BB: ODAC: Old Dominion Athletic Conference

[A.G.]

LC defeated Averett 7-6 today in game one of "hell week" for the Hornets.

http://www.lynchburg.edu/x12208.xml

Thats a pretty good title for their week.

Thanks...thunk that one up all by myself.  Johnny Wholestaff combined on the win...and I suspect we'll see his younger brother Billy against GC.

[Spence]

LC defeated Averett 7-6 today in game one of "hell week" for the Hornets.

http://www.lynchburg.edu/x12208.xml

Thats a pretty good title for their week.

Thanks...thunk that one up all by myself.  Johnny Wholestaff combined on the win...and I suspect we'll see his younger brother Billy against GC.

Johnny beat Hildreth too...wow. Good win not because of who you beat but what the pitching matchup was.

[A.G.]

RMC with a nice win against Ferrum.  Hope the ODAC mini-run can continue today.

[NCWC]

Let it continue until tomorrow....

[HighHeat]

VWC defeats Ferrum 8-5. Sophmore Daniel Samuels looked impressive in 5 2/3 IP to claim his first college victory.

Ferrum put together a 4 run ninth off of a couple botched balls in the outfield, but was laid to rest after VWC RHP Chris Deans came on and ended the game with a strikeout.

[A.G.]

GC used about 8 pitchers to hold LC to 5 hits in a 3-1 win Thursday.

The DH with NCWC and LC scheduled for Friday has been canceled due to expected inclement weather in the Lynchburg area.

Saturday games in the ODAC don't look a whole lot better.

[A.G.]

LC games with NCWC rescheduled for April 11.

DH at Emory and Henry rescheduled for Sunday at 1 PM.

[HighHeat]

VWC splits with Washington and Lee.

The Generals pulled out the game in EXTRA innings, 6-5, by pushing a run across in the top of the 16th.

VWC won the second game 11-1 behind freshman and UT transfer, Gary Bullman

[A.G.]

LC sweeps E&H
http://www.lynchburg.edu/x12227.xml

Bridgewater sweeps Guilford
RMC sweeps H-SC
Roanoke and EMC ppd to a later date.

[HighHeat]

What in the world is going on with HSC? I definately was not expecting such a dropoff off of last years team.  I can see the loss of Greene and Apperson being important, but they are really struggling right now.

Hadra is throwing well, but just can't the bats or defense to back him up.  The RMC sweep could be very defining late in the season

[h-sc bball]

What in the world is going on with HSC? I definately was not expecting such a dropoff off of last years team.  I can see the loss of Greene and Apperson being important, but they are really struggling right now.

Hadra is throwing well, but just can't the bats or defense to back him up.  The RMC sweep could be very defining late in the season

In a short note you said it...With the loss of Green, Apperson & Denale.... There have been a few other players that decided academics and college life was more important and others have not hit as expected . This has caused coach K to make a lot of moves and there doesn't seem to be any continuity. I don't think he has played the same line-up more than 2 games in a row.

Hadra has been throwing well but nobody else has...previous years they have had three solid starters....Bailey & Breedlove have not step up yet....but they can. None of the freshmen have asserted themselves.

Only David Toney has hit in the clutch....he has been walked 19 times, hit by pitch 8 times yet he leads the team in rbi's with 17. The next guy has 7...they have two hitters hitting 325 & 351 that have 9 rbi's between them and both hitters are hitting low 200 with runners in scoring position

Defense.....they are really poor....the outfielders playing lately did not start their college careers in the outfield....they can hit.... but with lack of experiance they are just not as good fundamentally and lack the speed as in previous seasons....the infield play has been really bad...too many errors at 3rd and 2nd and coach K has played musical chairs there as well as 1st base.

On the bright side I feel they can improve and will...I expect as in previous years they play the easiest part of their conference schedule towards the end of the season...They could get hot and then carry it into the conference tournament....they could be dangerous.

[h-sc bball]

Hornet7...would you consider playing at NCW today, at Methodist wed, at Greensborro thurs and conference DH againt Bridgewater sat...hell week also? This is their spring break trip way down south in the paw paw patch!

The boys from the USA will be looking at arm numbers 3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 and anybody else that use to pitch in high school this week....Greensborro definitely has the advantage...they will probably see 9, 10 and the use to hs pitchers.

[HighHeat]

You are right h-sc bball...the day you turn your back on Coach K and HSC baseball is the day they turn around and swipe two from you in a double header!

Look at the '06 team!

[h-sc bball]

Looks like Breedlove stepped up today....9 inning 4 hit shut out. Sydney scored 3 in the ninth to take game one on their 3 game NC swing. Two out hits by Price and Brawley after Rogers & V Venezuela started the inning with base hits....another ticket to sucess that I noticed in the box score...... no errors.

H-SC  3
NCW  0

[A.G.]

Nice start to H-SC's hell week.  Expect Greensboro to throw everyone one inning like they did against us last week.  It certainly worked for them.

HS-C and BC ...and LC and W&L...those are two key series...not to mention that BC and W&L might be a little thinner on pitching due to their mid-week showdown tomorrow.

OH...LC sweeps POTW awards for last week's games:
http://www.odaconline.com/08pow_0310.htm