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Title: BB: Regionals (New York) Auburn NY '08, SUNY-Old Westbury '09, Cortland State '10, '11
Post by: Ralph Turner on May 11, 2008, 11:48:23 PM
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Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 12, 2008, 09:22:38 AM
Wow, an 8 team NY regional with 4 out of region teams.
Who would have thought.
Having said that , this is a dynamite regional with Cortland, IC, RPI, ECONN, Montclair, and Ohio Wesleyan! Talk about national power teams.
Should be an unbelievable regional.

Side note:
As a supporter of NY region baseball, I have to admit that at the end of the yr, I can't think of another NY team that actually deserved to be put in this regional because of their play at the end of the year!
You have to earn a bid and if you don't win at the end, you know the deal!

Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 12, 2008, 10:40:38 AM
I agree Scuba, it appears the NCAA has gotten away from referring to each regional by a state now.  If you look at their official website they refer to them as the Auburn Regional etc.  I suppose this way people can't complain about "out of region" teams being sent to other regions.  Did think some of the placements of teams geographically were quite odd.  Farmingdale of Long Island gets sent 5 or 6 hours to Auburn and then Penn State Behrend of Erie PA gets sent 5 or 6 hours down to New Jersey?  Would think economically/geographically it would have made sense to flip flop them.  NJAC got 4 teams including Montclair to Auburn.  It is the best conference in the country though so that kind of makes sense.  Will all the games be broadcast over the internet as in years past by Cortland?
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Rick Vaughn on May 12, 2008, 10:47:07 AM
The best first round matchup in the country could be in Auburn.  EConn and Montclair should be a great one.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Pat Coleman on May 12, 2008, 11:26:23 AM
Quote from: BaseB13 on May 12, 2008, 10:40:38 AM
\Will all the games be broadcast over the internet as in years past by Cortland?

The plan is that yes, like last year, D3baseball.com will broadcast audio from this entire regional.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 12, 2008, 11:28:10 AM
Econn's always got some gassers and Montclair see's it all in the NJAC. It will be a good 1. Anybody know anything about Grove City?
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: NYBB on May 12, 2008, 12:25:22 PM
i'm rooting for Farmingdale out of my Skyline Conference.  They don't have an overpowering pitcher like Westbury does but they're a very solid team.  Good luck to them!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 12, 2008, 02:05:10 PM
Farmingdale may be in a little over their heads the later they get in this tourney, especially if they don't have a stud on the mound. You know they are going to see Sotung and he is pretty good.
They could beat IC though. This is shaping up to be a great regional!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: AlleyCat on May 12, 2008, 03:28:10 PM
Ithaca has Ohio Wes. in the 1st round.

Farmingdale plays RPI.

Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: ecfaninri on May 12, 2008, 04:05:43 PM
Econn vs. Monclair in game 1 - yes it should be. They played each other once early this season. Montclair winning 7-6 on the road. Eastern's final game vs. Keene St., a 1-0 game with the winning run scoring from second on a base hit with 2 outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. What a heartbreaker. EConn is no stranger to the NY region. From what I hear, 2006 they finished 3rd in the LEC and ended up winning the LEC tourney and was given a spot in Auburn. They ended up having to face Cortland in the finals beating them twice. I just can't believe how many people are complaining about having to go to this region or that region - its too far - travel..  Think about it .... everyone's goal is to get to Wisconsin. Players are out of school for the most part... for some it may be their last hurrah... on the road with their friends ... playing ball... what's better than that? I'm sure right now some of those teams who weren't in the field of 54 would do anything  to be still playing,,,,, anywhere. Emory, Ripon, Suffolk, Tyler-Texas etc. Good luck to everyone... enjoy the moment.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: dgilblair on May 12, 2008, 04:26:38 PM
I agree ecfaninri.  Enjoy the moment.  Don't think to many ECSU fans are complaining about going to Auburn.  They have seen enough of the Trinity, Keene St., Southern Maine, Wheaton, WNEC boys this year.  But then again not sure we want to seen IC again or Montclair, Cortland, Rensselaer, Farmingdale, Ohio Wesleyan, Grove City. People are saying the NE region is so tough but boy this NY region has to be just as tough. It's time to do battle.  Should be good.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: ECSUalum on May 12, 2008, 07:41:30 PM
DGilblair,

Do you wish to give us a status report on Shawn?

Without Shawn pitching/hitting most of the season, in my opinion, is the main reason the Warriors did not win the LEC/LEC Tourney.

I realize injuries are part of the game, but, without Shawn, Eastern was at a major disadvantage.

hopefuly he will get some at bats, as the team batting avg has been dropping and they really need his bat in the lineup.

Anyway, if he plays or not, I hope he has a off season that allows him to be 150% next spring!!!

He is just a GREAT player!!!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: dgilblair on May 12, 2008, 09:28:25 PM
Thanks

Well, he is on the roster so thats a good thing.  He should be good to go come Wednesday as far as hitting.  Not to sure he will be ready to throw anytime soon.

I think the team as a whole needs to have better at bats.  Naturally they need to have the timely hits just like all the other teams. 

As far as the pitching I think Fontaine has filled up Shawns spot in the rotation pretty darn good.  Of course he's not a lefty but we can't all be blessed.......LOL.

He's not playing this summer.  Going to get fixed up and come back strong in the spring. 

It's time for the Warriors to start swinging the lumber if want any chance of moving on.  Look at Espo's last start, a run or two would have been nice.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: ECSUalum on May 12, 2008, 09:37:33 PM
Quote from: DGilblair on May 12, 2008, 09:28:25 PM
Thanks

Well, he is on the roster so thats a good thing.  He should be good to go come Wednesday as far as hitting.  Not to sure he will be ready to throw anytime soon.

I think the team as a whole needs to have better at bats.  Naturally they need to have the timely hits just like all the other teams. 

As far as the pitching I think Fontaine has filled up Shawns spot in the rotation pretty darn good.  Of course he's not a lefty but we can't all be blessed.......LOL.

He's not playing this summer.  Going to get fixed up and come back strong in the spring. 

It's time for the Warriors to start swinging the lumber if want any chance of moving on.  Look at Espo's last start, a run or two would have been nice.


Thanks for the update , much appreciated.

Yeas just thrilled with Espo's last couple of outings!  Fontaine and Jags has been great , but if shawn was health, what a rotaion for the regionals.

Will be waiting in anticipation for the spring when Shawn is healthy.

Got to believe if he puts in another year like his freshman year, we will see a lot of scouts visiting Mansfield

Best of luck to him in the Regionls and in the off season ;D

Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: pudge27 on May 12, 2008, 10:09:02 PM
I see that the ECONN folks are starting out strong on the board.  Bringing in ECONN, Montclair and OWU makes this regional a tough run for anyone.  Can't say that I know much about Farmingdale or Grove City, so any info would be appreciated. 

I'm a bit biased but I think that the 8 team regional is a good thing for Cortland.  They've got really good depth and a lot of arms.  Early rounds may be the best way to get them if someone's going to pull the upset.  Any way it plays out, someone's going to have to run through some good teams to move on. 
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 12, 2008, 10:44:44 PM
IC's gots its hands full with Ohio Wes. Ohio Wes beat Cortland 2 yrs ago in florida, different yr but you know they have a good program!

I think Matt Tone is the key for Cortland and although I have never been a proponent of saving your #1 in a 8 team double Elim setting, this might be the time to do just that if your Cortland! Use him in game 2 or the winners bracket final, he is lights out!
You have to figure by looking at you field, the easiest game is going to be game #1 so pick 1 Mahay, Blanco, Hooper, Rowlands, Assman to start game #1 and then Ratliff, Tone games 2 and 3!

Grove City might not be a pushover although they did split with Fredonia. Look at the stats, http://www2.gcc.edu/sports/Baseball/cumes08.htm
They have a kid hitting .447, 8 bombs, 49 ribs and 96 total bases! Looking like we better know where he is in the lineup if ur JB!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: EasternCtFan on May 13, 2008, 03:00:29 PM
scuba,

I understand not pitching your #1 vs grove  city but hey its fine with me if you want to save him and overlook ecsu/msu. Eastern plans on using fontaine vs. MSU. Im thinkng holowaty would have went with espo game 1 because of fontaine struggling against them earlier in the year but he threw about 140 pitches in the LEC tourney vs Keene.  The key for eastern will be Castillo, if he slumps like he did in the LEC tourney eastern is in trouble (please touch every base this weekend). Without Gilblair in the lineup he is there guy. I expect the starting pitching to hold up, bullpen worries me but i dont think they get their work because the starters are going deep in games and the closer is usally the next guy.

Day 1 predictions......?
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: pudge27 on May 13, 2008, 03:48:52 PM
ECFan,
    I think it's safe to say that if Cortland does save their #1, you'd definitely see him in the 2nd game.  Cortland's got too much history with both programs to overlook either.  You don't have to go too far back for evidence of ECSU tinkling on Cortland's parade.

     As for predictions, it should be a good regional.  I think that Cortland, Ithaca and RPI are all really good with strong pitching.  Can't say that I know too much about the other teams, other than their reputations.   I know nothing of Grove City.  Knowing that their record is very average makes me think that they are at least playing thier best ball of the year.  Hot teams are obviously dangerous, but the 8 team, double elim is really tough unless you've got a ton of arms. 

For Day 1, I think I'm going to go......Cortland, Ithaca, RPI, ECSU into the winner's bracket.  What can I say, I'm an upstate homer. 
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Caz Bombers on May 13, 2008, 06:17:48 PM
I just went through the matchups and stats for the first time; might it not be a good idea for Grove City to save its ace Herringshaw for the second game; GCC has the biggest drop off from ace to rest of rotation among the teams and since Cortland will probably rock them anyway why put all eggs in one basket.

Looks like every team in this group can rake, should be some great late-inning rallies.  Many of these teams have strong bullpens but looks like OWU's may be the weakest.  Their top two starters have a combined 14 CG so maybe their coach is silently agreeing, eh?

As a Bomber fan I would hope it plays out that IC can knock the OWU starter out, hit that bullpen, have Farmingdale's ace Heeman beat RPI and then take my chances against their #2 or #3 guy.  Perhaps in the meantime someone will have managed to stop the Cortland juggernaut although I'm not holding my breath.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: ECSUalum on May 13, 2008, 08:40:45 PM
Guys,

Cortland State has had a fantastic program for sooo many years!!  While i will obviously be rooting for ECSU ( we are the Evil Empire on the LEC board), I really would like to see Cortland state do well in the regional, and sort of hope its their year to take home the trophy.

Do me a big favor, Give Keily and the BANTAMS thier first loss

Best of luck to the Red Dragons
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 13, 2008, 11:33:12 PM
My take is this.  IC got a little screwed with the 2 seed.  RPI with the 3 seed actually has a significantly better match up.  No knock to any of the programs in the regional but Farmingdale and Grove City are average at best.  Cortland and RPI should not start their #1's in either of these games.  Farmingdale's schedule is incredibly soft and Grove City's team ERA is close to 6 and also played a very soft schedule.    RPI and Cortland should have no issues with these teams and I would not be surprised if both put up double digit runs.  (However, you never know what can happen, back in 2005 Rhode Island, a .500 ball club came in and almost stung Cortland in game one losing a 1 run heart breaker). Despite that, I still believe neither team needs to throw their #1.   Back to Ithaca, do not be surprised if OW wins this game.  OW beat Divison 1 Ohio University this year along with solid programs such as Wooster, UW Stevens Point,  and Denison.   IC should definitely throw Sottung.   If they do, they should be ok, doesn't seem like OW has a super dominant number one who strikes a lot of guys out. However, if I'm IC I wouldn't be too happy with RPI getting the easy draw as the 3 seed.  Not too sure what the heck the regional committee was thinking with this seeding.  As for Montclair and ECSU, should be a battle and I have no idea who will win.  Looking forward to hearing some of the games tomorrow while in the office.  Good luck to all teams and thanks to John McGraw for broadcasting out of Auburn.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: ECSUalum on May 14, 2008, 02:15:07 PM
Montclair 8 ECSU 7 on 8th inning 3R HR
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 14, 2008, 08:00:37 PM
As far as who Cortland starts game 2, I guess you have to look at who threw the 2 games for Cortland vs Montclair. Low and Behold, Travis Ratliff threw game 1, 6.0 innings to get the W and Matt Tone threw 5.0 innings to get the W in game 2!
These are Cortland's 1,2 and thats who they have ready to go regional game 2!

I guess if your JB, you have to go with the guy who matches up the best with Monty's lineup or who looked the best vs them the 1st go around.

Having not seen Monty, I guess if the have a few good Lefty sticks and/or some speed I throw Tone to nullify the Lefty batters and the speed!
If the are slow and Righty dominant, I may throw Ratliff depending on how he looked the first time he threw vs Monty!

I guess you can't go wrong, but if you spin Ratliff game 2 and lose, you have to either throw Tone in a losers bracket game or save him and you might be out of the regional tournament having not thrown your ace and look like a big douche-bag!

Good money is on Tone Throwing game 2 for the reasons directly above!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 14, 2008, 08:04:17 PM
I'd agree Scuba.  Cortland should throw their best tomorrow.  Then if needed, depending on how many pitches he has thrown, if there was an emergency on Sunday and they needed him, he'd be on two days rest which is better than one.  Cortland put up double digits as I expected.  We'll see if RPI follows suit.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 14, 2008, 11:18:32 PM
RPI squeaks by Farmingdale without throwing Zongol.  Maybe they should have.  Looks like their defense wasnt too strong with 4 errors.  Klein started and threw alright.  I would have thought he would have mowed them down.  I had not realized Dreimiller had struggled so much this year, he had thrown pretty good for RPI last year I thought.  Late start for the IC/OWU game.  Should be a battle.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 15, 2008, 06:45:39 PM
Cortland up 6-0 on Monty top 7! JB started Tone as expected!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: ecfaninri on May 15, 2008, 07:47:06 PM
EConn  wins 10-5 ...Nice job by Esposito today to get Eastern back on track. Three real good outings in a row  Nice to see Gilblair and Castillo heating up.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 15, 2008, 07:59:01 PM
Cortland 9-2 W, Awaits the winner of RPI-Ohio Weslyan.
Zongol will be tough to beat for RPI but OW has seen some guys just as good! Should be a good 1.
Ratliff tommorow for Cortland in the winners bracket Finals!
GO C-State
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 16, 2008, 01:50:55 PM
IC is out and wolf didn't pitch. Was he hurt?
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: StarvinMarvin on May 16, 2008, 02:05:23 PM
He's not hurt, they just gambled by figuring their only shot was to try and eek past montclair and save wolf for later.  wolf should have thrown game one in my opinion, he's better than sottung who's fried from being overused his entire career.  who starts three games in a regional like sottung did last year?  good pitcher but was abused by virtue of a lack of depth.  i would have started gardner eventhough that isn't his conventional role.  gotta wonder what coach val and staff is thinking at times.  i hate to say it because i respect the guy but he makes some head-scratching moves!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: StarvinMarvin on May 16, 2008, 02:11:45 PM
kinda sad but i think this was val's last legit shot at a world series appearance.  they lose a ton in all aspects of the game.  unless they have a premier class coming in, which i doubt, the bombers are in serious trouble for at least the near future.  can't see val doing it much longer.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 16, 2008, 02:19:27 PM
Ithaca always finds a way to reload.  They have some young players who i'm sure will improve.  It didn't help them getting the complete shaft with the 2 seed.  At the same time though it hurts when you don't win game 1 with your horse on the mound.  Shouldn't have come to that however.  Farmingdale should have been the 7 seed and OWU the 6 seed.  I am surprised RPI has fared this well considering it looks like their horse didn't throw great yesterday either.  I think it will be a decent match up this afternoon but Cortland is just too deep in my opinion.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: StarvinMarvin on May 16, 2008, 02:25:14 PM
this graduating class has carried ic for the past four years and they just don't get the players they used to get.  put money on it that ic will struggle big time next year.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: pudge27 on May 16, 2008, 02:39:01 PM
I agree with you guys about the arms.  Rolling the dice and keeping your #1 out in the opener is one thing, but it's got to be all hands on deck once you hit the losers bracket.  You can't leave your top guy or #2 on the bench hoping that somebody else gets you to Saturday.  Plus, I think Wolf is a Senior.  That's a pretty crappy way to go out. 

As for next year, IC might take a step back, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.  I don't think that we're at the point where the UC Pioneers are having a fight at the bat rack yet. 

Things have worked out pretty well for RPI.  They took a big chance with their pitching as well.  I'm sure they've got a pretty good arm left for today.  I think that RPI has to win today to have a realistic shot.  I just think that Cortland is swinging it too well for RPI to rely on a 5th and 6th starter or a guy with 2 days rest if they have to go down to the loser's bracket. 
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: WrongArm on May 17, 2008, 09:25:50 AM
It's tough to beat a good team three times in a row and Ithaca had already played and beaten Montclair twice the previous week. Montclair may have learned enough about IC to help them when it really mattered. I wouldn't want to show my opponent all my pitchers... but IC pitched by committee and even showed Montclair their closer, Bryan Gardner, in both games.

I agree with the comments above about Wolf. If he was healthy it's too bad he didn't get a chance to throw. Sottung and Wolf are a sizable step above the rest of their starters.

As for IC next year... Mark Twain wrote, "The report of my death was an exaggeration." IC does have a lot of holes to fill next year though.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: ECSUalum on May 17, 2008, 05:59:31 PM
ECSU eliminated by RPI 14-13 in 10 innings
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 17, 2008, 09:28:39 PM
Cortland's getting ready to punch their ticket!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 17, 2008, 10:28:56 PM
Ticket to Appleton punched!
Congrats to the guys and JB from all of the C-State baseball Alumni!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: dgilblair on May 18, 2008, 12:36:26 AM
Great tournament in Auburn.  The field crew, the people working the stands, just all class people.  What a great place to play baseball.  Good luck to Cortland in Appleton.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: MSG77 on May 18, 2008, 02:43:16 AM
Quote from: DGilblair on May 18, 2008, 12:36:26 AM
Great tournament in Auburn.  The field crew, the people working the stands, just all class people.  What a great place to play baseball.  Good luck to Cortland in Appleton.

DG, I hope you didn't drive all the way home from Auburn and jump right on here.  Good God, man, get some sleep! ;D

How did you enjoy the 2AM finish on Fri night, err... Sat morning?  That couldn't have been fun.  I'm sure the weather was nice and warm as well.

Too bad you guys couldn't hold the lead the 1st game.  If you'd gotten to Cortland in the winners bracket with Jags that could have been interesting.  Just too hard in these 7 or 8 team regionals to come out of the losers side.  You probably need 8 or 9 pitchers (kind of like Eastern had in 06) who can all get good hitters out.  Seemed like with Shawn hurt, Eastern only had 4 or 5 pitchers they trusted to go to in big situations.

Would have been better had Shawn been healthy (obviously  ::)).  Hopefully he rests up or does whatever he needs to come back healthy next year.  Pretty impressive hitting from him even when injured.  Should be a good squad again next year if everyone comes back.  Good luck with everything next season.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 18, 2008, 01:01:17 PM
Looks like defense cost RPI in the final regional game?  Zongol 0 ER over 9 innings?  Pretty impressive off a couple days rest.  Not sure RPI would have had anyone to throw the next game had they won anyways.  Regardless I was glad to see two New York teams in the finals.  Based on how RPI did maybe UR did deserve a shot in regionals over another at large team.  Oh well.. Good luck to Cortland in Appleton.  I hope they win so other regions stop hating on NY ball.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: ECSUalum on May 18, 2008, 01:53:03 PM
CONGRATULATIONS TO CORTLAND STATE ON THIER REGION WIN.

COME ON GUYS, GET YOUR FIRST NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP!!!!!!  YOU AND THE PROGRAM DESERVE IT ;D
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: StarvinMarvin on May 18, 2008, 04:26:25 PM
I believe zongol was on one day of rest and he actually threw 147 pitches which is amazing.  best of luck to cortland, go win the whole thing!  i don't know what anyone else thinks but that cortland trinity matchup pits the two hottest teams in the country against one another in round one.  the anticipated kiely vs. tone matchup will be very interesting.  in my opinion they should reseed the teams once they get to the series like they do for regional play instead of have predetermined regions play each other.  if that were the case trinity and cortland certainly wouldn't be playing each other in the first round.  if they did reseed the teams i would have to believe they would have started with an Adrian or Linfield first round matchup, just my opinion.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 18, 2008, 04:37:58 PM
All-Tournament Team, Auburn, NY Regional

Steve Ruygrok, Ohio Wesleyan
Melvin Castillo, ECSU
Shawn Gilblair, ECSU
Ken Carroll, RPI
Andrew Novick, RPI
Patrick Reardon, RPI
Anderson Gardner, Cortland
Ryan Hooper, Cortland
Joey Russo, Cortland
Mike Zaccardo, Cortland
Nicolas Blanco, Cortland - Tournament MVP
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: DTrain24 on May 18, 2008, 10:54:07 PM
In regards to Ithaca's tournament performance, I think the big issue with them is they didn't play a meaningful game for almost a month.  Their final conference weekend against Fisher was 3 weeks ago, and even though they had some non-league games in there against some good teams, they had the Pool B bid wrapped up, and since the E8 has no playoffs and they opt to not play in the ECAC, it seemed like they lost their edge.

It seems odd that the E8 doesn't have a tournament, as they are apparently the only baseball conference in any division of college baseball that doesn't have some sort of postseason.  And evidently the reason they don't is because Ithaca doesn't want one.  Take a look at RIT...their 1st weekend was rained out, they had a bye the next, and got swept 4 by Ithaca after a long layoff the following weekend.  After that they went on to win 11 out of the next 12 league games.  I'm sure they would have liked another shot at Ithaca in a conf. tourney...and it was a similar situation last year, with RIT finishing a game behind them in the standings after splitting 2 DH's on the final weekend.  You would think a playoff would be beneficial to the league, perhaps giving them an opportunity to get a B and a C since they have no automatic bid.

Should be interesting year next year, Ithaca and Fisher sustaining some key losses to graduation, RIT returning Dornes and Tosh and a good nucleus, and Stevens could be a factor, as well.  They had a brutal year but looks like they've had  some good teams in the past, and were mostly 1st year players and they faced a really tough non-conf. schedule (Eastern CT, Salisbury, Wooster, Kean, TCNJ, Hopkins) in addition to league play.  Saw them at Fisher and they played them tough, losing 3 1-run games.

Good luck to Cortland in Wisconsin...tough draw w/Trinity out of the gate!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 19, 2008, 12:04:32 AM
I also think not having a E-8 tournament actually hurts IC more than it helps. Yes they have a Pool b bid wrapped up with 3 weeks left to go but it helps them none when the regional comes because they haven't been through a win or go home scenario like every other team thats there!
Experience hepls alot in double elim tournaments and IC has none going into the regional every yr.! Couple that with the fact that Wolf their #2 didn't take the hill in the regional at all and you have a couple of good reasons why IC hasn't made too much noise in the postseason the past few years!
Still a very good program but when Val goes they need to get a very reputable guy in there or you might see IC baseball go down the tubes!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 19, 2008, 11:26:39 AM
Quote from: DTrain24 on May 18, 2008, 10:54:07 PM
In regards to Ithaca's tournament performance, I think the big issue with them is they didn't play a meaningful game for almost a month.  Their final conference weekend against Fisher was 3 weeks ago, and even though they had some non-league games in there against some good teams, they had the Pool B bid wrapped up, and since the E8 has no playoffs and they opt to not play in the ECAC, it seemed like they lost their edge.

It seems odd that the E8 doesn't have a tournament, as they are apparently the only baseball conference in any division of college baseball that doesn't have some sort of postseason.  And evidently the reason they don't is because Ithaca doesn't want one.  Take a look at RIT...their 1st weekend was rained out, they had a bye the next, and got swept 4 by Ithaca after a long layoff the following weekend.  After that they went on to win 11 out of the next 12 league games.  I'm sure they would have liked another shot at Ithaca in a conf. tourney...and it was a similar situation last year, with RIT finishing a game behind them in the standings after splitting 2 DH's on the final weekend.  You would think a playoff would be beneficial to the league, perhaps giving them an opportunity to get a B and a C since they have no automatic bid.

Should be interesting year next year, Ithaca and Fisher sustaining some key losses to graduation, RIT returning Dornes and Tosh and a good nucleus, and Stevens could be a factor, as well.  They had a brutal year but looks like they've had  some good teams in the past, and were mostly 1st year players and they faced a really tough non-conf. schedule (Eastern CT, Salisbury, Wooster, Kean, TCNJ, Hopkins) in addition to league play.  Saw them at Fisher and they played them tough, losing 3 1-run games.

Good luck to Cortland in Wisconsin...tough draw w/Trinity out of the gate!

I wouldn't necessarily say Ithaca lost its edge because they played hard throughout the tournament. And a postseason tournament doesn't benefit much because it throws out what happens in the regular season. And there's only five teams, does one not make the tournament? Or do you have a play-in game? The conference doesn't get an auto bid with five teams so why should the conference champion play in a tournament where it could lose and jeopardize it's NCAA chances. Plus, the fringe teams, if this is double elimination, will get two losses on to their record which may knock them out of the tournament discussion.

I believe earlier this season Bob had mentioned that he heard the SUNYAC was thinking about scrapping its conference tournament. Are we then going to yelp that Cortland is getting a free pass when they don't pound three teams into submission in the first week of May?

As for Ithaca losing its edge, I don't think that was the case. They played hard and were just caught by a good team that was hot in Ohio Wesleyan. I said it during the broadcast, OWU wasn't your typical 7-seed. I'd say more of a five or six though somehow Farmingdale State (no offense to the Rams mind you) was seeded higher. Sean Speed pitched a heck of a ball game and it should've ended up 5-1 but his defense let him down and he was clearly gassed in the ninth. Then OWU nearly beat a white-hit RPI team that was tearing the cover off the ball.

However, its' a disappointing end to the season I think and it's a shame that Raux, Sottung, Ferguson, Wolf and company couldn't get to the championship round. They played in the regional title round twice and finished third in 2006 behind ECSU and Cortland. There's no doubt that it will be a completely different look next season with Ahonen, Ash and Bryan Gardner leading the team. If Gardner can put together another season like this, I think he'll possibly be in line for a draft spot, mid-to-late 30s (round that is) I'm guessing.

On a side note, how did you just see Stevens playing at St. John Fisher when you have a Stevens e-mail account listed on your profile? Always remember to read the TOS :-)
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: DTrain24 on May 19, 2008, 12:03:35 PM
Agreed, their senior class was legit and they were as good as anyone we saw all year, and Gardner should get a shot somewhere in the draft, hard throwing lefties with nasty offspeed stuff are always in demand...

In regards to the tournament, you make a good argument regarding throwing out the regular season.  But if you look at a similar league like the Capital (CAC), they don't have an automatic bid either but they do have a postseason tournament.  This year only Salisbury earned an NCAA bid, and they were the only one that deserved to go.  But in past years they've gotten in 2 and even 3 teams (York, Mary Washington) in as a result of one team winning the regular season and another winning the postseason tournament.  The E8 2nd and 3rd place teams would stack up favorably to those types of programs, so affording them the same opportunity might help the E8 get more than one team in.  The ECAC winner is not a lock to get a bid despite Fisher getting in last year via that route, and based on the 0 Pool C's out of NY this year, it might be worth looking into something along those lines.

Saw that with the SUNYAC moving away from the tournament as well, do you think it will help or hurt everyone else's chances of winning the league?   
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 19, 2008, 12:28:50 PM
John, I said all along IC got the shaft with the 2 seed.  Farmingdale plays in the Skyline, which after losing their top 3 teams to other conferneces, makes that conference horrible right now.  OWU should have been seeded 6th.  Farmingdale 7th.  This allowed RPI to save their #1 for Game 2 and forced IC to throw their #1 in Game 1.

A Post season tournament does not throw out what happens in the regular season.  The MLB World Series is decided by a 7 game series, does that throw out everything that happened in the regular season?  Granted the E8 only has 5 teams (Had Hartwick not dropped its program the E8 would be one team away from an automatic bid)  but they could still do a tournament of the top 4 teams.  This would crown a conference champion via tournament style play the same way Regionals and Appleton are decided.  I don't quite follow the logic you use to defend against not having a tournament.  The regular season winner would not be risking their NCAA tournament hopes by participating in the confernce tournament.  There is no rule that a Pool B bid has to be granted to an E8 team so its quite possible that some years (Especially if what some of you IC people say about the returning squad of IC) an E8 team will not be good enough to earn a Pool B bid.  Many conferences that do not receive an automatic bid have conference tournaments.  If anything a conference tournament could help Ithaca in the sense that they could play additional games, up to 5 more in a 4 team double elimination tournament.  At the end of the day D3 sports is about competing and playing, I don't think any student-athlete would be disappointed in getting to have more games in their career.  The only defense I see in not having a conference tournament in the E8 is that because no bid is at stake its a waste of time.  Not sure if I agree with that or not.

Although I do not agree with the SUNYAC elimintating its conference tournament (I can see Cortland pushing for this), no one would state Cortland was receiving a free pass because if they received the Pool A bid it would be because they had won the conference, albeit via a regular season championship.  This move hurts everyone but Cortland.  Ithaca does not need to win the E8 to earn its bid.  Infact I'd go as far as saying had RIT won all of its E8 games except for splitting 4 games with IC, and was crowned co-conference champion, IC would have still received the bid.  I might even be tempted to say that had RIT taken 3 of 4 from IC, and both teams won the rest of their E8 games, IC still would have received a bid. 




Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 19, 2008, 01:38:23 PM
I don't feel for IC in the least bit!
Shane Wolf was IC's #2 and some would argue their #1 and didn't pitch in the regional? Can someone explain this?
A senior, a big Lefty with good stuff and didn't throw 1 pitch!
Something is wrong with this picture!
I think wolf should have started the game vs OW. Good teams have trouble with lefties!
Most certainly he should have started game 2 or game 3. You can't save anyone in that losers bracket situation.
Looks like a total debacle for IC on paper!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 19, 2008, 02:58:14 PM
Quote from: scuba16 on May 19, 2008, 01:38:23 PM
I don't feel for IC in the least bit!
Shane Wolf was IC's #2 and some would argue their #1 and didn't pitch in the regional? Can someone explain this?
A senior, a big Lefty with good stuff and didn't throw 1 pitch!
Something is wrong with this picture!
I think wolf should have started the game vs OW. Good teams have trouble with lefties!
Most certainly he should have started game 2 or game 3. You can't save anyone in that losers bracket situation.
Looks like a total debacle for IC on paper!

I disagree that Wolf should have pitched against Ohio Wesleyan. Sottung has been Ithaca's number one for the last few years and he's the program's all-time wins and strikeouts leader. There's no reason not to throw him against a solid OWU team in the first game. Aside from one bad inning, I thought he had a solid performance. The big inning, combined with Ithaca's lack of offense was the difference.

And I have no problem either with Brown pitching against Farmingdale. If you use Wolf against them, he's probably going the distance and he'll be out for the rest of the tournament in games where he could be used like against Montclair, Cortland, RPI, etc etc. It was a slight gamble though Brown mowed through Farmingdale like nothing.

I'm a little surprised Wolf didn't pitch against Montclair. It was a calculated risk. If Ithaca wins that game, they go on to play Eastern and Wolf pitches that game. Obviously Wolf shut down Montclair earlier in the week but who's to say what happens in the re-match in the playoffs. Starting Fishback backfired but Ithaca still had a chance to win the game. I'd say the difference in the Montclair game was Ithaca's offensive lull against a poor Montclair pitching staff. And Gardner is usually lights out from the bullpen, he had a rare lapse and it came with the season on the line.

Certainly this wasn't a total debacle. In the end, the best team won the regional, Cortland State. Ithaca at some point would have run out of pitching. Seven guys ate up all of their innings this year with limited appearances from Sapp and Trevor Wolf.

After thinking about things, I'm sure Ithaca will be alright. Coach Val always find a way to keep a winner on the field no matter who graduates. Some teams have been more talented than others but they always find a way to win.

Besides, you're just bashing to bash since it's an IC-Cortland thing. And that's alright because we both know where the Cortaca Jug is right now  :)
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: JQV on May 19, 2008, 03:58:22 PM
Quote from: John McGraw on May 19, 2008, 02:58:14 PMBesides, you're just bashing to bash since it's an IC-Cortland thing. And that's alright because we both know where the Cortaca Jug is right now  :)

+k to John for reminding us what matters. 

(through gritted teeth) congrats to Cortland, sometimes the hardest titles to win are the ones that appear to be foregone conclusions.  They could have booked those hotel rooms in Appleton months ago.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Bob Maxwell on May 19, 2008, 04:00:15 PM
Is anyone going to Appleton?
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Pat Coleman on May 19, 2008, 04:01:42 PM
Quote from: BaseB13 on May 19, 2008, 12:28:50 PM
If anything a conference tournament could help Ithaca in the sense that they could play additional games, up to 5 more in a 4 team double elimination tournament. 

Or a team on the bubble could lose two in a double-elimination tournament and fall out of the tournament.

For those suggesting the E8 is alone on this, the SCIAC and NWC also do not have conference tournaments.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 19, 2008, 04:06:05 PM
Quote from: Bob Maxwell on May 19, 2008, 04:00:15 PM
Is anyone going to Appleton?

I'll make it there eventually. It'd be easier if it wasn't Memorial Day weekend. Maybe next year.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Ralph Turner on May 19, 2008, 04:10:44 PM
Quote from: Pat Coleman on May 19, 2008, 04:01:42 PM
Quote from: BaseB13 on May 19, 2008, 12:28:50 PM
If anything a conference tournament could help Ithaca in the sense that they could play additional games, up to 5 more in a 4 team double elimination tournament. 

Or a team on the bubble could lose two in a double-elimination tournament and fall out of the tournament.

For those suggesting the E8 is alone on this, the SCIAC and NWC also do not have conference tournaments.
Nor does the Michigan IAA.  Note that two of those three conferences earned Pool C bids.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: pudge27 on May 19, 2008, 08:37:30 PM
Besides, you're just bashing to bash since it's an IC-Cortland thing. And that's alright because we both know where the Cortaca Jug is right now  :)
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I know that you're still probably catching up on your sleep from the tourney, John, but isn't this a reach?  At least on the BB board? Why don't you just taunt us with the softball score?  We would of course have to bring up Lacrosse, and no one really wants that, right?

I think that if Scuba was looking to IC bash, he would have led off with.......Just kidding.  Not even necessary this year.  Tough call to make on the rotation either way, but the odds of coming out of the first day loser's bracket to win the whole thing is such a longshot either way.  Probably wouldn't have made a difference in the end.   

Baseball13 says..."Although I do not agree with the SUNYAC elimintating its conference tournament (I can see Cortland pushing for this)".  I've got to call out this comment.  Cortland's won the conference title 16 out of the last 18 years.  There doing just fine with a conference tournament and I don't see why they would need to push for that at all.  If anything, it hurts the conference.  Unless something changes drastically, the conference tourney is the best chance for the SUNYAC to get 2 teams in a Regional. 


Should be a great world series.  Top 3 are in and 6 teams in out of the top 11.  Looks like the pollsters knew what they were doing this year. 
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 20, 2008, 10:08:30 AM
My main rationale for the E8 to play a conference tournament is just to play more games and it gives each team tournament experience.  However, this would prevent some teams from playing in the ECAC's.  But it would also guarantee 4 of the teams the ability to play up to 45 games prior to NCAA's instead of 40.  As a player, I want to play as much as possible so I would be happy with that.  Again, it'd basically be a meaningless tournament but the more games the merrier. 

Pudge I was in no way knocking Cortland by saying that.  But the bottom line is, a conference tournament can only hurt Cortland at this stage of the game (See 2004 when a conference tournament did hurt Cortland).  Cortland is not going to have any problem winning the regular season title year after year.  However, it's always possible that a team gets hot in the confernce tournament and knocks off the 1 seed.  The chances of this happening are far greater than having a team knock off Cortland in the regular season for the top spot.  Therfore it is my opinion that the elimination of the conference tournament is most beneficial to Cortland.  I cannot imagine that teams like Plattsburgh and Oneonta are too thrilled about this (maybe they are it's simply speculation on my part).  And as for the bottom teams in the SUNYAC, they have lost just about anything to possibly play for.  Atleast before those teams could hope to sneak in to the 4 slot and make some noise.  Now their post season chances are non existent.  I guess I feel if Regionals are decided by a double elimintation tournament, and Appleton is decided by a double elimination tournament, it makes sense to determine the conference champion by this way as well.  Plus it makes things exciting.  3 weeks in to the season Cortland will have the SUNYAC championship locked up and we'll all be on the E8 and LL boards from now on. 
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 20, 2008, 10:28:06 AM
While Cortland did lose the '04 SUNYAC tournament, they still made the regionals as an at-large selection. It was a little bit of a down year and the best team in the region, Brockport State, went to the World Series.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BoomerIL on May 20, 2008, 01:14:06 PM
Sorry for sticking my two cents in here, but doesn't anyone have any contact with any of the players on IC to find out what really was the reason for not starting, or even having Wolf pitch?  Maybe there were other factors that kept him off of the mound/out of the rotation.  It's just my thoughts on the subject. 
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 20, 2008, 01:39:10 PM
John, according to how the SUNYAC plans to determine its best team in the conference, Brockport was NOT the best team in the region in 2004.  Had there not been a conference tournament in 2004, Cortland would have received the automatic bid, Brockport would not have received an at large, and who knows what would have happened in regionals.  Hence my thought that the new format clearly is beneficial to Cortland holds up if Cortland continues to what they've been doing over the years.  A conference tournament provides the rest of the SUNYAC the potential to upset Cortland (see 2004, and then Brockport made it look like less of an upset by taking Cortland out in regionals as well).  Without the tournament there will be no upsets, Cortland will lock up the bid early.  Then maybe we can test some peoples theories regarding IC not playing a meaningful game toward the end of the season (I dont necessariyl agree with that theory) and how it effected them in regionals.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: pudge27 on May 20, 2008, 01:43:53 PM
I get what you're saying BB13.  Doing away with the SUNYAC tournament definitely favors Cortland, but I don't think they're pushing for it.  They've taken care of business pretty well since they started the SUNYAC tournament.  I think it's valuable to them to get the tournament games in prior to regionals.  It hurts the conference as a whole and definitely the 2nd tier teams in the conference. 

As for this comment....

quote author=JoseQViper link=topic=5845.msg910153#msg910153 date=1211227102]
Quote from: John McGraw on May 19, 2008, 02:58:14 PMBesides, you're just bashing to bash since it's an IC-Cortland thing. And that's alright because we both know where the Cortaca Jug is right now  :)

+k to John for reminding us what matters. 


You are absolutely right Viper.  After all, IC football has beaten Cortland what...12 out of the past 14 years???  No wait.  CORTLAND BASEBALL has beaten IC 12 out of the last 14 years (at least in the final standings).  Sorry about that.  I get confused easily...being a state skool guy and all.  And correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't Cortland won the jug 4 out of the last 6 years???  Keep digging.  And just to show that there's no hard feelings, I will give you some props on how the Rays are playing this year. 
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: JQV on May 20, 2008, 05:01:07 PM
+k for the Rays love.

Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: dgilblair on May 20, 2008, 05:42:41 PM
Quote from: MSG77 on May 18, 2008, 02:43:16 AM
Quote from: DGilblair on May 18, 2008, 12:36:26 AM
Great tournament in Auburn.  The field crew, the people working the stands, just all class people.  What a great place to play baseball.  Good luck to Cortland in Appleton.

DG, I hope you didn't drive all the way home from Auburn and jump right on here.  Good God, man, get some sleep! ;D

How did you enjoy the 2AM finish on Fri night, err... Sat morning?  That couldn't have been fun.  I'm sure the weather was nice and warm as well.

Too bad you guys couldn't hold the lead the 1st game.  If you'd gotten to Cortland in the winners bracket with Jags that could have been interesting.  Just too hard in these 7 or 8 team regionals to come out of the losers side.  You probably need 8 or 9 pitchers (kind of like Eastern had in 06) who can all get good hitters out.  Seemed like with Shawn hurt, Eastern only had 4 or 5 pitchers they trusted to go to in big situations.

Would have been better had Shawn been healthy (obviously  ::)).  Hopefully he rests up or does whatever he needs to come back healthy next year.  Pretty impressive hitting from him even when injured.  Should be a good squad again next year if everyone comes back.  Good luck with everything next season.

Thanks MSG

Yea, I should have gone to bed got Yags all pissed at me......

Man, it was cold and wet at 2am.  It seems to always be that way in the regionals.  Cape Cod, New York it doesn't matter, every year.

Montclair just kicks us most of the time.  Played them a lot the last three years and it is always a dog fight.  Was a little surprised with the score that game.  Would have been nice to play Cortland and see how we could have done but they are awful good.  The 7 team regional is a joke.  We had that in 06.  We win our first game and had to play Cortland late that night.  The loser of our game went out to dinner.  I guess it wasn't to bad though, we did win.  Still think they should be 6 or 8 teams.

Coaches did only trust a few guys no doubt.  Shawn being able to pitch would have helped.  Another big lose earlier in the year was Tingley who had elbow surgery.  Another good lefty who should be back next year.  Shawn has knee surgery on the 30th. 
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Pat Coleman on May 20, 2008, 05:48:39 PM
scuba16 -- if you'd like to try again to get your post through without being a jerk about it, I welcome the attempt.

But the attacks on a fellow poster aren't gonna fly and the TOS should give you some guidance there.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: lewdogg11 on May 20, 2008, 08:58:54 PM
All of the talk about pitching rest...Let's all remember, these are college kids, not 30-something year old guys who just played a 162 game season...These kids bounce back a little quicker, not to mention are motivated this time of year...

Let's just say Ithaca's guy pitches game one...Ithaca gets a nice lead, pulls him out after 100-120 pitches...they cruise to the win...He isn't burnt out...Ithaca possibly makes a showing

OR...

it's a nail biter and they win...obviously the needed him...OR they lose....apparently benching him was not the right call...

In a tournament you NEED to win and the fact that a # 4 pitcher started either of their games that they played is ridiculous and careless of the coaches, unless there was another reason for it that no one knows about.

I just think a little too much is made out of 'resting' pitchers this time of year.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 20, 2008, 09:10:50 PM
I'd tend to agree with that.. And nothing against Fishback, I think he'll develop in to a solid arm for IC and he threw pretty good this year but he's essentially a freshman (having no thrown last year) being thrown in to an elimination game against a team from arguably the best conference in the country.  Not saying he's not capable of getting the job done but he had no tournament experience.. a lot to ask from someone 10 - 1 sitting on the bench. Unless of course there is an injury no one knows about? 

Pudge, ya i didn't mean it in a negative way toward Cortland.  They have gotten the job done pretty much every year, except for one so maybe they aren't pushing for it.  However, if I was them, I wouldn't complain too much except for the fact that it's just less games each SUNYAC team could potentially play.. And at the end of the day that's what this is all about.. playing baseball.. as much as possible. 
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 20, 2008, 11:13:34 PM
Quote from: Pat Coleman on May 20, 2008, 05:48:39 PM
scuba16 -- if you'd like to try again to get your post through without being a jerk about it, I welcome the attempt.

But the attacks on a fellow poster aren't gonna fly and the TOS should give you some guidance there.

Pat,
Thanks for the permission to re-post my thoughts, I was waiting for you to give me the go ahead before re-posting big guy ;)

Bottom line is Shane Wolf, who was 10-1(30% of IC's total wins) and threw 70.1 innings(20% of all innings pitched) didn't throw an inning in the regional and some people on this board don't find something wrong with that?
Hind sight being 20/20, that looks to be one of the most laughable events of this years NCAA D-3 regionals!
Why throw the kid 70 innings regular season and shelf him come tournament time?
They saved the kid for the game that was never to be!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: OshDude on May 20, 2008, 11:30:46 PM
Quote from: scuba16 on May 20, 2008, 11:13:34 PM
Quote from: Pat Coleman on May 20, 2008, 05:48:39 PM
scuba16 -- if you'd like to try again to get your post through without being a jerk about it, I welcome the attempt.

But the attacks on a fellow poster aren't gonna fly and the TOS should give you some guidance there.

Pat,
Thanks for the permission to re-post my thoughts, I was waiting for you to give me the go ahead before re-posting big guy ;)

Bottom line is Shane Wolf, who was 10-1(30% of IC's total wins) and threw 70.1 innings(20% of all innings pitched) didn't throw an inning in the regional and some people on this board don't find something wrong with that?
Hind sight being 20/20, that looks to be one of the most laughable events of this years NCAA D-3 regionals!
Why throw the kid 70 innings regular season and shelf him come tournament time?
They saved the kid for the game that was never to be!
Coaches roll the dice. It happens. Oshkosh went two-and-out this year without throwing Jeremy Rubens, who was 10-2 (35% of wins) with 7 saves and a 2.27 ERA in 83.1 IP (25% of IP). That's the same Rubens who beat Whitewater, St. Thomas and Stevens Point this year. So, IC is not alone.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Pat Coleman on May 20, 2008, 11:52:32 PM
Quote from: scuba16 on May 20, 2008, 11:13:34 PM
Pat,
Thanks for the permission to re-post my thoughts, I was waiting for you to give me the go ahead before re-posting big guy ;)

I don't know what that's supposed to mean. I posted that immediately after I yanked your post.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: DTrain24 on May 21, 2008, 12:16:39 AM
Regarding the non-use of Wolf, I noticed he had DH'd all three games, despite primarily playing 1B when he wasn't pitching all season.  I'm guessing he must have had some sort of arm issue to not only not throw an inning but not play defensively either.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 21, 2008, 08:36:27 AM
It means that this is a Public Forum and I don't need your permission to post or re-post my thoughts as you clearly tried to grant me permission when you said:
"scuba16 -- if you'd like to try again to get your post through without being a jerk about it, I welcome the attempt."

I suppose you want me to thank you oh great administrator guy for allowing me to post on YOUR forum, Give me a break and get off your high horse!



Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Ralph Turner on May 21, 2008, 08:50:20 AM
Quote from: scuba16 on May 21, 2008, 08:36:27 AM
It means that this is a Public Forum and I don't need your permission to post or re-post my thoughts as you clearly tried to grant me permission when you said:
"scuba16 -- if you'd like to try again to get your post through without being a jerk about it, I welcome the attempt."

I suppose you want me to thank you oh great administrator guy for allowing me to post on YOUR forum, Give me a break and get off your high horse!
Scuba, I will answer that one...

These are the terms of service that you received when you opened your posting account on these boards.  I don't know what was in the post, but these two might cover it.

Quote3. Posts that simply serve to bash another poster and do not discuss Division III sports will be removed. POSTS IN ALL CAPS WILL BE REMOVED. Every keyboard has a shift key. Learn how to use it. Certainly your professors don't accept papers in all caps.

...

5. Don't bash the Webmaster. If I didn't care so much about D-III sports, we wouldn't have this site. You won't get anywhere by giving me a hard time. Send cash instead.  Wink

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Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Bob Maxwell on May 21, 2008, 08:52:01 AM
I am the one who brought up the possibility of the SUNYAC elminating its post season tournament... but have heard that the AD's have decided to keep it.  As they view it as a step backwards to eliminate it.  One of the things that were tied to eliminating it was playing 3 games agasint each of the other 6 conference oponents (SUNY-IT is moving to I beleive the NEAC)... So while its been talked about recently in this thread, it looks like the tournament will stay.  I think that is a VERY GOOD thing.

As for the Empire-8 not having one... John's point of only 5 teams in the conference for baseball is the most obvious reason it doesn't have one.  They alreayd play each team 4 times... and only one team wouldn't go to the tournament.  Ithaca's wanting or not wanting one isn't an issue... they get one vote for or against it.  The other 4 could vote it in.  But have not... so they don't have one.



I wondered about Wolf possibly being hurt (he did pitch the previous week against Montclair)... but have no information to say either way.  How about this as a possibility.  The move was made for defensive reasons... Ferguson had been a 3rd and 1st baseman in his previous years, and was moved from the outfield where he is not that experienced (yes he did laye there most of the season).  And he was a better defensive first baseman then Wolf... and Wolf playing DH, made it easier for him to come out of the Bull Pen if needed.  Just a thought....

Its all water under the bridge at this point... but I thought I'd put my two cents in.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: JQV on May 21, 2008, 10:50:10 AM
Quote from: scuba16 on May 21, 2008, 08:36:27 AMIt means that this is a Public Forum

Actually, it isn't.  In fact, it isn't even a quasi-public forum.

See Perry Education Ass'n v. Perry Local Educators Ass'n, 460 U.S. 37 (1983): A public forum is a place "which by long tradition or by government fiat have been devoted to assembly and debate" such as a public park or sidewalk.

Either way it doesn't matter as the public forum doctrine only applies to limit the government's ability to censor speech.  I am not first amendment lawyer but I am fairly certain Pat isn't subject to the bill of rights.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: AlleyCat on May 21, 2008, 11:44:01 AM
I just wanted to congratulate the NY region on a fine tournament and again the New Yorkers proved their strength by it comiing down to Cortland and RPI. They sent 4 out of region teams in to try to prove the weakness of the region and it still came down to 2 New York teams. Hopefully next year the committee will see the strength and let a team in like Rochester or maybe even Brockport.

Good luck Cortland and win the whole thing!!!
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Pat Coleman on May 21, 2008, 12:43:09 PM
Quote from: scuba16 on May 21, 2008, 08:36:27 AM
It means that this is a Public Forum and I don't need your permission to post or re-post my thoughts as you clearly tried to grant me permission when you said:
"scuba16 -- if you'd like to try again to get your post through without being a jerk about it, I welcome the attempt."

Actually, you do. That's the whole point of the Terms of Service. You really should read them, I guess.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 21, 2008, 01:15:32 PM
Quick question.  Does Cortland have a JV team?  I see they carry 43 guys or so.  I also looked up Linfield when I discovered Scott Brosius was their head coach.  Im a big yankee fan, especially growing up during the glory days with him at third.  Linfield carries around 46 guys or so.  So I decided to list the amount of players on each team.  I guess I had a couple questions.  Some rosters have players with no numbers listed on them.  Are these players eligible to play in a game?  Are they JV players?  Seems like a bit of overkill to me.  I'm assuming if they're on the team in some capacity that the players are fairly talented.  Don't quite understand why some would choose to sit the bench for 4 years when they could play somewhere else.  Is there a limit to the amount of players allowed on a roster at the Division I level?  Obviously I'm guessing there isn't at the D3 level because some of these rosters are massive.  Anyways I thought it was interesting to see how big the best teams were in the country.  I'd guess their rosters are above average.

Cortland 43 - 5 Coaches
Trinity 29 - 4 Coaches
Kean 32 -  7 Coaches
Linfield 46 - 7 Coaches
Chapman 26 - 3 Coaches
Adrian 37 - 5 Coaches
JHU 42 - 6 Coaches
UWW 33 - 6 Coaches

Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: pudge27 on May 21, 2008, 01:35:11 PM
No, Cortland doesn't carry a JV team as far as I know.  Never have, as long as I can remember.  They do carry a lot of guy on their team, but there's 2 points I'd make on that.  #1, check out their stat page.  16 guys have over 50 ab's (I took a little license here because one actually has 49. close enough), so everyone is getting their time.  #2, CSt. has always tried to carry a lot of pitchers (12 guys with over 12 innings and no one over 62).  So it's not really a case of someone riding the pine instead of playing. 

With what the weather does to their schedule, neither of those are by mistake.  They'll roll out 6 different guys on the back end of a dh sometimes.  I'd also contend that the difference between Cortland and everyone else right now is that pitching depth.  Good example is last weekend.  They rolled out their #4 guy and he shut down the #15 or 16 team in the country. 

I'm not sure of the guys with no numbers.  I'm pretty sure that the NCAA still regulates roster size for the Regionals and WS.  Meal $$ usually dictates how many they travel with during the season. 
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Bob Maxwell on May 21, 2008, 03:03:59 PM
I don't think there is a limit to the number of players "listed" on a team roster at any division.  there are however, roster limits imposed for the number of players "active" for games during the season of many D-I conferences.  That is different in different conferences..  I don't know of any limits in D-III until the NCAA tournament.

At D-III the NCAA does limit the number of players that can be on the playing roster, in uniform and in the dugout during tournament games.  I think that nubmer is 25... but you can check it in the NCAA rules if you want.

also some schools do set roster limits (maximums and minimums) for all of their teams to ensure gender equity compliance.

A couple of years ago, I was shocked at a SUNYAC game when I found out that there was NOT a roster size limit for the conference games.  It seemed to be a real advantage to the home team (which was Cortland, but each team did have the opportunity to earn that designation during there season) as they could keep putting players into the game, relief pitchers, pinch runners, defensive subs, etc...  the teams that traveled didn't have as many players to choose from... for various reasons.  The most obvious one being that they didn't list the same number of players on their roster.... or the school would only let them travel with a set number of players.

I would think that at the D-III level during the regualr season the number should be determined by the school and its philosophy.  But come playoff time... starting with the conference touranments there should be a set number that each team can use.  That would put everyone on the level playing field for the championships.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 21, 2008, 03:20:57 PM
Ok so I was writing my post and then Bob responded so some of this may be moot as Bob answered some of my questions.  I don't feel like writing a new one though.

Pudge I sense a little defensiveness  ;).  I was by no means saying it's a problem.  I was more wondering how it all works, especially the guys with no jersey numbers.  I definitely agree if you can have more quality players on your squad, more power to ya.  16 guys 50+ abs, and 12 guys 12+ innings = 28 guys.  Suppose you have another 6 guys who get a little time because they're young = 34 guys.  What purpose do the other 9 serve? I'd say you can never have enough pitchers to hit fungos etc but many of the teams are not short on coaches to do that either.  Not to mention if you're a sophomore and you aren't even provided a uniform you'd have to wonder what your prospects of playing down the road are.  I guess I found it interesting that the majority of teams in Appleton carry pretty large squads.. Makes sense that the best teams are probably the deepest. I do agree that the team/school should decide how many to carry.  It's also good that they then limit it come regionals/appleton to help even the playing field a bit.

Finally, if say Jo Shmo does not play at all his freshmen and sophomore year, but he's on the roster, has he used two years of eligiblity?  Lets say Joe then turns in to a stud his junior year, could he play longer?  I think D3 did away with the red shirting business so I'd think not but maybe I am wrong..
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Bob Maxwell on May 21, 2008, 04:24:55 PM
I believe that with the rule changes regarding "red-shirts" in D-III 4 years ago... that if someone appears on an official roster and/or practices with the team once the games start being played in the traditional segment of the season... YES, he has infact used up a year of eleigibility.

so based on what BaseB13 says in his question... yes they used up two years of eligibility.

Which begs the question, why do coaches do that... and even more puzzling is why do players let it happen?
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 21, 2008, 05:05:59 PM
There's a 25-man roster limit for the NCAA playoffs. Which is why, when you have say ECSU pummeling Montclair, 14-0, the Warriors only put in so many subs - because they only have a handful of bench players available.

When I broadcast Cortland games on a regular basis, the NCAA roster-limit discussion always came up late in the season or during the SUNYAC tournament. Who would Cortland keep on the roster once the regionals started.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: pudge27 on May 21, 2008, 05:13:05 PM
No defensiveness on my part.  I just wanted to make sure that people knew those stats because it would be a problem if a team was carrying big numbers and using 10 position guys and 5 pitchers.  

Anyone know much about Trinity (Aside from the obvious record)?  I know that they were an awfully good team last year when they lost in the NY Regionals.  I think that Cortland's got a really good shot this year, but with the teams that are in Appleton, there are no easy outs.  Looks like a free for all.  Old school battle royale.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 22, 2008, 11:42:02 AM
I think you have to participate in less that 1/3 of your teams games to be considered eligible for a Redshirt yr.
Not sure on the exact NCAA wording of it but redshirts are still granted at the D-3 level.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Pat Coleman on May 22, 2008, 11:49:43 AM
Only if you are injured are you eligible for that kind of redshirt, called a medical hardship year.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: FranElia on May 22, 2008, 09:22:49 PM
Actually, the NCAA roster size is 24 players, according to the NCAA Championship Handbook. There was talk about the roster expanding to 25 players this year when the official NCAA 'travel party" went from 28 to 29 (I think), but the NCAA kept the playing roster at 24.

Fran
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Bob Maxwell on June 04, 2008, 02:22:18 PM
Scuba,

I don't think that they are allowed in D-III any more.  If you are on a roster and/or practice you use a year of eligibility.

The criteria for being a red-shirt in D'I & II are that you DID NOT PARTICIPATE in any contest... either in the traditional or non-traditional segment of the season.
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=420 (ftp://http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=420)


When you suggest playing in less then 1/3rd of the teams games you are referring to a medical hardship Waiver.  These terms are very often confused with each other and that casues a lot of confusion for those of us who don't work in the world of the NCAA rules.  The basic qualifiications for this designation are:
1) that the injury occurs in the first half of the traditional portion of the season;
2) the student athlete has participate din less then 30% of the scheduled contests (3 contests if the season is less then 10 games).  The rule reference is 14.2.4
http://www.ncaa.org/library/membership/division_i_manual/2007-08/2007-08_d1_manual.pdf (ftp://http://www.ncaa.org/library/membership/division_i_manual/2007-08/2007-08_d1_manual.pdf)

Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Bob Maxwell on June 04, 2008, 02:24:41 PM
OOPS... forgot the third criteria...

3) the player does NOT participate in any further organized practice activities with the team for the remainder of the season.  If they do return and practice (even if they don't play in a game) then they lose the option of obtaining a hardship waiver.
Title: Re: BB: Auburn NY Regional
Post by: Bob Maxwell on June 05, 2008, 12:44:21 PM
Correct links...

Redshirt definition:
http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=420 (http://www.ncaa.org/wps/ncaa?ContentID=420)

Hardship Waiver rule:
http://www.ncaa.org/library/membership/division_i_manual/2007-08/2007-08_d1_manual.pdf (http://www.ncaa.org/library/membership/division_i_manual/2007-08/2007-08_d1_manual.pdf)
Title: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: Ralph Turner on December 26, 2008, 12:05:25 AM
Let's resume discussion of the 2009 Regional to be sponsored by SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conference on this board.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: MMTPdthree on December 27, 2008, 04:28:39 PM
So, can we please set all of the confusion straight?
Even tho Old Westbury will be co-host, is the regoinal being held at Farmingdale?
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: Ralph Turner on December 27, 2008, 04:40:37 PM
Quote from: MMTPdthree on December 27, 2008, 04:28:39 PM
So, can we please set all of the confusion straight?
Even tho Old Westbury will be co-host, is the regoinal being held at Farmingdale?
Officially, I have not seen the announcement of the specific fields to be used.

When you get some press release confirming Farmingdale, please post it.

(I do not doubt you; I am only citing the official sources.  Thanks.)
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: MMTPdthree on December 28, 2008, 04:37:45 PM
Ralph,
I am not under the impression that it will be held at FSC, I simply heard some rumors about that- including some posts from different topics.  Just looking for some clarification.  But yes, if I hear anything - i will post it. 

Anyone out there care to comment on the difference in the playing surfaces???
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: StarvinMarvin on January 04, 2009, 04:26:03 PM
I told y'all the regionals would be played at Farmingdale!
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: Ralph Turner on January 04, 2009, 04:53:03 PM
Quote from: StarvinMarvin on January 04, 2009, 04:26:03 PM
I told y'all the regionals would be played at Farmingdale!
Marvin, as soon as you get a valid link to Farmingdale, please post it!

Thanks!  :)
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: StarvinMarvin on January 04, 2009, 08:42:54 PM
Sure thing Ralph!
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on January 04, 2009, 09:13:50 PM
It's on the front page now so I'd imagine it's true.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: StarvinMarvin on January 05, 2009, 10:54:44 AM
Typical know-it-all/smartalec response from you John.  I wouldn't expect anything less!
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: MMTPdthree on January 06, 2009, 11:51:59 AM
Is the playing surface going to change the outcome of this regional??
Beautiful Complex by the way!
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on January 06, 2009, 12:53:22 PM
Quote from: MMTPdthree on January 06, 2009, 11:51:59 AM
Is the playing surface going to change the outcome of this regional??
Beautiful Complex by the way!

Maybe a hit or two here and there but overall probably not.

I'll be taking a pass on Farmingdale to check out the beautiful stadium in Lakewood for the Mid-Atlantic regionals - huge coup for Kean to have games there.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: MMTPdthree on January 12, 2009, 10:42:26 AM
How far away from the campus is the Lakewood stadium?  Kean play every game there?
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on January 12, 2009, 02:30:00 PM
They don't play there during the regular season as far as I know. Kean's campus is located in north Jersey (Union) near New York City. FirstEnergy Park in Lakewood is an hour or so south down the Garden State Parkway, right near the Jersey shore. If anything, Lakewood's closer to TCNJ than it is to Kean.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: Bob Maxwell on January 13, 2009, 11:33:52 AM
Kean has a terrific turf field on its campus... they play their home games there.  The surface can take a lot of rain and still be playalbe.  Brockport played a doulbe header there last march after what seemed like a foot of rain (it was 20 inches of snow up here).  The plate area was a little soggy but the field was dry as a bone.  its the new infilled turf...  If they can figure out how to keep the plate dry they can play all year long.  Great surface...

Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 11, 2009, 08:35:09 AM
Wake-up Sleepy Heads the NY Regional is on..... ;D


Hey all, Word over here from the New England site.... having never been to the Farmingdale complex a couple of questions if you don't mind....

Does the complex have lights?
Is there any video or audio for this tourney?
And what day does it begin? Being a 6-team regional wasn't sure if it kicked-off on Wed or Thurs.

New York Regional
Farmingdale State Baseball Complex, Farmingdale, N.Y.
1. Cortland State (30-12)
2. Ithaca (29-8)
3. RPI (31-9)
4. Farmingdale State (26-13)
5. Western New England (29-15)
6. Clarkson (21-19)


Thanks for all the help.....

Word 8)
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: rbgosfan on May 11, 2009, 09:18:21 AM
Word,
I have not seen any official site yet for the regional with the complete schedule but did see the following in the handbook:

Regional Formats. The procedures outlined below shall be used in conducting the
regional competitions. All first-round games shall begin Wednesday, May 13, and will
be conducted over a four- or five-day period

I checked the WNEC and Ithaca sites and both show a game Wednesday at 3:30.

Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: FranElia on May 11, 2009, 09:28:36 AM
According to info I received this morning:

Wednesday
Cortland vs. Clarkson, noon
Ithaca vs. WNEC, 3:30 p.m.
RPI vs. Farmingdale, 7 p.m.

Thursday
Cortland/Clarkson loser vs. Ithaca/WNEC loser, 12 p.m.
Cortland/Clarkson winner vs. RPI/Farmingdale loser, 3:30 p.m.
Ithaca/WNEC winner vs. RPI/Farmingdale winner, 7 p.m.

(Thanks for catching my mistake earlier rbgosfan!!)

Remainder of schedule to be determined based on how many teams are left.

There will be live web stats, but I don't think there's any video. Any audio would be from participating schools, and as of right now Cortland will not be doing any radio. More info will be available later on Farmingdale's web site.

Hope this helps.

Fran Elia
Cortland SID
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: rbgosfan on May 11, 2009, 09:43:58 AM
Thanks Fran, one question, I think the second game on Thursday should be Cortland/Clarson Winner vs RPI/Farmindale loser.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: ecfaninri on May 11, 2009, 11:43:34 AM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 11, 2009, 08:35:09 AM
Wake-up Sleepy Heads the NY Regional is on..... ;D


Hey all, Word over here from the New England site.... having never been to the Farmingdale complex a couple of questions if you don't mind....

Does the complex have lights?
Is there any video or audio for this tourney?
And what day does it begin? Being a 6-team regional wasn't sure if it kicked-off on Wed or Thurs.

New York Regional
Farmingdale State Baseball Complex, Farmingdale, N.Y.
1. Cortland State (30-12)
2. Ithaca (29-8)
3. RPI (31-9)
4. Farmingdale State (26-13)
5. Western New England (29-15)
6. Clarkson (21-19)


Thanks for all the help.....

Word 8)

Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: ecfaninri on May 11, 2009, 11:46:04 AM
Word...
These fans are in for a treat having you on board at their regional.. But I do wish you luck in that regional.. Do they realize that the Golden Bears gave Eastern Ct. their worst beating this season when they were #1?
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 11, 2009, 12:27:27 PM
Ithaca and/or RPI may have audio. I'm sure not of the press box set-up down in Farmingdale. I can tell you that we won't be providing audio either.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 11, 2009, 01:31:24 PM
Dear NY D-III Baseball Fans,

I need some more help....well actually my doctors have said I am helpless, so does my wife....Anyway...

Stuff I should Bring to the Chip n' Dale Regional Site

When I go to games in Maine I take Burt Reynolds and his bow and arrows for protection...

When I go to games in CT--> I take bug spray to keep the natives, errr, bugs away...

When I take in a game in New Hampsa I take a picture ID so my cousins don't try to date me...

So what should I bring to Loooonnnngggg Island?

All Ready on the Checklist for Word:

Bullet-proof vests for me and the fam
Yankees SUX bumper stickers
Extra car insurance for when Yankee fans trash my truck

Care to add any other items?

As always thanks for the help.

Word 8)
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 11, 2009, 03:16:06 PM
So we have

The Red Hawks of RIP
The Red Dragons of Cortland
The Golden Knights of Clarkson
The Golden Bears of WNEC
The Bombers of Ithaca
And.....
The Rams of Chip'n dale

This should be a very colorful tournament, don't ya think?

But what I am interested in is this. How many schools here have their very own Rap song sung by a white boy no less...You Go Clarkson....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iezesOvNoWE

And don't ya know RIP student body is not left out as they celebrate yet another NCAA Tourney bid for the Red Hawks:
Go Nason Hall

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nbu4hEKYOw&NR=1

Oh this is fun....

Word :D


Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: ecfaninri on May 11, 2009, 05:32:47 PM
NY fans......
I told you - you are in for a real treat with Word at your Regional. I really am going to miss him. But don't take those Golden Bears lightly. They Crush EConn 14-3 this year.

Word...
have fun, we'll miss you on gilblair hill
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: ECSUalum on May 11, 2009, 06:54:32 PM
Quote from: ecfaninri on May 11, 2009, 11:43:34 AM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 11, 2009, 08:35:09 AM
Wake-up Sleepy Heads the NY Regional is on..... ;D


Hey all, Word over here from the New England site.... having never been to the Farmingdale complex a couple of questions if you don't mind....

Does the complex have lights?
Is there any video or audio for this tourney?
And what day does it begin? Being a 6-team regional wasn't sure if it kicked-off on Wed or Thurs.

New York Regional
Farmingdale State Baseball Complex, Farmingdale, N.Y.
1. Cortland State (30-12)
2. Ithaca (29-8)
3. RPI (31-9)
4. Farmingdale State (26-13)
5. Western New England (29-15)
6. Clarkson (21-19)


Thanks for all the help.....

Word 8)


From my BIRDSEYE IN THE SKY Chip and Dale State BB Complex looks to have plenty of lights so WNEC will be able to see any and all fly balls hit at them :D

Are you taking the route which includes the cruise leaving out of beautiful Bridgeport CT to PT Jefferson NY or will you take the scenic route by car.  Remember if you drive,around, you will pass VERY close to YANKEE STADIUM :'(, so I hope the truck's "Yankee Suck" sticker is well displayed.  Just make sure the truck is wrapped in Kevlar and glass is bullet proof ???
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 11, 2009, 08:22:34 PM
Quote from: ecfaninri on May 11, 2009, 05:32:47 PM
NY fans......
I told you - you are in for a real treat with Word at your Regional. I really am going to miss him. But don't take those Golden Bears lightly. They Crush EConn 14-3 this year.

Word...
have fun, we'll miss you on gilblair hill

Yep, well thats what WNEC stands fer...We Nockedoff East Conn ;)

Are there any NY baseball fans out there?? no not Yankee fans, D-III fans.

Thus far all I seen is a very pleasant and helpful SID from Cortland named Fran. Thanks for the info Fran.

Anyone care to predict the first round winners?? I'll give it a go....

Cortland vs. Clarkson --> in a true role reversal the Red Dragons  slay the Golden Knights


Ithaca vs. WNEC --> Dylan Perez of Ithaca and out of New England out New Englands  -The Western New Englanders and takes the luster off dem Golden Bears  ;)

RPI vs. Farmingdale ---> RPI RIPS the Chip'nDales

Word ???






Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 11, 2009, 08:37:25 PM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 11, 2009, 08:22:34 PM
Quote from: ecfaninri on May 11, 2009, 05:32:47 PM
NY fans......
I told you - you are in for a real treat with Word at your Regional. I really am going to miss him. But don't take those Golden Bears lightly. They Crush EConn 14-3 this year.

Word...
have fun, we'll miss you on gilblair hill

Yep, well thats what WNEC stands fer...We Nockedoff East Conn ;)

Are there any NY baseball fans out there?? no not Yankee fans, D-III fans.

Thus far all I seen is a very pleasant and helpful SID from Cortland named Fran. Thanks for the info Fran.

Anyone care to predict the first round winners?? I'll give it a go....

Cortland vs. Clarkson --> in a true role reversal the Red Dragons  slay the Golden Knights


Ithaca vs. WNEC --> Dylan Perez of Ithaca and out of New England out New Englands  -The Western New Englanders and takes the luster off dem Golden Bears  ;)

RPI vs. Farmingdale ---> RPI RIPS the Chip'nDales

Word ???


As the one that's covered every "New York" regional since 2003, I'll throw in my selections. On day one, I predict all three higher seeds will be victorious though it will not be easy for any of them.

Austin Pitkin has been very good this year for Clarkson and I think he'll slow down Cortland enough in the opener to where it won't be a high-scoring game like Clarkson's contests in the Liberty tournament.

Ithaca has the toughest opening-round game of the top three seeds (much like last season against Ohio Wesleyan). If WNEC can get into the Ithaca bullpen early, I'd say all bets are off. But, if Pete MacDaniel pitches like he has all season, Ithaca should have enough in the offensive tank to win.

Farmingdale State had RPI beat last year if not for a long rain delay and coaching gamble that did not pay off by Keith Osik. The Rams will give RPI all they can handle on their home turf this year. That being said, RPI is still RPI and should win the game.

In the end, Cortland is my pick to win the regional. Of the eight regionals, I think New York is one of the weakest with just one team imported in (WNEC) and it's not named Southern Maine or Trinity. This could have been an eight-team bracket with multiple imports if RPI had won its' tournament.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 11, 2009, 09:16:50 PM
Dear John McGraw,

Well we both went with chalk.

I'll bet there is at least one upset though --> Well Never Ever Can Say ;)

Have the past NY Regionals been 6 teams? I'd think the 6 team set-up helps those teams with a short but dominant pitching staffs. 

Word 8)

Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 11, 2009, 09:24:14 PM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 11, 2009, 09:16:50 PM
Dear John McGraw,

Well we both went with chalk.

I'll bet there is at least one upset though --> Well Never Ever Can Say ;)

Have the past NY Regionals been 6 teams? I'd think the 6 team set-up helps those teams with a short but dominant pitching staffs. 

Word 8)



I don't doubt that there could be an upset in the first round. It's very possible.

As for past regionals, we've had a bit of everything from four to six to seven to eight and now back to six. I preferred the old four-team format though with the larger tournament, I don't mind the six-team bracket. As a broadcaster - I definitely liked the four-team groupings though with the format now, I'll take six over eight.

I think in any tournament, whether it be six or eight teams, you need a deep pitching staff. Six does benefit teams that have a slightly shorter staff but you still need a strong effort throughout your rotation and into your bullpen.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: pudge27 on May 12, 2009, 05:17:30 PM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 11, 2009, 09:16:50 PM
Dear John McGraw,

Well we both went with chalk.

I'll bet there is at least one upset though --> Well Never Ever Can Say ;)

Have the past NY Regionals been 6 teams? I'd think the 6 team set-up helps those teams with a short but dominant pitching staffs. 

Word 8)






I would agree that I would pick each higher seed in each game, but definitely expect to be wrong in at least one of them. 

I'm interested to see what Cortland does in game 1.  As John pointed out, they have held their #1 in the past, usually with some success.  Thing is Clarkson, regardless of their record, just beat RPI.  Could this be the year that that strategy backfires? 

As an unapologetic Cortland fan, I feel a bit more comfortable with the way they raked last weekend, but I think that most of us can agree that this one is really up for grabs.  This time of year, it really is about pitching and defense.  Anybody who gets too deep into their pen for too long early on can almost pack it in right there. 

I don't have the energy, but has anyone done any ranking of the 6 based on era, opp. era and fielding percentage.....the only stats that don't lie????
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: RSSmith on May 12, 2009, 05:57:00 PM
I have the BAs and ERAs handy:

Cortland   .325     3.49
Ithaca       .306     2.91
RPI            .354     3.86
Farmingdale    .341     4.42
WNEC        .351      4.07
Clarkson     .313     5.12
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 12, 2009, 07:02:36 PM
Remembers a 2005 #1 Cortland vs. #6 Rhode Island College game going to extra innings and Cortland winning 9-8.

I wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow ends up like that given how well both teams swung the stick in their conference tournaments.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: airball55 on May 12, 2009, 08:53:52 PM
Hey John, lets go for the regional winners

Central- Carthage
Mid Atlantic- TCNJ
Mideast- Wooster
Midwest- St. Thomas
New England- Southern Maine
New York- Cortland
South- Salisbury
West- Cal Lutheran

Anybody else?

Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 12, 2009, 10:20:07 PM
Quote from: airball55 on May 12, 2009, 08:53:52 PM
Hey John, lets go for the regional winners

Central- Carthage
Mid Atlantic- TCNJ
Mideast- Wooster
Midwest- St. Thomas
New England- Southern Maine
New York- Cortland
South- Salisbury
West- Cal Lutheran

Anybody else?



I'll have a go....

Central- Carthage
Mid Atlantic- Kean
Mideast- Wooster
Midwest- St. Thomas
New England- TEE
New York- Cortland
South- Salisbury
West- Texas-Tyler

Word 8)
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 12, 2009, 10:54:20 PM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 12, 2009, 10:20:07 PM
I'll have a go....

Central- Carthage
Mid Atlantic- Kean
Mideast- Wooster
Midwest- St. Thomas
New England- TEE
New York- Cortland
South- Salisbury
West- Texas-Tyler

Word 8)

Who's TEE? I'll assume that means The Evil Empire aka Eastern Connecticut LOL. I'll miss good old Wayne Norman this weekend.

Central - Carthage
Mid-Atlantic - Kean
Mideast - Wooster
Midwest - St. Scholastica
New England - Eastern Connecticut State
New York - Cortland State
South - Salisbury
West - George Fox
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 13, 2009, 08:26:32 AM
Quote from: John McGraw on May 12, 2009, 10:54:20 PM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 12, 2009, 10:20:07 PM
I'll have a go....

Central- Carthage
Mid Atlantic- Kean
Mideast- Wooster
Midwest- St. Thomas
New England- TEE
New York- Cortland
South- Salisbury
West- Texas-Tyler

Word 8)

Who's TEE? I'll assume that means The Evil Empire aka Eastern Connecticut LOL. I'll miss good old Wayne Norman this weekend.

Central - Carthage
Mid-Atlantic - Kean
Mideast - Wooster
Midwest - St. Scholastica
New England - Eastern Connecticut State
New York - Cortland State
South - Salisbury
West - George Fox


Sorry,

Yes TEE is The Evil Empire over on the New England Boards.

Other names
Southern Maine - Sullen Maine/Boys of Flannel/TEEIW (The Evile Empire in Waiting)
Wheaton - Wheaties
Keene State - Swampies (due to the location of their playing field and their left field fan base)
http://www.killsometime.com/Pictures/Picture.asp?ID=376

Trinity - FS&HG (Father, Son & Holy Ghost)

Babson Beavers - The Beaver Cleavers

Western Connecticut - WorstConn

etc....

And so it goes, Opening day of the 2nd season. Good luck to all except Ithaca :-X

Word 8)
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: pudge27 on May 13, 2009, 11:02:53 AM

And so it goes, Opening day of the 2nd season. Good luck to all except Ithaca :-X

Word 8)

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Wordsmith is officially welcome on the NY Region board.....
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 13, 2009, 12:13:37 PM
Jeez, RPI is the only team with audio this weekend in Farmingdale?
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: Pat Coleman on May 13, 2009, 12:20:59 PM
You can also join us on the Daily Dose for discussion of all eight regionals. Follow along with us or contribute items from games you're following.

http://www.d3sports.com/dailydose/2009/05/13/regionals-underway/
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 13, 2009, 03:36:02 PM
Quote from: pudge27 on May 13, 2009, 11:02:53 AM

And so it goes, Opening day of the 2nd season. Good luck to all except Ithaca :-X

Word 8)



Wordsmith is officially welcome on the NY Region board.....
[/quote]

Thank you ;D

Hopefully I'll be able to stick around for a bit and enjoy the chatter and the different views all ya'll have. And maybe just maybe bring a smile to your face by a funny post here and there.

Sincerely,

Word 8)

PS  ---> Holy Molely  :o

I had turned the Clarkson v Cortland game off at like 8-0. Then the Golden Knights come back to slay the Red Dragons...Upset #1 in da books :o Upset #2 a cookin' as TEE is staggering badly at home vs Babson (TEE trailed 9-0 at one point. Game is now 10-5 in the bottom of the 7th.
http://www.littleeast.tv/play/index.cfm?fuseaction=embstay&id=121AB7D40E&vsize=3&resize=1&SClipID=-1

Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 13, 2009, 07:14:35 PM
And so it goes....more upsets...WNEC-Ithaca got fugly @ 16-5. 16 runs 25 hits a good day at the ballyard boys...keep it up ;D

Losers bracket sets some interesting match-ups if I read right...

Cortland plays Ithaca --> so #1 or #2 goes home tomorrow.....
WNEC plays the winner of the RIP/Chip'nDale game
Clarkson takes on the loser of RIP & Chip game

This is so much fun...enjoy  8)

Word

Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: rbgosfan on May 13, 2009, 09:19:29 PM
Word,
Did you make it down to Long Island?I was looking for you at ChipnDale field but didn't see you. WNEC played a good game today hitting and fielding. In the first game Cortland and Clarkson combined for 8 errors, Ithaca had 5 which helped WNEC keep innings going, WNEC ended up with a big 0 in the E column. That always makes the coach and pitcher happy. The Ithaca starter looked like he had good stuff but then lost control of his curve. He kept throwing it in the dirt. WNEC was then able to sit on number 1 and they hit it well today. Unless we get a 3rd upset it will be a rematch of WNEC and RPI tomorrow night at 7.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: BaseB13 on May 13, 2009, 09:48:06 PM
Well as I stated on one of these NY boards I am not surprised at all by the outcome of the first two games.  Clarkson beating Cortland today I think demonstrates the LL may have the edge over the SUNYAC this year.  Clarkson didn't even throw their ace (John I think knows why?) and Cortland did.  Granted Cortland's bullpen clearly blew the deal but the fact that Clarkson was able to get to Cortland's pen in the first place shows that Clarkson is a legit team and Cortland is probably down this year.

Not sure what happened in the IC game but looks like their arms got completely lit up.. Partially due to errors it seems.  I figured these teams were similar in ability so this "upset" does not surprise me either.

It now looks like Clarkson has the easiest road getting to play the loser of RPI/Farmingdale.  Assuming RPI hangs on.  I think RPI is most likely much deeper than Farmingdale.

Which leads me to a thought I just had.  I think this regional is very evenly matched from top to bottom.  In fact I think Cortland was handed the 1 seed mostly on reputation than anything else.  The seeding could have easily been different.  I was surprised Farmingdale was seeded fourth.  I see they did have some big non-conference wins but the Skyline Conference is pretty brutal.  Most of those teams are worse than the worst teams in the LL or SUNYAC. 

Congrtas to Clarkson and WNEC on the upsets.  If theres any year a team has a solid shot to make it to the World Series besides Cortland, this is the year...
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 13, 2009, 09:56:16 PM
Clarkson's ace got tossed in the first game on Sunday against RPI. I guess he wasn't very happy with a call the home plate umpire had made regarding a third strike or the umpire's strike zone and he had some words with the umpire. There were some other shenanigans (not funny and cheeky) on Pitkin's part, I won't go into it here, and he's out until Clarkson's game on Friday.

Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 14, 2009, 09:57:47 AM
Quote from: rbgosfan on May 13, 2009, 09:19:29 PM
Word,
Did you make it down to Long Island?I was looking for you at ChipnDale field but didn't see you. WNEC played a good game today hitting and fielding. In the first game Cortland and Clarkson combined for 8 errors, Ithaca had 5 which helped WNEC keep innings going, WNEC ended up with a big 0 in the E column. That always makes the coach and pitcher happy. The Ithaca starter looked like he had good stuff but then lost control of his curve. He kept throwing it in the dirt. WNEC was then able to sit on number 1 and they hit it well today. Unless we get a 3rd upset it will be a rematch of WNEC and RPI tomorrow night at 7.

No, unable to get to Long Island....travel visas restrict hillbillies like me to rural areas of the region, although if I do show-up in Long Island you'd know be by my 'keen' sense of style....

http://www.funnyjunk.com/funny_pictures/10180/Redneck+Overalls/

Hope the rain holds off...

Word 8)
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 14, 2009, 12:46:06 PM
In the spirit of full disclosure, the Ithaca v Cortland game at the time of this post is scoreless in the 3rd inning.

My picks for the day

Cortland over Ithaca --> #2 goes home :P
RPI rips into WNEC and sends daBears into a spin
Clarkson takes out the Chip'nDales

Hope I'm wrong like yesterday  ;D

Word 8)
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: rbgosfan on May 14, 2009, 03:09:11 PM
 
Game 1 goes to Cortland 3-2 after they score 2 with 2 out in bottom of the eighth. Lets hope Word matches yesterday's total and get only 1 right today.

Two days in a row Word has gone straight chalk..must have been a teacher at some point. I always like to erase the chalk and give my teacher's fits. Lets hope the Bears can play eraser for the second day in a row.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 14, 2009, 04:18:34 PM
Quote from: rbgosfan on May 14, 2009, 03:09:11 PM

Game 1 goes to Cortland 3-2 after they score 2 with 2 out in bottom of the eighth. Lets hope Word matches yesterday's total and get only 1 right today.

Two days in a row Word has gone straight chalk..must have been a teacher at some point. I always like to erase the chalk and give my teacher's fits. Lets hope the Bears can play eraser for the second day in a row.

Got one right already...I hope it stops there ;)
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: rbgosfan on May 14, 2009, 07:25:02 PM
The host team ChipnDale live to dance another day as they crush Clarkson 19-10. Five out of 6 will play tomorrow. Word is back on a losing streak with his predictions, lets hope it continues in the next game!

When you look at the set up of a 6 team tourney with 5 left after the second day, this next game is huge.
The winner plays one game tomorrow and win or lose will be playing on Saturday for the trip to cheese land. The loser must win 2 games tomorrow to get to Saturday.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 14, 2009, 07:58:49 PM
1 right 1wrong 1 to go

hope I continue to sux at picking :D

Word
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: rbgosfan on May 14, 2009, 08:19:47 PM
Looks like B.J. Thomas has made his way to Long Island. Just got text message that game is postponed tonight. On for noon tomorrow. Go Bears!
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 14, 2009, 08:35:29 PM
same here just got the call bag it and tag it!

Noon tomorrow loser plays at 3:30
Winner???

I am currently enjoying the LEC broadcast of Marcell Marso. :-X

Where is the sound?

Word
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: rbgosfan on May 14, 2009, 10:02:38 PM
Winner will play at noon on Saturday. Bracket on regional site shows final game now on Sunday if necessary. There will be three tomorrow, 2 Saturday and 1 on Sunday. I wonder why they don't change it so the loser of WNEC/RPI gets a little rest rather than have to come right back out in the next came. They could play Cortland and Farmindale at 3:30 and Clarkson vs WNEC/RPI loser at 7. Just my thoughts.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: rbgosfan on May 15, 2009, 02:46:31 PM
First game of the day is in the books. RPI takes down WNEC in a good pitcher's duel 3-1. The Bears now have the tough road to hoe getting ready for a 3:30 matchup with Clarkson. They will have to win that one, beat RPI tomorrow and then win again on Sunday to win the region.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 15, 2009, 03:11:01 PM
rbgosfan,

2 strikeouts on the day for the WNEC Staff
3 errors
2 HBP with runners on base

Makes it tough to win in tournament play.

Hope for better things this PM

Word :-\
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: rbgosfan on May 15, 2009, 03:32:22 PM
Word,
One of the HBP came with bases loaded and forced in a run. WNEC had a run taken off the board in bottom 6 when long shot to center was run down by Wilkes with bases loaded and 1 out. Runner on first passed the runner on second for third out which negated runner from 3rd who had tagged up and scored. Would have been 3-2 with 2 on and 2 out. Mental mistakes like that can not be made during tournament time.

I would guess  DiTomasso goes in next game while Clarkson brings back their number 1 who was suspended for first 2 games of regional because of an incident in their league tournament.

Lets hope the bats wake up!
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 15, 2009, 06:55:14 PM
And so it goes...

WNEC heads to the house and I am here to say goodbye and good luck to all the teams left in the NY Region.

Peace my brothers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BBlWxkwJtU

Word :'(
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: pudge27 on May 15, 2009, 08:18:53 PM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 15, 2009, 06:55:14 PM
And so it goes...

WNEC heads to the house and I am here to say goodbye and good luck to all the teams left in the NY Region.

Peace my brothers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BBlWxkwJtU

Word :'(


Anti-Ithaca sentiments AND a Motley Crue link...........I'll be pulling for WNEC to come back to the NY region next year.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 15, 2009, 08:43:39 PM
Wow.

Farmingdale State 4 Cortland State 2
Bottom 7

Cortland has mustered just four hits against Stephen King. Yikes. Cortland has 1-2-3 in six of seven at-bats.

Farmingdale threatening in the bottom of the seventh and has knocked Mike Mahay out of the game.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: scuba16 on May 15, 2009, 09:04:20 PM
4-2 Farmingdale bottom 7. Looks like we need a 2 run bomb to knot things up!


TPK
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 15, 2009, 09:08:16 PM
Quote from: scuba16 on May 15, 2009, 09:04:20 PM
4-2 Farmingdale bottom 7. Looks like we need a 2 run bomb to knot things up!


TPK

One of the guys who could do that, Andy Gardner, isn't in the line-up.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: BoomerIL on May 15, 2009, 09:23:55 PM
Quote from: pudge27 on May 15, 2009, 08:18:53 PM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 15, 2009, 06:55:14 PM
And so it goes...

WNEC heads to the house and I am here to say goodbye and good luck to all the teams left in the NY Region.

Peace my brothers...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BBlWxkwJtU

Word :'(


Anti-Ithaca sentiments AND a Motley Crue link...........I'll be pulling for WNEC to come back to the NY region next year.

Easy pudge27, lets not get ahead of ourselves now!!   ;D
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 15, 2009, 09:38:02 PM
Cortland two outs away from heading home.

6-2 Farmingdale State, top 9

EDIT: 6-4, still one out.

RBI triple from Steve Nickel, RBI double by Jason Simone. Farmingdale brings in its' number one starter out of the bullpen.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 15, 2009, 09:48:21 PM
GAME OVER

Farmingdale 6 Cortland 4 - FINAL

Cortland is eliminated. The final three are RPI, Clarkson and Farmingdale. WOW!
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: scuba16 on May 15, 2009, 09:49:32 PM
wow, who would have thunk!!!!!!!!!!!! Good luck to the remaining 3!
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: BoomerIL on May 15, 2009, 10:01:09 PM
John.....

I know that Cortland has had their moments this season, as has RPI and Clarkson, but is Farmingdale that good, or should I say capable of going to Appleton?
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: BaseB13 on May 15, 2009, 10:04:48 PM
I don't understand the 6 team format at all.  RPI is 2 - 0.. Clarkson and Farmingdale are both 2 - 1..  I would think Clarkson and Farmingdale should be playing eachother to eliminate one of them but then that wouldn't make much sense either since RPI has only played two games.  So why does Clarkson play RPI and not Farmingdale now?  6 team regional is whacky.. Seems itd almost be better if there were 8 team and 4 team regionals..  Although that makes its pretty easy on teams in the 4 team regions.  Not sure I know the best way to solve this but this is weird.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: lordcharles on May 15, 2009, 10:09:24 PM
Quote from: BoomerIL on May 15, 2009, 10:01:09 PM
John.....

I know that Cortland has had their moments this season, as has RPI and Clarkson, but is Farmingdale that good, or should I say capable of going to Appleton?

Well at least you are calling them Farmingdale now instead of ChipNdale! ;D- so they are starting to get a little respect. ;D
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: BoomerIL on May 15, 2009, 10:14:43 PM
Quote from: lordcharles on May 15, 2009, 10:09:24 PM
Quote from: BoomerIL on May 15, 2009, 10:01:09 PM
John.....

I know that Cortland has had their moments this season, as has RPI and Clarkson, but is Farmingdale that good, or should I say capable of going to Appleton?

Well at least you are calling them Farmingdale now instead of ChipNdale! ;D- so they are starting to get a little respect. ;D

Sorry lordcharles, but I never called Farmingdale "ChipnDale."  That was someone else.  I would never dis a school by making up cute names for them. 
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: lordcharles on May 15, 2009, 10:40:12 PM
Quote from: BoomerIL on May 15, 2009, 10:14:43 PM
Quote from: lordcharles on May 15, 2009, 10:09:24 PM
Quote from: BoomerIL on May 15, 2009, 10:01:09 PM
John.....

I know that Cortland has had their moments this season, as has RPI and Clarkson, but is Farmingdale that good, or should I say capable of going to Appleton?

Well at least you are calling them Farmingdale now instead of ChipNdale! ;D- so they are starting to get a little respect. ;D

Sorry lordcharles, but I never called Farmingdale "ChipnDale."  That was someone else.  I would never dis a school by making up cute names for them. 

Sorry, I was misunderstood, I shouldnt have said "you"- I should have said "folks are starting to call them Farmingdale".  No offense meant. 

team has been getting stonger as travel  baseball in general is getting better on LI and most of their team is LI locals.  I know a few kids that my son played travel against that are going there next year and they are pretty good ball players.

My apologies for the misspeak Boomer!
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 15, 2009, 10:43:49 PM
A big positive IMO for Farmingdale is that Keith Osik is the head coach. Not many teams can say they have a former Major League player as their skipper.

And before anyone says it, yes I know about Scott Brosius at Linfield.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: BaseB13 on May 15, 2009, 10:53:59 PM
Long Island in general has some of the best high school baseball in the state.  In fact, it couldbe argued it has the best in the state given its population density.  Plenty of good ball players come out of LI.  We don't see many of them in the rest of the state because most of them head toward the mid-atlantic to play in college.  Difficult to get players to migrate to worse weather to play college ball and LI is generally milder than the rest of the state.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: scuba16 on May 16, 2009, 08:28:13 AM
Quote from: BaseB13 on May 15, 2009, 10:04:48 PM
I don't understand the 6 team format at all.  RPI is 2 - 0.. Clarkson and Farmingdale are both 2 - 1..  I would think Clarkson and Farmingdale should be playing eachother to eliminate one of them but then that wouldn't make much sense either since RPI has only played two games.  So why does Clarkson play RPI and not Farmingdale now?  6 team regional is whacky.. Seems itd almost be better if there were 8 team and 4 team regionals..  Although that makes its pretty easy on teams in the 4 team regions.  Not sure I know the best way to solve this but this is weird.

this 6 team tournament was set up as ass backwards as I have ever seen. seeds 1 and 2 should have gotten 1st round byes and then the rest of the tournament shapes up just like an 8 or 4 teamer. I cant follow who is playing who, why they are playing etc.. Clarkson beats cortland in the first round and then plays a team that lost?? so confused. can anyone explain or does anyone have a bracket to look at?


Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 16, 2009, 01:03:01 PM
Bottom 3
Clarkson 6 RPI 1

If RPI wins, it will play Farmingdale State in the championship round. If Clarkson wins, RPI must play Farmingdale State for the right to move on the title game - I think.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 16, 2009, 01:27:19 PM
Bottom 4
Clarkson 9 RPI 5

Last one to score wins.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: Ralph Turner on May 16, 2009, 01:28:11 PM
Quote from: John McGraw on May 16, 2009, 01:03:01 PM
Bottom 3
Clarkson 6 RPI 1

If RPI wins, it will play Farmingdale State in the championship round. If Clarkson wins, RPI must play Farmingdale State for the right to move on the title game - I think.

http://www.farmingdalesports.com/sports/bsb/2009/ncaa/schedule

Wed     13     #1         #1 Cortland  vs.  #6 Clarkson        Final        12 - 15  Clarkson    
 
Wed    13    #2      #2 Ithaca vs. #5 Western New England      Final      5 - 16  WNEC
 
Wed    13    #3      #3 Rensselaer vs. #4 Farmingdale      Final      5 - 4    RPI


   
Thu    14    #4      #1 Cortland vs. #2 Ithaca      Final      3 - 2  Cortland   (Ithaca eliminated)

Thu    14    #5      #6 Clarkson vs. #4 Farmingdale      Final      10 - 19   Farmingdale


   
Fri    15    #6      #5 Western New England vs. #3 Rensselaer      Final      1 - 3  RPI
 
Fri    15    #7      #6 Clarkson vs. #5 Western New England      Final      5 - 2     Clarkson    (WNEC eliminated)

Fri    15    #8      #1 Cortland vs. #4 Farmingdale      Final      4 - 6  Farmingdale   (Cortland Eliminated)   



Sat    16    #9      #3 Rensselaer vs. #6 Clarkson      Final      11 - 10  (Clarkson eliminated)       
     
Sat    16    #10      #4 Farmingdale vs.#3  RPI       3:30 p.m.      
     
Sat    16    #11      TBA vs. TBA  
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: Ralph Turner on May 16, 2009, 03:34:00 PM
Quote from: John McGraw on May 16, 2009, 01:27:19 PM
Bottom 4
Clarkson 9 RPI 5

Last one to score wins.
+1!
RPI scored 3 in the bottom of the 9th to win, 11-10.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: lordcharles on May 16, 2009, 06:11:37 PM
if Farmingdale holds on, will they make RPI play a third game tonight-or will that game be tomorrow?

schedule still says tonight but I thought I heard the RPI announcer say Sunday.

Thanks for the info
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: lordcharles on May 16, 2009, 06:15:12 PM
Quote from: lordcharles on May 16, 2009, 06:11:37 PM
if Farmingdale holds on, will they make RPI play a third game tonight-or will that game be tomorrow?

schedule still says tonight but I thought I heard the RPI announcer say Sunday.

Thanks for the info

ahh- just got my answer and saved a trip on the LI expressway- it would be tommorow at 3 PM per the RPI announcers
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 16, 2009, 06:49:59 PM
Yeah, no way that RPI is going to play three games in one day. 13-4 in the top of the ninth.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 16, 2009, 07:17:43 PM
13-9 final

RPI and Farmingdale State will play a winner-take-all game tomorrow for the right to go to Wisconsin.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: scuba16 on May 16, 2009, 11:01:47 PM
Can anyone explain the ny regional bracket setup? Does it make sense to anyone? I'm so confused. 6 teams, winners bracket teams playing teams in the losers bracket??? Seems ass backwards.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: rbgosfan on May 17, 2009, 06:31:44 PM
Congratulations to Farmingdale for earning the trip to Appleton. Coming back from losing game 1 and going the distance is quite an accomplishment. Well done!
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: BaseB13 on May 17, 2009, 06:47:45 PM
Count me in as being wrong about Farmingdale.  Despite playing in a weak conference they're clearly a legit team.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: wordsmith on May 17, 2009, 07:09:10 PM
Congrats to the Farmingdale Rams for holding strong and winning the NY Regional.

Good luck in Appleton, Wiscanwesin.

Sincerely,

Word ;)
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: Pat Coleman on May 19, 2009, 10:56:19 AM
Quote from: scuba16 on May 16, 2009, 11:01:47 PM
Can anyone explain the ny regional bracket setup? Does it make sense to anyone? I'm so confused. 6 teams, winners bracket teams playing teams in the losers bracket??? Seems ass backwards.

I saw an explanation on the other board that may shed light on the subject -- the six-team bracket is set up so that the winner has to win at least four games to advance. I think that if you gave the top seeds a bye that would make it possible that a team could get out of the six-team regionals with just three wins. Six- and eight-team regionals already have their differences, but this would exaggerate those, I think.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: AlleyCat on May 19, 2009, 05:43:58 PM
Pat,
After looking at it the only thing that didn't seem right was that RPI was 3-0 and was at a disadvantage having to play a second game the day the championship started and Farmingdale, which they had already beat, sat back and relaxed as RPI had a tough game with Clarkson. I would think that in that case they should have played 2 the next day so everything would have been fair. RPI was at a disadvantage even though they were the 3-0 team. I understand that they want the winner to 4 games but, was that the best way to go? Don't get me wrong Farmingdale was deserving, but I thought being 3-0 would get a tema something. Usually the undefeated tema has some advantage because the other temas have had to play more to get to them.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 19, 2009, 06:06:27 PM
Quote from: AlleyCat on May 19, 2009, 05:43:58 PM
Pat,
After looking at it the only thing that didn't seem right was that RPI was 3-0 and was at a disadvantage having to play a second game the day the championship started and Farmingdale, which they had already beat, sat back and relaxed as RPI had a tough game with Clarkson. I would think that in that case they should have played 2 the next day so everything would have been fair. RPI was at a disadvantage even though they were the 3-0 team. I understand that they want the winner to 4 games but, was that the best way to go? Don't get me wrong Farmingdale was deserving, but I thought being 3-0 would get a tema something. Usually the undefeated tema has some advantage because the other temas have had to play more to get to them.

The schedule was thrown off because of a rain out on the second day of the tournament that forced the RPI-Western New England game to be played on Friday instead of Thursday night.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: rbgosfan on May 20, 2009, 04:53:56 PM
The other thing to remember is that the regional format is established by the NCAA and is the same for all 5 regions that are 5 team tournaments. John is right, in that the rain Thursday night changed the schedule and ultimately hurt RPI by first backing them up on the weekend and then secondly having Mondo come back on Sunday with 1 day rest instead of 2.  The other thing that turned the NY region upside down was the number of upsets. If things go according to seed then only 4 teams are left after day 2 instead of 5 and the remaining days then play different. When Clarkson upset Cortland and then lost to Farmindale on day 2 that caused the extra team and the additional games required for RPI. While the  team format is not great, I like it better than the old 7 team format the NCAA used where the 1 seed got a bye in the first round and played a second round game at the end of day 1 against a team that had already lost earlier in the day. It would be nice if we could get to all regionals being 8 teams but that would require more travel to fill in some of the regions with fewer AQs.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: Ralph Turner on May 20, 2009, 05:48:16 PM
Quote from: rbgosfan on May 20, 2009, 04:53:56 PM
... It would be nice if we could get to all regionals being 8 teams but that would require more travel to fill in some of the regions with fewer AQs.
Getting to a 64- team tournament will require the NCAA to change the funding level of all sponsored sports.  In the most popular sports, such as women's basketball and women's soccer,  the NCAA is approaching the maximums for a 1 bid for every 6.5 institutions (416 teams) to give a full 64-team bracket.
Baseball only has about 350+ teams. 
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: BaseB13 on May 21, 2009, 09:33:15 AM
Definitely agree that the 6 team regional format is better than the 7 team regional with the bye.  7 team regional seemed blatantly unfair.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: AlleyCat on May 26, 2009, 03:59:53 PM
Can anyone tell me why Heeman didn't get to the mound at the World Series for Farmingdale. He was the reason they went and then didn't even get to the mound. Did he get hurt or get in some trouble?
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: John McGraw on May 26, 2009, 04:22:10 PM
Could be any number of reasons. Heeman pitched a ton of innings at the regionals, he may have been spent and just not been ready. Keep in mind, he went nearly seven on the opening day of the regional and then came back on one day's rest to strike out two batters at the end of the Cortland game. Then, another day of rest after that followed by nine innings against RPI.

So, he would've had four days of rest leading up to game one against Shenandoah. Obviously this is the time of year when guys suck it up and pitch on short rest but you don't want the kid hurting his arm in game one of the World Series and being done for the year.

Or, maybe Keith Osik was gambling that Farmingdale could get to a third game. In that case, I imagine he would've rolled out Heeman who would be on full rest.

It's a shame he didn't get to pitch in the World Series as a senior, but that's how it goes sometimes.
Title: Re: BB: SUNY-Old Westbury/Skyline Conf. Regional -- 2009
Post by: Pat Coleman on May 27, 2009, 08:29:57 PM
Heeman was suspended for the tournament because of an unfortunate choice he made after the team got to Appleton.
Title: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ralph Turner on April 23, 2010, 01:42:51 AM
New York Regional - Hosted by SUNY Cortland at Falcon Park (Auburn Doubledays)
http://www.minorleaguebaseball.com/ballpark/page.jsp?ymd=20070215&content_id=177816&vkey=ballpark_t458&fext=.jsp&sid=t458
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: trider400t on May 02, 2010, 05:25:13 PM
It will be good to get back upstate. Last was awful.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: AlleyCat on May 03, 2010, 02:32:26 PM
Being upstate may be great but Auburn's field is awful and there is absolutely nothing around there unless you like maximum security prisons.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 03, 2010, 04:16:48 PM
Quote from: AlleyCat on May 03, 2010, 02:32:26 PM
Being upstate may be great but Auburn's field is awful and there is absolutely nothing around there unless you like maximum security prisons.

How is it awful? The Blue Jays must not think so.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: airball55 on May 03, 2010, 07:51:51 PM
Amen, love that field.  I don't get that comment at all.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: trider400t on May 05, 2010, 06:38:04 PM
Quote from: AlleyCat on May 03, 2010, 02:32:26 PM
Being upstate may be great but Auburn's field is awful and there is absolutely nothing around there unless you like maximum security prisons.

That's absurd.  I was there with my son's team a few years ago and was impressed with how hard the field crew and local committee worked to keep the field playable. The city was friendly and everyone was excited to have the tournament there.  Last year was one of the most unfriendly college events I have ever attended.  Nobody outside of the campus had any clue what was going on and even the on-campus employees seemed put off anytime you asked a question.  What does the prison have to do with it anyway? Have you actually been there? Didn't think so.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 06, 2010, 03:46:42 PM
Here's the latest regional rankings from the NCAA. I'm sure the Plattsburgh haters will love this one.

1. Cortland State 25-3-1 (30-7-1)
2. Plattsburgh State 18-7 (30-8)
3. St. John Fisher 26-11 (27-11)
4. Rochester 27-9 (28-9)
5. Staten Island 27-10 (30-10)
6. Skidmore 20-9 (25-11)

By comparison, the latest ABCA poll out has the New York representative in that polling group with Cortland, Plattsburgh and Rochester as the top three.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: OshDude on May 11, 2010, 09:19:15 AM
Here's the ECAC Metro Tournament. Interesting to see CSI is playing.
http://www.ecacsports.com/championships/2010_Spring_Championships/Metro_Baseball_release.pdf (http://www.ecacsports.com/championships/2010_Spring_Championships/Metro_Baseball_release.pdf)
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 17, 2010, 01:05:37 AM
If Ithaca and/or Plattsburgh make it in, I think that's a little ridiculous.  Ithaca is 20-18 (not impressive at all), and Plattsburgh played a terrible schedule and finished 7-7 in the Sunyac.  Rochester and even Clarkson should be more deserving than those two schools.  I hope d3baseball got it wrong...
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: d3baseballnut on May 17, 2010, 01:21:45 AM
Plattsburgh has one of the best schedules in the country....according to the numbers.....FYI
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 17, 2010, 01:31:06 AM
Yeah you're SOS is going to look good when you play Cortland 3 times (3 losses), but stats aside, what other wins do they have against quality opponents? Brockport (only in they tourney because of weather)? St. Lawrence? St. Mike's? Looking at their schedule no one impresses me other than Cortland...
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 17, 2010, 02:43:37 AM
http://www.ncaa.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/051710aaa.html

No Plattsburgh. 

1.   SUNY Cortland (32-8)
2.   St. John Fisher (28-12)
3.   Oneonta State 28-11)
4.   Skidmore (30-13)
5.   Keene State (26-15-1)
6.   Farmingdale State (24-15)
7.   College at Brockport (23-16)
8.   Castleton (32-13)

Anyone know how the bracket works out>
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: KSCfan on May 17, 2010, 06:19:23 AM
Hello NY board,

Keene state fan here, first time the owls have sent to your region in the NCAA tournament.  I will be honest that i do not know much about the NY teams except for the obvious Cortland, and ST John Fisher.  Keene gets skidmore in the first game.  Anyone know anything about skidmore and what I and we at Owl nation can expect.  Im sure that more KSC fans will wonder over here.  Thanks in advance.  The NE regional has live video and stats does NY have the same thing and where would one watch such a thing??  Thanks in advance and looking forward to the regionals.  Good luck to all teams and very excited keene got in

Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Truthfinder on May 17, 2010, 07:14:45 AM
Quote from: d3baseballnut on May 17, 2010, 01:21:45 AM
Plattsburgh has one of the best schedules in the country....according to the numbers.....FYI

Ah, no.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: airball55 on May 17, 2010, 07:28:35 AM
Truthman, although I find your comments entertaining, you are wrong on the Plattsburgh schedule comment.  We all know that the teams they played aren't all that spectacular, but, the SOS numbers don't take into account the actual skill level of teams.  It is based on Opponents win percentage and playing in the SUNYAC alone boosts those numbers.  Every team in the YAC was above .500.  St. Lawrence was above .500, Clarkson, Skidmore, the list goes on and on.  We all know that their schedule was weak in terms of skill level, but not by the numbers.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Truthfinder on May 17, 2010, 07:56:16 AM
Airball, agree, they had a very carefully designed schedule knowing the SUNYAC would carry the SOS.
I'll tell you right now, Oneonta needs to thank Plattsburgh for this bid, and here's why.
Plattsburgh didn't reschedule with Skidmore, choosing St. Michael's instead.
Oneonta added Skidmore, and won.
In the end, that one game probably was what put Oneonta over the top.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: pudge27 on May 17, 2010, 08:23:25 AM
I'm not much for all caps, but let me shout this out.  THANK YOU FOR THE 8 TEAM BRACKET!!!! Insert your state school joke here, but I'm glad we won't have to hire Stephen Hawking to figure out 2nd and 3rd round matchups like in the past. 

Glad that Oneonta got in.  Little surprised, but good for them.  I was thinking that if they did go, they'd be bottom half and that would have been a terrible 1st round matchup for anyone with their ace.  What do you think of rolling the dice, trying to win the 1st round with their number 2 and saving Filak for 2nd round? 

I think that the 8 team regional stacks up well for Cortland and Skidmore because of pitching depth.  Don't know much about the out of region transplants. 
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 17, 2010, 09:44:55 AM
Quote from: pudge27 on May 17, 2010, 08:23:25 AM
I'm not much for all caps, but let me shout this out.  THANK YOU FOR THE 8 TEAM BRACKET!!!! Insert your state school joke here, but I'm glad we won't have to hire Stephen Hawking to figure out 2nd and 3rd round matchups like in the past.  

Glad that Oneonta got in.  Little surprised, but good for them.  I was thinking that if they did go, they'd be bottom half and that would have been a terrible 1st round matchup for anyone with their ace.  What do you think of rolling the dice, trying to win the 1st round with their number 2 and saving Filak for 2nd round?  

I think that the 8 team regional stacks up well for Cortland and Skidmore because of pitching depth.  Don't know much about the out of region transplants.  

Good Morning to the NY Regional Posters,

Did someone refer to Stephen Hawking?

Hey, this is Word over from the New England Board. Keene State is headed your way. Not sure how they will do as this looks like a fairly tough regional. KSC is just glad to be included. Love the Hawking reference as you can see by my byline.

KSC finished the regular season on a strong note then fell hard in the LEC Tourney, but, hey, who didn't I mean who thought UMess Boston would win that Tourney. KSC has a young pitching staff, good hitting, and a defense that is improving with some line-up changes that occurred mid-season. KSC was 2nd or third nationally in SOS, which clearly helped them in the Pool C draw. Hopefully, playing that tough schedule will help them in the NC2A.

Record: 26-15-1 • Home: 11-2 • Away: 7-6-1 • Neutral: 8-7 • Conference: 10-4 with Quality wins over Wheaton, Eastern Connecticut, Curry, Williams, Southern Maine (2), Suffolk and TCNJ.

Pitching staff does not have a legit #1. Kind of a Ace-by-Committee. Good closer in Vogt.
Hitting is led by All-American Bobby Doyon .421 10HR 51RBI. I think true baseball fans will be impressed by the catcher Anthony Cipolla - real spark plug, and a joy to watch. Much like their captain - Cipolla - KSC is gritty and will compete to the last out.

Looking forward to the NY Regional- Good luck to all involved.

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: RSSmith on May 17, 2010, 10:02:01 AM
Quote from: pudge27 on May 17, 2010, 08:23:25 AM
I'm not much for all caps, but let me shout this out.  THANK YOU FOR THE 8 TEAM BRACKET!!!! Insert your state school joke here, but I'm glad we won't have to hire Stephen Hawking to figure out 2nd and 3rd round matchups like in the past. 

Glad that Oneonta got in.  Little surprised, but good for them.  I was thinking that if they did go, they'd be bottom half and that would have been a terrible 1st round matchup for anyone with their ace.  What do you think of rolling the dice, trying to win the 1st round with their number 2 and saving Filak for 2nd round? 

I think that the 8 team regional stacks up well for Cortland and Skidmore because of pitching depth.  Don't know much about the out of region transplants. 

I think you throw your stud on day 1, that way, if you're still around on day 4 you can run him in on short rest.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: d3baseballnut on May 17, 2010, 10:41:34 AM
Quote from: pudge27 on May 17, 2010, 08:23:25 AM
I'm not much for all caps, but let me shout this out.  THANK YOU FOR THE 8 TEAM BRACKET!!!! Insert your state school joke here, but I'm glad we won't have to hire Stephen Hawking to figure out 2nd and 3rd round matchups like in the past.  

Glad that Oneonta got in.  Little surprised, but good for them.  I was thinking that if they did go, they'd be bottom half and that would have been a terrible 1st round matchup for anyone with their ace.  What do you think of rolling the dice, trying to win the 1st round with their number 2 and saving Filak for 2nd round?  

I think that the 8 team regional stacks up well for Cortland and Skidmore because of pitching depth.  Don't know much about the out of region transplants.  

I would save Filak personally. Farmingdale does not hit too well, nor has a shut-down ace. I think they can get past them without using Filak. If you burn him early, Oneonta has NO shot of winning it. If they can save him until they need him, he is there "ace in the hole" (no pun intended).

If you can't beat farmingdale without Filak, what hope do you have of beating Corltand later without Filak. I would say save him and wait and see who you play in round 2.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 17, 2010, 02:09:42 PM
To the Keene State supporters, nice of you guys to stop by.  It sounds like Skidmore and KS are fairly different as Skidmore has an excellent staff and I'm pretty sure by the stats they had the best fielding percentage in the Liberty League, while their offense has usually been a struggle this year.  From what you guys are saying it sounds like KS has a strong offense, decent defense, and more of a "we'll see what happens..." pitching staff.  Should be fun and I think it will be interesting to see if the old baseball cliché is correct: "You win in the post season with pitching and defense" which would have Skidmore set up pretty well, at least by their numbers from teh first 43 games.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 17, 2010, 03:35:36 PM
Little East  teams that have come to the New York regional have done very well over the last 5-6 years. Eastern Connecticut won the title in 2006 and got to the losers' bracket final in 2008. Rhode Island College gave top-seeded Cortland all it could handle in 2005.

Top-seeded Cortland has lost just one regional in Auburn - that was in 2006 to East Conn.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 17, 2010, 04:57:08 PM
I have followed the LEC since its inception. Had a son play at USM and KSC, and live 2 miles from the Swamp in Keene.

So...now that I have bored you let me say this. The LEC is really down this year. It is as inconsistent as I have seen it maybe ever. Thus a #4 & #6 seed playing for the title on Saturday. USM was really down, thet attribute it to youth. EConn was the best of the league but only by a little. KSC played like Champs the last 12-14 games of the season then sailed off the edge of the earth in the Tourney.

UMB is well, good for them they won, but not a real good team fundamentally.

Having said all that I just don't know what to expect from the Owls. I picked them at the beginning of 2009, a full year ago to go to Appleton in 2010, saying they were a year away. I hope I am right but....I don't see anyone getting past Cortland or Skidmore etc. in this region without some really solid mound performances and tight D.

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: ecfaninri on May 17, 2010, 06:38:53 PM
Word..
I think the SUNY Cortland Regional participants will be excited to see the brand of Owls baseball coming to town. I don't have to convince you. But let me tell all the fans going to this regional, you will walk away at the end saying, that "I am glad I don't have to face them twice a year".

Fresh teams may be just what the baseball doctor ordered. Doyon, DiPrato, Patnode and Cipolla probably waiting to get to see new arms. The pitching really came into its own the last 15 games of the season and with a bump in the road to UMass Boston dropped them into the loser's bracket of the LEC. I think that was the key game of the tourney.

Good luck to all of the 55 teams in the Tourney. It will be fun to see what comes out of this region - Beware of the Hooters. They can swoop it and out and take a ticket to Appleton if you are not careful.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 17, 2010, 06:50:16 PM
As a Liberty League fan I have to deal with all the UR fans telling me how great they are.  And now that they are quieting down because UR didn't get it done in the LL tournament they hosted, now I have these Keene State fans coming over, overwhelming these boards with how great they are now?  Jeez, hopefully some New York teams (specifically Skidmore game 1) can silence these fans like Skid and Clarkson were able to do to the UR guys.  (I hope you can read that as friendly banter, if you followed the LL board, you'd understand. Good luck to Keene State and all the NY teams).
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 17, 2010, 07:55:14 PM
Can someone explain to me about the karma thing? I know it doesn't really matter since truthfinder is probably -500 at this point in time, but I'm just curious how I wound up at -1 after some friendly banter? Thanks guys.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 17, 2010, 08:49:51 PM
Quote from: Ron Ron on May 17, 2010, 06:50:16 PM
As a Liberty League fan I have to deal with all the UR fans telling me how great they are.  And now that they are quieting down because UR didn't get it done in the LL tournament they hosted, now I have these Keene State fans coming over, overwhelming these boards with how great they are now?  Jeez, hopefully some New York teams (specifically Skidmore game 1) can silence these fans like Skid and Clarkson were able to do to the UR guys.  (I hope you can read that as friendly banter, if you followed the LL board, you'd understand. Good luck to Keene State and all the NY teams).

Ron Ron,

Thanks for the err, warm welcome to the NY Board. Are you left-handed?  ;)

We on the LEC Board have had to deal with UMess Boston supporters, namely BobbyBeacon. Wander over to the LEC board and have a look at his postings. Now there is passion. However misguided it may be.

So, I thought I did a pretty fair job of explaining how average or maybe inconsistent is a better word to describe KSC this year.



Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 17, 2010, 10:32:22 PM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 17, 2010, 08:49:51 PM
Quote from: Ron Ron on May 17, 2010, 06:50:16 PM
As a Liberty League fan I have to deal with all the UR fans telling me how great they are.  And now that they are quieting down because UR didn't get it done in the LL tournament they hosted, now I have these Keene State fans coming over, overwhelming these boards with how great they are now?  Jeez, hopefully some New York teams (specifically Skidmore game 1) can silence these fans like Skid and Clarkson were able to do to the UR guys.  (I hope you can read that as friendly banter, if you followed the LL board, you'd understand. Good luck to Keene State and all the NY teams).

Ron Ron,

Thanks for the err, warm welcome to the NY Board. Are you left-handed?  ;)

We on the LEC Board have had to deal with UMess Boston supporters, namely BobbyBeacon. Wander over to the LEC board and have a look at his postings. Now there is passion. However misguided it may be.

So, I thought I did a pretty fair job of explaining how average or maybe inconsistent is a better word to describe KSC this year.



Word


Haha Wordsmith, I like you already.  I was just messing around with you KS boys. It is always nice to see some new teams around, but of course you'll understand that I'm rooting for a NY team to take it down.  Good luck to KS, we'll see how it goes.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 12:36:45 AM
I made a bracket for the tourney on excel but when trying to upload it I get the following error message:
An Error Has Occurred!
Cannot access attachments upload path! 
Any suggestions?
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: RSSmith on May 18, 2010, 08:31:17 AM
Quote from: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 12:36:45 AM
I made a bracket for the tourney on excel but when trying to upload it I get the following error message:
An Error Has Occurred!
Cannot access attachments upload path! 
Any suggestions?

Try pasting it into a Word document first and then from Word to the boards.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 08:47:30 AM
Quote from: RSSmith on May 18, 2010, 08:31:17 AM
Quote from: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 12:36:45 AM
I made a bracket for the tourney on excel but when trying to upload it I get the following error message:
An Error Has Occurred!
Cannot access attachments upload path! 
Any suggestions?

Try pasting it into a Word document first and then from Word to the boards.

Still no luck
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Truthfinder on May 18, 2010, 08:49:21 AM
In classic Doorey fashion, he says Oneonta was the last team to get in, and that PSUC was the first team out of the field.

Also says "it hurts" because Oneonta wasn't ranked ahead of them all season and that not enough people on the committee know about Plattsburgh.

Maybe he shouldn't play University of the Steaming Crap on spring trips, then.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: RSSmith on May 18, 2010, 09:10:09 AM
Quote from: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 08:47:30 AM
Quote from: RSSmith on May 18, 2010, 08:31:17 AM
Quote from: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 12:36:45 AM
I made a bracket for the tourney on excel but when trying to upload it I get the following error message:
An Error Has Occurred!
Cannot access attachments upload path! 
Any suggestions?

Try pasting it into a Word document first and then from Word to the boards.

Still no luck

When you paste it into Word, click on the little "paste" icon and paste "as text only".  Then copy and paste onto the board.  It'll likely screw up the formatting, but it should copy over.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 10:44:04 AM
Quote from: RSSmith on May 18, 2010, 09:10:09 AM
Quote from: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 08:47:30 AM
Quote from: RSSmith on May 18, 2010, 08:31:17 AM
Quote from: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 12:36:45 AM
I made a bracket for the tourney on excel but when trying to upload it I get the following error message:
An Error Has Occurred!
Cannot access attachments upload path! 
Any suggestions?

Try pasting it into a Word document first and then from Word to the boards.

Still no luck

When you paste it into Word, click on the little "paste" icon and paste "as text only".  Then copy and paste onto the board.  It'll likely screw up the formatting, but it should copy over.

Thanks for the suggestions but it won't work for me. If anyone would like me to email it to them to try I would be glad to. I leave in 1 .5 hours for the tourney though.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: airball55 on May 18, 2010, 12:28:29 PM
Truthman on the war path again.  My only issue with any of that is if Oneonta was the last team to get in, they received a three seed in an eight team regional.  That is a pretty heavy seeding for the 15th team to get in.  I still would have taken Rochester over Plattsburgh, by a coin flip, but that would have been my choice.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 18, 2010, 12:51:59 PM
NY Regionals,

Any links to video or internet broadcasts from Auburn? I see a listing for the Cortland game on their site.

Thanks

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 12:55:21 PM
I got this in an email from the Cortland SID...

Chad,

We plan on having Live Stats for all the games. There may be audio for some of the games, but that schedule isn't set yet. No video coverage.

Here's the tournament web page:

http://www.cortlandreddragons.com/2010NCAABaseballRegional

There will be links to any coverage of the games on that page as we proceed.

Thanks.

Fran

Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 18, 2010, 01:51:03 PM
Quote from: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 12:55:21 PM
I got this in an email from the Cortland SID...

Chad,

We plan on having Live Stats for all the games. There may be audio for some of the games, but that schedule isn't set yet. No video coverage.

Here's the tournament web page:

http://www.cortlandreddragons.com/2010NCAABaseballRegional

There will be links to any coverage of the games on that page as we proceed.

Thanks.

Fran



scscoach Thanks for the link. I'll have one eye towards NY and the other towards NE. Fun begins tomorrow. Good Luck to all.


I snapped a picture of some of the Keene State crowd preparing to head over to Auburn, say Hey if you spot them. They're a right friendly bunch.
http://www.torbwine.com/funnies/hillbillies_files/image001.jpg



By the way here is the link to the video broadcasts from Mansfield, CT Regional.

http://littleeast.tv/

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: OshDude on May 18, 2010, 02:16:36 PM
Links to all regionals, including live coverage, are on the front page of D3baseball.com.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: KSCfan on May 18, 2010, 03:49:02 PM
Word classic, but where are the red cups down the left field line??

Keene started Dan Nelson game one in the LEC tournament so that would be my best guess on who they will throw tommorow.  Here is to hoping that the offense gets rolling because when it does its contagious in that lineup.  No video means that i will be hunched over my computer tommorow screaming at the live stats page

Cant wait till tommorow and go owls
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 18, 2010, 04:31:15 PM
Quote from: KSCfan on May 18, 2010, 03:49:02 PM
Word classic, but where are the red cups down the left field line??



Dude, we don't want to totally give all our secrets away just yet. Let these people think we have all our teeth; they'll find out soon enough.
Its just a Granite State of Mind, New Hampshire - where there's nothing to do.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX7nQrCgALM

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: kscer on May 18, 2010, 04:35:10 PM
Hey NY Fans
Hope you liked the picture word put up. I'm the guy in the middle. I think this will be a good matchup for Keene with Skidmore. Skidmore has not had to score a lot of runs to win with their pitching and Keene has scored a lot of runs(better than 8/game). If they can strike early...
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 18, 2010, 08:01:30 PM
Here we go My Picks:

Skidmore vs. Keene St. - Owls rebound and take Game 1 7-6
Cortland vs.  Castleton St. - Cortland downs VT neighbors 15-3
Oneonta vs. Farmingdale St. -F'Dale 7-4 another title run for F'Dale Maybe?
St. John Fisher vs. Brockport St. John takes this one 9-4

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 08:24:39 PM
Quote from: OshDude on May 18, 2010, 02:16:36 PM
Links to all regionals, including live coverage, are on the front page of D3baseball.com.

Can you please be more specific? I can not find it. Thanks
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 18, 2010, 11:25:40 PM
Hey Word, just wondering what your thought process was for these picks?  If Filak is going for Oneonta, I don't see why he wouldn't go game 1, I find it hard to believe that Farmingdale scores 7 of Oneonta.

Also, while the Skidmore offense isn't exactly overpowering, with the ERA's I see on the Keene stat page, I think they can put together some runs.  While I understand Keene has a good offense, Skidmore has one of the top 5 staffs in D3 (2nd best ERA and 2nd best hits/9 in the country).  I'll be the first to congratulate Keene if they put some serious runs up/their pitchers show up, but looking at the stats, I'm just curious how you came up with some of these scores.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 19, 2010, 12:55:49 AM
Quote from: Ron Ron on May 18, 2010, 11:25:40 PM
Hey Word, just wondering what your thought process was for these picks?  If Filak is going for Oneonta, I don't see why he wouldn't go game 1, I find it hard to believe that Farmingdale scores 7 of Oneonta.

Also, while the Skidmore offense isn't exactly overpowering, with the ERA's I see on the Keene stat page, I think they can put together some runs.  While I understand Keene has a good offense, Skidmore has one of the top 5 staffs in D3 (2nd best ERA and 2nd best hits/9 in the country).  I'll be the first to congratulate Keene if they put some serious runs up/their pitchers show up, but looking at the stats, I'm just curious how you came up with some of these scores.

He is a Keene State fan, you're a Skidmore fan. Of course you're going to disagree on who is going to win that particular game.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 19, 2010, 01:25:12 AM
I was more curious on his pick of Farmingdale over Oneonta/Filak.  And also just looking for some friendly banter.

But you are right, we support different teams.  
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: OshDude on May 19, 2010, 08:21:49 AM
Quote from: scscoach on May 18, 2010, 08:24:39 PM
Quote from: OshDude on May 18, 2010, 02:16:36 PM
Links to all regionals, including live coverage, are on the front page of D3baseball.com.

Can you please be more specific? I can not find it. Thanks
Playoff Central and Scores.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 19, 2010, 08:28:40 AM
Ron Ron

Friendly banter it shall be at 30 paces or about 300 miles. Eh?

I underestimated F'Dale St last year and in tip of the hat to them I picked them in the first game this year. That's whats behind my pick. Nothing about stats, match-ups etc. just an acknowledgement.  :)

Now as for KSC - Skidmore. I don't always pick for KSC. This time 'round they will need all the support they can get playing in a different region with a small fan base. (Those three guys I sent a picture of yesterday are it for fan base)  :D

KSC can be scary good and scary bad. They need to show up scary good to beat Skidmore. Thus my gut says go with the Owls. I believe they will hit, my concern is defense, esp. the left side of the infield. We shall see.


Are the games on as scheduled?

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 19, 2010, 12:49:14 PM
Watching this red & white screen and waiting for outcomes is brutual. My heart is racing........and

BREAKING NEWS.....

Final KSC 1 Skidmore 0

Great pitching duel.

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: KSCfan on May 19, 2010, 12:52:24 PM
Keene pitching performs off the charts as they beat skidmore 1-0.  Live stats is awful and awesome at the same time.  Its like waiting for something to go wrong and you just stare at it.   Enough to drive a man insane.  None the less Keene wins and moves on to play the winner of 1v8 .  Highly doubt that Castleton will beat Cortland but you never know.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 19, 2010, 01:46:22 PM
Well congrats to KSC.  Looks like Skidmore's offense decided to disappear once again.  But hey, at least they didn't get no-hit again. Always gotta stay positive.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 19, 2010, 02:14:57 PM
I was at the game. Not sure how it was described on LiveStats but here is how KS scored. Runners on 1st and 3rd, 1 out. Runner from 1st breaks on the pitch, batter hits lazy and shallow fly ball down the right field line. The rightfielder catches the ball then throws to 1st hoping to double off the runner who was sprinting back to 1st. The runner was safe on a  close play (good call) but seeing the throw the runner from 3rd (who was obviosly tagging) continued home. I can't be certain but am almost positive they were holding the runner at 3rd since the fly ball was so shallow. It was just one of those plays that make the game so exciting I guess. Everyone praobaly did exactly what they should have done. My son plays for Skidmore and it's a disappointing loss but I have to give credit to KS. They pitched extremely well and deserved to win. Just one of those games that you hate to see either team lose (especially the one your kid plays on). Good luck KS fans, with that lineup and your amazing bullpen, I can easily see you getting it done here.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 19, 2010, 02:32:18 PM
Castleton State escapes further damage in the 2nd by turning the standard 3-6 TRIPLE PLAY :o :o :o

Cortland 3-0 top of the 3rd.


scscoach - been on the losing end of those evil 1-0 games, both as a player and a coach. Yes too bad someone has to lose those. Skidmore Pitcher did a heck of a job holding down KSC line-up esp Doyon & Cipolla (0-8).

Ron Ron - KSC pen has had its fair share of "moments" this year. As I said they can be scary good and scary bad and sometimes in the say inning, heck sometimes in the same at bat. Vogt has some pop, Q-Man is solid, Nelson has come on strong this year. Have seen multiple 12-10, 14-12, 16-8 games this year where it seemed the relievers carried a can of gas and matches to the mound with them. Not today good for them. Lots of Sophmores on that staff, lots of potential. But tomorrow is another day. Can't get by with 1 run and win many more games in this Regional.

Good luck to Skidmore and the rest of the teams.

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: pudge27 on May 19, 2010, 03:35:55 PM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 19, 2010, 02:32:18 PM
Castleton State escapes further damage in the 2nd by turning the standard 3-6 TRIPLE PLAY :o :o :o

Cortland 3-0 top of the 3rd.


scscoach - been on the losing end of those evil 1-0 games, both as a player and a coach. Yes too bad someone has to lose those. Skidmore Pitcher did a heck of a job holding down KSC line-up esp Doyon & Cipolla (0-8).

Ron Ron - KSC pen has had its fair share of "moments" this year. As I said they can be scary good and scary bad and sometimes in the say inning, heck sometimes in the same at bat. Vogt has some pop, Q-Man is solid, Nelson has come on strong this year. Have seen multiple 12-10, 14-12, 16-8 games this year where it seemed the relievers carried a can of gas and matches to the mound with them. Not today good for them. Lots of Sophmores on that staff, lots of potential. But tomorrow is another day. Can't get by with 1 run and win many more games in this Regional.

Good luck to Skidmore and the rest of the teams.

Word

Word, looks as though it was Cortland who turned the triple, no?  Should have just gone with C St.    1-0 losses are tough.  You always feel like you're just one swing away, but if were that easy, you would have done it earlier in the game. 

I know that Skidmore is supposed to be very deep on the mound, but losing the first game in an 8 team tourney is a death blow.  Hope they can pick up a couple of W's along the way. 
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 19, 2010, 04:13:10 PM
pudge27,

Right you are, my bad its funny the way the box score reads confusing for my old eyes. Thanks for the correction.

So who throws for Cortland st tomorrow?

Brown Mahay or Assmann?

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: theguru25 on May 19, 2010, 05:38:16 PM
Cortland downs Castleton 10-2.

Farmingdale St. is up 3-0 on Oneonta and Dave Filak on a walk, 2 bunts (a sac that turned into a hit), a single, and a fielding error. Oneonta has men on 2nd and 3rd with 1 out and the next two guys strike out
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 19, 2010, 06:35:13 PM
Quote from: Ron Ron on May 18, 2010, 11:25:40 PM
Hey Word, just wondering what your thought process was for these picks?  If Filak is going for Oneonta, I don't see why he wouldn't go game 1, I find it hard to believe that Farmingdale scores 7 of Oneonta.


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Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: kscer on May 19, 2010, 06:37:28 PM
Farmingdale up 8-3 in the fourth. Walks, wild pitches. A run cut down at the plate. sounds wild. A Pitcher needs help from his field, but has to help himself, too.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 19, 2010, 08:06:07 PM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 19, 2010, 06:35:13 PM
Quote from: Ron Ron on May 18, 2010, 11:25:40 PM
Hey Word, just wondering what your thought process was for these picks?  If Filak is going for Oneonta, I don't see why he wouldn't go game 1, I find it hard to believe that Farmingdale scores 7 of Oneonta.


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Only 3 Earned there big guy.  My crystal ball didn't tell me that the defense was going to be so porous.  But don't take too much credit because Farmingdale didn't beat Filak, his defense did
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 19, 2010, 08:56:00 PM
Quote from: Ron Ron on May 19, 2010, 08:06:07 PM
Quote from: wordsmith on May 19, 2010, 06:35:13 PM
Quote from: Ron Ron on May 18, 2010, 11:25:40 PM
Hey Word, just wondering what your thought process was for these picks?  If Filak is going for Oneonta, I don't see why he wouldn't go game 1, I find it hard to believe that Farmingdale scores 7 of Oneonta.


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Only 3 Earned there big guy.  My crystal ball didn't tell me that the defense was going to be so porous.  But don't take too much credit because Farmingdale didn't beat Filak, his defense did

Ron Ron

I take no credit for what does or doesn't happen. You questioned sir how I could predict 7 runs by F'Dale. They scored 9. Bottom line. I never brought up the pitcher in the conversation you did.

With 1 game remaining I guess I did OK.

Skidmore vs. Keene St. - Owls rebound and take Game 1 7-6
Cortland vs.  Castleton St. - Cortland downs VT neighbors 15-3
Oneonta vs. Farmingdale St. -F'Dale 7-4 another title run for F'Dale Maybe?
St. John Fisher vs. Brockport St. John takes this one 9-4

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: reddragon00 on May 19, 2010, 10:24:46 PM
That Oneonta St. game and Farmingdale St. game........AWEFUL!  These teams should not be there but hey, the NCAA knows best.  BRUTAL!!!!!!
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 19, 2010, 11:33:28 PM
Quote from: reddragon00 on May 19, 2010, 10:24:46 PM
That Oneonta St. game and Farmingdale St. game........AWEFUL!  These teams should not be there but hey, the NCAA knows best.  BRUTAL!!!!!!

Farmingdale won the regional last year and they're an automatic qualifier. If memory serves me correct, they nearly knocked off #3 RPI in the first round in 2008.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ron Ron on May 20, 2010, 12:21:39 AM
What does Farmingdale having nearly knocked off #3 RPI in 2008 have anything to do with anything? This is 2010 and RPI is nowhere to be found...
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: reddragon00 on May 20, 2010, 07:50:00 AM
THat's right Ron Ron.  John....Dont care about last year.  D3Baseball had farmingdale in top 15 in pre-season until they went like 1-10 to start the year.  That means squat.  And almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades!!!  Would have like to see more game like the 1st and last one .  Tow good ball games.  Those 2 don't belong!  Bottom line
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 20, 2010, 09:11:18 AM
Day 2 Picks:

Skidmore over Castleton State -2 to -3 (will either team score more than a run?)
Brockport St. over Oneonta St
Cortland St over KSC (Unless KSC's bats come alive today their stay in NY will be short, so they better get C-St today)
St. John Fisher over F'Dale St. (Fisher slows title run for F'Dale)

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: KSCfan on May 20, 2010, 10:27:42 AM
Day 2 sees me staring at my computer screen and shaking it like a magic 8 ball as i watch Keene State and Cortland battle it out.  I know that year in and year out Cortland is a very good team.  The key to todays game is going to be 2 fold.

#1 Keene's ability to hit Cortland.  I have a feeling that the 1 run they scored yesterday is not going to be enough for keene today.  Keene has never seen any of these pitchers so that might make it tough for them, but needs to get the bats goings today.

# 2 Keene's bullpen.  If keene can get enough offense to get to the bullpen with a lead you have to like their chances.  Vogt has really pitched very well for them, and the bullpen as a whole as done a good job so far.  Keene started raymond game 2 in the LEC tourny and he had a rough game, that being said he has also at times pitched very wellt his year. they are going to need a good quality start out of whomever today to beat Cortland.

I am picking keene in the upset 6-4 in a very close one
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 12:09:54 PM
Skidmore leads 6-4 over Castleton State going into the top of the 7th.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 12:52:59 PM
Quote from: John McGraw on May 19, 2010, 11:33:28 PM
Quote from: reddragon00 on May 19, 2010, 10:24:46 PM
That Oneonta St. game and Farmingdale St. game........AWEFUL!  These teams should not be there but hey, the NCAA knows best.  BRUTAL!!!!!!

Farmingdale won the regional last year and they're an automatic qualifier. If memory serves me correct, they nearly knocked off #3 RPI in the first round in 2008.
Quote from: Ron Ron on May 20, 2010, 12:21:39 AM
What does Farmingdale having nearly knocked off #3 RPI in 2008 have anything to do with anything? This is 2010 and RPI is nowhere to be found...

John's point is that Farmingdale is an automatic quailifier so they have every right to be in the regional. His other comment was just to give you guys a little history lesson. ;D  You guys are like Moriarty, always with the negative thoughts.   
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 01:01:11 PM
Skidmore still in front 6-5 over Castleton St.  after 8 innings.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 01:57:20 PM
Castleton St scores 2 unearned runs on back to back errors by Skidmore in the bottom of the ninth to defeat the Thoroughbreds 7-6. Tough way to end the season for Skidmore. Freshman Jordan Keysor came in to pitch for Skidmore in the bottom of the 7th with 2 on and 1 out and Skidmore up 6-4. A sac fly made it 6-5 and he got out of the inning without any more damage. He pitched a scoreless 8th inning but the Skidmore coach opted to go with his closer Zach Rudman to start the 9th. A leadoff walk followed by a sacrifice bunt and a wild pitch gave Castleton a runner on 3rd with 1 out. Next batter reached on an error by the 3rd baseman allowing the runner to score the tying run and the following batter reached on a single back to the pitcher followed by a throwing error by the pitcher which allowed the winning run to score. I was hoping they let Keysor pitch the ninth as he's a local kid and scscoach's son, but figured the Skidmore coach would make the pitching change. Too bad it didn't work out. The Keysor kid finished the year with an ERA OF 1.99, not to shabby for a freshman. Chad must be a pretty proud father. 
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 20, 2010, 02:02:52 PM


John's point is that Farmingdale is an automatic quailifier so they have every right to be in the regional. His other comment was just to give you guys a little history lesson. ;D  You guys are like Moriarty, always with the negative thoughts.   
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magicman,

GREAT reference - Kelly's Heroes +1 karma man :D Thanks for the LOL man!

Why don't you knock it off with the negative waves! Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuStsFW4EmQ

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 02:38:09 PM
wordsmith,

Thanks for the youtube clip, gave me my laugh for the day! 8-) Plus k back at you.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 03:20:23 PM
Brockport leads Oneonta 3-1 heading into the top of the 4th.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 04:09:15 PM
Oneonta with a big 6th inning scores 5 runs to go ahead of Brockport 6-3 heading into the bottom of the 6th.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 04:29:51 PM
Brockport responds with a 4 spot in the bottom of the 6th to regain the lead 7-6 against Oneonta.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 04:50:43 PM
After 7  Oneonta and Brockport all tied up 7-7.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 05:21:16 PM
Brockport coming to bat in the bottom of the 9th losing to Oneonta 9-7, after the Red Dragons score twice in the top of the 9th.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 05:33:05 PM
Brockport gets a 1 out single, followed by a double to put runners on 2nd and 3rd  but Oneonta's Anthony Bates strikes out the next batter and get the final out on a grounder to the 1st baseman who flips to Bates covering the bag for the game ending out. Brockport is eliminated and Oneonta will face the loser of the Cortland St./Keene St. game tomorrow morning at 10 AM.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: KSCfan on May 20, 2010, 07:44:44 PM
Keene is beating Cortland right now 4-3 in the top of the 5th.  Good game back and forth so far, and these announcers clearly are from Cortland as they know everything about Cortland and nothing about Keene.  Its kind of funny, but they are do a great job none the less.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: KSCfan on May 20, 2010, 08:07:37 PM
Keene balks in the go ahead run and are leading 5-4 in the 6th
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: KSCfan on May 20, 2010, 08:08:15 PM
i meant they balked in the go ahead run and Cortland is leading 5-4
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: KSCfan on May 20, 2010, 08:17:35 PM
Cortland had the lead 6-4 when keene gets a ground ball with two outs and the bases loaded  to short who boots it.  Thus loading the bases and then wham bases clearing double .


Cortland up 9-4
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 20, 2010, 08:23:27 PM
KSCFan,

We have known all year long that the left side infield D is a sieve.

Killed it tonight. Still time though.

Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: kscer on May 20, 2010, 08:47:31 PM
Quote from: KSCfan on May 20, 2010, 08:08:15 PM
i meant they balked in the go ahead run and Cortland is leading 5-4
Just like Bangor
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 20, 2010, 10:47:29 PM
Farmingdale St. raps out 6 hits to score 5 runs in the bottom of the 3rd to go up 5-0 over St. John Fisher.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 20, 2010, 11:42:59 PM
Quote from: magicman on May 20, 2010, 01:57:20 PM
Castleton St scores 2 unearned runs on back to back errors by Skidmore in the bottom of the ninth to defeat the Thoroughbreds 7-6. Tough way to end the season for Skidmore. Freshman Jordan Keysor came in to pitch for Skidmore in the bottom of the 7th with 2 on and 1 out and Skidmore up 6-4. A sac fly made it 6-5 and he got out of the inning without any more damage. He pitched a scoreless 8th inning but the Skidmore coach opted to go with his closer Zach Rudman to start the 9th. A leadoff walk followed by a sacrifice bunt and a wild pitch gave Castleton a runner on 3rd with 1 out. Next batter reached on an error by the 3rd baseman allowing the runner to score the tying run and the following batter reached on a single back to the pitcher followed by a throwing error by the pitcher which allowed the winning run to score. I was hoping they let Keysor pitch the ninth as he's a local kid and scscoach's son, but figured the Skidmore coach would make the pitching change. Too bad it didn't work out. The Keysor kid finished the year with an ERA OF 1.99, not to shabby for a freshman. Chad must be a pretty proud father. 

Thanks for the very kind words magicman and yes I am a very proud Dad. It was a tough loss to swallow but overall a fine season for the Skidmore squad. I had no idea that college baseball would be this exciting. I wish I could have stayed to watch the rest of the tourney. Even though it did not work out today I agree with Coach Plourde's dicision to go to the closer. Jordan had been throwing in the bullpen since the 5th inning and had pitched in a tight spot the previous day. Our closer Zach Rudman was fresh and has come through in that very same spot consistantly this year. On Zach's behalf, it should be noted a ball was never hit out of the infield in that inning. Thanks again for the kind words magicman.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 20, 2010, 11:57:00 PM
I was extremely impressed with Dan Jurik of St. John Fisher lastnight (Wednesday). I know Dave Filak gets all the ink but in my opinion Jurik was the sharpest of the day one starters. The St. John Fisher closer Goeff Martone has nasty movement (splitter, I think) and was extremely impressive also. I don't think they (SJF) have the hitting to win the region though.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 12:29:31 AM
St. John Fisher, down 6-0 after 5 innnings has scored 6 runs in the last 3 innings to pull within 1 at 7-6, as Farm St. comes to bat in the bottom of the 8th.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ralph Turner on May 21, 2010, 12:57:09 AM
That linescore has to make a Farmingdale fan cringe!

St. John Fisher Coll     0 0  0   0 0 2   1  3  2    -   8  11  1
Farmingdale St. Coll    0 0  5   0 1 1   0    0  0    -   7  14  7
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 21, 2010, 01:06:44 AM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 21, 2010, 12:57:09 AM
That linescore has to make a Farmingdale fan cringe!

St. John Fisher Coll     0 0  0   0 0 2   1  3  2    -   8  11  1
Farmingdale St. Coll    0 0  5   0 1 1   0    0  0    -   7  14  7


DEE-fense!
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 01:15:25 AM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 21, 2010, 12:57:09 AM
That linescore has to make a Farmingdale fan cringe!

St. John Fisher Coll     0 0  0   0 0 2   1  3  2    -   8  11  1
Farmingdale St. Coll    0 0  5   0 1 1   0    0  0    -   7  14  7


You got that right Ralph!
Fisher scores 2 in the top of the ninth to grab an 8-7 lead and holds off Farmingdale St. in the bottom half of the inning to come away with the win. The winning run scores on a bad hop single over the 1st baseman's glove. Farmingdale gets a runner to 2nd in the bottom of the 9th with 1 out but Fisher's closer Geoff Martone strikes out the next batter. A wild pitch advances the Ram's runner to 3rd, and Martone slams the door with another strikeout to end the game and send the Ram's into an elimination game against Castleton St on Friday at 1:15 PM. Fisher will take on Cortland at 4:30 on Friday afternoon.    
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 21, 2010, 04:58:02 AM
Friday - Day 3 dawns with some interesting games:

My Picks:

Oneonta over Keene St.  (Time to come home) :-\

Castleton St. over Farmingdale St. 

Cortland over St. John Fisher

Good luck to all teams and to any senior playing in their last games today.

Word
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 11:43:51 AM
Oneonta St. coming to bat in the bottom of the 7th inning with a 3-2 lead over Keene St. Brett Meservey on the mound for the Red Dragons has only given up 3 hits (all singles) and 1 earned run. He's struck out 7 so far,  issued 3 walks and hit 1 batter.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: FranElia on May 21, 2010, 11:58:10 AM
I apologize for the technical issues we're having with the live stats. The files are sometimes being corrupted when they're transmitting, but they usually fix themselves within a play or so. If you don't get a clean stat page after a while, reload or refresh the page. Sorry for the inconvenience!!

Fran Elia
Cortland SID
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 11:59:00 AM
Bottom of the 8th and Oneonta still up 3-2 but threatening to add more as they have runners on 1st and 3rd with no outs.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 12:00:03 PM
Quote from: franelia on May 21, 2010, 11:58:10 AM
I apologize for the technical issues we're having with the live stats. The files are sometimes being corrupted when they're transmitting, but they usually fix themselves within a play or so. If you don't get a clean stat page after a while, reload or refresh the page. Sorry for the inconvenience!!

Fran Elia
Cortland SID

Thanks Fran, I thought it was my computer screwing up again. :D
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 12:10:55 PM
Oneonta tacks on 2 more in the bottom of the 8th to stretch their lead to 5-2 over Keene St. Owls down to their last 3 outs to try and stay alive.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 12:23:34 PM
Oneonta moves on with a 5-2 win over Keene St. Red Dragons will play the winner of the Castleton St.-Farmingdale St game at 7:45 this evening.

Anthony Bates came on in relief for Oneonta in the top of the 8th with 1 out and a man on 2nd. He threw 2 pitches and got 2 ground ball outs to preserve a 3-2 Oneonta lead. After the Red Dragons scored twice in the bottom of the 8th, Bates stayed in the game and got 2 quick outs on a strikeout and fly ball to right. The next batter doubled but Bates got the final out on a comebacker and the Owls' season comes to an end.  
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: wordsmith on May 21, 2010, 12:24:02 PM
Keene State season comes to a close.

Been real nice visiting with you folks over here on the NY Board. Now I am off to my third love LEC/NE baseball.

Good luck to all the remaining teams in the NY Regional.

I will leave you with this parting thought:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GZlJr1c48k

Word

Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 02:02:04 PM
Farmingdale St. with a big 5 run 2nd inning jumps out to a 6-2 lead over Castleton St. heading into the bottom of the 2nd.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: onesix3 on May 21, 2010, 03:05:09 PM
9 1/2 games in the book and not one HR. This is a beautiful park,but 330 down each line with a 12 ft. wall is overkill. Drop the wall to 6 ft. and you have the right dimensions.HR's are and should be part of the game. My sons are pitchers and I'm complaining about this!Again kudo's to Falcon Park and the city of Auburn.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 03:06:57 PM
Castleton St comes back with a big inning of their own, scoring 4 times in the bottom of the 2nd to tie up Farmingdale 6-6. What looked like a slugfest has slowed down as neither team has scored since as they enter the top of the 7th.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 03:22:06 PM
Farmingdale regains the lead with 2 runs in the top of the 7th to go up 8-6 over Castleton.

Castleton St was threatening to tie the game up as they had the bases loaded with 2 out in the bottom of the 7th, but a grounder to the 3rd baseman who forced the runner from second ended the inning. Still 8-6 heading into the 8th.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 04:01:11 PM
Castleton St. batting in the bottom of the 9th down 9-6. 1st batter reaches on an error by the shortstop, followed by 2 straight base hits to plate 1 run and put runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs.

Next batter hits a deep fly ball to left for the 1st out as the runners both move up to 2nd and 3rd. Next batter fouls out to the catcher and the following batter hits a ground ball to the shortstop for what should have been the final out but he bobbles the ball and the runner is safe at 1st and another run scores. Runners now at the corners and the runner on 1st steals 2nd. Base hit could win the game but the batter has 2 strikes on him and on the next pitch hits a ball to the shortstop who throws the ball over the 1st baseman's head and the tying and winning run both score. Final 10-9 Castleton St.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: RSSmith on May 21, 2010, 04:16:20 PM
Quote from: magicman on May 21, 2010, 04:01:11 PM
Castleton St. batting in the bottom of the 9th down 9-6. 1st batter reaches on an error by the shortstop, followed by 2 straight base hits to plate 1 run and put runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs.

Next batter hits a deep fly ball to left for the 1st out as the runners both move up to 2nd and 3rd. Next batter fouls out to the catcher and the following batter hits a ground ball to the shortstop for what should have been the final out but he bobbles the ball and the runner is safe at 1st and another run scores. Runners now at the corners and the runner on 1st steals 2nd. Base hit could win the game but the batter has 2 strikes on him and on the next pitch hits a ball to the shortstop who throws the ball over the 1st baseman's head and the tying and winning run both score. Final 10-9 Castleton St.

We've all been there.  You have to play defense.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 21, 2010, 04:27:14 PM
Is it too early to say "Cinderella Story"? If they win tonight...............wow. I wish so much I could have stayed for the rest of the tourney. Next year and the following and the following..............

Does anyone know where the regionals will be held in 2011? Or have the announced it yet?

Thanks
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 04:30:40 PM
Quote from: RSSmith on May 21, 2010, 04:16:20 PM
Quote from: magicman on May 21, 2010, 04:01:11 PM
Castleton St. batting in the bottom of the 9th down 9-6. 1st batter reaches on an error by the shortstop, followed by 2 straight base hits to plate 1 run and put runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs.

Next batter hits a deep fly ball to left for the 1st out as the runners both move up to 2nd and 3rd. Next batter fouls out to the catcher and the following batter hits a ground ball to the shortstop for what should have been the final out but he bobbles the ball and the runner is safe at 1st and another run scores. Runners now at the corners and the runner on 1st steals 2nd. Base hit could win the game but the batter has 2 strikes on him and on the next pitch hits a ball to the shortstop who throws the ball over the 1st baseman's head and the tying and winning run both score. Final 10-9 Castleton St.

We've all been there.  You have to play defense.

Gotta feel bad for the Farmingdale shortstop. Wouldn't wish 3 errors in one inning on anyone.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 21, 2010, 04:35:29 PM
Quote from: magicman on May 21, 2010, 04:30:40 PM
Quote from: RSSmith on May 21, 2010, 04:16:20 PM
Quote from: magicman on May 21, 2010, 04:01:11 PM
Castleton St. batting in the bottom of the 9th down 9-6. 1st batter reaches on an error by the shortstop, followed by 2 straight base hits to plate 1 run and put runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs.

Next batter hits a deep fly ball to left for the 1st out as the runners both move up to 2nd and 3rd. Next batter fouls out to the catcher and the following batter hits a ground ball to the shortstop for what should have been the final out but he bobbles the ball and the runner is safe at 1st and another run scores. Runners now at the corners and the runner on 1st steals 2nd. Base hit could win the game but the batter has 2 strikes on him and on the next pitch hits a ball to the shortstop who throws the ball over the 1st baseman's head and the tying and winning run both score. Final 10-9 Castleton St.

We've all been there.  You have to play defense.

Gotta feel bad for the Farmingdale shortstop. Wouldn't wish 3 errors in one inning on anyone.

+1
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 04:48:25 PM
Quote from: scscoach on May 21, 2010, 04:35:29 PM
Quote from: magicman on May 21, 2010, 04:30:40 PM
Quote from: RSSmith on May 21, 2010, 04:16:20 PM
Quote from: magicman on May 21, 2010, 04:01:11 PM
Castleton St. batting in the bottom of the 9th down 9-6. 1st batter reaches on an error by the shortstop, followed by 2 straight base hits to plate 1 run and put runners on 1st and 2nd with no outs.

Next batter hits a deep fly ball to left for the 1st out as the runners both move up to 2nd and 3rd. Next batter fouls out to the catcher and the following batter hits a ground ball to the shortstop for what should have been the final out but he bobbles the ball and the runner is safe at 1st and another run scores. Runners now at the corners and the runner on 1st steals 2nd. Base hit could win the game but the batter has 2 strikes on him and on the next pitch hits a ball to the shortstop who throws the ball over the 1st baseman's head and the tying and winning run both score. Final 10-9 Castleton St.

We've all been there.  You have to play defense.

Gotta feel bad for the Farmingdale shortstop. Wouldn't wish 3 errors in one inning on anyone.

+1

scscoach,
I appreciate the effort at the + 1 but you're too new to be able to do that. And if you didn't find what you were looking for when you were on the help page, you need to have 200 posts on the boards before you are allowed to give or take away karma points. I gave you a plus 1 yesterday but karma action also can only be done once to any 1 poster in a 24 hour period. Hope that helps. ;) :D ;D

You can e-mail me using the personal messaging service if you have any questions. I'll be glad to help out.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 07:50:53 PM
Cortland becomes the only undefeated team left in the regional as they down St. John Fisher 6-1. Mike Assman with a complete game 5 hitter, lost his shutout when the Cardinals had 2 singles in the 9th inning to produce their only run.
Fisher will face the winner of the Oneonta St./Castleton St. game tomorrow at 1:00 PM. Cortland, certainly in the driver's seat to advance. Hard to believe they won't win the regional. With Oneonta still alive I guess I'll just root for Red Dragons all around. 8-)
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: trider400t on May 21, 2010, 07:51:21 PM
What's with all of the errors in the regional? During the regular season you can make field condition excuses, but Auburn is a great field, set to major league conditions. Outside of the Cortland Triple play the box scores have been full of EEEEEEEs.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2010, 11:25:34 PM
Oneonta eliminates Castleton St with a 9-2 win in the nightcap at Falcon Park. Jr. Ken Smith starts for the Red Dragons and goes 5 innings scattering 9 hits and giving up 2 runs, 1 earned, followed by Soph Chris Smith who throws 4 shutout innings to get the save. Ken had 2 strikeouts with 1 walk, while Chris had 4 k's and 1 walk while allowing just 3 hits. All 12 Castleton St. hits were singles and both pitchers did a fine job stranding the Spartan baserunners.

I guess it's fitting that Red is the color of the Auburn regional. The 3 teams left standing being the Red Dragons of Cortland, The Red Dragons of Oneonta and the Redbirds of the St. John Fisher Cardinals.

Fisher will take on Oneonta tomorrow at 1:00 PM to see which of these 2 teams gets to try and take down Cortland St. twice. Good luck trying to do that!
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: pudge27 on May 21, 2010, 11:43:11 PM
Anyone at the game with insight on the CSt./Fisher game?  Sounds as though Fisher's pitcher threw well, but Cortland really capitalized on every mistake that was made.

Interesting run by Oneonta.  Hard to fathom that a team who drops the first game of an 8 team tourney could come back to win, but they sure are giving it a go.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: airball55 on May 22, 2010, 08:54:37 AM
The NCAA committee must be smiling a bit with their top three seeds all alive in this regional.  I really liked the Oneonta pick and they have justified their belonging in this regional.  Hard to believe the only game they have lost is the one Filak pitched.  Could be an all Red Dragon final.... but I am going to take Fisher in this one primarily because they are the more rested of the two teams.  Regardless, whoever wins it would be nice to see them get one against Cortland.  Always fun to see that last "if needed" game!!
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: sjfcards on May 22, 2010, 10:51:06 AM
I was at the first Oneonta game on Wednesday and felt they were a much better team than Farmingdale, but they just could not catch the ball that game. It is nice to see that they were able to rebound and get back to have a shot at making it to the finals.

I think Fisher has a good shot of getting to Cortland as well, but Cortland looks really tough right now. They had to be the favorite anyway, but when they play well they can be really tough to beat. Here is hoping either team can make the rest of the weekend interesting. 
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 22, 2010, 01:58:54 PM
St. John Fisher leads Oneonta 4-2 after 3 innings.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 22, 2010, 02:38:41 PM
End of the 6th and Fisher still leads Oneonta 4-2.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 22, 2010, 02:44:03 PM
Does anyone know where the 2011 NY regionals will be held?
Thanks
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: OshDude on May 22, 2010, 02:51:06 PM
Quote from: scscoach on May 22, 2010, 02:44:03 PM
Does anyone know where the 2011 NY regionals will be held?
Thanks
Sites are determined in the offseason.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 22, 2010, 03:06:00 PM
Dan Randall of Oneonta hits the first home run in the Auburn regional with a man on in the top of the 7th to tie up St. John Fisher 4-4. Still tied at 4 heading into the bottom of the 8th. 
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 22, 2010, 03:29:30 PM
Fisher and Oneonta head to extra innings. Red Dragons with men on 1st and 3rd with nobody down in the top of the 10th.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 22, 2010, 03:35:40 PM
St. John Fisher escapes the top of the 10th when they get the 1st out on a foul out to the catcher. Next batter hits a fly ball to right that Cards Phil Pettinella catches and rifles the throw home to nab the runner trying to score from 3rd. Could be the turning point of the game.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 22, 2010, 03:49:22 PM
Quote from: OshDude on May 22, 2010, 02:51:06 PM
Quote from: scscoach on May 22, 2010, 02:44:03 PM
Does anyone know where the 2011 NY regionals will be held?
Thanks
Sites are determined in the offseason.
Thanks
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 22, 2010, 03:53:38 PM
Oneonta grabs the lead with a run in the top of the 11th to go up 5-4 over Fisher. Red Dragon's bring in their closer Anthony Bates for the bottom of the 11th.


Update:
Bates gets the 1st batter on a fly out but once again Phil Pattinella comes up big as he hammers his 1st home run of the year over the right field fence to tie the game up at 5.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 22, 2010, 04:07:42 PM
Fisher scores 2 in the bottom of the 11th to pull out the win over Oneonta 6-5. After the Pattinella home run the next batter strikes out for the 2nd out of the inning. The ninth batter then gets hit by a pitch, steals 2nd and scores on a base hit up the middle by Kevin Wing. Could be the most exciting game of the regional. Fisher faces Cortland in about an hour.

Great call on Cortland radio by Bobby Comstock and his guys.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: reddragon00 on May 22, 2010, 04:23:09 PM
 a good game today but I have to say that the teams this year are not as strong as in the past.  Anyone been seeing these regionals for 5 or 6 years now????  I know I am a former Cortland player but teams just don't seem to have all 3 phases of the game.  Even Cortland struggles with it.  I have seen a decline in the teams coming to the NY regional.  Last good one may have been in 2006 or 05.

Anyone agree??? Thoughts??
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 22, 2010, 07:24:30 PM
Looks like Cortland is going to get the job done today as they 're up 6-2 in the bottom of the 8th. Fisher will need one heck of a rally in the 9th to force another game.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 22, 2010, 07:40:55 PM
Fisher not going away quietly. A leadoff single followed by a throwing error by the 3rd baseman on the next batter puts runners on 2nd and 3rd with no outs. After a foul out to 1st the next hitter singles in 2 runs to make it 6-4. 2 more singles follow but Red Dragon right fielder Adam Dimino throws out the lead runner trying to score and Cardinals now have 2 outs with runners at the corners, still down 6-4.

Update:
Ryan Shaughnessy singles to center and brings in another run to make it 6-5 with runners still at the corners. Can Fisher pull off another shocker?

Fisher gets a 5th straight single, this one by Jay Nevada and the game is now tied 6-6 with runners still at the corners.

Cortland finally retires the side but the damage has been done. Red Dragons coming to bat in the bottom of the 9th.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 22, 2010, 07:55:32 PM
Jason Simone game winning hit, 2 outs, 2 on bottom 9th..... Cortland advances to Wisconsin.... Gotta love those hard nosed Utica kids!!!!!!!!!
TPK
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 22, 2010, 07:58:20 PM
Cortland has runners on 2nd and 3rd with 2 outs and Simone at the plate. Base hit will win the game. And he delivers as the Red Dragons claim the regional and advance to Appleton. Congratulations to Cortland for once again presenting the SUNYAC with a regional crown.

Great job once again by Cortland SID Fran Elia for supplying the live stats and Cortland radio live audio feed.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: airball55 on May 22, 2010, 08:01:32 PM
Good games all around today.  Congrats to Cortland, and great job by first year coach Potter and the Cardinals.  I think Cortland is going to be real dangerous in the world series, playing their best ball late in the season.  Kind of under the radar almost with the start Plattsburgh got off to and Brockport winning a shortened SUNYAC, sometimes teams get deeper when not really expected.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scscoach on May 22, 2010, 09:29:18 PM
Quote from: magicman on May 22, 2010, 07:58:20 PM

Great job once again by Cortland SID Fran Elia for supplying the live stats and Cortland radio live audio feed.

I agree 100%
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: OshDude on May 22, 2010, 09:46:13 PM
As I was listening I thought SJF was surely going to walk Simone with two outs in the 9th and runners on second and third. It's easy to write that now, but I was surprised the two-time SUNYAC Player of the Year had a chance to win it.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: sjfcards on May 22, 2010, 09:54:42 PM
Tough not to be proud of the effort Fisher put forth today. A great couple of games, and a great effort to come back against a really good Cortland team. Cortland is a really really good team, and I think they will have a chance in the world series next week. Fisher took a big step up this year, and I think today was a big shot in the arm for that program.

Congrats to Cortland. In my mind they were obviously the best team in the regional, and they will be the best representative for the region. Here is hoping that Fisher can get to that level some day. 
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 22, 2010, 11:33:13 PM
Quote from: airball55 on May 22, 2010, 08:01:32 PM
Good games all around today.  Congrats to Cortland, and great job by first year coach Potter and the Cardinals.  I think Cortland is going to be real dangerous in the world series, playing their best ball late in the season.  Kind of under the radar almost with the start Plattsburgh got off to and Brockport winning a shortened SUNYAC, sometimes teams get deeper when not really expected.

They open up with UW-Stevens Point and will be part it looks like of the UWSP/UMass Boston/Shenandoah grouping on the first two days. Cortland hasn't had a great track record against Wisconsin teams in the World Series.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: FranElia on May 22, 2010, 11:58:54 PM
Magicman and Scscoach, thanks for the kind words. Sorry for the spotty live stats - some transmission problems that kept messing up the files every so often, but we got through it.

I can't take credit for Bobby Comstock and his radio crew. That's all Bobby's doing. Like John McGraw in the past, Bobby worked tiredlessly and took on games other than Cortland's - not an easy task to cover games when you don't know either team. Knowing Bobby, he would have done every game of the regional, but men's lax kept him away Wed. and he deferred to Brockport's radio when the Golden Eagles were playing.

Very interesting and exciting regional. Seemed like no ninth-inning (or 11th-inning) lead was safe!! I'm now back home and a little beat after 14 games over four days, but it was worth it. I hope the players and fans had a good experience.

Fran Elia
Cortland SID
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 23, 2010, 12:57:07 AM
Quote from: franelia on May 22, 2010, 11:58:54 PM
Magicman and Scscoach, thanks for the kind words. Sorry for the spotty live stats - some transmission problems that kept messing up the files every so often, but we got through it.

I can't take credit for Bobby Comstock and his radio crew. That's all Bobby's doing. Like John McGraw in the past, Bobby worked tiredlessly and took on games other than Cortland's - not an easy task to cover games when you don't know either team. Knowing Bobby, he would have done every game of the regional, but men's lax kept him away Wed. and he deferred to Brockport's radio when the Golden Eagles were playing.

Very interesting and exciting regional. Seemed like no ninth-inning (or 11th-inning) lead was safe!! I'm now back home and a little beat after 14 games over four days, but it was worth it. I hope the players and fans had a good experience.

Fran Elia
Cortland SID

Fran,
The best part, for me anyways, was just being able to pull up the Cortland web site and instantly go to the tournament page you created and click on live stats for the game and the audio feed and have them both occur within seconds. You made it so easy to receive every single game. You did the same thing for the SUNYAC tournament (along with Men's and Women's Lacrosse and Women's Softball all on the same weekend) and those events along with this week's regional have set the standard for internet accessibility from a College web site. You should go on the road and give some of the other SUNYAC schools a few lessons in how it's done ;) ;D 
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: jack31 on May 23, 2010, 10:11:43 AM
congrats to cortland.  As always, they had a great team this year. Now I just hope they represent the SUNYAC well.

And great job by SJF, too.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Truthfinder on May 23, 2010, 10:24:19 AM
Cortland does it right. The standard in the SUNYAC, for everything, and it isn't even close.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: Ralph Turner on May 23, 2010, 10:37:42 AM
Quote from: magicman on May 23, 2010, 12:57:07 AM
Quote from: franelia on May 22, 2010, 11:58:54 PM
Magicman and Scscoach, thanks for the kind words. Sorry for the spotty live stats - some transmission problems that kept messing up the files every so often, but we got through it.

I can't take credit for Bobby Comstock and his radio crew. That's all Bobby's doing. Like John McGraw in the past, Bobby worked tiredlessly and took on games other than Cortland's - not an easy task to cover games when you don't know either team. Knowing Bobby, he would have done every game of the regional, but men's lax kept him away Wed. and he deferred to Brockport's radio when the Golden Eagles were playing.

Very interesting and exciting regional. Seemed like no ninth-inning (or 11th-inning) lead was safe!! I'm now back home and a little beat after 14 games over four days, but it was worth it. I hope the players and fans had a good experience.

Fran Elia
Cortland SID

Fran,
The best part, for me anyways, was just being able to pull up the Cortland web site and instantly go to the tournament page you created and click on live stats for the game and the audio feed and have them both occur within seconds. You made it so easy to receive every single game. You did the same thing for the SUNYAC tournament (along with Men's and Women's Lacrosse and Women's Softball all on the same weekend) and those events along with this week's regional have set the standard for internet accessibility from a College web site. You should go on the road and give some of the other SUNYAC schools a few lessons in how it's done ;) ;D  
By doing that, might he forfeit any advantage that he has among prospective student-athletes and their parents who value the services provided by Cortland as a mechansim by which the student and his/her family can follow the course of Cortland's teams?   ;)   :)
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: BaseB13 on May 23, 2010, 09:18:54 PM
Well solid NY Regional and the best team appears to have won it.  As for the World Series... I think Hopkins is going to win it.  I think they're hands down better than every team left.  That being said anything can happened in baseball.  They're so deep so.  Seems they have two studs that can play every position.  Shenandoah can also swing it but if both teams win JHU and Shenandoah will face off in round 2.  I think Cortland can make some noise as well but I do think JHU and Shenandoah are both better. We'll find out!
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 23, 2010, 10:49:55 PM
Quote from: scscoach on May 22, 2010, 09:29:18 PM
Quote from: magicman on May 22, 2010, 07:58:20 PM

Great job once again by Cortland SID Fran Elia for supplying the live stats and Cortland radio live audio feed.

I agree 100%
Fran is the man.... He was when I played at Cortland and always will be. Thanks Narf!
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: jack31 on May 24, 2010, 08:08:24 AM
Quote from: BaseB13 on May 23, 2010, 09:18:54 PM
Well solid NY Regional and the best team appears to have won it.  As for the World Series... I think Hopkins is going to win it.  I think they're hands down better than every team left.  That being said anything can happened in baseball.  They're so deep so.  Seems they have two studs that can play every position.  Shenandoah can also swing it but if both teams win JHU and Shenandoah will face off in round 2.  I think Cortland can make some noise as well but I do think JHU and Shenandoah are both better. We'll find out!

A very close friend of mine is a JHU baseball alum that is still very close to the team.  I talked with him recently and he said their lineup was stacked.  Like multiple players with more than 10 homers stacked.  As for pitching they have 2 studs, both are sophmores but i think the rest of their staff is good but not great.  Oh, and a closer that is getting looked at.  He didn't say anything about their D.

So thats my mini-scouting report.  They do sound very deep and like they'll bee hard to beat.  I think cortland may be able to give them a run for their money but they'll need to bring their A game to do it.   Cortland is a solid team and i wouldn't be surprised if they won it all but i agree JHU has to be the favorite going into it.

I just hope one of those teams wins it.  JHU for my buddy or Cortland to represent the SUNYAC.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: RSSmith on May 24, 2010, 08:29:09 AM
Quote from: jack31 on May 24, 2010, 08:08:24 AM
Quote from: BaseB13 on May 23, 2010, 09:18:54 PM
Well solid NY Regional and the best team appears to have won it.  As for the World Series... I think Hopkins is going to win it.  I think they're hands down better than every team left.  That being said anything can happened in baseball.  They're so deep so.  Seems they have two studs that can play every position.  Shenandoah can also swing it but if both teams win JHU and Shenandoah will face off in round 2.  I think Cortland can make some noise as well but I do think JHU and Shenandoah are both better. We'll find out!

A very close friend of mine is a JHU baseball alum that is still very close to the team.  I talked with him recently and he said their lineup was stacked.  Like multiple players with more than 10 homers stacked.  As for pitching they have 2 studs, both are sophmores but i think the rest of their staff is good but not great.  Oh, and a closer that is getting looked at.  He didn't say anything about their D.

So thats my mini-scouting report.  They do sound very deep and like they'll bee hard to beat.  I think cortland may be able to give them a run for their money but they'll need to bring their A game to do it.   Cortland is a solid team and i wouldn't be surprised if they won it all but i agree JHU has to be the favorite going into it.

I just hope one of those teams wins it.  JHU for my buddy or Cortland to represent the SUNYAC.

Good hitting assessment.  Actually, the two sophomore starters got a little help from Senior Greg Harbeck.

Player                 era   w-l     app-gs    ip     bb    so     2b   3b  hr   b/avg  
Greg Harbeck      2.07     8-0     10-10    65.1   16    49     5     2    1    .227
Sam Eagleson      2.45     11-0     13-10      73.1    22    54    8     1    5    .207
Alex Eliopoulos      2.78     10-0     13-11    74.1    22    83    9     0    1    .216
Andrew Pevsner      2.88     3-0     19-0      34.1    18    39    3     0    2    .180  
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: magicman on May 24, 2010, 11:00:36 AM
Quote from: RSSmith on May 24, 2010, 08:29:09 AM
Quote from: jack31 on May 24, 2010, 08:08:24 AM
Quote from: BaseB13 on May 23, 2010, 09:18:54 PM
Well solid NY Regional and the best team appears to have won it.  As for the World Series... I think Hopkins is going to win it.  I think they're hands down better than every team left.  That being said anything can happened in baseball.  They're so deep so.  Seems they have two studs that can play every position.  Shenandoah can also swing it but if both teams win JHU and Shenandoah will face off in round 2.  I think Cortland can make some noise as well but I do think JHU and Shenandoah are both better. We'll find out!

A very close friend of mine is a JHU baseball alum that is still very close to the team.  I talked with him recently and he said their lineup was stacked.  Like multiple players with more than 10 homers stacked.  As for pitching they have 2 studs, both are sophmores but i think the rest of their staff is good but not great.  Oh, and a closer that is getting looked at.  He didn't say anything about their D.

So thats my mini-scouting report.  They do sound very deep and like they'll bee hard to beat.  I think cortland may be able to give them a run for their money but they'll need to bring their A game to do it.   Cortland is a solid team and i wouldn't be surprised if they won it all but i agree JHU has to be the favorite going into it.

I just hope one of those teams wins it.  JHU for my buddy or Cortland to represent the SUNYAC.

Good hitting assessment.  Actually, the two sophomore starters got a little help from Senior Greg Harbeck.

Player                 era   w-l     app-gs    ip     bb    so     2b   3b  hr   b/avg  
Greg Harbeck      2.07     8-0     10-10    65.1   16    49     5     2    1    .227
Sam Eagleson      2.45     11-0     13-1      73.1    22    54    8     1    5    .207
Alex Eliopoulos      2.78     10-0     13-11    74.1    22    83    9     0    1    .216
Andrew Pevsner      2.88     3-0     19-0      34.1    18    39    3     0    2    .180  


Slight correction to John Hopkins pitcher's stats:

Sam Eagleson's 11-0 record should read 13 appearances with 10 starts.
Title: Re: BB: 2010 SUNY Cortland (New York) Regional
Post by: RSSmith on May 24, 2010, 03:16:08 PM
Quote from: magicman on May 24, 2010, 11:00:36 AM
Quote from: RSSmith on May 24, 2010, 08:29:09 AM
Quote from: jack31 on May 24, 2010, 08:08:24 AM
Quote from: BaseB13 on May 23, 2010, 09:18:54 PM
Well solid NY Regional and the best team appears to have won it.  As for the World Series... I think Hopkins is going to win it.  I think they're hands down better than every team left.  That being said anything can happened in baseball.  They're so deep so.  Seems they have two studs that can play every position.  Shenandoah can also swing it but if both teams win JHU and Shenandoah will face off in round 2.  I think Cortland can make some noise as well but I do think JHU and Shenandoah are both better. We'll find out!

A very close friend of mine is a JHU baseball alum that is still very close to the team.  I talked with him recently and he said their lineup was stacked.  Like multiple players with more than 10 homers stacked.  As for pitching they have 2 studs, both are sophmores but i think the rest of their staff is good but not great.  Oh, and a closer that is getting looked at.  He didn't say anything about their D.

So thats my mini-scouting report.  They do sound very deep and like they'll bee hard to beat.  I think cortland may be able to give them a run for their money but they'll need to bring their A game to do it.   Cortland is a solid team and i wouldn't be surprised if they won it all but i agree JHU has to be the favorite going into it.

I just hope one of those teams wins it.  JHU for my buddy or Cortland to represent the SUNYAC.

Good hitting assessment.  Actually, the two sophomore starters got a little help from Senior Greg Harbeck.

Player                 era   w-l     app-gs    ip     bb    so     2b   3b  hr   b/avg  
Greg Harbeck      2.07     8-0     10-10    65.1   16    49     5     2    1    .227
Sam Eagleson      2.45     11-0     13-1      73.1    22    54    8     1    5    .207
Alex Eliopoulos      2.78     10-0     13-11    74.1    22    83    9     0    1    .216
Andrew Pevsner      2.88     3-0     19-0      34.1    18    39    3     0    2    .180  


Slight correction to John Hopkins pitcher's stats:

Sam Eagleson's 11-0 record should read 13 appearances with 10 starts.

Yes, indeed.  I fixed it.
Title: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Ralph Turner on April 24, 2011, 06:48:39 PM
Message board for the 2011 New York Regional which will be hosted by Cortland State  in conjunction with the Auburn Doubledays at Falcon Park in Auburn, N.Y.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: SUball on April 27, 2011, 01:07:26 PM
Lets get some talk going for the New York Region...

Im not that familiar with this region so help me out guys...
4 conf with Pool A bids
SUNYAC-Cortland State mostly getting the bid unless a big upset takes place
LL-RPI or Skidmire will probably be the two to fight for that bid
SKY-Famingdale state or St. Josephs
NEAC-SUNYIT or Husson are the favorites out of the neac

Who will be in the hunt for an at large bid...St. John Fisher 17-4 in-region, definately Cortland State if they dnt win the tourny..anyone else that i'm missing?

There is also some talk about some teams moving to the New York Region...what teams are a good possibility to move their?


Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on April 28, 2011, 09:14:12 AM
In SUNYAC - Cortland not a lock to win the tourney, look at last year.  But barring a collapse still should make regional.
Otherwise Oneonta and Brockport could be seeing at large bids
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: airball55 on April 28, 2011, 01:25:34 PM
Certainly see St. John Fisher getting a pool b bid at this point.  I also would not count out Clarkson or any other team out of the LL, too much balance there. 
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Tarheel0550 on April 28, 2011, 03:53:45 PM
Still have to go with Oneonta getting an at large bid if they cant knock off a SUNYAC tourney championship.They have the 25th toughest sos in the nation right now
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: onesix3 on April 28, 2011, 04:14:27 PM
And quite possibly a tough weekend ahead.. I agree Cortland is no lock to win the SUNYAC's, they had a lot of one run games.I see a very balanced field with no one scarey good.I will enjoy someone else winning,again!
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Tarheel0550 on April 28, 2011, 04:43:18 PM
Just out : Regional Rankings
C-Land
O-State
B-Port
RPI
St. J Fisher
Farmingdale
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: airball55 on April 29, 2011, 09:08:05 AM
The regional committee certainly expressed their love for the Sunyac here.  Whether it is legit or not we will see.  I still don't have a lot of faith in Oneonta. 
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: DefenseWins on April 29, 2011, 12:52:06 PM
Sunyac- Cortland comes out of
LL- RPI Clarkson or Skidmore


Don't know much about the rest but I know Farmingdale is in just about every year. Whoever comes out of that SUNYIT or Husson conference will be two and out. Fisher gets a pool B with O-state right on the line if they don't win SUNYAC's. I think O-state gets in though.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: onesix3 on May 02, 2011, 08:39:27 AM
Oneonta has to win the tourney to get in now. They have an outside chance to do that! But most likely haven't got the pitching depth.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: airball55 on May 03, 2011, 12:28:56 PM
Agree, Oneonta's current seven game losing streak has them out.  At 20-15, regardless of schedule strength they won't get an at large.  Brockport continues to be a team that flies under the radar and just seems to always find a way.  They certainly must be considered for an at large if they don't get in .  At 24-10 and a very tough SOS, the have a great resume and a nice in region win over RPI.  They don't have many bad losses (worst Fredonia and RIT, Fredonia is a decent club).  They certainly are in the mix if they don't win the SUNYAC.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: basesjuiced4 on May 09, 2011, 11:20:18 PM
Any predictions on this years regional and seedings?  This is what I am thinking...


1. Cortland State
2. Brockport State
3. Farmingdale State
4. Western New England
5. RPI
6. Skidmore
7. St. John Fisher
8. Husson

Just a guess...
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Ralph Turner on May 09, 2011, 11:39:43 PM
Quote from: basesjuiced4 on May 09, 2011, 11:20:18 PM
Any predictions on this years regional and seedings?  This is what I am thinking...


1. Cortland State  SUNYAC A
2. Brockport State   Pool C  Almost definitely will receive a Pool C bid.
3. Farmingdale State   SKY  A
4. Western New England   CCC A
5. RPI                       LL A
6. Skidmore  LL  Pool C--a second Pool C for New York?  Skidmore hasn't been in the Regional Rankings
7. St. John Fisher         E8 Pool B/C -- a third Pool C?
8. Husson                  NEAC A  (601 miles away?  Probably not!  I'll bet that Husson stays in New England.)

Just a guess...

Thanks for the guess...  +1!   :)
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 10, 2011, 07:57:33 AM
There is alot of speculation that a team from the South may be moved to the NY Regional.  Are there any teams close enough to make that ride?
Is it more likely to get a team (or 2) from New England? Who could that be? Is a team like EasternCT ranked too high to move?
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: AlleyCat on May 10, 2011, 08:02:18 AM
I would say that it is likely to have a New England team or two and a Mid Atlantic team get moved in.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Big Louie on May 10, 2011, 09:57:06 AM
The liberty league is almost definitely only a 1 bid league this year. RPI has an outside shot at a POOL C if they make it to the championship game but that isn't a definite. Skidmore has to win the Liberty League to get in.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: OshDude on May 10, 2011, 11:45:26 AM
Quote from: rob on May 10, 2011, 07:57:33 AM
There is alot of speculation that a team from the South may be moved to the NY Regional.  Are there any teams close enough to make that ride?
Is it more likely to get a team (or 2) from New England? Who could that be? Is a team like EasternCT ranked too high to move?
Randolph-Macon, Shenandoah and Salisbury (if in) could all go to New York. And they have to go somewhere because they probably won't go to the South due to mileage.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: mrmom on May 10, 2011, 02:31:46 PM
Alleycat,

I'd agree with you if the South Regional was not being played in the midwest.  Literally only 12 of 38 South region teams are within the "magic" 500 mile radius for the NCAA South Region in Millington.

So, really only the SCAC and GSAC winner is close enough.  That means that probably 4 or maybe 5 teams (since Catholic won the LAND)  are going to have to go somewhere else if they are not flown.  I'd say NY, Mideast and Mid Atlantic will all get some.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: EttaFan1 on May 11, 2011, 03:55:37 PM
Quote from: mrmom on May 10, 2011, 02:31:46 PM
Alleycat,

I'd agree with you if the South Regional was not being played in the midwest.  Literally only 12 of 38 South region teams are within the "magic" 500 mile radius for the NCAA South Region in Millington.


Furthering my argument on the South Region Board, that the NCAA really made a bad, bad decision with this location.  Just dumb.  Especailly when the d3 schools seem to be stressing regional competition.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Ralph Turner on May 11, 2011, 04:33:33 PM
Quote from: EttaFan1 on May 11, 2011, 03:55:37 PM
Quote from: mrmom on May 10, 2011, 02:31:46 PM
Alleycat,

I'd agree with you if the South Regional was not being played in the midwest.  Literally only 12 of 38 South region teams are within the "magic" 500 mile radius for the NCAA South Region in Millington.


Furthering my argument on the South Region Board, that the NCAA really made a bad, bad decision with this location.  Just dumb.  Especailly when the d3 schools seem to be stressing regional competition.
Rhodes is in the South Region.  How many times has the western half of the South Region felt slighted by choice of regional site?

I remember the clamor that arose from the "real upstate" New Yorkers when they had to drive to Farmingdale.   ;)

Who else submitted a bid?   ???
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: EttaFan1 on May 12, 2011, 09:01:03 AM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 11, 2011, 04:33:33 PM

Who else submitted a bid?   ???

We will probably never know if anyone did. 

It just seems odd when $$ are a concern, and two thirds of the team are outside the bussing limit, a sight is selected for that regional. 
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: AlleyCat on May 16, 2011, 08:11:35 AM
My guess of regional

Cortland
WNEC
Keystone
Brockport
?????
Farmingdale
Rhode Island College
Clarkson
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: reddragon00 on May 16, 2011, 09:01:38 AM
Saw the regional selection and a couple of things jump out at me.  NE Region is loaded!!!  Be interested to see how these teams fair in the NY Regional.  The Mid Atlantic regional looks to be a cake walk for Kean.  How the NJAC got 3 teams in...not sure.  I know it is a good conf but Ramapo???.  No E 8 team in the Regional......Dying Conf!!!  Note to those teams in it...GET OUT FAST!!!  All in all, could be some pretty good games in the NY Regional.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: AlleyCat on May 16, 2011, 09:20:57 AM
Cortland has the arms to make it an easy regional if they hit at all. ECONN coming in may make it tough although after first 2 arms, not much. They do know how to win though. Keystone has two great arms but don't know after that. I know the one kid brings it at 92-93 and another at 86-88.

Who do you think Cortland throws at Mitchell?
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: reddragon00 on May 16, 2011, 11:03:30 AM
Alley...I am thinking they throw Ratliff at Mitchell and Schuldt Game 2.  You are right...They have to hit. East Conn could surprise someone but I wouldnt sleep on Clarkson....I could see them winning a game or 2 and throwing a wrench in one of the top teams. 
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: jdex on May 16, 2011, 11:32:52 AM


New York Regional at Auburn, N.Y.
1. Cortland State  (33-8)
2. Farmingdale State  (26-15)
3. Keystone  (32-10)
4. Brockport State (27-12)
5. Eastern Connecticut State  (32-11)
6. Ramapo  (30-12)
7. Clarkson  (17-17)
8. Mitchell  (23-9-1)

Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 16, 2011, 02:38:50 PM
Could have a SUNYAC tourney final replay in the 2nd round if both Cortland and Brockport stay in winners' bracket
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: airball55 on May 16, 2011, 02:51:32 PM
Not too many surprises here.  I think it is telling though that the Empire 8 does not get a representative for the first time since they formed a "league".  St John Fisher had to travel to Alvernia to get games.  I think they should look into getting out of that affiliation and going independent.  Ithaca, Utica, Stevens, RIT(who is leaving) just killed their chances.  At lease they tried to play someone to help their resume.  It was also smart for the Brockports of the world to not play them again.  I agree that people should not sleep on Clarkson.  I love their chances in the 2-7 game against Farmingdale, which is by far the weakest of the two seeds in the tournament.  Put Farmindale in the SUNYAC and I question they would even make the conference tournament.  Just my thoughts.  I like East Conn. in this regional.  My backup pick is Keystone.  Other predictions??
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: reddragon00 on May 16, 2011, 03:44:41 PM
Airball....I agree with the Fisher take.  With RIT leaving and Houghton joining...it will only get worse!!!  Now the question will be do other teams pick them up to play because of Opponents-Opponents winning %????  Clarskon will surprise but don't agree on Keystone....Don't think they are battle tested!  ECSU is a solid pick to be in there at end.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: AlleyCat on May 16, 2011, 03:57:25 PM
Cortland over Mitchell  13-2
Clarkson over Farmindale  6-3
Keystone over Ramapo  11-4
Eastern Conn. over Brockport  4-2


Anybody else?
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Tarheel0550 on May 16, 2011, 07:56:54 PM
Dont think their is anyway Cortland throws Ratliff against Mitchell.It would be a complete waste of a good arm.I have said before no-one in the NECC would finish higher than last in the SUNYAC or a GOOD New England conference.The NECC is made up of teams that were either dropped from their old conferences or were independants because nobody wanted them.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rolln2 on May 16, 2011, 08:15:34 PM
Quote from: reddragon00 on May 16, 2011, 09:01:38 AM
Saw the regional selection and a couple of things jump out at me.  NE Region is loaded!!!  Be interested to see how these teams fair in the NY Regional.  The Mid Atlantic regional looks to be a cake walk for Kean.  How the NJAC got 3 teams in...not sure.  I know it is a good conf but Ramapo???.  No E 8 team in the Regional......Dying Conf!!!  Note to those teams in it...GET OUT FAST!!!  All in all, could be some pretty good games in the NY Regional.

How do you justify the New England Regional as being loaded?  They only have three of the eight teams ranked in the ABCA poll.  Those three are ranked 17,22,28.  This is not a loaded regional.  I would say regionals w/ several top 5 or top ten teams would be loaded.  Like West, South and Mideast.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rolln2 on May 16, 2011, 08:17:28 PM
Quote from: rolln2 on May 16, 2011, 08:15:34 PM
Quote from: reddragon00 on May 16, 2011, 09:01:38 AM
Saw the regional selection and a couple of things jump out at me.  NE Region is loaded!!!  Be interested to see how these teams fair in the NY Regional.  The Mid Atlantic regional looks to be a cake walk for Kean.  How the NJAC got 3 teams in...not sure.  I know it is a good conf but Ramapo???.  No E 8 team in the Regional......Dying Conf!!!  Note to those teams in it...GET OUT FAST!!!  All in all, could be some pretty good games in the NY Regional.

How do you justify the New England Regional as being loaded?  They only have three of the eight teams ranked in the ABCA poll.  Those three are ranked 17,22,28.  This is not a loaded regional.  I would say regionals w/ several top 5 or top ten teams would be loaded.  Like West, South and Mideast.
Also forgot to add the Midwest regional w/ three in the top ten.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: reddragon00 on May 16, 2011, 09:17:33 PM
rolln2...the New England Region is loaded!!  They all play one another and if we were to measure the strength based on Top 25...well ...that is stupid!!!  The Marietta regional is loaded as well.  The West???Good but not loaded..They play there 40 spread out over 3 months.  Easy to run the same 3 arms out there to start all season.  To Me top 25 means nothing.  Been saying it for years.  New England baseball is very, very good.

Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 16, 2011, 10:09:07 PM
Quote from: Tarheel0550 on May 16, 2011, 07:56:54 PM
Dont think their is anyway Cortland throws Ratliff against Mitchell.It would be a complete waste of a good arm.I have said before no-one in the NECC would finish higher than last in the SUNYAC or a GOOD New England conference.The NECC is made up of teams that were either dropped from their old conferences or were independants because nobody wanted them.
I understand your point abouit Ratliff, but if you want to have one of your top starters available for Saturday (or Sunday) you need to pitch one early on.  Maybe try to limit innings in that first start too.  The other option is to try to hold onto Ratliff, Schuldt for Friday, Saturday and if you lose one game before that, accelerate the process.  Fortunately Cortland has Assman, Mahay and Hartling so you hope that is enough to get through this in 4 games.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Tarheel0550 on May 17, 2011, 08:02:23 AM
Rob- good point on having a pitcher come back later in tourney.Ratliff and C-lands bats could make short work of Mitchell and thus leave him fresh for a later game.I kinda like your thinking on this one.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: KSCfan on May 17, 2011, 10:28:30 AM
Mitchell is a joke, if i was cortland i would pitch your best guy and get him out after 5 or 6 with a big lead. Then you could hopefully bring him back friday or sat if needed.  I was looking at this region and Eastern is obviously a very good team, but i dont think they will beat Cortland.  I really cant see anyone beating Cortland in this region.  Crazy things happen in playoff baseball, thats why they play the games, and why Eastern is out here instead of back in NE. 
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: wildthngvaughn on May 17, 2011, 05:18:40 PM
New England isn't loaded, it is balanced.  Just like last year, pretty much any of the 8 teams could make a run.  New England was loaded back a couple years ago when it had Trinity, ECONN, and S.Maine all ranked in the top 6 in the nation.  That is what you call a loaded regional. 
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: theguru25 on May 17, 2011, 08:24:26 PM
Quote from: KSCfan on May 17, 2011, 10:28:30 AM
Mitchell is a joke, if i was cortland i would pitch your best guy and get him out after 5 or 6 with a big lead. Then you could hopefully bring him back friday or sat if needed.  I was looking at this region and Eastern is obviously a very good team, but i dont think they will beat Cortland.  I really cant see anyone beating Cortland in this region.  Crazy things happen in playoff baseball, thats why they play the games, and why Eastern is out here instead of back in NE. 

I think Brockport has the best chance to upset Cortland in this regional. Brockport lost 3 1-run games against Cortland this season and beat them once. The 1-run losses show they are right there with Cortland. Cortland is a great team, but with all due respect, they aren't as overpowering as they have been in the past few years. And as they say, anything can happen on any given day, that's why the game is played. Best of luck to all teams in the tournament, looking forward to seeing some good baseball this week!
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: forheavendial4999 on May 17, 2011, 11:03:58 PM
Quote from: reddragon00 on May 16, 2011, 09:17:33 PM
rolln2...the New England Region is loaded!!  They all play one another and if we were to measure the strength based on Top 25...well ...that is stupid!!!  The Marietta regional is loaded as well.  The West???Good but not loaded..They play there 40 spread out over 3 months.  Easy to run the same 3 arms out there to start all season.  To Me top 25 means nothing.  Been saying it for years.  New England baseball is very, very good.


Glad someone agrees on the rankings' relative worth. New England's teams have a track record of doing well in the championship tournament with a variety of programs (USM, Trinity, Wheaton, ECSU).
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 18, 2011, 12:12:38 PM
Through 7 in Auburn:
EasternCT       0  2  1
Brockport        0  4  0
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 18, 2011, 12:25:41 PM
Eastern leading 2-0 bottom 8
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 18, 2011, 12:47:32 PM
Final Game #1 in Auburn

EasternCT     2  5  1
Brockport      0  5  0

EasternCT advances to 4:30 game tomorrow
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 18, 2011, 01:06:52 PM
Quote from: rob on May 18, 2011, 12:47:32 PM
Final Game #1 in Auburn

EasternCT     2  5  1
Brockport      0  5  0

EasternCT advances to 4:30 game tomorrow

From the looks of the live stats, one hell of a pitchers duel between Eastern's Jim Schult and Brockport's Kyle Smith. Schult went the distance and struck out 12; Smith tossed a four-hit bid over eight and fanned six. Only runs for the Warriors came in the eighth on a two-out base hit with the bases loaded. The Golden Eagles stranded a runner on third to end their half of the eighth.

I have a hunch the second game won't be as close.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 18, 2011, 02:22:19 PM
Game #2 at Auburn:
After 2 innings Cortland leads 2-0
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 18, 2011, 03:01:40 PM
Mitchell scores in the top of the 6th.
Cortland leads 2-1
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 18, 2011, 03:13:24 PM
Cortland gets one run in the bottom of the 6th and leads 3-1 going into the 7th.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 18, 2011, 03:50:56 PM
Final in Game 2 at Auburn:

Mitchell      1  8  0
Cortland     3  6  0

Travis Ratliff goes 9 innings scattering 8 hits with 6 K's for the win.
Matt Wild knocks in 2 runs.

Cortland advance to the 4:30 game on Thursday against EasternCT.
Mitchell will play Brockport at 10AM
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 18, 2011, 06:01:46 PM
Not enough runs in the first few games, Ramapo and Keystone are attempting to fix that. Roadrunners and the Giants tied at four in the fourth.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 18, 2011, 07:32:26 PM
Keystone 8 Ramapo 5 - FINAL

The Giants scored three runs in the bottom of the eighth to break a 5-5 tie. Keystone is on to the winners bracket tomorrow to play the winner of the Clarkson vs. Farmingdale State game
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 18, 2011, 10:21:38 PM
Game #4 today in Auburn:
Clarkson - Farmingdale scoreless through 5 innings
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 18, 2011, 11:14:40 PM
Farmingdale scores in the bottom 7 on a wild pitch.
Farmingdale leads Clarkson 1-0 after 7
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 18, 2011, 11:29:34 PM
Clarkson scores in the top of the 8th

Clarkson - Farmingdale tied at 1-1  bottom 8
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 18, 2011, 11:57:00 PM
OK - Farmingdale / Clarkson still 1-1 after 9 complete.
Another late night extra inning game!!
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 12:20:11 AM
Kevin Curtis singles in David Zilnicki to give Farmingdale the victory over Clarkson in 10 innings.

Farmingdale will play Keystone at 7:45PM on Thursday
Clarkson will take on Ramapo 1:15


Matchups for Thursday in Auburn:

Loser Bracket:
Mitchell vs Brockport - 10:00
Clarkson vs Ramapo - 1:15

Winner Bracket:
Cortland vs EasternCT - 4:30
Farmingdale vs Keystone - 7:45
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 09:44:58 AM
Rain on the radar for Thursday and Friday in Auburn, NY.
Hope to get these games in.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 11:21:11 AM
Brockport is starting to pile on with the help of 3 Mitchell errors.
Still in the top of the 5th inning the Brockport is leading 6-0.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 11:33:16 AM
Auburn in a rain delay as of 11:23AM
After 4 1/2 innings:

Brockport      6  8  1
Mitchell CT    0  2  3
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 01:28:02 PM
Game resumes after 1 hr. 35 min. rain delay.
Onslaught continues for Brockport with 2 more in the 6th.
The score after 6 innings has Brockport leading 8-0
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 02:30:11 PM
Final in Game #5 at Auburn today:

Brockport      10  15  1
Mitchell CT      0   3   4

Brockport advances to Game #10 tomorrow at 1:15 and will face the loser of today's Game#8 between Keystone and Farmingdale
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: scuba16 on May 19, 2011, 02:49:40 PM
Doppler doesn't look good for Auburn for the rest of the day/night. That will probably push the 2 night games until tomorrow morning.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 03:42:33 PM
After 3 innings at Auburn:
Clarkson vs Ramapo 0-0
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 03:59:13 PM
Clarkson strikes first scoring 2 in the top of the fourth.  Now leads Ramapo 2-0 going to the bottom of the inning.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 04:53:22 PM
Three more for Clarkson in the top of the 7th inning.
Clarkson now leads Ramapo 5-0 in the bottom of the inning.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 05:51:06 PM
Final line in Game #6 today at Auburn:

Clarkson       5  7  2
Ramapo        2  6  1

Clarkson advances to Game #9 on Friday against the loser of today's Game #7 between Cortland and EasternCT
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 06:51:21 PM
Game #7 in Auburn, NY
Cortland vs EasternCT
Rain began after infield/outfield and field was tarped.  Once this current T-storm passes the 2 remaining Thursday games should be be played tonight in constant drizzle.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 06:53:22 PM
Good job by Joe Brown's grounds crew this week so far.  Players not on Cortland's travel roster.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: forheavendial4999 on May 19, 2011, 07:04:00 PM
Quote from: rob on May 19, 2011, 06:53:22 PM
Good job by Joe Brown's grounds crew this week so far.  Players not on Cortland's travel roster.

Always unsung heroes of regional play. Some places have workstudy kids doing the job, others situations like this...but it's always a key part of having a good regional is having a good grounds crew and equipment to tend to the field.

Only time they get noticed is when a fielder gets a bad hop or the pitcher complains about the mound.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 07:08:13 PM
7:05PM  Play Ball!!
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 07:35:23 PM
Cortland scores in the top of the 2nd inning on a Matt June sac. fly.
Cortland leads 1-0
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 08:27:55 PM
After Eastern scores two runs to take the lead in the bottom of the third inning, Cortland strikes back scoring 4 in the top of the fourth to take a 5-2 lead going into the bottom of the inning.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 08:41:13 PM
Eastern gets one back and Cortland now leads by the score of 5-3, top of the 5th inning
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: airball55 on May 19, 2011, 08:43:00 PM
Good to see the NY region teams knock out the visitors from Mitchell and Ramapo.  I know that Mitchell certainly does not belong with these types of teams, but, it is always nice to see the NY teams knock out the shippers.  I can see Brockport and Clarkson giving someone a real tough time tomorrow.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 08:54:13 PM
Kris Gentzke hits a 2 run homer for Cortland and now leads 7-3
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: jdex on May 19, 2011, 09:03:20 PM

What determines home team in regional .......E. Conn. has that role against Cortland. Would think higher seed would be awarded such a perk. But no ........ .......what, heads or tails? Or something else .....
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 09:09:46 PM
Eastern comes right back with 3 runs of their own and Cortland now leads 7-6.
Top of the 6th inning.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 10:18:49 PM
Yes, another rain delay in Auburn, NY.
Cortland still leads EasternCT 7-6 in the 8th inning.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 10:42:35 PM
Game #8 in Auburn between Keystone and Farmingdale, originally scheduled for7:45 tonight will now be played Friday morning (not sure of the time yet).
Cortland and Eastern will try to wait out the rain and finish their game tonight.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: forheavendial4999 on May 19, 2011, 10:58:35 PM
Quote from: jdex on May 19, 2011, 09:03:20 PM

What determines home team in regional .......E. Conn. has that role against Cortland. Would think higher seed would be awarded such a perk. But no ........ .......what, heads or tails? Or something else .....

Ugh...a complicated mess of rules. Something like who has been the home team the most times, and then if they're tied some other way I can't remember. Maybe a coin flip.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 19, 2011, 11:13:41 PM
Cortland - EasternCt game called at 10:50PM.  Will resume at 9AM Friday.
Farmingdale - Keystone should follow.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 09:28:14 AM
Auburn, NY
In continuation of last night's game between Cortland and EasternCT, Eastern threatens in bottom of 9th but Cortland holds on for win.

Cortland      7  10  2
EasternCT    6  13  2

Cortland advances to Game #11 against the winner of rescheduled Game #8 between Keystone and Farmingdale.
EasternCT moves to Game #9 against Clarkson
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 10:25:01 AM
Farmingdale jumps out to an early lead.
After 1 inning:
Farmingdale    1
Keystone         0
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: theguru25 on May 20, 2011, 12:59:19 PM
Keystone takes Game #8 6-2 against Farmingdale.

Keystone          6  10  2
Farmingdale      2   5   3

Keystone moves on to play Cortland at approximately 8:30pm (Game #11)
Farmindale will play Brockport at approximately 5pm (Game #10)
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 01:37:33 PM
Game #9 between Clarkson and EasternCT underway.  First pitch at 1:35.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 02:25:30 PM
EasternCt vs Clarkson
No score after 3 complete
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 02:57:26 PM
Eastern breaks through with 4 runs in the top of the 5th inning
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 03:50:38 PM
Clarkson gets 1 back in the 8th.
4-1 Eastern heading to the 9th inning.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 04:02:25 PM
Eastern adds to their lead with 2  in the 9th.  Clarkson facing elimination coming up for their final at bat.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 04:12:16 PM
Game #9 is over in Auburn, NY:

EasternCT       6  10  1
Clarkson         1    8  0

Eastern advances to Game #12 which is scheduled to be played at 11:30 tonight. (We'll see...)
They will face the winner of Game #10 between Farmingdale and Brockport.
Clarkson is eliminated.

The #6, #7 and #8 seeds have been eliminated in the New York Regional
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 04:13:58 PM
Game #10 between Farmingdale and Brockport should begin around 4:40
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 04:18:48 PM
NOTE:
If Farmingdale advances to Game #12 then that game will automatically move to tomorrow, since no team can play three full games in one day.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 05:01:26 PM
Farmingdale draws first blood, scoring one run in the top of the first.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 05:52:33 PM
After 4 innings at Auburn:

Farmingdale       1  4  0
Brockport           1  4  0
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 06:19:58 PM
Brockport pushes a run across in the bottom of the 5th inning.  Now leads Farmingdale  2-1.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 06:32:51 PM
Brockport tacks on 4 more in the 6th.  Is time running out on Farmingdale's season?
Brockport over Farmingdale 6-1 after 6 complete.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 07:16:59 PM
Game #10 at Auburn is over.

Farmingdale       2  6   1
Brockport          6  10  0

Brockport advances to Game 12 against EasternCt scheduled for 11:00 tonight.
#2 seed Farmingdale is eliminated.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 07:23:14 PM
#1 Cortland vs #3 Keystone should get underway at 7:45 tonight in the final winner bracket game.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: onesix3 on May 20, 2011, 08:56:04 PM
Who's the idiot that schedules a baseball game at 11:00 at night!!! I hope someone with a brain prevails with that decision!
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 10:22:07 PM
Game #11 in Auburn, NY is over:

Keystone              13  16  1
Cortland                0    2   0

Keystone advances to the Championship game at 5:00 tomorrow against the winner of Game #13
Cortland will play in Game #13 tomorrow at 1:00 against the winner of Game #12 between Brockport and EasternCT

Did not see that one coming
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 20, 2011, 10:26:10 PM
Game #12 between Brockport and EasternCT should get underway by 10:47
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: theguru25 on May 21, 2011, 12:06:57 PM
Brockport sends ECSU packing with a 6-3 victory that ended around 2:30am.

Brockport   6  12   1
ECSU         3   11   2

Brockport will play Cortland at 1pm today, with the winner moving on to play Keystone. Keystone needs just one win to head to Appleton and Brockport/Cortland would have to beat Keystone once today and once tomorrow.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: theguru25 on May 21, 2011, 01:13:45 PM
Cortland strikes in the top of the first on an error by the pitcher, sac bunt, infield single, then sac fly.

1-0 heading to bottom 1
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: John McGraw on May 21, 2011, 01:45:03 PM
Quote from: theguru25 on May 21, 2011, 01:13:45 PM
Cortland strikes in the top of the first on an error by the pitcher, sac bunt, infield single, then sac fly.

1-0 heading to bottom 1

Looks like Cortland is saving Mahay for a possible game with Keystone later today with Hartling on the mound. I would guess if Cortland forces a winner-take-all game then that would be Ratliff maybe coming back on three days' rest.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: theguru25 on May 21, 2011, 01:51:51 PM
Cortland grabs 3 more in the top of the 2nd to take a 4-0 lead.

Now heading to bottom 3

Cortland   4  7  0
Brockport  0  2  1
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 21, 2011, 02:17:58 PM
Quote from: John McGraw on May 21, 2011, 01:45:03 PM
Quote from: theguru25 on May 21, 2011, 01:13:45 PM
Cortland strikes in the top of the first on an error by the pitcher, sac bunt, infield single, then sac fly.

1-0 heading to bottom 1

Looks like Cortland is saving Mahay for a possible game with Keystone later today with Hartling on the mound. I would guess if Cortland forces a winner-take-all game then that would be Ratliff maybe coming back on three days' rest.
I have to agree with you.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 21, 2011, 02:20:54 PM
Cortland tacks on 2 more in the top of the 5th inning.  Extends their lead to 6-0.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: theguru25 on May 21, 2011, 02:49:51 PM
Brockport clawing back into the game with 3 in the 5th. Scoreless top half for Cortland as they lead 6-3 going into the bottom of the 6th
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 21, 2011, 03:54:36 PM
Championship game is set as Cortland defeats Brockport 9-4.
Cortland must beat Keystone today at 5:00 to force a second game tomorow.  Keystone only needs to win today to advance to Wisconsin.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 21, 2011, 03:57:40 PM
Champioship Game today will begin at 4:40.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2011, 06:20:32 PM
Cortland leads Keystone 4-1 through 5 and a half innings, but Keystone trying to rally in the bottom of the 6th as the 1st 2 hitters get singles and advance to 2nd and 3rd on a fielding error. Next batter grounds out to 2nd but a run scores on the groundout making it 4-2 with a runner on 3rd. Pinch hitter comes up for Keystone and singles in another run making it 4-3. Next batter grounds to 2nd and the Red Dragons turn the 4-6-3 double play to keep the lead going into the top of the 7th.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2011, 06:42:29 PM
Keystone scores a run in the bottom of the 7th to tie Cortland at 4-4. C'mon Red Dragons, need some runs here to put this game away.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: theguru25 on May 21, 2011, 07:24:26 PM
Keystone wins 5-4 in walk off fashion with 2 outs.

Joe Brown ejected after an unconverted double play controversy
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: magicman on May 21, 2011, 07:26:42 PM
Keystone scores a run in the bottom of the 9th to win the regional. Coach Brown is tossed after he argues a safe call on first that cost the Red Dragons a double play, which would have ended the inning. Next batter singles and scores a runner that was on third, giving Keystone a 5-4 win.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: onesix3 on May 21, 2011, 09:08:41 PM
Now that's funny!And the little kangaroo in the pouch says me too!Keystone...awesome!!
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: ballsy on May 22, 2011, 08:55:39 AM
Did JB take his ball and bat and go home......should have been more concerned about the obvious missed sign on the throw down pick off at first.......
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Baseball Coach Toledo on May 22, 2011, 05:43:36 PM
ballsy,

your not talking about when a balk was called which would then be a dead ball stopping the game are you? that would be a misinterpretation of what actually happened. good try though
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: ballsy on May 22, 2011, 06:23:28 PM
Keystone opened the deciding ninth inning on a strikeout before senior left fielder Roberto Santana reached base on a single to left field. Cortland attempted to pick off Santana at first, but with no one covering the throw, he advanced to second on the throwing error on a dead play. The Red Dragons intentionally walked Henry before Vega reached on a fielder's choice (Henry out at second and Santana moved to third), beating the relay throw to prevent the double play, to set up Torres' game winning hit..........this is what i was talking about......Best team won
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Baseball Coach Toledo on May 22, 2011, 06:49:19 PM
ballsy,

I might be mistaken, although I was there. I do believe that the inning happened like this. Siano K's, Santana singled, Santana moved to second on the balk, a throw was made put after the play was stopped. Henry was intentionally walked. Vega hit the ground ball to SS for the controversial double play ball. Torres then singled with 1st and third.

ballsy, are you another Cortland hater or actually an educated baseball guy?
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: ballsy on May 22, 2011, 06:53:32 PM
JB hater,   know a little about the game though
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: ballsy on May 22, 2011, 07:01:43 PM
was not there, but the above was tournament recap,   sounds different from what you observed though....have my own reasons for why i think JB is overrated....  and in my opinion best team won.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Baseball Coach Toledo on May 22, 2011, 07:45:01 PM
on a board where your anonymous you can share why you think he is so overrated. I'm from jersey, so i guess I gave away my team allegences from this weekend
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: FranElia on May 22, 2011, 08:15:10 PM
I apologize for any confusion, but we made a mistake in the press box. We were not aware that a balk had been called on the play in the ninth. Not knowing what actually happened, we recorded an error on the pickoff throw (which we now know was negated by the balk). I just learned Sunday evening about the balk, and the stats have been fixed. Therefore, those who are referencing the throwing error aren't crazy - we did have that listed, mistakenly, in the box score and game story until Sunday night.

Fran Elia
Cortland SID
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: Ralph Turner on May 22, 2011, 08:20:20 PM
Thank you, Fran.

I appreciate your coming onto the message boards to clarify the point..

I also want to thank you for all of the support that you have given D3baseball.com and D3boards.com, as well as the websites thru the years.

+1!  :)
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: FranElia on May 22, 2011, 08:39:31 PM
Thanks Ralph. I appreciate that.

I don't tend to post on the boards with opinions, due to my role at Cortland, but I do post when I feel something needs to be factually clarified or corrected. In this particular case, the correction was to my own mistake (so I'm the perfect person to make the correction!!) :)

Congrats to the teams heading to Wisconsin. I've been fortunate to be there a few times, and the experience is always a good one. They run a first-class operation.

By the way, in how many sports do you see an entirely different "final eight" from one year to the next? I have to believe there is more parity in baseball than in any Div. III sport - makes it very exciting every year.

Fran
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: onesix3 on May 22, 2011, 10:33:56 PM
I would like to ask whose decision was it to start a game at 10:57PM? Also why was that game so important to be played on Friday night?
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: theguru25 on May 23, 2011, 10:54:02 AM
I agree, kind of crazy to start a 3 hour game at 11 at night. I think it was because if they didn't play it then, it would have potentially made the winner (Brockport or ECSU) play 3 games on the Saturday. And since that isn't possible according to rules, Keystone would have had a complete day of rest. I'm not sure how well that would've flown with their opponents to give their first starter and all their relievers an extra day of rest. Must've been tough for Brockport to play til 2:30am and then probably only get to sleep until 10am for breakfast and get to the field to hit and warm up. They were getting very thin on arms, and I'm not sure who would've been able to throw for them against Keystone had they beat Cortland. If their starter could've went longer, and saved Tilley, that would be logical, but then they would have to go with Smith on Sunday on 3 days rest after he threw 8 innings on Wednesday, or hope they could win by pitching the whole staff. Tough circumstances for any team out of the loser's bracket though. A lot of extra games and only so many reliable arms. Congratulations to all of the teams for making the regional and good luck to Keystone in the World Series. Hopefully they represent the NY region well.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 23, 2011, 06:17:58 PM
No matter what, someone would have cried "foul".  If the game was pushed into Saturday or not.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: rob on May 23, 2011, 06:28:13 PM
Also, say what you will about JB, he puts together a VERY competitive team EVERY year.  With the loss of Gardner, Nickel, Simone the Dimino's, etc no one would have been surprised to see Cortland have a down year but that didn't happen.  An incredibly strong pitching staff and an improved defense changed the face of that team and once again they were in the championship game in regionals.  I'm sure one way or another they will be competitve next year and the year after, and the year after, etc.
All the haters are certainly entitled to their opinions but just count the W's at the end of the season.
Title: Re: BB: 2011 New York Regional
Post by: onesix3 on May 24, 2011, 08:58:35 AM
I don't want to cry"foul",I want to lodge a formal complaint.How do they know someone disagrees with their decision if you don't let "them" know.Whoever "them" is or are!! I'm not complaining about the outcomes of the game or advantages or disadvantages of one team or another,I'm complaining about starting a game at an unreasonable hour and playing until almost 3AM.Two games were scheduled for Sat. and one for Sunday,certainly adjustments could have been made without disrupting the whole tournament. Clearly not a lot of common sense went into this decision!           And please don't tell me its been done in the past,that doesn't make it right and only adds to the stupidity!!