BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[BigPoppa]

Curious to see how they handle adding a 9th team... do they use a rotating BYE? Or divisions (if so, do the divisions cross-over to play or not... the MWC North/South only play in post-season)? Or unbalanced scheduling?

[Mr. Ypsi]

A real pitchers' duel in Kenosha in game one of the DH.  (Alas, I haven't found livestats, and the video gives little info, so I don't even know who the pitchers are!)  After five, Carthage has two hits, one run; IWU has no hits, no runs.  Perhaps best of all, neither team has any errors.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Finally found livestats on the Carthage website, and the stats on the video were wrong.  At the end of six, Carthage is up 3-0.  It was the Titans' Huskisson who had a no hitter, though alas 5 BBs, including 3 in the third which led to a run on a fielder's choice.  In the bottom of the sixth, he lost his no-hitter after 5.2 innings on a double by Rave, followed by a HR by Letto.  Meanwhile, Helmich for Carthage yielded 5 hits (now six), but had walked no one.

[BigPoppa]

I am following on live-stats as well... this is the part that scares me as Carthage has been known to blow late-game leads like this already a few times this season.Hang on Redmen!!

[BigPoppa]

... and right on cue the Titans have two on in the 9th.

BUT, the Redmen hang on to win in 3-0 in game one.

[BigPoppa]

Is the Carthage/IWU series just a single game today? and a DH tomorrow? I am seeing it listed two different ways.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Both websites list it as 2 today, 1 tomorrow.

Congratulations to Helmich (a complete game shutout, just seven well-scattered hits) and the RedMen.  But congratulations also to Huskisson, yielding just two hits in seven innings (with a no hitter thru 5.2), but cut out those walks!   And congratulations to both teams for an errorless game.

[BigPoppa]

Both websites list it as 2 today, 1 tomorrow.

Congratulations to Helmich (a complete game shutout, just seven well-scattered hits) and the RedMen.  But congratulations also to Huskisson, yielding just two hits in seven innings (with a no hitter thru 5.2), but cut out those walks!   And congratulations to both teams for an errorless game.

Carthage has a DH listed for tomorrow, the Titans for today... trying to decide if I am waiting in vain for second game to start.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Both websites list it as 2 today, 1 tomorrow.

Congratulations to Helmich (a complete game shutout, just seven well-scattered hits) and the RedMen.  But congratulations also to Huskisson, yielding just two hits in seven innings (with a no hitter thru 5.2), but cut out those walks!   And congratulations to both teams for an errorless game.

Carthage has a DH listed for tomorrow, the Titans for today... trying to decide if I am waiting in vain for second game to start.

I must have misread the Carthage site - I thought it (along with IWU and CCIW) listed a DH today, but so far I'm still getting nothing from either livestats or video.  Seems strange - ALWAYS go with the DH first: if there are weather problems on the second day, it is much easier to re-schedule one game than two!

I'll try one more time in an hour or so, but looks like just one game today.  At least it appeared to be a very good game, even if the wrong team won!   I watched a couple of innings on video (before calling it quits due to the lack of any info on the video, except what turned out to be incorrect! ) - fielding appeared to be very crisp for both teams compared with what I was expecting from previous box scores.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I may or may not have misread the Carthage site, but I KNOW the CCIW site listed games for 1 and 4 - they no longer list a game for 4, so I guess only one game today.  I wonder if the coaches decided the weather would be better tomorrow and rescheduled on the fly?  (I have no idea what the weather was today.)

[mr_b]

North Park split with North Central today, with the Vikings taking the first game, 13-4 (Meger over Polowy) and the Cardinals bouncing back in game two, 9-3 (Van Dyck over Kessinger).

[Mr. Ypsi]

Still VERY early, but essentially a four-way tie for first, with NCC just 1/2 game behind:
  IWU/Carthage both 4-2
  Augie/Wheaton both 5-3
  NCC 4-3.

For the conference tourney, nobody in/nobody out (though, realistically, Millikin was out before the season began.

[mr_b]

Today's contest between North Park @ North Central has been postponed till tomorrow at 4 PM.  Tuesday's non-conference game with Benedictine has been moved to Thursday.

[BigPoppa]

Hoping that the turf infield will allow Carthage/IWU to get their games in today.

[Mr. Ypsi]

I had pretty much thrown in the towel on this game and went off to read.  Came back part way thru the Titans' NINE run seventh!

Titans 9, RedMen 5, going to the bottom of the 7th.