WVSPORTS.COM WVU readies for Fordham in Morgantown Regional

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These college conference tournaments and NCAA championships require that you have enough decent starters. I see WVU is going with their 'midweek' starter against Fordham, which makes sense, but you damn sure cannot afford to lose that opening game, and be forced to win the next three to advance. Teams with multiple top pitchers tend to do well in these quick turn game tournaments.
 
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Snyder is their #2.
Not a Midweek starter. Their Saturday starter

#1 seed is at an advantage as they can hold off their Friday starter until the second game.
But you won't throw your Midweek starter unless he is hot and most of the times he becomes an arm out of the pen during the Tournament.
 

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These college conference tournaments and NCAA championships require that you have enough decent starters. I see WVU is going with their 'midweek' starter against Fordham, which makes sense, but you damn sure cannot afford to lose that opening game, and be forced to win the next three to advance. Teams with multiple top pitchers tend to do well in these quick turn game tournaments.

Duke says their pitchers are superior to A&M pitchers. 8-1 Duke top of the 9th.

A&M bottom 9th 1 out bases loaded and 1 run scored. / Duke 8 A&M 2

Team ERA
Fordham is ranked #4
WVU is ranked #23

Fordham #1 Guy is ranked 2nd in ERA John Stankiewicz 1.21
WVU #1 Guy is ranked 17th in ERA Alek Manoah 1.85

Nick Snyder 2.17 ERA ranked 86th
 
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Someone forgot to tell aggy about Duke.
They were too busy telling people how they deserved the regional and WV is from the BDF so they won't be a match.
 

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Snyder is their #2.
Not a Midweek starter. Their Saturday starter

#1 seed is at an advantage as they can hold off their Friday starter until the second game.
But you won't throw your Midweek starter unless he is hot and most of the times he becomes an arm out of the pen during the Tournament.
I wouldn't know either way. I was simply going off what Vernon's linked article stated, that he was their weekday starter.
 
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I wouldn't know either way. I was simply going off what Vernon's linked article stated, that he was their weekday starter.

Didn't see it.
You throw your Saturday starter to open the NCAA Tournament if you are a #1 seed.

Fordham has history. They actually have more wins than any program even more than Texas. But those wins aren't against big time competition. Atlantic 10 is a bottom tier baseball conference.
 

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Strowd doesn't allow a hit in his 4 innings of pitching. But had 3 walks and a hit batter. 1 unearned run on an error.