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We are probably deep enough into the season where we can start to look at how the conference races are shaping up for a birth in the Mid-East Region (or Great Lakes Region?).  According to a post earlier this year, the conferences involved are:

Allegheny Moutain Collegiate Conference (new addition)
Heartland Collegiate Conference
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association
North Coast Conference
Ohio Athletic Conference
Presidents Athletic Conference


Looking around these conferences in the region...

The president's conference is a hot mess.  Canellations have led to a disparity in the number of games played.  W&J is 12-5 and is in fourth place right now.  St. Vincent is 8-2 and leads the conference.  Thiel and Thomas More are tied at 10-4.  Big difference between playing 17 games and 10 games, though. 

The MIAA is a more interesting race this season.  Either the conference is better or Adrian has taken a step backwards or both.  In the past few years, Adrian won the conference title by very large margins.  This year they are in tight race with Hope, both of whom are 11-5.  Olivet (8-6), Trine and Calvin (9-7) are the next two and Albion is hanging around at 8-8.  If I'm not mistaken they recently began using a tournament.

The HCAC is being led by Manchester at 13-2.  There ar 7 teams all clustered within two games of each other battling out for the 3 remaining slots in the tournament. 

The NCAC with its two division format looks like this.  In the east Wooster leads Allegheny by a game and Oberlin is three games back.  In the west, Dension leads Depauw by a game and the rest of the pack has each played four fewer games than those two. 

The OAC is a 5 team race with Marietta out front.  BW is ineligible.  Marietta, JCU, Mount Union, Otterbein and Heidelberg are battling for the four tournaments spots.  Marietta, JCU and Mount Union look to be in good shape for the conference tournament.  The Cardinals and Heidelberg have work to do. 

http://www.d3boards.com/index.php?topic=7459.0 Is when I saw where the AMCC was now part of the region. Their champions have come to the mideast regional the past three seasons.  Anyhow....Penn State Beherend and LaRoche each have one league loss, but PSUb has four more league victories.  Pitt Greensburg and Pitt Bradford are in the three and four spots. 

Case Western is the independent school out there having a good year which has a chance to find a spot in the regional.