BB: SCAC: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Ralph Turner]

Well, now comes a very long wait.
Trinity is run ruled by Millsaps.
Their regular season is over. Great record at 34-10.
This gets to be a lot of anxious days and nothing can be done but watch, wait, and hope.
There cannot be tougher things in college baseball than lose the game with BSC and be back 1/2 hour later in a must win situation.
Millsaps is a very tough team, mentally. TU is the same. Both coaches teach that from last September.
TU has to hope 44 games showed they earned a place in Oregon.
From all we have seen, it sure does not seem there are 6 better teams in the West Region this year.
Still, this is a very anxious few weeks.
My personal view is TU will be better in a Regional because they have longer to adjust to the terrible loss of Lucero.
Hopefully, they get that chance.  I think they earned it.

The good thing is that it looks like Whitworth, instead of Pacific, will be the Pool A bid in the NWC.
CTX did TU a favor by failing to sweep LaCollege. The extra in-region loss might hurt too much.
UTD blew its chances

[frank_ezelle]

I won't be surprised if Wes Perkins starts a game for Millsaps today.  He closed for 2 innings against Belhaven College late in the season to preserve a victory and he won a SCAC pitcher of the week award his freshman year.  Millsaps used position players Doucet and Shumaker to start games 2 and 3 and they only had 4 starts between them coming into the tournament. 

[donotknowscac]

Wow BSC!
 
I heard Rhodes' Coach Cleanthes say in his final interview they have a good nucleus of young hitters coming back next year.

If you want to see a good nucleus of young ballplayers look at BSC's crew. 

Good luck with that new SAA thing.

Looks like everyone will be looking up at BSC for a long while.

Congrats to them in the World Series.

Good program, good facilities.

[Ralph Turner]

Well, now comes a very long wait.
Trinity is run ruled by Millsaps.
Their regular season is over. Great record at 34-10.
This gets to be a lot of anxious days and nothing can be done but watch, wait, and hope.
There cannot be tougher things in college baseball than lose the game with BSC and be back 1/2 hour later in a must win situation.
Millsaps is a very tough team, mentally. TU is the same. Both coaches teach that from last September.
TU has to hope 44 games showed they earned a place in Oregon.
From all we have seen, it sure does not seem there are 6 better teams in the West Region this year.
Still, this is a very anxious few weeks.
My personal view is TU will be better in a Regional because they have longer to adjust to the terrible loss of Lucero.
Hopefully, they get that chance.  I think they earned it.

I am working on a tag line for the 2012 season.

My first thought is similar to

"Spahn and Sain
and pray for rain."

from the 1948 Boston Braves.

Let's hope Trinity can find someone to go with Klimesh.

[108 Stitches]

I was encouraged with the Trinity pitching overall. Their issues IMO are more about untimely errors and the 3-4-5 hitters getting back on track. The top and bottom half looked better than most of the teams I saw, but their big bats were struggling. In the BSC game, BSC's 5 of the 8 hits came from two batters and TU should have been all over their starter, but could not string enough hits together and they left way too many base runners on base. Take away the shaky first inning and TU easily beats BSC, even with poor hitting.

TU issues are not about pitching. Trust me many DIII teams would love to have some of those arms. The freshmen who lost the Millsaps game was pitching just fine, it was errors that knocked him out. In the first inning TU had runners on 1st and 3rd with no outs and did not score, if he gets some early run support and it could have been a completely different game. Take away the errors and he gives up 1 ER.

[OshDude]

Well, now comes a very long wait.
Trinity is run ruled by Millsaps.
Their regular season is over. Great record at 34-10.
This gets to be a lot of anxious days and nothing can be done but watch, wait, and hope.
There cannot be tougher things in college baseball than lose the game with BSC and be back 1/2 hour later in a must win situation.
Millsaps is a very tough team, mentally. TU is the same. Both coaches teach that from last September.
TU has to hope 44 games showed they earned a place in Oregon.
From all we have seen, it sure does not seem there are 6 better teams in the West Region this year.
Still, this is a very anxious few weeks.
My personal view is TU will be better in a Regional because they have longer to adjust to the terrible loss of Lucero.
Hopefully, they get that chance.  I think they earned it.

I am working on a tag line for the 2012 season.

My first thought is similar to

"Spahn and Sain
and pray for rain."

from the 1948 Boston Braves.

Let's hope Trinity can find someone to go with Klimesh.

I used a version of that tagline for Trinity in a column this year.

[Ralph Turner]

Well, now comes a very long wait.
Trinity is run ruled by Millsaps.
Their regular season is over. Great record at 34-10.
This gets to be a lot of anxious days and nothing can be done but watch, wait, and hope.
There cannot be tougher things in college baseball than lose the game with BSC and be back 1/2 hour later in a must win situation.
Millsaps is a very tough team, mentally. TU is the same. Both coaches teach that from last September.
TU has to hope 44 games showed they earned a place in Oregon.
From all we have seen, it sure does not seem there are 6 better teams in the West Region this year.
Still, this is a very anxious few weeks.
My personal view is TU will be better in a Regional because they have longer to adjust to the terrible loss of Lucero.
Hopefully, they get that chance.  I think they earned it.

The good thing is that it looks like Whitworth, instead of Pacific, will be the Pool A bid in the NWC.
CTX did TU a favor by failing to sweep LaCollege. The extra in-region loss might hurt too much.
UTD blew its chances.

And Pacific swept PacLU on Sunday, so TU may be the highest regionally ranked non-Pool A when the rankings come out on May 11th, when all of the West Region dust has settled.

[CrashDavisD3]

I see it as follows not seeded order below

Pool C SCAC - Trinity TX
Pool A SCIAC - La Verne
Pool A ASC - TBD
Pool A NWC - Whitworth
Pool C ASC - TBD
Pool C TBD - TBD(Not from West Region)

[BigPoppa]

I see it as follows not seeded order below

Pool C SCAC - Trinity TX
Pool A SCIAC - La Verne
Pool A ASC - TBD
Pool A NWC - Whitworth
Pool C ASC - TBD
Pool C TBD - TBD(Not from West Region)

Hard to disagree with that. WHO flies into the west is the big question right now. I still see it as a Midwest or Central team. Moving the Central to Tennessee means that many of the usual suspects in the Central will have to be flown to the Central or be shipped into the Midwest, which is oddly closer than the "HOME" regional. Either the Central moves one of its qualifiers (CCIW, IIAC, MWC) to the West or the Medwest will be overloaded with teams for its regional... which necessitates a moving of one of the Midwest teams west to Oregon. Who that may be is still being debated. Could Stevens Point grab a Pool C and fly west? How about North Park if they earn the CCIW's Pool A (as they seem to be nowhere in the regional rankings as of now). In 2003, St. Norbert was sent west to Orange, CA so the history is there for it to happen.I watched every game in person in that regional and blown away by George Fox's run that year. "Ride the arm of Scott Hyde to a title."

[108 Stitches]

I wonder if PacLu wins out this weekend do they significantly increase their chances to be included in the Regional?

With the discussions about how the committee looks are regional play do they do enough to be included vs flying someone from out of the region in?

[El Hombre]

I wonder if PacLu wins out this weekend do they significantly increase their chances to be included in the Regional?

With the discussions about how the committee looks are regional play do they do enough to be included vs flying someone from out of the region in?

Stitches -
My prediction is that they would not.  They already lost yesterday and as a result, their RPI rating dropped them below Pacific in the West Region (and only .001 ahead of Texas-Tyler).  Even if they win today, they would not climb higher than Pacific.  And in the head-to-head matchup, I believe that Pacific beat Pac Lu 2 out of 3 this season.  Therefore, I think Pacific would have a better claim to that spot than Pac Lu. 

[historymajor]

What are the chances that BSC and TU will both get through?  As the pitching staffs of all remaining get depleted it may be a depth issue.

[STLBASEBALL]

What are the chances that BSC and TU will both get through?  As the pitching staffs of all remaining get depleted it may be a depth issue.

Probably not as good as they were 2 hours ago.

[Ralph Turner]

Scoring question...

Is the Trinity run in the top of the 9th a Pop Foul to first base and a stolen base?

Can you get a SAC fly on a foul out?

(I have forgotten.)

[Jack Parkman]

Scoring question...

Is the Trinity run in the top of the 9th a Pop Foul to first base and a stolen base?

Can you get a SAC fly on a foul out?

(I have forgotten.)

Still a sac fly.