BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[kscer]

Any one know what happened to Perrault. He was taken out because he was injured? Listening to pieces of the game, KSC seemed flat and not in game, but that may have been the announcers.

[ECSUalum]

ECSU 7 Cal Lutheran 5 in Thousand Oaks CA
http://nutmeg.easternct.edu/mt-static/athletics/2012/03/baseball-warriors-crown-kingsmen-7-5.html

[7express]

Western gets started in Florida tomorrow: Thiel at 10:00 am, Oneonta state at 6 PM.

[hockeyfan77]

Game   1

Final    Southern Me  9    Bridgewater St.     6


Game   2   


Final  Southern Me    2   Bridgewater St     1



With the 2 wins USM improves to 5-1 on the season....Next up for USM:


Thru    March 22    @ Noon    vs. Worcester St. (DH)

[7express]

Western wins game 1 against Thiel 8-3.  The Colonials scored 7 runs in the 8th inning to pull away with the win.  Conor Bierfeldt lead the team with 3 rbi's and Mike Yates finished 2-4 with a run scored.  Game 2 against Oneonta state starts in about 75 minutes.
Western loses to Oneonta 13-6; Sunday is a double header against Bethel 3 & 6.

[kscer]

Just heard that KSC is on its way home from Florida by bus. It's airline shut down because they could not pay their gas bill.

[ECSUalum]

Eastern shut out by Redlands on 3 hitter 3-0 yesterday.  Second shutout in 3 games!!!  Redlands is 10-10.
Weather in SoCal horrible, Would have been more pleasant playing in Willimantic.

I think the Warriors may be offensively challenged this year, however it still early.

Good to see USM, Plymouth and UMD get out to quick starts.  Seems we will have a tight race this year with any team winning an a given day.

[amh63]

Just wanted to point out that Mass-Darmouth beat Amherst in Florida.  Not really a follower of baseball....but will post here when Amherst wins or loses to a LEC team.  Mainly will be following the Indian stick ball played with a rubber ball....being that it is a big sport in MD.

[KSCfan]

Good win for the corsairs......

I was looking at Keene'st start to the season.  THe hitting has been there so far.  The teams batting average is .312 with an OBP of .400.  They have hit 23 doubles in 13 games, and seem to not have a problem scoring runs.  One area that has been hurting the owls so far is thier fielding.  So far the owls have 27 errors in 13 games!!!  They are averaging over 2 errors a game.  Errors put pitchers in the stretch, give extra outs, change the way pitchers attack hitters, and are not a good way to win games.  If the owls are going to go on a bit of a run here they need to tighten up with the gloves.

That being said i was looking at Keene's schedule over the next week and a half.  They play Springfield, at Babson, 2 at Western, and then at Salve Regina.  Those are five very winnable games, and if Keene can tighten up the defense i am sure that they will

[7express]

Western splits with Bethel Sunday: lost the first game 8-4, won second game 5-4.
Split with New paltz on Monday; 13-9 loss in game 1, 10-0 shutout in game 2.  Western drops to 4-5 on the year
Tuesday we have a single game against Colby at 1

[wordsmith]

Good win for the corsairs......

I was looking at Keene'st start to the season.  THe hitting has been there so far.  The teams batting average is .312 with an OBP of .400.  They have hit 23 doubles in 13 games, and seem to not have a problem scoring runs.  One area that has been hurting the owls so far is thier fielding.  So far the owls have 27 errors in 13 games!!!  They are averaging over 2 errors a game.  Errors put pitchers in the stretch, give extra outs, change the way pitchers attack hitters, and are not a good way to win games.  If the owls are going to go on a bit of a run here they need to tighten up with the gloves.

That being said i was looking at Keene's schedule over the next week and a half.  They play Springfield, at Babson, 2 at Western, and then at Salve Regina.  Those are five very winnable games, and if Keene can tighten up the defense i am sure that they will

http://keeneowls.com/sports/bsb/2011-12/releases/20120319BusTrip


So the boys from Keene arrived back home from Florida. Had to bus up from the Southland as their air carrier shutdown and went Chapter 11. Congrats to Coach Howe & his staff the players and Thomas Transportation for dealing with a difficult situation and handling it so professionally. Experiences like this often times train young men to be more mature than anything they learn in school. I suspect this group may be a closer unit than they would have been if not for the trip.  That being said there is just too much good material to leave it at that. So please may I indulge?


So the boys from Keene arrived back home from Florida. Some questions I have>

Is it better to have to bus up from Florida or would you rather have been the last flight out on a carrier gone bankrupt because they couldn't afford fuel? I mean the thought of that at 30,000 feet over the Atlantic....errr I'll ride the bus.

Wonder how many times the boys completed the song 99 bottles of beer on the wall? oops can't go there that would violate NCAA rules.

Did the coaches ever consider singing the Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round or even Me and Bobby McGee?

Busted flat by Direct Air, waitin' for a bus
And I'm feelin' near as faded as my chew
Marty thumbed a can of Skoal, just before we left town
And we kick ourselves for booking with those clowns

I pulled my new Nook out of my fancy Keene State bag
I was reading Time while Marty did some stats, yeah
Windshield wipers slappin' time, Keene State makin' time,
We sang every song that driver knew

Word

[Beaconville]

Bus trips to and from Florida are not completely out of the ordinary for New England teams.  One year when I was at UMB we played Husson down in Tampa.  We played them at like 8:00am on Saturday morning and they were getting on the bus immediately after the game and heading back to Maine (no showers or anything) in order to be home for Sunday night. 

However, that is brutal when you are expecting to fly home and you end up having to take a bus. 

[7express]

Speaking of Maine from Beaconville's last post, Western defeats Colby (a Maine school for those that don't know) 16-9 (apparantly we missed an extra point somewhere).  No boxscore on the game, but Mike Yates and Conor Bierfeldt each had 2 hits.  Western improves to an even 5-5 on the season.  We get Lawrence & Wooster on Wednesday beginning at 10:00 AM.

[LEC Fan]

7- where is Western playing their southern games? You probably already mentioned. Looks like they are having a good trip, I think that coming home .500 or better is a good start (given the first time most northern teams get on the field are those first couple of games, finally facing live pitching NOT in a cage, just getting into the routine of baseball etc.) Looks like most LEC teams are having good trips...hopefully this is a good indication of the quality of baseball that will be played throughout the conference.

Keene opens up their northern schedule today at HOME against Springfield...this is probably one of the earliest home games the Owls have had in the last several years!! Should be in the 70's for gametime so as you can imagine there will be a lot of work done today!

[Boggsy789]

Plymouth will enjoy back to back days off in the middle of their Florida trip as the rest up for the run at Coach's 14th post season appearance in 28 seasons.