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

[gap to gap]

Keene fans get over it we get you're upset but it's done. You lost too many bad games. MIT won 9 games against ranked opponents. Far more than ksc. Make your conference championship and you have an argument.

[hockeyfan77]

Final     Wheaton      8     Husson     4

[ECSUalum]

Do they even have a enclosed press box at Whitehouse Field?

They do not. They are out in the elements, on top of that wooden porch you can see behind home plate, which is elevated and connected to the press box, but not covered. It's not a bad vantage point, and a terrific place to work from when it's 65 and partly cloudy, with no wind. Um...  

Thanks to all -- and even to you ECSUalum, as I know you'd prefer that the regional was at the Eastern Baseball Stadium (or even that the Warriors were in the NE regional!) -- we appreciate all the kind words, both the ones posted here and the ones we've received privately. The first three days are a gigantic task to pull off, and we're working as hard as we can at the moment.

-steve

EDIT: Just wanted to be clear -- there *is* a nice, enclosed press box at Whitehouse Field, with enough room for scoreboard op, PA, official scorer, home/away SIDs, tournament hosting staff, and NCAA reps. And just to try and finesse this one even more -- often, it's actually nice to have that whole porch area to ourselves. But weather is definitely a factor.

Steve,

Yes, a little dissapointed about venue, but D3Cast is doing a wonderful job producing the NE Regional.  Camera work and graphics are great!!

I appreciate the comments on being "outdoors", announcing has to be a little tough out in the elements.  Maybe the High school?? or Mariners?? can spend a little and give you a proper Press booth for the future!!

[wordsmith]

What's up with the Wheaties 3 runs in 14+ innings? Where did their offense go?

[Hobbesy]

Wldthing-

I apologize.  That was not how I should have shaped that post.

What I should have said is:  from my experience on cape cod, working in cape cod league last summer, the weather is very fickle.  One night the entire eastern part of the cape was covered in green but the rain never came.  I dont know if that's weather.com's fault or just one of those rare occurrences.

It appears to be holding off nicely so far but many things can change.  the mid-atlantic regional is already been hampered.  Yesterday's late game was postponed, making it five games today with the last one starting at 10pm. 

Not sure if there is a rule on how late you can play or even what the latest game has ever been.

Again, sorry about that, and lets hope for more clear weather through the weekend 

[Hobbesy]

NEIBA All-New England teams have been posted...

http://static.psbin.com/6/8/vfw2c2kbfpmyju/2011_NEIBA_DIII_All_New_England_Teams.pdf

Thank you St. Joe's website for having the link that is impossible to find anywhere else, even on the NEIBA website!

[ECSUalum]

Wabash just eliminated #2 nationally ranked Christopher Newport from the South Regional.  So, nobody will have to worry about CN @ the CWS

#11 Texas Tyler also 2 and out

as is #15 Adrian

[hockeyfan77]

Final    Bridgewater St.     8      RIC    5

[Stump]

NEIBA All-New England teams have been posted...

http://static.psbin.com/6/8/vfw2c2kbfpmyju/2011_NEIBA_DIII_All_New_England_Teams.pdf

Thank you St. Joe's website for having the link that is impossible to find anywhere else, even on the NEIBA website!

St. Joe's has a consistently good website.  Very current, constantly updated,  better and easier to find info there than it is on GNAC site.  Consistently one of the best NE college sports sites
http://www.gomonks.com/sports/bsb/index

[D3Cast]

from my experience on cape cod [...] the weather is very fickle.

Truth. Swear to God, the radar at noon yesterday made it seem for all the world like we were going to get pummeled. And then the thing parted, and slithered to either side of us, and we played on. Not to jinx anything, but Harwich has had unbelievable weather luck, based on what the forecast looked like Wednesday morning.

Of course, 45 degrees with a 15 mile-an-hour breeze, 100% humidity, and fog last night wasn't very fun...

-steve

[forheavendial4999]

Is it foggy there today?

Looks on the d3cast like it is but thought that might be some other problem because the home plate shot looks a lot worse than the field camera.

[JustAFan]

Bridgewater is on one of those great runs where they are benefitting from incredibly productive hitting.  Yesterday against Tufts BSU got 4 runs on just 6 hits, 2 of which were weak seeing eye infield grounders, and today they have 8runs on just 8hits.  They go from first to third and second to home very well, and they've gotten timely home runs in each game.

More importantly, they've received some great starting pitching so far, letting up no runs yesterday and 2 thru 8 innings today, with a complete game outing from yesterday's starter and 8 innings from today's starter.  That means they have lots of fresh arms available as they head into the weekend games, which may be their biggest advantage of all.

[JustAFan]

Why did Bridgewater leave its starter in for the 9th? I know they can't use the kid again in this tournament but what's the justification for allowing him to throw 147 pitches when they've got plenty of fresh arms in the bullpen?  I hope he doesn't feel the effects of this kind of outing if they get to Appleton.

[hockeyfan77]

Final    WNEC     4    St  Joe's     1

[Niner]

Why did Bridgewater leave its starter in for the 9th? I know they can't use the kid again in this tournament but what's the justification for allowing him to throw 147 pitches when they've got plenty of fresh arms in the bullpen?  I hope he doesn't feel the effects of this kind of outing if they get to Appleton.

I was thinking the same thing. They had a comfortable 8-2 lead, seemed odd to leave him in for the ninth with a really high pitch count. I'm not too familiar with Bridgewater's bullpen depth but I'm sure they have some quality arms.

WNEC 2, St Joes 1 thru 4 1/2...