BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[BigPoppa]

No Problem, Top of the 8th Carthage 5 Wooster 4

Is Perez still on the hill for Carthage? How does he look?

[RedmanFan35]

He went 6 Innings- 4 runs 2 earned 3 walks and 6 K's A very good outing !!!
Mike Maher has pitched the 7th and 8th- No runs on no Hits !!! We're currently in the top of the 9th.

[RedmanFan35]

Bottom of the 10th - Any old kind of run wins it. All Knotted at 5 !!!

[BigPoppa]

Sounds like a great game. Wish I was there.

[RedmanFan35]

Final in 11 innings- Wooster 9 Carthage 5-- Tough One.

[BigPoppa]

Augie Schmidt's reaction to the Wooster loss on Monday (clearly, he has mellowed quite a bit since I playerd for him):

"It was a great ballgame, and we had them.  We were down, and we came back.  Our kids didn't shy away from anything, and I was really proud of the way we played.  All we had to do was make a 90-foot throw from second base, and we win.  It was a tailor-made double play, but we didn't make the throw.  Our freshmen are starting to understand that when you play for Carthage, teams come after you hard.  Hopefully, we'll be in a lot more of this kind of game this year.  We played terrible defense all day.  Mario Perez pitched well, as did Mike Maher.  We saw some good pitching, but we scrounged up some runs.  We're better leaving the park today than we were, and that's our goal.  It would have been nice to turn that double play and win the game.  Wooster has the tradition, like we do,  and they wanted this one as bad as we did.  For this early in the season, this was a very intense game."

[RedmanFan35]

I don't know how he was then, but he still has some great moments now :-) He's never boring, that's for sure !!! He's a Great Coach. The Kids love him, but he still gives it to them straight.

[BigPoppa]

I don't know how he was then, but he still has some great moments now :-) He's never boring, that's for sure !!! He's a Great Coach. The Kids love him, but he still gives it to them straight.

The great thing about Augie is you never know what is going to come out of his mouth. Hilarious guy to be around and listen to. Some of the best moments of my entire college career happened before or after games during his speeches. We couls always guess the tone of the speech by how far he made his daughter stay away... far away from her was always a bad sign. If he brought her to the post-game meeting it usually meant extra meal-money on the ride home.

[RedmanFan35]

Last year on the spring trip, one of the Seniors brought a, Click Counter, to the the team huddle after an extremely poor defensive performance by the Team. We won 3-2. The click count on the F-bombs, was close to 200 !!! It would have been great to be a Grasshopper sitting just outside the Huddle !!!

[BigPoppa]

Carthage dropped game one today 6-3 versus D2 Southwest Minnesota. Game two versus another D2 opponent Minn-Duluth, is currently underway.

[BigPoppa]

The Redmen rebound from game one and pound D2 Minnesota-Duluth 15-2 in the late ame..

[mr_b]

North Park takes their home opener from Wisconsin Lutheran, 19-4.  Zach Deutscher went 4-for-4 with 3 solo home runs to lead the Viking attack.

[RedmanFan35]

Carthage gets 2 strong performances on Tuesday from Freshmen, Andy Pucher and Eric Rohe. Pitching is looking pretty good !!!

[BigPoppa]

RedMenfan35- Any idea who Carthage plans to throw tomorrow against Whitewater?

[RedmanFan35]

I'm not for sure, but I'm assuming it will probably be Trace Ruffie. The only other choice would be Jahne Llanas. Ruffie would be looking for some , payback, from the Midwest regionals last year and it would be his turn in the Rotation. I think we all know what Trace can do though. I've heard some really great things about Jahne Llanas but have'nt seen him throw. It would be a nice test.