D3baseball.com Daily Dose

By Dave Kisor with contributions by Jim Dixon

Not a lot is settled in the first three weeks of the season but getting to a good start helps when you are adding up those in-region wins to see is a Pool C bid is in the works. Four pitchers have gotten their teams to a good start and are looking as if they are already in mid-season form.

Senior Trey Watt of Pacific Lutheran is 2 – 0 with a 2.77 ERA. He currently leads the Lutes with 13 innings pitched, having struck out 16 batters. Watt had six K’s in his first start versus St. Martin’s and followed that up with 10 against Cal Lutheran. With a best ever 7 – 0 start, Pacific’s team ERA is 2.97. Watt appears to be on the same pace as last season when he went 6 – 2 and had 86 strikeouts.

Six-foot-three, 190 lb junior David Colvin (2-1) of Pomona-Pitzer has logged 18 innings in his first three starts and has recorded 25 strikeouts with an ERA of 1.0, allowing two earned runs. In his win against Cal Tech, he gave up just two hits, which was the same number of hits he gave up in six innings versus Westmont. Colvin has started right where he left off last season when he was 8 – 0 with a 3.17 ERA.

Right-hander Tyler Seaman of Mississippi College opened the season against Huntingdon College with six strong innings as he allowed just four hits and two earned runs while striking out six as MC won, 5-2. In his second start, the 6’4” senior recorded five strikeouts in 5.1 innings. His ERA currently stands at 3.18 and the opposition batting average is 0.250. MC is off to a off to a 5 – 1 start.

Last but not least, Texas Lutheran’s Brad Orosey is showing why he was a D3baseball.com preseason All-American. Three games into the season and he has the season’s first no-hitter (179th overall since 1974 in D-III). For his no-hitter against Southwestern, Orosey was named the ASC West Division Pitcher of the Week. With his victory this weekend, Orosey is 3-0 with an ERA of 1.71 and 23 strikeouts.