BB: OAC: Ohio Athletic Conference

[Dr. Acula]

Cap dropped a pair to Cedarville today.  4-0 and 6-0.  Crusaders are 1-2 now.

JCU thumped John Jay 23-0 yesterday and got a nice win over NC Wesleyan 4-3 today. 

ONU opened with a 7-3 win over Eastern (PA) today.

[DelawareCityMan]

What's going on in Westerville, OH with the Otterbein program?  I've heard rumors that there's been some bigtime internal problems with the team that the coach wasn't aware of and the Administration learned about through the wrong channels.  Guess the school is deciding on whether to suspend the players involved for the season to possibly even suspending the program for the 2010 schedule.  This could cause problems with future recruiting.

[Dr. Acula]

I heard the same.  I was told the entire team was suspended from all baseball activities for a week, but they would not be suspending the 2010 season.  Again, these are rumors around campus, but what I heard amounted to a case of "boys being boys" getting out of hand.  I didn't think it was as big a deal as others, but maybe that's just me.

[mideastfan2]

Marietta gets their season started today in Memphis.  The spring trip brings great competition once again!

Memphis, TN
3/6  Rhodes College (DH) 

Abilene, Texas
3/8  Texas-Tyler 
3/8  Texas-Dallas 
3/9  Hardin-Simmons 
3/9  McMurry University 
3/10  Mary Hardin-Baylor

Memphis, TN
3/12  Rhodes College
3/13  Illinois Wesleyan 

[MC Pioneer Fan]

The Etta Express got off to  a strong start, beating Rhodes 3-0.
Junior RH Mark Williams threw a CG- 7 inning 2 hitter, with 8 K's and
1 BB.

DH Chris Beatty lead the Pioneers with 2 hits of 6 total, and
SS Tim Saunders went 1 for 2 with 2 SB's.

[Dr. Acula]

Big win for Berg over #9 Carthage today 3-1.  Especially impressive considering it was their #3 starter against Carthage's ace.

MUC lost 10-4 to Marysville.

JCU split w/ Juniata. 

[inthecrease]

are the purple raiders playing at a real field in florida or a pitch and putt? Ferrell with 2 home runs in 2 games. That puts him on pace for 20+ (im too lazy to count the total number of games for mount)

[Dr. Acula]

are the purple raiders playing at a real field in florida or a pitch and putt? Ferrell with 2 home runs in 2 games. That puts him on pace for 20+ (im too lazy to count the total number of games for mount)

Haha!  I'm not sure, but their first game wasn't even in FL.  It was at Marysville (TN).  I would assume their home field is at least respectable depth.  And the weird thing is that Berg is in Port Charlotte too and I don't think they have a homer yet (of course they're 4-0 so I'm sure they're very concerned about that).  Hopefully it's just a sign Ferrell is gonna have a huge season.  They need him to.

[Dr. Acula]

Listening to the Raiders right now...not exactly sure why OF Kyle VonDuyke was brought in to pitch in a 4-2 game.  I didn't even know he pitched?!  He gave up a double (runner thrown out trying to stretch it to 3), a 4 pitch walk and a single before being relieved by Douglass who quickly got a DP ground ball.  MUC is up 7-2 in the 9th so it's a moot point, but it just seemed like an odd situation to bring in a guy with little to no experience on the mound.

[fundamentalswin2]

I think we can just chalk that up to something really random when it came to decision making... None of the hitter scheduled were LH and it was the heart of the order in a tight ball game... very bizzare

[mideastfan2]

Marietta split their games today....

They crushed UT-Tyler 18-5, then lost their nightcap against UT-Dallas 2-1 on a walk-off HR in the 9th.

MC now stands at 2-2 on the year, both losses coming in the last at-bat (extra innings vs Rhodes, and today's walk-off).  The pitching looks very promising this year with Williams, Gasser, and Mahaffey giving great performances in their starts; and Lindquist throwing well out of the pen.

[inthecrease]

Whoever had Game #3 as the first game of the season where we would question the decision making skills of coach hesse won the pool. I personally had my money on Game #1.

[inthecrease]

And is this new and improved fundimentalswin 2.0 we are talking to now?

[fundamentalswin2]

well last year was the end of an era and thus a new user name must be born

[Dr. Acula]

Musky lost 4-2 to Defiance.  Ouch.