt, 3 concussions, 2 sports hernias, 1 broken arm, 10 stitches in the upper lip, 1 torn shoulder labrum, and 1 torn ACL. I guess he gets his money's worth huh?

On another note: Interesting point about the recent D-III Poll;

A Little Matrix fun for a couple of the NE Teams and Johns Hopkins a common opp. between the teams. The matrix shows Preseason Ranking and each week thereafter, the ranking and points each week and the culumative record of each team. KSC, I know my bias, went from 30 to off the charts and never played a game whilst other teams went .500 and dropped only marginally.

I have mentioned this before, and had the feedback, Oh Word, chill, Keene will get there respect in due time. (That actually came from a coach of one of the teams listed below.) Well, here we are 3 years later, 1 ECAC, 2 NCAA, and quite frankly I think the voters just forget about teams other than the 'brand names'.  I could have listed Trinity, but, you get my point......

Opinions??

                    Preseason               Wk1                  Wk 2             Wk 3               Wk 4

EConn             13/284                    12/304                11/328         8/398                5/435 (4-0)

USM                 10/377                    9/378                   8/405          7/447              13/301 (2-1)

KSC                  30/50                      31/20                  37/14          38/13               NR/0  (2-2) 

Wheaton         19/147                  19/163                 19/172        23/117             12/305 (9-1)  8)

Johs Hopk.       5/465                    4/489                   3/506         5/469 (1-1)       14/271 (3-3)


Word

[dchevy5]

KSCFAN

Chevy has an ankle injury that has kept him from getting much prep work done in the gym, and even he doesn't know if it will hold up on the mound.  I think he will eventually take the mound, not sure if it will be in Arizona or later on.

I had posted my opinion earlier that Cory Vogt is a young pitcher to watch on the KSC staff.  He made his first start yesterday and was very effective, getting a nice win against William Patterson.  One very big stat - zero walks!!.  Nice movement on his fastball.

I have no idea who is starting for the Owls today.  Pelkey and Boden will be on full rest tomorrow, so I would guess they will go against Roger Williams, then Riley and ? on Friday.  It would be Perrault but he came out of his first start in the second inning with an arm problem.  Don't know it his status, but hope he is ok.  He gave up hits to his first 3 batters (the 3rd hit being a home run) and was down 3-0 before he could take a breath.  But, then he struck out the 4-5-6 hitters, so, I am anxious to see more of him.