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

[Rick Vaughn]

Ralph as a former SS, I agree completely!  On our spring trip infield fielding % were always lower because the infields we were playing on were so hard and the ball would jump like you mentioned all the time.  When we got back up North the ground was a little softer the ball stayed down for you.  It could have saved me 10+ errors over four years!!

Some pretty special ball players this week.  Bayer, Killeen, Gilblair, Fahey, and D'Alfonso have been a joy to watch play.

Finally - Random question:  Hamilton is in NY, but plays in a NE conference.  What region are they in?  If they play a NE team mid-week is it an in-region game?  They play mainly NY teams mid-week so I was trying to get an idea of what their situation. 

[hockeyfan77]

Final       WPI   5    ECSU   6      What a game....

[dchevy5]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT A GAME!!!!!!!!

Congrats ECSU.  BIg, big hits for Schult, Gilblair, and especially Hobbs.

My whole family watched on the internet.   Could not believe it!!!!

Tons of admiration for Connor Fahey- what a stud!!!

2 more games and then off to Wisconsin.  Good luck tomorrow.

[NESCAC FAN]

I think Hamilton is an NE team but the midweek games count as regional games because of the proximity of those schools to Hamilton...just like when you guys play RPI, I think it counts as a regional game.

BTW, Rick, if you used to play ss for Williams, really enjoyed watching you play...but it may have been because my brother was throwing a shutout aginst you....I enjoyed just about everything that day.

[ECSUalum]

Hey Boys...I'm Baaaack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5UTNKXR8xw

The WNEC team had a bad day and bowed out of the NY Regional. Now I can devote all of my time to this regional. Sorry TEE guys no road trip this year...I cancelled the RV but left the security deposit there...

USM goes down in flames as Gilblair remembers he is Gilblair and that he is the best player in New England....congrats....their Darryl and all the TEE fans.

Interesting watching Coach HOFEddy in the post-game interviews talk about his team having to face Bayer & Gilblair back-to-back.

F, S, & HG v WPI next. Winner is in the catbird seat.

Word

Word,

Sorry for the WNEC loss, but they had a great season, and I firmly believe they are one of the top teams in NE.
With Words son in the WNEC coaching staff, I have a new team to root for

Am sure the TEE/We Nocked of EConn clan will have a shot at the road trip some time in the future .

Good to have you back over to the best thread in D-3 BB!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had Father Moriarty saying a Mass for The EVIL EMPIRE, (is that ironic/satanic or what), today and they survived another day to meet Coach Decker and the Bantams!!  Another Mass Sunday morning and we will be in good shape to sweep

[Ralph Turner]

Ralph as a former SS, I agree completely!  On our spring trip infield fielding % were always lower because the infields we were playing on were so hard and the ball would jump like you mentioned all the time.  When we got back up North the ground was a little softer the ball stayed down for you.  It could have saved me 10+ errors over four years!!
...

Finally - Random question:  Hamilton is in NY, but plays in a NE conference.  What region are they in?  If they play a NE team mid-week is it an in-region game?  They play mainly NY teams mid-week so I was trying to get an idea of what their situation. 

Thanks for the feedback on the grounder.  If an infielder is in correct position, and keeps the ball in front of himself, then I will allow a bad hop to go as an infield hit.  Now thru the legs or under the glove...that is something different.


An opponent within a 200-mile radius of your campus is also an in-region game.

[dgilblair]

How did this kid do it?

"Fahey, who had pitched into the  eighth inning of his team's 7-6 first-round  win over Suffolk Wednesday, carried a seven-hitter into the ninth inning. In three starts over the last eight days, Fahey has thrown in excess of 400 pitches."

[ECSUalum]

Current Trinity pitching status:

Game date       Opposing team          Score        r  h  e/ r  h  e           Pitcher of record        INN Pitched
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May 03, 2009    Wesleyan                6-7  L        6 12  3/ 7 13  4           A. Janiga (L 5-2)       4.2  Ramsey 3.0
May 08, 2009 vs Wesleyan              W 13-6      13 13  4/ 6 11  4         J. Ramsey (W 6-1)    5.2 Anderson 2.1
May 09, 2009 vs Williams                 W  8-3       8 12  4/ 3  5  2           J. Bayer (W 10-0)       9.0  
May 10, 2009 vs Tufts                      W  7-3       7 11  8/ 3  7  3           C. OS-Pierce (W 2-0)  4.0 Janiga 5.0
May 13, 2009 vs Westfield State      W  6-4      6  9  2/ 4  8  0            J. Ramsey (W 7-1)       6.0 Janiga 2.1
May 15, 2009 vs Southern Maine      W  6-0      6 13 0/ 0  7  0            J. Bayer (W 11-0)        9.0  
May 15, 2009 vs Worcester Tech      W 14-0    14 17 1/ 0  4  7           D. Anderson (W 5-1)   8.0

SO DOES JANIGA or RAMSEY START FIRST GAME TOMORROW?     

[Rick Vaughn]

I think that Ramsey comes back and throws Game 1 tomorrow.  Is Fontaine Game 1 for ECSU?

That said, unless someone does something spectacular tomorrow, Fahey is the star of this tournament.  Aizenstadt showed some guts against ECSU on Wednesday, but Fahey trumped him with the heart he showed out there today.  You could see in the hand shake line the entire Eastern team giving Fahey his props. 

[ECSUalum]

Fontaine or Musson?

[ecfaninri]

DGilblair....
I agree Fahey only proved that he was the man today. I had the pleasure of watching him pitch last summer and he is just a strong, tough kid, with a great attitude, and a big heart. His performance in NE baseball and in particular this regional will be talked about for a long time. With that being said, ninth inning will be one to remember for just a long a time. With one out and Schult line drive off the glove of the 3rd baseman and then Shawn's liner off the first baseman set the stage for a classic mano-mano duel with Fahey and Castillo. How Mel laid off that 3-2 pitch, I'll never know. Then Hobbes, possibly batting for the last time in am Eastern uniform delivered the biggest hit of the season. Classic.... score tied and Perry put the ball in play to the 3rd baseman and really couldn't make up his mind whether to eat it or fire to 1st and it cost them ... Game over.

What a game. It had it all.

Let's just hope we can play 2 tomorrow.

[wordsmith]

DGilblair....
I agree Fahey only proved that he was the man today. I had the pleasure of watching him pitch last summer and he is just a strong, tough kid, with a great attitude, and a big heart. His performance in NE baseball and in particular this regional will be talked about for a long time. With that being said, ninth inning will be one to remember for just a long a time. With one out and Schult line drive off the glove of the 3rd baseman and then Shawn's liner off the first baseman set the stage for a classic mano-mano duel with Fahey and Castillo. How Mel laid off that 3-2 pitch, I'll never know. Then Hobbes, possibly batting for the last time in am Eastern uniform delivered the biggest hit of the season. Classic.... score tied and Perry put the ball in play to the 3rd baseman and really couldn't make up his mind whether to eat it or fire to 1st and it cost them ... Game over.

What a game. It had it all.

Let's just hope we can play 2 tomorrow.

ecfanirini,

Here's hoping you don't play 2 today...BUT that you WIN 2 today!!!

Good luck to TEE.

Now to Fahey....can ya'll understand why MLB teams really struggle with whether to draft pitchers out of high school or let them develop in college on someone elses dime?

400 pitches, that counted, not to mention warm-ups before the game (35-40) plus warm-ups between innings (6-8). All told in excess of 500 in a week. Wow.

Word

[Ralph Turner]

DGilblair....
I agree Fahey only proved that he was the man today. I had the pleasure of watching him pitch last summer and he is just a strong, tough kid, with a great attitude, and a big heart. His performance in NE baseball and in particular this regional will be talked about for a long time. With that being said, ninth inning will be one to remember for just a long a time. With one out and Schult line drive off the glove of the 3rd baseman and then Shawn's liner off the first baseman set the stage for a classic mano-mano duel with Fahey and Castillo. How Mel laid off that 3-2 pitch, I'll never know. Then Hobbes, possibly batting for the last time in am Eastern uniform delivered the biggest hit of the season. Classic.... score tied and Perry put the ball in play to the 3rd baseman and really couldn't make up his mind whether to eat it or fire to 1st and it cost them ... Game over.

What a game. It had it all.

Let's just hope we can play 2 tomorrow.

ecfanirini,

Here's hoping you don't play 2 today...BUT that you WIN 2 today!!!

Good luck to TEE.

Now to Fahey....can ya'll understand why MLB teams really struggle with whether to draft pitchers out of high school or let them develop in college on someone elses dime?

400 pitches, that counted, not to mention warm-ups before the game (35-40) plus warm-ups between innings (6-8). All told in excess of 500 in a week. Wow.

Word

I appreciate the concern about overuse, at any level.  I went back to the WPI page and found his most recent use in the boxscores for the month of May.

Worcester State -- 111 pitches on May 9th

Framingham State -- 7 pitches in 0.2 innings of relief on May 3rd

Fitchburg State -- no pitch count in a 7 hit win,  facing 36 batters in 9.0 innings on April 27th.

The best protection that a college coach can have against charges of "pitcher overuse" is meticulous record-keeping.


Oh yeah, +1 word, for the correct use of the second person plural pronoun, y'all in the quoted post.   

[Ralph Turner]

Suffolk -- 129 pitches in the opening game of the New England Regional on May 14th.

ECSU  -- 163 pitches on Saturday.

[EasternCtFan]

The NCAA really made a mistake placing teams in the regionals this yr as I beleive Trinity, ECSU, USM and WPI would have all won the NY regional this yr. The championship matchup there is RPI and Farmingdale State, come on!