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

[old scot]

If I'm a Berg fan and don't  win the OAC auto bid, I'm saying ship me to another region.

I'd rather match up against Etta in Appleton than Don Schaly Stadium.

[EttaFan1]

I agree with you old scot. The year marietta won it all in '06 we played otterbein 6 or 7 times. I would have much rather gone through someone else.

We have played twice already. We could play two or three times this weekend. And could play again next weekend. Too much for me.

I respect 'berg and coach Palm a lot, they are a heckuva team again this year. Four or five time is more than enough for me.

[EttaFan1]

COnference tourney's taking shape.

OAC:

Winners bracket game:  Marietta vs. Heidelberg
Losers Bracket game: JCU vs. Mount Union

PrAC: Rained out.

HCAC:

Winners Bracket game: Manchester vs. Franklin
Losers Bracket game:  Rose Hulman vs. Anderson.

NCAC: Champion Wabash
MIAA: Champion, Adrian

[KYGrizzly]

Franklin beat Manchester 9 - 7 and moves into the finals of the HCAC.

[EttaFan1]

Marietta defeats 'Berg, and is in the OAC finals.

[EttaFan1]

Anderon is out.

Manchester vs. RHIT in the losers bracket game. for the HCAC

PrAC has #4 WEstminster playing #2 Thomas More in the winners bracket and #1 Grove City vs. #3 W&J in the losers bracket a the same time (on two different fields).

[EttaFan1]

Pool a bids from the Mideast region conferences:

Marietta (oac) #1 regional rank
Wabash (NCAC) nr
Thomas More (PAC) #4 regional rank
Franklin (hcac) nr
Adrian(miaa)#3 regional rank

Realistic pool b/c candidates
Heidelberg (c) #2 regional rank
Case western (b/c) #5 regional rank---could be on the bubble

Bubble teams with not very good chances
Manchester
Grove city college
OWU
W&J

Thomas More and Franklin are candidates to be shipped out due to their proximity to millington tn and the south region.

Berg is a lock for a bid IMO. And they should be, they are very good.

Case being #5 in the latest rankings may put them on the bubble.

I would be surprised tonsee any other pool c's from this region

My guess at the region is this:

1 marietta
2 berg
3 Adrian
4 frostburg state/Salisbury state
5 case western reserve
6 either Thomas more or Franklin (one goes to millington)
7 Wabash

[mideastfan2]

^^^ I agree with the Pool C bids.  

Adrian will jump Heidelberg to the #2 spot b/c of the Berg's 2 losses this weekend.

Also if Thomas More stays in the region, they will most likely be the #4 seed...their record is very good.

1 - Marietta (38-3)
2 - Adrian (31-9)
3 - Heidelberg (33-11)
4 -  Thomas More (28-7)
5 - Case Western (30-13)
6 - Frostburg State (28-13)
7 - Franklin (29-12)
8 -  Wabash (21-20)

Frankling or Thomas More could get shipped to the South Regional to make this a 7-team bracket...which would reward Marietta for their overall #1 seed (like HEID got last year).

[EttaFan1]

The difference between two and three is marginal (they still have to play each other in the second rond if they win) and I won't argue with your rationale. In following some of the other discussions I would say the probability of one or two Mideast teams get sent to the south region is fairly high. Penn state-Altoona/berehend could end up in marietta as well.

I agree of Thomas more stays in this region they will be the four seed based on the last regional ranking. 

[forheavendial4999]

Really good chance of this being a 7 team regional, IMO. That will be true many years, actually. NE and Mid-Atlantic are always going to be 8 team, then it's between NY, Mideast and South which will be 7. This year I think New York will be 8 and Mideast 7 because there are already going to be flow issues with teams going west to Bloomington and Millington.

As much as half the traditionally Mideast contingent could go to Millington (Franklin, Thomas More, Wabash).

[mideastfan2]

waiting...waiting....waiting....waiting!!

It's never taken this long for the NCAA to release the Regional pairings.

[Dr. Acula]

Berg is the 2 seed in the 7 team Mideast.  No word on Case yet.

[mideastfan2]

it's finally up...

Mideast Regional in Marietta, Ohio
1. Marietta
2. Heidelberg
3. Adrian
4. Franklin
5. Frostburg State
6. Case Western Reserve
7. Penn State-Altoona

[mideastfan2]

d3baseball.com front page....they are posting them as they come in.

http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2011/05/ncaa-tournament-selections-announced

[EttaFan1]

All things considered, this is pretty good.  I wasn't a "fan" of the predictions made on the D3 baseball site with Shenandoah coming in here.  And while it would be nice to not have to play Heidelberg again, if we have to we have to. 

Kean is probably glad to not welcome the hornets either.

It will be interesting to see the rest of this fill out.