Polling other 5 teams April 16

D1 Baseball.com: Here's the Other 5 representatives, and I can't explain how So. Miss didn't make either poll.

21 Rice (CUSA) has been playing well including a win over Texas A&M (SEC). Salinas and Otta anchor a strong staff.
22 Tulane (AAC)) needs to beat Cincy this weekend to stay in the poll. Alemais is batting .349
23 East Carolina (AAC) faces  a tough test against the higher rated NCSt Wolfpack next week.
24 Florida Atlantic (CUSA)  is also ranked 17 in the USA Today poll. Chatham is batting .383. 3HR 28RBI
25 South Alabama (Sunbelt) is also ranked 24 In the USAToday poll. Kevin Hill is 7-1 and four guys ( LeBounty, Perkins, Swaggerty , & Barnes) are batting above .300.
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April 17: Five teams won yesterday Tulane edged Cincy. ECU ponded Memphis. Rice beat WKU.  
S. Bama beat App ST. , and FAU pounded Marshall.

May 7. D1 baseball.com
14-Rice CUSA
16- Tulane AAC
24- East Carolina AAC 25- Louisiana-Lafayette- not sure how ULL ranks while trailing South Bama in the SunBelt, however next week's three game series should clear up the matter

Skimming O5 top baseball teams

MAC- Kent St and EMU  are tied with the best MAC conference record, but Kent flashes a better overall record. Eric Lauer is 4-2 with a 1.19 ERA, and Dylan Rosa has 7HR, 34 RBI
MWC:New Mexico hosts Fresno in a weekend series  for first place, and should prevail behind Carson Schneider (5-1) and Chris Devito (.416 avg).
CUSA: Rice Owls are hootin but USM remains atop the conference standings. Cord Cockrell is is 5-0 with a 2.74 ERA. Tim Lynch 6HR 35 RBI .392 AVg
SunBelt: S.Bama Jags are 13-0 in conference play. Kevin Hill is 6-1 with 1.84 ERA. Brew LeBounty is batting .364 with 24 RBI & 9 SB
AAC: UCF nudges Cincy this week with a better overall record. Austin Griffin has 8HR 32RBI .Robby Howell is 6-1 with a 1.08 RBI

May 31 , 2016

Nearly two months later and  the regular season is over. back to an overall O5 blog entry.
 MAC and MWC placed their conference tournament winners respectively, Western Michigan &New Mexico, in the NCAA 64.
AAC placed tournament winner UConn , as well Tulane and ECU.
CUSA placed tournament winner Southern Mississippi, as well as Rice, Louisiana Tech , and FAU.
Sunbelt placed tournament winner UL-Lafayette as well as South Alabama.
ECU/New Mexico, UConn/South Alabama & FAU/Tulane pair off members of the O5 conferences in rd1 matchups.

June 5

Western Michigan is the only O5 team that 's been eliminated so far.The rest of the O5 teams must win today.

June 6

ECU advanced to the next round. Rice needs to beat SE Louisiana.  If ULL loses to Arizona, they play again with the winner advancing. The rest of the O5 teams were eliminated yesterday.

June 7

Rice scored six-straight runs in a win over LSU to force an NCAA Regional deciding game today against the LSU .. ULL is out.

June 8

LSU eliminated Rice.  ECU , from the AAC, is the sole O5 survivor. ECU faces Texas Tech in this round.

June 11

ECU Pirates kept rolling last night in an 8-6 win over TT. Travis Watkins, the Pirates starting catcher, who hit three home runs during the regular season, swatted two last night to give him  four for the NCAAT so far. Freshman reliever Matt Bridges  earned a multi-inning save.

June 13

Texas Tech gets a two run hit from Eric Gutierrez in the 13th to force a game 3 against ECU today

June 14

TT dismissed ECU 11-0 and sent the Pirates home. ECU starter Jacob Wolfe lasted only 1/3 of an innning.

MAC baseball April 3

 Akron has a club team so MAC baseball has eleven teams.
Four pitchers with four wins
Lauer and Kraus(Kent St). Sobieraski & Tuohy (Buffalo). Akin (W.Michigan) leads with 58Ks
Batters
Alex Call (Ball St) .408 AVG
Sedio & Russo (Miami O) 8 HR
Staton (Ball St) 29 RBI
Marquise Gill (E.Michigan) 23 SB- I doubt if anyone is going to catch this kid in steals.

East Division 
Kent State  3-2 18-8 
Buffalo  3-3 9-15 
Miami  2-2 11-13 
Ohio  2-3 11-15 
Bowling Green  0-4 9-17 

West Division 
Eastern Michigan  5-1 11-15 
Ball State  3-2 16-12 
Northern Illinois  2-2 6-19  
Toledo  2-2 5-21-1 
Western Michigan  1-1 8-16 
Central Michigan  1-2 5-23  

April 22 , 2016

Miami (Ohio) has moved into a TIE with Kent St in the East. Ball St and NIU are now 1-2 in the West. Caleb Stuyton  has been stellar for the Ball St Cardinals 7HR 54 RBI .389 AVG

April 30, 2016

A week later and Kent St  (13-3)  beat #2 Miami (Ohio) (9-4) yesterday and  are  looking for a sweep to take control of the East. Stuyton 8HR 58RBI .390 avg and Ball St (11-5) hold a one game lead on NIU. Ball St is at NIU in the final series of the regular season  May 19 &20.

May 11, 2016

Kent St(17-4) has a comortable lead over Miami Ohio(11-7)  in the East. Ball St (14-7) has a slim lead over NIU (12-9) in the West.

May 15

MACW co-leaders, NIU & Ball St,  face off @ NIU May 19-21, Can William Anderson, the big 6'8 freshman with a 5-3  record,  be the key for NIU?

May 22

Kent St and Ball St hung too the top spots in their divisions . RD1 pairings:
Game 1 - No. 3 Miami vs. No. 6 Central Michigan, 9:30 a.m. 
Game 2 - No. 2 Ball State vs. No. 7 Western Michigan, 1:00 p.m. 
Game 3 - No. 1 Kent State vs. No. 8 Eastern Michigan, 4:30 p.m. 
Game 4 - No. 4 Northern Illinois vs. No. 5 Toledo, 8:00 p.m.
Props to  these two guys

STAYTON, Caleb-BSU........  11HR 41 RBI  .383avg   

LAUER, Eric-KSU...........  9-2  0.76 era  

May 25 2016

I guess this is a somewhat neutral site. 

MAC T is being played  at All Pro Freight Stadium, a 5,000 seat stadium in Avon Ohio. 

Cleveland state played their for two years and the LakeErie Crushers

 of the frontier League have play there since 2009

May 29, 2016

 In there second matchup of the day #7 Western Michigan beat #7 Central Michigan, 4-0, to advance to today’s Mid-American Conference final against Kent St. . ...

No. 8 Eastern Michigan stunned  # 1 Kent State briefly, but the Golden Flashes recovered for a win their second game of the day.

AAC baseball April 2

Early days in  conference play, but  two AAC teams in the top 25: #15 Houston's  has solid pitching  and #19 ECU's has a grEAT .311 batting average
Tulane is riding a six game winning streak
Eric Tyler knocked in 8 run in ECU's win over Jacksonville.
UCF pitcher Robby Howell is 5-0
UConn freshman pitcher Tim Cate has an ERA of .40 in 22.2 innings..

April 24

Cincy has stormed up the standings and  sits atop the AAC. Connor McVey leads the Bearcats in batting with .301 AVG. Andrew Zellner is 5-2 with 1.80 ERA.
UConn  and Tulane are tied for second .

May 4

Four teams vying  for  the regular season crown  and two of them have a tie due to a travel curfew. Here's the closest definition I could find:   in the final game of  series when a team is traveling by air a time limit  (minimum four hours) from the scheduled start time shall be established, with no new inning beginning after the time limit. 
Batting leaders: Lam (ECU) .346 . Duffin UConn 12HR, 40 RBI. Maglish (USF) and McVey (Cincy) tied with 23 SB.


Cincy, Tulane UConn, ECU

Team	Wins	Win %	Games Back
	9-5-1	0.643	-
	8-5	0.615	0.5
	8-6	0.571	1
	8-6-1	0.571	1

May 12, 2016

Tulane  11-5 33-14   should  beat Memphis in their upcoming series and solidify the top spot

East Carolina  11-6-1 30-17-1  hosts USF

Cincinnati  10-7-1 22-25-1  hosts Houston who could give them some trouble

joe Deroche-Duffin UCONN leads in two categories 14 HR 44 RBI

Ron Massey -Tulane leads all pitchers with 8 wins

Connor Mcvey of  Cincy leads the AAC with 25 SB

May 17, 2016

Tulane is getting closer to capturing the regular season title. They close the regular season with a three game series at Houston. ECU finishes @UCF.
Tulane                 13-6
East Carolina   12-8-1
Cincinnati        11-9-1

Connecticut         11-9

May 19, 2016

This doesn't happen often to Rice baseball. Houston 24 Rice 6. Joe Davis had 6 RBI for the Cougars. Rest of the conference played non- conference games.

MAY 22

here's how AAC tourney starts. Tulane hung on to # 1 seed

• 3:00pm    Game 1: No. 5 Houston vs. No. 4 Cincinnati
• 7:00pm    Game 2: No. 8 UCF vs. No. 1 Tulane
• Wednesday, May 25 - The American Digital Network
• 11:00am    Game 3: No. 7 USF vs. No. 2 East Carolina
• 3:00pm    Game 4: No. 6 Memphis vs. No. 3 UConn

May 23

Houston pounded Cincy and Tulane came  back from  a 3-0 deficit to beat UCF 4-3. Error and a HPB cost UCF. CBSSN carried both games.