BB: SUNYAC

[BaseballEliteNY]

Cortland wins 2 today against Mount St. Vincent. In game 1 Hartling had 1 bad inning. Looked to have a kid rung up looking for the 3rd out on a 3-2 pitch and from there it was a snow ball effect. A few hits and a home run led to 5 runs. Hartling finished the inning with a strike out. Steve Nickel and Adam Dimino both hit home runs. Dimino hit one of the farthest balls I have ever seen hit - clearing the light towers and over the road in left. He added a few stolen bases. Mike Mahay came in for Hartling and struggled, followed by a short outing by Gentzke who also struggled. Finally, Ed Southworth came in for an extended outing (4 outs I believe). He threw better then the other 3 but he even struggled a bit with control. In all a very sloppy game for the pitching staff. Game 2 was the complete opposite. Mike Assman (as I said in a previous post that I felt he would bounce back) threw an absolute gem. He looked sharp, he pumped the zone, and his curve was filthy. He must have had 8-10 strike outs in a complete game effort and only a handful of hits. Kris Gentzke launched a ball opposite field for a 3 run home run and Jason Simone hit an RBI triple that wound up being the game winning run (prior to the Gentzke home run). Steve Nickel played solid defense at 3rd all day with a ton of assists and a few nice plays.

[BaseballEliteNY]

On a side note... Late in the 1st game Anderson Gardner pulled up short scoring on a single, it looked like a pulled hamstring or even a lower leg injury. He was not catching, but rather DHing... interesting thta he wasn't catching and hasn't been catching and now this injury which kept him out of game 2.

[John McGraw]

Cortland wins 2 today against Mount St. Vincent. In game 1 Hartling had 1 bad inning. Looked to have a kid rung up looking for the 3rd out on a 3-2 pitch and from there it was a snow ball effect. A few hits and a home run led to 5 runs. Hartling finished the inning with a strike out. Steve Nickel and Adam Dimino both hit home runs. Dimino hit one of the farthest balls I have ever seen hit - clearing the light towers and over the road in left. He added a few stolen bases. Mike Mahay came in for Hartling and struggled, followed by a short outing by Gentzke who also struggled. Finally, Ed Southworth came in for an extended outing (4 outs I believe). He threw better then the other 3 but he even struggled a bit with control. In all a very sloppy game for the pitching staff. Game 2 was the complete opposite. Mike Assman (as I said in a previous post that I felt he would bounce back) threw an absolute gem. He looked sharp, he pumped the zone, and his curve was filthy. He must have had 8-10 strike outs in a complete game effort and only a handful of hits. Kris Gentzke launched a ball opposite field for a 3 run home run and Jason Simone hit an RBI triple that wound up being the game winning run (prior to the Gentzke home run). Steve Nickel played solid defense at 3rd all day with a ton of assists and a few nice plays.

I'm confused. If there were light towers, how come they weren't used on for Friday night's game?

[BaseballEliteNY]

Ask the Old Westbury coach... 'monumental' win for a program that has not had much success.... someone lost the key to the lights after Cortland tied the game up on Nickels home run.

[DogHead]

Listen, I understand the variables in baseball that allow any given team the chance to win no matter the difference in talent for example.  However, I don't care if Joe Torre is coaching, Jose Reyes is at short with Ichiro in center, Cortland or at least the teams of the past DO NOT lose to Old Westbury or allow Farmingdale St. the opportunity to represent the region at the World Series.  Brown gets outcoached by coaches with far less talent on their roster.  Brown  makes his players scared to compete or fail because he cannot objectively take blame for team failure and this is the result, a loss to a far inferior team.  The level of talent at Cortland has for far too long covered up the head    coaches true knowledge of the game and overall ability to make changes in coaching philosophy year in and year out.  Just blame the players when all else fails. Just my observation and opinon as a spectator on the outside looking in.

[DogHead]

This is laughable. JB is perhaps the most knowledgeable and dedicated baseball guy around. He's got the highest winning percentage among active D-III coaches and is third ALL-TIME! Sure, he's had good players...because he recruited them! LOL. He's got 18 years worth of former players that he keeps in touch with and not because he had them wound so tight they couldn't play well. For those who want to bash him, I can only imagine that they must have been cut or didn't play under him because they just weren't good enough.

Just remember all these silly comments at the end of May. This may be the best Cortland team ever. The game vs. Farmingdale may prove to be the galvanizing ingredient this team needed. 7 games in 7 days vs. good opponents in Florida will tell the story of the pitching depth and whether this team is tough enough to advance past the Regionals, which they will be a part of....again...for the 18th straight year!

[scuba16]

I heard the Old Westbury Coach told JB all week the lights were available and at the end of the game he said he wouldn't turn the lights on! Thats actually pretty funny considering Old Westbury is like 1-5 and the game means squat this early.

[BoomerIL]

Everyone wants to knock the "big dog" off the top of the mountain.  People can say what they want about Cortland, love them or hate them, they still have and probably will have for a longtime to come, one of the elite programs in DIII in the country.

When I talk to people that know about college ball, or have a relative or son in a DI program, and I tell them my son plays ball in New York, they ask if he plays against Cortland.  People know about Cortland because of their reputation for having a winning tradition.  So, they got beat by Old Westbury.  Big deal!!!!  Nothing is perfect.  Teams have bad games and bad days.  They are Cortland and you still have to respect the program.  You may not like them or think they are anything special, but make sure you can take care of business when you play them.

[Hot Rod Runnin]

I thought this was the SUNYAC board, not the bash Cortland board. Quickly, someone tell me the last team to go undefeated and win a title (so close Trininty)? Last time I checked the New Jeresy Nets still had a few wins this year, which means that good teams lose to bad teams. If the best team won all the time, then we would just award the championshihp to the number one rated pre-season team every year.

[Hot Rod Runnin]

Was anyone at the Cortland vs. Old Westbury game that knows what exactly happened?

[StarvinMarvin]

Try reading the previous ten posts that talk about what happened at the game vs. Old Westbury.  It's not like it hasn't been discussed at length over the last few days.

[whitey16]

i was there for six innings...... saw an good long island lefty  pretty much shut down cortlands offense for the the first six.    mixed it up good and pitched around some of the tough outs... made a mistake to gardner but other then that did a good job with a potent offense that can be beat .

[RSSmith]

Old Westbury just played Kean close.  Maybe not such a pushover.

[whitey16]

westbury pitched Fordyce again against Kean.   Close until late innings....Fordyce is a pitcher not a thrower.... hits his spots , changes speeds and pitches around guys who can hurt you..... thats the reason he had success against cortland.....the Cortland lineup has huge holes in it that a good Pitcher who hits his spots along with a good scouting report can keep you in a game against a lineup like cortlands.   there are guys in that lineup who will try to pull everything. and guys who you have to pitch inside, they are a potent offense but you need to be a pitcher not a thrower to beat them.  you are not gonna throw the ball by them....... westbury and fordyce did a good job doing that.... congrats on a good win..... just my 2 cents

[Hot Rod Runnin]

whitey,

it seems to me that you make some of the most generic statements about these games. statements that anyone could say without having even been to the games, and find out just by reading the boxscores.


Oneonta off to a hot start as usual with there less stellar florida trip.

I think we should make an effort to start posting about other teams on here...this is the SUNYAc board, not bash the best team in the Northeast board