BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[irish21]

Redmen split a Sunday doubleheader with Anderson College. They lost the opener and won the nightcap. 3-1 so far on the road trip. Tomorrow's an off day.

[BigPoppa]

Redmen split a Sunday doubleheader with Anderson College. They lost the opener and won the nightcap. 3-1 so far on the road trip. Tomorrow's an off day.

Irish... thanks for the update! Nothing on the website yet.

Doesn't surprise me... the Redmen always struggle in the first game of the second day. They have had some horrendous losses over the years in that game including a 1994 loss to Earlham College when Carthage was ranked in the top 5 in the nation and Earlham finshed around 3-41 for the season... hopefully the Redmen are just following suit as they now enter the toughest part of their spring trip with back-to-back DHs with #2 Cortland State and UW-Oshkosh.

[augie_superfan]

IWU swept Rose-Hulman today.

Game one:

IWU won 7-4.  DuBois goes to 2-0 with the win.  Angel was 2-4 with 3 RBIs and a HR.  Chilzenkowski was 3-4 with an RBI.

Game two:

IWU won 8-0.  Dobosz got the win.  Chilzenkowski was 2-4 with a HR.  McCabe was 3-4 w/ 2 RBIs.  Howard was 3-4 with 3 RBIs and 1 HR.

[REDMENFAN]

Just talked to some of the guys, the first game was just a case of not getting a big hit when Carthage needed it. I think they left 11 runners stranded, and lost 3-1. Livek was the tough luck loser, giving up 3 runs on only 5 hits and striking out 7 in the 7 inning contest. Carthage won the second game 4-3, and got a good sign with sophmore Chris Krepline throwing well. Krepline is a hard throwing righty who normally pops the mit at about 90 mph and should be outstanding before his career is over. With Olson, Husing, and Krepline all throwing high 80's and touching 90-91, and Livek normally 86-88, I think that's why Scott Evosovich is so effective. He throws mid 80's, but just keeps hitters so off balance its amazing. The tuesday game against #2 Cortland State is only a single game, sorry I thought it was a double header.

[BigPoppa]

Hopefully Carthage gat battle through the injuries and make a run at the CCIW title when they return. I have a feeling that they could be in for a tough spring trip this year. I hope I am wrong, but I just have a feeling.

[REDMENFAN]

Playing Cortland State, and having double headers with rival oshkosh, and #24 Wheaton, Mass., I can see why you have that feeling. I still think the Redmen will come home with a good record, and better prepared for CCIW play after playing some of those teams in Florida. I will predict that the Redmen come back with a 7-3 record, which I know is a pretty bold statement considering they play 5 more games against ranked teams (Cortland#2, Wheaton #24, Oshkosh #35.) Hopefully the pitching works out where they can have at least one of their top 4 guys throwing in these games and get the big hits when they need them.

[BigPoppa]

Playing Cortland State, and having double headers with rival oshkosh, and #24 Wheaton, Mass., I can see why you have that feeling. I still think the Redmen will come home with a good record, and better prepared for CCIW play after playing some of those teams in Florida. I will predict that the Redmen come back with a 7-3 record, which I know is a pretty bold statement considering they play 5 more games against ranked teams (Cortland#2, Wheaton #24, Oshkosh #35.) Hopefully the pitching works out where they can have at least one of their top 4 guys throwing in these games and get the big hits when they need them.

I would jump for joy with a 7-3 record after the trip for Carthage... looking at their schedule I would think that a 6-4 record is more likely and should get them ready for the CCIW schedule.

[REDMENFAN]

7-3, 6-4, anything above 500 I would say would be a successful spring trip considering how tough it is. However, losing yesterday doesn't help their cause losing to a team that is 2-3. But like you said, Carthage is known for beating the great teams and losing to ones that aren't as talented, but just want it more because sometimes Carthage can play to the level of their competition. That will be big for the Redmen this year, to make sure they are playing the same whether they are playing Wesleyan or the worst team on their schedule. In 2004, Carthage went 10-1 on their spring trip, we lost to what we felt like was the worst team Carthage played in Florida.

[BigPoppa]

I know what you are saying. Carthage has a long history of losing to poor teams and pounding the great ones. The same seaon that they lost to a 3-41 Earlham in Florida, they beat both Marrietta and Eastern Connecticut State in the World Series before losing to NCAA Champion Methodist in the semi-finals.

You never know what you are going to get, but you can be assured that Augie Schmidt is going to be unhappy either way!

[mwunder]

It seems like they played everyone they brought to Florida with them yesterday in a 12-9 loss to Stevens Tech.  They played 20 guys.  They are 5-2 so far.

To date they are hitting .383 as a team.  Wow!
In 6 games they have attempted 29 steals (21 successful)

Never having seen them play, I'd think that getting on base (.448%) a lot and having speed (good combination in baseball.) makes them very dangerous.

Guessing from their rotation so far, I would think that Carthage will see Justin Mattes, a 6'4" Jr right hander.  So far this year he is 1-1 with a 5.40 ERA.  Opponents are hitting .185 off of him.  We will not see their ace, Jimmy Dougher (He threw on Saturday).

Since Carthage is not even mentioned in the 'Florida trip' portion of their media guide, I would assume that we are being overlooked.  They play #24 Whenton (Mass) and #5 Rowan in the two days following today's game.

Hopefully, we have our hitting shoes on today.

[REDMENFAN]

MWUnder,

I'm confused, are you a Cortland State backer? You say "we won't see their ace" but you are talking about Cortland guys. I think you are a Cortland guy and saying they are overlooking Carthage is what I got from your post. Anyway, .380 team batting average is just ridiculous, hopefully they cool down a bit today! Carthage's 1 and 2 threw Saturday so they won't be throwing today either, as you mentioned Cortland will not be throwing their ace. I would hope though that they are not overlooking Carthage. Carthage has been in the preseason top 25 many times in the past ten years, and have a lot of talent. I am pretty confident they'll be in the top 25 sooner or later this year. Last time they started out the year unranked they made it to the world series and were preseason #2 the following year. Should be a great game today. Both teams have been playing a lot of players and trying to see who can win a spot as permanent starters once their conference seasons start.

[mwunder]

REDMENFAN...

Carthage class of 1992.


Was just giving a very high overview of the Cortland team that we may be facing today and commenting that we (Carthage) are not going to see their (Cortland's) ace.  I agree that they (Cortland) won't see ours (Carthage's) either.  Clear enough??     (yes, that's a bit smarta$$)

I don't remember the last time I saw 20 names in a box score for a 9 inning game.  That's nuts.

[REDMENFAN]

Yes, that's much better. Thanks for clarifying... Carthage is starting Jacob Husing today, I'm sure nobody from Cortland will read this in the next hour!     Husing has all the potential in the world, but had arm surgery in the off-season and the Coaches aren't sure yet if he'll be able to be a starter or if he'll be the closer again this year. Last year, Husing had several scouts watching him. At 6'2'', 230, he's got a big strong body with a great fastball and a knee buckling curveball. From what I've been told, he's been a little gun-shy about snapping off the curveball while throwing live to hitters in the cages. Hopefully he lets it fly today and see what happens. Augie stated in the Carthage season preview on Saturday that Jacob Husing may even become better than Olson because he's bigger and stronger, and was touching 90 mph regularly as a freshman. "When he's on, he can be devisating."  Hopefully his arm is feeling good, he can get Carthage a quality win, and he can stay injury free this year

[BigPoppa]

mwunder... did you play baseball at Carthage in 1992?

[BigPoppa]

Carthage up 4-1 in the 4th on #2 ranked Cortland State... more updates to follow.

Check for yourself @ 262.551.5388(Carthage sports hotline)... it is usually updated every inning or so for baseball games.