BB: Regionals (New York) Auburn NY '08, SUNY-Old Westbury '09, Cortland State '10, '11

[scscoach]

Castleton St scores 2 unearned runs on back to back errors by Skidmore in the bottom of the ninth to defeat the Thoroughbreds 7-6. Tough way to end the season for Skidmore. Freshman Jordan Keysor came in to pitch for Skidmore in the bottom of the 7th with 2 on and 1 out and Skidmore up 6-4. A sac fly made it 6-5 and he got out of the inning without any more damage. He pitched a scoreless 8th inning but the Skidmore coach opted to go with his closer Zach Rudman to start the 9th. A leadoff walk followed by a sacrifice bunt and a wild pitch gave Castleton a runner on 3rd with 1 out. Next batter reached on an error by the 3rd baseman allowing the runner to score the tying run and the following batter reached on a single back to the pitcher followed by a throwing error by the pitcher which allowed the winning run to score. I was hoping they let Keysor pitch the ninth as he's a local kid and scscoach's son, but figured the Skidmore coach would make the pitching change. Too bad it didn't work out. The Keysor kid finished the year with an ERA OF 1.99, not to shabby for a freshman. Chad must be a pretty proud father. 

Thanks for the very kind words magicman and yes I am a very proud Dad. It was a tough loss to swallow but overall a fine season for the Skidmore squad. I had no idea that college baseball would be this exciting. I wish I could have stayed to watch the rest of the tourney. Even though it did not work out today I agree with Coach Plourde's dicision to go to the closer. Jordan had been throwing in the bullpen since the 5th inning and had pitched in a tight spot the previous day. Our closer Zach Rudman was fresh and has come through in that very same spot consistantly this year. On Zach's behalf, it should be noted a ball was never hit out of the infield in that inning. Thanks again for the kind words magicman.

[scscoach]

I was extremely impressed with Dan Jurik of St. John Fisher lastnight (Wednesday). I know Dave Filak gets all the ink but in my opinion Jurik was the sharpest of the day one starters. The St. John Fisher closer Goeff Martone has nasty movement (splitter, I think) and was extremely impressive also. I don't think they (SJF) have the hitting to win the region though.

[magicman]

St. John Fisher, down 6-0 after 5 innnings has scored 6 runs in the last 3 innings to pull within 1 at 7-6, as Farm St. comes to bat in the bottom of the 8th.

[Ralph Turner]

That linescore has to make a Farmingdale fan cringe!

St. John Fisher Coll     0 0  0   0 0 2   1  3  2    -   8  11  1
Farmingdale St. Coll    0 0  5   0 1 1   0    0  0    -   7  14  7

[John McGraw]

That linescore has to make a Farmingdale fan cringe!

St. John Fisher Coll     0 0  0   0 0 2   1  3  2    -   8  11  1
Farmingdale St. Coll    0 0  5   0 1 1   0    0  0    -   7  14  7

DEE-fense!

[magicman]

That linescore has to make a Farmingdale fan cringe!

St. John Fisher Coll     0 0  0   0 0 2   1  3  2    -   8  11  1
Farmingdale St. Coll    0 0  5   0 1 1   0    0  0    -   7  14  7

You got that right Ralph!
Fisher scores 2 in the top of the ninth to grab an 8-7 lead and holds off Farmingdale St. in the bottom half of the inning to come away with the win. The winning run scores on a bad hop single over the 1st baseman's glove. Farmingdale gets a runner to 2nd in the bottom of the 9th with 1 out but Fisher's closer Geoff Martone strikes out the next batter. A wild pitch advances the Ram's runner to 3rd, and Martone slams the door with another strikeout to end the game and send the Ram's into an elimination game against Castleton St on Friday at 1:15 PM. Fisher will take on Cortland at 4:30 on Friday afternoon.    

[wordsmith]

Friday - Day 3 dawns with some interesting games:

My Picks:

Oneonta over Keene St.  (Time to come home)

Castleton St. over Farmingdale St. 

Cortland over St. John Fisher

Good luck to all teams and to any senior playing in their last games today.

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[magicman]

Oneonta St. coming to bat in the bottom of the 7th inning with a 3-2 lead over Keene St. Brett Meservey on the mound for the Red Dragons has only given up 3 hits (all singles) and 1 earned run. He's struck out 7 so far,  issued 3 walks and hit 1 batter.

[FranElia]

I apologize for the technical issues we're having with the live stats. The files are sometimes being corrupted when they're transmitting, but they usually fix themselves within a play or so. If you don't get a clean stat page after a while, reload or refresh the page. Sorry for the inconvenience!!

Fran Elia
Cortland SID

[magicman]

Bottom of the 8th and Oneonta still up 3-2 but threatening to add more as they have runners on 1st and 3rd with no outs.

[magicman]

I apologize for the technical issues we're having with the live stats. The files are sometimes being corrupted when they're transmitting, but they usually fix themselves within a play or so. If you don't get a clean stat page after a while, reload or refresh the page. Sorry for the inconvenience!!

Fran Elia
Cortland SID

Thanks Fran, I thought it was my computer screwing up again.

[magicman]

Oneonta tacks on 2 more in the bottom of the 8th to stretch their lead to 5-2 over Keene St. Owls down to their last 3 outs to try and stay alive.

[magicman]

Oneonta moves on with a 5-2 win over Keene St. Red Dragons will play the winner of the Castleton St.-Farmingdale St game at 7:45 this evening.

Anthony Bates came on in relief for Oneonta in the top of the 8th with 1 out and a man on 2nd. He threw 2 pitches and got 2 ground ball outs to preserve a 3-2 Oneonta lead. After the Red Dragons scored twice in the bottom of the 8th, Bates stayed in the game and got 2 quick outs on a strikeout and fly ball to right. The next batter doubled but Bates got the final out on a comebacker and the Owls' season comes to an end.  

[wordsmith]

Keene State season comes to a close.

Been real nice visiting with you folks over here on the NY Board. Now I am off to my third love LEC/NE baseball.

Good luck to all the remaining teams in the NY Regional.

I will leave you with this parting thought:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GZlJr1c48k

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[magicman]

Farmingdale St. with a big 5 run 2nd inning jumps out to a 6-2 lead over Castleton St. heading into the bottom of the 2nd.