MBB: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[RFB]

With all the changes that are happening in Eagle Rock, I was wondering if they have done anything about the nasty stench that comes with the neighborhood? Eagle Rock is hooded out, don't try to make it look all great. They should rename it Vato Rock.

[OXY Oswald]

Dont' be jealous because you've never heard of a Rite Aid, Jamba or clean air.  Go back to your death hole in the middle of nowhere and quit trying to knock us. 

Maybe make a visit this Wed. and you can tell us of the new improved look of Vato Rock, mind the pot holes apparently we also host the new training ground for city workers! 

[OxyFan21]

RFB,

None of us have ever said that one could mistake Eagle Rock for Malibu, West L.A., Burbank or even Glendale, for that matter.  I don't think anyone at Oxy would want it to be any different.  I wouldn't really clasify Eagle Rock as being "hood" though. 

It's good to know that The Rock still has all my old favorites.

I've never been to the 909, so I can't comment on your neck of the woods. 

Please pick me up a Cranberry Craze, if possible.

[pomonaalum]

I can't believe that someone who went to school the far Inland Empire is actually talking smack about anywhere else in the LA region.

[Liger Hoops]

I've never been to the 909, so I can't comment on your neck of the woods.

OxyFan21-

           You're not missing anything out in the 909 except maybe a first-hand view of a declining Basketball program. And just about everything we flushed out of Eagle Rock.

[pomonaalum]

LaVerne, Pomona & CMC are also in the 909....

[Liger Hoops]

LaVerne, Pomona & CMC are also in the 909....

Add 3 declining FB programs to my last post  . Just kidding. To be honest, I had no idea those schools were in the 909. Although the bus rides out to CMS and P-P are always a bit long, nothing is worse than having to go deep into the armpit of America.

[diehardfan]

lol... we are trashtalking about PHONE AREA CODSE??? 

My area code is 951

[samiam]

Okay, I'm going to speak up for Redlands. I loved the town when I use to visit there. Wonderful downtown, great amphitheater, and a beautiful public library.

Now, San Bernadino and Riverside? Not so much.

I use to work in Pomona, and the memories I have of the town are probably marred by the lousy job. Eagle Rock is okay.

I imagine you can find something nice about any town. Well, except maybe Riverside.

[Liger Hoops]

Some huge games tonight in the SCIAC. P-P vs CMS should have an excellent turn out, it being cross-campus rivalry weekend.  Should CMS fall and Oxy handles Whittier the way they did the first time the teams met, the Tigers would move back into the driver seat in the SCIAC and would control their own destiny with some huge road games at CMS and P-P, not to mention a home game next week against Redlands.

Look for a big game from Betty and Phillips tonight. Betty went for 26 and 6 the first time against the Poets while Phillips went for 13 and 4.  It seems that SCIAC teams may have found a way to keep Betty from putting 20 on them (doubling in the paint, keeping him far from the basket).  He's averaging 16 ppg over the last 5 games after going for 27ppg in the 5 games before that.  With teams seemingly slowing Betty down, Phillips and company have picked up the slack and put up big numbers of their own. Phillips is one of the SCIAC's most aggressive and efficient rebounders and Whitman showed against P-P that he can hit the big shots if too much focus is given to Betty/Phillips in the paint.

[OXY Oswald]

Okay, I'm going to speak up for Redlands. I loved the town when I use to visit there. Wonderful downtown, great amphitheater, and a beautiful public library.

Public library.... that's awesome man, thank god.  Who knows where I would have done my reading.  Sounds like Redlands is the Mecca of the Western United States.

[K.C.]

I'll be heading out to the CMS-PP in about an hour.  Tough to say how this one's gonna go, as usual.  Pomona needs this game more - their season's done if they lose.  Right now though, I think Claremont is the better team.  And considering the way they handled Pomona the first time, with Taylor not even having a very big game, they would seem the favorite.  Parsons was huge last time though; it would be tough for him to duplicate that performance.

Like WCW said on an earlier post, I think Knowles will have a big game -  maybe like Parsons did in the first game for Claremont.  One thing I can't understand, whatever happened to Thomas Hollo? He sems to have fallen off the face of the earth his senior year.  It doesn't seem possible now that he was first team all-SCIAC a year ago.  He did absolutely nothing against Claremont the first game, and he's been Shaq-like in his free-throw shooting.
If he can play like the Hollo of old tonight, I would give the edge to Pomona.

[Stags4Life]

CMS defeated Pomona 58-51(im not sure if that buzzer shot counted) in front of a raucous crowd at Pomona's Gym.  The atmosphere was the best I have seen in a few years.  The game was close the whole game but CMS led the entire game and their great defense and clutch free throw shooting pulled it out in the end.

With CMS up 1 and the ball with just over a min remaining, Pomona got a stop and a rebound.  As they brought the ball up the court, Miles Taylor pokes the ball from behind into Dan Winterbottom's hands who passes to John Parsons for a dunk to give CMS a three point lead with 50 some seconds remaining.  On the ensuing possession, Pomona is not able to get a shot up against the Stag D and the play results in a shot clock violation.  The Stags now have the ball and a 3 point lead with 35 seconds left.  John Parsons converts 3 of 4 and Mani Maceira converts 2 of 2 free throws in the final 35 seconds to secure the win.

Pomona is done. the look on their seniors' faces was STAGgering but they fought hard and gave it all they had.  The Stags are the better team and look like they are on their way to their first SCIAC championship in four years.

Great Game!!!!

--Stags4Life

[Liger Hoops]

HUGE crowd helped the Tigers overcome a 39-33 halftime deficit to come back and win 65-59 in the Rock. The crowd got louder in the second half and Whittier's shooting dropped significantly. Great win at home for the Tigers in front of two basketball HOF inductees. Phillips had another huge game, posting 16 points and grabbing 13 boards (including 5 offensively). Whitman continued to hit from down-town, including 2 in consecutive possessions to put the Tigers up for good in the second half. Both players hit their free throws, going a combined 10-12 (each going 4-6). Betty was relatively cold from the floor but hit his free throws to finish with 8 and 7 bounds.

Many props to Fanning and Farlough from the Poets. They kept their team in the game.



Way to pull one out Tigers, keep this momentum going!!!

[David Collinge]

There was a capacity crowd at Caltech tonight, complete with glee club and pep band (as well as a magnificient doe-eyed brunette beauty sitting almost next to me , but I digress), to see the Beavers make a valiant effort but fall to Redlands by 21, 109-88.  I was surprised to see how well the Techsters' legs and stamina held up under the crazy onslaught that is the Arsenault System.  By the end of the game, I think the Caltech players actually looked fresher, which helped account for their charging back from about 30 down to about half that margin before succumbing.  Caltech actually outscored (and generally outplayed) the Bulldogs in the second half.  Academic All-District star Amir Mazarei, who has a very nice stroke from long range, led all scorers with 34.  Jordan Carlson scored 21 for Caltech, but I think that was more a product of the high score than any great play on his part.  The player of the game for the Beavers was senior point Day Ivy, who was all over the floor tonght.  Caltech was victimized by some sloppy passing in the first half and bricked layups all night, but Redlands also got a hand on a lot of those passes, and picked up nearly every first-half loose ball.  Their 25 point halftime lead was too much to overcome.  But it was a fun game, and the crowd was really into the game; a major change from the other two times I have been to Pasadena.