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Pat Coleman has graciously allowed me to moderate the Baseball Message Boards. These message boards will provide hyperlinks to school and conference websites and to other pertinent web sites and news releases. Pat will not be providing news, but we fans have the chance to talk D3 Baseball.
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PLAY BALL!!!
Let's get ready b/c the grubby one will have the lowdown on the fighting scots baseball team
Interesting site. You can see by where a MLB player went to school.
http://baseballreference.com/schools/
the fighting scots have a freshman first baseman who is supposed to be pretty good, we will see, but Jason Lambert, yes the son of Coach Randall D. Lambert is ready to go, like father like son, he is ready to dominate
"A freshmen 1B will be pretty good?"
Ladies and gents Mel Kiper with his expert anaylsis...come on you can do better than that!!
Don't ever compare me to a TV guy, i have much more intelligence than that, everyone knows baseball players are not the smartest people you have ever met and that was their report
As is read at a restaurant in Memphis, i have got some dirty south for your mouth
the scots are 1-5 and for some reason can't wait to get their hands on Emory
well my scots are on their spring break trip, typical season, but as long as there is a Lambert on the field there is always a chance
rumor has it the scots will have a new coach next season
there has been a coaching change for the scots, no new coached named yet
I'm sorry to hear of Coach Etchison's departure. I'm a 5th year senior for Emory baseball and have enjoyed competing against Coach Etchison. I have as much respect for him as any coach I have come across in my170ish DIII baseball games played. In the past I know he has served as the head of the South regional committee, and I believe did an outstanding job. He has always had a very stellar reputation. I'm surprised by his departure, and any team looking for a coach should be licking their chops. Did the tough year Maryville had contribute to his departure? I sure hope the decision was his and not the Athletic Directors, b/c if he got fired that a travesty.
Released in the Maryville Paper that Coach Etch has retired to become the full time Director of Sports Information at Maryville College.
Quote from: Tezbaseball on January 22, 2006, 12:28:57 AM
Interesting site. You can see by where a MLB player went to school.
http://baseballreference.com/schools/
Cool info. Since baseball at Fisk really sucks right now check this out. The Father (Dr. Charles Jeter) of NY Yankee All-Star shortstop Derek Jeter played shortstop for Fisk University and is a graduate of Fisk (Class of 1970 - I think).
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/magazine/features/si50/states/michigan/essay/
wilburt:
Great find on Derek Jeters Dad and the FISK connection.
Anybody at the Huntingdon-NCWC match up today?
Millsaps will broadcast their baseball games today through Sunday. I think there will be a 15 minute pregame show for most of these but the time I'm listing will be the starting time in the Central Time Zone (all games are being played in the ETZ).
Thursday vs. LaGrange @ 3:00 p.m.
Friday vs. LaGrange @ 2:00 p.m.
Saturday vs. Piedmont @ noon
Sunday vs. Piedmont @ 1:00 p.m
Radio Link: http://www.espnradio1240.com/listenlive.php
(The broadcast schedule went back and forth between doing the baseball or the basketball tournament. I think it finally was decided to do the baseball but I won't be 100% sure until I actually here the broadcast this afternoon.)
I have a Yahoo baseball league devoted to Virginia fans. All I ask is that you name your team after your VA college or VA city that you live in. Email me if you would like to join.
Congrats to MC's Adam Rosen for breaking the school's career hit record with his 171st Sunday in the win over Mount Union.
Coach Washburn has the Diamond Scots looking up at 11-6, though I really want to see the conference opener which pits him against LaGrange -- where he was an asst coach before being hired at MC for his first head coaching gig.
It looks like pitcher Zach Smigiel (pronounced like bagel) is the real thing. The transfer is 4-0 on the mound and the team is playing very strong behind him both defensively and in the batters box.
Hello........
With the good preconference results the GSAC has had why is the board so quiet?
LaGrange comes to Maryville for three game set starting Friday and who thought MC would be 16-7 now after going 13-28 last year?
Now this is depressing, what we have to blatantly run down someone or make slander against someone's mother before the faithful from other GSAC sports take an interest in baseball.
The Scots broke into the region rankings this week after sweeping laGrange for the first time ever. www.maryvillecollege.edu/athletics/news-detail.asp?sportNameID=1&id=1897
I believe this was the first time LC swept in a GSAC series but not sure.
And to add my two cents again, Smigiel is pitching his way into all-region if not all-america status. He's 6-0 in seven appearances with a 1.94 ERA, striking out 44 of 159 faced. The team is playing really good defense behind him and was the difference in taking the series opener with LC.
Bard,
I was at Scotland Yard to see the Scots take the first game of the series against LC. I thought that the Scots seemed to be playing with a different attitude than they have had in years past. I believe that Coach Etch did a tremendous job, yet I think that coach Washburn has certainly made an impact. It all starts with the amount of discipline that he demands. I am pleased that the Diamond Scots are off to a great start to the season. Now, lets all support all of these great athletes and coaches who spend so much time and effort into doing that in which they love.
The attitude is different and its one that it is hard to define how it gets changed with out a coaching move. This year if someone evens the score goes up early the Scots dont fold up. They make a way to win. All three games with LaGrange boiled down to a who wanted it more and could make it happen. Fri was one-run. Sat was one-run and Sunday was a shoot out at 13-11.
They didn't show that at Milligan but it was against NAIA and wasnt using the weekend staff, though Spratling reportedly had a good start in game two and the bullpen gave up six runs in the sixth frame to take the game one loss.
Reinhardt comes in Monday (game time changed to 5 pm) but not sure who Washburn will use since its the last game before the FRi Sat conference series at Huntingdon (Game one friday, dh on sat) which could put MC in the driver's seat for the No.1 seed in a conference tourney at Scotland Yard at month's end.
bard, of course Murvul is in Pool B, but Pool B in baseball is much much tougher.
I see the Pres AC schools (W&J and Thomas More), the UAA schools (Emory and Wash StL), a Capital AC school (Salisbury), St Scholastica MN, Ithaca and Rochester Tech in the New York Region, and Chapman in there as well.
I was actually referring to the GSAC tourney (didnt make that clear) which will be at Scotland Yard. The resurfacing/planting seems to have finally taken hold and the outfield grass seems to be shaping up after a touch and go look early. It certaily is more level than last season.
For MC to even get in contention for abid I think they have to win the GSAC with at most one loss, split with Emory at season's end and win the GSAC tourney. Even then it may be out of their hands and more a matter of what happens in the USA South tourney.
But nothing is impossible. Good to see them take down Reinhardt last nite, good momentum builder for this weekend's series at Huntingdon.
The change in subject heading is to faciliate identifying the message board by sport and then by conference or subject.
LaGrange's Michael Sims (http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/02/05/All+Rhodes+lead+to+Appleton) is pictured on the South Region Preview on D3baseball.com.
It seems like there should be more noise coming from this area. Piedmont and La Grange seem to be solid teams this year.
Does anybody know if Piedmont is for real or not? I saw them give up 19 runs to Guilford this year, while scoring 18 themselves. The next day they played a little better and beat Guilford 22-5, mainly due to Guilford's pitching staff struggling. Their pitching staff didn't look great...any thoughts?
Quote from: fightingquaker1 on February 18, 2009, 12:40:22 PM
Does anybody know if Piedmont is for real or not? I saw them give up 19 runs to Guilford this year, while scoring 18 themselves. The next day they played a little better and beat Guilford 22-5, mainly due to Guilford's pitching staff struggling. Their pitching staff didn't look great...any thoughts?
they've got good coaching with good coaching blood lines :)
Haha, I hear you Narch. Doesn't really say much about their talent level though...
NCWC is going down Thursday night to Rawlings classic in Atlanta but plays LaGrange College Friday at their home. I saw in their site they are off to good 5-2 start with solid hitting. Has anyone seen them play this year?
I have not seen them play. I know they are solid year in and year out. NCWC has a big weekend down in GA. Good luck to your boys LTHSdad.
Quaker,
thanks. We'll need it. All 5 teams we play are legit contenders. No easy ones this weekend. I am flying down on Friday AM to catch game vs LaGrange College. We need big game from Ben Moore. If we can win the first one, we might get back on track. I saw Guilford split vs Southern Virginia. 1B Drew Gurkin and LF Alex Starbuck had a good day...pitching still killing the Quakers along with 5 more errors today. Not enough offense that can overcome poor pitching and defense all season long...good luck to you guys.
Well LTHSdad, looks like LaGrange can hit the baseball. I've never seen a stat line for Ben Moore that bad before. 9 hits in 3 and a third innings? Wow...any idea if Moore is hurting at all. His stats just don't measure up to the pitcher he is. He is a bulldog out there, I've seen him mow down line-ups. Does anybody know what's going on down in Rocky Mount?
Well Quaker,
I have been to every game so far and my two cents are that we are not getting much pitching so far. Offense has foud it's groove lately but we are giving up 8 runs per game...can't win to many games like that. Ben is a bit rusty but he'll get it together...I am confident, we'll need him during conference play coming up in two weeks vs CNU. Srating pitching has only been going 4 innings...and getting hit hard. We have some young pitchers on the team that are still developing and hopefully that will pay off later in the year...Record is 3-9 and not much going their way.
LTHSdad, thanks for the insight. Its still very early and way too cold outside for baseball. I think you guys will turn it around. Nothing but class acts down there at NCWC. Good luck this week!!!
Coming back from the Rawlings tournament in Atlanta, I can tell you Rhodes and La Grange can both swing the bats...I was not impressed with Emory. LaGrange has a beautiful facility and has a very good lefty pitcher in Ben Hudson. Hitting they have a big 2B in Michael Sanders that hit a HR and spread the ball all over the diamond. Also their 1B Korey Ison, has a lot of power and really good hitter. For the Rhodes Lynx, 3B Brent Lindsey and RF Mason Mosby are hitting machines.
Looking at the stats, Rhodes looks like they are for real. They beat Greensboro when they had their #1 on the mound. They always seem to be able to hit the fastball real hard...
Looks like Piedmont did not throw their top guys vs NCWC. My guess is they are holding them to face CNU and Heidelberg this week. Evan Rodery threw well today...as did Max Knowles of NCWC.
Quote from: LTHSdad on March 10, 2009, 09:51:58 PM
Looks like Piedmont did not throw their top guys vs NCWC. My guess is they are holding them to face CNU and Heidelberg this week. Evan Rodery threw well today...as did Max Knowles of NCWC.
The way that Pool B works for Piedmont is that NCWC, CNU and 'berg are all in-region ("conference") games!
When I saw Piedmont early on at Guilford, I could tell they were well coached and could swing the sticks. No doubt in my mind that they'll make some noise later on down the road.
Anybody out there following GSAC baseball in 2010? <aryville is off to a good start after a pretty ordinary last year.
Can't speak for Maryville, but we played Piedmont this past weekend and although their record did not indicate it, they pitched very well against us. Nbr 43 RHP Spencer Shelton shut us down :P.
Hawks off to a good start (19-4). Looking to extend current winning streak to 12, 13 in a DH against Atl Christian this Saturday, BSC Wednesday, then to Piedmont for conference opener
Great baseball in the Great South in 2011!
2011 Baseball Standings
School GSAC Overall
Huntingdon 0-0 15-5
Maryville 0-0 16-6
LaGrange 0-0 16-7
Covenant * 0-0 12-6
Piedmont 0-0 13-9 |
*NCAA Provisional Member
Maryville and Huntingdon received votes in the national rankings. GSAC tournament April 29th in Maryville!!! Make plans to come by and see some great baseball.
Good to see Huntingdon is comming up north this march to play some northern teams. Good for them.
http://huntingdonhawks.com/sports/bsb/2012-13/schedule