BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[Jcon8958]

I think you said enough about the pitching line I dont feel I have to reapeat it. And really are you really going to sit there with a straight face and say "well they were picked to win there league" yah picked to win in most peoples mind the worst league in THE COUNTRY. If thats what you are going to hang your hat on good luck with that. And you really want to compare the schuedule's. OK why not so lets look have a look. Both play in the LEC so thats 12 games versus common opponents and 2 versus each other. They also both play WNEC, Wheaton (you play wheaton twice) MIT, Framingham St. (we play them 3 times old pitching coach and his brother run the program there) Fitchburg St., Saint Joseph's (ME), Westfield St., Babson, Curry, Endicott (we play them twice), Roger Willams, Becker. So by my count that is 19 common opponents plus they play each other. So if you could explain to me what you are getting at with the schedules let me know. 

Jconnnnnn

[ECSUalum]

You just keep proving my points...thank you!

Reigional wins and strength of schedule are very important criteria at the end of the year and Coach Howe makes sure the Owls have both year in and year out. When you get a chance, compare the 2 schedules....and then talk to me about 1-6. Oh, and by the way, Husson was picked to win their league....that's all the Owls can do is play the top teams from all the NE leagues.

Congrats on a 2nd place finish last year....I forgot that meant something. Is that more thing you have that KSC has....No they have finished 2nd before, so hopefully you won,t have to say that 1000 more times.

I see how you had no comments on those pitching lines for the Owls yesterday...did you understand what they mean?

On a better note....nice day for the LEC yesterday with wins for KSC, RIC, USM, UMB...ECSU lost to a very strong KEAN team with an excellent pitcher on the mound.

Should be interesting......

Lefthander,
I found it is a waste of time "debating" with Jconn. 

Anyway, yes, Eastern ran into a buzzsaw yesterday against Kean ace Kevin Herget, who has pitched 24 scorelss innings so far in 2012. Here is the write-up:

http://nutmeg.easternct.edu/mt-static/athletics/2012/03/baseball-herget-masters-warriors-again.html

Eastern's best chance to score came in the sixth with runners on first and second nobody out, but a caught stealing and 2 ground outs ended the "threat".  BTW Did anybody have difficulty connecting to the stream out of Kean U yesterday?  It flicked on a couple of times then reverted back to reloading    So I ended up reverting back to their Live Stats.  No problems last year with the feed!
The Warriors head back out west March 15, this time to SoCal for 4 games vs SCIAC teams and then to Tucson for 4 games vs Luther, Carleton, Carthage, and Hameline Colleges
Lets hope they do a bit better

[ECSUalum]

Word mentioned Keene St winning the 2010-2011 LEC Presidents Cup above. 
Congratulations to Keene for winning BOTH the Presidents Cup, (for pure acedemics), and the Commissioner's Cup, (the only winner and I think for the 11th time for pure athletic achievements).

Here is the article from LEC web site:

http://www.littleeast.com/sports/general_news/Presidents-cup/20120308-ksc-presidentscup

[hockeyfan77]

USM beat at Farmingdale State  7-6 today to improve to 3-1 on the year....


Next up for USM: Sat 17  @ 12:00    at Bridgewater St.    (DH)

[UMB28]

Umb takes game 1 of the DH against Franklin and Marshall 9-5!  McCormack was 3-3 with a HR and 3 runs scored while consiglio was 2-3 with 4rbis and a 2b!  Lynch and Mattei had 2 rbis each!  Beacons are back in action this afternoon with Tom cole on the mound looking to improve to 3-0 on the young season!

-28

[LEC Fan]

How come nobody is talking about the real story of the LEC so far...Plymouth State at 4-0!!!! 

[KSCfan]

How about them Panthers!!!


Rain washed out UMB second game yesterday, Keene was off, Eastern was off as well, and USM had a good come from behind win against Farmingdale

[Jcon8958]

Beacons are all over becker in the 2nd up 6-0 looking to improve to 3-0 on the young season

[kscer]

How come nobody is talking about the real story of the LEC so far...Plymouth State at 4-0!!!! 

And leading the Little East. It would be great to see them competiitive this year and keep some teams honest.

[Jcon8958]

Beacons lay the WOOD on Becker 11-0 in a shortened game because of the 10 run rule to improve to 3-0. Cole pitched great allowing 1 hit in 5.0 innings. On offense well everybody was hitting big blow came in the second inning when LaPaglia unloaded a grand slam to put the beacons up 6-0 and they never let there foot off the gas. If there is 1 thing I can say that they  need to put together a little more is the fielding I dont like to nit pick when a team is winning but cant keep making all these errors. Chalk it up to early season and just getting outside.

[kscer]

I think in general, all the LEC teams that have played have played well. We are going to have one murderous season with many games being played and contested until the last out. It's gonna be a bullpen year!http://www.d3boards.com/Smileys/default/grin.gif

[KSCfan]

Keene State pastes Daniel Webster today 12-3.  I know nothing about the game didnt hear it, havent looked at the box or anything.  LEC teams are doing well.  Good to see things are going well so far for LEC teams

[7express]

How come nobody is talking about the real story of the LEC so far...Plymouth State at 4-0!!!! 

I don't want to rain on the Plymouth parade but Plymouth was supposed to be the "easy" games for us.  If they keep it up (they probably won't, but hopefully for the conferences sake they do) that's 1 more team Western has to catch up 2

[KSCfan]

Plymouth State talk on the LEC board!  First time this has ever happened!  Maybe the world will actually blow up in 2012 like those people talk about.

Im on the Plymouth bandwagon.  Grab the champagne, screw the keene vs umb talk, you heard it here first.  2012 LEC BASEBALL CHAMPIONS THE PANTHERS OF PLYMOUTH STATE.  Im jumping off the KSC ship faster than that italian cruise captain.  Im all about the panthers these days.  Plymouth is 4-0... lets break it down

They are crushing the ball look at these top hitters                         

                            AVG  GP-GS    AB   R   H  2B  3B  HR  RBI  TB  SLG%
5 Tucker Regan.....  .417   4-4     12   2   5   1   1   0     4    8  .667   
27 David Tammaro....400   3-3     10   2   4   1   0   0     2    5  .500 
8 Luke Merrill.....      .357   4-4     14   6   5   1   0   1    3    9  .643   

The Starting pitching is lights out, Nick Conway could never put these numbers, Tip Fairchild who?  Joey Serfass would be a 5 starter, mid week all the way

                              ERA   W-L   APP  GS  CG SHO/CBO   SV   IP   H   R  ER  BB  SO 
30 Ryan Wakefield...  2.08   1-0     1      1   0   0/0           0   4.1   2   1   1   3    5   
19 Bobby Chatfield..  2.25   1-0     1      1   0   0/0           0   4.0   2   2   1   4   5 
17 Rew Wilson.......   2.25   1-0     1      1   0   0/0           0   4.0   2   1   1   1   5   
    Jonathan Bishop..  5.40   0-0     1      1   0   0/0           0   5.0   4   3   3   3   7   

The Bullpen is lights out as well

12 Joe Hudson.......    0.00   1-0     2      0   0   0/0          1   3.2   1   0   0   0   6   
8 Luke Merrill.....       0.00   0-0     1      0   0   0/0          1   1.0   0   0   0   0   1   

Wait? Whats that?  My good drinking buddy and friend Jconn is here with me, we are taking a nice cruise around the Boston Harbor sharing a nice green tea, and some crackers talking about LEC baseball.  He just pointed out that the Panthers have played......

Suny Maritime 5-3..... Plymouth is dominating teams with over .500 records...yes.  Down with the owls and long live the Panthers.  There is a new powerhouse of baseball in Plymouth.  Jconn forget the fact that Keene is better than UMB... The LEC now has the big three of Eastern, USM, and PLYMOUTH.  Who is the other powerhouse they have played?

CCNY..........record 0-12.
Oh.... shoot.  I was ready to bust the cork on the first bottle of champagne.  I guess ill put the bottle back in the box for now.  Any team that is 12 games in and winless well thats a tough year. 

Well maybe Plymouth is not the worldbeater just yet.  Coach Howe if its not to late i would like to recant my leaving Keene for Plymouth statement.  Jconn i was wrong, Keene is in fact better than UMB.  My apologizes.

In all seriousness guys, good for PSU being 4-0, two wins come from a 0-12 team, but hey you got to beat the bad teams too.  They head down south next week and we will get a much better look at what and who they are.  Southern trips show depth of a roster as its a lot of games in short period of time, and forces teams to go deep into thier starters, and deep into the bullpen.  MIght PSU be able to sneak up and beat some LEC teams this year.... it might happen.  They knocked off Eastern at Eastern not to long ago.  I hope that they do well, anytime LEC teams do well the leagues does well.

[LEC Fan]

Keene beats Becker 17-7 today to improve to 6-3 on teh season. Good early season match up with Wheaton tomorrow!