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.

MWC baseball March 31

MWC baseball has a few less teams than football and basketball. For example, Boise St, Wyoming, Utah St, & Colorado St have club baseball.which are  not fully university-sponsored and do not compete in NCAA CWS. Hawaii plays hoops and baseball in the Big West conference.
Conference standings

New Mexico 7-2  : Chris Devito is batting .404 in 99 at bats

Fresno State 6-3 : Brody Russell 3HR, 26 RBI, .390 AVG

Air Force 4-1" Griffin Jax has a  5-1 record with 41 strikeouts.

Nevada 4-4:  TJ Friedl has five stolen bases.

UNLV 3-6  : Payton Squier is batting .366

San Diego State 2-5 : Tyler Addison has four stolen bases.

San Jose State 3-8 : Shane Timmons is batting .370

April 22, 2016

Three weeks later and the standings  are the same. UNM and Fresno have won more than they lost, but  the Lobos swept the Bulldogs two weeks ago.. Devito has improved his AVG to .419 with 11HR, 49RBI. Luis Gonzalez has 10HR 38RBI .368 AVG.

May 1 , 2016

Nevada has moved to within a game in the loss column of Fresno for second place
New Mexico16-5 Fresno St  16-7 Nevada 12-8. 
Nevada has a three game series  against UNM May 13-15 , and will need  it's three players, Friedl, Bridgman, and Mastrobuoni, with 9 stolen bases each to get  more active. Friedl is batting .404

May 9, 2016

NM Lobos and FresnoBulldogs still 1-2 in the MWC. NM and AFA have the leaders in offense.
Bradley Haslem  AFA               .423 avg
Carl Stajduhar New Mexico       14HR
Chris Devito New Mexico          54 RBI
Adam Groesback    AFA                     16 SB

May 13, 2016

Nevada has won 13 straight and starts a three game series at UNM tomorrow. Fresno is at UNLV.
Fresno State 19-8 0.
New Mexico 17-7 

Nevada 16-8 

May 23

Fresno St and UNM get a RD1 bye. Winner of 6 seed SD ST/ 7 SJ ST play-in game faces  the hot #3 seed Nevada. That winner faces #2 UNM. #1 Fresno gets the winner of #4 AFA/#5 UNLV

May 27

SD St  beat SJ St in the play-in game then  eliminated UNLV. Today: they face #3 Nevada then the winner of that game faces #1 Fresno. Tonight AFA plays UNM

May 29

Chris DeVito, one of the top hitters in the MWC, doubled and drilled one of four UNM homers in a 14-4 rout of Nevada in the MWC final yesterday . #2 seed New Mexico  gets the automatic bid. Nevada bounced  #1 seed  Fresno and upstart San Diego St from the MWCT on friday before losing yesterday.

CUSA baseball March 26

Three teams tied at 4-1:
USM  : Jake Sandlin batting .386 leads a potent lineup
FAU’s offense has a .305 batting avg and is led by senior Billy Endris and junior CJ Chatham.
Rice 's centerfielder, Ryan Chandler, gets on base often and is stellar in the field and went 3-4  in a win  overODU (3-2)  in game 1 of their current series.
Louisiana Tech and Charlotte are also (3-2)

Marshall (2-3) has a solid lineup led by Sam Hunter &Tommy Lane
Rest of the CUSA:
FIU   2 3
UAB 2 3
WKU 1 3
MTSU 1 3
UTSA 1 4

April 28

USM remains atop the CUSA.

Louisiana Tech, UAB, and WKU are on hot but time is running out as they sit in the middle of the pack. May 3 Rice and USM sit atop the CUSA with 15-6 record. FAU (14-7) and Marshall (13-8) follow them. CUSA Batting leaders: Tommy Lane (Marshall)  11 HR. Tim Lynch (USM)   47 RBI. Danny Hudzina WKU .434 AVG. Corey Bird (Marshall) 23 SB May 13 Southern Miss 18-6  Rice 18-6  Florida Atlantic 17-7   Marshall 16-8 0.667   Louisiana Tech 15-9  Hudzina (WKU) .408 avg. Lane -(Marshall) 13 HR, Shearer (Charlotte) and Lynch USM tied with 49 RBI Byrd( Marshall)  24 SB Salinas (Rice) and Cockrell (USM) tied with 7 wins May 16 #herd feasted on WKU and moved into 3rd. USM still ahead of Rice in a battle for  first. May 22 #Herd took two of three  from ODU to move up to a #2 seed. Rice fell to a #4 seed. Here's opening day schedule for the double elimnation 2016 CUSAT. Game 1 (5) Louisiana Tech vs. (4) Rice 9:00a Game 2 (8) Charlotte vs. (1) Florida Atlantic 12:30p Game 3 (6) Old Dominion vs. (3) Southern Miss 4:00p Game 4 (7) FIU vs. (2) Marshall 7:30p Conference  stat leaders  Danny Hudzina WKU .409 AVG. Tommy Lane (Marshall)  13 HR. Logan Sherer (Charlotte) 52 RBI Corey Bird (Marshall) 32 SB Four pitchers with sevin wins Chase Boster Marshall,Jon Duplantier  Rice, Cord Cockrell Southern Miss, Ricardo Salinas Rice Cameron Ragsdale (FAU) topped the league with 13 saves. May 27 Bracket One:  – Rice, 2-0 – FAU, 1-1 faces LaTech, 1-1 in an elimination game today. – Charlotte, 0-2 (eliminated) Bracket Two: – SoMiss, 2-0: Sandlin's grandslam was the key blow in their win over Marshall 1-1 who now needs to beat  FIU, 1-1 today – ODU, 0-2 (eliminated) May 29 Marshall left too many guys on base again and lost to USM who faces Rice in the final. Rice outslugged (barely) a tough LaTech team.

Sunbelt Conference as of March 25

South Alabama  7-0 : Drew LeBounty 1HR 17 rbi .360avg has lead the Jags' charge so far
Texas State  6-1: Ortega and Studdard lead the best hitting team .311 avg in the conference
Georgia Southern  5-2 : Hughes, Eichhorn, & Cohen anchor the staff with the best ERA  2.85
UL Lafayette  4-3: Joe Robbins is batting .350 with 6 HR
Georgia State  2-2: Jarrett, Woullard, and Roach lead a potent offense
Troy  3-4: Grant Bennett 3-0 1.27 ERA anchors a decent staff.
Little Rock  3-4 0: Scott,Ryan is batting .512 with 7 HR and 30 RBI
UT Arlington  2-4 : Jacob Moreland has 1.07 ERA
Arkansas State  2-5
UL Monroe  1-3 0.
Appalachian State  0-7

May 3

S.Bama has four game lead over second place over ULL. Batting leaders:

Ryan Scott (ArK-LR) .448 AVG, 50 RBI
Tanner Hill (TX ST)    13HR 
Cole Billingley (USA)  25SB

May 13

S. Bama (19-5) hosts second place ULL (16-8)  in a three game series starting tomorrow
Stat leaders:
Ryan Scott (ArK-LR) .452 AVG, 55 RBI
Tanner Hill (TX ST)    14HR 
Cole Billingley (USA)  29SB

Three pitchers, Bennett(Troy), Hill(USA), and Simmons(UTA) tied with 8 wins 

May 14

Jaguars 3 ULL 2 in the series opener thanks to Swaggerty's walk off single in the 9th.

May 16

FB buddy alerted me to ULL winning the next two. Yesterday ULL jumped out to a four-run lead in the top of the first inning on just one hit. Ull now trails USA by 2 games in  the battle for first.

May  21

This weekend is critical as only the top eight teams  will participate in the 2016 Sunbelt double elimination tournament @Tx St  (Marcos) . The winner gets an automatic bid to the CWS
South Alabama 21-8 0.724
Louisiana-Lafayette 20-9 0.690
Arkansas-Little Rock 17-12 0.586
Troy 16-13 0.552
Texas State 15-14 0.517
UT Arlington 15-14 0.517
Georgia Southern 15-14 0.517
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8) Arkansas State 12-17 0.414
9) Louisiana-Monroe 10-19 0.345

May 26

UT Arlington advanced into the winners' bracket to  with Wednesday afternoon's 4-2 victory over No. 2 seed South Alabama. #ULL  beat Ark St to go into the winners bracket.

Losers' bracket

No. 2 South Alabama

No. 3 Little Rock

GAME 6

No. 4 Troy

No. 8 Arkansas State

Winners bracket 

GAME 7

No. 6 Georgia Southern

No. 7 UT Arlington

GAME 8

No. 1 UL Lafayette

No. 5 Texas State

May 29

Hot Rajin Cajuns face upstart Ga Southern in the SunBelt Final. Yesterday ULL scored 17 runs in a win over Ark St. Georgia Southern freshman Brian Eichorn (5-2) and two relievers shutout the USA Jags .