The bracket will be announced on May 14,2018.
Hosted by St Scholastica
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 07, 2018, 01:32:58 PM
The bracket will be announced on May 14,2018.
Hosted by St Scholastica
Great stadium. Hopefully the weather isn't as cold as it can get there this time of the year.
Quote from: BigSpotScott on May 07, 2018, 10:25:27 PM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 07, 2018, 01:32:58 PM
The bracket will be announced on May 14,2018.
Hosted by St Scholastica
Great stadium. Hopefully the weather isn't as cold as it can get there this time of the year.
I played a high school game in Duluth two years ago on May 15th and it was 34* and snowing. It's a crap-shoot with weather on Lake Superior....
I predict unseasonably warm weather with blue skies.
Quote from: Jim Dixon on May 08, 2018, 10:29:53 AM
I predict unseasonably warm weather with blue skies.
That's adorable.
While the NCAA weekend looks to to be in the 60s and 70s, this Friday's projected high is 45*.
In a strange quirk, Duluth (Home of St Scholastica) is the site of the Midwest Regional and for the first time this century, St. Scholastica did not qualify.
Quote from: BigPoppa on May 14, 2018, 11:20:07 AM
In a strange quirk, Duluth (Home of St Scholastica) is the site of the Midwest Regional and for the first time this century, St. Scholastica did not qualify.
Call it irony, karma, a quirk of the baseball gods, ... it does free up the St Scholastica staff to conduct the tourney!
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 14, 2018, 12:39:23 PM
Quote from: BigPoppa on May 14, 2018, 11:20:07 AM
In a strange quirk, Duluth (Home of St Scholastica) is the site of the Midwest Regional and for the first time this century, St. Scholastica did not qualify.
Call it irony, karma, a quirk of the baseball gods, ... it does free up the St Scholastica staff to conduct the tourney!
True, but the players are done with school and many have left for the summer. Might have been nice to have their help.
Bracket
(https://i.imgur.com/wuw0oSw.png)
Quote from: AllStar on May 14, 2018, 03:57:31 PM
Bracket
(https://i.imgur.com/wuw0oSw.png)
Where does loser of game 5 go if they aren't eliminated?
Quote from: BigSpotScott on May 14, 2018, 07:47:12 PM
Quote from: AllStar on May 14, 2018, 03:57:31 PM
Where does loser of game 5 go if they aren't eliminated?
The bracket is slightly altered in that case.
If the loser of Game 5 isn't eliminated there would be 5 teams remaining. If that happened, I believe it would go like this:
Loser of Game 5 vs. Loser of Game 6
Winner of Game 4 vs. Winner of Game 5
Winner of Game 6 vs. Winner of Game 7
Winner of Game 8 vs. Loser of Game 9
Winner of Game 9 vs. Winner of Game 10
Quote from: AllStar on May 14, 2018, 08:45:51 PM
Quote from: BigSpotScott on May 14, 2018, 07:47:12 PM
Quote from: AllStar on May 14, 2018, 03:57:31 PM
Where does loser of game 5 go if they aren't eliminated?
The bracket is slightly altered in that case.
If the loser of Game 5 isn't eliminated there would be 5 teams remaining. If that happened, I believe it would go like this:
Loser of Game 5 vs. Loser of Game 6
Winner of Game 4 vs. Winner of Game 5
Winner of Game 6 vs. Winner of Game 7
Winner of Game 8 vs. Loser of Game 9
Winner of Game 9 vs. Winner of Game 10
;) Rest assured! All-Star is equipped for such contingencies! +1!
We could be seeing one of the d3baseball.com "favorites" lose their opening game of the Midwest Regional!!!
Concordia-Chicago currently trails Bethany Lutheran 8-3 in the seventh inning...
Edit: After seeing Concordia cut the deficit to 8-5, Bethany tacked on two runs in the 8th inning to regain five run lead of 10-5.
Edit 2: Concordia scratches across three runs in the Bottom of the 8th inning to make it 10-8.
Bethany keeping the pressure on Concordia, as they have scored four runs (all earned) on seven hits off of Concordia's top relief pitcher Mike Formella and take a 12-8 lead into the Bottom of the 9th inning.....
Edit: Concordia has loaded the bases with nobody out in the Bottom of the 9th inning as Bethany makes a call to the bullpen.
Edit 2: A hit batter and two run single make it 12-11, and still nobody out.... So do you bunt runners over for first out of the inning or force Bethany to try and get three outs on their own?
So Bethany manages to get a pair of strikeouts, sandwiched around a walk that loaded the bases to keep it a 12-11 game.... THEN
A wild pitch scores the tying run and the catchers throw on the wild pitch scores the winning run to give Concordia a 13-12 Game #1 victory.... WOW!!!!
Quote from: cubs on May 17, 2018, 03:10:35 PM
So Bethany manages to get a pair of strikeouts, sandwiched around a walk that loaded the bases to keep it a 12-11 game.... THEN
A wild pitch scores the tying run and the catchers throw on the wild pitch scores the winning run to give Concordia a 13-12 Game #1 victory.... WOW!!!!
Heartbreak for BLC!
I would be interested in knowing the probability of an intentional walk with one out actually paying off. Anecdotally, it seems to backfire when I witness it. Maybe it just feels that way...I suppose if it wasn't an effective strategy the majority of the time, coaches wouldn't employ it.
Quote from: Baseball Geek on May 17, 2018, 03:21:06 PM
I would be interested in knowing the probability of an intentional walk with one out actually paying off. Anecdotally, it seems to backfire when I witness it. Maybe it just feels that way...I suppose if it wasn't an effective strategy the majority of the time, coaches wouldn't employ it.
It seems to backfire because the team that is handing them out is generally behind the eight ball and the team ahead is not giving IW.
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Concordia-Chicago to the CWS.
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Hell of a job by Concordia. It took a complete meltdown by Bethany Lutheran in the opener and coming out of the losers bracket to get back to Appleton.