This is about the time of the year when we hype up our alma mater right?

Well I think they are finally getting SOME recognition for their performance for the past 6-7 seasons because numbers don't lie. 30 win seasons in 6 of the last 7 years, 6 conference championships; WNEC needs to make that next step in a regional to become a force in New England and maybe this year team can do it. Only losing 3 seniors, this team is still young but experienced.  The bats will have to have another successful year has they are losing (ABCA) Division III All-American Joe Griglun, but also returning 6 position players that batted over .300 last year.  On the other side of it, they are returning a very deep pitching staff that has 4 strong starters and closer in Lawlor. Should be interesting to see what this team will be able to pull off. Like every year their schedule isn't the easiest starting off in the Farmingdale Tournament playing Farmingdale St, RPI and Keene St, and seeing John Hopkins down in Arizona. Adding Regional Champ UMass-Boston, playing @Eastern Conn, @Wheaton, @ Keene St. will only set them up for a competitive year.

Should be another exciting year around New England. Interested in how other teams around the region are looking this year.

Day 1 Picks:

ECSU over WSU
St. Joes over Tuffs (got to have one upset)
WNEC over Westfield
Wheaton over UMB

Quote from: KSCfan on May 16, 2010, 07:58:47 PM
Hey team here is my predictions

1. Tufts
2. Wheaton
3. WNEC
4. Umass Boston
5. St Joes
6. Eastern
7. Worcester
8. Westfield

Castleton gets shipped, team just left out Keene State

my predictions,

1.) Tufts
2.) Wheaton
3.) WNEC
4.) St. Joes
5.) Eastern
6.) Worcester
7.) UM Boston
8.) Castleton

Westfield Shipped.

Regional Rankings as of May 13th....


New England Region
1. Tufts 22-3 31-5
2. Wheaton (Mass.) 30-7 32-8
3. Western New England 31-10 33-10
4. Eastern Connecticut State 24-10 29-11
5. Keene State 20-11-1 25-13-1
6. Worcester State 30-9-1 31-9-1
7. Westfield State 30-9 30-9
8. Bowdoin 22-13 25-15
9. Curry 26-12 27-13
10. WPI 23-11 23-11

Quote from: KSCfan on May 13, 2010, 01:20:13 PM
Anyone elses video of keene umd game slow?

KSC - yah my feed seems to have a little lag, not sure if it was just mine

They said that Coach H was back on the bench for eastern before the game, USM just cant seem to get the big hit that they need. Musson looks good, getting himself in and out of trouble with no problem.

Loving this video feed, im guessing this will be avail. for the regionals as well? Gonna be a great two weeks at work then. 

The way this one is going, tonights nightcap might not start till midnight... 

New ABCA poll; (tired to keep it as neat as possible... )
May 4,2010


Rank School                                      Record   Points    Last Rank
1. (5) Johns Hopkins (Md.)                  37-3      237            2
2. (3) Wis.-Whitewater                       31-4      235            1
3. Wooster (Ohio)                               34-7      217            5
4. St. Thomas (Minn.)                           25-6     212            3
5. Chapman (Calif.)                              28-8      210           4
6. Birmingham-Southern (Ala.)             34-5      191            6
7. Shenandoah (Va.)                            34-8      190            7
8. Mississippi College                            34-7     181            9
9. Heidelberg (Ohio)                             30-6      179          12
10. Cortland (N.Y.) State                      30-7-1    162         13
11. Trinity (Texas)                                 32-7      156          15
12. St. Scholastica (Minn.)                     32-5      153          10
13. Pomona-Pitzer (Calif.)                     28-9       151          14
14. Linfield (Ore.)                                 30-10      139          19
15. Tufts (Mass.)                                   27-5       109          25
16. Eastern Connecticut State              26-9       108          20
17. Salisbury (Md.)                                26-9        91           17
18. Texas-Tyler                                     32-10       89          22
19. Marietta (Ohio)                               25-9         84           11
20. North Central (Ill.)                          28-5         72           30
21. Redlands (Calif.)                              28-9        67            8
22. Kean (N.J.)                                     28-10        58           28
23. Western New England (Mass.)        33-9         55           26
24. Pacific Lutheran (Wash.)                30-10         49           16
25. Washington & Jefferson (Pa.)           27-7        45          29
26. Plattsburgh (N.Y.) State                   30-8        41           23
27. Rowan (N.J.)                                 23-12-1      34              rv
28. Rochester (N.Y.)                               28-9         30           18
29. Webster (Mo.)                                  30-8        25              rv
30. Wheaton (Mass.)                              29-8         24             rv

Also receiving votes (alphabetically): Adrian (Mich.), Alvernia (Pa.), Augustana (Ill.), Buena Vista (Iowa), Cal
Lutheran, Concordia-Chicago (Ill.), George Fox (Ore.), Keystone (Pa.), Mary Washington (Va.), Methodist (N.C.),
St. John Fisher (N.Y.), St. Joseph's (Maine), Texas Lutheran, Trinity (Conn.), Westfield (Mass.) State, Wis.-
Stevens Point, York (Pa.).

Quote from: KSCfan on May 03, 2010, 12:22:07 PM
Wheaton is in
wnec is in
st joes is in
castleton come on down

still looking for the mascac,nescac, little east to name a few any one want to throw out some possible seedings.

1. Wheaton
2. Tufts (nescac tournament winner)
3. St joes
4. Keene state ( lec tourny)
5. Eastern ( pool c)
6. Westfield (mascac)
7. Castleton
8.?

did you just forget about WNEC or you believe they will get shipped out?

Quote from: Hobbesy on May 02, 2010, 09:51:18 PM
Videos from todays game posted including final out


http://ned3baseball.wordpress.com/

Hobbsey - great stuff as always, what a way to get the final out of the game. WNEC is really playing great ball over the past couple weeks and hopefully can keep that going through regionals. 5 straight conference titles between the GNAC and TCCC! Pretty impressive  . Sitting at 33-9 with a good in region game against Wheaton Wednesday could really put them at the top of the regional rankings i believe. Going to be a long two and a half weeks until regionals.

Quote from: Stump on April 29, 2010, 10:10:24 PM
Wow, the scores just keep going:
Endicott 22 Anna Maria 4 (in a winner's bracket game!)
RIC 22 Babson 6 (what has happened to Babson? injuries catch up to them?)

4 games over 20 runs
6 other games double figures (including 2 with both teams doubling up)

16 games today- 10 of 16  62.5% at least one team scoring double figures
12 of 32 teams  in double digits 37.5%
Sounds more like results expected in March rather than tourney time results but it's what we've seen all year. Is pitching really that poor or is hitting that good?

Stump - enjoyed the stats.
I think its a combo of both; not sure about the other games but I know in the Endicott / Anna Maria bashing the Amcats handed out 7 walks; and also hit 3 batters in just 2 innings!! At the end of 2, Endicott was leading 7-1; with Endicott only having ONE hit. Ugly baseball if you ask me. Hopefully we will see some better pitching and closer games as we have some championship games coming up.

Friday's Predictions:    (because who really does work at work? )

#4 Wentworth  5       #1 Curry     4

  -If Wentworth can slow down curry's bats i believe it should be a close game....

#7 Anna Maria  2      #2 WNEC    12

  -No way the Bears lose to the Amcats twice... right?

2010 ALL-TCCC BASEBALL TEAM

FIRST TEAM

C - Brad Hawn, Curry, Junior
1B - Joe Griglun, Western New England, Senior
2B - Jake McManus, Wentworth, Junior
3B - Chris Hartery, Colby-Sawyer, Senior
SS - Alexander Melcher, Salve Regina, Junior
OF - Riley Diaz, Salve Regina, Senior
OF - Jeff Scafidi, Anna Maria, Sophomore
OF - Tim Sweeney, Curry, Senior
DH - Tony Luciani, Curry, Senior
P - Cory Moore, Curry, Senior
P - Benjamin Petrides, Endicott, Sophomore
P - Matt Rogers, Western New England, Senior
P - Chris Sandini, Wentworth, Senior

SECOND TEAM

C - Pete Oggeri, Wentworth, Senior
1B - Luke Matthews, Eastern Nazarene, Junior
2B - Eric Lemke, Endicott, Freshman
3B - Tony Trubia, Western New England, Junior
SS - Stephen Kefelas, Gordon, Senior
OF - Jesse Bruinsma, Curry, Senior
OF - Ralph Fidaleo, Endicott, Freshman
OF - Zac Johnson, Nichols, Junior
DH - Nate Leaser, Eastern Nazarene, Senior
P - Kevin Dupras, Endicott, Freshman
P - Rob Hinckley, Gordon, Sophomore
P - Kevin Jefferis, Western New England, Freshman

HONORABLE MENTION

C - Jason Leclerc, Western New England, Junior
1B - Rick Vail, Curry, Senior
2B - Charles Matarazzo, Salve Regina, Junior
2B - David Stevens, Curry, Sophomore
3B - Mike Diodato, Wentworth, Junior
SS - Greg Mehuron, Colby-Sawyer, Sophomore
SS - Joel Torres, Eastern Nazarene, Freshman
OF - Sean Jackman, Curry, Junior
OF - Matt Jordan, Wentworth, Junior
OF - Danny Rodriguez, Eastern Nazarene, Sophomore
OF - Victor Torres, Eastern Nazarene, Junior
DH - Ryan Dudzinski, Western New England, Junior
DH - Aaron Santos, Endicott, Senior
P - Mo Gardner, Wentworth, Senior
P - John Kanas, Gordon, Freshman
P - Nick Kelley, Endicott, Senior
P - Mike Lawlor, Western New England, Sophomore
P - Craig Silva, Salve Regina, Junior

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

PLAYER OF THE YEAR - Tim Sweeney, Curry
PITCHER OF THE YEAR - Cory Moore, Curry
ROOKIE OF THE YEAR - Joel Torres, Eastern Nazarene
SENIOR SCHOLAR-ATHLETE OF THE YEAR - Pete Oggeri, Wentworth
COACH OF THE YEAR - Bryan Haley, Endicott
TEAM SPORTSMANSHIP AWARD - Colby-Sawyer College

So the first day of the CCC tourney is complete, and boy was it interesting...


#8 Gordon hands over a win to number #1 Curry, leading 4-1 after 7, and then with a tied game walking 4 straight batters in the 9th to lose the game...Ouch.

# 5 Salve uses a 7 run 2nd inning to take down #4 Wentworth 14-6. Not sure, but by looking at the box score Salve seemed to use their number 1 pitcher out of the bullpen for 4 1/3 innings, interesting who throws today against Curry.

# 3 Endicott seemed to take down #6 Eastern Naz 6-2 pretty easily.

And the shocker of them all, #7 Anna Maria took down #2 WNEC 11-7. Down 2 after 5, the Amcats put together a 9 run 6th to cruise to the victory. Hopefully a wake up call for the bears.


Any crazy predictions for today's action?

Quote from: wordsmith on April 26, 2010, 09:32:56 PM
Date: Monday, April 26, 2010
New England Divison III College Baseball Coaches Poll
(Conducted by New England College Baseball Coaches, First Place Votes in parentheses, followed by record and total points)

Division III
1. Tufts (5) 21-4 40 pts.
2. Wheaton 25-7 34 pts.
3. Western New England 28-8 26 pts.
4. Eastern Connecticut 23-8 25 pts.
5. Worcester State 24-7-1 10 pts.
6. St. Joseph's, ME 28-10 8 pts.
7. Bowdoin 21-10 7 pts.
7. Curry 25-11 7 pts.
Also Receiving Votes: Westfield State (6), Trinity (5), Bates (4), WPI (4), Williams (2), Endicott
(1), Wesleyan (1).

D3Baseball.com Rankings
Through games of April 25, 2010
# School (No. 1 votes) Rec. Pts
1 Johns Hopkins (23) 34-5 623
2 UW-Whitewater (2) 026-3 580
3 Wooster 31-7 545
4 Heidelberg 26-6 509
5 St. Thomas 21-5 500
6 Chapman 25-8 489
7 St. Scholastica 29-3 463
8 Birmingham-Southern 34-5 456
9 Pomona-Pitzer 28-8 394
10 Mississippi College 32-7 377
11 Marietta 24-8 353
12 Cortland State 27-7 341
13 Shenandoah 34-8 333
14 Trinity (Texas) 32-7 297
15 Eastern Connecticut 23-8 282
16 Pacific Lutheran 30-7 209
17 Kean 24-9 192
18 Wheaton (Mass.) 25-7 181
19 UW-Stevens Point 21-8 164
20 Texas-Tyler 30-10 110
21 Washington and Jefferson 24-6 105
22 Rose-Hulman 24-9 99
23 Salisbury 25-9 97
24 Redlands 27-8 75
25 Trinity (Conn.) 15-8 69

Dropped out: No. 21 Rochester
Others receiving votes: Tufts 66, North Central (Ill.) 49, Linfield 47, Texas Lutheran 30, Keystone 30, Adrian 14, Concordia (Ill.) 13, Augustana 8, Plattsburgh State 8, Webster 5, FDU-Florham 4, Mary Washington 3, Rowan 2, Rochester 2, Oneonta State 1


Totally agree with the NE regional rankings that came out, just hate the fact that teams seem to get ranked just by the name on their jerseys... Trinity ranked 25 when they are just receiving votes in its own region?! Im not hating on Trinity just proving a point. NE teams like Tuffs and WNEC never get any love in those rankings for how strong NE is overall.