BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

[gr8day4bsbll]

Lynchburg at Methodist today at 4 in Fayetteville.  Should be a good early test for both teams...

[D-BAT]

CNU rebounds with win over RMC this afternoon by the score of 10 to 3.

R   H   E
03-06-04 ... RMC
10-13-01 ... CNU

[vabaseball]

Nice to have the bats come alive and the pitching solid.

[gr8day4bsbll]

Methodist 3, Lynchburg 2 in 10 innings today.  LC bats were cold and Monarch pitching was hot; 14 K's for the LC batters.  LC is now 2-2 vs. the USA South Conference.  And since there's still about a half foot of snow on Fox Field in Lynchburg, they may be spending even more time than planned in North Carolina over the next month...

[Southern BB fan]

Methodist     ip    h    r    er    bb    so    wp    bk    hbp    ibb    ab    bf    fo    go
BRITT, Tre      1.0    2    1    1    2    1    0    0    0    0    4    7    1    1
KELLY, Kurt      1.0    0    0    0    0    2    0    0    0    0    3    3    0    1
ENNIS, Hunter     2.0    2    0    0    2    2    1    0    1    0    8    11    1    2
WILLINGHAM,      2.0    1    0    0    0    3    0    0    0    0    7    7    2    1
MARKLEY, John    2.0    0    0    0    1    3    0    0    0    0    7    8    2    1
WHITE, Rusty      2.0    2    1    0    0    2    0    0    0    0    8    8    1    3

White picks up the win. Nice work by all, several freshman looked good.

[BaseballFan10]

Great game vs Methodist and Lynchburg today. Lynchburg bats struggled all day and Methodist seemed to hit the ball all day. Methodist staff day strategy was very effective and they all looked pretty good. Brian Inghram was impressive going 4-5 with 2r and an rbi. LC's Breedlove came on to bail his team out of a tough jam, bases loaded no outs, in the bottom of the ninth but eventually picked up a tough loss in the tenth on a soft line drive over a drawn in infield. Looked like Methodist Catcher T. Such got jammed a little bit but was able to get enough barrel on the ball and get just get it over the 2nd baseman's head. Tough loss for LC and Big win for Methodist.

[hokieone]

           Nice job on the mulligan by CNU against Randolph-Macon. Brinkman, freshman Ryan Fleischmann, who gets his first college win, and Malvagna, all pitched extremely well, the Captains' bats looked more like we expected.  Perhaps RMC was still tired from running the bases all day Sunday      

        Good thing too as now the Captains face, over a 5 day period, Piedmont, Rowan (twice), Bridgewater, and Virginia Wesleyan.  The weather forecast looks like "Groundhog Day"-every day, low 40's, "brisk", etc.  At least the field is playable and we don't have to go to Myrtle Beach to get games in, although it looks like Shenandoah will get  a couple days of upper 50's and sunshine weather, no doubt a welcome respite from the 24" of snow in Winchester...that doesn't seem to be in a hurry to melt. No such thing as a bad beach trip.

[cnufan]

Agreed great win for CNU!!! Looks like CNU had a solid day from their outfield Shannon Mark, Drue Vernon, and Connor Madden tallied 8 of CNU's 13 hits!!! They also looked very solid defensivly all the way around
Obviously losing Eric Cole and Mike Giarrizzi was a big loss for CNU, but these three have stepped right in and done a good job

Player                avg  gp-gs  ab  r  h  2b  3b  hr  rbi  tb  slg%  bb  hbp  so  gdp  ob%  sf  sh  sb-att  po  a  e  fld%
MARK, Shannon   .462  3-3  13  3  6  0  1  0  2  8  .615  0  0  2  0  .462  0  0  1-1  5  0  0  1.000 
MADDEN, Connor   .444  3-3  9  3  4  1  0  0  1  5  .556  1  0  2  0  .500  0  0  1-1  2  0  1   .667 
VERNON, Drue   .273  3-3  11  2  3  1  0  0  4  4  .364  1  3  2  1  .467  0  0  2-2  7  1  0     1.000 

Parker Neal has also filled some big shoes at shortstop for Trae Bailey so far
Player              avg  gp-gs  ab  r  h  2b  3b  hr  rbi  tb  slg%  bb  hbp  so  gdp  ob%  sf  sh  sb-att  po  a  e  fld%
NEAL, Parker   .500  3-3  12  4  6  1  1  0  2  9  .750  0  0  0  0  .500  0  0  0-0  7  12  2  .905 



I know that it is very early but it is nice to see players stepping up in places that were filled by big players in CNU's success the past few years
GO CAPTAINS!!!

[D-BAT]

I know it's very early, but I am still picking Methodist this year.

4-1 Methodist
2-1 Greensboro
3-2 Averett
1-2 CNU
0-0 Shenandoah
0-1 Ferrum
0-1 N.C. Wesleyan

[narch]

i wasn't able to get make it to armstrong-shelley field yesterday...work is very busy...but i like what i see in the box score - 14 k's for monarch pitching is nice and it's good to see inghram starting to warm up - through 5 games the monarch pitchers have really pulled mu through...if they can keep it up as the offense comes around, things could get really nice for the monarchs

[Southern BB fan]

Four games this weekend will really tell us where MU is. they will have to deep into their pitching staff to cover all of the innings. The good news is the temps for the weekend should be in the 60's. Starting to feel like baseball weather.

[D-BAT]

Greensboro (6) Guilford (11)

Bridgewater (9) Averett (11)

[Falcon2720]

It should be a good weekend for baseball in the USA-South, with every team playing multiple games. It will be a nice test for pitching depth.

SU vs. Richard Stockton (3 times) and Bates

CNU vs. Piedmont, Rowan (2 times), and Bridgewater

MU vs. Farmingdale, Huntingdon, Frostburg, and Roanoke

NCWC vs. Cortland State (2 times) and Emory (2 times)

Greensboro vs. Stevenson (2 times) and Neumann

Ferrum vs. Rutgers-Camden and Waynesburg

Averett vs. Maine-Presque Isle, Case Western Reserve, and Eastern Mennonite

[vabaseball]

Whoa.  That was an interesting ninth inning defensively for CNU.  They hang on to win against Piedmont 13-12.

[vabaseball]

I should add that it is good to see some new and lesser-used pitchers getting some valuable experience on the mound for the Captains. According to live stats, five saw action. McElhenny, Goldsmith and Harsanyi had good outings.