BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

[Catfishncwc]

We have a Justin Batts sighting

You know I got him 2 years ago on the gun at 91ish.  Hopefully he can close out some games this year.  He sure has the arm for it. 

[LTBB1971]

NCWC pulls another win vs a Piedmont team that came in at 9-5 with two wins over Montclair St.  Sophmore Justin Diener pitched a gem and the bullpen blows up again!  This is a common theme with this team. 
Luke Williford with 2 HR's in last 4 games bails bullpen out again with 3 run shot in the 7th.  Justin Batts comes in the 9th for the save...I hear he was throwing 90.

[Catfishncwc]

NC Wesleyan earns the programs 1,000th victory today.  Go Bishops
http://annex.ncwc.edu/athletics/baseball/2008-09/news/16pc.htm

[NCWC]

NCWC pulls another win vs a Piedmont team that came in at 9-5 with two wins over Montclair St.  Sophmore Justin Diener pitched a gem and the bullpen blows up again!  This is a common theme with this team. 
Luke Williford with 2 HR's in last 4 games bails bullpen out again with 3 run shot in the 7th.  Justin Batts comes in the 9th for the save...I hear he was throwing 90.

This seems to be a common theme with your posts.  How about the three errors the defense made.

Of the ten runs, five of them were earned

[vabaseball]

Good point, NCWC.

[NCWC]

I was at Rocky Mount today watching CNU-NCWC game and was absolutely baffled at how pitching staff is being handled at NCWC.  Pitchers are being left to absolutely get killed.  Starter John Lucas pitched great 5 innings but once he got in trouble in a 1-1 score 6th inning, the house just came down.  We keep using the same guys on the pen that are not getting the job done.  2 different pitchers came in and got no outs and gave up 9 runs....ridiculous...I hope to see some new arms tomorrow.

Once again in this game the two pitchers that came in and didn't record an out got hit around a little bit. BUT, out of the six runs they gave up combined, three of these are earned.  If you look back over the past couple of years you will notice the bishop starters have a high percentage of throwing a complete game.  These guys that are having trouble out of the pen need to work through their problems on the field if they want to have any chance of winning the conference.


John Shearon had a 1.68 era in 44.1 innings last year, Webb had a 3.18 in 22 point something innings.  If these guys are struggling toward the end of the year it will be extremely difficult to win.  But just because they are struggling as of late doesn't mean you lose faith in them.  It was a cold winter and from what I have heard neither of them are dialed in yet.  Maybe the addition of Justin Batts in the bullpen will take some stress of from the rest of the relievers.

[narch]

I wonder during Coach Austin's 29+ yrs, 1200+ games, has he ever seen a 2 day hitting storm like that?

given the fact that the monarchs beat m'ville 43-0 in 1991, i suspect he has - i've seen that box score before, and it was amazing (i think it used to be on the d3 baseball website that jim dixon ran prior to joining forces with d3sports.com) - if i remember correct, there were guys that played 3-4 innings and got 6 ab's

i will say that when the monarchs have won this year, they've scored a lot of runs - in their 9 wins they've scored 13, 7, 17, 12, 17, 12, 6, 20, 25...double digits in 7 of 9 games and an average of 14.33 runs per game...i don't expect that to continue throughout the season, but they are ripping it right now - the lowest batting average among the regulars is .308 and they're hitting .361 as a team

just so i'm not playing favorites with the offensive guys, here is a little love for the pitchers (or at least a former monarch pitcher) - blake maxwell picked up a save in a spring training game vs. the pirates - blake looks like he's lost a little of the extra poundage he carried as a monarch in that picture...i hope he can pitch well enough to continue to advance this season...

[Catfishncwc]

NCWC scores a early afternoon win versus Piedmont 6-3.  BTW  LTHSDAD the bullpen did not give up any runs today.  Lets hope this a trend for the rest of the year with the bullpen coming along strong.  They are playing HSC in the second half of a doubleheader for the bishops.  According to the live stats feed Shearon is starting the 2nd game. 

[LTBB1971]

Catfish,
great job by RHP Johnathan Shearon in the second game today vs HSC.  Pitching really looked solid today.  I can't say enough about how impressed I am with LHP Max Knowles.  He went to 3-0 today after pitching another good game, best of all Bishops have won 6 of last 8.  Offense is really coming together and I hope they continue to play well.  Tough 9-2 Stevenson University coming in for 2 game series Wed/Thu.  Supposed to be 80F at Rocky Mount Wednesday.

[coachmilburn]

given the fact that the monarchs beat m'ville 43-0 in 1991, i suspect he has - i've seen that box score before, and it was amazing (i think it used to be on the d3 baseball website that jim dixon ran prior to joining forces with d3sports.com) - if i remember correct, there were guys that played 3-4 innings and got 6 ab's

Hey "narch", that was a 1-day tornado you referenced back in '91! 

[narch]

another double digit day for the monarchs, winning 12-5 vs. ehc - kelly goes 5 and gets his second win of the season, giving up 8 hits and 5 er - inghram goes 3-3 with 3 rbi and halpin hits 2 bombs...the monarchs pounded out 21 hits as a team - ehc again wednesday

box score

[Catfishncwc]

NCWC rolls off another win.  7-3 over Stevenson University.  That is 5 in a row for the Bishops.  After starting 3-9 they are now 9-10.  Keep up the good work. 

[Tireman4]

Pulling for the Bishops to do well this year!!!!

[narch]

16 runs on 15 hits for the monarchs...0 runs on 2 hits for the wasps - 73 runs in 4 games...pretty amazing run

bisp looked really sharp today

the monarchs are now hitting .373 as a team...16 games into the season - double header with albertus magnus on thursday...i couldn't tell you the first thing about albertus magnus, though...i'm hoping the monarchs get a couple of w's, but more importantly, i'm hoping they don't have to go through too many arms before the weekend

box score

[NCWC]

Out of curiosity, what was the weather like this weekend for the Methodist series?