BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[mr_b]

North Park suffered its first loss of the season today, falling to Haverford down in Florida, 8-7. NPU had the tying run on second and the winning run on first in the ninth, but couldn't get the job done. Both teams are now 5-1 on the season. The Vikings will face Lawrence tomorrow.

Actually it should be St. Lawrence (NY).  I've seen that typo elsewhere, too, but we are not playing the school from neighboring Wisconsin.

[Gregory Sager]

North Park suffered its first loss of the season today, falling to Haverford down in Florida, 8-7. NPU had the tying run on second and the winning run on first in the ninth, but couldn't get the job done. Both teams are now 5-1 on the season. The Vikings will face Lawrence tomorrow.

Actually it should be St. Lawrence (NY).  I've seen that typo elsewhere, too, but we are not playing the school from neighboring Wisconsin.

Unfortunately, it's the NPU site that's causing the confusion. The Haverford game story indicates that the Vikings are playing St. Lawrence today, but the schedule page has the Vikings playing Lawrence. I double-checked on the d3baseball.com site, but that has North Park playing Lawrence, too -- and the d3baseball.com schedule pages are not nearly as thorough as the basketball and football schedule pages.

Moral of the story: Always check Mr. B's website first for North Park baseball information.

[REDMENFAN]

Carthage lost to Ohio Wesleyan this morning.  All I know is that between walks and errors, Carthage had given up 5 runs on 0 Ohio Wesleyan hits. At least that's what I was just told.

Here's the article from the paper about Chris Krepline's victory yesterday from todays Kenosha news.

http://www.kenoshanews.com/sports/krepline__so_fine_for__carthage_7524746.html

[TurtleHead]

I was wondering how long it was going to take for the schedule to get to Carthage.  They seem to be able to Hit and Pitching doesn't seem to be the issue.  Defense will improve as the season progresses. 

[Gregory Sager]

St. Lawrence (5-1) edged NPU and Mike Giovenco today, 3-2. The Vikings are now 5-2 on the season.

[Mugsy]

Wheaton beat Colby-Sawyer College yesterday by a score of 3-0.  The 2nd game was canceled in the 3rd inning due to weather, with Wheaton leading 4-0 at the time.  Wheaton is now 4-2.

Sounds like Wheaton had a solid pitching performance from a freshman (Trey Martin).  The guy is a horse -  6'4" 225lbs.  He pitched 5 innings, with 4 hits, 3 walks and 6 SO's.

Wheaton's next game is against Loras on Saturday.

http://athletics.wheaton.edu/news/2010/3/11/BB_colbysawyer.aspx?path=baseball

[BigPoppa]

Carthage vs Wooster is a HUGE game for the Redmen. They need it to get back on track. FYI: Wooster has beaten Carthage five straight times dating back to game #2 of a double-header in 1996. Wooster also leads the overall series 5-3.

[REDMENFAN]

My guess is the Redmen will throw Perez their second game today, which is against Wooster.  He was definitely a tough luck loser in Carthage's opener, giving up only 1 earned run in 7 innings.

[BigPoppa]

My guess is the Redmen will throw Perez their second game today, which is against Wooster.  He was definitely a tough luck loser in Carthage's opener, giving up only 1 earned run in 7 innings.

Carthage website has Perez and Danly listed as today's starters. Since Carthage has played both teams already (Muskingum and Wooster) they may try to use the best matchup. Or might they be best served to save one of those to to face #4 Kean tomorrow.

By this time next week, Carthage will have faced the #1, #2(twice), #4 and #5 teams in the nation. An unreal start to the schedule.

[BigPoppa]

Carthage/Wooster rained out today. I am guessing the Muskingum game is as well. Hopefully Carthage can pick up another game in addition the Kean contest tomorrow.

[izzy stradlin]

Wheaton beat Colby-Sawyer College yesterday by a score of 3-0.  The 2nd game was canceled in the 3rd inning due to weather, with Wheaton leading 4-0 at the time.  Wheaton is now 4-2.

Sounds like Wheaton had a solid pitching performance from a freshman (Trey Martin).  The guy is a horse -  6'4" 225lbs.  He pitched 5 innings, with 4 hits, 3 walks and 6 SO's.

Wheaton's next game is against Loras on Saturday.

http://athletics.wheaton.edu/news/2010/3/11/BB_colbysawyer.aspx?path=baseball

I noticed that the freshman also got the opening day nod over Urbanowicz.  Looks like Wheaton might have a new ace.

[BigPoppa]

Carthage sweeps #4 Kean today 10-2 and 16-4. The Redmen finish the southern trip with a 5-3 record.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Carthage sweeps #4 Kean today 10-2 and 16-4. The Redmen finish the southern trip with a 5-3 record.

Wow - rough day in Union!  The #2 Kean women's basketball team got knocked out of the Elite Eight by unranked Rochester.

[CCIWFAN6]

A big win for IWU over a quality Rhodes team.  This was an important win as the team was 0-3 and facing a very good Millsaps the next couple of days.  A great start for Junior Jason Pankau.  He is a hardthrowing righthander that struck out 9 in seven innings of work.

Hopefully, this is the start of a turnaround for the IWU pitching staff that had an 11 ERA going into the game. One thing to note, the Titans scored five runs on only 4 hits.  Looks like they really capitalized on some miscues by Rhodes.

[Mugsy]

Wheaton doubleheader against Loras on Saturday was canceled due to weather.  Will not be rescheduled.

Wheaton completes it's spring break trip in Florida today against Ripon.