BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[REDMENFAN]

It is currently not raining in Kenosha right now, we'll see how long that lasts!

[79jaybird]

Does anybody know why Clark Jones is stepping down at Elmhurst?  I played for Clark Jones and would like to find out why he's leaving.   

[mwunder]

From the Carthage website....

Thursday and Friday Games at the CCIW Baseball Tournament Rained Out; Single-Elimination Tournament Now Starts on Saturday at 10 a.m.

The Thursday and Friday, May 11-12 games at the CCIW Baseball Tournament in Kenosha, Wis., have been rained out.  The tournament,, now a single-elimination, nine-inning event, will get underway on Saturday, May 13 at 10 a.m. with Carthage against North Park University, and Augustana College (Ill.) taking on Illinois Wesleyan University 30 minutes after the completion of game #1.  The championship game will be played on Sunday, May 14, also at 10 a.m., with the possibility of a tournament-consolation game to follow, weather permitting.

Now who does Augie (the coach) throw in game one??  Evosovich has been Carthage's most effective pitcher versus both IWU and Augie?  Do you throw him in game one or save him for the championship game?  If you save him, are you slighting NP even though you've already beaten them three games this season by a combined 32-4 margin?  OR, do you throw Evosovich in game one and then throw Husing, Olson and Livek at whoever's left?

Who will IWU and Augie (the school) throw in game 1?

[Pat Coleman]

Does anybody know why Clark Jones is stepping down at Elmhurst?  I played for Clark Jones and would like to find out why he's leaving.   

Perhaps he was spending too much time posting.
http://www.d3sports.com/post/index.php?action=profile;u=13413;sa=showPosts

[irish21]

Jaybird...coach Jones made a complete fool of himself on this website. He was posting and pretending to be someone else.

Not the brightest bulb in the box!

[REDMENFAN]

From the Carthage website....

Thursday and Friday Games at the CCIW Baseball Tournament Rained Out; Single-Elimination Tournament Now Starts on Saturday at 10 a.m.

The Thursday and Friday, May 11-12 games at the CCIW Baseball Tournament in Kenosha, Wis., have been rained out.  The tournament,, now a single-elimination, nine-inning event, will get underway on Saturday, May 13 at 10 a.m. with Carthage against North Park University, and Augustana College (Ill.) taking on Illinois Wesleyan University 30 minutes after the completion of game #1.  The championship game will be played on Sunday, May 14, also at 10 a.m., with the possibility of a tournament-consolation game to follow, weather permitting.

Now who does Augie (the coach) throw in game one??  Evosovich has been Carthage's most effective pitcher versus both IWU and Augie?  Do you throw him in game one or save him for the championship game?  If you save him, are you slighting NP even though you've already beaten them three games this season by a combined 32-4 margin?  OR, do you throw Evosovich in game one and then throw Husing, Olson and Livek at whoever's left?

Who will IWU and Augie (the school) throw in game 1?

We were wondering about this earlier a few days back, not that its single elimination it really gets interesting. If it was my choice, i still think I would go with Olson or Husing against NP. Not saying they are looking past them, but all 3 pitchers did well against NP and Evosovich by far had the best game against Augie. If I was Augie (school), I absolutely have to go with my ace against IWU because not only is it single elimination, but I woul d say they still have to feel like they have to win one game to be almost assured of an at large bid, IMO

[irish21]

We went with Dusty Reid instead of Danny Grybash in the first game in Mississippi in 2003. Needless to say we didn't win! Dusty pitched a hell of a game but the mindset was never the same after losing the opener.

You go with your best and the rest will fall into place. I covered HS baseball for the Daily Herald for 15 years and it completely amazed me every year in the IHSA playoffs when HS coaches would think they could sneak by the first game by using someone other than their number one!

BIG mistake at every level!

You keep dancing by dancing with the one that brung ya!

[Cooler King]

Does anybody know why Clark Jones is stepping down at Elmhurst?  I played for Clark Jones and would like to find out why he's leaving.   

Rumor on the street is that he was asked to resign in lieu of being canned.  That's why he is leaving, as far as I have heard.  As to the reasons for that, well, the terms of use for this board prevent going too far here.  Does pulling the seniors on senior day sound right to anyone?

[REDMENFAN]

Irish,

I agree with you for the most part, but Olson and Husing also did very well against NP, and I think that's a huge part of the thinking I'm using. Its not like they are playing a team they are not familiar with, they just played NP i believe 2 weeks ago. If at all in anyway Augie thinks that if he pitches Olson or Husing that his players might think they are looking past NP, then I would say go with Evosovich. However, if he believes he can tell them that all 3 had success against NP and he has faith in Olson or Husing, and the guys think about what he's trying to do, then I think it would work fine. Remember, we went with Heinig (our 3 last year) against Augie in the first game of the tourney last year because of how well he did against them.  Either way, bottom line, Carthage is very fortunate to have 3 (4 with Livek) pitchers that have been reliable all year. (I'm almost postive the 4 are 24-3 on the year just thinking from the top of my head). No matter who they decide to start, we know it will be someone with great numbers who had success against NP just a few weeks ago. Irish, are you or your favorite redmen going to make it up at all tomorrow or Sunday??

[irish21]

RMF...Patrick went to Ft. Worth yesterday to watch the season opening series for Danny Grybash's minor league team - The Ft. Worth Cats. He called and told me Fergie Jenkins threw out the first pitch at the season opener last night!

I've been thinking about coming up just to get some Augieism's. The internet comment he made to Gene Walther at Concordia was just an instant classic!!

It was real weird at Concordia. Outside of Warren and Andy Jacques, there is no one left from Patrick's senior year. Evo was on that team but didn't make the trip to Concordia.

It will have to be much warmer than the past two days to get me up to Kenosha-by-the-sea!!

[diehardfan]

This is a little outdated, but I couldn't resist.

Wheaton conference standings for the last six years:

2001- last
2002 - last
2003 - 7th
2004 - 7th
2005 - 7th
2006 - 4thT

Improvement ladies and gentlemen!  8)

[REDMENFAN]

Irish i know what you mean,

I've went to a few of their practices just to hang out with the guys this year and knew only about half of them, and i just played last year!! But its a great group of guys who have come together very well and are a fun group to watch. What was Aug's quote on the internet?? I know in the paper he said "I know people are getting tired of me saying we're not that good and we're 31-7, but I just feel like there is a lot more things that we can be doing better." I got the word on who's pitching tomorrow...obviously I can't share that info before the game!!

[irish21]

RMF...look at the bottom of my posts. His quote is at the bottom. But now I have a new one. I was just watching the original Bad News Bears. There are some great one-liners in that movie!

In case you missed it...

"We look a lot better on the internet than we do in person" - Augie Schmidt responding to a friend when he said he had been following the Redmen on the website.

[someone12]

wow i think wheaton deserves a little more respect than that.  they did have 8 one run games and at least 5 more 2 run games that one less error or one extra hit could have put them in the W category.  not to mention nearly sweeping augustana and pretty much being the only team to hit evosevich well.  neadless to say, i believe wheaton deserves a little more respect than that last post.

[emeritusprof]

As this present weather system lingers over the upper midwest, consider this -- the Minnesota legislature is pondering the merits of a funding bill for an OPEN AIR baseball stadium.

Yes, in Minnesota, where the Twins last night beat the White Sox in the Dome, and outside it was rain and 39 degrees.

That would have been a postponed game, rather than a rare win over Chicago.