BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[ChiSoxMan]

What a pitcher's duel that NPU @ Wheaton DH was yesterday--NOT.

Game time 3:00 p.m. Teams left the field for the day around 10:30 p.m. Wow.

[BigPoppa]

What a pitcher's duel that NPU @ Wheaton DH was yesterday--NOT.

Game time 3:00 p.m. Teams left the field for the day around 10:30 p.m. Wow.

Why are they playing a Thurs/Fri series instead of the usual Fri/Sat for Wheaton?

[DirtyJersey]

What a pitcher's duel that NPU @ Wheaton DH was yesterday--NOT.

Game time 3:00 p.m. Teams left the field for the day around 10:30 p.m. Wow.

Why are they playing a Thurs/Fri series instead of the usual Fri/Sat for Wheaton?

My guess would be either graduation or weather

[thunder38]

Dominican also uses Alexian Field for its home field so they may have a home game or something planned.  I think the doubleheader sweep by North Park probably just locked in the field for the CCIW tourney.  Wheaton has fallen apart since their ninth inning collapse at Concordia and it's going to be too little too late before they can pick on Elmhurst next weekend.  Wheaton just can't put it together on both sides of the ball.  The offense has been on lately but the pitching has been poor and even when they get a good outing like Dennison had on Monday they offense can't string hits together.

[Gregory Sager]

Greg, I hate to bring up this topic again, but your favorite pitcher continues to struggle against the top offensive teams in the conference. Of the top three offensive teams in the conference, North Park has played two so far with the Carthage series next weekend.  In those two starts, his line is:
11 IP, 17hits, 14 runs, 13 er, 11 bb, and 12 k's. I want to make this clear; I am not saying he isn't a good pitcher, just don't see how you can say he is having as good of a season this year as last. He has performed very well against the weaker opponents and struggled against the better offenses.

Actually, NPU is itself one of the top three offensive teams in the conference.

I admit that Giovenco's numbers are tailing off from last year, but two bad outings are not an indictment of his season. Yesterday his problem wasn't Wheaton's hitting -- he gave up seven hits in five innings, which is hardly a disaster, and those seven hits consisted of five singles and two doubles -- it was his location. He walked six in those five innings, and that's undoubtedly why he left the game, not because Wheaton was pounding him with the bats. Five of the six batters he walked ended up scoring.

The bigger story was how well NPU hit Wheaton. The Vikings had thirty-four hits in yesterday's doubleheader, batting .415 and slugging .646 as a team. Granted, Wheaton is reeling, having lost eight in a row now, and Driggers is not getting good performances from his pitchers -- but that's still a very good afternoon's work for a North Park team that has apparently not yet convinced everyone that it's for real:

Wheaton vs. North Park: Wheaton 2 / North Park 1 ( this one is hard to predict, but I think Wheaton's pitching has an edge.  Also, Wheaton's hitting has been stellar in the past couple weeks)

(Incidentally, NPU's pitching was over two runs lower per game in terms of ERA than Wheaton's going into yesterday's doubleheader out in the 'burbs.)

What a pitcher's duel that NPU @ Wheaton DH was yesterday--NOT.

Game time 3:00 p.m. Teams left the field for the day around 10:30 p.m. Wow.

Why are they playing a Thurs/Fri series instead of the usual Fri/Sat for Wheaton?

My guess would be either graduation or weather

Can't be graduation; both NPU and Wheaton have their commencements next weekend, not this weekend.

Looks like North Central and North Park are now in the tournament, looks like its between IWU and Augustana for the 4th spot.

* NCC clinched a tournament spot with Wheaton's first loss yesterday.

* NPU clinched a tournament spot when it beat Wheaton in the nightcap.

* Two more wins by Carthage, or two Wheaton losses and an Augie loss, or some combination thereof, clinches a tournament spot for the Red Men.

* Some combination of three Wesleyan wins and Wheaton losses, and four Wesleyan wins and Augie losses, clinches a tournament spot for IWU.

* Wheaton is actually in slightly better shape than Augie in terms of competing for a playoff spot, as WC is 7-10 and Augie is 5-10; furthermore, Wheaton owns the tiebreaker over Carthage, while Augie doesn't. Augie's chief advantage is that it owns the tiebreaker over fourth-place IWU, while Wheaton doesn't. But it certainly doesn't look good for either the team in orange or the Rock Islanders right now.

[HITandRUN463]

Dominican also uses Alexian Field for its home field so they may have a home game or something planned.  I think the doubleheader sweep by North Park probably just locked in the field for the CCIW tourney.  Wheaton has fallen apart since their ninth inning collapse at Concordia and it's going to be too little too late before they can pick on Elmhurst next weekend.  Wheaton just can't put it together on both sides of the ball.  The offense has been on lately but the pitching has been poor and even when they get a good outing like Dennison had on Monday they offense can't string hits together.

I don't know how you can say North Park will get the field for the tournament.  There are still 2 important weekends of CCIW baseball left.  You are getting too far ahead of yourself

[mr_b]

Dominican also uses Alexian Field for its home field so they may have a home game or something planned.  I think the doubleheader sweep by North Park probably just locked in the field for the CCIW tourney.  Wheaton has fallen apart since their ninth inning collapse at Concordia and it's going to be too little too late before they can pick on Elmhurst next weekend.  Wheaton just can't put it together on both sides of the ball.  The offense has been on lately but the pitching has been poor and even when they get a good outing like Dennison had on Monday they offense can't string hits together.

I don't know how you can say North Park will get the field for the tournament.  There are still 2 important weekends of CCIW baseball left.  You are getting too far ahead of yourself

I think he means "qualified for the field of four teams," not "will host the CCIW tournament."

[cardsalum]

Dominican also uses Alexian Field for its home field so they may have a home game or something planned.  I think the doubleheader sweep by North Park probably just locked in the field for the CCIW tourney.  Wheaton has fallen apart since their ninth inning collapse at Concordia and it's going to be too little too late before they can pick on Elmhurst next weekend.  Wheaton just can't put it together on both sides of the ball.  The offense has been on lately but the pitching has been poor and even when they get a good outing like Dennison had on Monday they offense can't string hits together.

I don't know how you can say North Park will get the field for the tournament.  There are still 2 important weekends of CCIW baseball left.  You are getting too far ahead of yourself

Yes hit and run he means getting in the tournament. Don't get all jumpy! We know you're rooting for the Cardinal bandwagon you have been aboard all season...

[HITandRUN463]

Dominican also uses Alexian Field for its home field so they may have a home game or something planned.  I think the doubleheader sweep by North Park probably just locked in the field for the CCIW tourney.  Wheaton has fallen apart since their ninth inning collapse at Concordia and it's going to be too little too late before they can pick on Elmhurst next weekend.  Wheaton just can't put it together on both sides of the ball.  The offense has been on lately but the pitching has been poor and even when they get a good outing like Dennison had on Monday they offense can't string hits together.

I don't know how you can say North Park will get the field for the tournament.  There are still 2 important weekends of CCIW baseball left.  You are getting too far ahead of yourself

Yes hit and run he means getting in the tournament. Don't get all jumpy! We know you're rooting for the Cardinal bandwagon you have been aboard all season...

Sorry for getting jumpy, my apologies thunder38illini. I just misread the post 

[The General Public]

Finally, I have never seen a 9 run game be the reason a team loses a baseball game.

Remember that I am not the one blaming the umpires. I inquired of another poster's comments about the "horrific" umpiring.

I know this but it was General Public who made these comments, and looking at his previous comments and posts on this site, he is clearly a very jealous and bitter Wheaton fan who needs to blame something other than his teams poor play for losing because he is just still in shock that his team just got swept by NCC

To be fair to General Public, he didn't blame Wheaton's defeat on the umpires. This is what he said:

Not to say NCC shouldnt have won, because they should have, but the umping did play a big role in the game.

It's one thing to complain about officials -- fans of losing teams do it all the time -- but if the fan openly admits that the officiating isn't the reason why his team lost, even as he's grousing about their performance, then he has manned up and accepted the fact that his team was outperformed by its opponent.


Greg,

I have not been on here lately but thanks for the defense. Its good to see that some on here have a reading comprehension level greater than 6th graders.  I guess it was a pretty complex sentence for North Central alum/current students.

[The General Public]

my post got tied up in my quote...heres my piece..


Greg,

I have not been on here lately but thanks for the defense. Its good to see that some on here have a reading comprehension level greater than 6th graders.  I guess it was a pretty complex sentence for North Central alum/current students.

[mwunder]

Not sure what happened, but Mario Perez was lifted after 2.1 innings today...potentially bad news coming soon??

[HITandRUN463]

my post got tied up in my quote...heres my piece..


Greg,

I have not been on here lately but thanks for the defense. Its good to see that some on here have a reading comprehension level greater than 6th graders.  I guess it was a pretty complex sentence for North Central alum/current students.

at least they know how to quote correctly. 

[HITandRUN463]

Not sure what happened, but Mario Perez was lifted after 2.1 innings today...potentially bad news coming soon??

I was wondering the same thing too, mwunder. I hope its nothing too serious. 

Hopefully someone has an update coming...

[Mr. Ypsi]

The CCIW website is showing NCC and NPU as clinching tourney spots - they have missed that IWU has also clinched (being 3-up on Wheaton w/ 3 to go, and having the tie-break).  I'm not sure on Carthage (though, realistically, it is a done deal).  I can't find a third game between Carthage and Wheaton, and they are 1-1 on the one's I found - anyone know the tie-break status (or might they play a sudden-death game)?