BB: SCIAC: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[SoCalSoxFan]

In the Whittier-Chapman game, well pitched on both sides. Game was decided in the 7th when the winning run scored on a double play. Whittier had their opportunities especially in the 8th when they had 2 on with 1 out but Riddle came in to strike out 2 to end the threat. I see Cal Lu started their #3 SP today so I'm guessing Peterson starts tomorrow versus CU. My other guess is that CU counters with McGee. The latter has given up 3 ER in his last 44 innings. I'm a little biased but my money is on Scooby.

I'm not sure whether Petersen will go for CLU, or whether they will go with Scott Peters.  Earlier this year Peters shutout CLU 6-0 at CU.  In another big game this year, Peters shutout PLU/Lubking 3-0.
If it's McGee for CU, he went got the win going 5 innings and giving up 8ER against CLU earlier in the year.

Looking forward to an exciting game.

[Teddy_Ballgame]

Wow Whittier scores 4 in the bottom of the ninth to win 5-4! Capped off by, you guessed it, Barzilli driving in the winning run. Wish I had the video feed going for that one.

They will await the loser of the Chapman-CLU game and have kept their postseason alive. ULV is finished, and a tough way to go out. They played some good baseball this year though, and their seniors graduate with a 2012 trip to the regionals under their belt.

I see Cal Lu started their #3 SP today so I'm guessing Peterson starts tomorrow versus CU. My other guess is that CU counters with McGee. The latter has given up 3 ER in his last 44 innings. I'm a little biased but my money is on Scooby.

I'm not sure whether Petersen will go for CLU, or whether they will go with Scott Peters.  Earlier this year Peters shutout CLU 6-0 at CU.  In another big game this year, Peters shutout PLU/Lubking 3-0.
If it's McGee for CU, he went got the win going 5 innings and giving up 8ER against CLU earlier in the year.

Looking forward to an exciting game.

Looks like CLU is going with Petersen and Chapman with McGee

UPDATE: CLU has 6-0 lead in the ninth after scoring 5 runs in the 7th inning.
Seems like McGee was having trouble finding the zone all day, and he gets pulled after giving 6.1 IP, 7H, 4R, 4ER, 7BB, 6K

Petersen is still going for CLU, with 7 IP so far. Chapman has gotten plenty of baserunners (6 hits, 4 walks) but haven't been able to bring them in. Left at least one man on base in every inning but one, and have left 10 guys on base total. Yikes!

**EDIT: Cal Lu wins. Chapman scores 2 in the 9th but it's not enough as they fall 6-2 and get a rematch with Whittier this afternoon. 
Carbajal went 4 for 4 for Chapman, but it wasn't til the ninth that anyone was on base or that he was able to get around to score.
Cal Lu spread their hits out throughout the lineup, but Petersen helped himself with two knocks and DellaValle reached base four times and scored twice.

CLU will have Peters waiting for either Chapman or Whittier's #4 tomorrow morning.

[CrashDavisD3]

Chapman beats Whittier 14-4 on Saturday after losing to Cal Lu earlier in the day. They face Cal Lu on Sunday and will have to beat them twice to get the SCIAC Pool A bid. I expect they need to win the 1st game to get a Pool C bid.

[Jack Parkman]

Nice to see Cal Lu sweep through the SCIAC tourney again. Chapman scored 4 runs in 2 games against Cal Lu and their pitching was not too spectacular. Cal Lu's on the other hand bent at times but never broke. It will be interesting to see if Chapman still gets a shot at a trip to Oregon.

[SoCalSoxFan]

Nice to see Cal Lu sweep through the SCIAC tourney again. Chapman scored 4 runs in 2 games against Cal Lu and their pitching was not too spectacular. Cal Lu's on the other hand bent at times but never broke. It will be interesting to see if Chapman still gets a shot at a trip to Oregon.

Cal Lu pitching and defense made the plays when they needed to, preventing CU from having any big innings.
Petersens complete game on Sat allowed Roth to pitch multiple innings on Sunday.  Peters had a no hitter going on Sunday until Battaglia's HR in fifth.   Gandy's foul ball Grand Slam was huge limiting CU to 1 run in the 6th after Kibayu for CLU induced a 5-2-3 double play to errase the threat. 
Roth came in for 3 innings to close out CU.

Congrats CLU for winning SCIAC and good luck to CU to get a C-pick

http://www.clusports.com/baseball/news/10675/

[108 Stitches]

Trinity did Chapman a big favor by winning the SCAC today. TLU will not get a bid so depending on what happens in the ASC I would think that they are in, but really not sure. If they get in my guess is as the 5/6th seed and could face the beast Linfield.

[CrashDavisD3]

CU could get the 6th seed and will be 2 and Q in McMinnville. A huge accomplishment if they get back to the regionals after program had 2 bad seasons.

[Colorado]

Trinity did Chapman a big favor by winning the SCAC today. TLU will not get a bid so depending on what happens in the ASC I would think that they are in, but really not sure. If they get in my guess is as the 5/6th seed and could face the beast Linfield.

Nice to see Cal Lu sweep through the SCIAC tourney again. Chapman scored 4 runs in 2 games against Cal Lu and their pitching was not too spectacular. Cal Lu's on the other hand bent at times but never broke. It will be interesting to see if Chapman still gets a shot at a trip to Oregon.

Some random observations: First, congrats to CLU and good luck in the Regionals. As they rolled through the conference tournament without much suspense, they were clearly the class of the SCIAC and a tip of the "Colorado cap" on their back to back titles. Second, if Chapman ever had a chance of winning the tourney, it probably could only have happened if they had home field advantage (and even then, I don't know about this year). I think back to the Redlands game when they lost on a 3-run walk off HR and a couple other games that they lost and how easy they could have made up that 1 game deficit and gone into the tourney as the #1 seed. Everyone knows that home field advantage generally helps but in Chapman's case, the advantage is more acute. Hart Park is one of the few pitcher's parks in the conference. Big spacious field with a strong breeze/wind that alternately blows in from left center, center and right from about mid afternoon.  If you have a son who pitches in HS looking to find a good place to pitch, CU is your place.  Every year (with a couple exceptions) going back to at least 2003, CU's team ERA is always nationally ranked and in the low or sub 3's. Certainly, they have recruited some great arms with some going pro but the park effects have no doubt helped.  Hart Park also has a high mound that is different from most of the other fields. Check out the top 4-5 pitchers for CU this year, and their ERA's at home are in the 1's or 2's and their road ERA's are over 4.  Probably the same unusual or extreme "home-away splits" that you would see if you looked up Dodger Stadium back in the 60's and the great Dodger pitching staffs back then that always seem to lead the league in ERA (of course, having Koufax and Drysdale helped). This year, CU struggled with mixed success in trying to get used to the mounds of other teams (landing spots, slope, adjusting their release points during the games and in some cases the shorter band box fences a la Pomona Pitzer's RF) and its shows in the greater number of walks, HBP's and HR's allowed.  Would CU have won the tourney with home field advantage, I won't go that far as every pitcher coming in receives that same benefit but CU's pitchers have the advantage of pitching many times there so there might have been a slight edge to it. Third, and just something that I noticed during the tourney, Whittier's Barzilli had a fantastic season. Definitely on the short list for Conference POY. He was legitimately someone to be feared when he approached the plate but over 5 games during the last month all won by CU, CU held him to 2-17, .117 BA, 7 K's, no RBI's and no HR's.  He was a dangerous mystery that CU pitching coach Edwards apparently solved.

[CrashDavisD3]

Trinity did Chapman a big favor by winning the SCAC today. TLU will not get a bid so depending on what happens in the ASC I would think that they are in, but really not sure. If they get in my guess is as the 5/6th seed and could face the beast Linfield.

Nice to see Cal Lu sweep through the SCIAC tourney again. Chapman scored 4 runs in 2 games against Cal Lu and their pitching was not too spectacular. Cal Lu's on the other hand bent at times but never broke. It will be interesting to see if Chapman still gets a shot at a trip to Oregon.

Some random observations: First, congrats to CLU and good luck in the Regionals. As they rolled through the conference tournament without much suspense, they were clearly the class of the SCIAC and a tip of the "Colorado cap" on their back to back titles. Second, if Chapman ever had a chance of winning the tourney, it probably could only have happened if they had home field advantage (and even then, I don't know about this year). I think back to the Redlands game when they lost on a 3-run walk off HR and a couple other games that they lost and how easy they could have made up that 1 game deficit and gone into the tourney as the #1 seed. Everyone knows that home field advantage generally helps but in Chapman's case, the advantage is more acute. Hart Park is one of the few pitcher's parks in the conference. Big spacious field with a strong breeze/wind that alternately blows in from left center, center and right from about mid afternoon.  If you have a son who pitches in HS looking to find a good place to pitch, CU is your place.  Every year (with a couple exceptions) going back to at least 2003, CU's team ERA is always nationally ranked and in the low or sub 3's. Certainly, they have recruited some great arms with some going pro but the park effects have no doubt helped.  Hart Park also has a high mound that is different from most of the other fields. Check out the top 4-5 pitchers for CU this year, and their ERA's at home are in the 1's or 2's and their road ERA's are over 4.  Probably the same unusual or extreme "home-away splits" that you would see if you looked up Dodger Stadium back in the 60's and the great Dodger pitching staffs back then that always seem to lead the league in ERA (of course, having Koufax and Drysdale helped). This year, CU struggled with mixed success in trying to get used to the mounds of other teams (landing spots, slope, adjusting their release points during the games and in some cases the shorter band box fences a la Pomona Pitzer's RF) and its shows in the greater number of walks, HBP's and HR's allowed.  Would CU have won the tourney with home field advantage, I won't go that far as every pitcher coming in receives that same benefit but CU's pitchers have the advantage of pitching many times there so there might have been a slight edge to it. Third, and just something that I noticed during the tourney, Whittier's Barzilli had a fantastic season. Definitely on the short list for Conference POY. He was legitimately someone to be feared when he approached the plate but over 5 games during the last month all won by CU, CU held him to 2-17, .117 BA, 7 K's, no RBI's and no HR's.  He was a dangerous mystery that CU pitching coach Edwards apparently solved.

Great observation and very true. I watched CU up close for close to 5 years. Also being a Pool B was also a huge advantage. BUT they still had to win several times at away fields in the Regionals(Abilene, TX and McMinnville, OR) to get to Appleton more than once.

I think they are a long shot getting a Pool C. If they do I believe they will be overmatched in Oregon.

[Colorado]

Great observation and very true. I watched CU up close for close to 5 years. Also being a Pool B was also a huge advantage. BUT they still had to win several times at away fields in the Regionals(Abilene, TX and McMinnville, OR) to get to Appleton more than once.

I think they are a long shot getting a Pool C. If they do I believe they will be overmatched in Oregon.
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You're right about that -- that they eventually had to win on a foreign field several times to get to Appleton. I think there was also a point where the regionals were played at Hart Park for a few years during the early or mid 2000's during their run. As for their chances in Oregon if they make it, they've got a pitcher's chance. Call it foolish or stubborn swag but at least 2 of them think they can win and yes, can harken back to ancient days when they started against Linfield and CU won. The last time 1 of them pitched against Linfield, the latter was ranked no 19 and CU was a below .500 team. So naturally, CU won and 12 Linfield batters went down on strikes. I just hope they can get in.

[108 Stitches]

If CTX wins they are a lock for McMinnville IMO. If not how do they compare to CTX/GF/PLU ? Prob get a 6 seed.

1. Linfield.
2. CLU
3. Trinity
4. ASC Winner
5. Chapman
6. NW At large

[CrashDavisD3]

A great story
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/osaki-611993-mcgee-chapman.html

[Jack Parkman]

PASADENA, CA - The SCIAC is proud to announce the 2014 SCIAC Baseball All-Conference Awards.

ATHLETE OF THE YEAR:  Simon Rosenbaum, So. - Pomona-Pitzer

PITCHER OF THE YEAR:  Travis McGee, Sr. – Chapman

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR:  Tanner Nishioka, Fr. - Pomona-Pitzer


FIRST TEAM

P – Branden Riddle, So. - Chapman

P – Aaron Roth, Sr. – Cal Lutheran

P - Mark Jebbia, Jr. - La Verne

C  – Joe Winterburn, Sr. - La Verne

1B – Mark Saatzer, SR. - Chapman

2B – Christopher Scalisi, Fr. - Redlands

3B – Julian Barzilli, Sr. - Whittier

SS – Nicho DellaValle, Sr. - Cal Lutheran

OF – Connor Hancock, Jr. - Redlands

OF – Andrew Carbajal, Sr. - Chapman

OF – Corey Jensen, Sr. - Whittier

OF – Tanner Nishioka, Fr. - Pomona-Pitzer

UT – Jake Petersen, Sr. - Cal Lutheran


SECOND TEAM

P – Mitch Margolis, Sr. - Occidental

P – Scott Peters, Jr. - Cal Lutheran

P – Kevin Knight, Sr. - La Verne

C – Stephen Zavala, Jr. - Whittier

1B – Collin Crowl, Jr. - Cal Lutheran

1B - Ben White, Fr. - La Verne

2B – George Hanna, Sr. - La Verne

SS – Scott Witte, Sr. – Claremont-Mudd-Scripps

DH – Matt Gandy, So. - Chapman

DH – Max Hardman Sr. - Redlands

OF – Connor Battaglia, Sr. - Chapman

OF - Alex Scheiwe, Sr. - Redlands

UT – Ben Cerami, Jr. - Whittier

Tough race for POY award as Barzilli and Rosenbaum both had monster years.  Congrats to all.

[Teddy_Ballgame]

PASADENA, CA - The SCIAC is proud to announce the 2014 SCIAC Baseball All-Conference Awards.

ATHLETE OF THE YEAR:  Simon Rosenbaum, So. - Pomona-Pitzer

PITCHER OF THE YEAR:  Travis McGee, Sr. – Chapman

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR:  Tanner Nishioka, Fr. - Pomona-Pitzer

Big ups to the Sophomore Simon Rosenbaum! And Freshman Tanner Nishioka! And everyone else too, I guess 
Here's a link to the PP Baseball write up: http://pomona.prestosports.com/sports/bsb/2013-14/releases/201405086qy7h9

Of note- Rosenbaum is leading the nation (with only a few tournaments being wrapped up) in OBP and Doubles. His .474 BA and .822 Slugging are both ranked 4th nationally.

Of course, tip of the hat to Barzilli who is comfortably leading the country with 17 home runs. I think if he and Whittier hadn't stumbled a little bit at the end the POY award might have been his. Nevertheless, pretty incredible season. Didn't think we'd see another 17 home run season after the bats changed in 2011.

As mentioned Rosenbaum is only a Sophomore. Scary thought. Not to mention that next year he should hopefully be all recovered from his Tommy John and ready to step back into the rotation. Even if he sees an understandable drop in offensive productivity, he has the potential for national awards.
Nishioka is one of the more athletic players you'll see in DIII. It's going to be fun to watch his career continue as well.

Overall a pretty balanced all-conference team by class. The SCIAC will be losing some pretty special seniors like Petersen, Roth, Barzilli, DellaValle, Shiewe, etc. But there were plenty of underclassmen represented too, and next year is going to be really interesting seeing how teams evolve as young players step up to fill the shoes of the graduating seniors. CLU in particular is losing a ton, but they still have a great foundation and always find great players to fill the gaps. 

By the way- glaring omission is Kevin Osaki. Had another phenomenal year coming back from surgery. After reading that article below, would have been nice to see him represented too and not just McGee (who had a ridiculous year, well-deserved Pitcher of the Year). Does anybody know if they plan on using their extra year of eligibility? Maybe delay graduation or take some grad school classes next year? As a fan of good baseball, I hope they stay. As a fan of PP, get them the hell out of here!

[Colorado]

PASADENA, CA - The SCIAC is proud to announce the 2014 SCIAC Baseball All-Conference Awards.

ATHLETE OF THE YEAR:  Simon Rosenbaum, So. - Pomona-Pitzer

PITCHER OF THE YEAR:  Travis McGee, Sr. – Chapman

NEWCOMER OF THE YEAR:  Tanner Nishioka, Fr. - Pomona-Pitzer

Big ups to the Sophomore Simon Rosenbaum! And Freshman Tanner Nishioka! And everyone else too, I guess 
Here's a link to the PP Baseball write up: http://pomona.prestosports.com/sports/bsb/2013-14/releases/201405086qy7h9

Of note- Rosenbaum is leading the nation (with only a few tournaments being wrapped up) in OBP and Doubles. His .474 BA and .822 Slugging are both ranked 4th nationally.

Of course, tip of the hat to Barzilli who is comfortably leading the country with 17 home runs. I think if he and Whittier hadn't stumbled a little bit at the end the POY award might have been his. Nevertheless, pretty incredible season. Didn't think we'd see another 17 home run season after the bats changed in 2011.

As mentioned Rosenbaum is only a Sophomore. Scary thought. Not to mention that next year he should hopefully be all recovered from his Tommy John and ready to step back into the rotation. Even if he sees an understandable drop in offensive productivity, he has the potential for national awards.
Nishioka is one of the more athletic players you'll see in DIII. It's going to be fun to watch his career continue as well.

Overall a pretty balanced all-conference team by class. The SCIAC will be losing some pretty special seniors like Petersen, Roth, Barzilli, DellaValle, Shiewe, etc. But there were plenty of underclassmen represented too, and next year is going to be really interesting seeing how teams evolve as young players step up to fill the shoes of the graduating seniors. CLU in particular is losing a ton, but they still have a great foundation and always find great players to fill the gaps. 

By the way- glaring omission is Kevin Osaki. Had another phenomenal year coming back from surgery. After reading that article below, would have been nice to see him represented too and not just McGee (who had a ridiculous year, well-deserved Pitcher of the Year). Does anybody know if they plan on using their extra year of eligibility? Maybe delay graduation or take some grad school classes next year? As a fan of good baseball, I hope they stay. As a fan of PP, get them the hell out of here!

Teddy, Nice sum up the SCIAC's year and spotlight on different  players. My own thoughts about unfortunate omissions would include Whittier's Garcia and Oxy's Kling. They shackled CU's bats in the 4 games that we watched. They both moved the ball around like I imagined Whitey Ford once did as to make things uncomfortable for a hitter. By the way, those were some very gracious comments re McGee and Osaki. There were a few bumps (lol the Game at Pomona for one!) along the way but overall the season turned out as they hoped.  As to your question, Both are 5th year seniors and have played their 4 years, so they now move on.