BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[dgilblair]

Anyone know if ECSU and Amherst is playing today?
Supposed to be a 4:00PM start in Mansfield but was raining here in Fairfield Cty CT

They did play 9 innings witha few sprinkles late in the game.  9-6 Eastern win, starting pitching was not all that effective again......thank you bullpen....Musson actually pitched the 9th for the save.  They got out to a 9-2 lead early and held on for the win.  They really have played some uninspired ball the last couple games, but I guess that happens in the course of a season.  Maybe the bullpen should shift to starting.

[ECSUalum]

D, 

Many thanks for the report.

Hopefully the starting pitching will come around, but thank God for the bullpen and ECSU's pitching depth.

From weather reports, looks like UMD game will be postponed unless something changes.

It was really strange how that Manhattenville frosh pitcher, Levine, had the Warriors so off balance yesterday

Must have had a good breaking ball and looked like he was pitching c 50mph.

see you guys on Saturday for Parents Day

[ECSUalum]

Just saw the box score

Shawn hit another HR

I have never seen a hitter soooo smooth at the plate, a pure hitter.  We he gets back into the groove with a few more innings on the mound LOOK OUT!!!

WAY TO GO SHAWN!!!!!!

I'll tell you Steve Commuso is going to be a fantastic college baseball player!!  Hope Coach H gives him more playing time.

He was a great recruit by Coach H/Coach W this year.

[darkhorse]

Mr. Giblair,

How impressed if at all were you by the Amherst freshman Heller?  The kid is hitting almost .550  through 15games..........is he the real deal?

[KSCfan]

Keene vs MCLA today at the swamp.  330 start there is radio and video feed foranyone that is interested.  Seems to be a long weekend of conference games coming up for teams as most teams play friday and the DH on sat.

[LEC Fan]

KSC vs. MCLA has been postponed, no make up date set. More rain to come this weekend as well so looks like the Owls wont have a chance to make it onto the home field for another week!

http://keeneowls.com/sports/bsb/2008-09/news/20090402MCLAPostponed

Goodluck to the rest of the LEC teams if they get a chance to play this weekend.

[dgilblair]

Just saw the box score

Shawn hit another HR

Should only be two smiles, it was only his second HR, save the third smile for his third of the year.  Just kidding......Thanks alum and Shawn says thanks too.

Commuso is a nice player, swings a mean bat.  Not sure what the deal is with catcher, three different guys have been taking turns back there and I not sure who they like best.  I do think its between Commuso and Cannata as Mags hasn't caught a game in a while, but I'm not sure.  I like Mags back there myself, he's a senior and he was back there all of last year.  I may be being a little bias but I like him there.  Thats why I'm typing here now and coach H is doing what he's doing I guess.

[hockeyfan77]

USM  downs Bridgewater State  7-6  to improve to 13-3 ( 1-1 LEC) on the year...


Next up for USM :

Fri.    3          PLYMOUTH STATE * (@ Wainwright Complex, South Portland) 12:30



#23 on Bridgewater was the whole team today: 2 LONG HR...Very impressive player...

[dgilblair]

Mr. Giblair,

How impressed if at all were you by the Amherst freshman Heller?  The kid is hitting almost .550  through 15games..........is he the real deal?

To be honest with you darkhorse the only guy I was really noticed was Powers, he had just his shortsleeve uniform shirt on and it was freezing.  I was a little distracted during the game talking to a friend (ex players parent), so I didn't pay to good attention....sorry.  Looking at his stats for the year I would think he is for real, at least so far, don't you think?

[ECSUalum]

Recieved this from Jonathan Harper @ the LEC today:

Thank you for the kind words regarding LittleEast.tv.  We are expecting to build on this project throughout the spring, however, connection issues for high-speed internet at outdoor facilities are an issue.  We are attempting to work it out for spring championship coverage.  Rhode Island College has a contract with the same company that we utilize (EZStream) and therefore are listed on our page as well for additional exposure.



Please let me know if there is anything that we can do to better expose the conference.  Thank you!



I am hoping they have ready for the NCAA Regionals@ ECSU in May

Latest from Jonathan Harper Commissioner @LEC

I will tell you that the regional is definitely on the radar.  Thanks!



Jonathan

[darkhorse]

Yeah his stats are unreal for a first year player, he was player of the week for the first week in the NESCA.  I just have yet to see him play.....will get my first chance this weekend ( weather permitting of course) as they will be playing at Hamilton.  Lets hope that the rain holds off for everyones sake and they all get their games it!  

[mans007]

Ahhh! It's nice to be back on the board. Not here to upset anyone but to just throw down my thoughts in a great start to the conference.  Just a note; I have not seen all the teams play at this point. Just taking what i hear and some of what i have seen.
umass D: Suprised at the sweep of ksc. A good feel will be this weekend against ecsu.
ric: Have heard good things but still am alittle bit uneasy about there record seeing how they have played an average schedule. My best guess is they won't be in the running for the top spot but will play heavily into who finishes first because they will play the top teams very tough. My assumption will be which ever team, usm or ecsu, beats sweeps them, that team will finish first.
usm: very good offensive squad but there pitching is very suspect.  They will have a tough time slugging there way in a tourney setting.
ksc: very suprised and dissapointed with there pitching staff. In my book they move from contender to spoiler.  There offense is good, but not good enough to get over there young pitching staff.  I'm dissapointed some of there "older" pitchers didn't step up eariler to take some pressure off some of there good younger pitchers.
ecsu: currently #1 in the country but i don't think they are that team yet.  What is scary about them is that they usually get better as the year goes on and at this point they are pretty good already.  There lineup is what it is; very good and evenly based.  There staff is the scary part.  If there starters improve, they are set up to make a run at a 5th title. If not, they are going to have a very tough time against good pitching (no secret there).  But... they have sooo many quality arms. More so then i've seen in the past years. In my opinion, they have pitchers who  pitch in some jv games who would be in the top 4 in most top D3 rotations. 
On a finishing note; I don't think the LEC is as great as us fans of the conference think. ecsu is good. usm is good but lacks an integral tourney piece (pitching)(add to it i don't think jillson will make it through the season (injury). ric is ok but is not tested. ksc is very young on the mound, and i'm not sure they can handle usm or ecsu (we will see).  GREAT TIME OF YEAR AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THROWING MY OPINIONS OUT FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON!

[KSCfan]

Mans welcome back to the board.  Hope all is well.  Some good points on your analysis of the LEC up until this point.  I agree that Keene and RIC are behind the top two teams at this point, but i think that both of them are very capable of getting hot and running off a bunch of wins in a row.  (see Ric LEC tourny 05).  I wouldnt write them off yet. 

On another note, lets hope that this rainy weather in NE holds off today as teams are playing around the LEC.  Im excited for a Keene UMB game in the swamp, however i dont know if the swamp can take a lot of water.  And i look forward to RIC and Western.  It should be interesting if Armstrong from Western pitches.  Looking ahead to the doubles on sat, the RIC Keene dh i think is the best of the weekend.  I feel like the pressure is on Keene to take both if they want to seriously contend for the LEC this year, it would be tough to already have 3 losses in conference before even playing USM and Eastern.  If Keene can win this weekend, which will be a lot to ask, it might calm them down a little and be just what they need to go on a little roll

[KSCfan]

Oh i also forgot i wanted to throw out some predictions for the long weekend of games

Friday games
USM over Plymouth 10-4 USM's bats do the talking
Keene over UMB 8-4.  Keene's young pitching staff pitches well in the swamp, Keene gets chev back after a week off the ankle stabilizes line-up and they get some good pitching (Chev5 hows the ankle)
RIC over Western 9-8  Couple of errors lead to the high score, RIC hits a ball down left that rolls down the hill and out of sight.  My god is Western's field terrible
Eastern over UMD 13-3 Not even close

Sat games
Owls sweep at RIC  no other explanation other than im a homer for Keene.  Both teams need the sweep.  Im saying that the Keene bats pepper the wall.
Southern Maine splits with Western.  Im going out on a limb but i think that the Armstrong kid shuts down the Huskies enough , and Western hits enough to win the first game, and then USM gets screamed by Coach and smash them in the second game
UMB splits with UMD- battle of the Umass teams sees a split.  Ill even throw a bone out to JConn and say that Adriano actually hits his spots once on  a sat and they win.
Eastern whacks plymouth in what is a murderous weekend for the Panthers

[mainefan]

USM vs Plymouth has been postponed due to weather.