Well ill be the first to admit i was wrong but Foltz was way off his game. Ill give Shenandoah credit that they are a better hitting team then i thought and they proved that today. Nobody hyped up foltz, all i was saying is that the USA south conference was VERY weak this year with pitching. So dont hype of the USA South like they are something great because honestly both conferences were pretty miserable this year as far as talent goes. You must not know anything about baseball if you think van sickler throws much harder than Foltz...they were both right around the mid 80's maybe touching upper 80's. Everybody has a bad game...tough to have a bad game tho when your playing the worst teams in the country like shenandoah and the USA south teams do just to run their record up...Shenandoah should just schedule a game next year vs a team with some good pitching for example...Lynchburg... who was top 5 in the nation last year in team ERA....

I like the Bridgewater vs. Shenandoah match-up. All this talk about how great Shenandoah is will finally be put to the test against a very good team with a very good pitching staff. They will likely see Alex Foltz, a guy with a 90 mph fastball and nasty breaking stuff. Shenandoah has knocked around some mediocre pitching all year but im really interested to see how they do against very good pitching. Should be a good game

ODAC tournament starts this Thursday! Who is the favorite to win? Opinions?

Game 1: Bridgewater vs. Washington and Lee
I like BC in this game. There pitching is just too good and their bats are even better.

Game 2: Virginia Wesleyan vs. Lynchburg
This is a tough one because LC seems to have turned it on towards the end of the season and I heard Breedlove is back from his injury and will be available to pitch which would be huge for LC. VWC has hit the ball well this season but pitching has been inconsistent. Should be a good game but im picking LC in the upset.

Game 3: HSC vs. RMC
This is the game of the day as The best hitting team in the conference, in my opinion, meets one of the best arms in the conference in Kyle Hicks. I think this will be a low scoring game if John West can hold RMC bats in check and go deep in the game. If not, RMC is gonna roll.

Virginia Wesleyan got a much needed sweep at Lynchburg College yesterday. Hitting was impressive for the marlins but the pitching was even more impressive as they only gave up 5 runs in 16 innings! Great wins for VWC.

On another note...i was excited to see Marion for VWC for the first time and in my opinion he didnt live up to the hype. Yeah he has 13 bombs in 20 games but lets be real, the ODAC fields are cracker jack parks and the pitching in the ODAC is not very impressive. Good pitching beats good hitting any day! He did blast one off the 400 foot sign in dead center but its all been against mediocre pitching! I would be really impressed if he hit it off of a guy like Breedlove for LC who is consistenly 88-92 mph. The pitching just hasn't been that great this year in the ODAC as it has in the past.

Also found out this weekend that RHP Breedlove (Lynchburg College) is out for possibly the rest of the season with a stress fracture in his elbow he suffered a few weeks ago. They said he could be back for the Tournament which is looking like its going to be much needed as LC is starting to slide. Im sure teams in the ODAC are glad they wont have to face him. Thompson is really going to have to step up and pitch well and McDonough needs to just throwing up goose eggs as i think he has been a real pleasant suprise this season stepping in for Breedlove!

Looking forward to see how the last month of baseball turns out!

Who do you guys think the best pitchers in the ODAC are?

From what I've seen:

Gary Bulman- VWC- who was drafted out of high school throwing mid 90's out of high school. probly not as hard now but still very good and pitching pretty good so far this year.

Adam Hart-Guilford- has really impressed me. Not an over powering guy but a crafty lefty who spots up pretty well and seems to rack up the strikeouts each outing. Pretty impressive kid.

Bryan Breedlove- LC- who was offered by the Arizona Diamondbacks last year to come out of school early but instead won a summer league national championship playing in the Coastal Plain League and did very well with 88-92 mph fastball.

Kyle Hicks- Macon- seems to be doing very well after i believe he got injured mid season last year. He seems to have recovered and is pitching well.

Anybody else im forgetting.....

Great game vs Methodist and Lynchburg today. Lynchburg bats struggled all day and Methodist seemed to hit the ball all day. Methodist staff day strategy was very effective and they all looked pretty good. Brian Inghram was impressive going 4-5 with 2r and an rbi. LC's Breedlove came on to bail his team out of a tough jam, bases loaded no outs, in the bottom of the ninth but eventually picked up a tough loss in the tenth on a soft line drive over a drawn in infield. Looked like Methodist Catcher T. Such got jammed a little bit but was able to get enough barrel on the ball and get just get it over the 2nd baseman's head. Tough loss for LC and Big win for Methodist.

Lynchburg split with Greensboro Sunday. Bats finally came alive in late innings of first game but rough start for Conner Thompson 2.1 ip, 6hits, 6er, 4walks and comeback fell short 9-8. Very uncharacteristic start for Thompson as he is usually pin-point command, he just looked very uncomfortable the whole time. The bats shined in game 2 and Breedlove had a strong start. Sat in the upper 80's for most of the game (not bad for pitching in freezing temperatures). Watkins picked up where he left off last year adding 5 hits on the day with a couple of rbi's. Jeff taylor and Cameron Grant also looked good. 

Wish the Challenge wouldnt have gotten canceled. I was looking forward to some great baseball. Was Really looking forward to the Shenandoah vs. Lynchburg showdown with probably 2 future draft picks both starting on the mound in Greg Van Sickler for Shenandoah and Bryan Breedlove for Lynchburg. Would have been a great game. Also was looking forward to seeing methodist (Jordan, Ingraham), cnu, vwc (Bulman).