Friday,
February 03, 2006
Contact: Chris Kilcoyne
Bridgewater Tops 2006 ODAC Baseball Preseason Poll
SALEM
,
VA
–
Bridgewater
has been selected as the favorite by the league’s head coaches
in the 2006 Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) Baseball
Preseason Poll.
The Eagles earned a total of 93 points and five first-place
votes to take the top spot. Curt
Kendall’s squad went 23-15-1 overall and 15-3 in the ODAC a
season ago.
Ricky Read returns to the BC line up this season after hitting
.322 in 2005. Read also hit seven home runs and drove in 40
runners as a first baseman and designated hitter.
Read was 5-0 on the mound with a 3.22 ERA as well.
Lynchburg
landed in the
second spot in the poll with a total of 83 points and one
first-place vote. LC
went 27-15 overall and posted a 13-5 mark in league play.
2005 First-Team All ODAC outfielder Steven Scott is back in
the mix for Hornet head coach Percy Abell.
Scott hit at a .404 clip a season ago with nine home runs
and an ODAC best 67 RBIs.
Defending ODAC Champion Hampden-Sydney received four
first-place votes and a total of 80 points to take the third slot
in the poll. Behind
2005 ODAC Pitcher of the Year John
Schoenholtz, the Tigers won four consecutive games in the ODAC
Tournament last season to take the school’s first league
championship since 1989. HSC
advanced to the NCAA Tournament where they captured the South
Region title and became the first ODAC team to advance to the NCAA
National Championship round.
Virginia
Wesleyan earned 79 points to garner the fourth spot in the poll.
The Marlins are followed by
Washington
and Lee (59 points),
Guilford
(52 points), Randolph-Macon (42 points),
Roanoke
(26 points), Eastern Mennonite (24 points) and Emory and Henry (12
points).
2006
ODAC Baseball Preseason Poll
Place
Team
Points (First-Place Votes)
1.
Bridgewater
93 (5)
2.
Lynchburg
83 (1)
3.
Hampden-Sydney
80 (4)
4.
Virginia
Wesleyan
79
5.
Washington and Lee
59
6.
Guilford
52
7.
Randolph-Macon
42
8.
Roanoke
26
9.
Eastern Mennonite
24
10.
Emory and Henry
12
