There are a few school districts starting to announce cancellations in MN as well. At least in terms of extending Spring Break an extra week or two.

Quote from: Jim Dixon on March 10, 2020, 10:58:03 pm

Amherst first to cancel baseball season.

Now all NESCAC sports have cancelled their spring seasons.  How very sad for all involved.

https://www.d3sports.com/notables/2020/03/amherst-closes-campus-for-spring?fbclid=IwAR1lICsZlebOKTTt70aVexTNMevDEd5aiukZGnHUR2eXe3QcL_AaUkhcbyc

Grinnell (Iowa) just cancelled all spring sports as well.

Carthage moved to 3-1 yesterday with a 13-10 win over Marian (WI) in AZ. The Carthage bullpen appears to be a dumpster fire right now (with the exception of Odahl who had another solid relief appearance) as they continue to give up runs. Delabio had his second appearance out of the pen and it left off right where his first ended. He has now walked 6 and only recorded 1/3 inning at this point. He needs to figure it out for Carthage is to have any shot in the CCIW.

In typical Carthage fashion, they are piling up runs. 40 runs in four games.  They are off until Thursday when they face Bethany Lutheran so that should allow the rotation to turn over and we should get a truer sense of how the Carthage arms are this year. Hopefully the bullpen issues have just been nervous hiccups in first outings and they get back on track in their second go-round. If the pens struggles they'll be forced to ride the starters deeper into game and that shows later in the season.

Quote from: Gregory Sager on March 09, 2020, 12:29:46 pm

Aside from Jake Reinhardt and Jared Cantu the Vikings aren't hitting much, as they're clearly scrambling to account for the temporary absence of two key injured bats in Ranko Stevanovic and Brad Maurer, but, with the exception of their ugly outing against Webster down in Sauget on February 29, they've recovered nicely from getting their ears pinned back by Birmingham-Southern in the third week of February.

This reminded me...Carthage has been without Vince Schwartz in their first three games.  Not sure what's going on there but he hasn't had an AB yet this season.

He'll be back in the lineup soon. Minor injury they are being safe with.

Quote from: BigPoppa on March 08, 2020, 02:58:28 pm

Carthage's Big Red Machine jumped out of the gates quickly yesterday sweeping a DH from Luther in Arizona.

Keith Kutzler went 6 innings with 12 Ks. Nate Odahl returned to the mound after missing nearly all of last season with an injury and K'd two of the three he faced. One down side to the pitching was 13 BBs in the DH. That has to be cleaned up a bit but the arms appear to be solid on the front end of the rotation.

Offensively, Carthage had 8 different players collect multiple hits on the day including triples and 4 RBI from BOTH Johnny Belskis and Jake  Mitchell. Here's to hoping Carthage returns to form in 2020.

Good start, but short-lived as they fall to Wabash, 8-7 in 10 innings on Sunday.  Wabash scored on a bases loaded BALK in the top of the 10th.  Starting pitcher in the game on Sunday, Dante Guarascio, gave up 7 earned and 10 hits in 4 innings.  Redmen relievers were good until the 10th, where they hit the lead off guy, walked the next, got a ground ball out and then walked the next to load 'em up.

Apparently Jacob Delabio was touching 96 in game one, but much like Todd Greenlee (reference for Poppa)...couldn't find the strike zone however, walking 4 in a third of an inning worked on Saturday.

YES! Todd Greenlee!!!!! (aka, "Horse") I have stories about THAT guy!  He once tossed a no-hitter and allowed 3-4 runs.... mix in about 8 BBs and 5 HBPs... and a few balls off the backstop... and they were able to scrape together a few runs. I believe he hit the first three batters of the game on three pitches.

While Delabio struggled Saturday, I've always felt the second start is the best indicator of pitchers... many are just throwing off dirt for the first time in 6 months, and have nerves rumbling through them in their first outings of the season. Here's to hoping he settles in for his second appearance.

Also, most other regions are just getting going so west teams have piled up wins as other teams sit in gyms.

None whatsoever, aside from North Central being a no-brainer #1 pick by everyone other than Ed Mathey.