BB: UAA: University Athletic Association

[BigPoppa]

... and there are three less Pool B bids this year dropping form 7 to 4 for 2010. Should make for quite a battle in early-May. After that, they'd get dumped into the Pool C group and start battling all over again.

[CrashDavisD3]

... and there are three less Pool B bids this year dropping form 7 to 4 for 2010. Should make for quite a battle in early-May. After that, they'd get dumped into the Pool C group and start battling all over again.

This is what I found from 2009...
http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2009/04/28/2009+Playoff+Central.html

The teams which qualified in Pool B in 2009 (6 bids):
Chapman
Ithaca
Salisbury
St. Scholastica
Washington U.
York (Pa.)

[BigPoppa]

Thanks for the correction, Crash. I am not sure why I wrote 7 bids when I knew it was 6. either way, it will make for a very interesting selection sunday for the Pool B teams that are on the bubble.

[DagarmanSpartan]

Amazing!!!

My CWRU Spartans have won four straight at the UAA tournament in Florida.  If we can pull out a win on Sunday, I would assume that we'll at least tie for the conference baseball title.

Query:

Does the winner of this conference tourney earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tourney at the end of the season?  If not, then how are teams selected for that tournament?

[BigPoppa]

Does the winner of this conference tourney earn an automatic bid to the NCAA tourney at the end of the season?  If not, then how are teams selected for that tournament?

No. The UAA is a Pool B conference which must go head-to-head with other Pool B Conferences and Independent teams. Below are the teams they compete against for the 4 bids from the NCAA. If they are not selected for a Pool B, they slide into Pool C which is what is left after Automatic bids are handed out and they compete for the remining Pool C slots.

Central Region:  (3)
Univ. of Chicago(IND)
Nebraska Wesleyan(IND)
Washington U St Louis (UAA)

Mideast:  (2)
Case Western Reserve (UAA)
Finlandia(IND)

Midwest:  (8)   
Bethany Lutheran (UMAC)
College of St Scholastica (UMAC)
Crown (UMAC)
Martin Luther(UMAC)
MN-Morris(UMAC)
Northland(UMAC)
Northwestern(UMAC)
Presentation(UMAC)

New England:  (8)
Becker (NECC)
Brandeis (UAA)
Daniel Webster (NECC)
Elms (NECC)
U Maine-Presque Isle(IND)
Mitchell (NECC)   
Newbury (NECC)
Southern Vermont (NECC)

New York:  (10)
Baruch (CUNYAC)
City College of New York  (CUNYAC)
Ithaca (E8)
John Jay (CUNYAC)
Lehman  (CUNYAC)
Rochester Institute of Technology (E8)
St John Fisher (E8)
College of Staten Island (CUNYAC)
Stevens Tech (E8)
Utica (E8)

South:  (6)
Emory (UAA)
Huntingdon (GSAC)
LaGrange (GSAC)
Maryville (GSAC)
Piedmont (GSAC)
Rust(IND)

West:  (4)
Chapman(IND)
Univ of Dallas(IND)
Menlo (IND)
La Sierra(IND) Move to NAIA in 2011 ??

[DagarmanSpartan]

Ah, Thanks.

Well, as it turns out, we didn't win the UAA, BUT, we did beat Heidelberg, which was ranked in the Top Three.

GO SPARTANS!!!

[DagarmanSpartan]

Looking ahead to baseball season, CWRU's Chad Mullins was just picked as a pre-season All-American:

http://www.case.edu/athletics/varsity/sports_men/baseball/stats/2011/mullins_preseason_aa.html

Last year was our best finish ever at the UAA tourney.  I'm hoping that this is the year that we finally pull-off a UAA title.

[spectator123]

Looking ahead to baseball season, CWRU's Chad Mullins was just picked as a pre-season All-American:

http://www.case.edu/athletics/varsity/sports_men/baseball/stats/2011/mullins_preseason_aa.html

Last year was our best finish ever at the UAA tourney.  I'm hoping that this is the year that we finally pull-off a UAA title.

I am hoping Rochester has something to say about that..

[BBFan62]

Looking ahead to baseball season, CWRU's Chad Mullins was just picked as a pre-season All-American:

http://www.case.edu/athletics/varsity/sports_men/baseball/stats/2011/mullins_preseason_aa.html

Last year was our best finish ever at the UAA tourney.  I'm hoping that this is the year that we finally pull-off a UAA title.

I am hoping Rochester has something to say about that..

CWR certainly returns a talented, tough team. Coach Englander has done a great job after taking over the program and continues to build a winning team.Their entire starting infield as well as 8 pitchers. The title game was a fun, tight contest. Boshinski, the lefty starter for CW is back and looks strong. I still can't believe he was allowed to throw over 140 pitches that game, but he did a remarkable job.
Win or lose, I love tight games.

Rochester, the 2 year defending champ, lost 3 key position players. One player was the LL player of the year and one of the others set the career hit record for Rochester. So, we'll see. We still have a nice talent pool and appear to have recruited a talented freshman class, but that remains to be seen.

The bottom ,line is, we'll be playing with a target on our backs. Unlike many of the teams in the UAA tournament, we don't start play until March 6, so we'll only have 4 games under our belts. However, I don't think any of our opponents will feel sorry for us and spot us runs! Still, I can't wait to get started!

[deiscanton]

Game program for the 2011 UAA Baseball Championship to be held March 9-14, 2011, at Sanford Memorial Stadium-- Sanford, FL.

http://bearsports.wustl.edu/Sports/Baseball/Documents/2011UAA_Baseball_Program.pdf

Rochester is the defending UAA Baseball Champion.

The UAA does not have an automatic bid to the NCAA DIII Baseball Tournament-- as only 5 UAA schools compete for the UAA title in this sport.

[Ralph Turner]

Game program for the 2011 UAA Baseball Championship to be held March 9-14, 2011, at Sanford Memorial Stadium-- Sanford, FL.

http://bearsports.wustl.edu/Sports/Baseball/Documents/2011UAA_Baseball_Program.pdf

Rochester is the defending UAA Baseball Champion.

The UAA does not have an automatic bid to the NCAA DIII Baseball Tournament-- as only 5 UAA schools compete for the UAA title in this sport.

Chicago does not participate.

NYU and CMU do not have baseball. 

Rochester has dual membership in the Liberty League.

[ADL70]

Nice catch dc

Format seems different from years past when I recall it was Tue-Sat with Sun as a rain date.

CWRU warmed up for the tourney with a 22-9 blasting of Emory.  Pre-season All-American Chad Mullins contributed a slam and 3 other rbis making him the school career leader in both hits and rbis, with nearly his whole senior year remaining.  In 2011 his BA is .538 and Slg% 1.026.  4 HR 26 RBI in 9 games. Spartans are 6-3 and averaging 12 runs per 9 innings.

Four pitchers (three freshmen) have combined for 16 innings with 0 ER (2 runs total) and Opp BA under .200.  and a fourth has pitched  10.2 innings with an OppBA of .164 (but 8 BB and 1 HBP)

[ADL70]

Rochester edged CWRU 9-8 in the UAA opener.

Ten walks aided the Jacket offense and they collared Mullins walking him twice (once with two on), picking off a runner for the third out with Mullins in the box and two on, and returing him three tinmes.

Reading the play-by-play acccouint of Rochester's Steve Just conjured up teh ghosts of Abbot and Costello:

A: Just flied out.

C: Who just flied out?

A: Just

C:  Yeah who just flied out?

A: Just flied out


........

[BBFan62]

ADL70,
Mullins grounded out 4-3 the first time, Fly out CF second time. Both times he walked the count was 3-2. His other out was a F-9. He made a great play on a bunt, coming in and throwing out the runner on a bang-bang play, showing why he is an All American. Five of the Case hits were  infield hits, two resulting in RBI's. The UR pitcher also walked in a run. Chanatry came in a shut the door on Case. In the end, it was a veru exciting game. Both starting pitchers, Menke (UR) and Bochinski (Case) were squeezed royal by the Ump. However, the ump was consistent, which is all you can ask.
Case and UR meet again, so it should be a great game.

[DagarmanSpartan]

I heard that the Spartans could end up getting a share of first place.

Does anyone know how today's games turned out?