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#1
Bus trips to and from Florida are not completely out of the ordinary for New England teams.  One year when I was at UMB we played Husson down in Tampa.  We played them at like 8:00am on Saturday morning and they were getting on the bus immediately after the game and heading back to Maine (no showers or anything) in order to be home for Sunday night. 

However, that is brutal when you are expecting to fly home and you end up having to take a bus. 
#2
Beacon bats back on track today with a 10-0 pounding of Roger Williams, although the 6 errors by RWU did not help their cause.  Great game by Heefner who is now 2-0 with 7 innings of scoreless ball.

UMB now 5-2 looking to end the Fla. trip with a win tomorrow against a good St. Norbert team.
#3
4 UMB players on Mt. Rushmore:

1. Ryan Walsh
2. Nick Conway
3. Adam Waxman
4. Steve Coffey
#4
Quote from: UMB28 on January 07, 2012, 10:33:02 AM
Dalton recently had a son named hank and landed a very good full time job so he will not be playing for umb this year.  However junior Tom cole is hitting 90mph on the radar gun and he should be the number 1 flamethrower for umass.  Umb has about 23 new recruits to mix in with the core returners in McCormick, Mattei, lynch, cole, heefner, and Fontaine(back from injury to  be the backbone of the team and help develop confidence in some of the new young arms).

Players not returning: santos, Walsh, Noonan,Reinfurt and dalton.

Gonna be a lot of new faces this year, but some good "unproven" talent that coach E will have to develop in order to make a run at it this season!

Season will be here before we know it!

Thanks for the update.  I would have loved to see Dalton play out his senior season but I am aware that he is in a different life situation due to the fact that he is a bit older and has other responsibilities outside of baseball.  Wish him the best.  Go Beacons!!!!
#5
Anyone have any updates as to if James Dalton is going to be back for UMB this season for his senior year?  I know that last year it was literally a last minute thing and he almost didn't play.
#6
........ of the Year Choices

Player of the Year:
Walsh
He came close to a tripple crown in the conference, 3rd in Batting Average at .426, tied for lead in HR with 12 and led the league in RBI with 51.  Also led in Stolen Bases with 20.  Also UMB as a team hit .291, if you take Walsh's numbers out the team B.A. goes down to .273.  Needless to say, he meant quite a bit to that team.

Pitcher of the Year:
Schult
Hands down, 8-1 with a 3.65 ERA and led the league in strikeouts, seems like an easy call.

Rookie of the Year:
Chadwick
I will also go with him because of his numbers, but I found it a bit odd he was never once named Rookie of the Week.  O'Connell may give him some competition as he was named a 3 time Rookie of the Week.
#7
I posted this link on the National discussion page but feel that it makes sense to post it here as well.  Great article and as a former Beacon, this article is long overdue.  Amazingly enough it appeared on Page 1 of the Boston Globe today:
http://www.boston.com/sports/colleges/baseball/articles/2010/05/26/against_the_odds_umass_boston_baseball_team_becomes_a_hit/?page=1
#8
Also, since my beloved UMass Boston Beacons, after years of struggles have finally made it to the big dance in Wisconsin.  I figured since they are a topic of conversation I would give some imput on our school's long and dazzling resume of professional players (ha ha)

We had a player back from 1988-1990 named Steve Coffey who actually tied the NCAA D-III record for consecutive games with a hit and held it for about 8 years.  He was (and currently is) the only player drafted in the history of the program.  He was picked in the 20th round of the 1990 draft by the Cubs.  He played 92 games of single A ball in 1990 and 91' and had a career batting average there of just .185.  He has been playing baseball just North of Boston in a summer league, and still plays at age 40.  This season he was named as an assistant coach with the North Shore Navigators of the NECBL.

Currently, Nick Conway who pitched for UMB from 2006-2009 is about to start his second season with the Worcester Tornadoes of the Independent Can-AM League.  He was 2-4 with a 5.01 ERA last year and mainly pitched out of the bulpen. 
#9
To add to some of the list that was started by OshDude back on page 2.  I added on to the (New England) list based on some research.

Chris Denofria-Wheaton (was added in later posts)
Nelson Figueroa-Brandies (also added in later posts)
Rod Correia-UMass Dartmouth
Mike Porzio-Western Connecticut
John Kiely-Bridgewater State
Jim Siwy-Rhode Island College

and probably the best major leaguer to come out of New England Division III-
Ken Hill who pitched in pats of 14 seasons in the Majors and was a 1994 All Star pitched at Mass College of Liberal Arts back in the 80's when it was known as North Adams State.  They had some great teams back in the 80's.