BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[hockeyfan77]

USM downs  Old Westbury   6-0   to improve to 2-0.....Next Up for USM:  Sat 16    at Farmingdale St   1:00 PM

[KSCfan]

So the first weekend is in the books for the LEC....

My 2 cents

The Good:   
1. Keene's pitching. 
Hutchinson- 7ip 1  run
Dionne- 5.6ip - 1 run
Coughlin 6ip -3 runs (against #13 wnec)
Cutcher and Osario both 5ip 1 run

The pitching for the owls has been there as they have gotten some  strong outings from their starters so far.  The pitching is giving the team a chance to win some games

2.  Win over #13 WNEC.  A gritty extra inning win over regional power and nationally ranked WNEC.  A quality in region win for the team.

3. New Unis- has nothing to do with how they play, but they look sharp.  I would say they have the best uniforms in the league. The two tone caps, along with the white home, and gray roads look sharp.

The Bad.

1. Obviously the record.  However Keene lost 2 1 run game and lost another game in extras.  Keene very easily could of finished the weekend 3-1 instead of 1-3. They are 4 games into the year and no one should be concerned yet.  Keene is going to have to win these games eventually, and I feel they will, just a matter of some guys settling in and adjusting.  New guys, and transfers can tend to try and do to much, and they press in the beginning.  We will have a better idea of whats what after Florida.


On another note... USM starts 2-0 Eastern with a couple of wins.    Good to see baseball being played

[7express]

Western splits with William Paterson yesterday: Game 1 was a 6-0 loss.  Zack Phillappas gave up 3 runs to the Pioneers in the first inning and that was all she wrote for the Colonials.  The Colonials 3-4-5 of Conor Bierfeldt, Chris Alberto and Bill Eannoti went 2-8 with 2 strikeouts, 1 BB, and 3 LOB.
Game 2 was a 6-4 win for the Colonials with 3 runs in the 5th after coming into the inning trailing 4-3.  Chris Alberto pitched a complete game 6 strikeouts, 4 walks and 7 hits.  Bierfeldt, Alberto, Eanneti were 5-10 in the 2nd game with 3 strikeouts, 1 walk, 2 RBI's and 4 runs scored. 
That leaves us at 1-1 and we are off until Saturday, March 16 when we have a double header at SUNY-Old Westbury with game times at 12 & 3.

Game 1:
                                          R H E
Western (0-1)                      0 5 0
William Paterson (1-0)          6 10 0

Game 2:
                                              R H E
Western (1-1)                          6 8 1
William Paterson (1-1)              4 7 2 

[ECSUalum]

5-8 in of snow on Long Island today, which should nix the weekend D-III baseball schedule unless someone has a turf field and a big brush to sweep the snow off!!!  What a pain in the a--, the National Weather Center REALLY got this week's forecast wrong!!!  A couple of inches of snow on Wednesday turned into a foot on Friday

[wordsmith]

22+" in Worcester Friday. What a mess!

KSC splits with WPI in their Spring Trip opener. KSC is now 2-4 on the season.

[AllStar]

KSC has won 2 straight to improve to 4-5, beating Roger Williams 8-4 and blanking TCNJ 7-0.

[Boggsy789]

Well my friends the Plymouth State Panthers have vaulted to the top of the NH State school standings with two solid wins to start the season 13-1, and 5-1.  New transfer players Cody Gilchrest and Brandon Cox contribute right of the gate as Gilchrest was the game 1 starter going 2 innings with 6 ks while Cox chipped in with 3 hits.  Cox joins new comer Dan Armstrong in the revamped middle of the order. 

[AllStar]

Well my friends the Plymouth State Panthers have vaulted to the top of the NH State school standings with two solid wins to start the season 13-1, and 5-1.  New transfer players Cody Gilchrest and Brandon Cox contribute right of the gate as Gilchrest was the game 1 starter going 2 innings with 6 ks while Cox chipped in with 3 hits.  Cox joins new comer Dan Armstrong in the revamped middle of the order.

Don't get too overzealous.  They played brutal CCNY, who is already 0-6 this year after being 6-29 last year (2 of those wins coming against a 1-29 team in Yeshiva, and one more against a 6-27 team).

[KSCfan]

Tough one for Keene yesterday as they should of won that game.  They were winning by 4 runs going into the 6th inning, and then lost a dropped fly ball.  Ouch.  No let up as they face Wheaton today.  Would be a big in region win and could get them to turn the corner with a win

[ECSUalum]

2013 NCAA Division III Baseball
STANDINGS (as of Mar 11, 2013)

                                   Little East     Overall
 
Team                           W  L  T  Pct     W  L  T  Pct 
Plymouth State           0  0  0  .000     2  0  0  1.000 
Southern Maine          0  0  0  .000     2  0  0  1.000 
Eastern Connecticut   0  0  0  .000     5  1  0  .833 
Western Connecticut  0  0  0  .000     1  1  0  .500 
Keene State College   0  0  0  .000     1  3  0  .250 
UMass Boston             0  0  0  .000     0  0  0  .000 
UMass Dartmouth       0  0  0  .000     0  0  0  .000 
Rhode Island College  0  0  0  .000     0  0  0  .000 

[Boggsy789]

RIC is actually 1-5, I think the only two schools who have yet to play are the UMass clubs.

All-Star I was joking a bit, but with the soft schedule that I noted in a previous post and and a handful of new comers it's not impossible to think PSU could be have a pretty solid overall record this year, maybe first time over .500 in a decade or so.

[hockeyfan77]

USM defeated Farmingdale State  2-1  today to improve to 3-0.....Next Up for USM:  Sun March 17   at Farmingdale State 12:00 PM ....

[hockeyfan77]

USM Drops a 5-1 decision to Farmingdale State to fall to 3-1....Next up for USM: Thu March   21    vs. Trinity (Conn.) @ 1PM

[Boggsy789]

PSU improves to 4-0 and is the last unbeaten remaining in the LEC.

[Boggsy789]

The perfect season has ended, there will be no 38-0 for the Panthers.