Bruno
PhD Student
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Loc: Brooklyn, NY
Reg: 11-21-04
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Brown wins its first Ivy championship!
05-05-07 10:39 PM - Post#35061
In response to Old Bear
As a baseball alum, I'm very proud of this outcome. Great, great job by Marek Drabinski. This was quite literally unthinkable when I played.
Devin Thomas hits a grand slam, breaks the Brown record for HR and RBI in a season, and should by all rights win the Player of the Year award for his performance both overall and in these end of the season and playoff games.
Jeff Dietz pitches a masterful game 1 complete game shutout, and knocks in the game's only run off Penn's Todd Roth through an incredibly "ballsy" tag on a short fly ball by the fastest player in the Ivies, Steve Daniels. Roth was almost as good - the freshman didn't have a ball hit hard off him all day, and Brown's a team whose batting average is over .320.
Game 2 was a blowout, with Senior James Cramphin picking up the win with 12 Ks in under 6 innings. Rob Papenhouse and Thomas hit early grand slams in the first two innings to put it out of reach early.
My only concern is Brown's month long layoff before playing its first round game. I'm sure Drabinski will look to reschedule some of those games that were cancelled earlier in the season (Maine, for example), but I don't know how many teams in the Northeast will be willing to play exhibition games in late May. (Does anyone know how that works, by the way? I know last year Princeton somehow played Lehigh in late May, weeks after I'd expect both of their seasons to have been over.)
Either way - I'm very psyched. Great job Brown Bears!
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