BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Mr. Ypsi]

Yeah, Strachota's line score had me scratching my head, too.

I'll repeat - both teams seem to have the hitting to contend; does either team have the pitching or defense?

Pitching and defense are much too important to do without if you want to contend.

Agreed, which is why I'm worried.  After three innings in the nightcap, it is NPU 4, IWU 1.  You can out slug teams sometimes, but hitting can come and go.

[BigPoppa]

Close (though not necessarily well-played) first game in Bloomington.  After three innings, NPU has 6 runs (3 earned) on 7 hits and two Titan errors; IWU has 4 runs (all earned) on 6 hits, an error, and two wild pitches.  A very important DH for both teams if they want to contend. (Yeah, I'm aware it is VERY early, but you don't want to dig TOO deep a hole - runs like IWU had in 2010 are EXTREMELY rare.)

Wow, twelve whole days went by without a mention of 2010 by you, Chuck. That's an impressive display of self-restraint.

Not so fast... he brought IWU's 2010 run up on the West Region board last week

[BigPoppa]

Carthage and Wheaton split in Kenosha today with Carthage winning 5-2 in the opener and then getting walloped 10-0 in game two. No idea what to think of this Redmen team other than they are very inconsistent. And inconsistent doesn't fly with Augie... they'll either change it or find themselves out of  the lineup/rotation.

[Gregory Sager]

Close (though not necessarily well-played) first game in Bloomington.  After three innings, NPU has 6 runs (3 earned) on 7 hits and two Titan errors; IWU has 4 runs (all earned) on 6 hits, an error, and two wild pitches.  A very important DH for both teams if they want to contend. (Yeah, I'm aware it is VERY early, but you don't want to dig TOO deep a hole - runs like IWU had in 2010 are EXTREMELY rare.)

Wow, twelve whole days went by without a mention of 2010 by you, Chuck. That's an impressive display of self-restraint.

Not so fast... he brought IWU's 2010 run up on the West Region board last week

Nice catch, BP.

Should we start an off-the-board pool on how long he'll be able to go before his next mention of 2010?

[mr_b]

Close (though not necessarily well-played) first game in Bloomington.  After three innings, NPU has 6 runs (3 earned) on 7 hits and two Titan errors; IWU has 4 runs (all earned) on 6 hits, an error, and two wild pitches.  A very important DH for both teams if they want to contend. (Yeah, I'm aware it is VERY early, but you don't want to dig TOO deep a hole - runs like IWU had in 2010 are EXTREMELY rare.)

Wow, twelve whole days went by without a mention of 2010 by you, Chuck. That's an impressive display of self-restraint.

Not so fast... he brought IWU's 2010 run up on the West Region board last week

Nice catch, BP.

Should we start an off-the-board pool on how long he'll be able to go before his next mention of 2010?

We could do that because each posting is time-stamped to the exact hour, minute, and second.

[Mr. Ypsi]

IWU gets the sweep, 8-6.  Except for the combined total of FIVE errors, it appeared to resemble baseball.

As Greg said, it appears that both teams are deeply flawed, but my gut hunch is that the whole conference is, and both will make the conference tourney.

While I didn't realize it at the time, the 2010 team (go ahead and reset your calendars! ) was obviously very talented, and simply took a long time to show it.  I'm not getting that feeling from this team (though I didn't get it from that team either until about the third game in Appleton).  And with that glorious track record of predictions I will say I don't see a CCIW team making it out of the regional this year.  

[Gregory Sager]

While I didn't realize it at the time, the 2010 team (go ahead and reset your calendars! )

Calendars? I think we can do it with a stopwatch.

The Vikes wasted a good effort on the mound by Sean Eder in this one. For all the confidence that was put in him when he arrived on campus as a potential weekend starter, he really hadn't done anything but get blown up in a starting role until today. If he can continue along the lines of what he did in this game, it could make a big difference for the Park.

Unfortunately, the bullpen continues to have a bad case of the shakes.

[Ralph Turner]

While I didn't realize it at the time, the 2010 team (go ahead and reset your calendars! )

Calendars? I think we can do it with a stopwatch.

The Vikes wasted a good effort on the mound by Sean Eder in this one. For all the confidence that was put in him when he arrived on campus as a potential weekend starter, he really hadn't done anything but get blown up in a starting role until today. If he can continue along the lines of what he did in this game, it could make a big difference for the Park.

Unfortunately, the bullpen continues to have a bad case of the shakes.

+1!

[BigPoppa]

When did the CCIW become so pedestrian as a league?

[Chantastic]

What are you basing this off of? 7 of the 8 teams are .500 or above.

[BigPoppa]

What are you basing this off of? 7 of the 8 teams are .500 or above.

Basing it off the fact that in many season 2-3 teams are in the running Pool C bids... with many teams already at 7-9 losses, those Pool C chances are almost gone at this point. NCC appears to be the only team with any Pool C chance unless Wheaton can get rolling.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Close (though not necessarily well-played) first game in Bloomington.  After three innings, NPU has 6 runs (3 earned) on 7 hits and two Titan errors; IWU has 4 runs (all earned) on 6 hits, an error, and two wild pitches.  A very important DH for both teams if they want to contend. (Yeah, I'm aware it is VERY early, but you don't want to dig TOO deep a hole - runs like IWU had in 2010 are EXTREMELY rare.)

Wow, twelve whole days went by without a mention of 2010 by you, Chuck. That's an impressive display of self-restraint.

Not so fast... he brought IWU's 2010 run up on the West Region board last week

In fairness to myself, the 2010 reference on the West Region board was to correct an error by a poster who referenced the 2010 Titans - I did not initiate that reference!

BP, I notice that this weekend is the annual unfairness in scheduling between IWU and Carthage (and I assume for Carthage that also includes Millikin and Augie?) - depending on year, one or the other plays all three games away.  This is, alas, our year to get screwed.  I don't even dare dream of a sweep, would be ecstatic with 2-1, would be resigned to 1-2, would be distraught with 0-3.  It's unfair, but it is also D3 colleges cutting costs.  I understand it, but I don't have to like it.

I'm guessing that Carroll will have the same scheduling 'anomalies' as Carthage next season?

[BigPoppa]

But to be fair, I am choosing to ignore the facts of the case

[BigPoppa]

Carthage and NPU finally finished their three game that series that started on Saturday, was bumped to Sunday, postponed on Monday and then moved to Weds to accommodate the Wheaton DH on Tues.... did you get all that? Redmen knock off the Vikes 18-9 to take the rubber game of the series. While it seems the Redmen have the bats to win on a daily basis it seems tier pitching is very inconsistent.

The CCIW is going to be very interesting in 2016!

[thunder38]

Close (though not necessarily well-played) first game in Bloomington.  After three innings, NPU has 6 runs (3 earned) on 7 hits and two Titan errors; IWU has 4 runs (all earned) on 6 hits, an error, and two wild pitches.  A very important DH for both teams if they want to contend. (Yeah, I'm aware it is VERY early, but you don't want to dig TOO deep a hole - runs like IWU had in 2010 are EXTREMELY rare.)

Wow, twelve whole days went by without a mention of 2010 by you, Chuck. That's an impressive display of self-restraint.

Not so fast... he brought IWU's 2010 run up on the West Region board last week

In fairness to myself, the 2010 reference on the West Region board was to correct an error by a poster who referenced the 2010 Titans - I did not initiate that reference!

BP, I notice that this weekend is the annual unfairness in scheduling between IWU and Carthage (and I assume for Carthage that also includes Millikin and Augie?) - depending on year, one or the other plays all three games away.  This is, alas, our year to get screwed.  I don't even dare dream of a sweep, would be ecstatic with 2-1, would be resigned to 1-2, would be distraught with 0-3.  It's unfair, but it is also D3 colleges cutting costs.  I understand it, but I don't have to like it.

I'm guessing that Carroll will have the same scheduling 'anomalies' as Carthage next season?

The schedule 'anomalies' you refer to which also affects the Millikin/Wheaton, Millikin/Elmhurst, Millikin/North Park, Millikin/Carthage, Millikin/Augie, and Augie/Carthage series will soon be a thing of the past since the conference schedule for next year will look very different than the format that we're all used to.