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

[RSSmith]

I have the BAs and ERAs handy:

Cortland   .325     3.49
Ithaca       .306     2.91
RPI            .354     3.86
Farmingdale    .341     4.42
WNEC        .351      4.07
Clarkson     .313     5.12

[John McGraw]

Remembers a 2005 #1 Cortland vs. #6 Rhode Island College game going to extra innings and Cortland winning 9-8.

I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow ends up like that given how well both teams swung the stick in their conference tournaments.

[airball55]

Hey John, lets go for the regional winners

Central- Carthage
Mid Atlantic- TCNJ
Mideast- Wooster
Midwest- St. Thomas
New England- Southern Maine
New York- Cortland
South- Salisbury
West- Cal Lutheran

Anybody else?

[wordsmith]

Hey John, lets go for the regional winners

Central- Carthage
Mid Atlantic- TCNJ
Mideast- Wooster
Midwest- St. Thomas
New England- Southern Maine
New York- Cortland
South- Salisbury
West- Cal Lutheran

Anybody else?

I'll have a go....

Central- Carthage
Mid Atlantic- Kean
Mideast- Wooster
Midwest- St. Thomas
New England- TEE
New York- Cortland
South- Salisbury
West- Texas-Tyler

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[John McGraw]

I'll have a go....

Central- Carthage
Mid Atlantic- Kean
Mideast- Wooster
Midwest- St. Thomas
New England- TEE
New York- Cortland
South- Salisbury
West- Texas-Tyler

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Who's TEE? I'll assume that means The Evil Empire aka Eastern Connecticut LOL. I'll miss good old Wayne Norman this weekend.

Central - Carthage
Mid-Atlantic - Kean
Mideast - Wooster
Midwest - St. Scholastica
New England - Eastern Connecticut State
New York - Cortland State
South - Salisbury
West - George Fox

[wordsmith]

I'll have a go....

Central- Carthage
Mid Atlantic- Kean
Mideast- Wooster
Midwest- St. Thomas
New England- TEE
New York- Cortland
South- Salisbury
West- Texas-Tyler

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Who's TEE? I'll assume that means The Evil Empire aka Eastern Connecticut LOL. I'll miss good old Wayne Norman this weekend.

Central - Carthage
Mid-Atlantic - Kean
Mideast - Wooster
Midwest - St. Scholastica
New England - Eastern Connecticut State
New York - Cortland State
South - Salisbury
West - George Fox

Sorry,

Yes TEE is The Evil Empire over on the New England Boards.

Other names
Southern Maine - Sullen Maine/Boys of Flannel/TEEIW (The Evile Empire in Waiting)
Wheaton - Wheaties
Keene State - Swampies (due to the location of their playing field and their left field fan base)
http://www.killsometime.com/Pictures/Picture.asp?ID=376

Trinity - FS&HG (Father, Son & Holy Ghost)

Babson Beavers - The Beaver Cleavers

Western Connecticut - WorstConn

etc....

And so it goes, Opening day of the 2nd season. Good luck to all except Ithaca

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[pudge27]

And so it goes, Opening day of the 2nd season. Good luck to all except Ithaca

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Wordsmith is officially welcome on the NY Region board.....

[John McGraw]

Jeez, RPI is the only team with audio this weekend in Farmingdale?

[Pat Coleman]

You can also join us on the Daily Dose for discussion of all eight regionals. Follow along with us or contribute items from games you're following.

http://www.d3sports.com/dailydose/2009/05/13/regionals-underway/

[wordsmith]

And so it goes, Opening day of the 2nd season. Good luck to all except Ithaca

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Wordsmith is officially welcome on the NY Region board.....
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Thank you

Hopefully I'll be able to stick around for a bit and enjoy the chatter and the different views all ya'll have. And maybe just maybe bring a smile to your face by a funny post here and there.

Sincerely,

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PS  ---> Holy Molely 

I had turned the Clarkson v Cortland game off at like 8-0. Then the Golden Knights come back to slay the Red Dragons...Upset #1 in da books Upset #2 a cookin' as TEE is staggering badly at home vs Babson (TEE trailed 9-0 at one point. Game is now 10-5 in the bottom of the 7th.
http://www.littleeast.tv/play/index.cfm?fuseaction=embstay&id=121AB7D40E&vsize=3&resize=1&SClipID=-1

[wordsmith]

And so it goes....more upsets...WNEC-Ithaca got fugly @ 16-5. 16 runs 25 hits a good day at the ballyard boys...keep it up

Losers bracket sets some interesting match-ups if I read right...

Cortland plays Ithaca --> so #1 or #2 goes home tomorrow.....
WNEC plays the winner of the RIP/Chip'nDale game
Clarkson takes on the loser of RIP & Chip game

This is so much fun...enjoy  8)

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[rbgosfan]

Word,
Did you make it down to Long Island?I was looking for you at ChipnDale field but didn't see you. WNEC played a good game today hitting and fielding. In the first game Cortland and Clarkson combined for 8 errors, Ithaca had 5 which helped WNEC keep innings going, WNEC ended up with a big 0 in the E column. That always makes the coach and pitcher happy. The Ithaca starter looked like he had good stuff but then lost control of his curve. He kept throwing it in the dirt. WNEC was then able to sit on number 1 and they hit it well today. Unless we get a 3rd upset it will be a rematch of WNEC and RPI tomorrow night at 7.

[BaseB13]

Well as I stated on one of these NY boards I am not surprised at all by the outcome of the first two games.  Clarkson beating Cortland today I think demonstrates the LL may have the edge over the SUNYAC this year.  Clarkson didn't even throw their ace (John I think knows why?) and Cortland did.  Granted Cortland's bullpen clearly blew the deal but the fact that Clarkson was able to get to Cortland's pen in the first place shows that Clarkson is a legit team and Cortland is probably down this year.

Not sure what happened in the IC game but looks like their arms got completely lit up.. Partially due to errors it seems.  I figured these teams were similar in ability so this "upset" does not surprise me either.

It now looks like Clarkson has the easiest road getting to play the loser of RPI/Farmingdale.  Assuming RPI hangs on.  I think RPI is most likely much deeper than Farmingdale.

Which leads me to a thought I just had.  I think this regional is very evenly matched from top to bottom.  In fact I think Cortland was handed the 1 seed mostly on reputation than anything else.  The seeding could have easily been different.  I was surprised Farmingdale was seeded fourth.  I see they did have some big non-conference wins but the Skyline Conference is pretty brutal.  Most of those teams are worse than the worst teams in the LL or SUNYAC. 

Congrtas to Clarkson and WNEC on the upsets.  If theres any year a team has a solid shot to make it to the World Series besides Cortland, this is the year...

[John McGraw]

Clarkson's ace got tossed in the first game on Sunday against RPI. I guess he wasn't very happy with a call the home plate umpire had made regarding a third strike or the umpire's strike zone and he had some words with the umpire. There were some other shenanigans (not funny and cheeky) on Pitkin's part, I won't go into it here, and he's out until Clarkson's game on Friday.

[wordsmith]

Word,
Did you make it down to Long Island?I was looking for you at ChipnDale field but didn't see you. WNEC played a good game today hitting and fielding. In the first game Cortland and Clarkson combined for 8 errors, Ithaca had 5 which helped WNEC keep innings going, WNEC ended up with a big 0 in the E column. That always makes the coach and pitcher happy. The Ithaca starter looked like he had good stuff but then lost control of his curve. He kept throwing it in the dirt. WNEC was then able to sit on number 1 and they hit it well today. Unless we get a 3rd upset it will be a rematch of WNEC and RPI tomorrow night at 7.

No, unable to get to Long Island....travel visas restrict hillbillies like me to rural areas of the region, although if I do show-up in Long Island you'd know be by my 'keen' sense of style....

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/10180/Redneck+Overalls/

Hope the rain holds off...

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