Rank the Mideast Region

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ADL70

It appears that CWRU may have Wooster's ace Evan Faxon as a grad transfer.
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Dr. Acula

Wow, that's a nice get for the Spartans.  Quality experienced arm?  Sure, why not! 

I'm very interested to see what rosters look like this year.  There will likely be a few more grad transfers.  And there are going to be some big roster numbers for some of these schools with all the COVID super seniors coming back in addition to the new class of recruits.  Schools like BW, Ott, Mount that normally carry large rosters might have silly roster numbers in the spring.

Dr. Acula

Looking at the preseason top 25 it looks like Etta is getting some serious love.  Mideast (or close enough for us to care about) ranked teams:

3.  Marietta
5.  Adrian
17. W&J
21. Denison

ORV:
37. Mount Union
41. Wooster
58. BW

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Quote from: ADL70 on February 10, 2022, 08:28:59 AM
https://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2022/02/previews/Region-7-preview

The most depressing thing in the preview was reading that Carson transferred from Muskingum to Marietta.  Great news...the team that was 38-6 picked up a 1st team All-OAC OF who hit over .400 last year to go with their AA OF. 

Jim Dixon

Brewer is all in for an other title at Marietta.

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ADL70

CWRU (RV) swept #17 W&J Saturday 5-1, 17-3 to open its season. W&J hardly played like a Top 25 team, committing 8 errors in the nightcap.

Today's DH at Mt Union postponed.

https://athletics.case.edu/sports/bsb/2021-22/releases/202202271qj0d8

Next up spring trip which features games against #19 NC Wesleyan and #2 Cortland (4). NCW (5-3) beat Cortland (4-1) 5-3 yesterday.
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Spartans and Purple Raiders scheduled for a single game at 2:30 ET today.
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ADL70

Spartans prevail 6-4 in 10 cold rainy innings in Alliance  https://athletics.case.edu/sports/bsb/2021-22/releases/20220301rdl5ws

Spartans used 7 pitchers!

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Dr. Acula

We got our first set of true regional rankings yesterday:

1. Etta
2. BW
3. Denison
4. CWRU
5. ONU
6. Witt
7. W&J

I don't think this is particularly surprising aside from perhaps Etta and BW given BW swept Etta H2H.  But since this is ranking them by NCAA resume and not for the OAC tourney I understand Etta at the top.  Their SoS is #1 in the nation by a fairly comfortable margin over #2 BW.  Denison (6) is also top 10 in the nation in SoS. 

The remainder of the regional rankings also seem to trend along the line of SoS with a big gap between ONU (51) and Witt (163).

ADL70

CWRU is #8 SoS

Split 2 games w/ Cortland #1 Reg III
Split 2 games w/Etta
Split 2 games w/W&J
1-0 v Denison
0-1 v BW
Split 4 games w/ WashU #5 R VIII

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IMO there's a gap between CWRU at 4 and ONU at 5.  The region is really strong right now overall.

DagarmanSpartan

Well, CWRU plays Mary Washington on Friday at Marietta College, so apparently we did indeed get an at-large bid.