Wahoo in review - Sammy Zeglinski
Tuesday, June 16 2009 by Ben - 0 comments
Almost every week we'll be taking a look at one player on the Virginia basketball roster: how they did, where they were good, and where they were bad. Today's featured player is... Sammy Zeglinski . If it seems like I'm pounding the same drum over and over again, I am: like many of his teammates, Sammy Zeglinski suffered through a maddeningly inconsistent year. A priori , as they say, you would think that a gentleman coming off a freshman year riddled by injury would be slow to start, then pick up steam as the season went along. Not so with Zeglinski, who started the year out with a bang by single...
UVA College World Series Preview
Friday, June 12 2009 by Tiki - 0 comments
On Saturday at 7pm ET, the Hoos will open play against LSU in their first ever College World Series game. LSU comes in as perhaps the top team in the nation, having won 10 games in a row, and on top of the polls. The Hoos are also riding high, having won 9 of 10, and are ranked in the top in most polls. At this point, I am not sure who will be starting for either team. I would guess that freshman Danny Hultzen would start for the Hoos, as he has been our Friday starter for much of the year. LSU’s lineup is heavily weighted towards the left side, which is another reason to go with Hultzen, the lone...
ACC Sports Journal CWS Preview
Thursday, June 11 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
The ACC Sports Journal has their College World Series Preview for Virginia up. Here’s a blurb: What’s Going Well: Since beating Duke 11-7 in the ACC Tournament, Virginia hasn’t scored more than six runs in any game. But the Cavaliers are 6-1 because they have allowed only 13 runs in those games. Virginia coach Brian O’Connor is doing a marvelous job of mixing and matching his pitching. The Cavaliers used seven pitchers last week and all were effective. Long-time starter Andrew Carraway has been a success as a long reliever. The offense keeps getting those crucial two-out hits that define championship...
Hoos Advance to First College World Series
Sunday, June 07 2009 by Tiki - 1 comments
The Wahoos baseball team continued their sizzling postseason, taking the final 2 games of a 3 game series against the Ole Miss Rebels, in Oxford. Despite losing a heart-breaker in 12 innings on on Friday evening, the Hoos battled to a come from behind win on Saturday, and dominated on Sunday to clinch their first CWS berth ever. On Friday, freshman Danny Hultzen started, and provided 5 1/3 solid innings. The Hoos led 3-2 when he left the game. After 2 innings of shutout relief from Tyler Wilson, senior Matt Packer came in for the 8th. In the 9th, the tying run reached on a Keith Werman error. With...
Wahoo in review - John Brandenburg
Friday, June 05 2009 by Ben - 1 comments
Each week we'll be taking a look at one player on the Virginia basketball roster: how they did, where they were good, and where they were bad. Today's featured player is... John Brandenburg . John Brandenburg played all of 26 minutes last season. That's... not much to draw on. The only gentleman that played less was Will Sherill. In fact, 31% of those minutes came in eight-minute stint against Clemson at Littlejohn. But, oh, what an eight-minute stint it was. Brandenburg looked a little lost in the offense, but he did manage to get a pass down low and get fouled and sunk the two free throws. On...
Carraway Leads Hoos to 1st Super Regional
Tuesday, June 02 2009 by Tiki - 0 comments
0.45! That is the ERA of Virginia’s starters over the 3 games in the regional. Following dominating performances by Robert Morey and Danny Hultzen , senior Andrew Carraway matched his teammates’ performances with 7 innings of 4 hit, 1 run ball. The Hoos struggled to score in the early innings, recording two hits each in the first and second innings, but failing to get anybody home. In the 4 th , however, they broke through on an RBI double from regional MVP Franco Valdez . Cal-Irvine would tie it up in the bottom of the 4 th , the only run allowed by a Virginia starter all weekend. Following a...
Hoos Win Again, Reach the Cusp of Super Regional
Sunday, May 31 2009 by Tiki - 1 comments
The Hoos beat top seeded Cal-Irvine last night, 5-0, putting then a win away from reaching their first super regional. Freshman starter Danny Hultzen was phenomenal, going 7 1/3 of shutout innings, before ceding to the bullpen. Hultzen did not allow a baserunner passed second, and the only inning in which he allowed 2 runners on was the second. The Anteaters got 2 hits in the inning, but with 2 on and one out, Hultzen induced a line drive double play to Werman at 2B. Tyler Wilson and Matt Packer finished off the shutout with 1 2/3 innings of shutout ball, although Wilson...
Hoos Upset Strasburg, ESPN
Friday, May 29 2009 by Tiki - 4 comments
The Hoos opening NCAA tourney game was broadcast tonight on ESPNU. Was this because the Hoos are ACC champions, and a top 10 team? No. This was because the Hoos were facing the top college pitcher in the land, and the presumptive #1 pick in this June’s MLB draft, Stephen Strasburg. Just to piss off ESPN, the Hoos decided to send Strasburg into the pros with a loss . Not that Strasburg wasn’t his usual dominating self. He struck out 15 of the 30 batters he faced. But he also gave up a season high 8 hits and 2 runs (equaling his season high). Robert Morey...
An NCAA Weekend
Friday, May 29 2009 by Tim - 0 comments
The school year may be over, with many students starting to find out what the real world is like, but that doesn’t mean the Wahoo athletics season is over. We have several teams currently competing in the NCAAs with competition occurring in four different sports this weekend: Baseball: Virginia is the two seed in the UC-Irvine regional this weekend. See Tiki’s post for a recap of how the Cavaliers got screwed with the seeding. The first game is tonight and the regional could last through Monday depending on how the games go. The regional is being televised on ESPN-U, so those of you who actually...
Rule 2(b) Strikes Again
Friday, May 29 2009 by Tiki - 3 comments
Following a season in which the Hoos finished in the top 10 in the polls, top 10 in the RPI, and won the ACC tournament, they get sent to Irvine, California to play in the "regional of death." Cal-Irvine, which finished the season as the Baseball America #1 team in the nation, gets the 6 th seed in the tournament, and acts as host to this region. Obviously they are happy to be hosting, but they can’t be happy with their seeding or their regional. Irvine will get defending national champions Fresno State in their first matchup. Fresno finished the season barely over .500, at 32-28...