BB: Regionals (Midwest) Oshkosh '08, '09, Whitewater '10, '11

[Just Bill]

Carthage plays at 1pm tomorrow vs. the loser of St. Thomas and Stevens Point. How odd is it that Carthage could face the Tommies again?

Depends who wins Game 5 first.  If UWW wins, then Carthage will play the UST-UWSP loser as you said.  If CSS wins, then Carthage will play CSS.

[BigPoppa]

I just saw that on the Carthage website. Odd that the NCAA's bracket on its own page says nothing of a possible shift.

[Just Bill]

I just saw that on the Carthage website. Odd that the NCAA's bracket on its own page says nothing of a possible shift.

Read the fine print on the bottom regarding "additional scenarios".  The bracket only shows the way it would work if the tournament went "chalk".  But you've been around long enough. You know that these six-team regional always have multiple scenarios depending on who wins certain games.

That's why drawing a bracket for this type of six-team tournament isn't very useful.  Too many alternate possibilities.

This is sample (from 2009) of what the full bracket would look like: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/sports/baseball/09bracket.pdf

[Just Bill]

Well, now it doesn't matter since CSS has been eliminated.

[mwunder]

Further evidence that Augie deserves respect where a previously mentioned coach does not.

"We were hoping Mario (Perez) could throw (Wednesday), but he just couldn't," Schmidt said. "The other guys (senior right-handers Scott Danly and Chris Krepline), it would have been on two days rest. They wanted to do it. I wouldn't do it. I'm not putting any kid at risk for this. We went with the guy who had the most rest."

[Barber Greene]

Is that the same Kris Edwards pitching for St. Thomas against Point that used to pitch for Whitewater? If so, I was impressed with his freshman year with the Hawks. I think he injured his arm going into his sophomore year. He's got a 1.83 ERA.

[mwunder]

Is that the same Kris Edwards pitching for St. Thomas against Point that used to pitch for Whitewater? If so, I was impressed with his freshman year with the Hawks. I think he injured his arm going into his sophomore year. He's got a 1.83 ERA.

See post by OshDude on page 4....same kid.

[pickleshiner]

Come on Point hold on for the W.

[szlongball]

Isn't it funny that Whitewater, with it's lights, is the ONLY Regional that doesn't have games scheduled after 4 PM?
And that the WIAC wants their tournament played on campus and went to a 3 team tournament to be finished in 2 days, oh and nobody gets to play at night. What's the point of having lights and getting these tournaments, and
let's not use our lights. Is it just for show?
By the way Congrats Point on the great win. A little payback for last year. Get ready for the next round of Point vs Whitewater tomorrow at 10:00 am.

[pickleshiner]

I agree with you but in this case we want the tourney stretched out so that Point can possibly throw Delorit again.  I think Lorenz will get it done tomorrow he's pitched pretty well against Whitewater this year but a few passed balls the first time he faced them and the throw into right hurt him the 2nd game.  Hopefully Point will face Leitner I think they will hit him this time around.  What I'm really hoping for is for Point to silence the Warhawk dugout.  I like that their dugout gets into the game but most of it is trash talking.  I would like nothing more than to see Richter have a multi homer game with about 6 RBI'S.

[badgerwarhawk]

ROTFLMAO 

Talk to the NCAA.  They selected the teams.   

[Just Bill]

So Point and Whitewater are playing their eighth game of the season tomorrow and have a chance to meet for a ninth and tenth game, all of which have been/will be in Whitewater.  Anyone ever remember a team playing 10 road games against the same team in the same season?

Funny how it's worked out.  By now Point should feel almost as comfortable there as Whitewater.

EDIT: Just counted it up. If UWSP plays the maximum number of games possible from this point of the tournament, they would end up playing a total of 14 games at Whitewater, the same number of games they played at Stevens Point this year!

[GBMAN]

UW-Whitewater 6 V CSS 2

UW-SP 2 V Saint Thomas 1

(both are finals)

[pickleshiner]

Was that Scott Williams or Jordan Zimmerman on the hill for the Pointers?  What a clutch performance.  If Point wins tomorrow morning with Lorenz will they go with Van Beck the first title game?  I'm guessing so and they would split Delorit and Williams if need be.

[GBMAN]

Was that Scott Williams or Jordan Zimmerman on the hill for the Pointers? 

Scott Williams