College Urban Invitational

[widac]

We've got some college ball on MLB Network today. Anybody here working the College Urban Invitational? Are NCAA officials restricted/banned from talking on boards like this?

[Umpire in Chief]

NCAA guys aren't prohibited. I don't know everybody's real name here, but we have members who have worked at some very high levels and some prestigious games.

As I write this I'm watching the Grambling vs Southern game and am wondering if the PU is wearing a ribbed CP.

[mstaylor]

There some guys that still wear them. We have a guy that works D1 and wears a ribbed +POS protector. The ump on TV is also a scissor guy, that makes him a double throwback. I dn't like his strike call, his arm goes uphill. If you are going to point to the side, point level.

[dumbdumb]

NCAA guys aren't prohibited. I don't know everybody's real name here, but we have members who have worked at some very high levels and some prestigious games.

As I write this I'm watching the Grambling vs Southern game and am wondering if the PU is wearing a ribbed CP.

Now come on UIC (got to bust on you every now and then)

Here is the D1 website (again) so you can identify and call each umpire by name (OK,OK, sometimes they do not give names in the box-score, but this one did).

http://www.d1baseball.com/

Score by Innings R H E

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Southern Illinois... 000 002 200 - 4 11 2

Grambling State..... 101 000 001 - 3 5 1

Umpires - HP: Ray Alvarado 1B: Blain Brasseaux 3B: Travis Hargroder

Start: 2:08 pm Time: 2:16 Attendance: 317

Weather: 71 degrees, mostly cloudy

Call Ray up and ask him which chest protector he uses--I'm sure he has the standard umpire telephone number (1-800-Ray Alvarado).

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What I have found interesting on the D1 site so far are 2 things

last week (2-19-2011) at East Tennessee State University was Congressman Dale Ford umpiring. Now, I do not know if there are any Dale, Jr's amongst Dale's 5 children, but if there is not a Dale, Jr. who umpires D1, it seems it would have to be former AL (for 24 years) umpire Dale Ford himself at a spry 68 years old now.

Score by Innings R H E

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Marist Red Foxes.... 000 011 200 - 4 6 2

ETSU................ 002 110 41X - 9 11 3

Umpires - HP: Dale Ford 1B: Darryl Arnold 3B: Will Little

Start: 3:05 pm Time: 2:32 Attendance: 253

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Also, what I found amazing on the D1 board this week(Friday 2-26-2011) and listed below, was a gentleman named Gerald Trexler working 3 D1 games in one day. This guy must be superman, as well as being a hell of an umpire. He was working in the Wake Forest Tournament in Winston-Salem, NC at 10:00am. The Davidson Tournament at Davidson, NC near Charlotte at 2:00pm in the afternoon, and at Duke in Durham, NC at 4:00 pm. This is the most prolific umpiring feat at this level of baseball that I have personally witnessed, at least on paper, with all the travel involved also. This guy is just simply amazing, to those on this board who might know him, if for no other reason than the logistics of this feat. Good thing he was able to stay on the bases all day. I googled his name, and apparently he also works the Southern Conference as a Football official. Simply amazing. This guy must be some 22 year old phenom wiper-snapper to be able to work this type of schedule at this level, or if he has some years on him, he must have found some fountain-of-youth medication. Maybe he has his own helicopter and flies to his assignments. Anyway, I tip my hat to him. See stats below.

Score by Innings R H E

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Northwestern........ 102 020 000 - 5 7 2

Georgetown.......... 002 120 20X - 7 12 3

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Umpires - HP: Randal Dulin 1B: Gerald Trexler 3B: Tommy Caudle

Start: 10:01 am Time: 2:09 Attendance: 117

Weather: Sunny, Windy, Low 60s

Score by Innings R H E

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Ohio Bobcats........ 042 022 104 - 15 16 3

LeHigh.............. 210 201 020 - 8 15 1

Umpires - HP: Darin Tyson 1B: Gerald Trexler

Start: 2 p.m. Time: 3:13 Attendance: 78

Weather: upper 60s, windy, sunny

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Villanova........... 000 001 000 - 1 4 1

Duke................ 060 000 00X - 6 7 1

Umpires - HP: Jamie Roebuck 1B: Randy Dulin 3B: Gerald Trexler

Start: 4 pm Time: 2:19 Attendance: 442

Weather: 68 deg, cloudy, W@19-32

Game: GAME4

Oops, and apparently Randy Dulin worked the 10:00am game in Winston Salem on the plate and then the 4:00pm game at Durham on the bases with Mr. Trexler that day. Apparently he was given some rest while Mr. Trexler had to go work a game in between the 2 other games.

[yawetag]

The Davidson Tournament at Davidson, NC near Charlotte at 2:00pm in the afternoon, and at Duke in Durham, NC at 4:00 pm. This is the most prolific umpiring feat at this level of baseball that I have personally witnessed, at least on paper, with all the travel involved also.

Not to mention the 2pm game took over 3 hours. Maybe the fields are next to each other and he was able to do the bases on both.

[widac]

There's no way he could have done all those games at those start times.