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#1
Saw they started a thread about this in another region and was interested to see what people thought about Facilities in New England.

What are some of people favorite places in New England to watch/play a Div III game?  What are some of the least favorites (be nice)?

From my experience (and i haven't been to them all obviously)...

Favorites
Eastern Connecticut (although i got shelled)
Babson (except for the very short porch in right center)
Springfield (very high mound, very nice)

Least FavoritesAmherst/Trinity (both nice fields but personally i don't like the wide open / un-enclosed nature of the fields)
Any field with a backstop that was very close to the plate (i.e., right behind dirt cut out)
Salem State (not sure this is where they still play but it was quiet odd, circa 1998)

Heard Are Nice But Have Never BeenSouthern Maine
Wheaton
WNEC (Tralease park not old one)

others chime in, please
#2
New England Region / BB: General New England Discussion
February 14, 2007, 06:14:24 PM
I started this up b/c the new england conference threads have nothing going on but there seem to be some new england posters out there.  if starting a new thread in here is frowned upon, please take it down and accept my apologies.

so here you go, jcon, ecsu alum, bostonion, dr.gilblair, others--please chime in.  here are some predictions to get the ball rolling.

NEWMAC
1.   Amherst—Finished strong last year winning 8 of the last nine against pretty good competition.  Took 2 from division 2 Bentley, 2 out of 3 from conference champ Middlebury, shut out LEC co-regular season champ Keene State, one against Brandeis.
2.   Bowdoin—Don't really know much about them but have been right up there for a few years.
3.   Tufts—See Bowdoin

Middlebury and Williams don't make the cut, they both seem like they can mash but pitching isn't there.

NEWMAC
1.   Wheaton—Stacked, went to final game last year and didn't lose much.  Pitching should carry them, starters are solid, simmons slides into bakers spot as the closer.
2.   Springfield—not much here other than past performance
3.   Babson—see springfield

LEC
1.   Keene State—Almost everyone is back from a team that went 11-3 in the conference last year and was only an ECSU double header sweep on the last day of the LEC Tournament away from NCAA Tournament last year.
2.   Southern Maine—seems to have a lot returning had a strong showing and new England regional last year.
3.   Eastern Connecticut—I know it is eastern and they will be strong and they will have some studs coming in, so it is a stretch to predict them third but it all depends what team shows up the team that went 8-6 in LEC regular season and lost 1-2-3 hitters or the team that got very very hot at exactly the right time.

MASCAC
1.   Bridgewater
2.   Worcester
3.   Salem State—Atlanta Christian College, Clearwater Christian College, Taccoa Falls College,  & Spring Arbor College aren't walking through that door in April and May.  Seriously who makes this schedule.

CCC
1.   Endicott
2.   Salve Regina
3.   Somebody else

NAC
1.   St. Joe's
2.   honestly I can't think of any other teams in this league

GNAC
1.   WNEC—Returns everyone except Connelly (all-american pitcher/2nd basemen—graduation).  Returning pitchers Anderson (jr. third team all new England 2006, 1-2 with 3.97 era this summer in NECBL), Pizzaferrato (so. Second team all new England, 4-0 2.10 era this summer in NECBL), and others.  Pitching needs to carry them.
2.   Suffolk—Suffolk has some strong returnees (with solid summer experience) but loses Mercado (aka WNEC killer)
3.   Johnson & Wales—Loses a bit to graduation but should hit (they always hit) loses Gilbert to graduation (aka WNEC killer)

If that all plays out that way here is what tournament looks like

Automatic BidsAmherst
Wheaton
Keene
Bridgewater
Endicott
St. Joes (pretty sure that NAC gets an AQ this year)
WNEC

I say Amherst goes to new york region, leaving only one at large bid which goes to southern maine.

I will be the first to admit many of these are just guesses and you can probably tell which conferences and teams I know more (and less) about