BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Mr. Ypsi]

It got scary in the ninth, but IWU gets the sweep.  Matt Banaitis (being the pitcher when the Titans got two in the 7th) gets the win, though he started the 9th with a walk, an out, and a double.  Nick Brune (despite hitting two batters, the second with the bases loaded) gets the save.  Not sure we deserved it, but a win is a win (and we ain't givin' it back, deserved or not!).  Final was 4-3.

[iwumichigander]

It got scary in the ninth, but IWU gets the sweep.  Matt Banaitis (being the pitcher when the Titans got two in the 7th) gets the win, though he started the 9th with a walk, an out, and a double.  Nick Brune (despite hitting two batters, the second with the bases loaded) gets the save.  Not sure we deserved it, but a win is a win (and we ain't givin' it back, deserved or not!).  Final was 4-3.

Not a sweep yet but we do get another shot Sunday 

[Mr. Ypsi]

It got scary in the ninth, but IWU gets the sweep.  Matt Banaitis (being the pitcher when the Titans got two in the 7th) gets the win, though he started the 9th with a walk, an out, and a double.  Nick Brune (despite hitting two batters, the second with the bases loaded) gets the save.  Not sure we deserved it, but a win is a win (and we ain't givin' it back, deserved or not!).  Final was 4-3.

Not a sweep yet but we do get another shot Sunday 

Sweep of the DH.  Tomorrow we try for the sweep of the series.

Over the next 5-6 weeks we try for the sweep of the season!   There are sweeps and then there are SWEEPS.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Carthage emphatically avoided the sweep, 11-0, in a shortened 'mercy-rule' game.  Kevin Tibor went the distance for Carthage, scattering just 4 hits and running his record to 5-0.  Nick Huskisson gave up 4 earned runs and was pulled after getting only two outs - he is now 0-1 for the season.

[BigPoppa]

After one week the CCIW is relatively as I expected. Augustana, IWU and North Central near the top and Carthage struggling to keep pace. I still think it is going to be a two-team race for the last playoff spot between Carthage and Wheaton. I think Carthage can get on a CCIW roll in the next two week to get back into the picture, but the game that looms is with Wheaton next week as they face off three times with a DH vs Elmhurst smashed into the middle of that series.

Any other observations form the week that was?


Augustana   3-1   17-3
North Central   3-1   5-7
Illinois Wesleyan   2-1   9-7
Elmhurst   2-1   8-8
Millikin   2-2   13-5
Wheaton   2-2   12-8
Carthage   2-3   9-9
Carroll   1-3   5-13
North Park   1-4   8-13

[deepthroat]

What has happened with NPU baseball?

[Gregory Sager]

Nearly the entire pitching staff has been throwing batting practice all season, that's what's happened to NPU baseball.

[Mr. Ypsi]

YIKES!!  It appears that neither Carroll or IWU has pitchers (at least today).

IWU swept the DH in Waukesha by a combined 53-20.

Their 30 runs in the first game broke the old school record of 29.  They had seven home runs in EACH game, breaking the old school record of six.  Carroll is NOT good.   IWU moves to 5-1 and temporarily leads the CCIW, but giving up 20 runs is worrisome.

[Mr. Ypsi]

It would be nice if Carroll would join the 21st century - no links whatsoever for the ball game.  It presumably ended several hours ago, but still no score posted on the Carroll (or CCIW) website.  Anyone know the result?

EDIT: Never mind - IWU was the away team but THEY have the result on their site!  IWU completed the sweep with a 16-0 romp - that's SIXTY-NINE runs for the Titans in the series!  (There are probably posters on here that could bat .300 against Carroll pitching! )

Nearly the entire pitching staff has been throwing batting practice all season, that's what's happened to NPU baseball.

Wait 'til you see Carroll's pitching!

[Gregory Sager]

It would be nice if Carroll would join the 21st century - no links whatsoever for the ball game.

I'm pretty sure that the only sports for which Carroll had live stats this year were football, men's basketball, and women's basketball. Trust me, as a broadcaster I try to keep viewers abreast of out-of-town scores involving CCIW teams as often as I can, and Carroll has made that really difficult for me in several sports this season, including baseball and softball this spring.

It's not fair to describe this as Carroll not being in the 21st century, however, because there are plenty of D3 institutions -- the SLIAC schools come to mind -- that are still lacking live stats in one or more sports that are typically covered by that feature. It's not cheap software, and I'm sure that there are some venues in D3 that aren't even set up for computer connectivity. Don't underestimate just how many D3 member institutions are forced by a lack of resources to run their athletics departments on the sort of budget that makes the adjective "shoestring" an understatement.

Nevertheless, Carroll is back in the CCIW now, and on this level there are some basic expectations that are higher than they are in other circuits when it comes to athletics resources. We've long since passed the point in which live stats for football, volleyball, men's soccer, women's soccer, men's basketball, women's basketball, baseball, and softball are an expectation in this league (unless time conflicts and equipment limitations prevent two sports from simultaneously transmitting live stats from the same school, which sometimes happens in the fall). Carroll really needs to give its SID Mike Schulist the resources for him to full cover all of the sports in which live stats have become an expected feature in the CCIW.

[Mr. Ypsi]

And even leaving aside the lack of livestats, I found it mighty strange that I finally found the game results not on the Carroll website, or the CCIW website, but on the IWU website!  Since IWU could not have made it back to B'town by the time the result was posted, someone must have called or texted some of the basic info to Stew Salowitz (or staff).  Apparently Carroll has no staff on Sundays!

[iwumichigander]

And even leaving aside the lack of livestats, I found it mighty strange that I finally found the game results not on the Carroll website, or the CCIW website, but on the IWU website!  Since IWU could not have made it back to B'town by the time the result was posted, someone must have called or texted some of the basic info to Stew Salowitz (or staff).  Apparently Carroll has no staff on Sundays!

I think IWU has the ability to upload on the road.  I have seen stats and write ups in multi sports from road games that had to be sent from the road site or uploaded with a mobile compnnection.

[Gregory Sager]

The score came up on the CU website right after you guys posted. My guess is that Mike Schulist sent it to Mike Krizman at the league office first before posting it on the CU website, and that Stew took it from the CCIW site -- unless Stew or his GA Austin Overmann traveled with the team to Waukesha, which doesn't strike me as being very likely (especially on a Sunday in which IWU was playing host to two softball games widely separated in terms of starting times).

That's what happened yesterday. After checking the CU schedule page fruitlessly a hundred times while calling the doubleheader at NPU, I saw the IWU @ CU doubleheader scores finally pop up on the CCIW website (both of them, simultaneously) and then they appeared on the CU baseball schedule page shortly thereafter.

[Pat Coleman]

PrestoSports gives everyone access to its own livestats software for free -- whether they're a Presto client or not. The baseball and softball Presto livestats apps work well, even on on a tablet. Used the baseball one in beta format at the D-III World Series last year and there were no issues.

[Gregory Sager]

You should pass that info along to some of the SLIAC folks as well as CU SID Mike Schulist, Pat.