BB: USAC: USA South Athletic Conference

[NCWC]

CNU smashed Averett today 12-0, I guess it was called in the 7th mercy rule.  Moreland had 9 k's through 7.  It looks like Shelton got beat around the yard a little bit.  Hopefully Averett will have better luck with Hildreth taking the hill tomorrow.

[hokieone]

Hopefully they won't.....

[Spence]

CNU smashed Averett today 12-0, I guess it was called in the 7th mercy rule.  Moreland had 9 k's through 7.  It looks like Shelton got beat around the yard a little bit.  Hopefully Averett will have better luck with Hildreth taking the hill tomorrow.

What the devil has happened to Shelton? Did everyone just figure him or is he hurt or what? I have to admit to being a skeptic last year because of his abnormally low K rate compared to most aces. But I didn't expect anything like this.

[HighHeat]

Shelton did a great job last year of staying away from giving free passes.

At this point, he has walked 13 in 19 IP. (6.16 walks/9 innings)

Last year, he walked 36 in 90 all together. (3.6 walks/9 innings)

Something better change because as he went, so did Averett.....

[Rikki_Tikki_Tavi]

Moreland's win today gives him 26 for his career, breaking the all-time record set by Mike Cosby a few years back. Despins hit a monter bomb to straight away center and finished 4-for-4 with 4 RBI and 4 runs scored.

Kenny's off to a great start, 4-0 with a 1.25 ERA, 47 ks in 36 ip to go along with 8 walks and opponents are only hitting .160 off of him. I hope he keeps it up and concludes his CNU career the way it began.

[hokieone]

Shelton's control was off in the early innings yesterday; he got better but early walks killed him. His velocity appeared to be mid-80's or so.  I can't recall how hard he threw last year. While the rumor mill had his arm injured, I can't imagine his coach would've left him in that long if arm health was an issue. He threw a lot of pitches and the game was over pretty early. 

[NCWC]

Shelton's control was off in the early innings yesterday; he got better but early walks killed him. His velocity appeared to be mid-80's or so.  I can't recall how hard he threw last year. While the rumor mill had his arm injured, I can't imagine his coach would've left him in that long if arm health was an issue. He threw a lot of pitches and the game was over pretty early. 

Could it be the dreaded sophomore slump?

[NCWC]

Moreland's win today gives him 26 for his career, breaking the all-time record set by Mike Cosby a few years back. Despins hit a monter bomb to straight away center and finished 4-for-4 with 4 RBI and 4 runs scored.

Kenny's off to a great start, 4-0 with a 1.25 ERA, 47 ks in 36 ip to go along with 8 walks and opponents are only hitting .160 off of him. I hope he keeps it up and concludes his CNU career the way it began.

I didn't know that Mr. Cosby held the record.  My first game against CNU we went heads up.

[NCWC]

Greensboro is leading Wesleyan in the bottom of 8 by the score of 6-2.  Wesleyan has 4 errors.  One last at bat.  We will see what they can muster up.  Maybe Jeff Taylor can come and hit for us.  Cnu goes to 3-1 with a 2 game sweep over Averett.

[narch]

the monarchs get another outstanding pitching performance and sweep the panthers 6-2 - toth goes 7 giving up no er's and kisiah and sholar finish things off - the monarch bats pound out 12 hits, but most of the runs are scored on typical mu small ball - game story & box score

[NCWC]

Methodist and CNU are 3-1 in conference, Ferrum 2-2, Gboro 1-0, NCWC 1-2, Shen 1-1?, Averett 0-4.  Now that we have had a little usas action who do we think will win the reg. season title?  Im still calling a three way tie.

[A.G.]

Greensboro is leading Wesleyan in the bottom of 8 by the score of 6-2.  Wesleyan has 4 errors.  One last at bat.  We will see what they can muster up.  Maybe Jeff Taylor can come and hit for us.  Cnu goes to 3-1 with a 2 game sweep over Averett.

[NCWC]

Greensboro is leading Wesleyan in the bottom of 8 by the score of 6-2.  Wesleyan has 4 errors.  One last at bat.  We will see what they can muster up.  Maybe Jeff Taylor can come and hit for us.  Cnu goes to 3-1 with a 2 game sweep over Averett.

We almost had a comeback...  If you get a chance to look at the box, Welseyan scored 3 runs with two outs.

[A.G.]

That's great.   

We ALMOST had another one against Greensboro in our loss to them on Thursday.

[NCWC]

NCWC 10- Greensboro 7...Wesleyan takes game two and splits with Greensboro.  Ben Moore looks like he pitched a decent game according to the box.  Wesleyan was down early but Battled back and took a good lead.  Greensboro scrapped for a few runs in the later innings as well.  Freshman UTIL A. Webb came in and retired four batters in a row for his second save of the season.  Wesleyan improves to 14-4-1 (2-2) USAS

Notables:

Matt Smith hit in the leadoff spot today with Pecora hitting in the three hole.  I think this is a pretty nice move for Wesleyan.

Chris Pecora 3-4, 2 2b, 2rbi, 2 r, 1 sb
Matt Smith 2-5, 2 sb, 2 r
Justin Batts 2-4, 3 rbi
Joel Creef 2-5, 4 rbi