Boston College Baseball Starts Season 3-0, Wins Caravelle Resort Tournament
by Brian Favat on Feb 20, 2012 8:00 AM EST
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PrintThe Boston College baseball team must have read that a few BC Interruption readers were considering replacing varsity baseball with men's lacrosse. Picked by the coaches to finish last in the ACC this season, Bird Ball is off to a surprising 3-0 start, including wins over No. 17 Virginia (5-3), James Madison 8-5 and host Coastal Carolina 8-3 to win the Caravelle Resort Tournament.
In both Saturday's games against JMU and Coastal Carolina, the Eagles jumped out to 8-0 leads by the end of the fourth and never looked back. BC's three wins in this year's Caravelle Resort Tournament were all against teams that made last year's NCAA Tournament field.
The Eagles start the season 3-0 for the first time since 2009. That year, BC went 6-0 before recording their first loss of the season.
BC's center fielder Tom Bourdon went 8-for-14 (.571) on the weekend and shortstop Anthony Melchionda was 6-for-14 (.429) with six RBIs. Senior 1B Spenser Payne tallied four RBIs on the weekend as well. The Eagles were highly efficient, scoring 21 runs on 30 hits. All but one of those runs came after the fourth inning.
The Eagles got weekend victories from Eric Stevens, Matt Alvarez and Hunter Gordon. Here are the pitching lines from BC's three victories:
-- Eric Stevens (1-0) - 6.0 IP, 7 hits, 3 runs, 3 earned, 1 strikeout, 1 walk, 23 at bat, 28 batters faced
-- Matt Alvarez (1-0) - 5.2 IP, 1 hit, 3 runs, 1 earned, 2 strikeouts, 6 walks, 16 at bat, 23 batters faced
-- Hunter Gordon (1-0) - 5.0 IP, 3 hits, 0 runs, 0 earned, 6 strikeouts, 1 walk, 19 at bat, 20 batters faced
Next up, the Eagles travel to Orlando on Friday, February 24 for a three-game series with UCF. Hopefully BC's trip to Orlando goes better than the school's last trip to the Magic Kingdom.
Go Eagles!
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Pitching Is the Key
An absolutely terrific start – especially beating Virginia. Our achilles has always been with our pitching. We have always been able to hit. You just can’t expect your hitting to save you when you give up eight to ten runs due to awful pitching. We have two very special players in Bourdan and Melchionoda. They will accomplish great things if the pitching staff backs them up. UCF will be a good test.
Nope. Non-conference win since it was part of the Coastal Carolina tournament.
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BC actually skips Virginia this year and next year. 3 game series x 10 programs = 30 conference games means each ACC program misses playing one other team for two consecutive seasons (to cater for the home-and-home).
- In 2006 and 2007, we missed Miami.
- In 2008 and 2009, we missed Virginia Tech (though we did play one non-conference game against the Hokies since we were in Charlottesville in one of those years).
- In 2010 and 2011, we missed North Carolina.
- In 2012 and 2013, we’ll miss Virginia.
If the schedule holds, which it probably won’t when Pitt joins the ACC and blows it all up, BC will miss either Duke or Georgia Tech in 2014-15, and the other in 2015-16.
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by Harrow on Feb 20, 2012 10:39 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Huge weekend.
UCF will be a great test. A another 3-0 team, who is ranked in all the polls but who hasn’t faced the quality of teams we have.
The pitching was impressive, especially Eric Stevens who did that against one of the best pitchers in the conference and a bonafied MLB prospect in Braden Kline (6th round pick in 09)
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