NOVA Regular Season

Madison 10 TJ 0 in 5 innings. Matt Favero and Pete Nielsen combined for the no hitter.

OHS @ LB moved up from Saturday to Friday, 6:30PM.

Chantilly over Yorktown 4-0 in a rain-shortened game tonight. Forrest Wagner (Jr.) started the game by striking out the side and went on to pitch 4 shut-out innings for the win.

PVI over O'Connell 27-4. PVI has won last three games by combined score of 44-4. They have a DH coming up vs. West Potomac and Marshall.

 

FWIW: game I'd pay to see would be Madison vs. St. Johns

St. Johns at LB in April, $5 at the gate. LB has scheduled St. Johns for the last 4 years. Always well played, competitive games. Not many NOVA teams schedule WCAC teams. 

Oakton vs. PVI is a natural. Don't know why that isn't a scheduled game.

Osbourn Park over Centreville 7-5 last night.

Bulldog Titan Baseball Classic Schedule with changes. This looks to be a very competitive tournament:

 

Saturday, March 28

@ Stone Bridge H.S.
Stone Bridge vs. W.T. Woodson, 12

 

 

Monday, March 30

@ Dominion H.S.
Dominion vs. Lake Braddock, 11(?)

LB vs. Oakton, 2
Oakton vs. Dominion, 5

@ Stone Bridge H.S.
Chantilly vs. W.T. Woodson, 12
Chantilly vs. Stone Bridge, 3

Tuesday, March 31

-Bronze game at Dominion H.S.
DHS bracket No. 3 vs. SBHS bracket No. 3, 12

-Silver game at Stone Bridge H.S.
DHS bracket No. 2 vs. SBHS bracket No. 2, 12

-Gold game at Stone Bridge H.S.
DHS bracket No. 1 vs. SBHS bracket No. 1, 3

Indeed, though I was informed that the Chantilly games are now scheduled at 2pm & 5pm. 

PVI over Marshall 1-0

Marshall vs West Potomac DNK

PVI over West Potomac 12-0 in 5 innings. Robert Riddick and Michael Cortiz combined for the no-no. Last I saw WP had committed 7 errors over 4 innings. I think their game ended around 9, and it was in the low 30s, if not 30, at that point. 

 

Robinson went down to Myrtle Beach for a tourney, first game Monday vs. IMG Academy. Other NOVA team in the Mingo Bay Classic: Madison, Battlefield, Forest Park, South County, West Springfield, Falls Church.

It looks like Saturday's games for the Bulldogs/Titans tournament will be played at 11am tomorrow, which explains why the Chantilly games were pushed back.

At Barcroft Park:

George Mason 5 Hayfield 2. Mason now 4-0

W-L 9 Hayfield 4. W-L now 4-1

Tomorrow at George Mason HS:

Hayfield vs Marshall 10:00

W-L vs Mason 1:00

W-L vs Marshall 3:30

Chantilly over Woodson 5-2

 

Stone Bridge over Chantilly 5-3

Oakton over Dominion 8-6

Oakton over Lake Braddock 7-5

 

Oakton vs. Stone Bridge tomorrow @12PM

At the Mingo Bay Tournament:

Robinson over IMG Academy 11-2. Tyler Jumper with the CG and a dinger.

Madison over Conway HS (SC) 7-1. Brian Eckert went the distance, a 3 hitter on 83 pitches.

Forest Park 10-0 over Sanquoit High School (Sanquoit, NY).Senior Danny Morrissey,went 3-4 with 2 singles, 1 double,1 RBI, and 3 runs scored,Junior Trey Alderman was the spark for the Bruins offense. He went 3-4 with 4 RBIs including a 2 run double that carried the warning track. Killian Tooze (Concord) gets the win with a stellar performance. 

More from Mingo Bay:

Battlefield 11 Myrtle Bch HS 5.

 

Bits and pieces of info here and there. NOVA so far so good.

Today's final games for the local SB tourney...

@Oakton_Cougars (3-0) at @SB_Baseball (4-0), 12:00 p.m.

@Tilly_Baseball (4-1) at @Bruin_Nation (4-1), 12:00 p.m.

 

@WTWCavsBaseball (0-4) at @DomHighBaseball (1-3)

Does anyone know if Connor (OHS pitcher) pitched in any of these games and how he did.  I know he's been working on his velo over the winter.

 

Thanks in advance!

He just finished up 4 innings of work vs. SB: 40 pitches, 1 hit, 0 runs, 2Ks, no walks. And was 3 for 3 at the plate. Throwing far harder than last year. Hard work is paying off.

Oakton 15 Stone Bridge 5 (6 innings). See post above for Connor Jones' line. Cooper Mitchell: 3 for 5 with a HR, triple and 4 RBIs. Joe Rizzo: 3 for 3 with a GS, 2 Dbls, 5 RBIs.

Way to go! Unfortunately, Chantilly bats were not as lively tonight losing decisively to Lake Braddock 8-1.

Early Mingo Bay Tournament results:

 

Madison 13 Fleming, KY 0

South County 2 Brockport, NY 4

West Springfield 8 Greenville, TN 5

Mingo Bay results can be found here:

http://www.mingobaybaseball.com/april-14-18-results/ 

 

So far, NOVA teams are combined 10-3

 

 

Madison 7  Saint Francis, illinois 0

South County 6 Proctor, NY 5

Oleon, NY 7 West Springfield 4

Big game tonight in the Mingo Bay classic. Both undefeated Madison plays Battlefield at 7. Winner plays in championship round of tournament

Madison #1 and Battlefield #2 in WaPo Top 10. 

Sweet, gotta love this!

Note: NOVA schools went 15-3 in 'A' bracket pool play at the Mingo Bay Classic. @Robobaseball, @BaseballMadison, Battlefield went 3-0.

— NOVA Baseball Mag (@NVBaseballMag) April 2, 2015

 

Sophomore RHP Toma Shigaki-Than helped @Oakton_Cougars capture the Bulldog/Titan Classic http://t.co/fWJF6uBFvP @NVBaseballMag #allmets

— Nick Eilerson (@FairfaxNick) March 31, 2015

 

Have seen Toma in action several times, when his control is there he can give batters fits.

Madison beats Battlefield by a score of 10-1. Pete Nielson('16) throws a 1 hit complete game on only 83 pitches and strikes out 9. Madison scored 6 in the 4th, 1 in the 5th and 2 in the 6th to break the game wide open. They'll now face Narbonne HS, California in the finals.

Madison @ Oakton next Saturday. That RF porch may see some action.

Nick Eilerson discussed some of the standout baseball teams/players in NoVA. You can watch it below (talk starts around the 13 minute mark). Too bad they had to cut off Nick because they ran out of time.

 

At Mingo Bay, Madison on the losing end vs. Narbonne (CA), 4-2. Narbone, behind late in the game, came back with 3 in the bot 5. Madison gave up only 4 hits.

It looks like the myriad of games over spring break were reflected in some of the reshuffling in the latest NoVA Baseball Magazine's rankings released this week. Below are the latest rankings and how they compared with last week.

1. Madison (no change from last week)
2. Battlefield (no change from last week)
3. Oakton (ranked 8th last week)
4. Lake Braddock (ranked 3rd last week)
5. Stone Bridge (ranked 4th last week)
6. PVI (no change from last week)
7. Centreville (not ranked last week)
8. Chantilly (ranked 5th last week)
9. West Springfield (ranked 7th last week)
10. Patriot (ranked 9th last week)

I believe Fairfax fell from the top ten last week.

Chantilly over Osbourn Park 6-2 tonight.

Current Top 10 Records: (#1- 5) #1 @BaseballMadison 7-1 #2 Battlefield 7-2 #3 @Oakton_Cougars 4-0 #4 @Bruin_Nation 7-1 #5 @SB_Baseball 4-1

— NOVA Baseball Mag (@NVBaseballMag) April 8, 2015

 

Surprised by the close Madison/SL game, and the gap in the LB/WSHS game:

 

 

Yesterday's Top 10: #1 Mad 11, SLakes 9 #2 B-Field 12, Pot 1 #3 LB 7, #9 WS 1 #5 SB 2, Ffx 1 #6 PVI 5, Paramount-CA 1 #10 Pat 11, FPark 4

— NOVA Baseball Mag (@NVBaseballMag) April 8, 2015