BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[Jcon8958]

Put it out of reach in the 8th no reason for them to lose now.

[santeezy06]

RIC downs Framingham State 12-5, improving to (12-3) on the season. Next up is Salem State tomorrow.

[ECSUalum]

ECSU 7 Buena Vista 6

ECSU undefeated in Arizona

Next USM Saturday!!!!

[LEC Fan]

Keene State beat up on Springfield College today 17-2

Bats again looked hot and not sure who pitched but limited The Pride to only 2 runs, Springfield had been looking tough with a close loss to Trinity (CT) the day before.

LEC Baseball is finally around the corner!!!

[ECSUalum]

LEC may have the 4 best teams in the country!!!!

Hope RIC, and Keene get ranked or some votes in next polls

Top 4 teams have really kicked butt thus far

[LEC Fan]

Alum- ECSU, USM, RIC, and KSC are looking to be the top of the LEC this year with pretty good records from the get go. The front runner right now has to be ECSU with the hitting AND pitching with the other 3 teams still looking for top tier starters. As the LEC season unfolds the biggest grind will be on the mound for those 3, excited to see who can step up for the Huskies, Owls, and Anchormen on the rubber.

News for the Swamp- Jeff Perkins (Sr.) Centerfielder was named ECAC Co-Player of the Week today. Led the Owls in Arizona to a 6-6 record while hitting .538 (21-38) he had 10 doubles, 3 triples, 19 runs scored and 18 RBI's in 12 games. Silent leader for the Owls this year.

Also, that freshman Callahan for KSC had another HR today along with 3 RBI's in the win over Springfield. 6 HR's and 27 RBI's for the frosh at the start of his career, pretty impressive for a rookie.

[dchevy5]

Freshman Jeff Pelkey started for the Owls today.  Very good outing.  5 innings, 2 hits,  no runs, no walks (he hit 3 batters.  Nice relief appearances of 1 inning each by O'brian, O'donell, Salo, and Thiesing.  Only Theising gave up runs 2, 1 earned, but really should have been 2 unearned as 2 infield misplays, one scored a hit (?).    Pelkey has now started 3 games and beat TCNJ and Springfield, while getting knocked out in the first inning against Roger Williams.  A real battler and a good athlete.  I hear perhaps Riley and Sonberg are going Saturday.  Tomorrow at Babson  I am guessing Boden, good potential but poor results so far.

The bats were good today- Doyan, Diprato, and Callahan went deep.  19 hits I think.  Subs in after the 5th and 6th.  Defense was much better.  NO errors until the ninth.  Not so coincidently, that is when Springfield scored there runs.

Good luck to USM and ECSU this weekend.  I hope you split!!

Nice day in Springfield today.  Sunny, no wind, and 54 degrees.  I'll take that.

[dgilblair]

With the spring trip complete now with a perfect 13 0 record, setting a new school record for best start of a season, ranked #1 in the country, you would have to say this is some team they have at ESCU.  This is all nice but if they don't start playing better defense it will not last.  .938 fielding is not going to cut it, but the up side to that is I think it will improve. You give a good team like Buena Vista 6 errors and still win thats not going to keep happening.  This really is a solid team, team being the key word, so many guys contribute it's just a lot of fun watching them play and I can't fully imagine how much fun it must be playing on a team that has been this good so far.  I don't think has fully hit its stride.  Do I think they can play better, you bet I do with the exception of Castillo, he has been unreal at 3b.  Pitchers are not helping themselves on defense either, the staff has a few bad timing errors to their resume this year so far.  Pitching as a whole has been good and think that will get better has the season moves on.  What can you say about the offense?  So far its been the best I've seen in the last five years.  Lots of good hitters on the dang bench, guys are bringing the coach water in the dugout, offering him their ranch seeds just so they might get an at bat.....never seen such a thing.  They might be really good but we will see, long way to go.  This weekend will say something thats for sure, if someone sweeps this weekend it would give them a hugh foot up I would think.  I can feel it already.  

Can't wait to see that Callahan kid play for Keene and congrats to all the LEC kids for their honors this past week.

[d3ball123]

"Lots of good hitters on the dang bench, guys are bringing the coach water in the dugout, offering him their ranch seeds just so they might get an at bat.....never seen such a thing."


Huh?  I don't understand the correlation between this sentence and an undefeated start.

[dgilblair]

"Lots of good hitters on the dang bench, guys are bringing the coach water in the dugout, offering him their ranch seeds just so they might get an at bat.....never seen such a thing."


Huh?  I don't understand the correlation between this sentence and an undefeated start.

Was a little bit of a haha.....guess not.  What it means is the guys on the bench are working their butts off and doing what ever it takes to get a shot at helping this team win.  Holowaty is using the bench to a tee and the guys know they will get a chance and in most cases getting the job done when their number is called.  It really wasn't funny now that I read it again.

[hockeyfan77]

USM drops 21 runs on Calvin ( in 6 innings) for a 21-5 victory to improve USM's record to 11-1...USM Head Coach Ed Flaherty Gets Win #700



Next up for USM:    Sat.   28    at    Eastern Connecticut  (DH)  *  2:00

[KSCfan]

Good start from Pelky yesterday to get the W under his belt.  17 runs is a lot of runs to score.  Mid-week games are not really the games that worry me with this offense.  I feel that Keene's bats will hit weaker teams mid week starters.  Its the sat that i am worried about.  It should be interesting to see what Keene does this sat against the Corsairs of Umass Dartmouth.  Today would be a good win for the swamp owls as they head to Babson to play Babson.  This was suppoused to be a home game for the owls but swamp conditions not playable yet.  Keene will play as the home team.  Babson is a quality team and an in region game that Keene needs to win, espically after dropping a in-region pair to Roger Williams earlier in the year.

[ecfaninri]

Heading home today from AZ after seeing some good baseball and a lot of talent from Eastern and other NE teams (Williams, Colby, Middlebury, USM, and MIT). DIdn't get a chance to see Eastern vs. Buena Vista but got the play by play through phone texts and calls as we were traveling through the Sedona and Hoover Dam region. Thank God for cell phones.
DGilblair... I agree with your assessment about the bench. The most interesting spot is the catcher with all three catchers hitting the ball well and handling pitchers effectively. I just hope Wojick gets a little rest for the weekend. We'll see you on the hill on Saturday.
Darn... I have to go to work tomorrow.

[Jcon8958]

Santeezy any update on Cardoso is he going to play Saturday?

Boys we have reached the time of year that we have all been waiting since last Ma.... time for little east baseball again. Looks like theres going to be alot of great games all season long like to hear some predictions for this weekends game.

ECSU sweeps USM.... To much offense for ECSU and not enough pitching for USM there offense can score to but pitching wins ball games USM doesnt have enough of it.

KSC sweeps UMD...... KSC can hit the ball UMD cant. KSC pitching is young and struggles at times but I doubt that there losing to UMD if the do thats a huge upset.

WCSU splits with PSU Armstrong out of WCSU is the real deal his numbers to show how good he has pitched thus far this season. And WCSU can hit the ball a little bit to I think they roll in game one but dont have anybody to throw game 2 and lose that one.

AND FINALLY...................

UMB splits with RIC.... This is subject to change on whether Cardoso plays or not I think if he doesnt play the beacons finally get of the losing streak verus RIC and sweep them in there house. Andriano pitched very well versus this team last year and I think he is going to pitch another great game versus this team and I think there lineup will chew up those pitchers in the RIC bullpen if there just throwing fastballs over the plate like they did versus Wheaton.

LETS GET IT GOINGGGG

[ecfaninri]

JCon... I like your predictions... I just hope Eastern's defense doesn't resort to '08 this weekend. And I do hope UMB can at least split with RIC.

Gotta go..... heading to the airport.