BB: Regionals (New York) Auburn NY '08, SUNY-Old Westbury '09, Cortland State '10, '11

[Ron Ron]

http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/051710aaa.html

No Plattsburgh. 

1.   SUNY Cortland (32-8)
2.   St. John Fisher (28-12)
3.   Oneonta State 28-11)
4.   Skidmore (30-13)
5.   Keene State (26-15-1)
6.   Farmingdale State (24-15)
7.   College at Brockport (23-16)
8.   Castleton (32-13)

Anyone know how the bracket works out>

[KSCfan]

Hello NY board,

Keene state fan here, first time the owls have sent to your region in the NCAA tournament.  I will be honest that i do not know much about the NY teams except for the obvious Cortland, and ST John Fisher.  Keene gets skidmore in the first game.  Anyone know anything about skidmore and what I and we at Owl nation can expect.  Im sure that more KSC fans will wonder over here.  Thanks in advance.  The NE regional has live video and stats does NY have the same thing and where would one watch such a thing??  Thanks in advance and looking forward to the regionals.  Good luck to all teams and very excited keene got in

[Truthfinder]

Plattsburgh has one of the best schedules in the country....according to the numbers.....FYI

Ah, no.

[airball55]

Truthman, although I find your comments entertaining, you are wrong on the Plattsburgh schedule comment.  We all know that the teams they played aren't all that spectacular, but, the SOS numbers don't take into account the actual skill level of teams.  It is based on Opponents win percentage and playing in the SUNYAC alone boosts those numbers.  Every team in the YAC was above .500.  St. Lawrence was above .500, Clarkson, Skidmore, the list goes on and on.  We all know that their schedule was weak in terms of skill level, but not by the numbers.

[Truthfinder]

Airball, agree, they had a very carefully designed schedule knowing the SUNYAC would carry the SOS.
I'll tell you right now, Oneonta needs to thank Plattsburgh for this bid, and here's why.
Plattsburgh didn't reschedule with Skidmore, choosing St. Michael's instead.
Oneonta added Skidmore, and won.
In the end, that one game probably was what put Oneonta over the top.

[pudge27]

I'm not much for all caps, but let me shout this out.  THANK YOU FOR THE 8 TEAM BRACKET!!!! Insert your state school joke here, but I'm glad we won't have to hire Stephen Hawking to figure out 2nd and 3rd round matchups like in the past. 

Glad that Oneonta got in.  Little surprised, but good for them.  I was thinking that if they did go, they'd be bottom half and that would have been a terrible 1st round matchup for anyone with their ace.  What do you think of rolling the dice, trying to win the 1st round with their number 2 and saving Filak for 2nd round? 

I think that the 8 team regional stacks up well for Cortland and Skidmore because of pitching depth.  Don't know much about the out of region transplants. 

[wordsmith]

I'm not much for all caps, but let me shout this out.  THANK YOU FOR THE 8 TEAM BRACKET!!!! Insert your state school joke here, but I'm glad we won't have to hire Stephen Hawking to figure out 2nd and 3rd round matchups like in the past.  

Glad that Oneonta got in.  Little surprised, but good for them.  I was thinking that if they did go, they'd be bottom half and that would have been a terrible 1st round matchup for anyone with their ace.  What do you think of rolling the dice, trying to win the 1st round with their number 2 and saving Filak for 2nd round?  

I think that the 8 team regional stacks up well for Cortland and Skidmore because of pitching depth.  Don't know much about the out of region transplants.  

Good Morning to the NY Regional Posters,

Did someone refer to Stephen Hawking?

Hey, this is Word over from the New England Board. Keene State is headed your way. Not sure how they will do as this looks like a fairly tough regional. KSC is just glad to be included. Love the Hawking reference as you can see by my byline.

KSC finished the regular season on a strong note then fell hard in the LEC Tourney, but, hey, who didn't I mean who thought UMess Boston would win that Tourney. KSC has a young pitching staff, good hitting, and a defense that is improving with some line-up changes that occurred mid-season. KSC was 2nd or third nationally in SOS, which clearly helped them in the Pool C draw. Hopefully, playing that tough schedule will help them in the NC2A.

Record: 26-15-1 • Home: 11-2 • Away: 7-6-1 • Neutral: 8-7 • Conference: 10-4 with Quality wins over Wheaton, Eastern Connecticut, Curry, Williams, Southern Maine (2), Suffolk and TCNJ.

Pitching staff does not have a legit #1. Kind of a Ace-by-Committee. Good closer in Vogt.
Hitting is led by All-American Bobby Doyon .421 10HR 51RBI. I think true baseball fans will be impressed by the catcher Anthony Cipolla - real spark plug, and a joy to watch. Much like their captain - Cipolla - KSC is gritty and will compete to the last out.

Looking forward to the NY Regional- Good luck to all involved.

Word

[RSSmith]

I'm not much for all caps, but let me shout this out.  THANK YOU FOR THE 8 TEAM BRACKET!!!! Insert your state school joke here, but I'm glad we won't have to hire Stephen Hawking to figure out 2nd and 3rd round matchups like in the past. 

Glad that Oneonta got in.  Little surprised, but good for them.  I was thinking that if they did go, they'd be bottom half and that would have been a terrible 1st round matchup for anyone with their ace.  What do you think of rolling the dice, trying to win the 1st round with their number 2 and saving Filak for 2nd round? 

I think that the 8 team regional stacks up well for Cortland and Skidmore because of pitching depth.  Don't know much about the out of region transplants. 

I think you throw your stud on day 1, that way, if you're still around on day 4 you can run him in on short rest.

[d3baseballnut]

I'm not much for all caps, but let me shout this out.  THANK YOU FOR THE 8 TEAM BRACKET!!!! Insert your state school joke here, but I'm glad we won't have to hire Stephen Hawking to figure out 2nd and 3rd round matchups like in the past.  

Glad that Oneonta got in.  Little surprised, but good for them.  I was thinking that if they did go, they'd be bottom half and that would have been a terrible 1st round matchup for anyone with their ace.  What do you think of rolling the dice, trying to win the 1st round with their number 2 and saving Filak for 2nd round?  

I think that the 8 team regional stacks up well for Cortland and Skidmore because of pitching depth.  Don't know much about the out of region transplants.  

I would save Filak personally. Farmingdale does not hit too well, nor has a shut-down ace. I think they can get past them without using Filak. If you burn him early, Oneonta has NO shot of winning it. If they can save him until they need him, he is there "ace in the hole" (no pun intended).

If you can't beat farmingdale without Filak, what hope do you have of beating Corltand later without Filak. I would say save him and wait and see who you play in round 2.

[Ron Ron]

To the Keene State supporters, nice of you guys to stop by.  It sounds like Skidmore and KS are fairly different as Skidmore has an excellent staff and I'm pretty sure by the stats they had the best fielding percentage in the Liberty League, while their offense has usually been a struggle this year.  From what you guys are saying it sounds like KS has a strong offense, decent defense, and more of a "we'll see what happens..." pitching staff.  Should be fun and I think it will be interesting to see if the old baseball cliché is correct: "You win in the post season with pitching and defense" which would have Skidmore set up pretty well, at least by their numbers from teh first 43 games.

[John McGraw]

Little East  teams that have come to the New York regional have done very well over the last 5-6 years. Eastern Connecticut won the title in 2006 and got to the losers' bracket final in 2008. Rhode Island College gave top-seeded Cortland all it could handle in 2005.

Top-seeded Cortland has lost just one regional in Auburn - that was in 2006 to East Conn.

[wordsmith]

I have followed the LEC since its inception. Had a son play at USM and KSC, and live 2 miles from the Swamp in Keene.

So...now that I have bored you let me say this. The LEC is really down this year. It is as inconsistent as I have seen it maybe ever. Thus a #4 & #6 seed playing for the title on Saturday. USM was really down, thet attribute it to youth. EConn was the best of the league but only by a little. KSC played like Champs the last 12-14 games of the season then sailed off the edge of the earth in the Tourney.

UMB is well, good for them they won, but not a real good team fundamentally.

Having said all that I just don't know what to expect from the Owls. I picked them at the beginning of 2009, a full year ago to go to Appleton in 2010, saying they were a year away. I hope I am right but....I don't see anyone getting past Cortland or Skidmore etc. in this region without some really solid mound performances and tight D.

Word

[ecfaninri]

Word..
I think the SUNY Cortland Regional participants will be excited to see the brand of Owls baseball coming to town. I don't have to convince you. But let me tell all the fans going to this regional, you will walk away at the end saying, that "I am glad I don't have to face them twice a year".

Fresh teams may be just what the baseball doctor ordered. Doyon, DiPrato, Patnode and Cipolla probably waiting to get to see new arms. The pitching really came into its own the last 15 games of the season and with a bump in the road to UMass Boston dropped them into the loser's bracket of the LEC. I think that was the key game of the tourney.

Good luck to all of the 55 teams in the Tourney. It will be fun to see what comes out of this region - Beware of the Hooters. They can swoop it and out and take a ticket to Appleton if you are not careful.

[Ron Ron]

As a Liberty League fan I have to deal with all the UR fans telling me how great they are.  And now that they are quieting down because UR didn't get it done in the LL tournament they hosted, now I have these Keene State fans coming over, overwhelming these boards with how great they are now?  Jeez, hopefully some New York teams (specifically Skidmore game 1) can silence these fans like Skid and Clarkson were able to do to the UR guys.  (I hope you can read that as friendly banter, if you followed the LL board, you'd understand. Good luck to Keene State and all the NY teams).

[Ron Ron]

Can someone explain to me about the karma thing? I know it doesn't really matter since truthfinder is probably -500 at this point in time, but I'm just curious how I wound up at -1 after some friendly banter? Thanks guys.