BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

[Catfishncwc]

Has Southern VA ever won more than 10 games in a year?

[Falcon2720]

Looking at SVU website it appears they sweep Greensboro last year.

[A.G.]

I'm just hoping that LC can turn the ODAC vs USASAC tide a little bit over the weekend.  2 out of 3 versus NCWC and MU would be huge.

[Rikki_Tikki_Tavi]

The Captains kick off the 2008 season Tuesday by hosting Hampden-Sydney. Its the first of 15 straight home dates to open the year. Yeah thats right, 15 straight! Be interesting to see how Kenny Moreland does in his first start as a senior. He was 9-3 with a 2.30 ERA last year and a 1st Team All-USA South pitcher. Some new faces to this year's roster mixed in with some old ones from last year. The starting froshes from a year ago are a year older and I also look for Trae Bailey to have another solid season.

Rikki, what do you think the rotation behind Kenny will be?  Is the other Moreland set up to be the closer?

Kenny obviously is their no. 1 with his brother as the closer. Kevin funky delivery messes with my eyes when I watch him pitch! As for behind Kenny, I think u will see Mike Giarrizzi as the No. 2, Kyle Baumann and Bryce Morrison as potential mid-week starters. But Giarrizzi is definitely entrenched as the no. 2 conference starter from what I hear. Giarrizzi apparently had a great fall and showed some flash on the hill late last year.

[Rikki_Tikki_Tavi]

Captains get an 11-0 win to open 2008 yesterday over Hampden-Sydney (narch add another USAS win over the ODAC  ) Kenny goes five and strikes out six, walks two and allowed just one his. Three other hurlers combined for four innings and allowed no hits. Chris Despins hit a BOMB to straight away centerfield yesterday and went 3-of-4 with four RBI. This kid is MAMMOTH!! He's 6-5, I dont know what he weighs, but he is a beast.

CNU gets Eastern Mennonite tomorrow at 2:30 pm.

[narch]

i was shocked to see that svu only had 16 on their roster, and almost every player had a slash under the position listing (p/of) - i imagine that would wear on a team, especially the pitching staff, as the season progresses - i also imagine it's hard to find/keep mormon baseball players (assuming most, if not all, of their players are mormon...which could be inaccurate) - i couldn't find any historical data to see if they'd ever won more than 10 games, but i also imagine that historical data is somewhat irrelevant for this team...i'm sure there is more roster turnover because of mission trips, etc. than you find at a typical institution - i know the team that played mu yesterday could swing the bat! it will be interesting to see if this is a sign of potential pitching depth issues for mu or if svu really is that good...or if it was just one of those days

i forgot to mention the job robert kisiah did on the mound for the monarchs yesterday...2 ip, 1 h, 6 k's in relief...solid performance from the senior

[NCWC]

There are a couple d2 and naia schools we have played over the years with less than 20 people.  St. Andrews a couple years ago came up with about 16 people and swept a (dh).

[A.G.]

Here's a link to an article on D3baseball from the Lynchburg perspective on the upcoming weekend against NCWC and MU/Frostburg:

http://www.d3baseball.com/pressreleases/Lynchburg/2008/02/13/LC-Baseball-Heads-South-For-Busy-Weekend/2195

[NCWC]

Tough weekend.....Looks like lynchburg will be facing The Bird Man...He is trying to recover from what seems to be an arm injury.

[A.G.]

The Bird Man?

[WHEELIN WES]

NCWC's senior Kyle Robertson's nickname is Bird. This is his first outing after battling back from a shoulder injury. From what I understand his teammates are very happy and excited for him. It would have been easy for him to pack it in as a senior, but he chose to work his way back to the hill to pitch for the Bishops his senior year.

[A.G.]

That is very impressive...and I shall wish him a good 3 inning stint...and hope the NCWC bullpen gets lit up after he departs the game

[NCWC]

NCWC's senior Kyle Robertson's nickname is Bird. This is his first outing after battling back from a shoulder injury. From what I understand his teammates are very happy and excited for him. It would have been easy for him to pack it in as a senior, but he chose to work his way back to the hill to pitch for the Bishops his senior year.

I hope he is 100% He is an emotional leader, tone setter, and displays a solid glove.  Good use of the word battling.  I pushed through the same injury he had for two years.  I can feel it everyday.  Hornets7 when Kyle is healthy he is one of the most dominant pitchers in the region.  Stats to follow:

This is his line from the conference tournament championship game in 06:
N.C. Wesleyan                  IP  H  R ER BB SO  WP BK HP IBB  AB BF  FO GO
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ROBERTSON, Kyle  W,6-2.....   9.0  1  0  0  3  5   0  1  2  0   27 33   5 16

[narch]

here is an article from the fayetteville obeserver about seth kivett's hot start

[NCWC]

I'll be at Wesleyan on the 15th and 16th of next month to see this kid in action.