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ODAC Baseball Report: Week 2

ODAC teams got in 32 games last week despite the weather trying to play tricks with some of the scheduling. The league went an eye-opening 26-6 (.813) against non-conference foes with several high-scoring affairs. Bridgewater (7-0), Roanoke (5-0), and Shenandoah (5-0) are a combined 17-0 to open the season with Hampden-Sydney (4-1), Lynchburg (4-1), and Randolph-Macon (2-1) combining for a 10-3 mark. Every ODAC squad has at least two wins with all 11 teams boasting at least a .400 winning percentage.

  • STERLING AUSTIN | HAMPDEN-SYDNEY | SP
    Austin, a senior from Petersburg, Va., helped Hampden-Sydney post a shutout over Muskingum University on the way to earning an 8-0 victory. Austin fanned a career-high 10 batters over 6.2 scoreless innings. He allowed just two hits and walked one batter, retiring the side in order in the third, fifth, and sixth frames. Austin had two punchouts in each of the third, fifth, sixth, and seventh innings.

  • CARL KEENAN | SHENANDOAH | 2B
    Keenan, a junior from Winchester, Va., took a trip around the bases and then some in helping Shenandoah to a 3-0 week with a 13-3 victory over Mary Baldwin and a sweep (9-4, 14-4) over Penn State-Abington. Keenan posted an eye-opening .692/.750/1.462 slash line – that's a 2.212 OPS – and went 9-for-13 with two doubles, a triple, two homers, four RBI and six runs scored. He also walked three times and stole four bases. Against MBU, Keenan went 3-for-4 with a homer on the first pitch of the game as part of a two RBI day with three runs scored plus a steal and a walk. Versus PSU-Abington, Keenan went a combined 6-of-9 with two doubles, a triple, a homer, two RBI, three runs scored, a pair of walks, and three stolen bases. He hit for the cycle in game two starting with another leadoff homer before capping the effort with a double in the eighth inning.

Sterling Austin
Carl Keenan