BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[hockeyfan77]

Keene beat Brandeis in a short game yesterday.  Rain stopped it in the sixth, and keene avoided a rain short give away. Nothing worse than being down a run to a team you should beat in the 5 or 6th and the rain comes to give you a loss you dont really need.

Weekend Guesses

Keene sweeps USM
Eastern sweeps UMD 
(This sets up the showdown in the swamp)
RIC splits with Western
UMB sweeps Plymouth

This would make the conference standings look like.....
Eastern 8-2 would go to 10-2
Keene 6-4 would go to 8-4
UMB 6-4 would go to 8-4
UMD 6-4 would go to 6-6
USM 4-6 would go to 4-8
Western 4-6 would go to 5-7
RIC 3-7 would go to 4-8
Plymouth 3-7 would go to 3-9

That would put Plymouth in danger of not making the tournament no real shock there, BUT.... That would also put RIC and USM at danger of not making the tournament.  Has USM ever NOT MADE the tournament??  I think they will get in but they are running the risk of landing on the outside looking in. OR what about USM as the 6 seed, and being the number 1 seed and getting USM in the first game.  Not really your traditional 6 seed.


Just some things to think about

To answer your Question: No USM has never missed the tourney....Hopefully the offense can continue to roll as they pounded out 39 runs in two games this week with a nice win @ Babson....

[Old Man]

hockeyfan77,

Is the KSU vs. USM being broadcast tomorrow at USM?

OM

[hockeyfan77]

hockeyfan77,

Is the KSU vs. USM being broadcast tomorrow at USM?

OM

Should be but I know they had issues Tuesday with the video....I can post scores in between innings if the video isn't up and working....I will keep you guys all updated!!!   

[KSCfan]

Thanks Hockey i appreciate it man!

[7express]

On Monday, Western scores 4 runs in the last 3 innings, including 2 in the 9th to complete a comeback vs. LEC and state rival Eastern Connecticut.  On Tuesday, Trinity college scores at least 1 run in every inning as they whupped up on the Colonials 28-2.  Western is 15-15, 4-6 in the LEC, Trinity went to 16-16.
We are back in action this afternoon with a double header against LEC foe RIC, game times slated for 12 & 3.

[7express]

Here's my weekend guesses:
Keene splits with USM; USM wins game 1 8-6, Keene wins game 2 7-6
Eastern sweeps Dartmouth: 9-5, & 8-5
Western splits with RIC: Western wins game 1 4-1, RIC wins game 2 7-3
Boston sweeps Plymouth 8-2 & 11-1

[hockeyfan77]

Game 1


Final   KSC.  5    USM.  6

[hockeyfan77]

Game.  2


Final      KSC.   9    USM.  4

[2old2playball]

umass dartmouth and ecsu split. UMD seems to come to play on the weekends. they had some timely hitting and there game 2 starter had another good start.

[hockeyfan77]

Huskies Take the Opener 6-5; Owls Prevail in Nightcap 9-4: USM is now 18-15 (5-7 in the LEC)....




Next up for USM:


Tue.    3          BOWDOIN                                                  4:00

[7express]

Western splits with RIC yesterday.  Billy Armstrong goes 10 innings to get his 6th win.  RIC won the nightcap 16-6 in a shortened 8 inning game.  They are back in action tomorrow with a double header against Albertus Magnus game times slated for 4:30 & 6:30.

[KSCfan]

Sooooo

We go into the last weekend of the season and its still anyones game.  I think that it will come down to Friday's double header in the swamp.

If Eastern wins one game they host the tournament, as even if they lose the next game that will only give them 4 losses and everyone else has at least 5.

If Keene sweeps Eastern then the tournament is moved to Keene.

If Eastern sweeps Keene and UMB wins both of thier games then UMB finishes second.  Also any of the teams right now tied for 2nd with 5 loses could slip all the way to 6 as it would give them 7 in conference losses.

Basically its crazy and no seed is set in stone, and no team is def out!. 

Crazy crazy i say in the LEC

keene has finals this week so they will not play until friday against Eastern.  All hands on deck for the pitching, and i would imagine that it will be a short leash for all pitchers.  Keene strength is its bullpen, and you could see the bullpen get into the game early for keene espically if it is a close game in the first one.  The conference tournament i am assuming starts the following wednesday, so that would give any and all pitchers  sat, sunday, monday, tuesday to rest so Eastern and Keene's weekend starters should be able to go on the first day. 

I love conference tournament week, as i am looking forward to next wednesday already.

[ECSUalum]

Latest stats for LEC Teams:

2011 NCAA Division III Baseball
Little East Leaders Summary as of May 02, 2011            
(All games)

TEAM BATTING              G   Avg   AB    R    H   2B   3B   HR   BB   SO  SB-ATT
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Western Connecticut.  32  .343 1087  267  373   68   18   24  118  227  21-30  
Southern Maine......    33  .338 1221  282  413   88   17   32  125  185  83-104
Eastern Connecticut.  34  .329 1254  301  412   71   22   17  145  184  62-81  
Keene State College.  37  .326 1356  274  442   76    9   20  134  205  73-90  
Rhode Island College  32  .295 1102  220  325   56    9   21  144  177  40-49  
UMass Dartmouth.....  32  .294 1075  175  316   43    7   10  121  180  19-24  
UMass Boston........    34  .284 1172  207  333   56    7   21  113  265  97-120
Plymouth State......    33  .270 1050  183  283   68    9   11  118  171  47-58
 
Totals..............         133  .311 9317 1909 2897  526   98  156 1018 1594 442-556

TEAM PITCHING          G   ERA   W   L      Sv     IP     H     R    ER    BB    SO
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Eastern Connecticut.  34  4.01  27   7   5  300.2   308   160   134   127   260
Keene State College.  37  4.23  27  10   9  321.0   314   193   151   112   235
UMass Boston........   34  4.59  16  18   5  294.1   301   200   150   123   218
Rhode Island College    32  4.70  15  17   2  270.0   323   190   141    73   227
Southern Maine......     33  5.02  18  15   7  283.1   331   230   158   126   228
Western Connecticut.  32  6.03  16  16   3  252.1   341   203   169   108   148
Plymouth State......     33  6.22  12  21   5  256.0   311   200   177   116   224
UMass Dartmouth.....   32  7.05  13  19   4  264.1   390   248   207   115   151

Totals..............         133  5.17 144 123  40 2242.0  2619  1624  1287   900  1691

TEAM FIELDING          G    PO     A     E    Pct    DP    PB SBA-ATT
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Eastern Connecticut.  34   903   358    40   .969    28    11  50-60
Plymouth State......     33   768   355    44   .962    22    18  70-88
Keene State College.   37   963   409    65   .955    35    11  42-55
Rhode Island College   32   810   357    57   .953    25     1  44-65
Southern Maine......     33   850   332    58   .953    23     8  62-76
Western Connecticut.  32   757   277    53   .951    20    10  25-38
UMass Boston........     34   883   348    68   .948    25    13  37-44
UMass Dartmouth.....  32   793   312    70   .940    23     6  54-64

Totals..............         133  6727  2748   455   .954   201    78 384-490

[wordsmith]

So when does Keene State crack the national rankings list? Tufts is there, ECorn is there, Wheaton is there, heck WNEC is even there. But no KSC. Regionally they stand at 4, Wheaton at 3 etc. WNEC is at 6.

Will KSC get a sniff at the National Poll this week? Time will tell.

Also see where the Tufts Jumbos (or as JCon likes to call them the Dumbos) play EConn tonight....prequel to a NE Regional?

Word

PS Congratulations and thanks to all the service men and women and the folks in the intelligence fields that "Got the Ba$tard!"

[7express]

Highest average 3rd lowest era.

Even if we get swept at Boston on Friday, we'd finish above Plymouth and the worst that could happen is tied with RIC.  Whats the tiebreaker since we would've split with RIC??  We probably won't win the LEC tourney, but would be nice to get there.