Perfect Games

Started by Jim Dixon, March 29, 2009, 12:05:05 AM

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Jim Dixon

Senior pitcher/outfielder John Lunardi from Exton, Pa. pitched a perfect game 1, literally, as Susquehanna swept visiting Drew , 9-0, 12-5, in a Landmark Conference doubleheader at Harold Bollinger Field on March 28. This was the fourteenth perfect game in D-III and the first since April 21, 2007 when Tim Kiely pitched a perfect game against the Tufts Jumbos.

13: http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2007/04/22/2039/tim-kiely-delivers-perfection.html

14:  http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2009/03/28/6460/john-lunardi-tosses-perfect-game.html

I have to find my list of some others.  I am not sure I know about all 14 perfect games.

Just Bill

Here's one:

http://www.uwsp.edu/Athletics/baseball/2002/GAME-08.HTM

Bill Verbrick for UW-Stevens Point over UW-River Falls in 2002.
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Jim Dixon


OshDude

Dan Roberge, Roger Williams vs. Wentworth (7 IP), March 30, 2008.
Cody Flynn, Edgewood vs. Maranatha Baptist (7 IP), May 6, 2006.

The others? According to the '09 record book, there were 12 perfect games before this season. D-III perfect games by season:
'88 (1)
'90 (1)
'96 (1)
'99 (1)
'01 (1)
'02 (2, Verbrick and?)
'04 (2)
'06 (1, Flynn)
'07 (1, Kiely)
'08 (1, Roberge)
'09 (1, Lunardi)

Jim Dixon

I forgot about Roberge's perfect game.  That makes 15 or is it 13?

I took the figure of 13 from the 2007 Kiely release.  Record keeping as I know is spotty at best so the record book may not be correct so there still could be two missing perfect games.

RSSmith

From the Centennial Conference Record Book:

Adam Huron, Haverford (6) vs. Hiram (0), March 8, 2004 (7 innings, perfect game)
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OshDude

Quote from: Jim Dixon on March 30, 2009, 01:59:52 PM
I forgot about Roberge's perfect game.  That makes 15 or is it 13?

I took the figure of 13 from the 2007 Kiely release.  Record keeping as I know is spotty at best so the record book may not be correct so there still could be two missing perfect games.
Too bad the D-III record book doesn't list them all like they do in the D-I and D-II books. All they have are occurances by year. At least that's all I could find. The recent record books do list the perfect games from the previous year, but you already know those.

Perhaps whoever wrote the '07 Trinity release could shed some light because that number doesn't match the NCAA total. Maybe that SID – if he or she is the still at Trinity – knows more than the NCAA. At the D-III level, that wouldn't surprise me.

Jim Dixon

and add one more. Lakeland junior Lee Chepil tossed what is believed to be the first perfect game in Lakeland history


http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2009/04/05/6480/chepil-throws-first-perfect-game-in-lakeland-history.html

Jim Dixon

What is it with Hiram.  They have been on the losing side of three perfect games (2004, 2012, 2013)

Spence

Quote from: Jim Dixon on March 16, 2013, 01:41:11 AM
What is it with Hiram.  They have been on the losing side of three perfect games (2004, 2012, 2013)

Glad I wasn't the only one to notice that. Didn't know the exact years but seemed like it had happened a few times.

Jim Dixon

Perfect Game list (incomplete)

2013-03-15        Nick Rossmiller, Thiel Tomcats vs Hiram
2012-04-15        Kyle Cunningham Rhoades, Wooster vs Hiram
2012-03-23        Chris Dragone, Farmington St. vs Yeshiva
2011-05-00        Tyler Brown, Spalding vs USCAA Rochester
2011-03-26        Kyle Hart, Casey Miller, Brock Jacob, Redlands vs Caltech
2009-04-04        Lee Chepil, Lakeland vs Maranatha Baptist
2009-03-28        John Lunardi, Susquehanna vs Drew
2008-03-30        Dan Roberge, Roger Williams vs Wentworth
2007-04-21        Tim Kiely, Trinity (Conn.) vs Tufts
2006-05-06        Cody Flynn, Edgewood vs Maranatha Baptist
2004-05-01        Tony Groccia, Clark (Mass.) vs. Gordon
2004-14-17        Tim Hanson, Nichols vs. Gordon
2004-03-08        Adam Huron, Haverford vs Hiram
2002-04-06        Bill Verbrick, UW-Stevens Point vs River Falls
2001                  unknown
1999                  unknown
1996                  unknown
1993-00-00        Brian Ford, Methodist vs St. John Fisher
1990                  unknown
1989-05-07        Mark Bricker, Wooster vs ??
1988                  unknown

------- Before D-III started in 1976 --------------------

1970-04-25        Denny Kessel, Carthage vs N. Central Ill.
1961-00-00        Bill Kuse, U of Wisconsin Stevens Point vs UW-Eau Claire
1905-04-07        Willard B. "Bill" Morrell, Tufts University

Jim Dixon

Two more perfect games on 14 April - Three combined for Farmingdale State, Ryan Jacob for PS-Behrend.

Perfect Game list  (incomplete)
2013-04-14        Ryan Jacons, PS-Behrend  vs Mount Aloysius
2013-04-14        Cameron Kitt, Kevin Martinez and Dominick Morelli, Farmiingdale State vs NYU-Poly
2013-03-15        Nick Rossmiller, Thiel Tomcats vs Hiram
2012-04-15        Kyle Cunningham Rhoades, Wooster vs Hiram
2012-03-23        Chris Dragone, Farmington St. vs Yeshiva
2011-05-00        Tyler Brown, Spalding vs USCAA Rochester
2011-03-26        Kyle Hart, Casey Miller, Brock Jacob, Redlands vs Caltech
2009-04-04        Lee Chepil, Lakeland vs Maranatha Baptist
2009-03-28        John Lunardi, Susquehanna vs Drew
2008-03-30        Dan Roberge, Roger Williams vs Wentworth
2007-04-21        Tim Kiely, Trinity (Conn.) vs Tufts
2006-05-06        Cody Flynn, Edgewood vs Maranatha Baptist
2004-05-01        Tony Groccia, Clark (Mass.) vs. Gordon
2004-14-17        Tim Hanson, Nichols vs. Gordon
2004-03-08        Adam Huron, Haverford vs Hiram
2002-04-06        Bill Verbrick, UW-Stevens Point vs River Falls
2001                    unknown
1999                    unknown
1996                    unknown
1993-00-00        Brian Ford, Methodist vs St. John Fisher
1990                    unknown
1989-05-07        Mark Bricker, Wooster vs ??
1988                    unknown
1985                   Randy Beilmeier, Wisconsin-Oshkosh
-------------------------------------- Before D-III started in 1976--------------------------------------
1970-04-25        Denny Kessel, Carthage vs N. Central Ill.
1961-00-00        Bill Kuse, U of Wisconsin Stevens Point vs UW-Eau Claire
1905-04-07        Willard B. "Bill" Morrell, Tufts