BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[BigPoppa]

Just saw the game two score... Carthage falls to 6-1 in CCIW with a 7-4 loss at Augie. Five more errors in game two for the Redmen... Hard to believe they committed eight errors on the day and managed a spilt. Pitching must be doing a heckuva job.

Gotta clean up the D or it could be a long spring trying to hold on in close games.

[BigPoppa]

Augustana up 5-4 on Carthage in 6th. Red men's 7th game since Monday and it appears it is catching up to them.

[Mr. Ypsi]

IWU is likely to fall to 6-1, as they trail NCC by that very score in the bottom of the 7th.

[jester13]

 Is that right? IWU got hammered in both games in Naperville?

[Mr. Ypsi]

Is that right? IWU got hammered in both games in Naperville?

Yes, alas - neither the pitchers or the hitters made it on to the bus today.

Augie, Carthage, and IWU are now all at 6-2, and NCC just a game back at 5-3.

[Mr. Ypsi]

An 8-run 4th inning allowed IWU to cruise to a 12-3 win over Knox.  They are now 15-6 overall.  Since Knox is only 6-11, the win doesn't do much for any Pool C hopes, but a loss would have been very, very bad.

Tomorrow the Titans host NPU for a single game.

[Mr. Ypsi]

IWU topped NPU, 4-1, in Bloomington today.

[jester13]

 Why is it that former players don't stay and help the schools they graduate from? I see Brian Kolb with North Park and Zach Deutscher with North Central. Just to name a couple.

[Gregory Sager]

Why is it that former players don't stay and help the schools they graduate from? I see Brian Kolb with North Park and Zach Deutscher with North Central. Just to name a couple.

There wasn't really a place for Zach on the NPU coaching staff. His successor at catcher for the Vikings, Tony Sanchez, is NPU's catching coach.

[mr_b]

Why is it that former players don't stay and help the schools they graduate from? I see Brian Kolb with North Park and Zach Deutscher with North Central. Just to name a couple.

There wasn't really a place for Zach on the NPU coaching staff. His successor at catcher for the Vikings, Tony Sanchez, is NPU's catching coach.

Actually several Vikings have served in coaching capacities dating back to Luke Johnson's early years on the North Side.  Jeff Hanson was an assistant pitching coach, Joel Bonnett was a grad assistant (he's now a pitching coach at the D2 level), Deutscher helped out one year as a catching coach, and now Sanchez.

[BigPoppa]

If Carthage expects to stay in the race, they need to NOT split w Elmhurst. Terrible split today.

[Gregory Sager]

Why is it that former players don't stay and help the schools they graduate from? I see Brian Kolb with North Park and Zach Deutscher with North Central. Just to name a couple.

There wasn't really a place for Zach on the NPU coaching staff. His successor at catcher for the Vikings, Tony Sanchez, is NPU's catching coach.

Actually several Vikings have served in coaching capacities dating back to Luke Johnson's early years on the North Side.  Jeff Hanson was an assistant pitching coach, Joel Bonnett was a grad assistant (he's now a pitching coach at the D2 level), Deutscher helped out one year as a catching coach, and now Sanchez.

Right. But what I meant was that the slot that Zach fills for NCC (including the fact that he, like Tony, is a GA, which I meant to mention in the first post but didn't ;-) ) had already been filled at NPU by Tony.

[mwunder]

If Carthage expects to stay in the race, they need to NOT split w Elmhurst. Terrible split today.

Wow...Augie loses all three to NP and IWU fails to sweep Milikin.  That'll help keep 'em in the race!

[Mr. Ypsi]

If Carthage expects to stay in the race, they need to NOT split w Elmhurst. Terrible split today.

Wow...Augie loses all three to NP and IWU fails to sweep Milikin.  That'll help keep 'em in the race!

Yeah, the Titans really missed a golden opportunity to take command of the conference race.  At home on Saturday, they swept a DH over Millikin by a combined 20-1; on Sunday they lost in Decatur in the bottom of the ninth (and why the heck wasn't Truesdale, who has a 0.00 ERA in conference games, on the mound?!).  IWU is setting a disheartening pattern of NOT being 'road warriors' - in CCIW play they are 7-0 in Bloomington, 2-3 on the road (and overall, 10-1 at home, 4-6 on the road).  I'm a bit concerned about this weekend's showdown with Augie, as 2 of the 3 games are in Rock Island.  (I have no clue what happened to Augie against NPU this past weekend, but they are too solid a team to just roll over.)  On the other hand, for the other key showdown remaining, all three games against Carthage are at Horenberger Field.  (BTW, has that always been the case as a concession to distance, that all three games are either in B'town or Kenosha, and just alternate years, or is there a problem with Carthage's field that weekend?  And if it is due to distance, I wonder if the same situation will apply for Carroll once they rejoin the conference?)

If IWU can't shake their road woes, winning the regular season (so as to host the tourney) becomes far more important than usual, when the key is making the tourney field.

[mwunder]

(BTW, has that always been the case as a concession to distance, that all three games are either in B'town or Kenosha, and just alternate years, or is there a problem with Carthage's field that weekend?  And if it is due to distance, I wonder if the same situation will apply for Carroll once they rejoin the conference?)

Can't answer the second part of that question, but I can tell you that both Augie and IWU traveled to Kenosha for all three games last season, and, every other year for a long ways back.  So, alternate years due to distance would be my guess.