BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[REDMENFAN]

Sounds good redman1. I plan on staying with meier friday, so I'm sure we'll see eachother. I expect text message updates every inning Friday!

[RedMan1]

Oh ya, I will definately see you then..

[REDMENFAN]

Congrats to Augie Schmidt for winning CCIW coach of the year for the 9th time in his 20 years (co-winner with Martel this year)

We'll see how good my memory is after reading the paper a few hours back:
1st team all conference performers from Carthage: Yapp, Krepline, Livek, Hughes, Hermes
2nd Team: Jacob Husing, Boe Baitinger

Congrats to every all conference performer this year. IWU had the most outstanding player and pitcher

[REDMENFAN]

Here's the links to the CCIW all conference team and also D3Baseball's first ever all american team, which includes players from IWU, Augie, and one from Carthage

http://www.cciw.org/spring_baseball/2007bballconferenceteam1.htm
http://d3baseball.com/images/2007/d3baseballallam2007.pdf

[REDMENFAN]

Great article about Boe Baitinger in the Kenosha News today:
http://kenoshanews.com/article_comments/view_comments.php?articleNum=1137736

[REDMENFAN]

Just read the paper, and Livek will be getting the start today for the Redmen.  Augs said his arm is the freshest, so it made the decision an easier one to make, along with saying Jeff is a level-headed guy who just usually laughs off pressure situations.  The article also mentioned that EC has a sophomore who's one of the country's top two way players. He's batting .395 and is 11-1 on the mound today, and he'll most likely get the start.  Four hours til game time, can't wait!!!!!

[REDMENFAN]

Forgot to mention, for those around the milwaukee area, there was a great 2 minute segment on the channel 4 news last night about Carthage that had interviews with Augie and Boe Baitinger. Anyone else see it?

[BigPoppa]

Just read the paper, and Livek will be getting the start today for the Redmen.  Augs said his arm is the freshest, so it made the decision an easier one to make, along with saying Jeff is a level-headed guy who just usually laughs off pressure situations.  The article also mentioned that EC has a sophomore who's one of the country's top two way players. He's batting .395 and is 11-1 on the mound today, and he'll most likely get the start.  Four hours til game time, can't wait!!!!!

Shawn Gilblair...

[REDMENFAN]

I think we just saw what is definitely the best two-way player in the country in Jordan Zimmerman almost single handedly beating Emory

[REDMENFAN]

3-0 Carthage up after one-half inning! I don't know any details. I can't watch it because my computer is a mac, and the stream on the carthage website is not working at all. THIS REALLY SUCKS!

[REDMENFAN]

Jeff Zampanti, a kenosha news sports writer is doing a blog on his experience being at the world series (not just about Carthage).  There's some great stuff in here, Jeff's always written great articles. Here's the link:
http://kenoshanews.com/article_comments/view_comments.php?articleNum=96969715

[REDMENFAN]

Also, here's the link for the article in today's paper:
http://kenoshanews.com/article_comments/view_comments.php?articleNum=1142232

[Mr. Ypsi]

TWENTY in a row ... and counting!

Carthage hitters roughed up AA Shawn Gilblair and four relievers to the tune of 15-4.  Next up, UWSP who reportedly has decent 2nd pitchers "but not in Zimmerman's league", to quote a Pointer fan.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Idle thought:

What if today's Carthage hitters had faced today's Zimmerman pitching?  (For those who missed it, Z threw a complete-game one-hitter at Emory.)  Talk about the irresistible force against the immovable object!

As Yogi would say: good pitching always beats good hitting, and vice versa.

[mwunder]

A clue for the rest of the teams in the tournament.


Don't hang a curve ball to Carthage hitters....ask Shawn Gilblair.