BB: Regionals (Central) Rock Island '08, '10, Moline '09, Bloomington IL '11

[Mr. Ypsi]

Kabbes mostly escaped his first jam.  A walk and a single put runners at the corners with no outs.  An infield pop-up followed by two flies, got one run in, but that's all.

5-1 going to the bottom of the 4th, and Probasco has been chased - what a differnce from Wednesday!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Johnston didn't get started much better than Probasco, yielding a double and an RBI single to the first two batters he faced, but then BV got the DP.

6-1 after four.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Gotta love the Titan pitching depth.  Kabbes is only the #4 or #5 starter, yet has so far held BV, who scored 24 runs in two games yesterday, to two singles thru five innings!

[Mr. Ypsi]

Titans lead off their 5th with a double and an RBI single, and another BV pitcher bites the dust.  Kock in for Johnston.  7-1, man on first, no outs.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Kock may not have been the answer, either, but when Titan batters get on a roll, maybe there is no answer.

10-1 after 5.

[Mr. Ypsi]

IWU coasts to a 10-3 win - we're going to Appleton!

[Ralph Turner]

Message board for the Central Regionals which will be held at Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington, IL.

[Mr. Ypsi]

Cool.  I hadn't even noticed yet that they were at IWU this year.  With H-to-H tie-breaks against 3 of the other 4 contenders (haven't played the 4th yet), I'm hoping IWU will also host the conference tourney.

Not that that helped much in 2007!  [For those for whom that was too obscure (or in case I got the year wrong! ), IWU went an all-time conference best 20-1, hosted both the conference and regional tourneys, and went 0-2 in each!   Last year they barely made the conference tourney, and won the CWS.  I'm having serious doubts as to the importance of the regular season (as long as you get a chance to MAKE the postseason).

[mwunder]

Central Regional in Bloomington, Ill.
1. Coe  (32-10)
2. Carthage  (29-10)
3. Thomas More  (28-7)
4. Illinois Wesleyan  (26-16)
5. Buena Vista  (28-15)
6. Ripon  (20-18)

[cubs]

So if you are IWU, do you try and beat Thomas More with your #2, and save Pankau for Game #2 against Carthage/Buena Vista?

[BigPoppa]

So if you are IWU, do you try and beat Thomas More with your #2, and save Pankau for Game #2 against Carthage/Buena Vista?

No way... throw him Wednesday and hope to bring him back on Saturday in the title game.

[BigPoppa]

Looking it over:

Thomas More is loaded with bats. .351 avg, 38 HR, a guy with 17 HRs. They look like they can hit with the best of them.

Coe has 90 SBs to this point. WOW!

IWU's Jason Pankau has two losses (how?) with his 1.48 ERA.


Here are my players to watch:

Buena Vista:            Brad Blum (.378, 18 SBs)
      Michael Hoffman (..327, 16 2B, 44 RBI)

Carthage:    Will Hodges (.399, 14 2B, 8 HR)
      Danny Dahm (4-0, 3.36 ERA)
      Joey Aiello (.357, 35 runs)

Coe:       Nick Stein (386, 8 HRs, 15 2B, 23/24 SBs)
                                Wade Morris (10-2, 2.47 ERA).   

Illinois Wesleyan:    Kevin Callahan (.405, 14 HR, 49 RBI)
      Jason Pankau (7-2, 1.48 ERA, 82 K)

Ripon:                   Nick Beaman (.407, 12 2B, 44 RBI)

Thomas More:         David Kennett (.435, 7HR),
                               Sam Schmeltzer (.422, 49 RBI)
                               Andrew Thole (.401, 17 HR, .918 slugging, 52 RBI).

[CCIWFAN6]

So if you are IWU, do you try and beat Thomas More with your #2, and save Pankau for Game #2 against Carthage/Buena Vista?

Coach Martel has done this in the past and it has back fired big time.  I do not see him making that mistake again.  

In 2007 as the #1 seed, he started Jesse Foster instead of All American Matt Aronson and they lost 11-7 to # 6 seed Webster.

[Hound Dog]

So if you are IWU, do you try and beat Thomas More with your #2, and save Pankau for Game #2 against Carthage/Buena Vista?

Is this a joke?  See 2007 Regional at Bloomington, IL.

[BigPoppa]

To be fair, Webster has always been seeded lower than than should be.