Difficult Roads, Destinations

Between innings of a college baseball doubleheader there are a number of tasks that need to be tended to before the first pitch of the second game is thrown. The infield needs to be drug, the batter’s box will definitely need a re-chalking, the mound should get a solid tamping and the visiting team will…

DII, NAIA, DIII Top 25 Standouts

Up until Monday there was still a sliver of a chance that small school college baseball would be played in spring of 2020.  However, that final glimmer was extinguished Monday when the NAIA followed their NCAA brethren and inevitably canceled the remainder of the spring sports season. Consequently, these are regrettably anticipated to be the…

DII, NAIA, DIII rankings: Mar. 11

Although the weather is finally beginning to warm up, a bitter cold front came across the tops of each of the three small school divisions last week. There were changes of the pole sitter in the NAIA and D-III and a strong argument could be made for a switch at D-II as well. In D-II…

DII, NAIA, DIII rankings: March 4

With the third in-season update of the year each of the three teams which started the season ranked No. 1 remain in their positions. However, their respective grasps on the top spot are extremely dissimilar. In D-II Angelo State has left little doubt they are the team to beat as they started the season with…

DII, NAIA, DIII rankings: Feb. 26

With the second in-season rankings update there wasn’t much movement in any of the three small school divisions. Not only did the Top 25 family of schools take care of business on the diamond, they dominated. The D-II teams in the Top 25 went 72-17 while their NAIA counterparts went 70-15 and the top D-III…

DII, NAIA, DIII rankings: Feb. 19

With this being the inaugural update of the 2020 Perfect Game small school Top 25, there wasn’t much remarkable movement in any of the three rankings. There was some minor shuffling of teams they had exceptionally inauspicious or overwhelming starts, but for the most part it is still too early to get overzealous for outcomes…