BB: General New England Discussion

[Hobbesy]

LEC Fan- I will try and work on it. Thanks for the heads up. And yes I am a BU fan and it was not surprising the Eagles did what they did. They will soon win another national title. They are unbelievably good!!

[Hobbesy]

My NED3Baseball New England Poll

http://ned3baseball.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/monks-take-over-top-spot-in-ned3baseball-new-england-poll/

[wildthngvaughn]

What happened to Endicott's Jake Northrup?  Did he transfer, get injured, get kicked off the team?  Losing one of the favorites to win the New England Player of the Year Award has got to be a big blow to Endicott.

[Hobbesy]

He transferred to UMass Amherst but is not playing there. Very, very tough loss for Endicott.

[KSCfan]

Hobbsey good rankings.  Couple of good new england games this week....

Amherst at Keene
UMB plays WNEU

[ECSUalum]

2012 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 week 6
Through games of Sunday, April 1

# School                    (1st votes) Rec Pts Prev.
1 Trinity (Texas)                   (16) 23-3 604 1
2 Marietta                             (9) 14-3 599 2
3 Christopher Newport                  22-4 584 3
4 Salisbury                                 20-4 542 5
5 Eastern Connecticut                  13-3 450 8
6 Kean                                       15-6 435 4
7 St. Thomas                               14-4 387 13
8 UW-Stevens Point                      10-4 370 9
9 Rowan                                     15-5 358 11
10 Wheaton (Mass.)                      15-3 355 7
11 Keystone                                 12-4 347 10
12 Misericordia                              20-3 312 12
13 Concordia (Texas)                     24-6 302 17
14 DePauw                                   23-3 300 21
15 Adrian                                     14-4 286 16
16 Piedmont                                 20-9 281 6
17 Cortland State                          16-6-1 273 14
18 Shenandoah                              20-7 179 19
19 Linfield                                     15-7 148 15
20 North Park                                17-3 139 -
21 UW-Whitewater                          9-4 137 22
22 Birmingham-Southern                  21-6 119 24
23 Texas-Tyler                              21-7 109 23
24 Ramapo                                    14-4 87 18
25 Neumann                                  17-6 70 20

Dropped Out: No. 25 Concordia (Ill.)

Also receiving votes: St. Joseph's (Maine) 68, Washington and Jefferson 54, Washington U. 32, Alvernia 27, Tufts 27, Aurora 17, Illinois Wesleyan 16, Franklin 14, Thomas More 12, Concordia (Ill.) 11, Lynchburg 10, Augustana 9, Washington College 8, Emory 8, Baldwin-Wallace 7, Bridgewater (Va.) 6, Amherst 6, Muhlenberg 4, Westminster (Pa.) 4, William Paterson 3, Texas-Dallas 3, Pacific Lutheran 3, Swarthmore 2, Cal Lutheran 1.

[ECSUalum]

Ricky Nelson has done a nice job with the Around the Nation article: All-Decade team: Where are they now?
Always nice to hear how the best d3 players are doing in their baseball and non-baseball careers!!
Suggest everyone give it a read, and I hope he can make it a regular article looking at a new bunch of guys next time!

[wordsmith]

Ricky Nelson has done a nice job with the Around the Nation article: All-Decade team: Where are they now?
Always nice to hear how the best d3 players are doing in their baseball and non-baseball careers!!
Suggest everyone give it a read, and I hope he can make it a regular article looking at a new bunch of guys next time!

Agreed, really good stuff....but who names their kid Ricky Nelson? Oops, errr, my Mom & Dad did! And Ozzie and Harriet!

Ricky Nelson Word

[HittingSpots38]

In my opinion, I think WNE will return to Regionals this year after running through what seems to be a very weak TCCC conference this year.  Endicott not as strong as last year, RWU having a confusing  and frustrating season, and I don't think Endicott has the pitching to contend for a push at the Conference Title.  RWU struggling offensively having only lost one bat from last years starting lineup.  Just an overall confusing situation there. The bats at WNE seem to have come alive over the past few games, but also gotta remember this has been against some questionable pitching.  Looking forward to seeing what WNE has to offer against upcoming non-conference games and seeing some more quality arms.

The key for WNE this year has to be starting pitching.  Still looking for Jefferis to hit his freshman year stride again and become as dominant as he was.  He has electric stuff, just needs to be the workhorse and leader that this staff needs this year. Breton has pitched well thus far and could be a very good pitcher if he keeps up what he is doing.  The starters for WNE need to give their team a chance in order to get to what seems to be one of the best bullpens in New England with Lawler leading the way and having Nugent and Lospinuso also in the mix.

Excited to see how they handle UMB today.

[HittingSpots38]

*I dont think WENTWORTH has the pitching to contend for a Conference Title*

sorry for the typo there

[Hobbesy]

Latest Around the Region

http://ned3baseball.wordpress.com/2012/04/07/around-the-region-4712/

[Hobbesy]

NED3Baseball New England Poll- Week #3

http://ned3baseball.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/monks-rolling-still-no-1-in-ned3baseball-new-england-poll/

[Hobbesy]

NEIBA New England Poll
Division III
1. Wheaton (3) 20-3 31 pts
2. St. Joseph's (1) 21-2 28 pts
3. Eastern Connecticut 15-5 22 pts
Trinity 18-5 22 pts
5. Keene State 17-6 17 pts
6. Salem State 19-5 11 pts
7. Amherst 14-5 8 pts
8. Tufts 12-6 3 pts
Also receiving votes: WPI

My poll was very similar!

[OshDude]

Ricky Nelson has done a nice job with the Around the Nation article: All-Decade team: Where are they now?
Always nice to hear how the best d3 players are doing in their baseball and non-baseball careers!!
Suggest everyone give it a read, and I hope he can make it a regular article looking at a new bunch of guys next time!

Agreed, really good stuff....but who names their kid Ricky Nelson? Oops, errr, my Mom & Dad did! And Ozzie and Harriet!

Ricky Nelson Word

Thanks, guys.
I'm a Richard, but cute kids get tagged with cute nicknames. The moniker outlasted the cuteness by a couple of decades.

[wordsmith]

Ricky Nelson has done a nice job with the Around the Nation article: All-Decade team: Where are they now?
Always nice to hear how the best d3 players are doing in their baseball and non-baseball careers!!
Suggest everyone give it a read, and I hope he can make it a regular article looking at a new bunch of guys next time!

Agreed, really good stuff....but who names their kid Ricky Nelson? Oops, errr, my Mom & Dad did! And Ozzie and Harriet!

Ricky Nelson Word

Thanks, guys.
I'm a Richard, but cute kids get tagged with cute nicknames. The moniker outlasted the cuteness by a couple of decades.

Well I am a Richard as well. And my Dad served in WWII with a guy named Nelson Tibbets, to which they returned home together and had a long lasting friendship. To honor Nelson my parents gave me that as a middle name. So all through school I was "little Ricky Nelson".

I always looked at that I'd rather be a Ricky Nelson than a Dick Nixon.

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