BB: SCIAC: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[cat_fan_08]

The Northwest Conference cut down their non conference schedule a few years ago and added a fourth game to each conference series. This was done to get some of the teams in eastern washington more games since they did not have enough teams locally to get non conference.

After a couple years of testing this out they have gone back to the 3 game conference schedule and increased their non conference schedule.

Linfield goes to Arizona to open the season against some SCIAC teams. The go and play Lewis-Clark State which will be a great early season test. Then they finish the season at Chapman. What a non Conference Schedule!

[InsideandTight]

SCIAC Forecast for 2010 Season:

1. Cal Lu
2. Redlands
3. CMS
4. LaVerne
5. Pomona Pitzer
6. Oxy
7. Whittier
8. Cal Tech

The combination of more confernce games and the disproportionate loss of seniors on some teams should shake things up this year.

[BigPoppa]

SCIAC Forecast for 2010 Season:

The combination of more confernce games and the disproportionate loss of seniors on some teams should shake things up this year.

I like the predictions. Can you expand on why you placed teams in those slots and which teams were most hurt by heavy graduation losses?

[CrashDavisD3]

Weather for SoCal Teams practices/intrasquad games this week

Los Angeles, CA Forecast @ Jan 10 08:15 p.m. PT

Mon Jan 11  Partly Cloudy 78°/56° 
Tue Jan 12  Mostly Cloudy 74°/54° 
Wed Jan 13  Mostly Cloudy 71°/50° 
Thu Jan 14  Sunny 75°/53° 
Fri Jan 15  Cloudy 75°/51° 
Sat Jan 16  Partly Cloudy 72°/50° 
Sun Jan 17  Mostly Cloudy 69°/51° 
Mon Jan 18  Showers 68°/53° 
Tue Jan 19  Showers 70°/52°   

[pomonaalum]

Pomona lost a lot to graduation...

Hedman (.489/24/87), Mandelblatt (.407/4/31), Silva (.372/9/32)and Huerta (.369/5/48) in the lineup, and Church, who started 11 games (and Madelblatt who started 9) on the mound.

Notable returners include James Kang (.404/4/37) and also the closer, along with David Colvin, their best pitcher (8-0, 3.17)  Really impressed with Colvin last year.  Some other pop in the lineup returning, including Nick Frederick, but will probably be impossible to replicate the kind of run production of last year's team.  Pitching staff has a chance to be pretty decent, though.

[CrashDavisD3]

Baseball Season Start Today !!!

Cal Tech plays La Sierra
http://www.gocaltech.com/sports/bsb/2009-10/schedule

SCIAC 2010 Schedule
http://www.thesciac.org/sports/bsb/2009-10/schedule

[CrashDavisD3]

SCIAC SCOREBOARD

Last week scores
Caltech  8  La Sierra  12 
La Sierra  2  Redlands  7 
Pomona-Pitzer  4  Westmont  11 
UC Santa Cruz (club)  15  Caltech  2 - 7 innings   
Pomona-Pitzer  2  Westmont  3     
UC Santa Cruz (club)  8  Caltech  8  8 innings Called Due to Darkness 

[BigPoppa]

Thanks, Crash- seeing Pomona-Pitzer drop a pair to lowly NAIA Westmont makes me think I was a bit too high on the Sagehens. Westmont traditionally finishes at or near the bottom of the NAIA Golden State Athletic Conference.

[CrashDavisD3]

RAIN COMING BACK IN SOCAL.

Forecasted rain this week and weekend could impact games this week in the LA area....for SCIAC and other D3/NAIA area teams

[C.M.Stag]

From D3 Baseball Main site:

Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) : With a 19-2 conference record and an All-Everything first basemen, one would think Pomona-Pitzer would be the runaway SCIAC winner in 2009. Not quite so. Pitzer finished only two games ahead of Cal Lutheran thanks to a late-season series win that cemented the Sagehens' second SCIAC championship in three years. Heading into 2010, Pitzer loses 4 of their top 5 hitters and will look to James Kang (.404, 4 HR, 37 RBI) and Nick Frederick (.348, 11 HR, 44 RBI) to fill the void. David Colvin (8-0, 3.17 ERA) will lead a staff that sees only 23 starts (12 by Colvin) return from last season. Cal Lu will be hot on their trails looking to improve on a school-record 32 wins and will be lead on the mound by Chase Tigert (9-2, 3.57 ERA) and Greg Gelber (9-2, 3.04 ERA), who held George Fox's top-ranked offense to one run in last year's regional. At the dish, the Kingsmen return their top two power threats in Paul Hartmann (.385, 12 HR, 46 RBI) and Jordan Ott (.361, 12 HR, 50 RBI). Looking to upset the two favorites, who both received playoff births last season, will be La Verne who will welcome back three 1st Team SCIAC hitters in Jon Hattabaugh (.368, 9 HR, 51 RBI), Victor Pinado (.420, 7 HR, 34 RBI), and Mike Surina (.396, 6 HR, 40 RBI). The big question for the Leopards will be a pitching staff that will see only 41% (139 2/3 of 340 1/3) of their innings from last year's pitching staff back on the diamond. That might be a good thing, though; La Verne had a team ERA of 5.45. Expect a two-headed race between Cal Lu and returning champs Pomona-Pitzer with La Verne playing the role of spoiler.

I agree that Cal Lu should be considered the favorite, but with PP losing as much talent as they did I'm not sure that they are strong enough to win SCIAC.

[CrashDavisD3]

Forecasted rain could postpone/cancel games for Friday & Saturday

GAMES THIS WEEK

SUNDAY Jan. 31
La Sierra  0  Cal Lutheran  14  Final  
La Sierra  0  Cal Lutheran  18  Final  
http://www.clusports.com/baseball/news/6174/
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TUESDAY Feb. 2
Redlands 7   La Sierra 2 Final  
http://www.goredlands.com/sports/bsb/2009-10/news/01_29_10_BSB_LSU
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WEDNESDAY Feb. 3
Cal Lutheran  12  Westmont  8  Final 
http://www.clusports.com/baseball/news/6186/
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps  2  Azusa Pacific  6  Final 
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FRIDAY THURSDAY Feb. 5
La Verne   Biola   2:00 PM  
Whittier   Chapman   4:30 PM  
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SATURDAY Feb. 6
Chapman   Whittier   11:00 AM  Live stats  
Menlo   Pomona-Pitzer   11:00 AM  
Biola   La Verne   11:00 AM  
Whitworth   Occidental   11:00 AM  
Alumni   Claremont-Mudd-Scripps   11:00 AM  
Alumni   Redlands   12:00 PM  
UC Santa Barbara (club)   Caltech   12:00 PM  
Alumni   Cal Lutheran   1:00 PM  
Chapman   Whittier   2:30 PM  Live stats  
Menlo   Pomona-Pitzer   2:30 PM  
Whitworth   Occidental   2:30 PM  
UC Santa Barbara (club)   Caltech   3:00 PM  
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SUNDAY Feb. 7
Menlo   Pomona-Pitzer   11:00 AM  
Whitworth   Occidental   11:00 AM  
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[CrashDavisD3]

Whittier College Baseball
http://www.wcpoets.com/sports/bsb/2009-10/News/chapman_postponed2

Inclement weather postpones Whittier College-Chapman game


ORANGE, Calif. - Two days, two rain outs for the Whittier College baseball team. This evening's opener against Chapman University has been postponed for a second time in as many days due to inclement weather.

The double-header that was originally schedule for Saturday morning and was pushed back to Sunday morning is still on as planned. The first pitch is scheduled for 11 am on February 7 at Memorial Field.

The single game in the series between the Poets and Panthers has been moved to Monday evening at 7 pm at Chapman.

If Memorial Field is unplayable on Sunday morning, the twin bill will be moved to Chapman tomorrow afternoon starting at 3 pm.

Check back with www.wcpoets.com tomorrow to find out the latest with the Chapman-Whittier series.

[dahlby]

Whittier dropped a doublehitter to Chapman Sunday afternoon, 14-1 and 11-1, and lost 15-3 at Chapman on Monday.

[nvnorthpaw]

Gelber was impressive today in his second start of the season (10 scoreless innings already).  If Tigert can get his self back on track, it looks like the staff will be hard to beat..again. 

[CrashDavisD3]

SCIAC SCOREBOARD

http://www.d3baseball.com/conference/SCIAC#schedule