BB: CCIW: College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin

[Mr. Ypsi]

Augie took game 3 from Carthage 11-9.

Combined with Millikin's 12-2 loss to NCC, that officially clinches a tourney spot for Augie, though they could still be either 3rd or 4th seed.

Wheaton needs just one more win (1 game against reeling Millikin, 3 against NPU) to lock up the other spot.

[mwunder]

Augie took game 3 from Carthage 11-9.

5 errors on Carthage led to 6 unearned runs for Augie.  Defense wins ballgames.

[Gregory Sager]

NPU is all but eliminated at this point, and it's not the sweeps by the top three teams that have done in the Vikings. It's the losses to the likes of Millikin and North Central, and the fact that they could only take one out of three from Elmhurst. Even if the Vikings manage to win the series against Wheaton, it'll most likely be a case of too little too late, and an offseason of woulda, coulda, shouldas.

It's a fairly young NPU team, so the future looks bright. And there's no question that Luke Johnson has the program moving in the right direction. Still, the season has played out to be a bit of a disappointment for the Park.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Yeah, NPU is still mathematically alive (so long as Wheaton loses the makeup game to Millikin), but must sweep the series against the Thunder, not just win.  IF all that happened, they would be 4th seed.

In cleaning out the basement, I ran across my senior-year Wesleyana - had forgotten I even had it!  The baseball section (1969 season, since the yearbook came out before the end of the 1970 season) had something jarring.  The Titans won the conference with a 14-2 record (all current teams, plus Carroll; just 2 games each).  They were undefeated against everyone except ... Wheaton (who swept them )!  The CCIW website only lists conference winners (not all teams' records); the Wheaton website seems to only go back to 2000.  Wheaton's one and only title came in 1951, but have they had eras of being highly respectable in baseball, or was 1969 just one of those fluky things?

Anyone found anything I've missed in the archives, or have a memory far longer than mine?

[REDMENFAN]

Here's the article from the paper about the Carthage/Augustana game from yesterday. A lot of positive comments about his team from Augie.

http://ksn.kenoshanews.com/view_article.php?articleNum=2894141

[REDMENFAN]

Great article about the Carthage baseball team in the Racine Journal Times today. In depth article that talks about how its a huge surprise to Augie that they're doing what they're doing this year with only 2 starting position players returning, and one of them being injured. Several quotes from Augie, as well as players on the team and other coaches in the CCIW explaining why they think Carthage is a good team this year.

http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2008/04/29/local_sports/doc4816a4c9e8e06624381790.txt

[mwunder]

From the aforementioned article...

"Under the guidance of Schmidt, who sees so many little things that others don't, Acevado's pent-up ability came pouring out. In 126 at-bats, Acevado has 30 extra-base hits for a .944 slugging percentage, is hitting .492 with 11 homers and 452 RBIs. His 119 total bases are 57 more than any other Carthage player."



That's a ton of RBIs....how did Carthage lose twice?   

[REDMENFAN]

That's only about 3 1/2 Ribby's per AB, that's not that impressive!   

[Titan Q]

Illinois State came from behind to defeat IWU 7-4 yesterday at Horenberger Field...

http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/04/30/usports/doc4817d1fdd05e1906832464.txt

[mwunder]

Carthage beat Aurora yesterday by a score of 6-4.

[RedmenBigD]

The Carthage/IWU series is pushed up to Thursday (DH) and then Friday.  Those of you out at in the outfield I will need some updates via text...

[matblake]

Wheaton plays the U of Chicago tonight.  Then it's the showdown with North Park this weekend.  In an interesting twist, the makeup game with Millikin is scheduled for Monday.  If the Vikings sweep, the Parkers will become big Big Blue fans, at least in terms of the CCIW tournament.

[RedMan1]

RedmenbigD, I will try, might have to skip a couple of classes though.....

[RedmenBigD]

Class, you know you don't go to class.  You and I both know you would rather be yelling in the left fielder's ear than be in class...

[soxfan14]

final tonight
IWU 15
Rockford 1