BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[RedmanFan35]

I think your right, Redmenfan. These guys are, Workhorses. Last year they went with the 3 man rotation all through the Conference season With Husing, Ruffie and Perez. Jahne- Llanas is filling Husing's spot Bigtime !!! Jahne-Llana's and Ruffie both went 9, While Perez went 4 2/3 and Danly went 4 1/3. I'd also look for the possibility of Freshmen Andy Pucher getting a Start.

This team has a lot of Arms.

[BigPoppa]

Things look even better for Carthage next year.

[RedmanFan35]

Their going to need a Catcher. Both Hughes and Sobol Graduate this year.

[BigPoppa]

Their going to need a Catcher. Both Hughes and Sobol Graduate this year.

Catchers are a dime a dozen.... JCs are full of them. Easily solved.

[RedmanFan35]

I hope your right. we've had the luxury of having two of the best. Offensively and Defensively. Damn Shame they both Graduate in the same year.

[Ralph Turner]

Their going to need a Catcher. Both Hughes and Sobol Graduate this year.

Catchers are a dime a dozen.... JCs are full of them. Easily solved.

Big Poppa,

I am interested in your perspective on the availability of talent at the D3 level.

Listing in increasing level of scarcity, would you give me your assessment?

[Mr. Ypsi]

I was just at the cciw.org site and the ties have been removed from NCC and Millikin's records.  Does this mean a completion of the game has been scheduled (if so, it's not on the master schedule on the site)?

[Mr. Ypsi]

Barring rain, Wheaton @ Millikin should be over, and Augie @ IWU well underway - anyone have any reports?  (These are the only games on the master schedule - any make-up games today?)

[mr_b]

Barring rain, Wheaton @ Millikin should be over, and Augie @ IWU well underway - anyone have any reports?  (These are the only games on the master schedule - any make-up games today?)

Per Wheaton website, rain forced the cancellation of the single game in Decatur.  The Friday game will be made up, TBA, and the DH will be played at Illinois Wesleyan.

Live stats on the Wesleyan site show IWU up 6-3 in the 7th.  Tosi and Trotta started and are both stilll in the game.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Barring rain, Wheaton @ Millikin should be over, and Augie @ IWU well underway - anyone have any reports?  (These are the only games on the master schedule - any make-up games today?)

Per Wheaton website, rain forced the cancellation of the single game in Decatur.  The Friday game will be made up, TBA, and the DH will be played at Illinois Wesleyan.

Live stats on the Wesleyan site show IWU up 6-3 in the 7th.  Tosi and Trotta started and are both stilll in the game.

Thanks.  IWU now reports 6-3 as the final score.  I believe that locks Augie into the 4th seed (UNLESS they lose out and NPU sweeps NCC, in which case NPU is #4).

[BigPoppa]

Their going to need a Catcher. Both Hughes and Sobol Graduate this year.

Catchers are a dime a dozen.... JCs are full of them. Easily solved.

Big Poppa,

I am interested in your perspective on the availability of talent at the D3 level.

Listing in increasing level of scarcity, would you give me your assessment?

There are two ways to stock your program with talent and coaches differ on the right way.
1. Find the best high school talent and allow them to develop in your program, but be prepared to take some lumps while they figure it out (I think method has the biggest payoff as kids are more invested in a program they spend four years in).

2. Raid the local junior colleges to provide immediate answers to your problems. You often find great talent, but only get it for two years.

Most programs use a combination of the two. Personally, I liked the first method as you can find kids who are D1 or D2 talent that are overlooked and ride them to 3-4 years of wins... especially if they are pitchers (See Kitchens from Chapman as an example... overlooked in the SoCal area out of high school, but could easily be a D1/D2 arm).

[Mr. Ypsi]

Assuming they got played (it's a beautiful spring day in Michigan, but don't know conditions there), all four first games should be over, and second games over or nearing completion.  Anyone have any news?

[Mr. Ypsi]

I've tracked down some of the scores.

Millikin's field was unplayable, so Whaton and Millikin met in Bloomington.  They split their DH, Wheaton winning 8-5 in the first, the Blue taking the second, 5-3.

Neither Augie or IWU has results posted, but the live stats have IWU winning the second game 8-1.

Carthage had already clinched the #1 seed.  Augie finishes #4 (UNLESS NPU sweeps NCC, Augie lost the first to IWU, and Augie loses to Carthage).  IF IWU won the first game today, they finish #2; IF they lost and Wheaton wins the third game against Millikin, Wheaton is #2.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Update:

NPU and NCC split their DH today, eliminating NPU.

IWU swept Augie, 8-1 and 9-3.

The tourney is now set:

1. Carthage
2. IWU
3. Wheaton
4. Augie

[BigPoppa]

I would assume that Carthage/Augie make-up game scheduled for next week is off as they will open CCIW tournament play versus one another and thte league game is meaningless.