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

Ralph Turner · April 24, 2010, 11:51:31 PM

Actually I cut-and-pasted this from CrashDavis' post on the 2010 Regional Sites Board.

(I have sent him a couple of karma for the post to express my appreciation.

)

Gramps · April 25, 2010, 12:43:15 AM

Quote from: Ralph Turner on April 24, 2010, 11:51:31 PM
Actually I cut-and-pasted this from CrashDavis' post on the 2010 Regional Sites Board.

(I have sent him a couple of karma for the post to express my appreciation. )

Than I'd like to send my appreciation to Mr. Crash Davis for the picture. I looked all over Marietta's web site for just such a picture of the stadium to use in a compilation of the baseball fields of the OAC teams, with a GPS address for each of them. A lot of new parents and grandparents would find it handy to just set their Garmin for the baseball field.

HOF · April 30, 2010, 09:10:36 PM

Adrian clinches birth today with sweep of Albion. Adrian is now co-champs for sure and needs one win to win it outright. However, they still claimed the NCAA berth for the MIAA by beating everyone head to head that is chasing Adrian. Congrats to the Bulldogs!

mideastfan2 · May 07, 2010, 08:36:06 AM

Second Regional Rankings in the Daily Dose

The first record is regional record, followed by overall record.

(For convenience, I have designated the highest ranked team from the conference as Pool A bid, assuming that they win the conference tourney. All other teams are listed as Pool B or Pool C.)

Mideast Region
1. Heidelberg 27-6 30-6 OAC
2. Marietta 20-8 27-9 OAC Pool C
3. Washington and Jefferson 24-4 27-7 Pres AC
4. Wooster 30-6 34-7 NCAC
5. Adrian 23-10 26-10 MIAA CLINCHED
6. John Carroll 17-8 21-12 OAC Pool C
7. Franklin 14-6 22-10 HCAC

I think these rankings are way better than the first set, but still not reflective of the Region. Wooster's schedule is finished, but they will move up in the rankings b/c either MAR or HEID will lose 2 more games in the OAC tournament. W&J has lost 2 in a row and STILL hasn't beaten a quality in-region opponent this year.

HOF · May 15, 2010, 08:18:36 PM

Ralph,

Will be looking forward to seeing your thoughts on this. I see the Mideast being the region that will get traditional Mideast teams sent out. I see Adrian and Rose-Hulman being sent to either the Central or Midwest. I just don't see enough teams to fill those regionals. I haven't checked, but think Adrian or RHIT can bus to both sites and stay under the miles. I also see other teams from the East regions that can get to Marietta, not to mention the east has several teams that should get in.

Thoughts??

Should be fun...

Gramps · May 15, 2010, 09:11:25 PM

You can add Heidelberg to the list of Mid-East Regional teams as they have just captured the OAC Tornament with 9-0 win over Marietta today.

mideastfan2 · May 15, 2010, 10:15:21 PM

My early guess for the Regional:

1- Heidelberg
2- Wooster
3- Marietta
4- Washington & Jefferson
5- Adrian
6- Thomas More

Rose-Hulman (HCAC - Pool A) will get shipped to the Augustana Regional.

ScotsFan · May 16, 2010, 10:04:23 AM

Quote from: mideastfan2 on May 15, 2010, 10:15:21 PM
My early guess for the Regional:

1- Heidelberg
2- Wooster
3- Marietta
4- Washington & Jefferson
5- Adrian
6- Thomas More

Rose-Hulman (HCAC - Pool A) will get shipped to the Augustana Regional.

Is W&J a pretty solid Pool C candidate? My own personal opinion on the Prez is that they will not be sleeping easy wating to see if they are in or not.

At least they should finally fall in the regional rankings because of their losses to TMC in the finals of the PAC tournament...

mideastfan2 · May 16, 2010, 11:08:05 AM

^^^ W&J will most likely recieve an at-large bid based on how the process works.

Each region has a committee member who is present on the "call." Each region puts their top at-large team "on the table" to be voted for. Once a team is given a pool C bid, then the next best at-large team from that Region goes "on the table." Teams stay on the table until they are given a bid. For example: a region could have some strong at-large teams and get a few of them in, while another region may only have one strong team to consider, or none at all. Technically, a region could have a team "on the table" throughout the whole process, and they may still be there when things end.

From the Mideast, Marietta will be team number 1 on the table. Once they get their Pool C bid, W&J will be next on the table. When compared with others from around the country, their resume (in-region winning %, and in-region SOS) will get them a Pool C bid.

Oh, and the Regional Rankings that have been released the last few weeks don't determine who's in or out for the tournament; or how each Regional will be ranked. That is all done on the "call" this evening.

mideastfan2 · May 17, 2010, 08:19:39 AM

Hosted by Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio
1. Heidelberg (37-6)
2. Wooster (34-7)
3. Marietta (32-11)
4. Washington and Jefferson (32-10)
5. Adrian (29-11)
6. Thomas More (31-14)
7. Penn State-Behrend (29-14)

Let the fun begin!!!! (these look awfully similar to my predictions...except they snuck PS-Behrend in last minute)

HeyScots · May 17, 2010, 09:08:45 AM

So how does this 7 team regional work...does heidelberg get a bye?

ScotsFan · May 17, 2010, 09:52:49 AM

Here's a link for the tournament:

Mideast Regional Tournament

Not much to see there yet. They don't even have a schedule of games up yet so we can see exactly how this BS 7 team format is supposed to work?!

HeyScots · May 17, 2010, 10:34:40 AM

So Marietta has a preview of the first day of the tournament atleast and it says heidelberg will play the winner of the 4/5 game at 8pm on wednesday night. So i guess that counts as a bye but will still have to use their #1 on the first day

ScotsFan · May 17, 2010, 11:08:06 AM

Quote from: HeyScots on May 17, 2010, 10:34:40 AM
So Marietta has a preview of the first day of the tournament atleast and it says heidelberg will play the winner of the 4/5 game at 8pm on wednesday night. So i guess that counts as a bye but will still have to use their #1 on the first day

The thing I don't like is that Heide will more than likely not have to see anyone's #1 fresh. While all 6 other teams play in the first 3 games and all likely throwing their #1's, Heide is sitting and waiting to face someone's #2. Heck, Heide could even opt to save their #1 seeing as how their 1st opponent on Wednesday will be playing their 2nd game of the day and will have already, in all likelihood spent their #1 in game 1... $:-\$

Dr. Acula · May 17, 2010, 11:12:24 AM

Quote from: HeyScots on May 17, 2010, 10:34:40 AM
So Marietta has a preview of the first day of the tournament atleast and it says heidelberg will play the winner of the 4/5 game at 8pm on wednesday night. So i guess that counts as a bye but will still have to use their #1 on the first day

From what I gathered from the thread on the national topics the issues are:

1) The #1 seed effectively gets a bye into the winners bracket since their 1st game is the 4/5 winner.
2) If the 1 seed wins that game they don't play again until Friday at noon, so they get a full day off.
3) If they win their 2nd game Friday they only need one more win Saturday to win the regional.

In the Berg's case this could prove big because that allows Palm to use Andy Lowe more liberally out of the pen, especially if there's a potential off day in there.