BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[ECSUalum]

7express welcome aboard, its good to have an outsider join us! (somebody other than USM, ECSU, KSC, UMB), look forward to your insight and updates...

Yes, 7express, I 2nd the welcome to the Baseball side!!  Your Basketball analysis this past year was terrific.  Looks like the WCSU Colonials may make some noise this year!!  Good Luck to them, the LEC Conference seems to be wide open for some new blood to take over.

[RICfann]

Ric finishs up their trip going 5-4. One thing about this team is they have gotten some pretty decent pitching performances but the thing that is killing the anchormen to this point are the errors. They are averaging right around 4 errors a game and it is really killing them giving other teams extra chances. Nothing better then coming back to snowy new england. Ric opens back up wednesday at Roger Williams. Good to see a lot of the LEC teams playing well to this point, have to expect a turnaround for Boston after their slow start

[7express]

Yes, 7express, I 2nd the welcome to the Baseball side!!  Your Basketball analysis this past year was terrific.  Looks like the WCSU Colonials may make some noise this year!!  Good Luck to them, the LEC Conference seems to be wide open for some new blood to take over.

Next year could be good.  I've heard some rumors DaQuan may be looking to play professionally next year.  Hopefully he stays around because we could be a top 20 team with him there, probably middle of the pack without him.  Women will really struggle losing the big 3.  Hopefully baseball makes some noise this year, but were definatly not as good as the top teams.  As long as we can get into the LEC tournament anything can happen.  Luckily its a marathon, not a sprint, so we'll see what happens.

[hockeyfan77]

St. Olaf Blanks Southern Maine 2-0: USM drops to 5-4 (0-0 in the LEC)...



Next up for USM:


Wed.   23    vs    M.I.T.  (@ Winter Haven, Fla.)                           9:00

[kscer]

It's great to see KSC get off to a good start, but I question the quality of their opponents. I don't think any of the teams they played except for Cortland are that strong. Where were TCNJ, Johns Hopkins, Brockport State,etc.? Any Comments from the fans out there?

[Old Man]

It's great to see KSC get off to a good start, but I question the quality of their opponents. I don't think any of the teams they played except for Cortland are that strong. Where were TCNJ, Johns Hopkins, Brockport State,etc.? Any Comments from the fans out there?

This was KSC opponents records and where they played post season last year -
I think they all are solid opponents when you schedule a year in advance.
     OPPONENT                   PLACE                   W   L   
St. Josephs College LI   @ Farmingdale   18   21   
Farmingdale State                   @ Farmingdale   25   17   NCAA
WNEC                                   @ Farmingdale   34   12   NCAA- POSTPONED
Suffolk                                                      21   16   
FDU-Madison                                      33   11   ECAC
Cortland                                                      40   10   NCAA
St. Joes – ME                                      35   13   NCAA
Oneonta                                                      31   13   NCAA
Salem State                                      18   18   
Clarkson                                                      19   18   
Roger Williams                                      12   25   


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[mainebaseball11]

Compare this to the schedule that USM is playing in Florida and it is weak. Regardless of if there are tough teams mixed in for Keene, a couple easy games can make a trip go much easier. USM began with Cortland, Amherst, Trinity (DH), and St. Olaf today. The trip doesn't get any easier with MIT Wednesday (who is playing very well), and #2 Stevens Point Thursday. The Huskies should be well prepared for LEC opponents when they arrive home. They certainly have faced some tough pitching thus far

[ECSUalum]

Maine

As the LEC or NCAA gives no trophy for the SOS of a team's Florida or Arizona trip, who cares if its difficult or easy, as long as you win against the weak teams.  The LEC Championship is all that really matters which gets you a shot at the tournament that really counts......Grand Chute WI!!! Ask UMass Boston!!!!

[ECSUalum]

TUCSON -- Senior Robert Perry (Manchester) fueled a nine-run eighth-inning with an inside-the-park home run to power the Eastern Connecticut State University baseball team to a 17-8 win over the University of Wisconsin-Superior Monday afternoon at Kino Sports Complex.

Trailing 4-3, Eastern  (7-2) scored nine runs after there were two out and one runner on in the eighth on eight hits. Senior Joe Cousineau (Newington) tied the game with an RBI single and Perry put the Warriors ahead for good with his inside-the-park home run.

First-year sophomomre Mike Riemer (Ellingfon), son of 1978 Eastern first-team All-America Mark Riemer, gained his first win at Eastern in relief. Freshman righty Greg Porter (Mystic) started in his first collegiate appearance, pitching into the fifth inning.

Eastern collected 18 hits in the game. Senior Andrew Dewing (Swampscott, MA) and sophomore Joe Balowski (Berlin) both had three hits. Balowski had a double, eighth-inning triple and drove in three runs and Dewing plated two runs. Junior Steve Cammuso (Rutland, MA) and Perry eadch had two hits. Cammuso drove in four runs, Perry two.

Eastern faces Hamline College Tuesday at Tucson

[KSCfan]

KSCer- a couple of things.  First is Keene went to Flordia this year instead of going to Arizona.  With the trip to Florida comes different teams.  Like Old Man posted (good post old man by the way) Keene scheduled the best competition they could down in Winter Haven.  St Joes was ranked in the pre-season top 8 in New England, WNEC was too in Farmingdale but that game was postponed.  I have no problem with Keene's early season schedule.  They played three teams that played in the NCAA last year, i think they scheduled the best they could with the teams that were down there the same time they where.  Different schools have different weeks also could of been a factor.  I think that Keene is going to be very good this year and so far they have shown that. 

Next up for Keene tommorow at Springfield.

[LEC Fan]

It doesn't matter who the opponent is...weak or #1 in the country...GET THE W


For some reason I don't think KSC will see the field (anywhere) for the next week or so...gotta love the weather in New England!

[7express]

Western clobbers Carroll college in a double header sweep yesterday.  For the day, the Colonials pounded out 37 runs on 36 hits while allowing Carroll only 7 runs on the day.  Game 1 was an 18-5 Colonial win, game 2 was a 19-2 Western win.  Western improves to 4-2 Carroll falls to 0-3.  Western has Tuesday off, and faces SUNY-Paltz in a double header Wednesday, March 23.  Game times scheduled for 10:00 AM and 1:00 PM.

[Jcon8958]

UMB gets back on the field today VS JWU trying to build on there last game in FLA.

[hockeyfan77]

Southern Maine Rallies to Down M.I.T., 7-4   to improve to 6-4 (0-0 in the LEC)....


Next Up for USM:


Thu.   24    vs    Wisconsin-Stevens Point  (@ Auburndale, Fla.)           11:00

[ECSUalum]

ECSU takes two in two days from Hamline 13-7 and 13-4

Yesterday:

Score by Innings                           R  H  E
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Hamline University.. 010 000 204 -     7  9  1
Eastern Connecticut. 321 022 120 - 13 18  2
W- Furber , (1-1)   L Benford (0-1)

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