BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[BigPoppa]

Game one final from Carthage:

North Central 1
Carthage 0

It's easy to see why Klemm(NCC) and Tibor(Carthage) win games... both just pound the strike zone... by the time you figured out who is hitting, it was a 0-2 or 1-2 count.

Great game to watch via live video. Both teams are very good and I'd be surprised if they don't meet in the post-season.

[AndOne]

North Central with a 1-0 win @Carthage in the first of 2 games. NCC's Charlie Klemm with an excellent complete game, 4 hit shutout. ⚾️
Not often do you pitch as well as CC's Tibor and get tagged with a loss.

[BigPoppa]

North Central with a 1-0 win @Carthage in the first of 2 games. NCC's Charlie Klemm with an excellent complete game, 4 hit shutout. ⚾️
Not often do you pitch as well as CC's Tibor and get tagged with a loss.

Tibor was certainly a tough-luck loser as he went 9ip, 6h, 0bb... gave up an run in the first and nothing after. He and Klemm would both great today... both from what I could see online and from reports I was getting from the field.

[Mr. Ypsi]

IWU downs Augie, 4-1, in the first of two.  Second game just getting underway.

[Mr. Ypsi]

A probable split in B'town, as Augie gets 3 in the 4th and 4 more in the 6th.  They are up 7-0 going to the bottom of the 6th.

In the semi-related sport of softball, IWU suffered their first conference defeat today to Carroll, 4-0.  The Titan ladies apparently took offense, as they won the second of two by mercying Carroll, 10-0, in 5 innings.  Tomorrow will be huge for the CCIW title, as IWU plays two in Naperville  (7-1 conference; 22-3 overall).  IWU is now 9-1; Carroll is 6-2.

[Apologies for softball on the baseball board, but the softball board is semi-comatose, and has no separate CCIW sub-board.]

[Gregory Sager]

North Park swept Wheaton today at Pfund Stadium, 3-2 and 11-1 (7 innings). Combined with last night's 4-3 Vikings win at Holmgren, this means a season series sweep for North Park, and, hopefully, the reversal of a bad stretch that saw the Vikings dip down into a fourth-place tie coming into the weekend.

NPU pitching was excellent in this series, as the Vikings held Wheaton to six runs and a .223/.277/.270 slash line over the three games.

[Mr. Ypsi]

The Titans gave it a go, but the "old college try" wasn't quite enough.   Down 7-0 in the bottom of the ninth, they fall short 7-5.  Disappointed in the result, but impressed as all get out by the effort!

Two weeks ago, I had all but given up on them, but I'm starting to like the feistiness of this team.  I will now be shocked if they do NOT make the conference tourney.

Big Poppa, thanks for pulling me back off the edge!

[BigPoppa]

The Titans gave it a go, but the "old college try" wasn't quite enough.   Down 7-0 in the bottom of the ninth, they fall short 7-5.  Disappointed in the result, but impressed as all get out by the effort!

Two weeks ago, I had all but given up on them, but I'm starting to like the feistiness of this team.  I will now be shocked if they do NOT make the conference tourney.

Big Poppa, thanks for pulling me back off the edge!

The LAST thing I wanted to do was give a Green Weenie some hope, but alas... I am a realist.

Carthage and NCC split yesterday makes today a likely #1 seed to the winner type of game. (Would give a one game lead with tie-breaker advantage). Both teams now 11-2 with NPU lurking at 8-5 in third slot.... with IWU and Augustana having 7 losses each....

Gonna be a fun finish to watch. Carthage vs IWU in two weekends will be a big series for both team. Carthage needs it to stay in the Pool C race, while IWU needs it to stay in the CCIW race. NCC has the tougher schedule from here on out as they still have to face IWU twice, Augie for three and NPU for three.

IWU

[AndOne]

NCC takes over the league lead with a 9-2 shellacking of Carthage.
Austin Polezoes all the way for the complete game victory.
Ryan Scott and Colin Weilbacher each with 3 hits. Rob Marinec with 3 RBIs.

[Gregory Sager]

North Central erupts for five runs in the first inning and wins the rubber game against Carthage going away, 9-2.

Similarly, Augustana jumped on Illinois Wesleyan with a six-run third and wins the rubber game of that series by a 7-4 score, in the priocess moving percentage points ahead of Illinois Wesleyan for fourth place.

[AndOne]

The Titans gave it a go, but the "old college try" wasn't quite enough.   Down 7-0 in the bottom of the ninth, they fall short 7-5.  Disappointed in the result, but impressed as all get out by the effort!

Two weeks ago, I had all but given up on them, but I'm starting to like the feistiness of this team.  I will now be shocked if they do NOT make the conference tourney.

Big Poppa, thanks for pulling me back off the edge!

The LAST thing I wanted to do was give a Green Weenie some hope, but alas... I am a realist.

Carthage and NCC split yesterday makes today a likely #1 seed to the winner type of game. (Would give a one game lead with tie-breaker advantage). Both teams now 11-2 with NPU lurking at 8-5 in third slot.... with IWU and Augustana having 7 losses each....

Gonna be a fun finish to watch. Carthage vs IWU in two weekends will be a big series for both team. Carthage needs it to stay in the Pool C race, while IWU needs it to stay in the CCIW race. NCC has the tougher schedule from here on out as they still have to face IWU twice, Augie for three and NPU for three.

Actually, NCC only has to face IWU about 1.3 times, not twice.
The Green Team won the first game of a doubleheader at NCC on April 20. The 2nd game was suspended after six innings due to darkness with NCC leading 8-4. The remainder of the game will be played at IWU on May 1 before the originally scheduled series finale.

[Mr. Ypsi]

The Titans gave it a go, but the "old college try" wasn't quite enough.   Down 7-0 in the bottom of the ninth, they fall short 7-5.  Disappointed in the result, but impressed as all get out by the effort!

Two weeks ago, I had all but given up on them, but I'm starting to like the feistiness of this team.  I will now be shocked if they do NOT make the conference tourney.

Big Poppa, thanks for pulling me back off the edge!

The LAST thing I wanted to do was give a Green Weenie some hope, but alas... I am a realist.

Carthage and NCC split yesterday makes today a likely #1 seed to the winner type of game. (Would give a one game lead with tie-breaker advantage). Both teams now 11-2 with NPU lurking at 8-5 in third slot.... with IWU and Augustana having 7 losses each....

Gonna be a fun finish to watch. Carthage vs IWU in two weekends will be a big series for both team. Carthage needs it to stay in the Pool C race, while IWU needs it to stay in the CCIW race. NCC has the tougher schedule from here on out as they still have to face IWU twice, Augie for three and NPU for three.

Actually, NCC only has to face IWU about 1.3 times, not twice.
The Green Team won the first game of a doubleheader at NCC on April 20. The 2nd game was suspended after six innings due to darkness with NCC leading 8-4. The remainder of the game will be played at IWU on May 1 before the originally scheduled series finale.

Yeah, I'm officially back to very nervous.   The Titans have no more games against weak teams - just 2 against NPU, 1.3 against NCC (with a 4-run 'spot' to the Cards in the .3 game), and finishing with 3 games in Kenosha.  A bit of an uphill battle to make the conference tourney.

On a more positive note, the Titan softball team swept a DH at (then) second-place NCC.  They are in GREAT shape to win the regular-season title.

[AndOne]

Ypsi,

You are going to have to put the dunce cap on, and go sit in the corner for the next hour. 🃏
You posted about the SOFTBALL wins on the SOFTBALL board, and once in it's proper place would have been quite enough! 🤦‍♂️ 🤢 😏

[Gregory Sager]

Shhh, Mark. He's one step away from posting about opera.

[BigPoppa]

Carthage's 5 errors (3 in 1st inning) did not help in any way.