BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

rolln2 · February 05, 2011, 05:03:30 PM

Well the ODAC starts off well with Hampden-Sydney sweeping two from Averett. Methodist still to play today. Lets see if USAS gets first win of season.

narch · February 05, 2011, 08:38:05 PM

mu 9 - huntingdon 1

no box or story (in fact, the score was not on either team website, but on d3baseball.com

WHEELIN WES · February 05, 2011, 11:28:28 PM

I am about to hit the sack, get a good nights sleep, wake up in the morning to a bright and shiny day and head to Rocky Mount to see my first college baseball of 2011! Alleluia

Here we go Battling Bishops, let's start the year off with a bang.

D-BAT · February 06, 2011, 09:34:37 AM

Hampden Sydney has a webcam at their field, pretty impressive coverage.

With today's technology, this should be at least the minimum standard at every D3 field as it would allow fans to watch the game combined with the school's live audio stream.

http://72.10.224.193/view/viewer_index.shtml?id=5386

Ferrum takes on HSC today at 1pm.

BTW ... RMC's new facility is awesome!

http://athletics.rmc.edu/sports/bsb/2010-11/first-day-gallery

rolln2 · February 06, 2011, 08:16:21 PM

Well looks like the USAS had a decent day on the diamond going 3-1 on the day. Ferrum, and NCW gettting three of those wins, and Methodist taking a loss.

LTBB1971 · February 07, 2011, 06:57:13 AM

NCWC started their season impressively yesterday. Bats looked like they were in mid season form with 10-3 and 7-4 win over EMU. A lot of freshman played yesterday and for the most part were very impressive. With Seniors Webb and Knowles performance like yesterday on a weekly basis, the Bishops will be hard to handle come conference weekend play. Lynchburg is next on Wednesday, let's make it 3-0!

D-BAT · February 07, 2011, 07:36:27 AM

Quote from: LTHSdad on February 07, 2011, 06:57:13 AM
NCWC started their season impressively yesterday. Bats looked like they were in mid season form with 10-3 and 7-4 win over EMU. A lot of freshman played yesterday and for the most part were very impressive. With Seniors Webb and Knowles performance like yesterday on a weekly basis, the Bishops will be hard to handle come conference weekend play. Lynchburg is next on Wednesday, let's make it 3-0!

What's your impression of the NEW bats?

WHEELIN WES · February 07, 2011, 09:18:03 AM

Quote from: D-BAT on February 07, 2011, 07:36:27 AM
Quote from: LTHSdad on February 07, 2011, 06:57:13 AM
NCWC started their season impressively yesterday. Bats looked like they were in mid season form with 10-3 and 7-4 win over EMU. A lot of freshman played yesterday and for the most part were very impressive. With Seniors Webb and Knowles performance like yesterday on a weekly basis, the Bishops will be hard to handle come conference weekend play. Lynchburg is next on Wednesday, let's make it 3-0!

What's your impression of the NEW bats?

I'll give you my impression of the new bats. They are deadened and much more comparable to a wood bat. Home runs and power numbers will be down with the new bat. As far as batting average, they will have a slight effect on average but it is going to balance out somewhat because some hits that would normally carry out to the outfielders that would be caught will now drop in front of them and some of the hits that would carry over the out fielders will now be caught. Ground balls on the infield also do not have as much pop as before but can also produce some infield hits with slow rollers; the infielders will have to make the adjustment of charging the ball harder immediately off the bat.

WHEELIN WES · February 07, 2011, 10:06:09 AM

Quote from: LTHSdad on February 07, 2011, 06:57:13 AM
NCWC started their season impressively yesterday. Bats looked like they were in mid season form with 10-3 and 7-4 win over EMU. A lot of freshman played yesterday and for the most part were very impressive. With Seniors Webb and Knowles performance like yesterday on a weekly basis, the Bishops will be hard to handle come conference weekend play. Lynchburg is next on Wednesday, let's make it 3-0!

I totally agree with your assessment. The offense will be greatly improved this year particularly since a couple of starters did not even dress out yesterday. The freshman look very promising and NCWC is the deepest at every position that I have seen in four years. The question mark of the closer was answered yesterday and no longer a question, the Junior college transfer Fylnn will be outstanding in that role. The infusion of a lot of very good young arms will help to bolster the bullpen, to help the returning upperclassman in the bullpen and allow some of them to become quality weekday starters. Yesterday, the shaky part of the team was the outfield with several miss play balls that should have easily been caught and one that was dropped after the ball hit in the palm of the glove and all these were recorded as hits (? for some reason), but the outfield will become outstanding (exceptional speed) with the return of some starters and a few games of experience.

rolln2 · February 07, 2011, 06:57:25 PM

Looking at the boxscores throughout the country it does not appear that the bats are having too drastic an effect on the scores so far this early season. Plenty of runs and hits to go around. But what I am noticing is that the big scores do seem to have a lot of walks in the pitching dept.

LTBB1971 · February 08, 2011, 04:41:53 PM

I agree with WES. I could not tell much difference on the bats. the DH, Power hit a moon shot that went over the Bauer sign. That was a SHOT! We did have 2 slow grounders that became infield hits. As for the team, our new supposedly closer JR S. Flynn looks like the real deal. That curveball produced 4 K's in 1.2 INN...pretty impressive. Was not impressed how the bullpen was handled the second game. I expected some upper class men to bridge the gap to Flynn. We'll see in the coming games. I'll be there tomorrow.

hokieone · February 08, 2011, 05:55:51 PM

I'll miss my first CNU opener in 7 years tomorrow,

but our sons have graduated. Good luck to the Captains! Nobody seems to be expecting a huge season out of them, but there's an awful lot of talent there so let's get off to a good start. After digging somewhat of a hole last year, I think they just ran out of gas digging their way out and didn't quite get where they wanted to go...that and that blasted ultra-fast astro-turf reject of an infield at Salisbury-honestly, they should have a warning sign for visiting infielders to stay 10' off the turf.

Get 'er done and we'll see you guys at MWU next week.

rolln2 · February 09, 2011, 08:09:26 AM

One more USAS team, CNU, gets their season underway today vs Hampden-Sydney. Still two more teams GC, and SU waiting until this weekend. I am sure those players are chomping at the bit to get playing.

hokieone · February 09, 2011, 05:15:10 PM

Nice job Captains, getting off to a good start winning 13-0 over Hampden-Sydney.

narch · February 09, 2011, 08:59:51 PM

mu gets a 3 hit performance from johnny wholestaff and beats guilford 5-2...freshman arms threw 6 innings of one hit ball (too many walks, though) - mu is 2-1 going into a 3 game weekend vs. lynchburg and 2 vs. berry (ga)