BB: SCAC: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

[Ron Boerger]

Rose-Hulman in particular being selected for the playoffs in a number of sports boggles.  They were always the plucky little underdogs in the SCAC.   DPU and BSC were always quality baseball programs.

[Ralph Turner]

It is interesting to note the number of schools participating in the 2014 regionals that made up the SCAC not too long ago. You don't have to go back to far to see all of these as part of the SCAC.

Rose-Hulman      to the Heartland CAC
DePauw              to the North Coast AC
Rhodes                          to the Southern Athletic Association
Birmingham-Southern   to the Southern Athletic Association
Trinity                            remained in the SCAC

[Texas Leaguer]

It is interesting to note the number of schools participating in the 2014 regionals that made up the SCAC not too long ago. You don't have to go back to far to see all of these as part of the SCAC.

Rose-Hulman      to the Heartland CAC
DePauw              to the North Coast AC
Rhodes                          to the Southern Athletic Association
Birmingham-Southern   to the Southern Athletic Association
Trinity                            remained in the SCAC

And never once did anyone mention it as a power conference that received multiple bids. I can only remember trinity and southwestern once and trinity and milsaps once getting bids in the same year in the 2000's.

[Ralph Turner]

Respectfully, I never considered the SCAC a Power Conference. An upper echelon conference like the ASC, yes, but Power no.  DPU and RHIT were in good position to have success in their new homes.

I don't think that the SCAC has had more than one or two teams get to the World Series in the 21st century.  They SCAC probably has at least 7 of its 8 members in the Top 150.  There is breadth and balance.

[CAK72B]

And let's not forget Millsaps who was a World Series participant last year

[Ralph Turner]

And let's not forget Millsaps who was a World Series participant last year

+1!  Thanks. 

[108 Stitches]

Congratulations to Trinity on another outstanding season. It did not end like they would have preferred, but not many programs have had it's success with 5 straight Regional appearances. Best of luck to the graduating seniors, you have been part of special program. The team returns a strong core group of position players and pitchers to make another run at Appleton next year.

[108 Stitches]

Looks like Ben Klimesh is having a nice start to the season as a long reliever in high A ball.

ERA: 1.17 with a 0.182 BA

[Spence]

It is interesting to note the number of schools participating in the 2014 regionals that made up the SCAC not too long ago. You don't have to go back to far to see all of these as part of the SCAC.

Rose-Hulman      to the Heartland CAC
DePauw              to the North Coast AC
Rhodes                          to the Southern Athletic Association
Birmingham-Southern   to the Southern Athletic Association
Trinity                            remained in the SCAC

And never once did anyone mention it as a power conference that received multiple bids. I can only remember trinity and southwestern once and trinity and milsaps once getting bids in the same year in the 2000's.

Because there was never anything like this when they were actually in the SCAC.

Maybe more than anything it shows those schools made the right move going to new leagues. The SCAC was a geographic mess.

[Ralph Turner]

It is interesting to note the number of schools participating in the 2014 regionals that made up the SCAC not too long ago. You don't have to go back to far to see all of these as part of the SCAC.

Rose-Hulman
DePauw
Rhodes
Birmingham-Southern
Trinity

I must give attribution to ILVBB for his noticing this fact first. I did not recognize that I did not copy the post "correctly" the first time.  +1!

[Jim Dixon]

It is interesting to note the number of schools participating in the 2014 regionals that made up the SCAC not too long ago. You don't have to go back to far to see all of these as part of the SCAC.

Rose-Hulman
DePauw
Rhodes
Birmingham-Southern
Trinity

If these schools were in the same conference, I doubt that the number of teams making it this year would be the same.  One can think that Rhodes, BSC, and Trinity would have made the regionals and with Rose-Hulman or Depauw winning, would have made this a 4 team playoff conference. 

Either way - an accomplishment for sure.

[Ron Boerger]

Not sure where he will start, but according to this Trinity release, Kyle Bogese has signed a free-agent contract with the Philadelphia Phillies organization.

http://trinitytigers.com/sports/bsb/2013-14/releases/140623_Bogese_Phillies

This has not yet been confirmed on the Phuture Phillies log (http://phuturephillies.com/transaction-log/).

[Ralph Turner]

A shout-out to former TLU player Daren Willman who has created some interesting baseball websites.

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/sports/astros/article/Techie-s-website-hits-cool-factor-out-of-the-5587377.php

[Ron Boerger]

And still no mention of Bogese on the Phuture Phillies transaction log 

[108 Stitches]

He was in the MLB transaction data base.

http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/transactions/#month=6&year=2014&team_id=143

He has been assigned to their Rookie SS team in the GCL.

http://www.milb.com/milb/stats/stats.jsp?t=t_ros&cid=469