BB: Regional (Mid-East) Terre Haute '08, Adrian '09, Marietta '10, '11

[old scot]

Well,
       They must have deserved a bid since the committee gave them a pool C bid. That's the point of  the season and scheduling, to get in. Once your in, your play must do the talking.  It doesn't hurt to have tradition and history on your side when there may be fence sitters on the committee.

[d3baseballnut]

Well,
       They must have deserved a bid since the committee gave them a pool C bid. That's the point of  the season and scheduling, to get in. Once your in, your play must do the talking.  It doesn't hurt to have tradition and history on your side when there may be fence sitters on the committee.

true....

[old scot]

A few thoughts on the Mid east regional,
       Wooster gets the pitching performances needed with their depleted staff to win the tourney. The offence also came through and hit the ball well. Defensively, the Scots were shaky as usual, leading the regional in errors. They need to tighten that up at the CWS to have a chance to go far.
Marietta, tough as always. They seem to take advantage of base runners and hits, scoring with minimal offense. Scoring only one run today with the bases loaded was a surprise and that probably gave the Scots a little momentum. Tough way to lose on a WP.
Heidelberg disappointed me. I thought they had the pitching depth to win. Their offence also seemed to go cold. Keep building that program and tradition. You have to fail before you can succeed.
Overall, Ohio baseball was well represented and will be in the furture.

[Pat Coleman]

Congratulations to the Scots!

Now the senile Ken Nemeth has five days to learn that Central Time is one hour behind, not ahead of, Eastern Time.  

Oof, that was driving me nuts.

[ScotsFan]

D3 baseballnut,
      Get a clue! You don't know about D3 baseball if you don't know Marietta's history. According to you RH was going to win this thing.

Congratulations to the Scots on the win and the Pios on a great tourney.

My vote for duel MVP's go to McDowell and Miller, although Karpen and Groezinger had strong showings offensively.

I'm sorry old scot. But i think you're wrong.

The point of my comment is to refute your implication that Marietta proved they deserved to be in the 2005 tournament simply because they won the title. EIther they deserved to be in or not, winning the title didnt make their inclusion any more or less valid. So don't put parenthesis around "lucky" as if they proved everyone wrong that year. If they played mediocre during the season to make their selection close....so be it.

The reason I put the paranthesis around 'lucky' is because you brought it up in the first place!  You were the one that called them "lucky to get in" when you were critical of me calling Marietta a national powerhouse...

My point I was trying to make was that there was no luck involved in them making the tournament even if they had 17 losses on the year.  They also had 29 wins and they also play in one of the toughest baseball conferences in the nation!  Combine that with their history of success in the NCAA tournament and I think you will find the selection commitee more apt to choose Marietta over a team that may have a better record but faces a less competitive schedule...

BTW, you might want to give up on your predictions.  Between your guarantee of Ott getting into the tournament, to your not picking Wooster to win the regional because of their pitching to RHIT winning the regional, I think you should just give it up...  I mean, have you gotten one single prediction right? 

[INbaseballfan]

Congratulations to Wooster on the win.  You will represent the Mideast Region well in the College World Series.

As an RHIT fan, I appreciate D3baseballnut's comment on predicting us to win (however wrong it was).  I think we would all agree that any team there (except Concordia, sorry) had the talent to win, but some programs are battle tested and some aren't.  RHIT has learned twice now that they can't fold when the big game comes down to the wire.

With every starter and every pitcher on the staff back next year (only losing 2 seniors who contributed off the bench), and a very strong freshman arm coming off Tommy John,  RHIT should be back.  And one day soon I hope they are mentioned in the same breadth with Marietta and Wooster.  The Mideast Regional should look much the same in 2010.

[wooscotsfan]

Congratulations to Wooster on winning an exciting game today and advancing to the D3 World Series!

The amazing M&M boys (4 wins) won this regional for the Scots with their rubber arms that dominated even with little rest.

Justin McDowell (now 12-2) was the Most Outstanding Player of the Region because he threw 257 pitches in 17+ innings while giving up only 3 earned runs total.  132 of those pitches were thrown after only 2 days of rest!

Mark Miller (now 10-1) could have been the MOP as well because he threw 220 pitches in 16+ innings while also giving up only 3 earned runs total.  His two wins were both against a strong Marietta team and he threw 117 pitches today in a complete game victory after only 1 day of rest!

Let's hope that 4 days of rest for McDowell and Miller will be sufficient ...since they will no doubt pitch the first 2 games of the World Series for Wooster.

GO SCOTS!

[mideastfan2]

that's a lot of pitches...I'm sure Pettorini will ride them until they break.  Much like he did with Benkowski back in 1997, when they made the title game.

The difference is that this year, he's got TWO guys with rubber arms so to speak.

Hopefully Wooster can bring home their first National Title to Ohio...good luck Scots!!!!!!!!

[ScotsFan]

What an effort put forth this weekend by the apptly named M&M boys!   Congrats to McDowell on being named the regional's MOP, although, I really thought the award should have been shared with Miller.

I thought it was funny how Miller described his outing as a 9 inning save in the post-game interview! 

Good luck in Appleton guys!!!  I will be cheering you on from my computer!

One of these would sure look nice in the trophy case at the PEC:

[Gramps]

My sincere congratulations to Wooster on winning the Mid East Regional Tournament.  Represent us well, and bring back the trophy to Ohio. Best Wishes.

[Gramps]

FYI -  Marietta has been chosen to host the D3 Mid-East Regionals for 2010.  The dates will be May 19-23.

This info was in a new web site dedicated to Ohio Baseball: "buckeyestatebaseball.com"
Check it out, it has the latest baseball news plus other articles of interest for the baseball enthusiast, including D3 top 30 Baseball players in the Buckeye State to watch for in 2010.

[ECSUalum]

Gramps,

Great  web site on Ohio Baseball and particularly Top 30 D3 players

Wish we had something like this in New England in general, CT in particular

[Chris Webb]

Buckeye State Baseball will be on hand for at least the final two days of the Mideast Regional in hoping to bring the best coverage ever of the unfolding events.

Until then, we're trying to catch up with both Marietta and NCAA officials to discuss the ins and outs of selecting a host institute for a Regional. We're just happy to not have to drive to Terre Haute or anything.

[Ralph Turner]

Mideast Regional - Hosted by Marietta College at Don Schaly Stadium
http://www.marietta.edu/175/175_essentials/images/schaly_stadium_1024.jpg

[Gramps]

Ralph - Thanks for the beautiful pix of Schaly Field.  I'd like to add  a special touch to finding the field as it is away from the school.  I have not found an address for the field but the address acrossthe street fromthe stadium, for GPS  (GARMIN,etc) is:   

         328 PIKE STREET, MARIETTA, OHIO 45750

According to Google Maps, the street that Schaly Field is on is named "Pioneer Lane", but the street name at the actual site ha been changed to Mulholland Drive.

If you follow the GPS directions, you'll see the lights over the stadium.

This will make it easier to get to the field and to better enjoy the baseball games.