Bottom of 2nd, UVA up 4-2 and still batting
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UVA sends another California team home! Final 7-5.
Werman = Amazing story
Nice article up on BaseballAmerica.com's college page on the UVA win. Werman made the page photo!
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Not bad when you're ESPN's player of the game, and you only got half as many hits as the last game. 6-for-9 in Omaha. What pressure?
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Not bad when you're ESPN's player of the game, and you only got half as many hits as the last game. 6-for-9 in Omaha. What pressure?
Virginia tried to lose it in the 9th! Thank goodness they finally regrouped. Whew. Huge win.
Nice article in the Washington Post today on the Cavaliers and they also mention Werman -- an American Legion alum I would like to add....
Nice article in the Washington Post today on the Cavaliers and they also mention Werman -- an American Legion alum I would like to add....
Werman and Hultzen. Two former all-mets doing quite well for UVA.
Werman's quite a story. He was a catcher, believe it or not, for Oakton HS in the Northern Region. A real team leader, great kid, tough out -- he was a contact hitter in HS too, and those "bloop" hits he's showing the nation we saw for 4 years in the Concorde District and NR...Great to see a local boy doing so well on the big stage as a frosh...
Go 'Hoos!
Go 'Hoos!
Werman is the classic "baseball rat", which I mean in the best sense of the term, like you would call a young basketball player a "gym rat". Werman will do anything you need to help you win.
2B has always been his natural position, but Oakton needed a C, so he went there and was I think All Northern Region and even All State if I'm not mistaken. He has kind of a Flutie-type arm so his size was not an issue at all.
I think UVA liked him as a versatile bench guy, but when he got there they found out they had more than they realized. Kudos to them for giving him a chance and then rewarding his performance. It probably didn't hurt that O'Connor enjoyed having the older brother already at UVA when he got there 6 years ago. Kyle was also a gritty starting 2B back when the starting infield included 3 future MLB players, Koshansky, Reynolds and Zimmerman.
2B has always been his natural position, but Oakton needed a C, so he went there and was I think All Northern Region and even All State if I'm not mistaken. He has kind of a Flutie-type arm so his size was not an issue at all.
I think UVA liked him as a versatile bench guy, but when he got there they found out they had more than they realized. Kudos to them for giving him a chance and then rewarding his performance. It probably didn't hurt that O'Connor enjoyed having the older brother already at UVA when he got there 6 years ago. Kyle was also a gritty starting 2B back when the starting infield included 3 future MLB players, Koshansky, Reynolds and Zimmerman.