Baseball Weekend 2/18-2/20

[NCBBallFan]

Weekend Notes

Friday Games around the nation
Friday, February 18

Army @ College of Charleston 5 pm
Bethune-Cookman @ Tennessee 3 pm
Bucknell @ Virginia 3 pm
Cincinnati @ Duke 3 pm
Delaware @ UNC Greensboro 4 pm
Elon @ Georgia 5:30 pm
George Mason @ Charleston Southern 2:30 pm
George Washington @ Georgia Southern 4 pm
Maryland @ UNC Wilmington 3 pm
Niagara @ East Tennessee State 3 pm
Ohio @ Campbell 2 pm
Radford @ South Carolina 3 pm
Rutgers @ William & Mary 3 pm
San Diego State @ North Carolina State 3 pm
Seton Hall @ North Carolina 3 pm
UNC Asheville @ Alabama 6:30 pm
Virginia Commonwealth @ Auburn 4 pm
VMI @ Vanderbilt 4 pm
Wake Forest @ South Alabama 6 pm
Clemson vs. West Virginia 12 pm
East Carolina vs. Coastal Carolina 4 pm
Gardner-Webb vs. Missouri 11:30 am
Akron @ Winthrop 4 pm
Coppin State vs. Richmond 12 pm
Old Dominion @ The Citadel 4 pm
Villanova @ Savannah State

I Highlighted what I think will be the two best games.

[JM15]

For those who may not know.... Tony Gwynn is the head coach for SDSU.

For NC State:
Phil Davidson is starting Game 1
Gib Hobson -- Game 2
Jeff Stallings -- Game 3

Hobson and Stallings are both NC boys

[jnwta]

For those who may not know.... Tony Gwynn is the head coach for SDSU.

For NC State:
Phil Davidson is starting Game 1
Gib Hobson -- Game 2
Jeff Stallings -- Game 3

Hobson and Stallings are both NC boys

Speaking of NCSU...heard anything about the freshman Matt Payne, pitcher from Alexander Central? Just curious what the word is on him.

[NCBBallFan]

Matt Payne, ACHS --> NC State

Know he's pitched 1 inning in a mop-up role against Delaware State in the 15-1 blow out. He retired all 3 batters he faced.

[jnwta]

Matt Payne, ACHS --> NC State

Know he's pitched 1 inning in a mop-up role against Delaware State in the 15-1 blow out. He retired all 3 batters he faced.

Cool, Matt is a good kid; hope he does well there.

[NCBBallFan]

Current Scoreboard / Scores as of 4PM

Notre Dame 17, Florida A&M 3 (Bottom 8th ... they forgot and played football)
Maryland 2, UNC-W 2 ...3rd inn
Cincy 3, Duke 0 in the 4th
Radford 0, South Carolina 10 in the 4th
San Diego St 1, NC State 2 in the 3rd
Seton Hall 0, UNC 9 in the 2nd.
Bethune-Cookman 0, Tennessee 2 in the 3rd.
Bucknell 1, Virginia 5 in the 4th.
Rutgers 3 over William and Mary 0 in the 4th

Big series of the weekend
Stanford 0, Texas 1 in the top of the 2nd @ Texas.

[jnwta]

Current Scoreboard / Scores as of 4PM

Notre Dame 17, Florida A&M 3 (Bottom 8th ... they forgot and played football)
Maryland 2, UNC-W 2 ...3rd inn
Cincy 3, Duke 0 in the 4th
Radford 0, South Carolina 10 in the 4th
San Diego St 1, NC State 2 in the 3rd
Seton Hall 0, UNC 9 in the 2nd.
Bethune-Cookman 0, Tennessee 2 in the 3rd.
Bucknell 1, Virginia 5 in the 4th.
Rutgers 3 over William and Mary 0 in the 4th

Big series of the weekend
Stanford 0, Texas 1 in the top of the 2nd @ Texas.

Glad the Irish found someone they could beat.

[NCBBallFan]

Updated Scoreboard:

Maryland 8, UNC-W 3 (5th)
Cincy 3, Duke 1 (7th)
South Carolina 18, Radford 0 (6th)
NC State 7, San Diego St 4 (6th)
UNC 12, Seton Hall 0 (4th)
Tennessee 12, Bethune-Cookman 0 (4th)
Virginia 6, Bucknell 2 (7th)
UNC G 4, Delaware 0 (3rd)
Old Dominion 1, The Citadel 1 (3rd)
Rutgers 5, William and Mary 5 (6th)

Stanford 4, Texas 5 in the 4th

[JM15]

Updated Scoreboard:

Maryland 8, UNC-W 3 (5th)
Cincy 3, Duke 1 (7th)
South Carolina 18, Radford 0 (6th)
NC State 7, San Diego St 4 (6th)
UNC 12, Seton Hall 0 (4th)
Tennessee 12, Bethune-Cookman 0 (4th)
Virginia 6, Bucknell 2 (7th)
UNC G 4, Delaware 0 (3rd)
Old Dominion 1, The Citadel 1 (3rd)
Rutgers 5, William and Mary 5 (6th)

Stanford 4, Texas 5 in the 4th


Ouch! Got two bud's playin in this game, one for USC and one for RU. Wonder who is in a better mood right now? I think I will only call one of them tonight. :xyzthumbs

Dang, sorry to hear about UNC-W... I know they love playing ACC teams and especially love beating them. They got some work to do against UM it looks like.

[JM15]

USC went on to win 20-0.

Jon Willard (Green Hope HS) was 4-6 :applause:

[007]

USC went on to win 20-0.

Jon Willard (Green Hope HS) was 4-6 :applause:

What's the deal ? I thought Willard went to USC fo one semester,then transferred to a JUCO in Florida last year and now he's back. It's almost like USC uses the JUCOs as their own farm system.

[JM15]

Willard went to USC out of HS for the fall semester. Transferred to Chipola JC for the spring semester in 2004. Played summer 2004 in Coastal Plains League for the Wilson Tobs. He is back at USC now as a DH/OF for the Gamecocks.

[NC-dad]

Elon loses a really well played game to Ga 5-4!
Ga scored the winning run in the bottom of the ninth.
Matt Mcswain started and pitched 4.1 strong innings,allowing 3h,3r,and 6K'S!
Chad Tilley came in and allowed 4h,2r, and 3k's in 4 innings of work!
Elon scored 4 runs on 5 hits.
Not too bad vs #8 team after losing 9-1 on Friday with only 2 hits.

[JM15]

App. State is having a rough trip down in Charleston. (And a rough start to their season, after winning their first they have lost 5 straight.)
6-1 loss to Kentucky and 16-2 loss to George Mason. App. plays Charleston Southern today at 2:30.

UNCW has lost 2 so far to Maryland. 12-8 and 4-2... Game 3 today in Wilmington

South Carolina having no problem with Radford. On Friday, USC won 20-0. Saturday, 16-4. Sunday, rain delay.

Lenoir CC split with Montgomery-Germantown on Friday (15-5, 5-8) and swept a DH on Saturday against Macomb Community College (8-3, 9-5). LCC hosts MCC today at 11am.

NC State has won the first 2 against San Diego State. NCSU won on Friday 8-6 and Saturday, 8-5. Game 3 is today. Travis High picked up the save on Saturday in two innings of work. Gib Hobson is 2-0 for the Pack and Joey Devine has 3saves already.

UNC has won the first 2 against Seton Hall. Friday by the score of 17-0 and Saturday, 5-0.

[JM15]

USC and Lenoir CC finished their weekend with sweeps.


USC beat Radford 7-4 behind 2 Brendan Winn HR's (one was a Grand Slam). Jon Willard had a triple and is now 7-14 on the year with a double, triple, and homerun.

Lenoir CC swept Macomb Community College with a 4-3 win this afternoon.

UNCW took game 3 from Maryland, 11-6. Maryland made 5 errors... that might have had something to do with the score. :thinking:

[BB9er]

Maryland's errors did account for 4 unearned runs.
however UNCW's bats were back...16 hits off of 5 Terrapin pitchers.
Take away the 4 unearned runs and my math says UNCW still wins by 1 run!
Way to go Seahawks and keep those hits a coming! :xyzthumbs

Next up ...UNC at Chapel Hill...Tuesday 3pm

[NCBBallFan]

Elon lost today at Georgia 3-0. Elon pitched two freshmen in the game. Ryan Basham and Patrick Adams combined to hold the tough #8 ranked Bulldogs down and did a great job.

Bash went 6, allowing 1 run on 7 hits.

Now, if the bats at Elon can get hot again, the pitching is looking really good. The last two games against a team that finished in the Top 4 in the nation last year were decided by a score of 5-4 and 3-0.

That's pretty good baseball. Auburn will be an important series next weekend for the Phoenix.

WAY TO GOT RYAN. GREAT JOB PATRICK.

[rcbbfan]

WCU split a DH with Wright State on Saturday winning 9-5 and losing 12-0.

In the 1st game, WCU catcher Blake Murphy led the Catamounts at the plate with a triple and HR and 4 RBIs. Jared Greenwood and Nate HAll also homered. Caleb McConnell took the win on the hill giving up 2R on 5H while striking out 7 and walking 1.

In the 2nd game, WCU came out flat and pitchers couldn't seem to get ahead in the count thus yielding 11ER on 18H.

In a cold, wet rubber game Sunday WCU defeated Wright State 9-5. Catamount DH Mike McGowan led at the plate with 2H and 2RBI. Greenwood and Fr. CF Barrett Shaft also had 2RBI. Fr. RF Steven Strausbaugh collected his 1st college HR. Luke Miller collected the win in relief and Brian McCullan added his 1st save of the season.

[NCBBallFan]

UNC-Greensboro is off to a good start, Sweeping Delaware. Delaware will want to find a different state to open the season in next year after getting hammered the past 3 weekends.

Newcomers Wes McCall, Adam DeLeo and Sean Snell all look to be getting early game action and making contributions. Wes made 2 appearances in relief in the first two games, picking up a win in one of them. He's pitched 5 strong innings of 2 hit ball. Adam DeLeo is pounding the ball at an .800 clip (hard to maintain that as a catcher) and Sean's perfect in his fielding so far. As the season progresses, his opportunities should increase.

Way to go SPARTANS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sockittome16]

Was at the Georgia-Elon series, and we (Georgia) need some work but I'm glad to see that Sophomore Brooks Brown held Elon to 0 runs. Got drafted out of high school by the Braves, but did not play well last year. Seems he has really gotten off on the right foot. Elon should do really well in the SoCon. Really wouldn't be surprised to see them make the tournament at all. Maybe could upset a team or two in the regionals. Our hitting is struggling, but it should turn around. Elon was a good test for the first series of the season.

[wolfpac]

Louisburg had a rough weekend down at Chipola losing all 4 games. We left our bats in Louisburg only scoring 8 runs in 36 innings played. I think the scores were: 6-3 L to Chipola, 7-0 L to Central Alabama (3-0 going into the 9th before a 9th inning GS to make it 7-0), 8-4 L to Chipola, 5-1 L to Young Harris. Every game had a moment where it could have possibly swung Louisburg's way if we had gotten a clutch hit and never got that hit the whole weekend. Good learning experience and I hope it makes the team even hungrier going into next weekend's 4 game series with Salem. Record is currently 3-4.

BTW, Chipola has some facilities that would make some D1 North Carolina schools blush. Awesome facilities!!!

Had a blast down there as well. If you ever get a chance, make sure you go to Captain Anderson's restaurant in Panama City. I've eaten at Hyman's in Charleston (loved it) and honestly, Hyman's has nothing on Captain Anderson's. Best seafood I have ever had (there is a reason Southern Living ranked it as one of the top 50 restaurants in the country!).

[JM15]

hey wolfpac....

Do you know if Steven Newton got any PT for Young Harris when ya'll played them? Newt is a catcher/3B from Green Hope HS, he's now a FR at YH.

Sounds like a tough weekend for yall.. pretty good competition though. When do ya'll play Surry this year?

[sockittome16]

Georgia beat Mercer in 11 innings tonight 3-1 on a walkoff homerun by Jason Jacobs. We looked very bad at the plate, but our pitching looked great. Mitchell Boggs gets the win in relief

[NCBBallFan]

Georgia is going to be fine .... They will have their hands full with USC, but those two look to be the cream of a strong eastern section of the SEC.

LSU is ridiculous. How do you get that many athletes on one team???

[wolfpac]

JM, really not sure about Newton, I didn't catch his name but then, I wasn't really listening for it either. Sorry.

Louisburg plays Surry the weekend of 4-2/4-3.