BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

[NCWC]

Congratulations to the guys at NCWC.  They took what looked like a bad season and turned it into a regular season conference championship and a tournament championship.  And the difference with this team and the last team that advanced to the regionals, is that a lot of guys have been there before.  Those guys in 06 hadn't.  Good luck to the guys here on out and to the others in the USAS deserving of an at-large bid.  To all the haters the best team won.

[narch]

ben moore = stud...good luck to ncwc (and probably su...and maybe cnu or mu) in the regional - rep the usasac well

[coachmilburn]

The 2009 USA-South tourney just supports that this conference is pretty darn competitive from top to bottom.


Who would have guessed the following ?

- both #6 Ferrum and #7 Averett would knock off #3 CNU and #2 MU by the scores of 2-1 on Day 1
- both CNU and MU facing elimination on Day 2
- Methodist would go 0-2
- the scrappy Ferrum Panthers on Day 3, in the winner's bracket game along with SU
- NCW would play 36innings of baseball in less than 25hrs to win the USA-South tourney

NCW playing 36 innings of baseball in less than 25hours was pretty impressive and they got it done.

I said several weeks ago that I thought Shenandoah University had to get to the USA-South Title game to hopefully get an at-large bid.  A lot of folks doubted the Hornets BUT they were in the USA-South Conference Tourney Title game by knocking off Greensboro 6-0, who came into the tournament playing some of their best baseball of the year, NCW 17-5 and Ferrum 9-2.  Not sure how that can be ignored or disputed.  SU currently has 31 wins and they defeated every ODAC opponent that they played this year.   SU is currently 23-1 outside the USA-South conference.

[LTBB1971]

With CAC and USAC tournaments done, we know NC Wesleyan (25-16) and Salisbury (33-5) are in NCAA regionals.   Centennial Conference has their tournament April 1st with Ursinius (21-9) and Franklin and Marshall (18-12) as the favorites to win it.  On the ODAC, their tournament get underway this week with Lynchburg (25-12) as the nbr 1 seed and VA Wesleyan (23-12) as the nbr 2 seed.  The Great South also has Huntington playing well (22-13).  For the at large bids, I think Shenandoah (31-8) and York (24-9) have the best shots.

[vabaseball]

Actually, my understanding was that Salisbury's conference does not receive an automatic bid:

http://www.d3baseball.com/faq/category/NCAA+Tournament

(Not that they won't get won).  I may be wrong, however.  Often have been...

[Falcon2720]

The Great South Conference like the CAC does not have an automatic bid.  I doubt any team from that conference will get in.

The Centennial Conference automatic bid will more than likely go to the mid-atlantic regional.  Even though last year Hopkins came south.

I also believe Millsaps will be shipped to another regional because of the distance between Mississippi and Maryland.  Maybe the central region.

[A.G.]

I hope some of you will troll over to the ODAC thread to talk about the ODAC tournament...I am pretty much tired of talking to myself all year long.  Here are the particulars, if anyone gives a rip  :
2009 ODAC Baseball Championship

Tournament Schedule and Seedings

1. Lynchburg    
2. Virginia Wesleyan    
3. Randolph-Macon    
4. Bridgewater
5. Hampden-Sydney
6. Washington and Lee

Thursday, April 23
GAME 1: #1 Lynchburg vs. #6 Washington and Lee - 11:00am
GAME 2: #2 Virginia Wesleyan vs. #5 Hampden-Sydney - 3:00pm
GAME 3: #3 Randolph-Macon vs. #4 Bridgewater - 7:00pm

Friday, April 24
GAME 4: Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2 - 11:00am
GAME 5: Winner Game 1 vs. Loser Game 3 - 3:00pm
GAME 6: Winner Game 2 vs. Winner Game 3 - 7:00pm

Here is the link for live stats:
http://www.odaconline.com/livestats/baseball/xlive.htm

[vabaseball]

I'll be following the ODAC tournament since I know a few players on a couple of the teams....  Thanks for the link.

[narch]

a.g. - thanks for the heads up...i know i'll be watching and rooting for the hornets...and i hope that we see more of the superman dance out of the lc crew

the monarchs swept two 7 innings games (8-4, 2-1) vs. emory today to improve to 26-12 on the season - jordan got the win in game one, going 4 innings and allowing 2 hits and 0 er - the monarchs got 12 hits in 7 innings, led by inghram who went 2-3 with 3 rbi and lovette who went 3-5 with 3 runs - game two saw mahaffey get the win going 5.1 innings and giving up 1 er on 2 hits - inghram went 1-2 with 2 rbi for the monarchs

the monarchs finish up with 2 vs. piedmont after a break for exams...

it would be great to see mu find another team that has had some rain outs and is on the tournament bubble and pick up a couple more games...if they could somehow get to 30 wins, i'd feel like they had a shot

[A.G.]

it would be great to see mu find another team that has had some rain outs and is on the tournament bubble and pick up a couple more games...if they could somehow get to 30 wins, i'd feel like they had a shot

LC may well be in that same boat!  It will be interesting to see if the bubble teams try to get together over the next couple of weeks.

[Falcon2720]

Methodist is playing Piedmont 3 times instead of 2.  They added a game because both teams were missing games due to the rain.

[coachmilburn]

SU (32-8) and (26-7) "in-region" gets a complete-game shutout from Greg VanSickler with a 9-0 six-hitter with 13 KO's vs Stevenson University this evening in Glen Burnie, MD at the Bachman Sports Complex.


http://suhornets.com/sports/bsb/2008-09/stats/042309.htm

[vabaseball]

Huge win for the Captains today over Salisbury, 7-4 in Newport News. They play at Salisbury tomorrow. 

[narch]

Huge win for the Captains today over Salisbury, 7-4 in Newport News. They play at Salisbury tomorrow. 

that is a very nice win, indeed...

[Ralph Turner]

Huge win for the Captains today over Salisbury, 7-4 in Newport News. They play at Salisbury tomorrow. 

that is a very nice win, indeed...

Yes, because Salisbury was playing for the #1 seed with Millsaps in the middle of a double elimination tourney!