BB: LEC: Little East Conference

Jcon8958 · March 30, 2011, 12:51:49 PM

As my esteemed colleauge KSCFAN point out yes UMB beat FSU yesterday 12-9...They had up to Standish today to take on St. Joes which should be a good test despite the fact St. Joes who also got out of the gate slow but has also won 4 straight games... As I will keep saying it looks to be coming together for this team.

Also KSCFAN if you can please point out when I said it was 10x better I would like to see that.

KSCfan · March 30, 2011, 01:59:30 PM

Jconn my most sincere apologies on paraphrasing your comments you said

"KSC played a FAR FARR FARRR spring trip than UMB"

My point doesnt change that thier strength of schedule was pretty similar and keene and UMBust's records were not really that close. Good test today for the Beacons as they take on St Joe's of Maine.

Keene has WNEC tommorow. Anyone going to the game becuase i am going to go to the game myself.

7express · March 30, 2011, 03:24:02 PM

Due to poor field conditions at West Conn, West Conn has a change of schedule this week:

Tuesday's scheduled game against Westfield state was moved to Tuesday, April 5 at 3:30. Satuday's double header with Southern Maine has been moved to Sunday, April 3rd with game times slated for 12 and 3. Sunday's scheduled game against FDU-Florham will now be played Wednesday, May 4 instead. Today's game at Ramapo looks like its still being played as Mike Yates left class at 12 noon today for a hit before they got on the bus.

Jcon8958 · March 30, 2011, 03:41:33 PM

I love how you keep calling the UMBust...Exactly how many WS has KSC made it to??? WE ARE 1/4 INTO THE SEASON AND HAVENT EVEN STARTED LEC PLAY. I will say this KSC starts out the year hot every year but can never get over the top I hear the same song and dance from you EVERY SINGLE YEAR. KSC is going to do this and that and this. But at the end of the day they never seem to be able to get it done. So all this UMBust stuff just stop you are making yourself look silly.

KSCfan · March 30, 2011, 08:43:44 PM

Jconn i am impressed with you, i thought you would of played the world series card before now. Same song and dance? what would that be just curious? I like the UMBust tag, if you dont like that one how about UmassHangover because so far they have played like they have one from last year. Nah i still like UMBust.

Speaking of UMBust, they go down to St Joes of Maine today in extras. Interesting to see that UMB brought in Dalton in relief for two innings. Im assuming that he is going to start on sat for conference play. Prob wont impact him on sat but i guess UMBust really wanted this game. Something to keep an eye on for sat's games

Stump · March 30, 2011, 09:00:08 PM

Quote from: KSCfan on March 30, 2011, 08:43:44 PM
Jconn i am impressed with you, i thought you would of played the world series card before now. Same song and dance? what would that be just curious? I like the UMBust tag, if you dont like that one how about UmassHangover because so far they have played like they have one from last year. Nah i still like UMBust.

Speaking of UMBust, they go down to St Joes of Maine today in extras. Interesting to see that UMB brought in Dalton in relief for two innings. Im assuming that he is going to start on sat for conference play. Prob wont impact him on sat but i guess UMBust really wanted this game. Something to keep an eye on for sat's games

Dalton threw 2.2 innings,55 pitches 4 k's. 1 BB, 1 hbp, 1 wp. Probably would have been a day to throw before the weekend anyway , so probably should not effect the weekend. I would definitely say they wanted the game but then both teams needed this game to recover from their poor Florida trips.

ECSUalum · March 30, 2011, 09:19:05 PM

Quote from: KSCfan on March 30, 2011, 08:43:44 PM
Jconn i am impressed with you, i thought you would of played the world series card before now. Same song and dance? what would that be just curious? I like the UMBust tag, if you dont like that one how about UmassHangover because so far they have played like they have one from last year. Nah i still like UMBust.

Speaking of UMBust, they go down to St Joes of Maine today in extras. Interesting to see that UMB brought in Dalton in relief for two innings. Im assuming that he is going to start on sat for conference play. Prob wont impact him on sat but i guess UMBust really wanted this game. Something to keep an eye on for sat's games

KSCFan,

It is useless trying to reason with the Mr Beaconville, (alias Jconn). Most of the time he is in LA LA Land anyway, Blah Blah, Blah.

If UMB sucks wind the rest of the season, we will see JConn disappear from the commentary as usual

I personally think it will be KSC's year to show up at the CWS!! Good Luck to the Owls

ECSU has to show they can win against strong competition, which, other than Hopkins,(win), and Kean, (loss), they have not seen.

ECSUalum · March 30, 2011, 09:50:58 PM

Some LEC stats:

2011 NCAA Division III Baseball
Little East Leaders Summary as of Mar 30, 2011
(All games)

TEAM BATTING G Avg AB R H 2B 3B HR BB SO SB-ATT
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Keene State College. 11 .353 425 99 150 24 4 4 38 61 21-24
Western Connecticut. 13 .347 395 92 137 29 7 9 45 83 5-11
Eastern Connecticut. 15 .347 580 156 201 25 16 5 73 91 22-30
Southern Maine...... 13 .344 471 107 162 38 9 9 51 63 29-36
Rhode Island College 12 .305 380 80 116 17 4 4 65 70 13-18
UMass Boston........ 12 .303 406 85 123 17 1 10 47 96 39-48
UMass Dartmouth..... 13 .297 428 74 127 13 5 4 51 61 4-7
Plymouth State...... 14 .261 414 67 108 24 2 7 52 62 17-21
Totals..............    51 .321 3499 760 1124 187 48 52 422 587 150-195

TEAM PITCHING G ERA W L Sv IP H R ER BB SO
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Keene State College. 11 3.75 9 2 2 96.0 97 54 40 39 93
Rhode Island College 12 3.86 6 6 0 95.2 114 66 41 26 78
Western Connecticut. 13 4.03 6 7 1 91.2 112 58 41 40 74
Eastern Connecticut. 15 4.21 12 3 1 132.2 146 75 62 69 104
Southern Maine...... 13 4.25 8 5 2 108.0 111 69 51 44 91
UMass Boston........ 12 5.05 5 7 1 101.2 107 75 57 44 72
Plymouth State...... 14 5.73 4 10 2 103.2 110 76 66 59 86
UMass Dartmouth..... 13 6.60 6 7 1 105.0 159 96 77 50 68
Totals..............    51 4.69 56 47 10 834.1 956 569 435 371 666

TEAM FIELDING G PO A E Pct DP PB SBA-ATT
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Eastern Connecticut. 15 399 160 18 .969 15 9 23-30
Southern Maine...... 13 324 136 17 .964 9 2 22-30
Plymouth State...... 14 311 143 19 .960 9 6 30-38
UMass Dartmouth..... 13 315 136 23 .951 10 4 22-26
UMass Boston........ 12 305 134 25 .946 8 6 10-12
Western Connecticut. 13 275 100 22 .945 5 3 15-21
Keene State College. 11 288 118 24 .944 9 3 14-20
Rhode Island College 12 287 122 29 .934 12 1 21-27
Totals..............    51 2504 1049 177 .953 77 34 157-204

INDIVIDUAL BATTING
Min 2.5 AB/Team game G Avg AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR BB
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Kyle Allaire-RIC..........    12 .512 43 11 22 4 0 0 0 6
Danny O'Connell-ECSU.....14 .462 52 11 24 15 1 1 0 3
Jim Schult-ECSU........... 15 .458 59 21 27 16 3 5 1 14
Mike Eaton-USM............ 13 .451 51 14 23 15 2 2 3 7
M. Yates-WCSU............. 12 .447 38 11 17 5 1 1 0 3
C. Bierfeldt-WCSU......... 11 .447 38 11 17 22 6 2 3 2
Tyler DiPrato-KSC......... 11 .447 47 12 21 12 3 0 0 6
Dan Hopkins-RIC........... 12 .444 36 9 16 9 2 0 1 11
Matt Ryan-UMD............. 13 .440 50 11 22 9 1 1 2 6
Josh Mackey-USM........... 13 .419 43 12 18 13 2 2 0 10
Larry Longo-KSC........... 11 .413 46 11 19 11 3 0 1 3
Ryan Walsh-UMB............ 12 .408 49 17 20 18 2 1 5 5

Jcon8958 · March 31, 2011, 01:47:42 AM

ECSUALUM I dont recall ever running from my comments so do me a favor and stop talking nonsense.... And KSCFAN the same song and dance is oh KSC is this and that but they can not ever get over the top.....AND the reason they threw Dalton is because he has not thrown in 7 days...its called keeping him sharp. I cant wait to see KSC play UMB so they can EXPOSE THEM FOR THE FRAUD TEAM (as always) THAT THEY ARE....there pitching will never hold up in the LEC. And ECSUALUM what are those stats about?

? when is the last time ECSU went deep in the Tourney?

?.....long enought that your coach was wearing a Tufts hat last year...go back to the hole you have ben hiding in . Fact of the matter is as followed UMB doesnt have 1 of there best players (fontaine) and they are still the best team in this league. I have said enough those are the facts take them as you will.

hockeyfan77 · March 31, 2011, 03:31:01 AM

Bridgewater State Rallies to Down Southern Maine 10-9 USM falls to 9-6 (0-0 in the LEC):

Next up for USM:

Sat. 2 at Western Connecticut (DH) * 12:00

KSCfan · March 31, 2011, 07:22:28 AM

Jconn-

How does keene not get over the top? Keene has the same number of conference tournament wins as UMbust, they have been to three regionals where as umbust has been to one. Yes UMBust did get hot and win the regional and go to the world series, but they flamed out and went two and out in the World Series. And they were never really in either game. The sign of a hot team coming back down to earth. Think Colorado Rockies playoff run in 2007, hot ran through the NL, then came crashing back down to earth against the Red Sox. I cant believe I am going to defend the evil empire here, and I might get thrown out of the swamp on my head for doing so but Jconn come on about Eastern and NCAA play. Im all for jabbing and poking fun, thats what makes this board fun but no rational man can talk smack about Eastern and the NCAA tournament....... then again some argue that Jconn is not rational. But i digress

I understand keeping Dalton sharp, but 55 pitches is a good amount to then turn around and come back two days later. I would of thought they would of thrown him in thier tuesday game against fitchburg. Im not knocking the decesion by Coach E, becuase he is a very good coach and knows Dalton and his staff I just thought it might be something to keep an eye on for this weekend.

I am failing to see how a team that is what 4-7 as the best team in the league.

On to something more fun to talk about than UMBust. Keene is playing WNEC today at WNEC. Should be a great game as both teams are pretty good. Should be interesting to see who Keene starts on the mound with RIC right around the corner on sat for the opening day of the LEC tournamet. It was nice to see the stats posted above that shows Keene leads the league in pitching and hitting. Hitting was no surprise, but pitching was a question mark leading into the season and so far pitching has not been an issue.

Stump · March 31, 2011, 08:18:50 AM

KSCfan:
Great point about rationality, I love the passion of the LEC board, poking fun and taking jabs at each other but it's generally easy to see it's all in fun(with allowances for hometown passion). The LEC board is by far the most entertaining and enlightening of all NE because of the passion and insight of the posters. Jconn seems to have nothing but the hometown passion.

On the Dalton point, maybe the Beacons were more worried with St. Joe's than they were with Dartmouth on the weekend. Taking the weekend for granted??

LEC Fan · March 31, 2011, 08:54:43 AM

Couple of points to touch on here...

First, interesting move by Boston to throw Dalton in the 8th inning @ St. Joe's, he came in in the 8th inning with a runner on second and up 1, gave up the hit to tie the game...can you say panic button?

Second, ECSUALUM thanks for the LEC statistics. Good to see Keene at the top of both the hitting and pitching categories but rather scary to look at the fielding %...need to clean that up and quick!

I guess I have to jump on the bandwagon bashing of JCONN. Although I can understand JCONN's loyalty to his beacons what I don't understand is the responses he sends out. Of course the world series card comes into play and rightfully so. UMB had a great year last year but hey so did George Mason in 2006 when they went to the final four...CINDERELLA!!!?!? Now its back to reality with those guys. Don't get me wrong they have some pretty damn good baseball players but what they did last year was special and I think JCONN and the rest of the Boston clan are beginning to figure this out. I think its a little ridiculous to try to compare UMB to the rest of the LEC teams (in particular the top 3- ECSU, USM, KSC). Keene has averaged 26.4 wins over the last 7 years with more than 30 wins for 3 consecutive years, first trip to the regionals they went to the final day and lost to a team they played 334 times that year...ECSU. And Eastern, what has gotten up their ass lately...I mean only winning 102 games over the last 3 years...I would have thought better of them! lol

I guess what it comes down to is the fact the us posters have been let down so far this year by (what we were told) would be another fantastic team in UMB. Sure I know its still March and there is a lot of season left but hey...you still have to win games at the start of the season too! Maybe UMB is not the team we thought they were...heck they have only won 20 games once in the last 7-8 years and you guessed it...it was last year!

KSCfan · March 31, 2011, 09:29:37 AM

Getting a little away from the Jconn bashing...... Does UMbust have bullpen problems? I know that Jconn said that they wanted to keep Dalton fresh but why not bring in your best bullpen guy in that situation. You are up 1 in the 8th, sounds to me that is time of the game you go to a Vogt, or Wojick kind of guy. A strikeout pitcher who comes in and throws smoke out of the bullpen. I have only seen Dalton pitch twice and both of those were starts and he didnt seem to fit that role. He is a great pitcher who has nasty stuff, but i i think that this shows UMbust lack of confidence in thier bullpen more so than Dalton getting work. I feel that Coach E wanted this victory to keep the momentum of 4 or 5 wins in a row going and he feels like he doesnt have a real good pen. I know that Dalton is a work horse and goes deep, but could we see teams try and work Dalton over, be patient and get to that UMBust pen sooner and sooner? So many good talking topics on the board cant wait for saturday

Jcon8958 · March 31, 2011, 10:34:39 AM

OK OK. I admit last nights post was a bit over the top. I know that both ECSU and KSC have great programs. But whats the fun in just saying that. Im just trying to stir everybody up (as I always do) and create a stir about the LEC season. I have alot of respect for coach Howe (who I have met and talked to a few times) and Coah H. But Iwill never sit in here and join the love fest for those 2 programs...In the words of Rex Ryan im not here to kiss any rings....