BB: SCIAC: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Purple Heys]

So far it looks like Cal Lu and Pomona is fighting it out for the 1 spot

Middle of La Verne., Occidental, Redlands and Chapman

The bottom of Whittier, CMS, and Cal Tech.

My prediction is Cal Lu will be the Pool A bid team from the SCIAC

Pomona/La Verne will fight for a Pool C bids

Rest of the SCIAC will be at home at the BBQ during May.

http://thesciac.org/sports/bsb/index

I throw down a mean Carne Asada BBQ (ask my IIAC football friends), and with a newly installed artificial surface putting green and bocce ball court, plus the new fire pit and hot tub....playoffs only get in the way anyway.

[doolittledog]

I throw down a mean Carne Asada BBQ (ask my IIAC football friends), and with a newly installed artificial surface putting green and bocce ball court, plus the new fire pit and hot tub....playoffs only get in the way anyway.

Talking Carne Asada when you're 2,000 miles away...and baseball while we still have snow on the ground in Iowa is just mean

Good luck with your SCIAC baseball journey, we have another team we can follow now outside of the IIAC!

[Purple Heys]

I throw down a mean Carne Asada BBQ (ask my IIAC football friends), and with a newly installed artificial surface putting green and bocce ball court, plus the new fire pit and hot tub....playoffs only get in the way anyway.

Talking Carne Asada when you're 2,000 miles away...and baseball while we still have snow on the ground in Iowa is just mean

Good luck with your SCIAC baseball journey, we have another team we can follow now outside of the IIAC!

What'd I say?  My man Double-D backs me up!

[Purple Heys]

So far it looks like Cal Lu and Pomona is fighting it out for the 1 spot

Middle of La Verne., Occidental, Redlands and Chapman

The bottom of Whittier, CMS, and Cal Tech.

My prediction is Cal Lu will be the Pool A bid team from the SCIAC

Pomona/La Verne will fight for a Pool C bids

Rest of the SCIAC will be at home at the BBQ during May.

http://thesciac.org/sports/bsb/index

Not sold on La Verne...I thought Redlands was better.  Poets let 2 wins slip against the Leopards...that says more about the Poets than it did about Shirley's friend.  It would not surprise me to see PP sweep them - easily.

La Verne has had the favor of the SCIAC schedule...9 of their wins are against the bottom 3.  Yes, they got the job done - to their credit.  But they did not dominate the Whittier series - at least in my perception.  Pomona had the upper hand in all three games in our series.

I am not seeing the Leopards as true contenders for a Pool C...there may end up being too much cross beatings between the 3rd-4th-5th-6th teams that only the 2nd place SCIAC gets the Pool C.  All that gets thrown out IF our 1 Seed does not win the year end tourney AND a team other than the 2 seed wins it.

[Purple Heys]

So far it looks like Cal Lu and Pomona is fighting it out for the 1 spot

Middle of La Verne., Occidental, Redlands and Chapman

The bottom of Whittier, CMS, and Cal Tech.

My prediction is Cal Lu will be the Pool A bid team from the SCIAC

Pomona/La Verne will fight for a Pool C bids

Rest of the SCIAC will be at home at the BBQ during May.

http://thesciac.org/sports/bsb/index

Not sold on La Verne...I thought Redlands was better.  Poets let 2 wins slip against the Leopards...that says more about the Poets than it did about Shirley's friend.  It would not surprise me to see PP sweep them - easily.

La Verne has had the favor of the SCIAC schedule...9 of their wins are against the bottom 3.  Yes, they got the job done - to their credit.  But they did not dominate the Whittier series - at least in my perception.  Pomona had the upper hand in all three games in our series.

I am not seeing the Leopards as true contenders for a Pool C...there may end up being too much cross beatings between the 3rd-4th-5th-6th teams that only the 2nd place SCIAC gets the Pool C.  All that gets thrown out IF our 1 Seed does not win the year end tourney AND a team other than the 2 seed wins it.

Playoffs?

[Purplebaseball]

I agree PH... I would rate the SCAIC teams Whittier has played so far as 1)PP 2)Redlands 3) La Verne.

[Jack Parkman]

Only a couple of SCAIC teams facing each other this weekend but plenty of games all around.

Pomona vs LaVerne- I will go with Pomona taking 2/3 but I could see them sweeping.  Looks like Bruml has really found it lately and as others have said, I am not sold on LaVerne.  They have played some very tight games, but good teams win the close ones.  Should be a good series.

Chapman vs Claremont-  Chapman wins all 3 but who knows, after Caltech getting an 8-0 lead on them last week, maybe Claremont can steal one from them.

Non-Conference:
CLU plays Concordia (WI), Wesleyan (CT), Linfield and Southwestern (TX) with all games being played in AZ.
Redlands has Rutgers-Newark (2), Ithaca, Spalding and Kean.  Good test on their pitching!
Chapman has Spalding and Kean after the 3 games with Claremont.
Oxy has Ithaca, Spalding and Rutgers-Newark (2).  That's 5 games in 4 days for Oxy, another huge test on pitching.
Pomona has Spalding on Monday after the 3 games with LaVerne.
Whittier has Kean twice this weekend.
Caltech has a double-header with Drew today.
No OOC games for Claremont or LaVerne this weekend.

I am not even going to attempt picking these games as I know nothing about the teams everyone is playing.  Should be a fun, baseball filled weekend!

[Purplebaseball]

I that Kean is ranked 5th or 6th in the country so it could be another long weekend for Whittier. 

[Teddy_Ballgame]

After Drew's tough start to their So Cal trip (including a beat up from Whittier), they were able to pull one out against Oxy winning 3-1. Not a good showing for Occidental offensively- Drew had given up 44 runs in their first three games.

Ithaca dropped another one, losing 7-1 to Chapman. I know this is the very beginning of their season, but I'm really surprised to see them 0-4 right now. They always have a good team, and though they tend to struggle on the Spring Break trips (having played 15 fewer games than their opponents), they usually put up a better fight than this. Might be a down year for them. Maybe they can pull one out against Oxy today, though their pitching has got to be drained at this point.

[Jack Parkman]

After Drew's tough start to their So Cal trip (including a beat up from Whittier), they were able to pull one out against Oxy winning 3-1. Not a good showing for Occidental offensively- Drew had given up 44 runs in their first three games.

Ithaca dropped another one, losing 7-1 to Chapman. I know this is the very beginning of their season, but I'm really surprised to see them 0-4 right now. They always have a good team, and though they tend to struggle on the Spring Break trips (having played 15 fewer games than their opponents), they usually put up a better fight than this. Might be a down year for them. Maybe they can pull one out against Oxy today, though their pitching has got to be drained at this point.

I don't really read into the games against teams from the East but it does say a lot about Oxy and their lack of offense.  Good win for Chapman and a great win for CMS against Ithaca.  Hopefully Caltech can take one from Drew today as they have to be a little thin on pitching after already playing 4 this week.

[SoCalSoxFan]

After Drew's tough start to their So Cal trip (including a beat up from Whittier), they were able to pull one out against Oxy winning 3-1. Not a good showing for Occidental offensively- Drew had given up 44 runs in their first three games.

Ithaca dropped another one, losing 7-1 to Chapman. I know this is the very beginning of their season, but I'm really surprised to see them 0-4 right now. They always have a good team, and though they tend to struggle on the Spring Break trips (having played 15 fewer games than their opponents), they usually put up a better fight than this. Might be a down year for them. Maybe they can pull one out against Oxy today, though their pitching has got to be drained at this point.

I don't really read into the games against teams from the East but it does say a lot about Oxy and their lack of offense.  Good win for Chapman and a great win for CMS against Ithaca.  Hopefully Caltech can take one from Drew today as they have to be a little thin on pitching after already playing 4 this week.

Congrats to Caltech for beating Drew in Game 1 today.  11-10!    Good luck on going for the sweep!

[Purple Heys]

Congrats to Caltech for beating Drew in Game 1 today.  11-10!    Good luck on going for the sweep!

Man bites dog:  Cal Tech Sweeps Drew.

Nicely done fellas.   

[Jack Parkman]

Awesome job by Caltech getting the sweep in a double-header against Drew!

Oxy drops a close one in extra's against Ithaca.  Been a rough weekend already for Oxy.

Cal Lu squeaks by Concordia (WI) down in AZ.

Plenty of games left this weekend!

[SoCalSoxFan]

Awesome job by Caltech getting the sweep in a double-header against Drew!

Oxy drops a close one in extra's against Ithaca.  Been a rough weekend already for Oxy.

Cal Lu squeaks by Concordia (WI) down in AZ.

Plenty of games left this weekend!

Caltech has 4 non-conf games this month against Providence Christian and MIT before the ending the month with CMS.
With their sweep against Drew, this month may be shape up to be one of Caltech's most successful months in recent history!

[Ralph Turner]

Awesome job by Caltech getting the sweep in a double-header against Drew!

Oxy drops a close one in extra's against Ithaca.  Been a rough weekend already for Oxy.

Cal Lu squeaks by Concordia (WI) down in AZ.

Plenty of games left this weekend!

Caltech has 4 non-conf games this month against Providence Christian and MIT before the ending the month with CMS.
With their sweep against Drew, this month may be shape up to be one of Caltech's most successful months in recent history!

I can think of a half dozen conferences in which Cal Tech would be a middle-of- the-conference contender for conference tourney action.