BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[CCIWFAN6]

By the way, I got my official intro to the new Carthage stadium in the mail yesterday. It will be called Augie Schmidt Field (honoring both Augie III and Augie IV in the process). A fully turfed infield to go with the upgraded stadium seating, lights  and new pressbox will be a welcome addition to the campus starting this summer. It should be ready by next spring. I think this addition makes Carthage a viable host for Central Region tourneys in the future. I amlooking forward to visiting it once it is finished.

Turf only on the infield?  Does that include the mound?  I think it will be a nice upgrade, even though Carthage already has a pretty good baseball facility for the North.  But, I'm glad they're staying ahead of the curve.  Stadium seating would be great for them.  How many will it seat? I don't necessarily understand turfing just the infield, I think the extra money you save in cost for upkeep of grass returns itself for just a little bit more turf to put it on the whole field... but maybe I'm wrong.  I do agree that either way, it will put them in contention for hosting a regional.

My understanding is the mound will be dirt/clay with the batter's box being turf.

The added cost to do the oufield would be between 400-500k.  It is not an insignificant amount.

[Gregory Sager]

Final scores from this afternoon:

Chicago (16-9) defeated North Central (15-11) by a score of 12-7 at Zimmerman Stadium in Naperville.

Rockford (14-14) defeated Elmhurst (15-12) by a touchdown and a field goal ten runs in a seven-inning skunker, 20-10, at the home stadium of the Regents.

[BigPoppa]

Anyone have a Carthage/Concordia update? No live stats today...

[warrior35]

My understanding is the mound will be dirt/clay with the batter's box being turf.

The added cost to do the oufield would be between 400-500k.  It is not an insignificant amount.

I'm glad the mound will still be clay.  And that is a lot more money for the outfield than I had anticipated.  I know some respectable companies have gotten football fields down to a respectable ballpark of $750,000, so I assumed an outfield wouldn't be terribly expensive, but I was obviously wrong!

[BigPoppa]

An outfield is not far off from a full football field corner to corner. Gonna be spendy either way...

[Gregory Sager]

Millikin beat RMC-Springfield, 4-3, in Decatur.

Anyone have a Carthage/Concordia update? No live stats today...

The game's scheduled for tomorrow, according to the Carthage website.

[Gregory Sager]

Illinois Wesleyan (19-9) came back from a five-run deficit in the fifth to beat Benedictine (14-13), 10-9, in Bloomington on a two-run single with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the ninth. Not a good feeling if you're the Bennies and you've just squandered 20 -- count 'em, 20 -- hits by coughing up the lead and losing the game.

[norfrank]

My understanding is the mound will be dirt/clay with the batter's box being turf.

The added cost to do the oufield would be between 400-500k.  It is not an insignificant amount.

I'm glad the mound will still be clay.  And that is a lot more money for the outfield than I had anticipated.  I know some respectable companies have gotten football fields down to a respectable ballpark of $750,000, so I assumed an outfield wouldn't be terribly expensive, but I was obviously wrong!

Warrior,

Think maybe you might want to get off of this board. First you start with insulting North Park fans and their facility by claiming home runs fly out of their ballpark at a rate that would have them run out of baseballs by the third inning. Not sure why you feel you are an expert at how easy it is to hit a home run, since the last one you hit was in tee ball.

Then you start putting out some hocus pocus numbers for turfing a baseball field. Save your comments for sports in which you have more experience (such as badminton or baggo) and free up some time for the rest of us. Reading your posts takes some much needed time out of my day.

[voiceofseason]

Illinois Wesleyan (19-9) came back from a five-run deficit in the fifth to beat Benedictine (14-13), 10-9, in Bloomington on a two-run single with the bases loaded and one out in the bottom of the ninth. Not a good feeling if you're the Bennies and you've just squandered 20 -- count 'em, 20 -- hits by coughing up the lead and losing the game.

Just returned for the game.  Pretty ugly early for IWU - seemed Coach Martel was trying to get some work in for his freshmen pitchers, and they weren't responding.  But the pitching tightened up, the offense chipped away and a pinch hitting backup catcher that rarely plays gets the winning RBI.  The pitch before he hit one foul into the trees down the left field line that would have been in the soccer field if fair.  Fortunately, he got the job done.

There was a pretty big transformation from the early innings to the late innings by the Titans - they had good at bats (admittedly, Benedictine probably didn't have their top line staff out there just as IWU didn't).  That being said, hopefully the Titans can gain some momentum going into a critical weekend.  The pitching needs to show up....

[Gregory Sager]

In the final game of the evening, Augustana (19-10) downed Knox (8-13) by a score of 7-2 in the QC.

[CCIWFAN6]

IWU AA Kevin Callahan is starting to find his power stroke.  Two HRs Sunday against Carthage, another one last night.  This team needs him if they hope to take the series this weekend against North Park.

[BigPoppa]

Millikin beat RMC-Springfield, 4-3, in Decatur.

Anyone have a Carthage/Concordia update? No live stats today...

The game's scheduled for tomorrow, according to the Carthage website.

I am an idiot:)

[blue_jays]

My understanding is the mound will be dirt/clay with the batter's box being turf.

The added cost to do the oufield would be between 400-500k.  It is not an insignificant amount.

I'm glad the mound will still be clay.  And that is a lot more money for the outfield than I had anticipated.  I know some respectable companies have gotten football fields down to a respectable ballpark of $750,000, so I assumed an outfield wouldn't be terribly expensive, but I was obviously wrong!

Warrior,

Think maybe you might want to get off of this board. First you start with insulting North Park fans and their facility by claiming home runs fly out of their ballpark at a rate that would have them run out of baseballs by the third inning. Not sure why you feel you are an expert at how easy it is to hit a home run, since the last one you hit was in tee ball.

Then you start putting out some hocus pocus numbers for turfing a baseball field. Save your comments for sports in which you have more experience (such as badminton or baggo) and free up some time for the rest of us. Reading your posts takes some much needed time out of my day.

How bout you quit trolling other people. Not like you have anything useful to say.

[mwunder]

Millikin beat RMC-Springfield, 4-3, in Decatur.

Anyone have a Carthage/Concordia update? No live stats today...

The game's scheduled for tomorrow, according to the Carthage website.

I am an idiot:)

I actually went looking for the Live stats yesterday too (thanks to your post earlier)....however, I figured out for myself that the game was today, not yesterday!  Thanks Poppa!

[CCIWFAN6]

My understanding is the mound will be dirt/clay with the batter's box being turf.

The added cost to do the oufield would be between 400-500k.  It is not an insignificant amount.

I'm glad the mound will still be clay.  And that is a lot more money for the outfield than I had anticipated.  I know some respectable companies have gotten football fields down to a respectable ballpark of $750,000, so I assumed an outfield wouldn't be terribly expensive, but I was obviously wrong!

Average football field is around 85k-90k square feet.  An outfield, depending out dimensions and foul territory (which Carthage has a considerable amount of both) can be over 100k square feet.