BB: ODAC: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[mybleedinghands]

     Just curious.....anyone have any thoughts on the Bridgewater St. 57 to 1 win over Newbury? As a former coach and player, I have been on the short end and long end of some lopsided games. Fortunately, nothing of that magnitude. I never like to lose but if you are around the game long enough, most likely it will happen on occasion. Aside from that dislike of losing, I never really had a problem as a player or coach as long as the opposing coach used it as an opportunity to get all his players some PT. It's also a good opportunity for the team on the losing end to do the same. The bench guys come to practice every day. I say let them play.  8)

Looks like the Bridgewater St. coach needs a lesson in sportsmanship.

     I haven't read the entire article on the game. What did he do that was poor sportmanship?

did you not read the final score of the game??

[allsky7]

     Just curious.....anyone have any thoughts on the Bridgewater St. 57 to 1 win over Newbury? As a former coach and player, I have been on the short end and long end of some lopsided games. Fortunately, nothing of that magnitude. I never like to lose but if you are around the game long enough, most likely it will happen on occasion. Aside from that dislike of losing, I never really had a problem as a player or coach as long as the opposing coach used it as an opportunity to get all his players some PT. It's also a good opportunity for the team on the losing end to do the same. The bench guys come to practice every day. I say let them play.  8)

Looks like the Bridgewater St. coach needs a lesson in sportsmanship.

     I haven't read the entire article on the game. What did he do that was poor sportmanship?

did you not read the final score of the game??

     Sorry folks. Going to have to disagree with you on this one. It is much more humiliating to me as a former player/coach for a team to deliberately not try in order to shorten the game. As long as a team is not playing overly aggressive (stealing bases/ taking the extra base on a hit) and all their players are playing, I think you  just have to take your lumps. Perhaps there should be a 15 or 20 run rule after five innings and a 10  run rule after 7 like there is in some slow pitch softball leagues. (or something to that effect) Bridgewater St had 12 guys with multiple hits which would indicate to me that most likely, everyone played.
     In 1984,  the Maryville College baseball team was pulled off the field in the middle of a blowout win by Lynchburg College. The Hornets AND frat guys were having a field day with us and the game was a little heated.  I do know that I personally was quite embarrassed. The concensus  of our players was that we should have finished the game no matter what.  The score was not 57 to 1 but it was quite bad. Something like a 20 run loss with about 4-5 innings played if memory serves me. I would rather lose 100 to zero than have another team quit playing.  8)

[Pat Coleman]

More discussion of this is in the Daily Dose -- the blog is a perfect place for a national discussion of this type of subject.

http://www.d3sports.com/dailydose/

[A.G.]

LC swept the regular season series from H-SC, winning yesterday on a Jon Crews 8th inning HR 5-4.  Jonathan Nichols went the distance for the win, as the Hornets improve to 10-4 in the ODAC.  H-SC drops to 9-5.  LC travels for VWC for a key ODAC DH on Saturday, with both clubs tied in the standings.

[A.G.]

In the only ODAC games played on Saturday (due to the weather), VWC swept LC 6-1 and 8-7.  In both games, VWC benefitted from 5-run innings, the opening frame in game one, and in the 6th to overcome a 4-run deficit in game two.

[h-sc bball]

With the washout this weekend of all games except LC & VW the ODAC is going to have a interesting final week. W&L has games Monday, Tuesday & Thursday while H-S plays Wed & Thursday...W&L has a single conference game Tuesday while both teams have final conference games Saturday.....Not sure when they are planning to play the makeup game. Do both schools want to play 6 games in a week with back to back conference games? Like I said...this will probably be one of the most interesting final week in the ODAC.

W&L     10-3     Guilford Tuesday, RM 2 games Sat, H-S makeup?
VW       12-4     Guilford 2 games Sat
Lynch   10-6     Roanoke 2 games Sat
H-S         9-5     EM 2 games Sat, W&L 2 game makeup?
BW         8-6     Roanoke 2 games Monday, E&H 2 games Sat, 
Roa        7-7     BW 2 games Monday, Lynch 2 games Sat,
RM          6-8    W&L 2 games Sat, E&H 2 game makeup?
Guilford  3-10   EM 2 games Monday, W&L Tuesday, VW 2 games Sat,
E Men    3-11   Guilford 2 games Monday, H-S 2 games Sat,
E&H       3-11   BW 2 games Sat, RM 2 games makeup? 

6 teams will advance to the tourney, April 26-29 in Lynchburg

[A.G.]

I would love to see VWC and BC have to play in game one in the tourney.  That would be a great game to watch.

[h-sc bball]

W&L and H-SC canceled their non-conference games planned for Thursday so they can play their make-up double header. I felt our game with Methodist would have to be canceled since W&L did not have a game scheduled on Wed...but at the same time I'm assuming the coaches also understand that Methodist needs to play against regional competetion with goals to recieve an at large bid. I'm speculating that Greensboro's Coach Carlyle and the coach from Virginia Intermont understood the delima agreed to cancele the games.

Hornet19.....Since they played against each other in last years championship game and add to the fact that Bridgewater appears to have turned their season around...I wouldn't mind seeing those teams play 1st round games either....I hope we don't end up with BW in the 1st game......as a matter of fact if I could pick a 1st round opp I would like to play LC. We played mid week games and our staff was so thin with the loss of two pitchers during the year our two best freshmen moved to the 3 & 4 spot and had to go against you guys.....you did not see L Green or D Hadra....you will if we happen to meet in the 1st round.

I'm not sure who we plan to throw against Methodist this Wed since we have a conference doubleheader against W&L on Thur and E. Mennonite on Sat. I wouldn't be surprised if Coach K pitched a couple of the positional players who used to pitch during their HS years.

[redbird5]

I'm not sure who we plan to throw against Methodist this Wed since we have a conference doubleheader against W&L on Thur and E. Mennonite on Sat. I wouldn't be surprised if Coach K pitched a couple of the positional players who used to pitch during their HS years.

If that were the case (HSC throwing a positional player), it shouldn't help Methodist if MU was to win.  I know it will but it shouldn't.

[Falcon2720]

redbird,

This is just a bad make-up situation because of bad weather.  Nothing much you can do about it.

HSC need to win the ODAC tournament to get a regional bid.  I'm glad their Coach realizes that Methodist needs this game for an at-large bid shot.  HSC might not have their best pitching available, but they are at home and will have their best offensive and defensive players playing.

I believe if Methodist was out of the at-large running, they would have canceled to help HSC out.

[h-sc bball]

Just to clarify things....Beating Methodist will not give us an automatic bye to anywhere but sweeping W&L and E Mennonite will surely help out the pitching rotation come ODAC tourney time. You can bet your favorite hat that we will come out hard to win...Once again I was just speculating with the arms....I'm sure coach K will throw one of the regular pitchers on the staff and may decide to pitch by committee but if things get out of hand I wouldn't be surprised to see some other players that at one time or another pitched pretty well for the HS. 

[h-sc bball]

Today's scheduled games between Bridgewater vs Roanoke and Guilford vs E Mennonite were canceled today. I'm sure they will have to cancel non-conference games just to get the conference positions settled. VWC will benifit the most...When they play Guilford this Saturday it will be Guilfords 4th and 5th conference game of the week. Heck Wesleyan may even see positional players pitching against them this weekend.

[ash]

Guilford Tops W&L Baseball, 8-7, in Extra Innings (4/17)

This brings Guilford to 11-21 overall and 4-10 in the conference

http://athletics.wlu.edu/baseball/stats07/WLU-GC2.HTM

[ash]

Guilford was swept by EMU today in two ODAC games.  You can find EMU's release here...

http://www.emu.edu/athletics/news/?id=1496

[A.G.]

Bridgewater swept Roanoke today...
...RC falls to 7-9 in the league, and BC improves to 10-6.

...LC dropped a non-conference game to CNU today.

Looking like VWC will get the top seed and W&L getting the two seed.  3-5 is up in the air between HS-C, BC, and LC...with RC and R-MC battling it out for the 6 seed.