Remember how the end of the 2009 spring trip was highlighted by the 5-0 win over nationally ranked host Miami? 2010 will see the Bucks play a game at the complete opposite end of the spectrum.
On March 25th the reigning Big Ten champs, and a team with Omaha aspirations will face a Webber Warriors team that went 25-31 in 2009 and 10-14 in the Sun Conference.
From the Lake Wales News
Get ready for some Big 10 baseball in Lake Wales
Ohio State visit highlights Webber baseball schedule
The Webber Warriors announced their 2010 spring baseball schedule this week, and it features a visit by the Ohio State Buckeyes in late March.
The Scarlet and Gray are scheduled to play at Heart of Florida Field in Babson Park on March 25. Game time has not been announced.
The Warriors finished the 2009 campaign with a 25-31 overall record and a 10-14 mark in The Sun Conference.
The 2010 Warrior schedule will include 27 Sun Conference games, six games against NCAA-II opponents, and one NCAA-I opponent, Ohio State University, as well as, 21 games versus other NAIA competition. This season Webber International will be playing on 39 of their 55 games at The Heart of Florida Field.
“I feel that we have put together a good mix of returners and newcomers for this upcoming season and look forward to improving from our 2009 season performance,” stated head coach Brad Niethammer.
“We also look to compete against 17 opponents who have received pre-season ranking in the NAIA.”
Ohio State will be in Winter Haven for the second annual RussMatt baseball tournament which last year attracted some 200 college teams playing in the area during a two-month period. Warner University will also host some of the tournament games.
Webber’s schedule opens with a double header at home against Crooked Lake rival Warner University on Jan. 30 at noon. Ohio State visit highlights Webber baseball schedule
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I'm not sure why this game was scheduled. Surely there had to be other schools willing to face the Bucks. Schools that would help the Bucks drive to Omaha and allow the Bucks to "measure up" with the rest of the DI world.
To be honest, the Buckeyes should be favored in all 56 games, and at the very least 54 excluding the 2 home dates with Louisville. But as we know baseball is played on the field and things happen that are unexpected. The Buckeyes are facing a schedule that honestly allows very little margin of error.
With the poor quality of opponents this is a team that could go 40-15 and be at home early June with an RPI in the 80s. This game will not hurt the RPI as it is a non-DI opponent, but it is a chance squandered to boost the resume with a top-25, top-50, heck even a top-100 team.
For the strides we're making on the field, occurrences like these are why people across the country are hesitant to give the Bucks any credit, the 37-6 Florida State shelling can also be attributed to that. When Collegiate Baseball ranks the Bucks 14th in their preseason poll, which they have, people laugh and discredit the poll. I know image is a very minute worry and on-field results matter, but if you're fighting for a Regional host, a #1 seed, or a last bubble team, it is a beauty pageant.
Sunday, December 20, 2009
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Columbus to host Big Ten Tourney through '12
Park Ridge, Ill. –- The Big Ten Conference, Huntington Park and the Greater Columbus Sports Commission announced today that Columbus, Ohio, will be home to the Big Ten Baseball Tournament for the 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons. The Big Ten played its first neutral-site tournament since 1994 at Columbus’ Huntington Park in 2009 and will return to the ballpark in 2011 and 2012. Due to a facility conflict, the 2010 tournament will be held at Ohio State’s Bill Davis Stadium.
“The Big Ten Conference is excited to return to the city of Columbus for its upcoming baseball tournaments,” Big Ten Conference Commissioner James E. Delany said. “Last year’s event provided a fantastic experience for our coaches, student-athletes and fans, and we look forward to growing the event in the next three years.”
“We are thrilled that Columbus, Bill Davis Stadium and Huntington Park will host the Big Ten Baseball Tournament through 2012,” Greater Columbus Sports Commission Executive Director Linda Shetina Logan said. “Our community thanks the Big Ten Conference, its schools and coaches for making this commitment to Columbus, and we will work to build an atmosphere for this tournament similar to the College World Series.”
The 2009 Big Ten Baseball Tournament drew more than 12,000 fans, marking the tournament’s highest total attendance in the past decade. Indiana took home the program’s second tournament title, earning the Big Ten’s automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.
“We were proud to host the Big Ten Baseball Tournament in 2009 and look forward to its return to Huntington Park in 2011 and 2012,” said Columbus Clippers General Manager Ken Schnacke, who also manages Huntington Park. “And we look forward to partnering with the Big Ten and the Columbus Sports Commission to grow the tournament every year.”
Prior to 2009, the Big Ten Baseball Tournament had been played at the site of the regular-season champion or the champion from a pre-selected division since its inception in 1981, with the exception of 1993 and 1994, when the tournament was held in Battle Creek, Mich. From 1981-99, the tournament field consisted of the conference’s top four teams. In 2000, the field expanded to include six squads. The Big Ten Baseball Tournament is a double-elimination event with the top two seeds earning first-round byes.
The Big Ten Conference is an association of 11 world-class universities whose member institutions share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching and public service. Founded in 1896, the Big Ten has sustained a comprehensive set of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics in student-athletes’ lives and emphasize the values of integrity, fairness and competitiveness. Big Ten universities provide in excess of $100 million in athletic scholarship aid to more than 8,500 men and women student-athletes who compete for 25 championships, 12 for men and 13 for women. Conference institutions sponsor broad-based athletic programs with more than 270 teams. For more information, visit www.bigten.org.
The Greater Columbus Sports Commission was founded in June 2002 to attract professional, amateur, collegiate and youth sporting events to Columbus. Since its inception, the Sports Commission has attracted more than 90 events that have generated more than $95 million in visitor spending. For more information, visit www.ColumbusSports.org.
“The Big Ten Conference is excited to return to the city of Columbus for its upcoming baseball tournaments,” Big Ten Conference Commissioner James E. Delany said. “Last year’s event provided a fantastic experience for our coaches, student-athletes and fans, and we look forward to growing the event in the next three years.”
“We are thrilled that Columbus, Bill Davis Stadium and Huntington Park will host the Big Ten Baseball Tournament through 2012,” Greater Columbus Sports Commission Executive Director Linda Shetina Logan said. “Our community thanks the Big Ten Conference, its schools and coaches for making this commitment to Columbus, and we will work to build an atmosphere for this tournament similar to the College World Series.”
The 2009 Big Ten Baseball Tournament drew more than 12,000 fans, marking the tournament’s highest total attendance in the past decade. Indiana took home the program’s second tournament title, earning the Big Ten’s automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.
“We were proud to host the Big Ten Baseball Tournament in 2009 and look forward to its return to Huntington Park in 2011 and 2012,” said Columbus Clippers General Manager Ken Schnacke, who also manages Huntington Park. “And we look forward to partnering with the Big Ten and the Columbus Sports Commission to grow the tournament every year.”
Prior to 2009, the Big Ten Baseball Tournament had been played at the site of the regular-season champion or the champion from a pre-selected division since its inception in 1981, with the exception of 1993 and 1994, when the tournament was held in Battle Creek, Mich. From 1981-99, the tournament field consisted of the conference’s top four teams. In 2000, the field expanded to include six squads. The Big Ten Baseball Tournament is a double-elimination event with the top two seeds earning first-round byes.
The Big Ten Conference is an association of 11 world-class universities whose member institutions share a common mission of research, graduate, professional and undergraduate teaching and public service. Founded in 1896, the Big Ten has sustained a comprehensive set of shared practices and policies that enforce the priority of academics in student-athletes’ lives and emphasize the values of integrity, fairness and competitiveness. Big Ten universities provide in excess of $100 million in athletic scholarship aid to more than 8,500 men and women student-athletes who compete for 25 championships, 12 for men and 13 for women. Conference institutions sponsor broad-based athletic programs with more than 270 teams. For more information, visit www.bigten.org.
The Greater Columbus Sports Commission was founded in June 2002 to attract professional, amateur, collegiate and youth sporting events to Columbus. Since its inception, the Sports Commission has attracted more than 90 events that have generated more than $95 million in visitor spending. For more information, visit www.ColumbusSports.org.
Wimmers & Burkhart named Preseason All-Americans
The junior battery was selected to the Collegiate Baseball Writers’ second team
Courtesy Ohio State Athletics
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State junior ace Alex Wimmers and junior catcher Dan Burkart, the 2009 Big Ten Conference co-pitcher and player of the year, respectively, have been named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association of America (NCBWA) preseason All-America second team. Both players are from Cincinnati, Ohio and played for Archbishop Moeller High School.
Wimmers, a semifinalist last year for both the Golden Spikes Award and the College Baseball Foundation National Pitcher of the Year Award, is coming off a sophomore campaign that included a 9-2 record, a 3.27 earned run average and 136 strikeouts (vs. 55 walks) in 104.2 innings. He was named first-team All-America by Louisville Slugger and PING! Baseball and third-team All-America by Collegiate Baseball and the NCBWA.
Burkhart was a semifinalist for the Coleman Company-Johnny Bench Award, given annually to the nation’s top collegiate catcher last year. Considered the best everyday player on the Big Ten champion Buckeyes team last year, Burkhart hit .354 with 13 doubles, three triples, 10 home runs and 62 runs batted in. He also scored 48 runs, slugged at a .589 clip, and threw out 35-percent of runners attempting to steal.
Only three Big Ten Conference players were named on the baseball writer’s three preseason All-America teams. Michigan outfielder Ryan LaMarre was the only other player from the Big Ten named. The NCBWA preseason All-America team release is attached.
The college baseball season opens the weekend of Feb. 19. Ohio State will play three games at the University of North Florida – vs. North Florida, Florida A&M and vs. Richmond – Feb. 19, 20 and 21, respectively, to open its season.
Courtesy Ohio State Athletics
COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio State junior ace Alex Wimmers and junior catcher Dan Burkart, the 2009 Big Ten Conference co-pitcher and player of the year, respectively, have been named to the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association of America (NCBWA) preseason All-America second team. Both players are from Cincinnati, Ohio and played for Archbishop Moeller High School.
Wimmers, a semifinalist last year for both the Golden Spikes Award and the College Baseball Foundation National Pitcher of the Year Award, is coming off a sophomore campaign that included a 9-2 record, a 3.27 earned run average and 136 strikeouts (vs. 55 walks) in 104.2 innings. He was named first-team All-America by Louisville Slugger and PING! Baseball and third-team All-America by Collegiate Baseball and the NCBWA.
Burkhart was a semifinalist for the Coleman Company-Johnny Bench Award, given annually to the nation’s top collegiate catcher last year. Considered the best everyday player on the Big Ten champion Buckeyes team last year, Burkhart hit .354 with 13 doubles, three triples, 10 home runs and 62 runs batted in. He also scored 48 runs, slugged at a .589 clip, and threw out 35-percent of runners attempting to steal.
Only three Big Ten Conference players were named on the baseball writer’s three preseason All-America teams. Michigan outfielder Ryan LaMarre was the only other player from the Big Ten named. The NCBWA preseason All-America team release is attached.
The college baseball season opens the weekend of Feb. 19. Ohio State will play three games at the University of North Florida – vs. North Florida, Florida A&M and vs. Richmond – Feb. 19, 20 and 21, respectively, to open its season.
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Future Buckeyes Greve, Dezse, Wetzel named TBS All-Scout
Bear with me just one more week until finals are over and I can resume writing about our current Buckeyes. Until then, three future Buckeyes receive recognition as the state's best.
With recruiting efforts like this, the 2009 Big Ten Championship might not be a coronation, but rather a start of dominance.
Courtesy The Buckeye Scout
Class Of 2010 The Buckeye Scout All-Scout Team
OF Marcus Davis (Cinti Princeton): LOUISIANA STATE
OF TJ Sutton (Canton GlenOak): KENT STATE
OF Tim Wetzel (Westlake): OHIO STATE
3B Dan Ward (Garfield Heights): OHIO U
SS Jacob May (Lakota West): COASTAL CAROLINA
2B Blake Bellman (West Salem Northwestern): CINCINNATI
1B Jared King (Dublin Jerome): KANSAS STATE
C Alex Lavisky (St Edwards): GEORGIA TECH
DH Johnny Fasola (Walsh Jesuit): KANSAS STATE
UT Michael O'Neill (Olentangy Liberty): MICHIGAN
RHP Stetson Allie (St Edwards): NORTH CAROLINA
RHP Josh Dezse (Olentangy Liberty): OHIO STATE
RHP Greg Greve (Walsh Jesuit): OHIO STATE
RHP Dusty Issacs (Lebanon): GEORGIA TECH
RHP Dace Kime (Defiance): LOUISVILLE
RHP Josh Pierce (Avon): KENT STATE
RHP Tyler Skulina (Walsh Jesuit): VIRGINIA
RHP David Whitehead (Moeller): ELON
LHP Joel Bender (Cinti Oak Hills): LOUISVILLE
With recruiting efforts like this, the 2009 Big Ten Championship might not be a coronation, but rather a start of dominance.
Courtesy The Buckeye Scout
Class Of 2010 The Buckeye Scout All-Scout Team
OF Marcus Davis (Cinti Princeton): LOUISIANA STATE
OF TJ Sutton (Canton GlenOak): KENT STATE
OF Tim Wetzel (Westlake): OHIO STATE
3B Dan Ward (Garfield Heights): OHIO U
SS Jacob May (Lakota West): COASTAL CAROLINA
2B Blake Bellman (West Salem Northwestern): CINCINNATI
1B Jared King (Dublin Jerome): KANSAS STATE
C Alex Lavisky (St Edwards): GEORGIA TECH
DH Johnny Fasola (Walsh Jesuit): KANSAS STATE
UT Michael O'Neill (Olentangy Liberty): MICHIGAN
RHP Stetson Allie (St Edwards): NORTH CAROLINA
RHP Josh Dezse (Olentangy Liberty): OHIO STATE
RHP Greg Greve (Walsh Jesuit): OHIO STATE
RHP Dusty Issacs (Lebanon): GEORGIA TECH
RHP Dace Kime (Defiance): LOUISVILLE
RHP Josh Pierce (Avon): KENT STATE
RHP Tyler Skulina (Walsh Jesuit): VIRGINIA
RHP David Whitehead (Moeller): ELON
LHP Joel Bender (Cinti Oak Hills): LOUISVILLE
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