BB: LEC: Little East Conference

[KSCfan]

sorry i meant
keene state vs southern maine or
southern maine vs eastern or
southern maine vs keene state

sorry about the mistype

[DIII Dad]

KSCfan your last pairing of teams should be Keene State vs. Eastern.
Looks like another mis type. Three strikes and your out.

[kscer]

I think any conference game is a big rivalry, even WesConn and UMD, because even the weaker teams can still win. A LEC team has to play its best game every conference game so every weekend is red sox v yankees. That's why this conference is so great. No one is best friends on game day.

[dgilblair]

I think any conference game is a big rivalry, even WesConn and UMD, because even the weaker teams can still win. A LEC team has to play its best game every conference game so every weekend is red sox v yankees. That's why this conference is so great. No one is best friends on game day.

Not sure about Red Sox/Yankees.  Thats probably the biggest in all of sports.  I do agree with the rest of it though.

[kscer]

just a little hyperbole, you know getting pumped up. Nothing equals the Red Sox -Yankees. KSC roster is posted. The only surprise is Keith Patnode, a transfer who is an excellent hitter and who played fall ball is not listed. ?maybe ineligible.

[dgilblair]

My take on ECSU this season. 

The roster is going to seem empty without Cooney (All Conference catcher, top notch D) and Re ( All America CF, no errors in 108 chances last year). Eric O'Toole was a spark plug player whether it was at the plate or in the field. Iverson was a work horse, ate up lots of innings. Cremins was a solid weekday starter and Davis logged some good innings fighting injury all year. LaVorgna is with the Mets now, that's another big hole. Another lose that hurts even though he only started 8 games is Matt Riemer.  He was a good bat off the bench and had a really good glove.  I think he had a chance to start somewhere this year but didn't come back last fall. The loses are probably no more severe than any other team.  I really don't think it is possible to replace Cooney and Re this year. The catcher spot has more than one option from what I saw last fall. But it will be a big drop from Cooney regardless.   Bolorin will slide over to center field taking Res' spot. Coach will need two new OF'ers to fill O'Toole in left and Bolorin in right.

Who will fill those spots?  Whoever can do the best at the plate! There are a few that have a chance.  I would say two frosh and 2 vets.  That is unless Hobbes moves back to the OF and one of the transfers takes 1B, which is an option since he played RF his freshman year

The entire infield is back.  With that said I still think some new faces will compete for a spot.   John Parke played some varsity last year looked like he improved over the summer.  Freshman Pat Smith has super hands and is a real smooth infielder.  Infield defense will look to improve in 08.     


Pitching will be solid with our top starters coming back. Esposito,Gilblair,Jagodzinski and Tingley. We lost 13 starts in Cremins and Davis.  Tingley might get 2 or 3 more starts this year, Esposito maybe 3 or 4. The next 6 starts is why Holowaty gets paid all those big bucks.  Options are there for sure, saw a couple good looking new kids and JVer's last fall.  Then you have guys like Kukucka (3.32 era 19 innings all in relief). Montanari (3.45 era 15 innings two starts).  The closer spot could go to Kukucka,Fontaine maybe even a JVer like Henry. Who knows but should have a good idea by the time we get back from California in March.

Offensively we should be solid.  Defense wins games. 

[ECSUalum]

My take on ECSU this season. 

The roster is going to seem empty without Cooney (All Conference catcher, top notch D) and Re ( All America CF, no errors in 108 chances last year). Eric O'Toole was a spark plug player whether it was at the plate or in the field. Iverson was a work horse, ate up lots of innings. Cremins was a solid weekday starter and Davis logged some good innings fighting injury all year. LaVorgna is with the Mets now, that's another big hole. Another lose that hurts even though he only started 8 games is Matt Riemer.  He was a good bat off the bench and had a really good glove.  I think he had a chance to start somewhere this year but didn't come back last fall. The loses are probably no more severe than any other team.  I really don't think it is possible to replace Cooney and Re this year. The catcher spot has more than one option from what I saw last fall. But it will be a big drop from Cooney regardless.   Bolorin will slide over to center field taking Res' spot. Coach will need two new OF'ers to fill O'Toole in left and Bolorin in right.

Who will fill those spots?  Whoever can do the best at the plate! There are a few that have a chance.  I would say two frosh and 2 vets.  That is unless Hobbes moves back to the OF and one of the transfers takes 1B, which is an option since he played RF his freshman year

The entire infield is back.  With that said I still think some new faces will compete for a spot.   John Parke played some varsity last year looked like he improved over the summer.  Freshman Pat Smith has super hands and is a real smooth infielder.  Infield defense will look to improve in 08.     


Pitching will be solid with our top starters coming back. Esposito,Gilblair,Jagodzinski and Tingley. We lost 13 starts in Cremins and Davis.  Tingley might get 2 or 3 more starts this year, Esposito maybe 3 or 4. The next 6 starts is why Holowaty gets paid all those big bucks.  Options are there for sure, saw a couple good looking new kids and JVer's last fall.  Then you have guys like Kukucka (3.32 era 19 innings all in relief). Montanari (3.45 era 15 innings two starts).  The closer spot could go to Kukucka,Fontaine maybe even a JVer like Henry. Who knows but should have a good idea by the time we get back from California in March.

Offensively we should be solid.  Defense wins games. 

Nice Review!!

Agree, Cooney big loss especially defensively and Randy Re's HR threat and defense.

Need another Dwight Wildman in OF, will never forget that rocket he hit in 2004?,CWS against UW -Whitewater to win the game

You hit it on the head re the defense.  ECSU was a a bit of a long shot to win last year's D-III CWS due to the team defense, 3rd base, ss in particular, hopefully Melvin will improve.

Looking for huge year from the pitching staff, and from Castillo.  Any thoughts on # of HR's from him this year, assuming healthy

[LEC Fan]

kscer- rumors are that the Patnode kid transfered to McNeese St. a DI school down south.

[KSCfan]

Looking at the conferance schedule today i noticed that Keene State opens their LEC play with Eastern instead of like the last 4 years where Keene and Eastern played the final weekend.  The last three years going into that final weekend Keene and Eastern played with the regular season title up for grabs so the game had a tournament game feel to it, any reason why the conferance decided to switch up the order that the teams played each other other than just mixing it up?

[Ralph Turner]

kscer- rumors are that the Patnode kid transfered to McNeese St. a DI school down south.

McNeese State roster.

Of course, he would have to sit out a year in transferring from D-III to D-I.

[mm77]

kscer- rumors are that the Patnode kid transfered to McNeese St. a DI school down south.

McNeese State roster.

Of course, he would have to sit out a year in transferring from D-III to D-I.

[mm77]

The transfer rule does not go into effect until next year.  Also, I don't think it applies unless you transfer from D1 to D1.

[kscer]

kscer- rumors are that the Patnode kid transfered to McNeese St. a DI school down south.

Here's the irony. He was not a position player this year at KSC, maybe DH, but a good enough bat to get a lot of looks. Transfers to D1 school and most likely sit the bench. Too small and not good enough defensively.

[LEC Fan]

I believe he transferred to be a DH at McNeese. He only came to Keene St. because he backed out of a school in one of the Carolinas in August when school started. He was only going to stay at KSC if he was a starter but apparently that wasnt going to be so he decided to take his college career elsewhere. I would agree a little undersized and defense was not his strong point.

[Ralph Turner]

Jim Dixon believes that Cavan, the star Chapman SS who is walking on at UC-Santa Barbara, will have to sit out a year.

I believe that Patnode must sit out.

About 5 years ago, McMurry had the freshman pitcher of the year in the ASC.  He got a scholarship to TCU (Mountain West Conference) and had to sit out a year.