BB: General New England Discussion

[wordsmith]

Greg Ford - Keene State DH went for the cycle today in an 8-0 win over Westfield State. I attached a nice article about the feat.

http://www.keene.edu/athletics/news_article.cfm?news_id=3522

By the way, KSC is 25 games into the season and they have not played a home game. The Owls have a game vs Plywood State tomorrow at Merchant's Field in Manchester followed by a Double AA (is that redondate?) pro game.

KSCer??? How does the Owl field look for the weekend schedule?

[wordsmith]

And finally - the Backyard Brawl goes to the EEIT. So. Maine scored 5 in the top of the 8th to take the lead. The Monks put 2 on the board in the bottom of the 9th but could not get the tying run across.

Too bad Furbush left for LSU. A perfect spot for him in the 6th or 8th inning.

[Paul Heering]

so i got distracted from doing my real work and ran some numbers. 

i realize that this isn't a true representation of conference power but it is still interesting to look at.

please remember not everyone plays everyone, if each team in new england played each team once, then this would be very good indicator or conference strength, this is interesting, that is all.

what looking at it and saying, wow i never would have thought that, think about geography, for example, the NESCAC was 11-5 vs the LEC, sounds surprising, but think about the fact that Plymouth State is up in Northern NESCAC country, the NESCAC is 5-0 vs Plymouth.

enjoy

Conference   Percent of Out Of Conference Games Won
NEWMAC                 63%
NESCAC                  62%
LEC                      54%
GNAC                    47%
NAC                     43%
MASCAC                  40%
CCC                     37%

Here are the individual conference breakdowns


NESCAC vs....
GNAC   1-1
NEWMAC   5-5
MASCAC   5-1
LEC   11-5
NAC   4-3
CCC   0-1

GNAC vs...
NESCAC   1-1
NEWMAC   2-3
MASCAC   4-2
LEC   2-2
NAC   5-7
CCC   4-5

NEWMAC vs...
NESCAC   5-5
GNAC   3-2
MASCAC   5-4
LEC   8-5
NAC   3-0
CCC   7-2

MASCAC vs...
NESCAC   1-5
GNAC   2-4
NEWMAC   4-5
LEC   3-10
NAC   5-1
CCC   3-2

LEC vs...
NESCAC   5-11
GNAC   2-2
NEWMAC   5-8
MASCAC   10-3
NAC   3-2
CCC   5-0

NAC vs...
NESCAC   3-4
GNAC   7-5
NEWMAC   0-3
MASCAC   1-5
LEC   2-3
CCC   5-4

CCC vs...
NESCAC   1-0
GNAC   5-4
NEWMAC   2-7
MASCAC   2-3
LEC   0-5
NAC   4-5

the most amazing thing about this is that after i compiled it, the wins and losses actually added up 155-155.  i was not that confident i would have it work out that well.  there may be a mistake in there somewhere though.

[soxfan42585]

WOW amazing work!

[wordsmith]

Really nice job. If I had the ability I would give you a +1 Karma point!

[wordsmith]

I hate to keep dwelling on this, but, I have followed college Bball for many years and cannot ever remember this happening.

Keene State has rescheduled more games away from their home swamp. Thus their first home game is now not scheduled until Friday April 27th!! They will have played 30 games before they have a home game.   

Good news is their last 6 regular season games are all at home.

[Paul Heering]

games to watch this weekend, please add if there are others

Friday
Tufts @ Trinity
Middlebury @ Amherst
WNEC @ Brandeis
Wheaton @ WPI
USM @ St. Joe's Maine

Saturday (all DH)
Tufts @ Trinity
Middlebury @ Amherst
Wheaton @ Brandeis
ECSU @ RIC

Sunday
Wheaton @ USM
Bridgewater @ Westfield (DH)

[wordsmith]

University of EEIT sweeps the home & home vs. St. Joe's. Maybe the fallen light pole was an omen for the Monks?

[kscer]

KSCer??? How does the Owl field look for the weekend schedule?
[/quote]

During the game at Merchants stadium - A beautiful stadium by the way, they really did a good job there, except parking is bad - they announced that the game had been moved to Plymouth. News to the coach, the SID and everyone else. I can't believe that the field could not be ready after another day like today. As of yesterday they were planning on playing at home.  Maybe the grounds crew doesn't work on Saturdays. They did move the softball game too.

[kscer]

I hate to keep dwelling on this, but, I have followed college Bball for many years and cannot ever remember this happening.

Keene State has rescheduled more games away from their home swamp. Thus their first home game is now not scheduled until Friday April 27th!! They will have played 30 games before they have a home game.   

Good news is their last 6 regular season games are all at home.

They have stupidly scheduled the make up of West Conn for tuesday the 24th. It's their game to reschedule and they do it on tuesday after four league games on the weekend. Death wish, or maybe they dont want to win out.

[Bostonian]

Two big games in the NESCAC leave 2 teams in must-sweep situations for tommorrow.
Middlebury beat Amherst 3-2 without Britton, so Amherst must sweep tommorrow or Middlebury will have the inside track on the 2 seed in the NESCAC west. They'll need a huge effort from Donahue because Britton may be the most talented pitcher in the NESCAC.

Tufts beat Trinity 2-1, with Derek Rice outdueling Chandler Barnard. Trinity must sweep tommorow or they will probably miss the NESCAC playoffs as well. If Tufts take 1 of 2, they will be in great shape to win the NESCAC East.

[Paul Heering]

Friday's Results
Tufts @ Trinity--Tufts
Middlebury @ Amherst--Middlebury
WNEC @ Brandeis--WNEC
Wheaton @ WPI--Wheaton
USM @ St. Joe's Maine--USM

[wordsmith]

They have stupidly scheduled the make up of West Conn for tuesday the 24th. It's their game to reschedule and they do it on tuesday after four league games on the weekend. Death wish, or maybe they dont want to win out.
[/quote]

Yea, I mentioned this a while back in a posting, 8 games in 8 days is tough. I guess I'd question that they could win out even if the schedule were in their favor with 4 games against the Evil Empire and Mini-Maine.

[Paul Heering]

perfect game tufts at trinity game today, trinity wins 4-0 behind Tim Kiely

[Bostonian]

Tufts leads 8-3 after 6 in game 3. Amherst lost game 1. Trinity is fighting for their NESCAC lives, and it looks like Amherst will not make the tourney this year again.