BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

mr_b · March 12, 2021, 10:16:32 PM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on March 12, 2021, 07:52:35 PM
North Park claimed the sweep, beating Dominican in the second game by a 7-1 score. Tyler Banks threw five really solid innings, surrendering a single, a walk, and a hit batsman while striking out seven. Bobby Bartlett finished out the game with four solid innings on the mound.

The final score has been corrected to 8-1. The press box crew missed a run during the fourth-inning rally.

Gregory Sager · March 12, 2021, 10:22:21 PM

I was wondering about that. Looked before like there was a phantom RBI for North Park listed in live stats.

Wheaton lost to Calvin at Lee Pfund, 8-4, and Elmhurst beat Rockford at the Corn Crib, 8-5, to go 1-1 on the day down in Normal.

npbaseball40 · March 12, 2021, 10:38:30 PM

Good stuff from a veteran group of Vikings today. NACC competition certainly isn't interchangeable with CCIW competition, but very excited to see what these guys can do this year.

Gregory Sager · March 13, 2021, 03:50:33 PM

The Vikings had to grind out a game one victory this afternoon over Dominican in Schaumburg, but grind it out they did, 5-3. The North Park defense has had better games, and the Vikings bats had trouble producing with men in scoring position, but after scoring three runs in the first they managed to make the lead hold up for the entire game. Brendan Russ pitched six pretty solid innings to get the win.

Gregory Sager · March 13, 2021, 03:56:52 PM

Chicago hammered Wheaton at Lee Pfund, 11-2.

Carthage opened its season with a 5-0 win over a Ripon team that has now been outscored 51-4 in its six games in 2021.

Gregory Sager · March 13, 2021, 04:49:22 PM

Millikin topped Central, 7-2, in the first game of their doubleheader in Decatur.

Illinois Wesleyan outlasted Wartburg, 13-10, in a beer-leaguer in Bloomington.

Mr. Ypsi · March 13, 2021, 06:16:36 PM

Quote from: Gregory Sager on March 13, 2021, 04:49:22 PM
Millikin topped Central, 7-2, in the first game of their doubleheader in Decatur.

Illinois Wesleyan outlasted Wartburg, 13-10, in a beer-leaguer in Bloomington.

In B'town, that's "Beer-Nuts leaguer"!

Gregory Sager · March 13, 2021, 07:35:11 PM

Carthage dropped the nightcap to Ripon, 12-6.

Millikin completed the sweep with an 11-1 mercy-rule win over Central in seven.

Gregory Sager · March 13, 2021, 07:57:08 PM

Illinois Wesleyan got a walk-off single in the ninth to beat Wartburg, 6-5, and gain the sweep.

Who knows how Elmhurst is faring today? There's no live stats, no gamers, no nothing, reported from either of the EU games taking place at the Corn Crib today.

mr_b · March 13, 2021, 08:32:22 PM

North Park completed a 4-game sweep of Dominican with a wild 12-11 win in Saturday's nightcap. Logan Peters came in from right field to close out both games, the first for a save and the second for a win. He also had two hits in game two. Jake Reinhart led the attack with three hits and four runs batted in.

Gregory Sager · March 13, 2021, 08:32:40 PM

Brandon Davis's two-run single in the top of the ninth put North Park ahead by a run in the nightcap, and reliever Logan Peters made it stand up as the Vikings eked out a 12-11 win to claim all four games from Dominican this weekend.

Whenever you play back-to-back doubleheaders to start the season, you're going to see some ragged pitching in the fourth game -- and the pitching was certainly raggedy on both sides. But despite the beer-league final score, Dominican wasn't really raking. The Stars only marked eight hits, while NPU had fourteen. The game was what it was because Vikings hurlers had a lot of trouble putting the ball where they wanted it to go: seven walks, four hit batsmen, and six wild pitches. Give the Stars full credit for taking advantage of what was given to them. But, in the end, the Vikes had just enough pitching to get by (Peters struck out Dominican's best hitter, Johnny Condron, to end the game) and the bats came through.

Gregory Sager · March 13, 2021, 09:10:00 PM

Elmhurst beat Rockford in 14 innings, 5-2.

Wheaton outlasted Calvin, 13-9.

mr_b · March 14, 2021, 08:29:06 PM

North Central's Ryan Behling hurled a nine-inning no-hitter against Spaulding.

https://www.d3baseball.com/seasons/2021/contrib/20210314mr2ljn

mr_b · March 16, 2021, 07:02:31 PM

Great contest in Bloomington, with the Vikings holding on for a 2-1 win that featured solid play by both sides. It was a marquee pitching matchup, Sund vs. Gudaitis. Sund went just 3 IP, allowed one hit and had three K's. Gudaitis went 5 IP, allowed two runs on three hits, six walks, and seven K's. Tyler Banks worked 4.2 innings of relief, allowing one run on three hits and four WPs, while recording seven Ks. The Titan pen held the Vikings scoreless while pitching out of several jams. Justin Woolbright came in to close out the game, stranding a Titan on second for the save.

Kudos to the Titan broadcaster, who did a really nice job.

Gregory Sager · March 16, 2021, 08:00:12 PM

It's a big win for the Vikings, made even bigger by the fact that by divvying up the innings like that between his three top pitchers, Luke Johnson won't throw his rotation off stride. All three of them should be able to start this weekend against a Millikin team that looks pretty potent, with (presumably) Brendan Russ starting on Thursday at home against Concordia (IL) before that.