BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

[rolln2]

For all you stat lovers.  The USAS site now has both stat forms.  That is the old style and the new.  All you have to do is go to baseball, and click on statistics, and then you can choose between the old style or the new.

[WMSBRGFan]

I am waiting for the CNU - Platteville stats to be updated on the USA South site then going to do some stats but wondering

1. Best batting line up
2. Best Defense
3. Best starting pitching
4. best bull pen
5. best closer

Anyone have thoughts?

Here are my thoughts
1. SU - CNU (3 weeks we will find out)
2. MU
3. CNU - 1-5 getting it done - it is not all about your number 1 it is about your entire staff and CHitsay may be best in conference but is close
4. CNU period
5. Fleischmann or Veridillo which ever Harvell wants to use - Look at the conference stats if you don't believe me.

[D-BAT]

My sources within the USAS state that 1 thru 9, CNU is better but SU plays the game much better.

[PNeal7]

CNU wins another weekday, road game with a 13-3 victory at H-SC. Freshman Bierlein goes 7 IP and gives up 0 ER's. 6 of the 9 starters have multi-hit games.

[Will2Win]

My sources within the USAS state that 1 thru 9, CNU is better but SU plays the game much better.

You can attribute that to K.A. himself! Best coach I've ever been around...

[Back2Back!!]

I agree. He knows the game inside and out. He knows more about the game than anyone I have ever met and he rubs off on his players. Alot of Players come in there freshman year lacking "baseball savy" and by the first game of the season they will have the mental part of the game down. The man is a great teacher and demands that the game be played one way. He treats the worst player in the program the same as the best player in the program.

Finally, He is a great motivator. He knows how to get the best out of his players. I know the speech last year at the conference tourny after we had lost the first game on sunday to CNU sure got us PUMPED for game 2.

[Will2Win]

I agree. He knows the game inside and out. He knows more about the game than anyone I have ever met and he rubs off on his players. Alot of Players come in there freshman year lacking "baseball savy" and by the first game of the season they will have the mental part of the game down. The man is a great teacher and demands that the game be played one way. He treats the worst player in the program the same as the best player in the program.

Finally, He is a great motivator. He knows how to get the best out of his players. I know the speech last year at the conference tourny after we had lost the first game on sunday to CNU sure got us PUMPED for game 2.

Would have to agree with ya on all the above, with the exception being I wasnt in the pregame pep-talk! The guy's a genious...he taught me things on the baseball field that I would have never thought about on my own. He really expects his baseball players to not only be good players, but to be students of the game. He preaches that as much as he does the physical/athletic aspect of the game as well.  Great all around guy!

[rolln2]

Well I see everyone at SU seems to admire the head coach.  Looking back it seems that SU really didn't do the things they do today.  Like hitting the crap out of the ball until they got themselves a good assistant.  I think his last name is Cameron.  So I think we shouldn't always be so quick to give the head coach all the glory.  Most are only as good as the assistant coaches.

[BigPoppa]

Looking at Shenandoah's roster, they carry 49 players. How many travel with their varsity and how many are strictly JV? As for the JV games, who do they play? Local JCs or do they play other JV teams in the area?

[Will2Win]

Well I see everyone at SU seems to admire the head coach.  Looking back it seems that SU really didn't do the things they do today.  Like hitting the crap out of the ball until they got themselves a good assistant.  I think his last name is Cameron.  So I think we shouldn't always be so quick to give the head coach all the glory.  Most are only as good as the assistant coaches.

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No one here is giving K.A. all the credit for their success...I know I'm simply stating he's a genious when it comes to the game itself. And unless you've actually played for him you wouldnt know that and you wouldn't know exactly who runs the show at SU. Although I don't doubt Cameron knows his stuff as well (Heck he was a D1 coach before for a reason) and I mean no disrespect to him or the rest of the staff at SU...but K.A. knows a thing or two about hitting in his own respect. Personally I believe Cameron coming in allowed Anderson to work closer with what he's most comfortable with  (Defense and Pitching). But, in no way shape or form am I saying he's doing it all on his own. He's also got a few others that have either played for him and know what he wants or they've played at a top notch D1 program (UVA). SU's allowed Anderson to build a pretty impressive staff of high baseball knowledge guys and they play a pretty impressive brand of baseball in Winchester. It's good to be able to catch an area game that's actually worth watching, that's all.

[vabaseball]

BigPoppa: SU carries 59 players on their roster.  I don't know how many they travel -- probably only half that number.  But the JV plays fairly local junior colleges (who can have pretty impressive baseball teams in their own right).

[Will2Win]

Looking at Shenandoah's roster, they carry 49 players. How many travel with their varsity and how many are strictly JV? As for the JV games, who do they play? Local JCs or do they play other JV teams in the area?

They play Potomac State out of WV and another JUCO or two along with whoever else they have on their Varsity schedule that also has a JV (almost exclusively Non-Conf foes)....I know when I caught the King's College Varsity game earlier this year, SU had a JV game going on at the same time and I wanna say it was King's JV (don't quote me on that though).

[Will2Win]

SU getting throttled by Bridgewater College 9-1 after 2 complete....ouch!

[Back2Back!!]

Lets see if they can chip away at this lead going into the middle third. BC had 8 hits in a row in the 2nd inning.

[Will2Win]

SU getting throttled by Bridgewater College 9-1 after 2 complete....ouch!

12-8 BC over SU after 6 complete...Either the wind is blowing out or both teams are squaring em' up, 7 combined HR's thru the 6th.