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

[Hobbesy]

Wildthng-

I guess they should have thought about scheduling the regional tournament so close to the World Series.....


Mother nature can never be controlled and you have to role with it.  Holding conference tournaments the last weekend before regionals makes sense because I guarantee you that Tufts, RIC and Eastern Connecticut are much more prepared then Wheaton, WNEC, MIT and so on and so forth.  It's hard to play in important, crucial games and then go back to regular games and then back to competitive ones.  We saw this with WNEC last year.

As for the regionals, they will get them in.  In 2008 it rained in New York and we were playing until 2 in the morning in an elimination game.  They will get the games in if they need to get them in.  Happened in 2007 in Harwich and I believe Keene and Wheaton played into the wee hours of the night.

But again they probably should have had the regionals back in April...

[CrashDavisD3]

Last year the West Regional some games were played in the cold, wind and rain in Oregon.

[Stump]

Anyone find it interesting that the NCAA doesnt seem to think to much of St Joes and thier schedule.  The fighting monks were seeded 6th.  They come in as a conference champion, they record is 30-13, and they where seeded behind at large MIT.  I think it was on the general new england discussion early in march we talked about St Joes and thier program.  Apparently the NCAA seems to think that St Joes plays a weak schedule, and or are not as good as advertised.  They get Wheaton in thier first game which is no easy task.  I would of thought that they would of ended up in the 4/5 game. 

I was surprised to see that St. Joe's had the lowest SOS of all the NE regional qualifer schools(including Mitchell).  I know the GNAC is pretty weak but not as weak as the NECC. 

I pretty sure the Monks will be well prepared to challenge the Wheaties.

It certainly looks like a challenging week weatherwise.

Good Luck to all the participants.  Your hard work and dedication is paying off.  Appreciate the opportunity you have(it passes so fast)trust me!! and know your families, friends and schools are proud of you. Play hard, have fun, enjoy your time and represent your schools well. 

[wordsmith]

Tufts over Bridgewater State 

Western New England over Husson

St. Joseph's over Wheaton

MIT over Rhode Island College 
   

[GBearsAlum15]

Tufts vs. Bridgewater St - Tufts
WNEC vs. Husson - WNEC
Wheaton vs. St. Joe's - St. Joe's in a close one
MIT vs. RIC - RIC in a close one

[Niner]

Tufts over Bridgewater State 
Western New England over Husson
Wheaton over St. Joseph's
MIT over Rhode Island College 

[hockeyfan77]

Final    RIC     12      MIT     2    

[coachzilly]

RIC up 8-2 in the 6th bases still loaded...Cinderella likes the rain!

[OshDude]

No Gary Levesque for RIC today?

[Niner]

Looks like the Tufts/Bridgewater game might be delayed. The rain just doesn't want to go away.

Good win for RIC today. They took every advantage against a decent MIT squad. We'll see if their offense can keep it going throughout the tournament.

[KSCfan]

Not going to look good if MIT gets bounced in two games.  Not a lot of people felt they deserved to be in the thing, and now they get whacked by LEC winner RIC.  RIC is a hot team, but they are a team that is what 24-20 overall?  I know thats not exact on thier record, but close enough.  I need to see more out of MIT to feel that they deserved over Amherst and Keene.  I hope RIC makes a deep run in the regionals, love the cinderella run!

[wildthngvaughn]

Hobbesy,
    Its makes no sense to hold your conference tournament the weekend before the Regionals.  The Liberty League's confernce tournament hasn't been completed in 3 of the last 5 years because of rain.  The NESCAC tournament didn't complete their tournament this year because of rain. 

And nice way to end your post "But again they probably should have had the regionals back in April."  Have you always been such a sarcastic jerk.

[hockeyfan77]

After   1  1/2     Bridgewater St.     2      Tufts    0

[Jcon8958]

First off I would like to give my congrads to Walsh on being named the Poty WELL DESERVED and hope to see him playing at the next level he is good enought to do so. Also to the rest of the beacons that were named to the ALL-LEC TEAMS.

Now in terms of this big debate on whether or not conference tourneys should be played the week before regionals. ITS A NO BRAINER that it is good for the teams that are playing all the way till 3 days before the regionals. Look at last year as a perfect example the Beacons RAN THROUGH both tourneys because they were hot and I know if I am a coach and my team is hot I dont want to wait around for 2 or 3 weeks before I get into regional play I want to keep playing. RIC over MIT is another example today. Fact is mother nature is something we havce to deal with here in new england. This is why the LEC always has teams that make deep runs in tourneys because they are playing high pressure games right up to the regionals. Sorry Vaughn but this is an easy argument. Play high pressure games right up to regional play.

[wordsmith]

I think I have mentioned this before so forgive an old man's memory. And I realize this will not happen but alas I digress.

Too bad college baseball couldn't become a fall sport. Weather-wise esp. in the Northeast would make a lot more sense. I realize there are issues, i.e. summer leagues, draft eligibility, how to get pitchers ready without 2 months of throwing in a gym off a wooden ramp  .

The other point I'd like to make, I just don't buy the Conference Tourney thing at all. One team gets hot and wins maybe 3/4 games and bang they go to the NC2As while another team that has taken on all comers all season and won the regular season title gets dumped into the "somewhat" arbitrary at-large pool. Why even play the regular season? I guess I am too dang old school but to see a really good team in an average but decent conference slip up on 1 weekend that happens to fall on Conf Tourney weekend and then have nothing to show for it just seems unfair.  

And one more thing...who the hell is controlling the weather? this rain and mist crap has got to stop...I am NOT living in London for Godsake, my teeth are too good to be from there. My vitamin D is on life-support, my bi-polar has become bi-polar-unbearable and I have a super dose of the crankies.  


Still it doesn't matter because Rev. Whathisname is saying the world will end on May 21st anyway. Say, will they have to declare a champion if the NE Regional isn't finished by then? Is there a rule in the rule book about If the World Ends Before a Regional Champion Can Be Determined on the Field then WTF do we do clause?

Bi-Word