BB: Regionals (New England) Harwich '08, '11, ECSU '09, '10

[wordsmith]

Alum does that mean squeezing up by 9 runs in the 6th??

Couldnt resist throwing that one out there.  Yes i agree about mental toughness.  I think that this is the reason why the LEC teams year in and year out do so well.  The strain of the LEC tournament prepares them for those tough situations that arise in the regionals.  Thier is a reason that in the last two years you have had 2 LEC teams playing for the trip to Wisconsin  in 07 and Trinity and USM last year.  You can tell teams that are mentally tough and stay even keel through the whole game. You can see it in the way they play the game

KSCFan,

Pulling out an "ol' school" reference to the TEE-KSC match-up a few years back....HolyWater siad after the game we squeezed bunted up by 9 or 10 runs because we have so much respect for Keene. Cough, cough, choke....

TEE fans, as nice as they might be, never get it, we don't forget, ever never.....ATTICA ATTICA ATTICA

Word 8)

[KSCfan]

Word that game still sticks with me on a daily basis.  Just so many battles with Eastern that year, and Keene ended up playing Eastern something like 6 times in 14 days.  Most of them grueling battles, and most of them won by Eastern.  Keene forcing the 2nd game in the LEC tournament then Ishmael throwing out Hall at the plate in the 9th only to have Gilblair have the tournament winning hit.  THen in the regionals Re robbing a HR that would of tied the game in the 8th from Darrak in the winners bracket game, only to get bashed hard in the regional finals with squeezing up 9.  Yes those E wearing Holywater worshipping flatlanders dont understand we never forget.  ( I call them flatlanders but i was born and raised in CT hahahahahah)

[KSCfan]

And here we go.......

[hockeyfan77]

After 1...Suffolk  0  WPI  0

[ECSUalum]

KSCfan,

Just think, if you had decided to go to the great Mecca that is ECSU in Willimantic, you could have turned the "thrill of defeat into the agony of victory" 8)

Coach Howe and Keene will get there, it is just a matter of time

TODAY IS THE BIG DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Heading out soon.  Spending a boat load of time at my alma mater. Watching the best college baseball  teams in the USA. Bright sunny day, high about 70F. with fellow D3 bb bloggers.  It cant get much better than THAT

[hockeyfan77]

After  3      Suffolk  1      WPI  3

[KSCfan]

Alum the idea of going to eastern is about as attractive as Nick Naulty's DWI picture.  I finished school at keene and i needed to get my masters and Eastern is about 15 min from my parents house and its cheap and i refused to go to Eastern to get it.  Its sad when baseball impacts your life that much

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/nolte1.html

Good game going on right now between suffolk and WPI

[hockeyfan77]

After  7 1/2   Suffolk   6   WPI  6

[KSCfan]

Suffolk 5 WPI 6 in the top of the 8th big double by Carter

[KSCfan]

All tied up in the 8th

[Pat Coleman]

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[hockeyfan77]

After 8    Suffolk   6   WPI  7

[KSCfan]

This has been some game between WPI and Suffolk, back and forth, back and forth.  Looking forward to Babson and Eastern next

[KSCfan]

I have no problem with the contact play in the 9th with Suffolk. You see a lot of teams try that contact play with one out and a guy on third. If he stays put you are going to need a hit to get him in.  By sending him you are making the shortstop field the ball clean and make a good throw to the plate in a pressure situation.  It was a bang bang play as it was.

[KSCfan]

And of course as i say this Suffolk gets a hit that would of tied the game