BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[363dp]

Congratulations to USM, they were, by far, the better team today. Burly was outstanding today at SS. His range was outstanding. The rest of the D and Tim Therrian were also very good. It is the offense that gets so much attention, today they were a complete team.

[KSCfan]

Been away for the weekend coaching my high school team actually down in the land of the Evil Empire.  All i can say is wow i missed an exciting weekend. 

1.  Just what the doctor ordered for Keene this weekend.  Two conference wins against RIC and a good win yesterday against the Brandys.  Bats coming alive is a good sign.  Riley looked alright from people that i talked to from sats game.  I know Chev said Vogt struggled a bit, but if Riley can stablize himself as that weekend starter, it will go a long way for the owls.  I think that they really need to run off a bunch of wins right here, continue to get the young team rolling with confidence.  Amherst, Colby-Sawyer, and Plymouth all on tap this week.  I hate to keep saying this i think that Keene needs to win all three to build on that confidence. 

2. Eastern with a hiccup against umd, gets what they need in Plymouth the following day for a slaughter.  I am really not that worried about Eastern, i still think that they are going to be up there in the end.  THey have two losses now but still not that worried about it.

3.  USM still rollin, rollin rollin.  SOrry couldnt help the LImp Bizkit shout out(whatever happened to those guys?).  Biggest win for them was the sunday win, and boy did they put it on wheaton.  IMPRESSIVE right now.  Should be in the top 5 in the country when new poll comes out

4.  RIC struggling, tough weekend for the ol anchorheads.  Best thing that they can do is move past and try and get back on track. 

5.  UMB yes is in first place in the conference, have they played Keene yet?  USM? Eastern?  I know they sweeped UMD today, but i think that UMD might of peaked the day before against Eastern.  When UMB gets into those three teams i feel you will find out just how good those pesky beacons are.

6. Plymouth-zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

7. Western- a dangerous team with a good pitcher, capable of beating any team in the league.  I see them more as spolier at this point than contender

8. Dartmouth- The true ? of the LEC.  I have no idea, im not sure if Dartmouth has any idea.  I just dont want to see them round 1 in the tournament

[wordsmith]

TEE vs We Never Ever Close PPD 

No make-up date that eye see.


Word

[ECSUalum]

I Googled Coach Holowaty's name and found this interesting 20005 article:

http://w3.sysoff.ctstateu.edu/web/CSUweb_News.nsf/e99960d3f630dfc385256aa700134370/cf122efbe518650e852569f1000c0c58/$FILE/May-June%20Universe%2005.pdf
Click on May-June 2005 and Scroll down to see it

[LEC Fan]

D3baseball.com Top 25

Past Top 25 seasons: 2009 | 2008
Previous Weeks: 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | Preseason
Through games of April 5, 2009
# School (1st votes) Rec. Pts Prev.
1 Eastern Connecticut (15) 18-2 604 1
2 Salisbury (5) 26-4 577 6
3 Millsaps (5) 26-4 562 3
4 Wheaton (Mass.) 20-3 512 2
5 Texas-Tyler 27-6 500 5
6 Wooster 24-4 493 7
7 Trinity (Conn.) 15-3 476 4
8 Southern Maine 14-3 440 8
9 St. Scholastica 14-2 422 9
10 Pomona-Pitzer 25-3 415 14
11 Heidelberg 19-5 400 10
12 Kean 20-6 350 12
13 Linfield 23-5 329 11
14 Cal Lutheran 22-6 283 17
15 Chapman 20-7 227 13
16 St. Thomas 14-5 179 20
17 Buena Vista 19-3 168 23
18 Rochester 19-4 147 22
19 Marietta 14-6 124 15
20 Shenandoah 24-5 116 24
21 Cortland State 16-7 111 19
22 UW-Whitewater 8-5 98 16
23 Augustana 17-6 80 21
24 Christopher Newport 16-6-1 68 18
25 Beloit 16-2 58 --


Looks like Eastern has stayed #1 in the country as of the most recent poll on D3 with Wheaton, Trinity and USM round out the top top 10 for NE teams. Pretty nice to see those NE teams up there as it goes to show the strength of region.

[KSCfan]

Eastern still in first place?  I know im splitting hairs here because at this point in the season is there a difference between 1 and 8, no not really.  I would think that after a loss to less than stellar UMD that they would of dropped.  BUt to echo LEC fan still good to see those NE teams in the top ten.  Where is love for the likes of Suffolk and Curry?

[dchevy5]

KSC at Amherst ppd.  Make-up is Thursday.

[John McGraw]

Eastern still in first place?  I know im splitting hairs here because at this point in the season is there a difference between 1 and 8, no not really.  I would think that after a loss to less than stellar UMD that they would of dropped.  BUt to echo LEC fan still good to see those NE teams in the top ten.  Where is love for the likes of Suffolk and Curry?

You're right, at this point of the season, there's not that much of a difference. I think what the voters are looking at is Eastern's body of work as a whole and the fact that they're still one of the top teams in the country. That being said, no one else this week really did anything else to distinguish themselves so it's not necessarily a surprise that Eastern is still number one.

[ECSUalum]

Montclair 7 ECSU 5 

Starting/relief pitching sub-par today

[hockeyfan77]

USM  downs Endicott  24-15  today(after being down 12-4 in the 3rd)  to improve to 15-3 ( 1-1 LEC)...


Next up for USM:


Husson  tomorrow @ 3:30...

[John McGraw]

Montclair 7 ECSU 5 

Starting/relief pitching sub-par today

Wow. That's a bit of revenge I'd imagine from last year's utter beatdown in the regionals that a better IMO Montclair State team received.

[KSCfan]

Keene is at Colby-Sawyer today and the make up with Amherst is tommorow, and plymouth on friday.  Would be nice to see Keene win these games to gain some confidence as they roll into USM this weekend.  They have the daunting task this week with the ol huskies.  I have a feeling that this weekend  games up in Gorham might be a slugfest.

[Jcon8958]

UMB host Framingham St. tonite then they go to brandies university to play Lasell tommorow b4 returning back to yetten friday and saturday for a single game vs. USM and a DH vs PSU... I really like wat this team is starting to do wit the basts and there pitching is coming along a little bnit more everyday I see them winning 4 out of these next 5 games...

KSCFAN u cant really say they havent played anyone UMD was 3-0 in league play with a sweep over KSC and a win vs. #1 Eastern. But i agree with you to a point I cant wait to see how they do versus the big dogs of the league starting this friday wit USM.

[dchevy5]

KSC at Colby-Sawyer PPD.  No make-up scheduled.  Next up for KSC at Amherst tomorrow.

[ECSUalum]

Eastern Connecticut. 101 001 061 - 10 14  0
Springfield College.   101 000 000 -    2  5  2
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E - Gabordi 2. DP - ECSUBB 1. LOB - ECSUBB 8; Springfield 7. 2B - Schult; Gilblair;
Dewing; Magliola; Schmaltz. HR - Gilblair. HBP - Schmaltz; Mackie; Carhart. SF -
Parke. SB - Perry; Parke 2; Castillo.

Eastern Connecticut            IP  H  R ER BB SO  WP BK HP IBB  AB BF  FO GO
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Andrew Morrison  W,2-0.....   5.0  5  2  1  2  4   0  0  3  0   18 23   5  4
Danny Schmiemann  S,1......   4.0  0  0  0  1  4   0  0  0  0   12 13   6  2

Springfield College            IP  H  R ER BB SO  WP BK HP IBB  AB BF  FO GO
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Steve Forbes  L,1-2........   7.0  7  3  2  1  5   0  0  0  0   28 30   7  9
Adam DeFelice .............   0.0  2  3  1  0  0   0  0  0  0    3  3   0  0
Chris Collard .............   1.1  5  4  1  1  1   0  0  0  0    9 10   3  0
Brian Harris ..............   0.2  0  0  0  0  0   0  0  0  0    2  2   1  1