BB: ODAC: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[narch]

hard to believe that Person is your #4 or 5 since he is tied for the team lead with 16 innings pitched and S Moore is tied with the 2nd most appearances

believe it...with a conference weekend coming up there is little chance that any of the top 3 starters for ncwc (or any other usasac school playing a conference game this weekend, for that matter) would pitch a mid-week game - they're saving that #3 guy in case the 1 or 2 get blown up early in one of the weekend games

rice, robertson and b. moore were the 1/2/3 combo for ncwc last year, and since all 3 have returned, i imagine that hasn't changed, regardless of how appearances and innings pitched look this season

[NCWC]

....hard to believe that Person is your #4 or 5 since he is tied for the team lead with 16 innings pitched and S Moore is tied with the 2nd most appearances....but don't worry....

Thank you Narch for explaining how the USAS south works.  Just because guys have more innings right now is the luck of the draw.  Ben has two starts I believe and one relieve app., S. Moore can pitch out of the bullpen just about everyday.

[NCWC]

Nice win today for the bishops, winning 9-3 over lynchburg.

[A.G.]

Yes...
...NCWC is definitely the more impressive of the two USAS teams I've seen.  Their style reminds me a lot of UVA...doing the little things, bunting, puting the ball into play.  Wooten is the best player I would rate...even ahead of Burgess.  Smith killed us all day, and Lucas was very impressive on the mound.

[Uncle Jessie]

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[Ralph Turner]

I copied this from the SCAC board.  No games for W&L are in-reigon.

Trinity dropped a close 6-5 loss to W&L this afternoon in Peoria, AZ....  very unusual territory to be starting the season 3-4.  All the credit goes to a scrappy W&L team who fought back from a 5-1 deficite to win 6-5.

11 AM MST rematch with Whitworth tomorrow, and the final game follows at 3 (if a loss) or 7 (if a win).

W&L will meet Hastings College and loser play at 3, winners at 7...  Both TU games should be webcast:

http://stream.krtu.org:9000/krtu-sports.m3u

Only Trinity games versus Whitworth are in-region.  The W&L loss is not a West Region game for Trinity.  (Hastings NE is NAIA.)

[HS-C14]

Welcome H-SC Bball, and as the Hornet said, great to have you posting in the ODAC.....but even better to see H-SC!!!

[A.G.]

Lynchburg took two today from Juniata.  Winning game one 7-2 and game two, 2-1.  Both Hornets hurlers went the distance as LC improves to 6-2 on the year.  The teams went ahead and cancelled Sunday's scheduled game so Juniata could make it back home before the expected winter weather hits.

The Hornets have no mid-week games scheduled as they prepare for the opening home and home ODAC series against Guilford next Saturday and Sunday.

[h-sc bball]

Friday Hampden-Sydney pulled off a nice comeback win against Rutgers-Camden. Trailing 9-5 heading into the 7th the Tigers scored 8 runs to pull off a 13-10 victory. Today H-SC took one on the nose from # 6 Cortland St 13-6...Cortland jumped out with 5 in the second and 4 in the 3rd...once again H-S rebounded with 6 in the 6th to cut the lead to 9-7 but that's as close as they got. Cortland closed it out with 3 in the 9th....gorgeous day at the park. Corland also beat Richard Stockton 9-4 and Frostburg St defeated Waynsburg. All games scheduled for tomorrow were canceled so the teams from the north could head back early.

go Tigers

[VW-16]

hard to believe that Person is your #4 or 5 since he is tied for the team lead with 16 innings pitched and S Moore is tied with the 2nd most appearances

believe it...with a conference weekend coming up there is little chance that any of the top 3 starters for ncwc (or any other usasac school playing a conference game this weekend, for that matter) would pitch a mid-week game - they're saving that #3 guy in case the 1 or 2 get blown up early in one of the weekend games

rice, robertson and b. moore were the 1/2/3 combo for ncwc last year, and since all 3 have returned, i imagine that hasn't changed, regardless of how appearances and innings pitched look this season

Narch: I don't comment often but enjoy reading you and others here and on the hoops board

I agree with how it works in the USASC but wouldn't this be their bullpen day anyhow and if they happen to be leading after 6 innings do you think there would have been a chance for them to throw (them being the #1,2,3 guys).

I don't think this is a good representation of ODAC #1's vs. USASAC #4 or 5's. To my knowledge VWC threw 5 different pitchers and still gave up only 1 run on 6 hits. It doesn't matter  who your #1 is if you don't score...

[VW-16]

Friday Hampden-Sydney pulled off a nice comeback win against Rutgers-Camden. Trailing 9-5 heading into the 7th the Tigers scored 8 runs to pull off a 13-10 victory. Today H-SC took one on the nose from # 6 Cortland St 13-6...Cortland jumped out with 5 in the second and 4 in the 3rd...once again H-S rebounded with 6 in the 6th to cut the lead to 9-7 but that's as close as they got. Cortland closed it out with 3 in the 9th....gorgeous day at the park. Corland also beat Richard Stockton 9-4 and Frostburg St defeated Waynsburg. All games scheduled for tomorrow were canceled so the teams from the north could head back early.

go Tigers

In the past Cortland has been very strong and recently Rutgers Camden is much improved (nice win) in the last 5 years or so. How were the arms that Cortland was running out there.

[hothands]

glad to hear hampden sydney is playing a quality non conference schedule.

whats your take on va wesleyans deep pitching staff?

[h-sc bball]

VW-16....Dougher started...6-3 230...tall big boy comes at you with arms...9-1 last year with a 2.12....he may have hit 90 few times but most of the time 88 with great location.... he had a big breaking ball and look like he threw an occasional change.....we hit the lefty Rockfold.....he just couldn't find the plate but had good stuff...Jewid was the most impressive.....craft lefty that also threw upper 88...reached back a little more a couple of times.....he had so much movement with his fast ball.....talling away from a righty and it looked like he would throw a cutter on your hands and the umpire just loved him....right arm just going up and down...he also threw a sharp breaking ball...just painted corners...covered both sides of the plate....the whole team was big....as a matter of fact...your freshman 3rd baseman last year (Merriweather) started for Cortland....they can hit up and down in the order....Im glad I got to see them...I didn't go the 05 world series when we lost to Rowan and Cortland...I saw you guys play Rowan (last and this year) and now Cortland...they are both big and athletic....I see what it takes to play with the big boys.....see you guys this Saturday

go Tigers

[h-sc bball]

Hothands...Great start to your season with wins over highly ranked NCW, Salisbury and Rowan....gutty performance in Georgia...again great competition. Now if you ask me what do I think of your starting staff my answere would be...They will probably be better than our 05 / 06 Schoenholtz, Green, and Hanky....if.....Rivera, Whigham, Nguyan all start...but I'm not sure what coach Booth plans to do there...I expect Nguyen is the door shutter and a good one...then who moves to # 3....Freeman surprised me and pitch well in the 1st game against York...you guys had a nice performance against Emory but in the 3 contest your guys played, Orgavan, Horowitz, Samuals, Deane gave up some runs from the 5th thru the 8th....didn't get blasted like our staff has this year...but asking me the question about your deep staff...well I'm not sure yet because in your big wins, Rivera, Whigham, and Nguyen did pitched a majority of the innings......Without dought on paper VWC has the making of one of the best in the ODAC for some time....I should be able to make some type of better judgment after this weekend.....hope to see at Sydney...OH! where is Imperato?

[hothands]

hes going to be back soon, maybe a couple weeks away. a freshman, rocco delauri looks good as well. this team is going to be something special. transfers are going to be huge for us