BB: ODAC: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[hasanova]

3/11  Quakers over RMC 5-0 behind Dave Whigham in 1st game of a twinbill.  The 2nd game in a short rain delay - I see no reason they won't get it in.

Quakers and Yellow Jackets split in Greensboro, as RMC takes the 2nd game 7-3.

[Olinemom]

I emailed you yesterday about today's game which is going on right now and I'm sure you are there.  I couldn't be there as I have a class tonight.  If it were't  the last class meeting, I think I would have skipped it to come.  But I got your non-message message, so I probably should have written you here.  Hope both teams are playing well.  Naturally I hope my guys win.  But that's in the players' hands.  whoever plays the best and has the fewest mistakes will win.  Please post on here so that those of us who couldn't come to the game will know.  Thanks a bunch, Narch.

olinemom - i didn't get your email?  not sure what happened - your pitcher, #24, looked pretty solid, but honestly, the monarchs win if they catch the ball...5 errors and 7 unearned runs...not good - bc had some of the biggest d3 players i've seen (the 1b and the catcher were big 'ol boys) and probably the smallest (the 2b)...that little dude could fly though - i'd like another crack at bc...maybe in the regionals

I sent it to what you have on your profile and I got some note back that says you don"t just accept e-mails from just anybody.  It  was an automatic e-mail or so it said.  But #10 and #24 are really big, and have always been so.  They are great guys.  They both have played for the wooden bat league up our way in summer ball.  There is also a rec league that has players that range from excellent high school prospects to  guys who made it to the minors and 1-2 who made it to the majors.  They play there as well.  Good solid guys.  I have had them in class and they are good students as well.  The second base is a freshman that they are very high on.  I don't know him yet as I couldn't go on the trip this year, but have heard great things. 
     That sounds like a lot of errors in a game, even for this early in the season.  But anybody can have a bad day.  Hope to see you all in the regionals, but bot h teams have to take care of business in order to get there.

[hasanova]

I didn't see the game, but the scoreboard at Guilford's McBane Field said 7-5 visitors.  I guess that's one for the SU Hornets and the USASAC - darn it!  lol   

[InstantO]

HSC beats CNU 3-1 in a pitcher's duel...looks like a split today with the USASAC...

[narch]

odac 15 - usasac 13, right?

[mybleedinghands]

odac 15 - usasac 13, right?

Make that 16 for the ODAC. LC beat Averett today. LC goes up 3-0, averett comes back to go up 5-3. Then LC goes up 11-5. The pitchers got rouged up today and the very high winds caused a lot of fielding mistakes and errors and held back some long hits and forced some hits foul or fair.

[Llamaguy]

odac 15 - usasac 13, right?

After a Ferrum win and  a Lynchburg win today,

I have it at:        ODAC 17          USAC 15

but I could be wrong if any make-up games have been played.

3 more games tomorrow. I plan on attending the Ferrum vs. BC tilt in person. Calling for 40 mph winds again tomorrow. Should be a fun one.

[hasanova]

The Guilford Quakers pounded the Vassar Brewers today in Greensboro, 16-1.  To his credit, Coach Black played a lot of reserves the 2nd half of the game.  To be fair, it's tough for some of the northern teams (NY) this early in the season.  Guilford has played 16 games (10-6), while Vassar has only played three (0-3).  GC has Methodist tomorrow, which should be a lot tougher test.

[hasanova]

I saw this in the NY section of this site and liked it:  www.baseballreference.com/schools/   
You can see how many major leaguers went to each school and when they played.

[mybleedinghands]

the odac schools must have been stacked in the 1900s-1930s!

[narch]

the quackers beat mc 4-3
fc wins over rc
su wins over rmc

odac 18 - usasac 17

[Llamaguy]

the quackers beat mc 4-3
fc wins over rc
su wins over rmc

odac 18 - usasac 17

Actually Ferrum played BC and it ended in a 7-7 tie, stopped due to
darkness.

Soooo..       ODAC 18   USASAC  16     and 1 tie


As for the Ferrum game I was there in person.
I agree with the Ferrum poster who said that they needed fielding. The left side of the infield couldn't stop a routine ground ball today. The SS was actually pulled in the middle innings. Cooper came in and held things at 6-2 even with the fielding errors. I liked the submarine delivery. As for BC, they had a problem with putting Ferrem away. Many runners left stranded in the middle innings. I believe it was the 6th that the new Ferrum pitcher after Coop, walked the bases loaded with nobody out. #10 I believe for Ferrum came in with a nasty curve and BC didn't score in the inning. Both teams have room for improvement, but I can see both near the top of their conferences if they shore a few things up.

[bcsportswriter]

Crazy weekend in the ODAC.  Lynchburg loses two at Emory and Henry and HSC loses two to Randolph-Macon.  W&L splits with VWC and BC sweeps guilford and Roanoke sweeps EMU. 

BC scores 42 runs this weekend in only 20 innings of hitting (because they were home team, they batted 6 times and 8 times in the two games saturday and then only 6 times against catholic sunday in a shortened game).  Pounded out 19 hits in both the second game vs. guilford saturday and the game against catholic sunday, and scored 24 runs today against catholic.  not a bad weekend for the eagles.

[hasanova]

Mixed out-of-conference week for Guilford.  The Quakers fell to a  strong Tufts squad 6-4 on Monday when the Jumbos scored two in the ninth.  Today, the Quakers pounded first-year program Penn State-Fayette 19-0 with the starters and 12-6 with the reserves.  Guilford is 13-9, 2-4 heading into an important home ODAC double-header with E&H on Saturday.

[Llamaguy]

Ferrum comes from 2 down in the ninth to beat HSC 7-6 and BC takes down
CNU 12-4 in Thursday's games.


ODAC 19     USASAC 17        1 tie

no more head-to-heads until Tuesday. All things still pretty even.