College Season is Upon Us...

JT,

Heading out now for the trip. 32 degrees, last night's dusting of snow on the car, frigid wind blowing, yep, feels like college baseball season...

Tomorrow morn I'll be heading West to Danville.....hopefully not to the dusting of snow that hokieone just mentioned...The high for tomorrows double header with Averett is suppose to be 39 degrees.....great baseball weather...hey! I just left the CNU / Guilford game.....after 5 CNU was leading 4-1...It was cold at 43 degrees....Go Tigers.

fc v dad

Hokieone's #2 son (would that make Parker Hokie3?)...
...gets his first college hit and RBI today in CNU's win over Guilford!
http://athletics.cnu.edu/Sports/baseball/2007/cnub0203.htm

Congrats to Hokieone and the Captains.

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Originally posted by fc v dad:
Tomorrow morn I'll be heading West to Danville.....hopefully not to the dusting of snow that hokieone just mentioned...The high for tomorrows double header with Averett is suppose to be 39 degrees.....great baseball weather...hey! I just left the CNU / Guilford game.....after 5 CNU was leading 4-1...It was cold at 43 degrees....Go Tigers.

fc v dad

fc v dad...
...which Tiger is your son?

jr outfielder Kevin Hill....Also ladyNmom's son is Brian Nichols...he also plays for Sydney.



fc v dad

I know about Brian--LadyNMom and I have been talking smack for the past year. I recall now her mentioning there was another HSC Tiger on the board. Good luck, today.

FCV Dad and Ladynmom,

See ya'll next week at Newport News for CNU-HSC doubleheader. Long range forecast is more of the same-COLD! My two are #5 and #25. CV Sting's son is #29. Looking forward to meeting you in person.

Hey HSC folks! My son is going to Hampden Sydney next year to play and is so excited! We were there this weekend for an open house and saw the team practicing. It was FREEZING!!!! I can't imagine having to play games in this!! I guess that's college baseball?!!

bballmomssr,

Congrats to your son!

Yes...baseball is practiced in all sorts of weather...rain, sleet, snow because you never know when you have to play a game in it and also the # of practice hours are limited each week.

Yesterday was only the second day LC has been inside. Possible snow in the forecast for tonite...
...will they venture outside today? Who knows.

Praise the Lord and CNU President Paul Trible for CNU's indoor facilities with batting cages and enough room to take infield and long toss, and Gander Mountain for locating close by, so we can buy all that cold weather gear.

Bballmomssr: Congratulations on your son going to HSC, a very fine school with an excellent baseball program. Before next "spring" (my sons opened their season this past Saturday, anything but spring-like), if you don't ski, pretend you do and go shopping for cold weather gear. You will need it. Lots of it. Guaranteed.

We play HSC in Newport News Saturday and the forecast is for 40 degrees.

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Originally posted by JT:
Yesterday was only the second day LC has been inside. Possible snow in the forecast for tonite...
...will they venture outside today? Who knows.

30 degrees. The answer was yes.

bballmomssr...congrates to you and your son for selecting one of the top academic institution's and the alumni net is second to none. Any info you would like to dicuss or concerns you have just send me a PM. Also if your son can hit I'm sure Coach K would add him to the roster right now. Tough weekend at Averett. They had the case of gnittihon, which is no hitting backwards. Hopefully it was the pitching I saw....but I'm not convenienced it was. Looking forward to hooking up with the message boys from the foothill side of the beach....hokieone and cvsting.

fc v dad

fc v dad,

I usually am in the last couple upper rows directly in front of the press box on the CNU dugout side; I'll have a CNU baseball sweatshirt on with numbers 5 and 25 on the sleeve but it likely will be blue coat-covered. Look for a tall old geezer with a camera bag somewhere nearby, usually with a nice looking lady that would appear to be out of his league.

I look forward to meeting you and am sure CV will be close by as well.


H-1

Hey guys/gals

I'll be there. If it's cold, I'll be sitting in the area where the sun is shinning on the seats per Mrs. CV.

CV

"If" it's cold?

CV, has the cold gotten you delusional? No "if" to it unfortunately. See you in the breezy 40 degrees (at best) tomorrow.

H-1

LC opens up with a 3 game set at Greensboro College this weekend. Son will be opening up as starting LF.

Yeah, whoever came up with baseball in the Spring must have done so years ago when we use to have snow in October & November.

Now that the climate has changed, football and baseball need to switch seasons. Fall of the year is the perfect time for baseball.

CV

VWC's game for Sat. against Salisbury got cancelled. The head coach of Salisbury said it is too cold. Give me a break and let the kids play ball. Geez.

Those $300.00+ bat warranties are funny, not suppose to hit a baseball unless over 60 degrees outside, hah hah, They're in la la land. Get real.

CV

Our guys have hit only ONE day above 45 degrees the past two weeks. The 46 they're calling for in G'boro will feel like a heat wave, for them...
...will still be cold for us parents.

Hey CV...that means Mrs. Sting will be setting on our side....right.

As for Salisbury: The coach didn't want to play VWC in the cold...I bet you guys a dollar to a donut he will be holding a 3 hr practice tomorrow...and it won't be any warmer there than Wesleyan.

Go Tigers

fcv,

NO, we'll be in the sun warmed section behind the home dugout. See you later today. Dress warm, that wind coming off the James River is mighty cold this time of year.

CV

Congrates to JT and Jeff on winning the starting nod in LF. It's not often a freshman starts out the season playing for Coach Abell.

Also It's pretty tough to start your season against a team that as already played 5 games and those games were played against West Coast competition. Good luck to Lynchburg today.

fc v dad....Go Tigers

What a day for the Taylors - go Jeff Jr. and Lynchburg College

The good news....I met Hokieone and cvsting....the bad news....their son's team beat my son's & ladyNmom's team twice... 6-2 & 5-1. It was cold but that's ok...it was baseball...CNU appears to have a solid ball club. H-SC has a lot of work to do. Good luck to the Neals & the Cranes...they owne the bragging rights this year.

fc v dad

LC split with GC today. sonofJT actually was in the lead-off slot and went 2-6--with hit #1 a double. I think he got the jitters out of his system.

While there, I also met "Shoeless Joe," one our our esteemed HSBBW members. His son was down on a visit to GC.

JT, It was good to finally put a face with a name. Congrats with the split. We left before the first game ended. Long drive home. Since you didn't mention it I will. JT's son also had a couple of nice defensive plays while we were watching. He looked very comfortable.

Thanks, SJ. Good luck to you and your son in the college search. Hope he did well on those scolly tests.

JT, just checked the box scores-nice day for young JT in his college debut!

Why thank you...
...he was quite jittery leading off the game.

BTW--does anyone have any information on VWC @ Ferrum? Did they even play, yesterday. Nothing on either school's website as far as scores?

From Ferrum's "Scoreboard" website:
Feb. 10
Baseball: Virginia Wesleyan at Ferrum ... postponed to March 19

The one thing I failed to mention in my earlier post is that LadyNmom's #1 favorite Hampden Sydney player...Brian... recorded his 1st college hit and RBI. He also took a hit away from Hokieone's #2 at CNU with a diving stop of Parker's hard hit liner that was heading to right field.

Oh by the way.... hokieone...don't you wish you could get a special tax break exemption for having two baseball players at the same college?

fc v dad

Lynchburg College came from behind with 2 runs in the 9th, and added 3 in the top of the 11th, for a 8-5 win over Greensboro College on Sunday. Here are the write-ups from the respective schools...
http://www.lynchburg.edu/x8663.xml
More detail below.
http://www.gborocollege.edu/weblog.php?action=showpage&...6&blogid=12&offset=0

Odds and ends:

-JT, JR. on an early season roll for Lynchburg, 2 for 3 today...keep on trucking! Very nice debut weekend.

-FCV, I agree. It's very interesting mail when two invoices arrive at once.......

-5 games in next 6 days, and the temperature for the three game days is...more of the same. Back to Gander Mountain today and bought a carry-along heater for da feet.

-Averett, NC Wesleyan, CNU, and Methodist, all from USA South, off to a combined 16-0 start; add Greensboro and it becomes 21-3. That's the only thing that's hot that days.

Nice record for the USA South...
...makes our 2/3 sound even more impressive. LC is supposed to play @ Averett on Tues, but the weather is looking bad for the middle of the week...
...I just hope we can get our home openers in next weekend.

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VWC's game for Sat. against Salisbury got cancelled. The head coach of Salisbury said it is too cold. Give me a break and let the kids play ball. Geez.

No big deal but I want to make sure the right team is credited. The games that were cancelled were a DH with VWC at Ferrum College. Just the same, their coach did cancelled due to it being too cold at their field . I think it is rescheduled for March 19.

VWC played #26 Salisbury last Sunday with a 4-0 win over the Gulls as noted by Redbird5 in another post on the VA site.

My son is done, but I'm still here watching your!

Hey Charlie- LTNS- glad to see Kevin is playing again!! I think we play you guys next week,tuesday, talk to you soon- Craig

ps- talk about cold- **** we havnt gotten to play the first game yet- who knows how good we will be ,lol.

Hello Craig...I'm not sure if it was tougher on him or his mom not seeing him play baseball last year....boy..during last years spring season the house got cleaned two times on Saturday and two times on Sunday just to keep her mind off of it...we are glad he is back...It took two operations but the shoulder has finally be repaired as it should have. Sounds like you have snow on the ground...do you think the game will be played?

fc v dad