BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

[Will2Win]

The Monarch are getting stronger each day and have to be happy right now. CNU plays 7 games in six days travels back from Myrtle beach tomorrow and then plays them this weekend. MU is done for the week and prepping for CNU. I am debating going to see SU vs NCWC or the CNU vs MU game. Really don't think I can lose either way!

FYI, SU vs. NC Wes series has been moved up a day due to forecasted rain on Sunday in Winchester. Game one Friday at 4 PM with Van Sickler on the bump. Game two Saturday at 1 PM with Claudio on the hill for SU.

[Boysofsummer21]

Updated from original post - tracking as games are starting to get more frequent. The season is still 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 15 games
CNU 11 games
Ferrum 10 games
Greensboro 9 games
Methodist 14 games
NCWC 13 games
Shenandoah 9 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!

If CNU starts to reduce strikeouts and put the ball in play more watch out. Also Shenandoah had a great season last year so the stats can be a little mis-leading. Like hits per game is down 1 from 2010 to 2011 ( 13.67 vs 12.67) and runs are up ( 10.83 vs 11.56) so SU is getting the job done!

2011 VS 2010 per game stats

Team

AB

Runs

Hits

2B

3B

HR

RBI

BB

SO

AVG

OB%

SLG

Averett	-6.96	-3.41	-4.57	-1.22	-0.04	-0.05	-2.98	-1.10	0.72	-0.076	-0.074	-0.100
CNU	0.53	1.88	0.47	1.13	0.25	0.44	2.19	0.12	2.42	0.009	0.014	0.091
Ferrum	-3.11	-1.77	-1.87	-0.60	-0.35	-0.31	-1.88	-0.16	0.54	-0.026	-0.025	-0.079
Greensboro	-1.85	-1.65	-2.59	-0.58	-0.02	0.26	-1.14	1.53	0.26	-0.067	-0.018	-0.055
Methodist	-2.38	-0.50	-1.90	-0.55	0.14	-0.43	-1.05	1.07	0.48	-0.034	-0.008	-0.069
NCWC	-1.22	-1.75	-1.03	0.15	-0.06	-0.14	-1.30	-0.86	0.51	-0.021	-0.026	-0.029
Shenandoah	-3.44	0.72	-1.00	0.65	0.38	0.27	0.02	-0.55	0.51	0.008	0.012	0.089

Conference

-2.60

-0.87

-1.73

-0.12

0.06

-0.01

-0.86

-0.01

0.74

-0.030

-0.020

-0.020

[Will2Win]

Updated from original post - tracking as games are starting to get more frequent. The season is still 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 15 games
CNU 11 games
Ferrum 10 games
Greensboro 9 games
Methodist 14 games
NCWC 13 games
Shenandoah 9 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!

If CNU starts to reduce strikeouts and put the ball in play more watch out. Also Shenandoah had a great season last year so the stats can be a little mis-leading. Like hits per game is down 1 from 2010 to 2011 ( 13.67 vs 12.67) and runs are up ( 10.83 vs 11.56) so SU is getting the job done!

2011 VS 2010 per game stats

Team

AB

Runs

Hits

2B

3B

HR

RBI

BB

SO

AVG

OB%

SLG

Averett	-6.96	-3.41	-4.57	-1.22	-0.04	-0.05	-2.98	-1.10	0.72	-0.076	-0.074	-0.100
CNU	0.53	1.88	0.47	1.13	0.25	0.44	2.19	0.12	2.42	0.009	0.014	0.091
Ferrum	-3.11	-1.77	-1.87	-0.60	-0.35	-0.31	-1.88	-0.16	0.54	-0.026	-0.025	-0.079
Greensboro	-1.85	-1.65	-2.59	-0.58	-0.02	0.26	-1.14	1.53	0.26	-0.067	-0.018	-0.055
Methodist	-2.38	-0.50	-1.90	-0.55	0.14	-0.43	-1.05	1.07	0.48	-0.034	-0.008	-0.069
NCWC	-1.22	-1.75	-1.03	0.15	-0.06	-0.14	-1.30	-0.86	0.51	-0.021	-0.026	-0.029
Shenandoah	-3.44	0.72	-1.00	0.65	0.38	0.27	0.02	-0.55	0.51	0.008	0.012	0.089

Conference

-2.60

-0.87

-1.73

-0.12

0.06

-0.01

-0.86

-0.01

0.74

-0.030

-0.020

-0.020

Good post, like the stats update every once ina while boysofsummer!!

[Boysofsummer21]

Yea I like stats! Working on pitching now but not as straight forward as the new USA South website statics page (sorry to say) sucks, but will probably work that in the next couple of days.

[narch]

i'm not quite as sold yet on mu as you guys seem to be...i want to wait until i see how the sunday pitching holds up in conference play - i think womble has great stuff, but he's a freshman...let's see how he handles the usasac - judge and lee looked really good on my computer screen yesterday, but it appears that lc is a bit down this year - too many young arms to really start talking about mu as an elite team right now...

i do think the offense is starting to heat up, and i don't think that inghram and lovette will stay below .300 much longer...inghram is a career .360 hitter and lovette is a career .382 hitter...when they get hot, they can really carry the offense, and neither has really gotten hot yet - tyler younger is really scuffling right now, too...he's going to start hitting at some point - in fact, no monarch is really hitting over his head right now (maybe lancaster at .400, but with his speed, I could see him having a .400 season)

i also don't expect the team era to stay below 2.0 for much longer

[LTBB1971]

NCWC leaves Memphis, TN after letting 2 games get away vs Rhodes College.  Lost first game 6-5 on 3 unearned runs in the 9th inning.  SO RHP Jake Alexander pitched well enough to win.  Was expecting JR closer S. Flynn  to come out in 9th inning and shut the door but that never happened.  Botched play by JR 3B Boghossian in 9th lead to the lost.  SR OF D. Moore seems to be coming out of his season long slump (3-4, 1 R). SR 1B Z.Alexander had a good game too and may be coming out of his slump.  Team pounded 13 hits.

Lost second game 8-4 after being up 4-0...Starting pitcher Womble was left in too long although he was cruising until the 4th.  Pitchers JR S. Flynn, JR R. Costa and FR B. Longton had clean innings but the bad luck bug hit the bullpen again.  Offensively, SR OF D. Moore is on a roll with a 2-4 day and SR SS J. Rahm also went 2-4...Going to Winchester, VA for 2 vs. the No.4 Hornets...we are now 4-9 with another 2 games...at the USAS tough conference game...WOW!

[Boysofsummer21]

Well look at the bright side SU is only averaging 11.56 runs per game and 12.67 hits per game compared to NCWC 4.62 runs per game and 8.38 hits per game..... oh wait better lace them up tight.

[Boysofsummer21]

Oh and did anyone notice that the only thing to increase for all teams so far this year is strikeouts?

[Will2Win]

NCWC leaves Memphis, TN after letting 2 games get away vs Rhodes College.  Lost first game 6-5 on 3 unearned runs in the 9th inning.  SO RHP Jake Alexander pitched well enough to win.  Was expecting JR closer S. Flynn  to come out in 9th inning and shut the door but that never happened.  Botched play by JR 3B Boghossian in 9th lead to the lost.  SR OF D. Moore seems to be coming out of his season long slump (3-4, 1 R). SR 1B Z.Alexander had a good game too and may be coming out of his slump.  Team pounded 13 hits.

Lost second game 8-4 after being up 4-0...Starting pitcher Womble was left in too long although he was cruising until the 4th.  Pitchers JR S. Flynn, JR R. Costa and FR B. Longton had clean innings but the bad luck bug hit the bullpen again.  Offensively, SR OF D. Moore is on a roll with a 2-4 day and SR SS J. Rahm also went 2-4...Going to Winchester, VA for 2 vs. the No.4 Hornets...we are now 4-9 with another 2 games...at the USAS tough conference game...WOW!

Well, good luck trying to go into Winchester and stealing a game vs. SU. Gonna be a tough task!! I've seen them play twice this year and they're still stroking it as well as they did the last two seasons....Be there for saturdays game. 

[narch]

i was just peeking at the upcoming monarch schedule along with the top 25 poll...mu has some tough games, going forward...2 vs. #25 cnu, 2 vs. #4 su, 2 vs. #23 salisbury and single games against #15 tufts and #21 keystone - this is in addition to the tough usasac schedule outside of cnu and su as well as games against always tough emory and vwc and a solid rmc club...oh, and don't forget about the 3 games mu has already played against orv huntingdon...wow...tough sledding, starting with one of the toughest tests this weekend

[Boysofsummer21]

2011 Pitching (so far)

Team

IP

Hits

Runs

ER

BB

K

K/G

HR

ERA

Methodist	124	99	33	27	42	99	11	2	1.96
Shenandoah	75	74	30	21	19	65	7.22	4	2.52
CNU	98	112	50	44	39	98	10.89	10	4.04
Averett	121	127	81	58	52	77	8.55	7	4.31
Greensboro	114	113	93	64	75	97	10.78	3	5.05
NCWC	112.2	141	91	73	51	94	10.43	5	5.83
Ferrum	82	109	88	67	55	61	6.76	12	7.35

[PNeal7]

I have a question for the d3board guys revolving around SU. How are the players doing who had to replace Henry and Van Dusseldorp? I apologize for the spelling there, as I have no clue how I'd spell that. Both of those guys were top of the line players, the kind of players who are very, very tough to replace. From strictly looking at stats, although I am a big "stats don't tell it all" guy, it looks as if the new SS is picking up at the plate where Henry left off; although, without seeing him play, my initial reaction is that he can't possibly be as good at the plate as Henry.

The better question for Van Desseldorp may be how is the new DH doing, given that I see Nelson has replaced him at 3B?

[Boysofsummer21]

I don't know from an individual stand point but from a team stand point Shenandoah set new single season records for almost every offensive catagory last year and this year they are on pace to break almost all of them.

[Will2Win]

I have a question for the d3board guys revolving around SU. How are the players doing who had to replace Henry and Van Dusseldorp? I apologize for the spelling there, as I have no clue how I'd spell that. Both of those guys were top of the line players, the kind of players who are very, very tough to replace. From strictly looking at stats, although I am a big "stats don't tell it all" guy, it looks as if the new SS is picking up at the plate where Henry left off; although, without seeing him play, my initial reaction is that he can't possibly be as good at the plate as Henry.

The better question for Van Desseldorp may be how is the new DH doing, given that I see Nelson has replaced him at 3B?

Well, the Krout kid is the new SS and he's not too bad. He is only a Sophomore, good hands, good plate discipline and very smoooth in the field from the limited action i've seen him in (2 games). Kid DHing is usually Mike Smith who saw pretty significant time last spring in the OF and DH on numerous occasions(even in the postseason). They are both solid bats although i'd say they are not Henry or Duss...they are pretty solid ball players, many teams would gladly insert them into their own lineups!

In addition to the Smith kid, it looks like K.A. has been trying to work Sr. transfer and former 1st team all USAS OF Clint Dehaven into the lineup. If they can get that kid going he could also be a very productive guy for them and probably hit in the middle of their potent lineup....He's strugglin' early on with 9 k's in only 18 AB's but he's 4 for his last 9 with 3 doubles a HR and 3 RBI's in SU's last two games...He may be turning it on....if so, watch out cuz that guy can put up big numbers in a hurry, very good pop in his bat.

[GallopingGhost80]

SU has some very strong corner guys through out their roster, they have a couple of freshmen at both spots that could start at alot of the USAC schools.