BB: NACC: Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference

Captain_Joe08 · April 23, 2025, 11:29:21 AM

4/23

St. Norbert at Wisconsin Lutheran (DH): Honestly it depends on which team for both sides show up in this one. WLC trending in the wrong direction while SNC has shown signs of life but found a way to split a series with Northland this week.

Concordia Chicago at Illinois Tech (DH): Scarlet Hawks are in desperation mode with their recent slide especially after St. Norbert swept them. CUC rolls here.

Aurora at Dominican (DH): See WLC vs St. Norbert comment as that applies here as well. AU has their top end of the rotation going here but the Stars pitching shut down WLC over the weekend.

Lakeland at Edgewood (DH): Muskies are playing out the string at this point. Eagles keep their hopes alive here.

Marian at Rockford (DH): Could go either way. Rockford has been playing good ball to this point but I can't count out Marian here.

MSOE at Concordia Wisconsin (DH): Raiders can't be caught looking ahead here to their showdown with Aurora Saturday. CUW has shown that they can be a thorn in the side of the front runners this year.

GU1999 · April 23, 2025, 04:49:16 PM

After 9 innings played (over two games) CUC has scored 29 runs at IIT.

GU1999 · April 28, 2025, 12:48:36 PM

Crazy week for CUC DH, Jake Mahler (Vernon Hills, Jr.)

In four games he wen 11/17 with 5 doubles, a HR and two walks.

.647/.684/1.471

OPS of 2.155

CUC put up an eye popping week in general with 56 runs scored and 7 allowed in their four wins.

GU1999 · April 29, 2025, 11:23:53 AM

Quote from: GU1999 on April 28, 2025, 12:48:36 PMCrazy week for CUC DH, Jake Mahler (Vernon Hills, Jr.)

In four games he wen 11/17 with 5 doubles, a HR and two walks.

.647/.684/1.471

OPS of 2.155

CUC put up an eye popping week in general with 56 runs scored and 7 allowed in their four wins.

Award went to Stagowski from RKFD. Also had a good week over 6 games, but the numbers certainly would favour Mahler who had more hits, a higher Average, OBP%, SLUG%, OPS% and his team won all four games. The only telling stat that tipped toward Stagowski is that he had 8 xbh, 6 doubles and 2 HR to Mahlers 5 doubles and 1 HR... in two extra games.

GU1999 · April 29, 2025, 11:25:00 AM

Not that anyone thought that this years NACC would yield an at large selection, but this nice NCAA published resource gives a look into the selection math, RPI style.

https://stats.ncaa.org/selection_rankings/nitty_gritties/44396?utf8=%E2%9C%93&commit=Submit

Captain_Joe08 · April 30, 2025, 11:26:20 AM

Yesterday's Scores

Benedictine 11-23 Illinois Tech 5-11
Marian 10-4 Lakeland 6-8
Rockford 15-16 Dominican 17-6
Aurora 12-17 Edgewood 1-4
St. Norbert 4-1 Concordia Wisconsin 1-0
MSOE 12-8 Wisconsin Lutheran 5-10

NACC Standings

MSOE 22-15 (16-6) x
Concordia Chicago 24-13 (15-7) X
Aurora 21-17 (16-8) X
Rockford 24-14 (13-9) X
Benedictine 22-15 (13-9) x
Edgewood 18-18 (12-10) x
Marian 18-19 (12-10) x
Concordia Wisconsin 19-18 (11-11)
Wisconsin Lutheran 14-22 (9-13)
St. Norbert 15-21 (9-13)
Dominican 16-21 (7-15) z
Illinois Tech 10-27 (6-16) z
Lakeland 11-26 (5-17) z

Three teams for the final spot.

WLC needs a sweep on Marian and CUC to sweep CUW and St. Norbert to lose at least once (has H2H over CUW but not against SNC)

CUW simply needs to win once against CUC to lock up the spot or WLC and St. Norbert to lose once (Has no tiebreaker advantage over WLC and CUC).

St. Norbert needs to sweep Edgewood and CUC to sweep CUW (has head to head over both WLC and CUW)

GU1999 · May 01, 2025, 04:20:40 PM

Great Breakdown Captain Joe.

Looking forward to seeing how things shake out, but my best guesses are that the double byes go to:

MSOE (Only need to win one against Lakeland) & CUC (have to win both tomorrow v. CUW or lose tiebreak to Aurora)

The single byes go to:
Aurora & Ben U.

Fun games yesterday:

MSOE takes D1 Milwaukee to the brink 3 - 2.
CUC beats U Chicago (RV) 7 - 5.

Captain_Joe08 · May 05, 2025, 12:04:00 AM

NACC Standings at the end of the regular season

MSOE 24-16 (18-6) xy
Concordia Chicago 25-14 (16-8) x
Aurora 22-18 (16-8) x
Benedictine 25-15 (15-9) x
Marian 20-19 (14-10) x
Edgewood 19-19 (13-11) x
Rockford 24-16 (13-11) x
Concordia Wiscomnsin 20-19 (12-12) x
St. Norbert 16-22 (10-14)
Wisconsin Lutheran 14-24 (9-15)
Dominican 18-21 (9-15)
Illinois Tech 10-29 (6-18)
Lakeland 11-28 (5-19)

MSOE takes the regular season crown in a year where the league kept tripping acid on a weekly basis.

Captain_Joe08 · May 05, 2025, 12:22:22 AM

NACC Tournament Schedule

5/7

#8 Concordia Wisconsin vs #5 Marian at Kapco Park (Play in game)
#7 Rockford vs #6 Edgewood at MSOE (Play in game)

5/8 (all remaining games at MSOE)

(Game 1) Lower Seeded winner vs #3 Concordia Chicago
(Game 2) Higher Seeded winner at #4 Benedictine
(Game 3) Game 1 Winner at #2 Aurora
(Game 4) Game 2 Winner at #1 MSOE

5/9

(Game 5) Game 1 Loser vs Game 2 Loser (Elimination Game)
(Game 6) Game 3 Loser vs Game 4 Loser (Elimination Game)
(Game 7) Game 3 Winner vs Game 4 Winner
(Game 8) Game 5 Winner vs Game 6 Winner (Elimination Game)

5/10

(Game 9) Game 8 Winner vs Game 7 Loser (Elimination Game)
(Game 10) Game 7 Winner vs Game 9 Winner

5/11

(Game 11) Game 10 winner vs Game 10 Loser (If Necessary)

GU1999 · May 06, 2025, 03:23:10 PM

Top 4 Seeds Only:

1) MSOE
18 - 6 in conference
RF/RA v. Tournament qualifiers - 112 - 89 for a record of 11 and 3.
RF/RA v. T4 - 51-20 for a 6 and 0 record

2) Aurora
16 - 8 in conference
RF/RA v. Tournament qualifiers - 69 - 51 for a record of 8 and 6.
RF/RA v. T4 - 28 - 20 for a 3 and 3 record

3) Concordia (Chicago)
16 - 8 in conference
RF/RA v. Tournament qualifiers - 81 - 79 for a record of 7 and 7.
RF/RA v. T4 - 19 - 24 for a 2 and 4 record

4) Ben U.
13 - 9 in conference
RF/RA v. Tournament qualifiers - 91 - 119 for a record of 8 and 6.
RF/RA v. T4 - 12 - 46 for a 1 and 5 record

Captain_Joe08 · May 08, 2025, 11:12:50 AM

Yesterday Play-In First Round Scores

#6 Edgewood 9 #7 Rockford 8 (12 Innings)
#5 Marian 2 #8 Concordia Wisconsin 0

Today's matchups

#6 Edgewood vs #3 Concordia Chicago
#5 Marian vs #4 Benedictine

With Aurora and MSOE facing the winners of each game later in the day.

Captain_Joe08 · May 08, 2025, 04:19:46 PM

Edgewood knocks off Concordia Chicago 4-1

Benedictine up 4-1 on Marian in the second game today.

Captain_Joe08 · May 08, 2025, 09:49:17 PM

WE HAVE SICKOS CHAOS IN THE TOURNAMENT!!!!

Marian knocks off Benedictine 8-7

In the nightcap

Edgewood beats Aurora 10-9

MSOE leads Marian 3-2 in the 4th

Tenative Schedule for Tomorrow

5/9

(Game 5) Concordia Chicago vs Benedictine (Elimination Game)
(Game 6) Aurora vs Marian (Elimination Game)
(Game 7) Edgewood vs MSOE
(Game 8) Game 5 Winner vs Game 6 Winner (Elimination Game)

Captain_Joe08 · May 09, 2025, 12:59:58 AM

MSOE holds on to beat Marian 4-3

Captain_Joe08 · May 09, 2025, 09:46:45 PM

Today's cadre of games:

Benedictine 10 Concordia Chicago 6 (CUC Eliminated)
Aurora 2 Marian 1 (Marian Eliminated)
MSOE 10 Edgewood 6
Aurora leads Benedictine 4-2 in the 4th inning

Really thought CUC was a sleeper to win this tournament. Sickos action by Edgewood put them in a bad matchup with BenU to get 0fer'ed out of the tournament.