McDaniel v. Gettysburg

So I went to a ballgame today....the home opener for the Bullets as they took on West Virginia's Maryland's own Green Terror from McDaniel. Gotta love D-3. I took score and made a box score after the fact with a bit of a twist.....

McDaniel Green Terror v. Gettysburg Bullets, 3/31/05

So here are a few things:

1. McDaniel's starting pitcher, Jimmy Dahlgren, would be a pretty good pitcher if he could cut back on his walks. He made 9 hitters look bad on the strikeouts he had in fewer than 6 innings.
2. Ross Hempel, Gettysburg's starter, went the distance, throwing a solid 102-pitch complete game. He scattered 6 hits, walked 2, and struck out 4 en route to the win.
3. Gettysburg took a lot of walks today....as a team, they on-based .395.
4. The guy who followed Dahlgren wasn't on today, unfortunately....Tom Marshall struggled against the Burg.
5. My sympathy to Ben Carey, who struck out in his first 4 at-bats and looked very annoyed on a called-third strike in the 6th. He grounded into a run-scoring fielder's choice in the 8th, accounting for the 1 of the Burg's 2 RBI.
6. The highlight of the game was a sharp defensive play for the 'Burg in the 5th. With a run in and a man on second, Chad Keller hit a ground ball between first and second. The first baseman dove and couldn't reach it, but the 2nd baseman, Austin Ball, made a nice pick and gunned it to first to the Hempel, the pitcher. Keller dove head first into the bag, the ump hesitated, and punched him out. Excellent defensive play.
7. Jimmy McNamara lined out in his first two at-bats, one was a lunging grab by the right fielder Weinrich, and the other was a neat catch from Szerlick at first.
8. The crowd behind home plate started out as just me, but there were probably about 15 people in the stands by the time it ended.
9. Defensive mistakes killed Dahlgren, but I think we learn a little about the value of not walking people today. If you put that many guys on, you're tempting fate, and it hurt.
10. Um, I just wasted some time: Official box score. Lots of stuff there, but not the individual pitch counts, which is what I really wanted.
11. Gettysburg's stats are here, and McDaniel's are here.
12. As I would have guessed, Kevin Salamone is on-basing well with no power, with a season line of .304/.407/.391 through 7 games. The 'Burg has played a lot more games than McDaniel. Salamone was the most interesting player to me today, simply because he saw so many pitches. I counted 102 pitches (the box counts 103, but I'm pretty certain that I was right) and 23 of those were to Salamone. That's like 22.5% of the pitches that Hempel threw.
13. Whatever software they had there compiling these stats, I want it....I saw a guy on a laptop putting in all this information......the data they have is pretty nice.
14. Ah! I forgot to put these in:

Ross Hempel: 12/9 G/F ratio
Jimmy Dahlgren: 3/3 G/F ratio (lots of line drives and Ks)

That's a quick journey into Division-III college baseball. Enjoy.