BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[ECSUalum]

Wally, Eastern usually posts theirs about 1 week before their season starts, so +/- week of 19th April! 

[7express]

Yah the 2 campus locations definitely hurt Western, not just the basebll team, but all sports.  That's why even though Western is 17-4 in basketball this year and hovered in the top 50 all of last year no one showed up at the games.  At least the athlete's all dorm over at the Western campus (where the sports facilities are) so at the athlete's out of season will come to the game, but don't expect much commuter students (I'd say 85%+ of the undergrads are commuters) which really hurt.

I'm just hoping this year we can crack the top 6 and get into the playoffs where anything can happen like RIC proved last season, last year we lost a tiebreaker to Boston IIRC, so hopefully we can build off that, and put together another good run.  Mike Yates needs 58 hits to become the school's leader; we could have DaQuan Brooks setting the school scoring record in basketball, eclipsing 2,000 points, and Mike Yates setting the school hit record all in a span of a couple months.  Hopefully, there's some students/fans there to witness it.
If a player sets a record for number of hits in a season, and nobody is there to see it, does it really happen??

[ECSUalum]

NCAA D-III 2012 baseball schedules as they become available:
http://www.collegebaseballdaily.com/2012-college-baseball-coverage/2012-college-baseball-schedules/2012-division-3-college-baseball-schedules/

ECSU plays Ithaca College March 3 in Yapank NY.

Also a couple of 2012 ECSU freshman from New London CT area: Matt Greene and Chris Trantalis

http://www.theday.com/article/20110703/SPORT03/307039955

One other ECSU Baseball recruit I have found for this year:
Brent Palella, P Pomperaug HS CT also could be playing baskeball for Coach Geitner

[wordsmith]

Southern Maine's 2012 Roster is posted.


http://southernmainehuskies.com/sports/bsb/2011-12/roster

[LEC Fan]

Wordsmith- any "word" on where Loupa is playing this year?

[Wally]

I do believe Keene? That is the rumor around here anyway. Looks like Southern Maine didn't add much pitching? Wasn't that something that needed to be addressed or am I missing something in the way of injuries that will bounce back this year?

[wordsmith]

I do believe Keene? That is the rumor around here anyway. Looks like Southern Maine didn't add much pitching? Wasn't that something that needed to be addressed or am I missing something in the way of injuries that will bounce back this year?

Funny how many Keene kids head to Maine, only to return to Keene State. Coach Howe & Testo msut be used to it and to their credit they are accepting of the kids understanding that some have to strike out on there own, so to speak. 


Word

[LEC Fan]

Keene...really?? I am actually pretty suprised by that move.

Hopefully he is healthy and can contribute in some way. It is all over the board with the Keene/USM connection...you have kids who go to USM and stay, Go to USM and transfer to KSC, Go to KSC and transfer to USM! Seems like every year for the last 10-12 years there has been some Keene kid involved in that program up there!

[wordsmith]

Keene State Roster Posted today. Luopa is on the roster as we all expected.

http://keeneowls.com/sports/bsb/2011-12/roster

[hockeyfan77]

I do believe Keene? That is the rumor around here anyway. Looks like Southern Maine didn't add much pitching? Wasn't that something that needed to be addressed or am I missing something in the way of injuries that will bounce back this year?

Injuries....The top 3 were all sidelined at one time or another with injuries last year....Hopefully the will bounce back and the kids that stepped up last year with continue to develop....

[wordsmith]

I do believe Keene? That is the rumor around here anyway. Looks like Southern Maine didn't add much pitching? Wasn't that something that needed to be addressed or am I missing something in the way of injuries that will bounce back this year?

Injuries....The top 3 were all sidelined at one time or another with injuries last year....Hopefully the will bounce back and the kids that stepped up last year with continue to develop....

hockeyfann,

Arm/shoulder injuries?

Word

[hockeyfan77]

I do believe Keene? That is the rumor around here anyway. Looks like Southern Maine didn't add much pitching? Wasn't that something that needed to be addressed or am I missing something in the way of injuries that will bounce back this year?

Injuries....The top 3 were all sidelined at one time or another with injuries last year....Hopefully the will bounce back and the kids that stepped up last year with continue to develop....

hockeyfann,

Arm/shoulder injuries?

Word

Isn't that the usual injuries for pitchers.....Not getting into this discussion again!!!

[ECSUalum]

Eastern's 2012 roster published:
http://www.easternct.edu/athletics/men_baseball/BSE-roster2009.htm

[mainebaseball11]

Keene State Roster Posted today. Luopa is on the roster as we all expected.

http://keeneowls.com/sports/bsb/2011-12/roster

As we all expected? Who is this Luopa kid all the chatter is about? I follow USM baseball closely and never heard of him around here last year. All this talk about kids going from USM back to Keene, but I don't think this kid even played at USM. Best of luck to him at Keene, but I've never heard of him

[ECSUalum]

Here are some notes based on review of ECSU's 2012vs 2011 rosters :

8 Seniors graduated
19 returning players in 2012, (roster of 45) from 2011 (roster of 43), (includes 8 seniors that graduated).
26 newcomers on 2012 roster, of which 13 are pitchers or pitcher/utility players, 16 true freshman, 7 Sophmores, 2 Jrs, 1 Sr.

Some info I found on a few newcomers:
Transfers
Name/College/a few 2011 stats
So John Blair/ Mitchell College/ 5-4 W/L, 6.29 ERA, 56 SO in 58 inn.
So Lucas Cimmino/ CCRI/6 GP, 0-2 W/L
So Mike Pendergast/Assumption College/3-1 W/L, 4.44 ERA, in 26 inn.
Jr Mike Merthot/Manchester CC/ 1-1 W/L 4.10 ERA in 11 inn.
So Adam Roderick/ Had committed to Franklin Pierce, arm surgery in 2009/Am. Leagion Post 96
So Will Rolls/Franklin Pierce JV/ no stats avail.
Jr Alex Julian/WPI/1-3 W/L 4.08 ERA, in 32 inn.
So TJ Larivee/UMass Lowell/Redshirt/as UML Frosh BA 238 5 for 21

Freshman:
Cory Dean- Played for Connecticut Titans
PJ Jamieson- Played for Connecticut Titans
Steve Bizzaro- .400 BA 17 RBI for Roy C Ketcham HS
Matt D'Orsi -NW Catholic State champs MVP and All Conference
Corey Gilpin 1.40 ERA Bernardsville HS NJ