BB: LL: Liberty League

[AlleyCat]

I believe Clarkson will win game 2. They're at home and rarely get swept at home. They have good squad and can swing the bats. Do anyone know if they are playing a 7 or a 9 in game 2?

[AlleyCat]

Bottom 4th Clarkson 3-0. St Lawrence has already taken out Considine and some other starters. Must have just wanted to give him a little work before the tourney.

This one is all but over!!!!

Rochester
Skidmore
Clarkson
St Lawrence

This weekend for all the marbles!!!!!

[Ron Ron]

Game's over.  See ya RPI. Have a nice vacation.

[Truthfinder]

RPI will play Plattsburgh this weekend in the NOEGAF tournament.

That's the "No one else gives a ... " tournament.

[AlleyCat]

Truthfinder - Why would you say something like that after RPI has been in the NCAA's 17 of the last 19 years and to compare them to Plattsburgh is a joke. Hey, RPI stunk this year. No one is going to disbute that.

The LL is a better conference than people think and thats why RPI didn't make it this year. They didn't play well in league.

Sounds like your sour grapes or you got beaten by RPI too many times in your career.

Good luck to Rochester, Skidmore, Clarkson and St Lawrence. Well deserved! Have a great weekend and may the best team win.

[URFlorida]

6 May  2010



The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has released its second 2010 regional poll. The committee has ranked the top 15 percent of eligible teams in each region. The following teams, with records through May 4, were included in this week's regional poll. The next poll will be released May 13.

The first record is regional record, followed by overall record.

New York Region:

1. Cortland State 25-3-1 30-7-1
2. Plattsburgh State 18-7 30-8
3. St. John Fisher 26-11 27-11
4. Rochester (New York) 27-9 28-9
5. Staten Island 27-10 30-10
6. Skidmore 20-9 25-11

[John McGraw]

6 May  2010



The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has released its second 2010 regional poll. The committee has ranked the top 15 percent of eligible teams in each region. The following teams, with records through May 4, were included in this week's regional poll. The next poll will be released May 13.

The first record is regional record, followed by overall record.

New York Region:

1. Cortland State 25-3-1 30-7-1
2. Plattsburgh State 18-7 30-8
3. St. John Fisher 26-11 27-11
4. Rochester (New York) 27-9 28-9
5. Staten Island 27-10 30-10
6. Skidmore 20-9 25-11

There will be a new poll this coming week. One would imagine St. John Fisher will leapfrog up to two and Plattsburgh will drop past three.

[CrashDavisD3]

6 May  2010



The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has released its second 2010 regional poll. The committee has ranked the top 15 percent of eligible teams in each region. The following teams, with records through May 4, were included in this week's regional poll. The next poll will be released May 13.

The first record is regional record, followed by overall record.

New York Region:

1. Cortland State 25-3-1 30-7-1
2. Plattsburgh State 18-7 30-8
3. St. John Fisher 26-11 27-11
4. Rochester (New York) 27-9 28-9
5. Staten Island 27-10 30-10
6. Skidmore 20-9 25-11

There will be a new poll this coming week. One would imagine St. John Fisher will leapfrog up to two and Plattsburgh will drop past three.

St. John Fisher and Staten Island has shots at the last 2 Pool B bids after Chapman and St. Scholastica. Those are decided BEFORE Pool C on May 16th

[Truthfinder]

Truthfinder - Why would you say something like that after RPI has been in the NCAA's 17 of the last 19 years and to compare them to Plattsburgh is a joke. Hey, RPI stunk this year. No one is going to disbute that.

The LL is a better conference than people think and thats why RPI didn't make it this year. They didn't play well in league.

Sounds like your sour grapes or you got beaten by RPI too many times in your career.

Good luck to Rochester, Skidmore, Clarkson and St Lawrence. Well deserved! Have a great weekend and may the best team win.

You couldn't have missed the point by a wider margin. The LL was a GREAT conference this year. If RPI hadn't lost their cool and had coach and player ejected at Skidmore last week, the Engineers would be packing for Rochester. Can't believe such a storied program has fallen so far so fast.

[Truthfinder]

Friday schedule:

Skidmre-Clarkson, noon.
Rochester-SLU, 3:30 p.m.

[John McGraw]

Truthfinder - Why would you say something like that after RPI has been in the NCAA's 17 of the last 19 years and to compare them to Plattsburgh is a joke. Hey, RPI stunk this year. No one is going to disbute that.

The LL is a better conference than people think and thats why RPI didn't make it this year. They didn't play well in league.

Sounds like your sour grapes or you got beaten by RPI too many times in your career.

Good luck to Rochester, Skidmore, Clarkson and St Lawrence. Well deserved! Have a great weekend and may the best team win.

You couldn't have missed the point by a wider margin. The LL was a GREAT conference this year. If RPI hadn't lost their cool and had coach and player ejected at Skidmore last week, the Engineers would be packing for Rochester. Can't believe such a storied program has fallen so far so fast.

It's just one bad year. I'd liken it to a season where Murphy's Law applied - what could go wrong, did go wrong. At the start of the year, RPI on paper looked to be the class of the conference despite losing a couple key pieces at the top of the line-up. Then we found out all-league outfielder Nic Marchese was gone and I think that really impacted the start of the order. RPI never really had a great lead-off hitter like Sean Wilkes was during his run at the top. And when a 6-foot-4 outfielder is your stolen base leader, you know there's going to be problems.

Some of the pitchers that were projected to do well did not. Mondo was still the ace and Cieszko became a conference starter at the end of the year. The others did not but their numbers weren't awful. I'm still confused by John Dreimiller, a guy that was a great pitcher as a rookie I think and then just lost it and never really recovered the form he had when he first came into the program.

As for next year? RPI loses a decent amount with Reardon, Mondo, Mamagonian, Krushelnyski, etc. Coach Steffen usually does a good job of recruiting so I think that next year's squad could replicate the numbers of this year's underachieving team or possibly finish anywhere from second to fifth in the league.

[AlleyCat]

John,
Couldn't agree with you more. RPI just had a bad year. That happens from time to time. The loss of Marchese really hurt them offensively.

Truthfinder obviously doesn't understand that no one lost their cool and that Mondo was thrown out for having part of his foot out of the dugout and that Coach Allard was thrown out for protecting his pitcher and being and assistant coach(thats what assistant coaches are supposed to do). That still happened in the top of the 8th and had no bearing on a foul ball homer that was a mistake by the umpire or maybe not. Those 2 being thrown out had no bearing on that play in the bottom on the 9th.


Good luck to all in the tourney and who ever wins, represent the LL well in the NCAA!!!!!!

[LLbaseball]

I think the LL is so much more competitive than it used to be.... all of the teams in the league now can beat each other.  The 4 teams in the tournament are all competitive.  I think its anyone's tournament to win.  Next year should be even more competitive with several key players from the top 4 programs graduating and I truly feel you can throw Vassar in that mix next season.  They are really only losing Glantz, and everyone else is returning.... I also know of a couple HS pitchers that are going there that can pitch next year.  They are much better than they used to be.

Could be interesting next season.... as for the winner of the tournament -- Skidmore.

[Truthfinder]

John,
Couldn't agree with you more. RPI just had a bad year. That happens from time to time. The loss of Marchese really hurt them offensively.

Truthfinder obviously doesn't understand that no one lost their cool and that Mondo was thrown out for having part of his foot out of the dugout and that Coach Allard was thrown out for protecting his pitcher and being and assistant coach(thats what assistant coaches are supposed to do). That still happened in the top of the 8th and had no bearing on a foul ball homer that was a mistake by the umpire or maybe not. Those 2 being thrown out had no bearing on that play in the bottom on the 9th.


Good luck to all in the tourney and who ever wins, represent the LL well in the NCAA!!!!!!

No, no coach, head or assistant, is "supposed" to snap and get tossed from a Division III game.

And yeah, this is a blanket statement, but RPI always loses its cool. That's what makes them RPI.

[AlleyCat]

The LL is very strong and I believe that Vassar is much improved and could be looking at a tourney spot next year also. The shortstop that vassar has is the fastest kid on the field anytime they play. That kid can FLY!!!!