BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[mr_b]

North Park dropped its home opener, 5-1, to IIT.  They outhit the Scarlet Hawks 10-9 but couldn't find the big hit to score some runs today.

[BigPoppa]

Can't argue with IWU, Carthage, and Augie.  Would love to see North Park slip into fourth place and make the tourney.

I would love to see NP make some noise as well. Let's hope they make a run at the conference tourney. It would only help the CCIW.

[Gregory Sager]

It was a frustrating game for NPU today. As Mr. B said, the Vikings got plenty of baserunners -- they just couldn't get a hit when they needed one, and IIT did.

You can't always get an accurate read on a baseball team from one game, but if today's game was any indication of where NPU is now, they're definitely going to need to step it up if they want to get to conference-tourney level.

[TitanRailer]

Titans did finish with an 8-4 victory over Christian Brothers.  4-0 now on the Southern trip.  IWU will finish up on Saturday in St Louis against Coe College (7-7) and Wash U (15-2).

That IWU - Wash U matchup should be a great one.  I assume that Dubois will be on the hill for the Titans.  I would suspect a low scoring game, conference type game. 

[cokeaholic]

North Park has been a plesant suprise so far, i was thinking they may struggle again this year as they lost a few of their top players from last year.  Fortunatly coach Johnson has changed the young players attitudes and they have a good young competitive team.  Hopefully this group stays together for a few years and changes the program around

[fourtimeallcciw]

From North Central's Website....

North Central defeated defending National Champ, UW-Whitewater, 9 - 5 today in Arizona.  The Cardinals are now 4 - 6 and the Warhawks fall to 2 - 1.

[augie_superfan]

Elmhurst lost to Wash U.  11-4 today.  Wash U.'s #1 pitcher threw a complete game so IWU shouldn't have to worry about facing him.  Elmhurst falls to 3-4-1

[Sweetness]

Elmhurst Blue Jay (4-4-1) defeated #30 Washington University (16-3) 7-4 in 13 innings.  This was a big win for the Blue Jays.  Senior (2-0) Ben Stephens pitched six innings, gave up 3 hits and gave up one earn run.  The bullpen gave up 2 hits in 6 innings with 9 strikeouts.

[Sweetness]

Elmhurst Bullpen has been very good this season. They pitched a combined 29 innings, gave up 25 hits, allowed 8 earn runs, walk 11 batters, and struck out 30 batters.  What team in the CCIW has the best bullpen?

[augie_superfan]

Well...first off...for any of the "what team in the CCIW has the best whatever" question.   These are so hard to answer because the conference season can be much different than the non-conference season. 

Secondly...Elmhurst (or whomever) can have the best bullpen in all of baseball but I think that starting pitching is the real key to being sucessful in the CCIW.  But, the way Elmurst's bullpen has performed so far is very impressive. 

This afternoon, Augie beat #28 Monmouth by the scores of 5-3 and 2-0.  Keving Kuntz moved to 4-0 in game one while Andrew Setter pitched 9 innings in a game two shutout while giving up only 6 hits and two walks. 

The Augie pitching staff has performed very well so far and the hitters are doing what they should at this point in the season.

Augie moves to 10-2 on the season.

[augie_superfan]

IWU lost a DH to Coe yesterday.  Game 1 was by the score of 4-2 and game 2 was by the score of 5-0.  IWU drops to 8-3 (I think).  Just goes to show you why the game of baseball is so great...anyone can beat anyone on a given day.

[irish21]

7-1 end of the seventh, Redmen on top. Evosevich started, Olson on in relief.

[Gregory Sager]

North Park got swept by Dubuque yesterday in a pair of seven-inning games, 3-2 and 5-3. Another frustrating day for NPU hitting, as the Vikes had the tying run on 3rd with nobody out in the top of the final inning of the opener and they couldn't get him home. In the nightcap, NPU had a 3-1 lead going into the top of the sixth but couldn't hold the Spartans and gave up four runs. Once again, a lack of timely hitting and leaky defense brought down the Vikings.

[BigPoppa]

Carthage defeats Benedictine 11-1 on Sunday to move to 7-4.

[Sweetness]

Elmhurst Blue Jays (5-4-1) defeats #30 Washington University (17-4) 11-2 today.