BB: West Region Independents

[Dawgsdad]

Anyone have an opinion on how CSU East Bay looks this year? Trying to gage the match up between them and TLU this weekend...

[BigPoppa]

A view of Point Loam's amazing facility in San Diego. After years of coaching there, I can truly say it is an amazing place. The porches are very short in the corners, but it is balnced by the strong winds blowing off the Pacici Ocean. You have to be a man to hit it out most days. If the wind shifts,  games quickly turn into 27-25 slugfests.

Check this out: http://www.pointloma.edu/Athletics/Baseball/America_s_Most_Scenic_Ballpark.htm

[dgilblair]

A view of Point Loam's amazing facility in San Diego. After years of coaching there, I can truly say it is an amazing place. The porches are very short in the corners, but it is balnced by the strong winds blowing off the Pacici Ocean. You have to be a man to hit it out most days. If the wind shifts,  games quickly turn into 27-25 slugfests.

Check this out: http://www.pointloma.edu/Athletics/Baseball/America_s_Most_Scenic_Ballpark.htm

You coached there?  Tell me you had to retire because it was costing you money to still be working.  That looks like heaven.  Holowaty told me years ago he never had to work a day in his life being a coach.  With the facility ECSU has I could see his point.  But your place is just...wow.

[ecfaninri]

Interesting game today ... LaVerne beating Chapman. It will be interesting to see how Chapman rebounds with an off day tomorrow and then playing LaVerne again on Saturday. That's three losses early but they have a history of coming out of the gate strong. I guess pre-season rankings sometimes don't mean a thing. But I wouldn't rule them out of anything just quite yet.

[ECSUalum]

Score by Innings                    R  H  E
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Chapman University.. 200 110 200 -  6 10  2
Univ. of La Verne... 004 010 02X -  7  8  1
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E - Semel; Evers; S. Munoz. DP - La Verne 2. LOB - Chapman 6; La Verne 2. 2B - Hadzinsky; Robbins; M. Belcher; M. Moretti. 3B - M. Surina. HR - Pearson; Semel 2. SH - Prechtl; M. Belcher. SB - Semel. 


Chapman University   ip  h  r  er  bb  so  wp  bk  hbp  ibb  ab  bf  fo  go 
Wayde Kitchens L,1-1  8.0  8  7  6  3  11  0  0  0  0  29  33  5  6 
   
Univ. of La Verne   ip  h  r  er  bb  so  wp  bk  hbp  ibb  ab  bf  fo  go 
Jesse Sweet   6.1  9  6  6  1  2  0  0  0  0  27  29  3  13 

Grant Wheatley W,1-0  2.2  1  0  0  2  2  0  0  0  0  8  10  3  2 



Win - G. Wheatley (1-0). Loss - Kitchens (1-1). Save - None. 

[BigPoppa]

A view of Point Loam's amazing facility in San Diego. After years of coaching there, I can truly say it is an amazing place. The porches are very short in the corners, but it is balnced by the strong winds blowing off the Pacici Ocean. You have to be a man to hit it out most days. If the wind shifts,  games quickly turn into 27-25 slugfests.

Check this out: http://www.pointloma.edu/Athletics/Baseball/America_s_Most_Scenic_Ballpark.htm

You coached there?  Tell me you had to retire because it was costing you money to still be working.  That looks like heaven.  Holowaty told me years ago he never had to work a day in his life being a coach.  With the facility ECSU has I could see his point.  But your place is just...wow.

DG- After reading my original post, maybe I was not too clear. I coached in the GSAC conference, not at Point Loma. We played there 2-3 times every season and it was always a special day to be able to hear the waves crashing from your dugout. I can truly say that I never felt like I really had a job while a full-time college baseball coach. I eventually walked away due to many factors (hard to own a home in SoCal on a coaches salary, not fair to my wife and family when I was gone 60-70 hours a week reruiting and scouting).

[Browneagle64]

Interesting game today ... LaVerne beating Chapman. It will be interesting to see how Chapman rebounds with an off day tomorrow and then playing LaVerne again on Saturday. That's three losses early but they have a history of coming out of the gate strong. I guess pre-season rankings sometimes don't mean a thing. But I wouldn't rule them out of anything just quite yet.

Absolutely ECF... In my opinion, Coach T will get his Ex-SCIAC champs ready for some So.Cal baseball and will indeed help his program bounce back quick. However, Hats off to the Leo's on such big win. As I had previously posted over on the SCIAC board, this game was indeed a must win for the Leo's. Why??? Well because 1) if they want to win the SCIAC they must show other teams that they mean business and 2) with rumors floating around that Sweet would be leaving the team (prior to the battle of the cats game), all sweet had to do was show his teammates that he indeed could work his tail off and those spark that much needed energy that the Leo's needed.  Since the Leo's had lost Mehl, Marcus, and Rose, the boys just needed someone to light that fire with his play and in return that had a strong preformance by their ACE yesterday. Should be fun for the Leo's after this big win. Of course, now we just need the panthers on board.

[Jim Dixon]

Chapman Radio will kick off its coverage of Chapman University spring athletics with a baseball-lacrosse doubleheader on Saturday. Live play-by-play will begin at 11:30 a.m. when the Chapman University baseball team will host Menlo College at Hart Park. Chapman students Jeff Black and Travis Cross will call all of the action live and streaming online.

[nvnorthpaw]

Does anyone have an update on the Chapman-Hendrix game?  I'm really surprised that Chapman doesn't have full radio/online broadcasting.

[baseballcrazy]

Does anyone have an update on the Chapman-Hendrix game?  I'm really surprised that Chapman doesn't have full radio/online broadcasting.

It is 9-3, Chapman in the 5th inning

[baseballcrazy]

It is now 10-5, Chapman in the 8th inning wth Ben Levitt pitching for the Panthers

[baseballcrazy]

Final Score
Chapman 10
Hendrix 8

[Jack Parkman]

Wow, when was the last time you saw Chapman with a 5.01 ERA?

[dp643]

ERA's are up across the board this year I believe. The ASC team ERA's have spiked tremendously. I dont know if it is because the quality of arms has dropped, the hitting has gotten that much better, or a combination of the two. I think its a combination.

[DIIIBASEBALLFAN]

Global Warming, Drought conditions may be the reasons. Thin air at low elevations now. Bring in the Rockies HUMIDORS for the baseballs. ERA will then return to normal levels.

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/baseball/nl/rockies/2007-10-09-humidor2-coors_N.htm