Quote from: ronk on May 27, 2021, 12:18:08 PM
Appear to have delayed MN regional from 11AM to 3 PM according to videostream link.

It is an UGLY day here in MN... 45 degrees and rain all day... I don't see how ANY games happen in MN today.

Minnesota is hosting two regionals just over an hour apart. I am hoping to catch a game or two at each venue this weekend (while working around my own baseball coaching schedule).

Regarding talent from the Fox Cities, a lot of mid-major D1s have have worked their way into the Valley and the kids that used to land at UWO, Carthage, Stevens Point, etc... are being scooped up by the likes of Xavier, Bradley, Valpo, St Louis, etc...

Whitewater has maintained its ability to grab top kids and has been very successful as a result. St Norbert has also  done well in the Fox Valley getting some kids to stay home. Granted the academic standards are ridiculous, but I have always been baffled by Lawrence University's inability to build a solid program in Appleton.

You gotta recruit the Fox Valley if you want to win in Wisconsin... Carthage used to pound the valley but former pitching coach, Brian Mosher, was from the valley. He recruited it hard. The number of valley kids on the Carthage roster has declined greatly since he left.

It's easier to recruit the North Suburb kids to Carthage but those are VERY different types of kids (upper-middle class white collar kids) than the kids from the Fox Valley (Tough, blue collar kids who know what adversity is).

Quote from: BigPoppa on March 05, 2021, 03:45:29 PM
Does ANYone care to take a stab at the CCIW this year? With almost no 2020 season to use as a baseline, just about anything is possible in 2021. My top three:

1. North Central
2. IWU
3. Carthage

Tell me I am wrong...

I withdraw my statement. Carthage pitching is horrendous. This is the worst pitching staff I've seen Carthage run out in at least 30 years. Struggling to gain Ws vs traditional middle-to-bottom dwelling CCIW opponents. I fear for the games vs the top of the CCIW.

I like NPU as well. Lots back to build on.

Does ANYone care to take a stab at the CCIW this year? With almost no 2020 season to use as a baseline, just about anything is possible in 2021. My top three:

1. North Central
2. IWU
3. Carthage

Tell me I am wrong...

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.

... and so it begins... will anyone be left playing by the end of the week?

Quote from: mr_b on March 11, 2020, 01:21:10 PM

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.

I know neither of these is a CCIW program but the NESCAC and Grinnell (IA) just cancelled ALL spring sports. The NESCAC cancelled for the entire conference.

Is there talk of other institutions (or CCIW programs) leaning this way 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 10, 2020, 01:10:33 PM

Is this a new record for the earliest reference?!

Quote from: mwunder on March 09, 2020, 01:25:32 PM

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: Jack Parkman on March 06, 2020, 02:40:51 PM

Quote from: MIFDad on March 05, 2020, 01:23:46 PM
Not a huge surprise, but still very disappointing.

Two eastern schools, Pitt Bradford and Ithaca, have canceled their trips to California to play SCIAC teams beginning this weekend. I sincerely hope that's not the beginning of a trend, and I hope  that we'll be able to look back and describe their decision as overly cautious, and not as prescient.

Looks like many of the SCIAC schools will have to play each other in non-conference games. Definitely not a good situation.

I'd assume many other GSAC and PAC-WEST schools are in the same boat... there are a lot of NAIA schools that come through SoCal in March and I think a few of those may have opened up as well.