BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

[Boysofsummer21]

The season is very young but started the spreadsheet to track per game stats. The tables shows the per game differences between 2011 and 2010. You do have to remember that the season is very young and teams have not played a lot of games but started this so it will be easier to track as the season goes on. At the point of doing this;
Averett 11 games
CNU 7 games
Ferrum 8 games
Greensboro 6 games
Methodist 10 games
NCWC 8 games
Shenandoah 5 games
So still a very small sampling.
A negative number means a decrease in 2011 versus 2010. Positive number means an increase. The only place you probably don't want a positive is Strike outs!
I have my comments but will post this to see if this draws any others.

2011 VS 2010 per game stats

Team

AB

Runs

Hits

2B

3B

HR

RBI

BB

SO

AVG

OB%

SLG

Averett	-8.43	-4.73	-5.62	-1.47	-0.15	-0.11	-4.13	-1.40	-0.06	-0.101	-0.103	-0.144
CNU	0.30	3.10	0.58	1.28	-0.10	0.74	3.24	-0.16	1.94	0.014	0.022	0.108
Ferrum	-3.36	-1.49	-1.85	-0.50	-0.32	-0.34	-1.58	0.11	0.24	-0.023	-0.015	-0.073
Greensboro	-4.57	-2.92	-3.81	-0.86	-0.14	0.26	-2.31	1.91	-0.57	-0.087	-0.030	-0.082
Methodist	-2.84	-1.81	-3.10	-1.22	0.34	-0.36	-2.23	0.80	0.85	-0.066	-0.041	-0.102
NCWC	-1.21	-1.11	-0.92	0.68	-0.14	-0.07	-0.65	-1.29	-0.33	-0.017	-0.028	-0.008
Shenandoah	-5.44	-1.83	-2.87	-0.89	0.91	-0.66	-3.31	-1.97	1.06	-0.027	-0.025	-0.032

[rolln2]

Boy whats up w/ NCWC.  LaGrange wins 15-0.

[LTBB1971]

NCWC having it's early season issues...Bullpen has been getting lit up and batting has been mediocre with team BA at .262. Only consistent bat in the lineup has been Soph catcher Tyler Clark (.429-1-6) Senior Justin Rahm (.281-0-9, 4 BB) and Jr Zach Moore (.308-0-4, 8 BB).  Outfield defense has been well below average as we can't get to many balls out there due to lack of speed and inexperience outfielders.

Averett coming into town on a 5 game winning streak not going to help the cause but I'm pulling for a sweep as I believe coach will keep pitchers on a tight leach this weekend.

[LTBB1971]

NCWC sneaks a win vs Averett for game 1 of series by score of 6-4.  SR Andrew Webb threw a beauty.  New faces in the shaken up lineup made a difference.  Bats pounded 10 hits which was nice.  Late inning relief still up in the air for someone to step up and take charge of those innings as coach had to go to FR Ben Longton to close game.  SR Brian Allen and SO Tyler Clark had very good games at the plate.  Very impressed by freshman 3B Jose Parra...maybe the kid gets some more light.

Game 2 tomorrow at 2pm.  Weather supposed to be sunny and 75F at Bauer field....NOT!

[narch]

mu cruised by lagrange with an 8-1 win today...britt goes 7 with 9 k's and such got out of his early season power slump with a hr

[narch]

the monarchs improve to 8-4 with an 8-3 win over lagrange today...lancaster had 3 hits, as did inghram and such collected a pair of hits, as well - womble went 6.2 giving up just 3 hits with 0 er and 5 k's

nice weekend for the monarchs

[cnu13]

You are correct. Greg and Kevin are both always in the mix for USAS POY. Let me correct my statement: Outside of the usual contenders (Van Sickler, Brashears, Ingram, Such), Shoemaker is holding his own right there at the top. That better ?

9INNDiamoned - I hope all is well your way. Let me know what weekend(s) you're heading down to CNU to catch some games.

Haha, I know what ya mean man. Just figured i'd take the opportunity to make a lil stab at ya! Hope all is well your way. BTW.....shouldn't you be working or something?? lol

haha yea Parker. shouldn't you be working? im just messing. CNU is hot right now. Watch out. Shoemaker for POY. Steel for FOY. If not for them both winning those awards, they will at least be the players of the week many times this year, you mark my words. Fleischman and Verdillo are throwing great this year. I think if CNU had one more pitcher like Chitsaz, they would be golden. And good luck to all USAS teams, make sure you beat whoever you all are playing out of conference to prove that the USAS is a major conference to contend with.

[LTBB1971]

Tough lost yesterday by the Bishops.  Fell behind 7-0 early with a bad 2nd inning and then fought back to lose 7-3.  Again the offense seems stagnant with SR Justin Rahm producing 2 of the 3 hits.  Team is heading to Memphis, TN for 2 game series with Rhodes this week...got to get on a streak soon.  Offense had 10 hits Saturday so I don't really understand why we changed things up for Sunday...

[WHEELIN WES]

I agree with LTHSdad,it was a tough loss for the Bishops yesterday. Knowles pitched a much better game than the score indicated, in fact he pitched very well, and not to take anything away from Averett, they have a very good hitting ballclub, but right field killed us yesterday. Three of the five hits they recorded in the second inning were routine flyballs that should have been caught in right field if a true outfielder had been playing that position instead of a converted third baseman who is too slow for a college outfielder, unable to read the ball off the bat and takes bad angles to the ball once he makes his read. I apologize that it sounds like I'm putting the young man down but I'm really not, I'm sure he's doing the best that he can of what he's being asked to do, BUT he is being played in a position that he has not used to playing and does not have the tools to play that position. The backbreaker in that inning was a 235 foot bloop flyball that should have been easily caught, with the bases loaded, that was severely miss read and played and while trying to make a sliding catch the ball scooted under his glove resulting in a recorded triple driving in three runs. Some other mistakes and an error piled on even more runs in the second inning and put the Bishops in a very deep hole early in the game. If the same speedy outfield had been in place on Sunday that played Saturday this would have been an entirely different game, NCWC still may have lost the game as we only scored three runs, but it would have been a much closer game and who knows what would have happened if that had been the situation.
It is also very obvious that the Bishops hitters are missing Coach Byrd, the hitting coach from last year, as the approach at the plate for most players is trying to pull every pitch instead of taking a pitch away back up the middle or to the backside. Some adjustments need to be made quickly to get their offense producing the runs that they are capable of putting up.

[Boysofsummer21]

You are correct. Greg and Kevin are both always in the mix for USAS POY. Let me correct my statement: Outside of the usual contenders (Van Sickler, Brashears, Ingram, Such), Shoemaker is holding his own right there at the top. That better ?

9INNDiamoned - I hope all is well your way. Let me know what weekend(s) you're heading down to CNU to catch some games.

Haha, I know what ya mean man. Just figured i'd take the opportunity to make a lil stab at ya! Hope all is well your way. BTW.....shouldn't you be working or something?? lol

haha yea Parker. shouldn't you be working? im just messing. CNU is hot right now. Watch out. Shoemaker for POY. Steel for FOY. If not for them both winning those awards, they will at least be the players of the week many times this year, you mark my words. Fleischman and Verdillo are throwing great this year. I think if CNU had one more pitcher like Chitsaz, they would be golden. And good luck to all USAS teams, make sure you beat whoever you all are playing out of conference to prove that the USAS is a major conference to contend with.

CNU13 after seeing CNU play last year I thought that Fleischman would be the number 2. GOldsmith looked good yesterday so maybe that answers the question ayways. The bats seem to be more aggressive for CNU and they ae hitting in groups and that is a good thing. I bet they wish they still had the PN bat in the lineup!

[Will2Win]

Not too sure if you guys happen to notice, but sure looks like the Hornets are having little trouble with the new bats 

[Boysofsummer21]

Not too sure if you guys happen to notice, but sure looks like the Hornets are having little trouble with the new bats  

Right now the only trouble they are having is trying not to wear them out! SU is playing good baseball and should be higher up in the first season poll to come out. Now do you think CNU makes the poll? How about Methodist?

[Will2Win]

Not too sure if you guys happen to notice, but sure looks like the Hornets are having little trouble with the new bats  

Right now the only trouble they are having is trying not to wear them out! SU is playing good baseball and should be higher up in the first season poll to come out. Now do you think CNU makes the poll? How about Methodist?

I would say CNU has a better chance to sneak into the next top 25 poll than Methodist does as Methodist hasnt done much to allow themselves to move u much. CNU on the other hand has beat the preseason #2 and played Mary Washington(Who I believe makes it's season debut in the top 25 next time poll is released) pretty tough, although CNU lost 5-3. SU may move up to one of the top 3 spots. I saw them play earlier this year and they are quite impressive.

[PNeal7]

CNU and SU are both wearing the bats out pretty well. Both have two very, very talented offenses. I don't think there is any doubt CNU will be up in the Top 25 in the next poll. All personal bias aside, or as much as possible, I feel like they definetly deserve to be at this point in the season. I look forward to being in Newport News for the annual CNU v SU showdown. It should be quite a good one.

I know NCWC always comes on strong; however, right now I see it as a 3-horse race between SU, CNU, and MU. BUT, like I said, NCWC always plays everyone tough (especially CNU), and will certainly be in the mix come conclusion of regular season conference play.

[hokieone]

CNU beats Johnson and Wales today at Myrtle Beach, 7-5, to go to 9-1.  Nice to see Austin Lindley have a good outing. All of the CNU fans from afar greatly appreciate the blog of the games-It's right on the Mark!    SU-CNU series should be fun, but both have lots of work to do before then.  I don't hear much whining about the new bats anymore, and both CNU and SU certainly have figured out how to swing them... but neither has hit the JMU mark of 37 runs on a very very windy day in Harrisonburg earlier this year. (In 8 games, they've scored 132 runs, "only" 29 home runs, 6 players with 4 or more)   

   FYI, SU being so darned good takes away all the fun about whining about their schedule. And it is stronger this year, but they win them all anyway. A very good program to be sure, the best on the SU campus by far, now get the administration to build you a field worthy of the program.