The Mace & Crown

Rangers take full command of ALCS while Brewers can’t stop Game Two bleeding Written By: Brian Jerry Staff Writer A bases loaded jam in the bottom of the eleventh sent Texas Rangers outfielder Nelson Cruz to the plate with no outs. Just seconds later, Cruz belted a 0-1 breaking ball to the right-field bleachers. The [...]

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Regular season ends, Time for Playoff Baseball! Written By: Greg Arnold Staff Writer Baseball’s grueling 162 game season is coming to an end and those that have played the hardest are staying alive for their shot at playing in the World Series.  Four teams will face off against each other to represent the National League.  [...]

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Playoff Question Marks Rise As the Calendar Heads Toward October Written By: Brian Jerry Staff Writer With nothing set in stone at press time, the American League playoff race is all but solidified. The New York Yankees and Texas Rangers have each clinched their divisions (AL East and West) respectively. More over, starting rotations raise [...]

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Written By: Greg Arnold     Staff Writer With the Major League Baseball season coming to an end, the talk for this year’s Most Valuable Player has an interesting twist.  In the American League, one of the favorites is former Old Dominion student and now ace pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, Justin Verlander.  A starting [...]

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by Jake Ullrich Staff Writer Away games are never easy. They can include long trips, bad food and miserable hotel room sleep. It is easy for a team to lose concentration and sometimes struggle against opponents. It didn’t happen like that for the Monarchs. After going to Harrisonburg and knocking off the favor­ites in the [...]

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Monarch Arms Toss Nine Shutout Innings For Second Straight Win Over Towson

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Monarchs Tame Tigers Behind Fourth Inning Offensive Explosion

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ODU Surrenders 5 Unanswered Runs To Slip Series Finale To Towson

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By: Brian Jerry Staff Writer Don’t look now, but the ODU baseball team (12-14 overall, 5-4) came off a huge series victory over James Madison University, the best team in the Colonial Athletic Association conference. The series took place between Friday, March 25 and Satur­day, May 26, with ODU tak­ing the first one 5-4, strug­gling [...]

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By: Brian Jerry Staff Writer There’s not a whole lot that gets past ODU baseball right-handed redshirt junior shortstop Joshua Wright. So far on the year, the Bridgewater native and Turner Ashby High School product accounts for 62 of the team’s 250 as­sists while committing only 14 errors and recording an .881 fielding percentage in [...]

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