BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[hockeyfan77]

USM outslugged Salem Sate today 15-8 to improve to 9-7 on the season:



Next Up For USM:


Saturday April 8 @ Eastern Conn @ Noon   (DH)

[hockeyfan77]

USM swept Eastern today 5-2 and 2-1 to improve to 11-7 (2-0 in the LEC) on the season:



Next up for USM:



Sunday April 9 vs Western Conn @  Central Conn. State Univ @ Noon (DH) 

[ECSUalum]

Shameful defense as Eastern commit 8 errors offsetting excellent pitching by Munchin and Buchetto and drop the DH to Southern Maine!!

[AllStar]

Keene State has now lost five in a row after being swept by UMass Dartmouth 5-3 and 8-6.  Keene is 8-13, 1-3 in the conference.  They play at Tufts tomorrow.

[ECSUalum]

Eastern pitching collapses again giving up 5 runs in the 8th inn., in 10-1 loss to lowly Roger Williams.  Eastern pitchers have hit 32 batters YTD while Eastern players were hbp 10 times.  Team fielding% is .952!!  Eastern hitters seem to be striking out alot with runners on base (134 lob YTD). 

[AllStar]

No. 8 Tufts scored six runs in the bottom of the 3rd inning and easily beat Keene State 10-2.  In the last two weeks, the Owls have lost by scores of 16-2, 19-5, 17-0 and now 10-2.  They have lost six games in a row, falling to 8-14.  They go to Fitchburg State on Wednesday.

[hockeyfan77]

USM sweeps Western Conn today 16-2 (7) and 9-6 to improve to 13-7 (4-0 in the LEC) on the season:



Next up for USM:



Tuesday April 11 @ Colby @ 4:30

[hockeyfan77]

USM downs Colby today 9-6 to improve to 14-7 (4-0 in the LEC) on the season:



Next up for USM:


Thursday April 13 @ Saint Joseph's @ 3

[Ralph Turner]

USM downs Colby today 9-6 to improve to 14-7 (4-0 in the LEC) on the season:



Next up for USM:


Thursday April 13 @ Saint Joseph's @ 3

Hockeyfan77, thanks for the updates on USM.  I am trying to get fan's eye view of the LEC. USM did not start quite as strong as I expected and I haven't identified the LEC frontrunner to my satisfaction.

Right now, as a fans' perspective, and a "homer's" view is okay, what percentage of 100% do you give USM as being the #1 team in the final conference standings, and what conference record will USM have?  (For example, do you think that USM has a 50% chance of being #1 with an 11-3 record?)

Who might be 2nd and with what record?

And any other fan can jump in here and give me his/her best guess!

... an early season assessment before conference really gets going...

Thanks. 

[hockeyfan77]

USM downs Colby today 9-6 to improve to 14-7 (4-0 in the LEC) on the season:



Next up for USM:


Thursday April 13 @ Saint Joseph's @ 3

Hockeyfan77, thanks for the updates on USM.  I am trying to get fan's eye view of the LEC. USM did not start quite as strong as I expected and I haven't identified the LEC frontrunner to my satisfaction.

Right now, as a fans' perspective, and a "homer's" view is okay, what percentage of 100% do you give USM as being the #1 team in the final conference standings, and what conference record will USM have?  (For example, do you think that USM has a 50% chance of being #1 with an 11-3 record?)

Who might be 2nd and with what record?

And any other fan can jump in here and give me his/her best guess!

... an early season assessment before conference really gets going...

Thanks.

It's early but if I had to go with what I have seen... I would say the top two teams would be USM and U-Mass Boston: although UMB already has a conference loss and because  of that I would say USM has a  60% chance and UMB 40% of finishing first

after the top two the next two team are Eastern Conn and Mass Dartmouth


I think the standings will end up something like this:


1.USM  12-2

2 UMB  11-3

3 UMD  8-6

4 ECSU 8-6

than the rest:  though I think Plymouth is a step above the rest of the remaining teams


But a lot can happen, especially with the quality of ball played in the conference 



USM core team is very young, a ton of Freshman and Sophomores so they are going to be a handful in a year or two: if they can stay healthy... 

[hockeyfan77]

USM downs St Joe's 10-4 today to improve to 15-7 (4-0 in the LEC) on the season:



Next up for USM:



Saturday April 15 vs Rhode Island College @ Noon (DH)



First home games on the season!!!!

[AllStar]

Seventh straight loss for Keene State today, 8-4 to Salve Regina.  It was their first home game, and replaced an earlier scheduled game at Springfield.  I believe the Pride had to resechedule a conference game, so the Owls scheduled a game against Salve instead.  Anyway, Keene is 8-15 now.  They host a doubleheader against Western Connecticut on Saturday, and really need conference wins now or they will be in deep trouble already.

[Ralph Turner]

Thanks Hockeyfan77. +1!
Nice win over St Joe's Maine, another team getting votes in the poll.

[ECSUalum]

This "umpire" January in the 2nd UMB/ECSU game has got to be THE worst I have ever seen!   Umpires are supposed to be consistent but this guy is a joke!  Where do they come up with these guys?  Then you have the play by play guy who is always annoying and rambles endlessly on how hard or how soft a hit was and of course is a ridiculous homey!!   

[AllStar]

Keene State beats Western Connecticut 9-1 and 8-4, which snapped a seven game losing streak and helped them sweep their first conference doubleheader since 2013.  The Owls are 10-15, 3-3 in the conference and host Plymouth on Tuesday.

Here are the standings through six conference games for everybody:
USM 6-0 (def. ECSU twice, def. WCSU twice, def. RIC twice)
UMD 5-1 (split with UMB, def. KSC twice, def. PSU twice)
UMB 4-2 (split with UMD, def. RIC twice, split with ECSU)
KSC 3-3 (split with RIC, lost to UMD twice, def. WCSU twice)
ECSU 2-4 (split with PSU, lost to USM twice, split with UMB)
PSU 2-4 (split with ECSU, split with WCSU, lost to UMD twice)
RIC 1-5 (split with KSC, lost to UMB twice, lost to USM twice)
WCSU  1-5 (split with PSU, lost to USM twice, lost to KSC twice)