BB: General New England Discussion

[ECSUalum]

Congrats to Wheaton College on a great season and to Marietta College for their 2nd staight and 6 NCAA Division-III National Baseball Championship!!!!!!!!!!
Another D-III College Baseball season comes to a close!

[wordsmith]

Congrats to the boys from New England really good run for the Wheaties.

The great State of O-H-I-O boys just repeated in baseball. Yehaw.

[ECSUalum]

Lets get this thread going for 2013:
The D3 baseball preseason baseball poll, for what its worth
D3baseball.com Top 25, preseason
Records are from the final 2012 D3baseball.com Top 25

# School (1st votes) Rec Pts Prev.
1 Wheaton (Mass.) (8) 41-11 594 2
2 St. Thomas (3) 41-10 586 3
3 Marietta (14) 48-8 578 1
4 Cortland State 41-9-1 564 4
5 Whitworth 31-16-1 457 8
6 Birmingham-Southern 38-9 443 10
7 Kean 37-12 422 6
8 Christopher Newport 34-10 411 5
9 Salisbury 34-9 386 11
10 Webster 36-14 361 7
11 Trinity (Texas) 37-12 360 13
12 Keystone 37-8 333 9
13 Adrian 37-10 304 12
14 St. Joseph's (Maine) 39-7 245 14
15 Western New England 38-13 214 17
16 Concordia (Texas) 37-11 206 15
17 UW-La Crosse 34-11 194 16
18 UW-Whitewater 33-17 191 24
19 Trinity (Conn.) 34-11 161 22
20 Ramapo 35-15 147 23
21 Washington and Jefferson 36-10 119 20
22 St. Scholastica 35-11 101 25
23 Shenandoah 31-13 100 18
24 Aurora 38-10 77 19
25 Farmingdale State 32-12 66 rv



Others receiving votes: UW-Stevens Point 44, Alvernia 30, Washington (Mo.) 28, Illinois Wesleyan 24, Misericordia 22, Mount Union 21, Lynchburg 20, St. John Fisher 18, Rose-Hulman 15, Bridgewater (Va.) 15, North Park 14, Texas-Tyler 14, St. John's (Minn.) 12, Neumann 12, Eastern Conn. St. 12, Manchester 11, Coe 11, Old Westbury 11, La Verne 10, Southern Maine 10, Cal Lutheran 9, Pomona-Pitzer 9, Chapman 8, Rhodes 8, Huntingdon 7, Husson 6, Ithaca 6, Bridgewater St. 5, Penn St.-Behrend 5, Tufts 5, Wooster 4, DePauw 3, Emory 3, Western Conn. St. 3, Rowan 2, Chicago 2, Anderson (Ind.) 2 , Millsaps 2, La Roche 2, Linfield 2, Hope 1, Johns Hopkins 1.

[OshDude]

Plus Bridgewater State, Husson and Tufts.

[ECSUalum]

Plus Bridgewater State, Husson and Tufts.

Absolutely Correct Ricky!!! And 3 good baseball programs as well!!!

[lefthanders]

Once again, I find the pre-season polls quite amusing! Not saying that the teams ranked or receiving votes aren't deserving, but really....where is Keene State College....what do they need to do?

They are receiving votes in 2 out of the 3 pre-season polls, but to put some of these teams in NE ahead of them is a joke.

They have consistently competed in the LEC at a high level, consistently competed with the top ranked teams in NE at a high level and have been to the NCAA regionals 4 out of the last 6 years in the toughest region to qualify....

So once again....I say really...where do these polls originate from....a bar after close?

[kscer]

Lets get this thread going for 2013:
The D3 baseball preseason baseball poll, for what its worth]

It's good to see St Joe's of Maine rated so high. They usually have a good team, and do not garner the respect they deserve. Also no LEC teams in the top 25?  Does any one here think the season will end up like that?

[ECSUalum]

Keene St never seems to get much love on these preseason polls, however they are probably somewhat accurate for the top 10 at best.  The lower 15-20 are a 50/50 proposition.  Keene just needs to win its games and the rankings will take care of themselves.  Look at the mid April poll to gage a more accurate ranking.

I see Cal Tech plays Sunday for first game of the D-III season?  We are almost there!!!! Cant wait!!!

[WNECalum222]

Good to see WNE getting some love in the preseason polls. They should be tough to beat this year and it should be a good battle for the NE crown. I fully expect WNE to be there at the end.

[kscer]

St Joe's upends Wheaton 2-1. Upsets the apple cart a bit.

[ECSUalum]

D3baseball.com Top 25, week 3Through games of Sunday March 10, 2013

# School (1st votes) Rec Pts Prev.
1 Cortland State (10) 7-1 602 4
2 Marietta (5) 3-1 566 3
3 Wheaton (Mass.) (5) 3-1 564 1
4 Christopher Newport (4) 16-4-1 512 5
5 St. Thomas (1) 5-3 501 2
6 Salisbury 8-2 473 7
7 Trinity (Texas) 15-4 439 6
8 Kean 7-2 425 9
9 St. Joseph's (Maine) 4-0 417 12
10 UW-Whitewater 1-1 349 11
11 Linfield 12-3 319 15
12 Keystone 8-3 295 13
13 Shenandoah 9-2 274 19
14 Ramapo 2-0 269 17
15 Western New England 2-1 242 14
16 UW-La Crosse 1-1 233 16
17 Birmingham-Southern 11-6 219 10
18 Bridgewater (Va.) 9-1 184 23
19 Trinity (Conn.) 0-0 171 18
20 Texas-Tyler 14-4 160 24
21 Manchester 8-0 119 rv
22 Washington and Jefferson 3-0 99 25
23 UW-Stevens Point 2-0 78 rv
24 Johns Hopkins 5-0 60 rv
25 Augustana 7-1 55 rv



Dropped out: No 8. Adrian, 20. Webster, 21 Aurora, No. 22 Whitworth.

Others receiving votes: Adrian 52, Aurora  52, St. Scholastica  38, Millsaps 38, Pomona-Pitzer 35, Mount Union 31, Ill. Wesleyan 27, Southern Me. 24, Baldwin Wallace 23, Webster 21, Whitworth  20, Misericordia 18, Elmhurst 17, Rowan 16, Wis.-Oshkosh 13, Ithaca 12, Wartburg 12, Neumann 12, St. Joseph's (Brkln) 5, Heidelberg 4, Concordia (Ill.) 4, Wittenberg 3, Brockport St. 3, Cal Lutheran 3, Montclair St. 3, Alvernia 3, DePauw 2, Eastern Conn. St. 2, Tufts 2, Thomas More 2, La Verne 1, Bridgewater St 1, Chicago 1.

[amh63]

ECSU ....saw that the baseball games between our schools were cancelled...in New York somewhere...to bad.. Well fewer loses for us!
Wanted to let you know that there is a lacrosse game at 4:30 pm today between us ...on the web...can go the Amherst website.

[ECSUalum]

amh63,
Yes the snow really wrecked the weeks schedule.  Actually I was really looking forward to the Lord Jeff/ECSU games, as,  besides Ithaca, they really have not played a particularly strong schedule.  Hopefully we get rescheduled.

re LAX, ECSU has not really been competitive with the NESCAC schools historically, where top to bottom NESCAC LAX excels on a national basis. BTW, as of this writing the Lord Jeffs have defeated Eastern 13-9.  Always tough for Eastern to attract the quality student athletes schools like Amherst, Weslyan, Tufts, Middlebury get in LAX, but we are competitive in the LEC

Also, amh63, best of luck in the NCAA sweet 16!!!  Rooting for an Amherst National Championship

[ECSUalum]

D3baseball.com Top 25, week 4
Through games of Sunday March 17, 2013
# School (1st votes) Rec Pts Prev.
1 Salisbury (20) 13-2 586 6
2 Trinity (Texas) 19-4 534 7
3 Cortland State (1) 10-4 517 1
4 Marietta (2) 7-3 498 2
5 St. Thomas (1) 5-3 472 5
6 Linfield (1) 15-3 446 11
7 Christopher Newport 18-6-1 433 4
8 Kean 10-4 409 8
9 St. Joseph's (Maine) 7-2 385 9
10 Wheaton (Mass.) 5-4 357 3
11 Shenandoah 11-3 314 13
12 Western New England 5-2 305 15
13 Ramapo 4-1 285 14
14 Keystone 11-5 267 12
15 Texas-Tyler 17-5 221 20
16 UW-Whitewater 3-2 211 10
17 Birmingham-Southern 14-7 176 17
18 UW-La Crosse 2-2 164 16
19 Webster 7-5 140 rv
20 UW-Stevens Point 3-0 116 23
21 Augustana 10-2 95 25
22 Manchester 9-2-1 70 21
23 Rowan 8-2 66 rv
24 Illinois Wesleyan 6-2 61 rv
25 Washington and Jefferson 4-1 56 22


Dropped out: No. 18 Bridgewater (Va.), No. 19 Trinity (Conn.), No. 24 Johns Hopkins.


Others receiving votes: Pomona-Pitzer 52, Baldwin Wallace 52, Johns Hopkins 50, St. Scholastica 50, Mount Union 41, Heidelberg 41, Haverford 38, Wis.-Oshkosh 31, Millsaps 30, Neumann 30, Eastern Conn. St. 28, Elmhurst 24, Bridgewater (Va.) 23, Trinity (Conn.) 22, Concordia (Ill.) 20, Cal Lutheran 18, Adrian 17, Aurora 16, Southern Me. 13, Huntingdon 13, Spalding 9, Wartburg 7, St. John Fisher 7, Occidental 6, Misericordia 5, Wittenberg 5, St. Joseph's (Brkln) 5, Thomas More  3, Brockport St. 2, La Roche 1, John Carroll 1, Tufts 1.

[ECSUalum]

I found this Wikipedia article interesting!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_baseball_stadiums

nice photos besides the statistics

BTW ECSU's facility has a Wiki article which includes Tristan Hobbs' well done video:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Baseball_Stadium