Senior pitcher/outfielder John Lunardi from Exton, Pa. pitched a perfect game 1, literally, as Susquehanna swept visiting Drew , 9-0, 12-5, in a Landmark Conference doubleheader at Harold Bollinger Field on March 28. This was the fourteenth perfect game in D-III and the first since April 21, 2007 when Tim Kiely pitched a perfect game against the Tufts Jumbos.
13: http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2007/04/22/2039/tim-kiely-delivers-perfection.html
14: http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2009/03/28/6460/john-lunardi-tosses-perfect-game.html
I have to find my list of some others. I am not sure I know about all 14 perfect games.
Here's one:
http://www.uwsp.edu/Athletics/baseball/2002/GAME-08.HTM
Bill Verbrick for UW-Stevens Point over UW-River Falls in 2002.
Quote from: Just Bill on March 29, 2009, 04:38:46 PM
Here's one:
http://www.uwsp.edu/Athletics/baseball/2002/GAME-08.HTM
Bill Verbrick for UW-Stevens Point over UW-River Falls in 2002.
34 years of D-III baseball and 14 Perfect games means there should be one every 2-3 years.
I will count Bill Verbrick as #11.
1-10:??
11: http://www.uwsp.edu/Athletics/baseball/2002/GAME-08.HTM
12: ??
13: http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2007/04/22/2039/tim-kiely-delivers-perfection.html
14: http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2009/03/28/6460/john-lunardi-tosses-perfect-game.html
Dan Roberge (http://www.rwuhawks.com/news/2008/3/30/base_wentworth_08.aspx?path=baseball), Roger Williams vs. Wentworth (7 IP) (http://www.rwuhawks.com/custompages/baseball/stats/2008/rwu15.htm), March 30, 2008.
Cody Flynn (http://www.edgewoodcollegeeagles.com/news/2006/5/6/1967567.aspx?path=baseball), Edgewood vs. Maranatha Baptist (7 IP) (http://www.edgewoodcollegeeagles.com/custompages/Statistics/baseball/2006/05061bb.htm), May 6, 2006.
The others? According to the '09 record book, there were 12 perfect games before this season. D-III perfect games by season:
'88 (1)
'90 (1)
'96 (1)
'99 (1)
'01 (1)
'02 (2, Verbrick and?)
'04 (2)
'06 (1, Flynn)
'07 (1, Kiely)
'08 (1, Roberge)
'09 (1, Lunardi)
I forgot about Roberge's perfect game. That makes 15 or is it 13?
I took the figure of 13 from the 2007 Kiely release. Record keeping as I know is spotty at best so the record book may not be correct so there still could be two missing perfect games.
From the Centennial Conference Record Book:
Adam Huron, Haverford (6) vs. Hiram (0), March 8, 2004 (7 innings, perfect game)
Quote from: Jim Dixon on March 30, 2009, 01:59:52 PM
I forgot about Roberge's perfect game. That makes 15 or is it 13?
I took the figure of 13 from the 2007 Kiely release. Record keeping as I know is spotty at best so the record book may not be correct so there still could be two missing perfect games.
Too bad the D-III record book doesn't list them all like they do in the D-I and D-II books. All they have are occurances by year. At least that's all I could find. The recent record books do list the perfect games from the previous year, but you already know those.
Perhaps whoever wrote the '07 Trinity release could shed some light because that number doesn't match the NCAA total. Maybe that SID – if he or she is the still at Trinity – knows more than the NCAA. At the D-III level, that wouldn't surprise me.
and add one more. Lakeland junior Lee Chepil tossed what is believed to be the first perfect game in Lakeland history
http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2009/04/05/6480/chepil-throws-first-perfect-game-in-lakeland-history.html
What is it with Hiram. They have been on the losing side of three perfect games (2004, 2012, 2013)
Quote from: Jim Dixon on March 16, 2013, 01:41:11 AM
What is it with Hiram. They have been on the losing side of three perfect games (2004, 2012, 2013)
Glad I wasn't the only one to notice that. Didn't know the exact years but seemed like it had happened a few times.
Perfect Game list (incomplete)
2013-03-15 Nick Rossmiller, Thiel Tomcats vs Hiram
2012-04-15 Kyle Cunningham Rhoades, Wooster vs Hiram
2012-03-23 Chris Dragone, Farmington St. vs Yeshiva
2011-05-00 Tyler Brown, Spalding vs USCAA Rochester
2011-03-26 Kyle Hart, Casey Miller, Brock Jacob, Redlands vs Caltech
2009-04-04 Lee Chepil, Lakeland vs Maranatha Baptist
2009-03-28 John Lunardi, Susquehanna vs Drew
2008-03-30 Dan Roberge, Roger Williams vs Wentworth
2007-04-21 Tim Kiely, Trinity (Conn.) vs Tufts
2006-05-06 Cody Flynn, Edgewood vs Maranatha Baptist
2004-05-01 Tony Groccia, Clark (Mass.) vs. Gordon
2004-14-17 Tim Hanson, Nichols vs. Gordon
2004-03-08 Adam Huron, Haverford vs Hiram
2002-04-06 Bill Verbrick, UW-Stevens Point vs River Falls
2001 unknown
1999 unknown
1996 unknown
1993-00-00 Brian Ford, Methodist vs St. John Fisher
1990 unknown
1989-05-07 Mark Bricker, Wooster vs ??
1988 unknown
------- Before D-III started in 1976 --------------------
1970-04-25 Denny Kessel, Carthage vs N. Central Ill.
1961-00-00 Bill Kuse, U of Wisconsin Stevens Point vs UW-Eau Claire
1905-04-07 Willard B. "Bill" Morrell, Tufts University
Two more perfect games on 14 April - Three combined for Farmingdale State, Ryan Jacob for PS-Behrend.
Perfect Game list (incomplete)
2013-04-14 Ryan Jacons, PS-Behrend vs Mount Aloysius
2013-04-14 Cameron Kitt, Kevin Martinez and Dominick Morelli, Farmiingdale State vs NYU-Poly
2013-03-15 Nick Rossmiller, Thiel Tomcats vs Hiram
2012-04-15 Kyle Cunningham Rhoades, Wooster vs Hiram
2012-03-23 Chris Dragone, Farmington St. vs Yeshiva
2011-05-00 Tyler Brown, Spalding vs USCAA Rochester
2011-03-26 Kyle Hart, Casey Miller, Brock Jacob, Redlands vs Caltech
2009-04-04 Lee Chepil, Lakeland vs Maranatha Baptist
2009-03-28 John Lunardi, Susquehanna vs Drew
2008-03-30 Dan Roberge, Roger Williams vs Wentworth
2007-04-21 Tim Kiely, Trinity (Conn.) vs Tufts
2006-05-06 Cody Flynn, Edgewood vs Maranatha Baptist
2004-05-01 Tony Groccia, Clark (Mass.) vs. Gordon
2004-14-17 Tim Hanson, Nichols vs. Gordon
2004-03-08 Adam Huron, Haverford vs Hiram
2002-04-06 Bill Verbrick, UW-Stevens Point vs River Falls
2001 unknown
1999 unknown
1996 unknown
1993-00-00 Brian Ford, Methodist vs St. John Fisher
1990 unknown
1989-05-07 Mark Bricker, Wooster vs ??
1988 unknown
1985 Randy Beilmeier, Wisconsin-Oshkosh
-------------------------------------- Before D-III started in 1976--------------------------------------
1970-04-25 Denny Kessel, Carthage vs N. Central Ill.
1961-00-00 Bill Kuse, U of Wisconsin Stevens Point vs UW-Eau Claire
1905-04-07 Willard B. "Bill" Morrell, Tufts