Other Maine Baseball News

The University of Maine baseball team was in the NCAA Oxford Regional over the weekend, losing an elimination game on Sunday 11-10 to Oklahoma. As the #4 seed, the Black Bears were at a disadvantage, but did manage to knock Southern Miss out on Saturday before succumbing to the Sooners.

I've said this many times (not here, probably), but I miss the days when the NCAA regionals were true regionals. Sure, it's not fair to all of the strong programs down South to limit their ability to go to the College World Series while the lesser programs in the North get an automatic bid. I don't care about that. Now the College World Series is just a heavyweight tournament. Gone are the days when the little underdog squad from Orono can roll into Omaha and play the spoiler role. They did that a lot in the 1980's, and it made for good TV. Now, if your school isn't in the tourney, who cares? (Of course, UMaine is my school, so maybe that's why I cared back then!).

Also, the Maine Sunday Telegram had a couple of articles about Thopsham's Mark Rogers, who is morphing from a thrower to a pitcher for the West Virginia Power of the Sally League. Rogers still has quite a ways to go, but he's young for the league and he throws 100 mph, so I'd say his future is still quite promising.