BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[augie28]

Augie takes 2 of 3 from Wheaton. 

Game 1 - Wheaton 7, Augie 6
Game 2 - Augie 25, Wheaton 8
Game 3 - Augie 15, Wheaton 11

A pretty ugly weekend all around for pitchers.  Wheaton gave up 21 walks in the Saturday DH.  In game 2, Augie scored 25 runs on only 16 hits (including 5 HRs), 12 BBs and 6 Wheaton errors.

Augie lost game 1 after two 7th inning errors allowed wheaton to tie the game and then a 9th inning error put them ahead (6 errors in all for the vikings)

Augie also saw two of their top pitchers (Pagano and Knott) get knocked around quite a bit.  Kevin Dencker came in and continued to throw well with two hitless innings to preserve the game 3 win, but it was just an all around sloppy day.

I did not think Wheaton's pitching was respectable enough to determine whether Augie can win with their offense like this all season, but they have been doing it so far so that looks like what they are going to have to do.  They hit the ball hard and got on base consistantly throughout the lineup.  Soph Aaron Hopson has been in the 9 slot all year and has 6 HRs already despite missing a few weeks of the season.

[REDMENFAN]

Here's the article in today's paper about Carthage's two wins yesterday against the Big Blue. Augie clearly not happy with the performance, and has a hilarious quote about trying to milk a dry cow. 

http://ksn.kenoshanews.com/view_article.php?articleNum=2793172

[RedMan1]

Carthage comes back and beats Milikin 4-3. Tough weekend for Redmen, but we will take a sweep. It is always good to have close games for later on in the year.

[Mr. Ypsi]

One third of the way in, it is definitely looking like the big three (Elmhurst is 4th at 3-4).  If Augie's pitching doesn't come around, it may even be the big two - they're already two games down (5-2, vs. 7-0 for Carthage and IWU), and all six games against the other contenders are in Bloomington and Kenosha.

Like Carthage really needed a break from the schedulers:  the last two weekends they play Augie and IWU, with all six games in Kenosha!

[mwunder]

Here's the article in today's paper about Carthage's two wins yesterday against the Big Blue. Augie clearly not happy with the performance, and has a hilarious quote about trying to milk a dry cow. 

http://ksn.kenoshanews.com/view_article.php?articleNum=2793172

Aside from the quote from Augie and the opening sentence or two, this is basically the Carthage press release all over again.  You'd think that the guy would maybe write his own stuff once in a while.

[Gregory Sager]

Elmhurst took two out of three from NPU this weekend. The Bluejays won the first two, 9-2 and 11-10, and NPU came back to take the third in ten innings, 10-9.

No doubt about it, the pitching has been a real disappointment for the Vikings thus far. Getting good outings out of their arms is the major hurdle that the Park has to overcome before it can play with the big boys. NPU has given up 79 runs in its last six games, which is simply ridiculous.

[yank52]

To say disappointment is rather excusing our bias for the (NPU) Vikings, the staff is large this year (around 13 to 16 arms). I see the management of this group as sub-par, when an arm struggles and it is a conference contest the prudent thing is to make the situation tenable, not to use what you have to the best of their abilities is wasteful and destructive.  I know that unfortunate errors occur and it still reflects on the pitching staff to minimize the damage, but until the defense rises to the occasion (common fielding plays performed routinely, instead of bobbles,drops or plain ("I don't know what that person is out there for?") then this team will struggle to even gain wins in the final four CCIW series (NCC, Augie's, Ill Wes and Wheaton).

Sorry,  as a realistic baseball fan, I don't see it, I see NPU finally breaking the 14win barrier, if they pound the non-con teams and that's a fact jack!!!!

[REDMENFAN]

Here's the article in the paper today about Carthage's win yesterday. Clearly Carthage didn't play its best baseball over the weekend, but wins like this can be huge for a team. It shows them that even when down to their final out, they still have a chance.

http://ksn.kenoshanews.com/view_article.php?articleNum=2796258

[REDMENFAN]

Here's the article in today's paper about Carthage's two wins yesterday against the Big Blue. Augie clearly not happy with the performance, and has a hilarious quote about trying to milk a dry cow. 

http://ksn.kenoshanews.com/view_article.php?articleNum=2793172

Aside from the quote from Augie and the opening sentence or two, this is basically the Carthage press release all over again.  You'd think that the guy would maybe write his own stuff once in a while.

MWUNDER-

Considering the games were 4 hours away in Decatur, I'm sure the author talked to Augie for a minute or two over the phone, and got the stats from the Carthage website, which is why its similar to their press release.  Hard to write your own stuff if you aren't at the game. A town of 100,000  people (specifically kenosha) doesn't send their newspaper writers 4 hours to cover high school or D-2/3 athletics unless its at the playoff level normally. When Carthage finally plays some home games and writers are present, I'm sure they'll add their own flavor to the articles.  The main reason I post them though is I figured that people would like to see what Augie has to say after each game.

[REDMENFAN]

One other thing I forgot to mention. If you look at the author, it just says Kenosha News Staff, not a specific sportswriters name.  If it says a name specifically (Kenosha has 4 or 5 primary sportswriters), then you know the author of an article was actually at the game.  In the past, for whatever reason, Carthage Football and Basketball seem to get more writers actually attending games then Baseball has.

[mwunder]

Here's the article in today's paper about Carthage's two wins yesterday against the Big Blue. Augie clearly not happy with the performance, and has a hilarious quote about trying to milk a dry cow. 

http://ksn.kenoshanews.com/view_article.php?articleNum=2793172

Aside from the quote from Augie and the opening sentence or two, this is basically the Carthage press release all over again.  You'd think that the guy would maybe write his own stuff once in a while.

MWUNDER-

Considering the games were 4 hours away in Decatur, I'm sure the author talked to Augie for a minute or two over the phone, and got the stats from the Carthage website, which is why its similar to their press release.  Hard to write your own stuff if you aren't at the game. A town of 100,000  people (specifically kenosha) doesn't send their newspaper writers 4 hours to cover high school or D-2/3 athletics unless its at the playoff level normally. When Carthage finally plays some home games and writers are present, I'm sure they'll add their own flavor to the articles.  The main reason I post them though is I figured that people would like to see what Augie has to say after each game.

OHHHHHH, really?  (read sarcasm there please)

If you're going to plagiarize someone else's work, at least have the common courtesy to credit the source.  As far as "similar" goes, this one was the same right down to including the umpire's name.

My post was not directed at you or your posting of the links in any way, but at the "staff" of the Kenosha news.  You keep doing what you do.

[REDMENFAN]

MWUNDER,

I assumed they weren't directed toward me, I just thought I'd try to explain.  Most everyone in Kenosha and surrounding community know that unless an actual writer is at the game, all info. in the article is from the Carthage Website or Carthage's A.D., along with Augs thoughts about the game via a phone call to the Kenosha News.

[REDMENFAN]

Carthage defeated Wheaton today 4-2. Jacob Husing got the win to put him at 4-0 on the season. 

[matblake]

Here's the write-up from the Wheaton website for the 4-2 loss to Carthage.
http://athletics.wheaton.edu/News/baseball/2008/4/7/base-cart2.asp?path=baseball  Even though a loss is still a loss, I'm happy with the way Wheaton is competing this year at least from a scoreboard standpoint (I live in MI so I haven't seen a game).  Hopefully this is the next step up in the building process.  We'll see how the rest of the conference schedule plays out before any further excitement is displayed.

[goldengear]

Granted North Park is making the best of a less than ideal situation in regards to their field, compromises must be made and we all understand that. That being said, I would point out that contrary to stated above the abandoned NEIU field is of more legitimate dimensions and would be an attractive alternative. Also, while I appreciate the fact that you are in an urban setting and land is not so plentiful, but has a joint venture with the CPD been examined? You have a huge park, River Park just East of you, plenty of room to stretch around, could be a win/win, the college getting a decent home field a block away, the park district getting some use of the field for their purposes.

It was stated that it would handcuff recruiting not playing on campus, that might be true to an extent but I would submit that recruiting has surely been handcuffed  due to lack of a proper field. I find it interesting that the NPU guys here complain about the ridiculous runs given up by their pitchers, but I would ask why would a pitcher possibly want to come there with those dimensions?

The field comes awfully close to making a mockery of the game, we all certainly understand the economic realities but if NPU wants to build a first class program, which from reading your posts seems to be the goal, they aren't going to be able to succeed while playing on a glorified whiffle ball field.