BB: ODAC: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[vabaseball]

Yet Eastern Mennonite had a couple good wins over Virginia Wesleyan near the end of the regular season... 

[Falcon2720]

Big upset in the first game!

W&L beats Lynchburg 4-1.  Looks like three errors killed the Hornets.

Lynchburg does have the pitching with Thompson, Devlin, and Nichols to come through the losers bracket.

[HighHeat]

VWC is down 2-0 to HSC heading into the bottom of the 4th. The Marlins went with senior Brett Horowitz. I am very suprised that Bulman did not start. With Lynchburg losing first game, you would have to think VWC has the best chance if they can come back against HSC

[A.G.]

VWC down 7-3 in the 9th.  Looking like 1 vs 2 in the 11 AM elimination game.

[vabaseball]

Crazy. Reminiscent of #2 and #3 playing in the USA South elimination game last weekend.

[hasanova]

I doubt it. 

If that were the case Roanoke, Eastern Mennonite, and Emory & Henry would all be firing coaches.

I agree ... that's not Guilford's style.  Nick Black is still a young man and a Guilford grad, so he's safe.  He and his staff do need to recruit some pitching, though ... both starters and relief.  The Quakers lost a lot of games late and with some really high scores.   

[A.G.]

ALMOST had the top 3 seeds go down today.  RMC scored 5 in the bottom of the 9th to win 6-5 over Bridgewater.  I think they only had 2 hits in the inning.

[vabaseball]

This is kind of funny.  Looks like RMC began writing their news release about the game before they came back and won in the bottom of the 9th:

"Mendenhall was saddled with the loss after throwing 5.2 innings, allowing five runs on eight hits, while striking out three in a losing effort. Haile Lytton came out of the pen and threw 3.1 innings of scoreless relief to improve his record to 3-1 on the season."

Mendenhall was off the hook thanks to a run walked in to tie the game and a wild pitch to score the winning run.

[narch]

looks like vwc bumped lc out of the tournament today...does lc have the resume to land an at-large?  i know i wish they weren't in the pool with the monarchs...

[Pauperboy]

IMHO.....they do not have the resume. I think this puts them clearly behind Methodist for sure. I think its fairly obvious that the South will be a 6-team regional and that means very little room for Pool C South contenders (i.e. Methodist) especially with York looking like they will grab a Pool B bid.

Salisbury
Shenandoah
York
NCW
ODAC Champ
(Take your pick)

[Ralph Turner]

IMHO.....they do not have the resume. I think this puts them clearly behind Methodist for sure. I think its fairly obvious that the South will be a 6-team regional and that means very little room for Pool C South contenders (i.e. Methodist) especially with York looking like they will grab a Pool B bid.

Salisbury   Pool B
Shenandoah    Pool C
York                  Pool B
NCW                 Pool A
ODAC Champ          Pool A
(Take your pick)   Anyone within 500 miles of Salisbury

SCAC champ?  Millsaps, Trinity, or Hendrix would need to be flown somewhere!

[Catfishncwc]

IMHO.....they do not have the resume. I think this puts them clearly behind Methodist for sure. I think its fairly obvious that the South will be a 6-team regional and that means very little room for Pool C South contenders (i.e. Methodist) especially with York looking like they will grab a Pool B bid.

Salisbury
Shenandoah
York
NCW
ODAC Champ
(Take your pick)

Still not sold on SU getting a at large, they did go 3-6 against CNU, MU and NCWC for the year and those are the top 3 teams in the Dixie this year.  Having a .333 winning % against the top three teams in your conference is a red flag me. 

[A.G.]

looks like vwc bumped lc out of the tournament today...does lc have the resume to land an at-large?  i know i wish they weren't in the pool with the monarchs...

Not a chance.

[A.G.]

VWC advances to the 1 PM game on Sunday with a 5-4 win over Bridgewater.  They will play HSC regardless as to whether the Tigers win or lose tonight's game vs W&L.

[vabaseball]

I was pulling for Hampden Sydney but VWC overtook them.  So now it's VWC vs. W&L this afternoon.