Hooray!!

They have finally started on the new batting cages! The land has been cleared and leveled. Thursday they come out to remove two HUGE pine trees...I wish they would take every single tree starting right next to the stadium all the way down the left line....maybe something to take a look at...

Here is a breakdown of the new cages:

30 x 80 feet of 4 inch concrete slab covered with 50 oz. woven astro-turf, all under a shingled roof which will be lighted. Inside will feature two side-by-side, 12 foot wide x 60 foot long cages on independent sliding systems that will allow us to also take groundballs, two soft toss stations, an Iron Mike Pitching machine and an indoor mound. The cages will run parallel to the fence where the old cage used to stand.

Old Cage on top, cleared land on the bottom. Those two pine trees on the right are being removed as I write this....

Some Good Baseball

Recap:
Matt Woodruff making his first appearance of the year pitched 4 fantastic innings, allowing one earned run while striking out 4. But in the end Emory had a few key hits to plate 6 runs to OU's 2....The Petrels had their hits but were unable to get the key hit with guys on base..

Lost in the box score:
For the first time all year the Petrels did not make an error....Emory's defense made some very nice plays that saved at least a few runs, all you can do is tip your cap to them....

Coach Recap:

Look, losing is not OK...what we did today was play good, fundamentally sound baseball. It will take that and few big hits for us to get this thing going. Rhodes is up next with a BIG 4 game set this weekend. Rhodes was in the same boat we were a few years ago when they had a bunch of freshmen starting and learning how to play and win together. Now all those guys are juniors and they are mopping up...Hard work will get us to that point....but who says that point can't be now?!?!? Time to strap it up, bring your best because everything is magnified when conference rolls around.....Hope to see everyone there!!


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Lookin Ahead...

I'm not going to recap the past two games, because frankly I don't want to think about them again. We learn from the past and move on to the future....

Big week for your Petrels, 1st we travel across town to face 'The Evil Empire' better known as Emory University. Then we start conference play with Rhodes College coming to town.

Emory is currently ranked 19th in the country, and is a very good team. They always are...doesn't matter though....no matter how good they are we always seem to play some of our best games against them. It will be no different on Tuesday.

We are so close to getting over this hump and run off a string of victories....Emory is just the team to get it going in the right direction.

Go Petrels!

Booted Away...

Recap:
In a good ole fashioned college baseball slugfest the Petrels dropped their...gulp...seventh in a row , 14-10 to visiting LaGrange College. John Hale and Nick Greenfield battled through 9 errors to keep the team in the game but in the the end LaGrange was able to capitalize on the miscues. Rizzo and Baker each had three hits and three RBI's, Llano continued his hot stroke with two hits and Stephen Archer chipped in two hits and an RBI.

Lost in the box score:
Nine errors tells the story....Hale was effective getting 12 ground ball outs, and only allowing 3 earned runs, all to one guy who hit two HR's. Petrel pitchers only allowed one walk, an intentional one at that...Greenfield struck out five in 2 1/3 innings..

Coach's Recap:
Good: We smacked the ball around against some very good pitchers. Bad: We did give up 16 hits. Ugly: 9 Times!! We absolutely run away from LaGrange if we catch the baseball. Bottom Line.

Up Next: Huntingdon College Friday at 7pm est. and Saturday at 2pm est ---