BB: ODAC: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[hbp]

Johnny West, Hampden-Sydney had a nice outing vs Bridgewater this weekend.  He's 2-1 this season and has logged about 35% of their innings.  15 Ks/2 BB in 22 innings.

[D-BAT]

Surprised that NOBODY is talking about this ...

Eastern Mennonite is fresh off an impressive Old Dominion Athletic Conference sweep of Virginia Wesleyan.

The Marlins were voted second in the ODAC's preseason poll, but the Royals (voted 8th out of 10) pounded out 23 runs Saturday in Virginia Beach, winning by 12-8 and 11-7 scores.

Game 1:
R   H   E
12-09-04 ... EMU
08-07-03 ... VWC

EMU chased Bulman after 2.0 IP, 14 batters faced, 4 hits, 5 runs and 3 BB's.

Game 2:
R   H   E
11-17-03 ... EMU
07-10-01 ... VWC

EMU chased Samuels after 2.0 IP, 15 batters faced, 7 hits, 5 runs.


The Royals are now 4-4 overall and 2-2 in ODAC play.






EMU To Play Home Games At Long Field/Mauck Stadium

With the Eastern Mennonite baseball field still drying off from this winter's massive snow falls, the Royals will play this week's home baseball games at Long Field/Mauck Stadium on the campus of James Madison University in Harrisonburg. Game times will all remain the same, but the games on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday will be at JMU.

The Royals host a single game with Washington & Lee on Tuesday, Mar. 9, with first pitch at 3:00pm. Penn State-Harrisburg visits Thursday at 3:00pm and Emory & Henry comes in for a doubleheader on Saturday starting at noon.  The games will all be played at Long Field/Mauck Stadium, which was the home of JMU's Dukes until they moved into the new Veterans Stadium this spring.

[hbp]

Nice call on EMU, very impressive couple wins at VW.  VW has wins over NCW and Salisbury this season so its not like they aren't playing well.  Lynchburg is the team to beat in the ODAC but teams like EMU, Roanoke and Guilford picked near the bottom are able to compete with anyone in the conference. It really is wide open in the ODAC.

[D-BAT]

EMU follows up a good weekend with another quality win over W&L by the score of 10-2 today on the campus of JMU.

http://www.emu.edu/athletics/news/?id=2503

[LTBB1971]

VWC's problems have been closing the door on teams.  I can count probably 3 games where they had a lead in the 8th and brought the closer in only to give up the win.  Maybe a change in closer is in place.  Can't keep letting same guy give up the lead in late innings.  Alex DeJesus has been a godsend after sitting pretty much first 2 years.  Guy has been their most consistent pitcher.

[VTHokie22]

hey,

new to the boards here. I have been reading them for a while mainly watching USAS and ODAC. Just thought I might give some more updates and opinions on some of the games. I play for Roanoke but ill try not to keep my opinions and stats too one sided towards my team or teammates  .

to start things off....

Roanoke beat guilford wednesday in a good game 8-6.

VWC swept Roanoke Saturday 3-10 and 6-17. VWC put out 8 homeruns in the second game and I think 3 in the first. Marion had 3 in the second game with 7 RBIs, and shipp went 4-6. We had no response on offense as both of their pitchers game only a few outs of throwing complete games before getting pulled.

[vabaseball]

Mike Marion is really something... Home run machine

[LTBB1971]

Certainly,
Marion with 13 HRs in 20 games is an excellent stat.  Teams have figured that out and are starting to pitch around him.  I believe the VWC-Salisbury game today was cancelled.  VWC's bullpen has been their strength, let's see if they can start getting some decent starting pitching.  Davis Hall seems to be their best most consistent starter and his era is 4.57...not great.

[VTHokie22]

We managed to snag a win at guilford today with the typical score of a guilford home game 18-12. Was a really ugly game, despite there being only two errors Roanoke managed to screw up every way possible on the base paths while guilford managed to make plenty of mistakes in the field (not getting leather on the ball avoiding errors for the most part).


Score by Innings                               R  H  E
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Roanoke College..... 350 001 027 - 18 23  0
Guilford College....... 000 025 050 - 12 21  2
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Guilford 3-6 in ODAC
Roanoke 4-4 in ODAC

[BaseballFan10]

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!

[VTHokie22]

Bridgewater swept Roanoke over the weekend....Roanoke blew a 4 run lead in the bottom of the 6th and then a 3 run lead in the second game in the bottom of the 8th.

First game was a great one...each pitcher had 5 shutout innings and the only runs scored were in the 6th. Roanoke had a 1 hitter going into the 6th. An error with 2 outs in the 6th inning by the second baseman allowed for the 2 out rally by bridgewater to take the lead. Second game had some foolish mistakes in the field by both teams allowing each team to score plenty of extra runs.

[LTBB1971]

VWC has some big games coming up with Stevenson (CAC), Guilford (ODAC) DH, Averett (USAS) and Ferrum (USAS) in the next 10 days...crutial and good competition for getting them ready for Conference play.  With 6 conference games left, I still think they'll need to go 4-2 minimum to make the tournament.

[hbp]

Top 6 teams qualify for ODAC tourney.  Looks like barring a complete collapse VW should be fine for that.  Bridgewater has really stepped up the past few weeks.  Lynchburg needs to take care of business at Roanoke today or they could be in some trouble.  I wouldn't be at all surprised if one of the teams in the pack gets gets hot like W&L did in 2009 and carries that momentum in the conf tourney and ultimately the NCAAs. 

[LTBB1971]

Big win 5-1 and 4-3 by VWC over Guilford at Marlins Field, putting VWC at 9-5 in Conference and 17-11 overall.  Have not seen the box score but I am thinking the Marlins now have a great shoot at maybe a number 2 seed. 

[VTHokie22]

Roanoke and Lynchburg split today. Roanoke won the 7 inning game while Lynchburg took the 9 inning game