Feb. 16, 2006
NORFOLK, VA-- The ODU Baseball Monarchs (5-0) return home to hostthe U.S. Naval Academy (4-0-1) in a three-game series beginning Fridayat 3 p.m. in the Bud Metheny Baseball Complex. The Monarchs knocked offVirginia, 5-1 Wednesday afternoon.
ODU is scheduled to throw Bryan Hansen (1-0/1.29)on Friday and Jason Godin( 1-0/ 3.18) on Saturday. Navy is scheduled to throw Mark McCoy (1-0/3.38) on Friday and Mitch Harris (2-0/ 1.86) on Saturday.
Through five games Justin Gregula leads the Monarchs with a .462 battingaverage, while Jimmy Miles is second at .458 and Dana Arrowood isat .444.
Mike Zahm leds the team with eight runs batted in. As a team, ODU ishitting .366.
Navy is led Renaldo Hollins with a .421 atting average. He also hasseven stolen bases. Jonathan Johnson is at .400 with six steals andis tied with Jared Munde with six runs batted in.
ODU pitching has a 1.67 earned run average through the first fivegames with Hansen leading the starters at 1.29 and Gunter second at 1.80.
ODU and Navy have met six times, the last time was in 2004. The Monarchslead the series, 5 games-to-one.