D2 Baseball Thread

Just a month away until the sweet sound of metal bats - as college baseball starts up.....

Hoopsfan-Hope to see you at some of the games. Do you ever go to road games? I go to all the home games at cmsu, unless I have a game or practice of my own...so I might see you....

Anyways just makin this thread because I heard there were a few followers of D2 baseball.....

To be honest STL i really dont know much about Northwest's baseball team. I know we are pretty decent but thats about it. Ill probably go to some game

Catawba should be good again this year and Mt. Olive will be pretty good as well.

CVAC represent yo.

I don't believe seeing either of those teams in the college world series....were they last year? I didn't follow it as well because ucm didn't make it for the first time in years.....

MIAA Representin Yo.... B) lol

Catawba lost in the southeast finals I think. They were 44-12 on the year.

MOC might now be CVAC, I can't remember.

Catawba is ranked 2nd in the south regional poll right now and MOC is ranked 6th in the south-atlantic region.

What are they ranked nationally?

Ahh I see it...Catawba is ranked 28th nationally... http://www.baseballnews.com/polls/divII/currentpolldivII.htm

Tampa seems to dominate the south just about every year.

Yea, Tampa's good.

I follow Catawba, Pfeiffer, and MOC because I have guys from my high school playing at those schools. I go back and help my high school coaches every spring when I can and it feels good to see some players that you somewhat coaches playing in college.

Catawba lost a lot of power from last year, but they should be really fast this year. They're also decently young.

Yea, sorry for the third post, but I realized MOC was ranked 20th.

UCM ranked 9th in the nation.

I'm surprised that Nebraska-Omaha isn't ranked higher. They are a very sharp team and almost went to the world series. I think I watched them play like 7 times last year. They looked very sharp, great offense and pretty good pitching to go along with it.

Top 30 as of Feb. 5th 07'

1. Tampa 3-1
2. Cal State Chico 5-0
3. Florida Southern 3-0
4. Delta State 3-0
5. Georgia College & State 1-2
6. Ashland 0-0
7. Francis Marion 2-1
8. Montevallo 2-1
9. Emporia State 0-0
10. Central Missouri State 0-0
11. Franklin Pierce 0-0
12. Kutztown 0-0
13. Grand Valley State 0-0
14. Columbus State 2-1
15. Central Oklahoma 0-0
16. Abilene Christian 3-0
17. Mesa State 3-1
18. West Chester 0-0
19. Tusculum 3-0
20 Minnesota State - Mankato 0-0
21. St. Mary's (Texas) 0-0
22. Florida Gulf Coast 3-1
23. UC San Diego 3-1
24. Northern Kentucky 0-0
25. Cal State Los Angeles 3-0-1
26. USC Aiken 2-1
27. Nova Southeastern 2-0
28. Armstrong Atlantic State 3-1
29. Sonoma State 3-0
30. Quincy 0-0

Dropped Out: #20 Mount Olive, #26 Western Oregon, #28 Catawba, #29 California (Pa.), #T-30 UMass-Lowell

Did Not Report: Catawba, Rockhurst

Also Receiving Votes: California (Pa.) 18, Nebraska-Omaha 16, Wayne State (Neb.) 6, Ouachita Baptist 6, Western Oregon 6, Mount Olive 6, West Virginia State 4, UMass-Lowell 4, North Alabama 4, USC Upstate 4, Slippery Rock 2, UNC Pembroke 2, Erskine 2, SIU Edwardsville 2, Southern Arkansas 2, Shippensburg 2, Shepherd 2, Belmont Abbey 1, Southern Connecticut State 1, Dominican 1, Fort Hays State 1, Angelo State 1, Mercyhurst 1, Colorado State - Pueblo 1.


Source: http://www.baseballnews.com/polls/divII/currentpolldivII.htm



I really don't know why Emporia State is up there at 9th in the rankings. Pretty much half their team were seniors last year so they lost a lot of talent. Yeah, they went to the College World Series but I believe they were 2 and done. I guess it will change as time passes....I'd put UCM a little higher but I guess thats them....we're 1-1 with the only loss coming to Rice, 0-5. Wasn't really expecting us to win in that one but I guess we gave a fight. I guess we will see over time.

Updated Top 25

1. Cal State Chico 19-1
478
2

2. Tampa 16-3
466
1

3. Georgia College & State 14-4
444
4

4. Florida Southern 16-2
436
T5

5. Cal State Los Angeles 15-1-1
404
T7

6. Kutztown 8-0
398
T5

Columbus State 15-4
398
3

8. Abilene Christian 15-3
356
T9

9. Ashland 3-1
350
T7

10. Central Missouri State 11-2
332
11

11. Grand Valley State 4-0
324
12

12. USC Aiken 14-3
316
13

13. West Florida 16-4
290
14

14. Delta State 16-4
272
15

15. Ouachita Baptist 18-2
246
T20

16. Mesa State 15-4
226
19

17. Augusta State 13-5
218
T20

18. St. Edward's (Texas) 17-2
210
23

19. Franklin Pierce 2-1
178
T9

20. Sonoma State 12-4
164
RV

21. Nova Southeastern 14-3
162
25

22. Mount Olive 16-6
154
T27

23. Florida Gulf Coast 13-5
146
16

24. Montevallo 14-5
122
18

25. Incarnate Word 15-3
62
26

I'll take 10th....our pitching has been spectacular this year and our bats have been really good as well - on a 13 game win streak currently and play tomorrow in the Florida tournament(Port Charlotte/Fort Myers) vs St Cloud State

Went to the UCM/Pitt State game tonight....was great pitching/defense on both sides, UCM pulled it out 1-0. 4 Hits for both teams totaling 8 combined. Fastest game I've watched in a while.

UCM will host regionals this year...thurs-sun

We kick off action at 7 pm vs winona state

lost in championship regional game to UNO...just weren't the same team as we were all year.

good luck to them in alabama....