BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

narch · February 19, 2010, 09:55:20 PM

no box score, but the monarchs get a 14-2 win over farmingdale state...farmingdale was a 30-17 world series team last year, but they got hammered by a combined 27-3 by frostburg and mu today...tough trip down so far for the rams

D-BAT · February 19, 2010, 10:37:45 PM

Methodist (14) Farmingdale State College (2)

CNU (13) Piedmont (12)

Averett (27) Maine Presque Isle (10)

Cortland St. (7) N.C. Wesleyan (0)

5-1    MU
5-2    AU
2-2    CNU
2-2    GB
0-0    SU
0-1    FC
0-2    NCW

LTBB1971 · February 19, 2010, 11:05:30 PM

NCWC loses 7-0 to a very good Cortland State team. Score is not an indicative of the game. Game was much closer than that. 3 runs given up in the 9th by our closer made game seem out of hand.

Great to see 2 sophomores that saw almost no time last year do a great job in the mound in Wessell and Costa. Hoping tomorrow vs Emory bats will come alive. Season still young.

hokieone · February 20, 2010, 08:39:51 PM

CNU tops Rowan, 5-3, with excellent pitching performances by Chitsaz, who got the win going 6, Fleischmann, Harsanyi, and Malvagna, who got his second save. Captains' defense was a little shakey early, but settled down nicely, making some nice plays to keep the door shut. Rowan broke a 8-8 tie to defeat Bridgewater in the bottom of ninth in the day's second game. Rowan had jumped out to an early 5-2 lead. As is true with many schools, this was Rowan's first outdoor work of the "spring", and I use that term loosely.

Temperature was in the 50's, and tomorrow is supposed to be a carbon copy. Finally!

LTBB1971 · February 20, 2010, 10:07:43 PM

NCWC came back after loosing 7-0 to Cortland State with a 6-4 win over South Region rival Emory. Nice job by LHP Max Knowles, battling control issues all day to throw 6 innings, 2 unearned runs, 5 BB and 7 K's. With Freshman starting behind the plate, this will be a learning curve. I hope to see freshman JJ Allen in lineup again tomorrow. This kid can hit!

D-BAT · February 20, 2010, 10:52:42 PM

Rowan (3) CNU (5)

Emory (4) N.C. Wesleyan (6)

Case Western Reserve (9) Averett (12)
Case Western Reserve (1) Averett (5)

Huntingdon (8) Methodist (3)
Frostburg St. (9) Methodist (4)

Richard Stockton (11) Shenandoah (10)
Bates (8) Shenandoah (9)

Stevenson (11) Greensboro (10)
Stevenson (3) Greensboro (1)

7-2 AU
5-3 MU
3-2 CNU
1-1 SU
1-2 NCW
2-4 GB
0-1 FC

vabaseball · February 21, 2010, 05:07:01 PM

CNU came up with two nice wins today. I have no details on the first game against Rowan. But they edged Bridgewater 4-3 in the second game, highlighted by Josh Brinkman's dominating nine inning performance. 1BB, 9Ks, 0 ER.

Go Captains!

Pauperboy · February 21, 2010, 06:32:49 PM

Averett should be 9-2 with 7 wins coming against teams that went a combined 50-100 last season. We will see how good there are when they play Greensboro, H-S, and Methodist coming up.

D-BAT · February 21, 2010, 07:50:36 PM

Richard Stockton (0) Shenandoah (6)
Richard Stockton (7) Shenandoah (11)

Rowan (2) CNU (15)
Bridgewater (3) CNU (4)

EMU (8) Averett (9)
EMU (2) Averett (6)

Neumann (8) Greensboro (12)

Emory (3) N.C. Wesleyan (11)
Cortland St. (10) N.C. Wesleyan (2)

Ferrum (6) Rutgers-Camden (4)
Ferrum (9) Waynesburg (6)

Roanoke (0) Methodist (9)

Current standings with the above results:

AVERETT is off to a fast start and appears to have caught on FIRE!

9-2 AU
3-1 SU
5-2 CNU
6-3 MU
2-1 FC
2-3 NCW
3-4 GB

hokieone · February 21, 2010, 10:19:00 PM

Nice job by CNU starting pitching, 4 games, every starter went at least 5 innings, 5 earned runs total. Bullpen was equally up to the task. The hitting is coming along nicely with a nice mix of lefty and righty hitters puttting up 37 runs in four games. Rowan will get better-this was their first outdoor work-, Bridgewater played really well on Sunday, and Piedmont went down and swept a DH from VWC. CNU's team ERA dropped by 4 runs per game and team batting average jumped up to .319. All in all a pretty solid weekend after a dreadful first two games. The USAS indeed has a lot of talent this year; conference play starts next weekend, let the dog fight begin!

usasouthisnumber1 · February 22, 2010, 01:08:10 PM

It looks like it's going to be another great year in the USA South. CNU and Methodist are looking strong like always. Averett has won 7 straight and is off to a 9-2 start, but people still think they can't contend. And I am not gonna look up the records for every team they have played but I highly doubt they have a combined record of 50-100

. But, Bridgewater who Averett handled pretty easy was 23-17 last season and Case Western Reserve recently swept Guilford. So a teams record does not mean too much. The USA South has a lot of talent in it and this season should be very interesting.

narch · February 22, 2010, 01:43:03 PM

Quote from: Pauperboy on February 21, 2010, 06:32:49 PM
Averett should be 9-2 with 7 wins coming against teams that went a combined 50-100 last season. We will see how good there are when they play Greensboro, H-S, and Methodist coming up.

Quote from: usasouthisnumber1 on February 22, 2010, 01:08:10 PMAnd I am not gonna look up the records for every team they have played but I highly doubt they have a combined record of 50-100 .

it appears to me that you won't have to look up the record of every team they have played....pauperboy did (by the way, it's not that difficult if you use d3baseball.com...the best source for division III baseball information)

roanoke went 10-21 last year, umpi went 14 - ? (I couldn't find their win-loss record...just a win total), cwr went 13-32 and emu went 13-21-1...that's 50-74 w/o any losses for umpi...and they didn't go 14-0 last year

narch · February 22, 2010, 01:51:48 PM

2 tough losses for the monarchs over the weekend (bookended by 2 wins)...i was a bit surprised by the frostburg state outcome...i thought they were pretty bad when i saw them play last year (although they did end up winning 25 games) - although it was a 9-4 loss, the monarchs actually led going into the 7th, but the wheels fell off late...that's going to happen with young arms, and the monarchs threw 5 frosh against the bobcats - hopefully they will learn from that experience and be better for it...

Jim Dixon · February 22, 2010, 02:16:09 PM

Quote from: narch on February 22, 2010, 01:43:03 PM

it appears to me that you won't have to look up the record of every team they have played....pauperboy did (by the way, it's not that difficult if you use d3baseball.com...the best source for division III baseball information)

It will be easier to get schedules for this year as all D-III games will be on the D3baseball.com scoreboard. When it comes to OWP and OOWP the numbers should be trivial to calculate for all schools.

usasouthisnumber1 · February 22, 2010, 02:27:26 PM

roanoke went 10-21 last year, umpi went 14 - ? (I couldn't find their win-loss record...just a win total), cwr went 13-32 and emu went 13-21-1...that's 50-74 w/o any losses for umpi...and they didn't go 14-0 last year

Regardless of how many loses UMPI had last year you still forgot to count Bridgewater, which was apart of the winning streak, who went 23-17 which would make it 73-91, so all I'm saying is the numbers were blown out of proportion.