BB: SCIAC: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Purple Heys]

Well.  What did we learn?   

The SCIAC/NWC mixer has been a lot of fun.

[Purple Heys]

SCIAC Los Angeles area fans:

My wife and I are fortunate to be flying in late tomorrow to attend the Beavers opening conference series with Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.  The Friday game is at Caltech, and I will need to find something to do in the Pasadena area before that afternoon game.

However, I am not familiar with the CMS area for the Saturday double header, and I would like to be in the CMS area early Saturday morning if there is something any of you think we should check out.  Last year we attended the Chapman double header and stumbled upon the Richard Nixon Presidential Library that we checked out before the double header.  We would like to do something similar while attending the CMS area.  Naturally dad would prefer to be at CMS by 10:00 a.m. to watch BP, etc, but that doesn't leave much time.  However, if mom finds something interesting, she will tell dad that we are going to watch son at 11:00 a.m.'s first pitch.

Any suggestions for places to check out in the CMS area between 8:00 a.m. to 10/11:00 a.m. this Saturday?

Thank you.

Go Beavers!

Check your team's schedule...with rain forecasted, there are rumblings of game day changes.

[Purple Heys]

SCIAC represented on D3baseball.com's first 2017 Team of the Week.  Congratulations to both young men honored.  Wild and Wacky start to the season...looking forward to the weekend!

http://www.d3baseball.com/awards/team-of-the-week/2017/week01

[Jack Parkman]

SCIAC Week 1 Predictions

Whittier takes 2/3 from Oxy.  I don't trust Oxy one bit right now and their story from AZ talked about their "depleted bullpen" after 2 games on Saturday.  Doesn't sound like a whole lot of depth.  Side note: Does Oxy really have a "DeRaad Tracker" on their story?

Cal Lu takes 3/3 from La Verne.  This could easily be a 2/1 series but I think La Verne's pitching will hurt them.

CMS takes 3/3 from Caltech but this series will be much closer than some expect.  CMS sure didn't show much last weekend against Whitman.

Redlands should sweep Chapman but I think they get 2/3.  Chapman's pitching has been flat awful but they can hit.  Lets see how they do against Minjarez.

Non-Conference
Pomona/Whitworth should be a pretty good series.  I expect Pomona to get 2/3.

[SoCalBaseballfan]

SCIAC Week 1 Predictions

Whittier takes 2/3 from Oxy.  I don't trust Oxy one bit right now and their story from AZ talked about their "depleted bullpen" after 2 games on Saturday.  Doesn't sound like a whole lot of depth.  Side note: Does Oxy really have a "DeRaad Tracker" on their story?

Cal Lu takes 3/3 from La Verne.  This could easily be a 2/1 series but I think La Verne's pitching will hurt them.

CMS takes 3/3 from Caltech but this series will be much closer than some expect.  CMS sure didn't show much last weekend against Whitman.

Redlands should sweep Chapman but I think they get 2/3.  Chapman's pitching has been flat awful but they can hit.  Lets see how they do against Minjarez.

Non-Conference
Pomona/Whitworth should be a pretty good series.  I expect Pomona to get 2/3.

Any games in SoCal Friday/Saturday/Sunday
PREDICTION NO GAMES RAIN
http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=6c137c18fcc31531&hl=en&gl=US&source=web

[SoCalBaseballfan]

SCIAC Week 1 Predictions

Whittier takes 2/3 from Oxy.  I don't trust Oxy one bit right now and their story from AZ talked about their "depleted bullpen" after 2 games on Saturday.  Doesn't sound like a whole lot of depth.  Side note: Does Oxy really have a "DeRaad Tracker" on their story?

Cal Lu takes 3/3 from La Verne.  This could easily be a 2/1 series but I think La Verne's pitching will hurt them.

CMS takes 3/3 from Caltech but this series will be much closer than some expect.  CMS sure didn't show much last weekend against Whitman.

Redlands should sweep Chapman but I think they get 2/3.  Chapman's pitching has been flat awful but they can hit.  Lets see how they do against Minjarez.

Non-Conference
Pomona/Whitworth should be a pretty good series.  I expect Pomona to get 2/3.

Any games in SoCal Friday/Saturday/Sunday
PREDICTION NO GAMES RAIN
http://www.google.org/publicalerts/alert?aid=6c137c18fcc31531&hl=en&gl=US&source=web
http://abc7.com/weather/doppler/

[Purple Heys]

Hide the sharp objects (and pens) from the Poets and the Poet faithful - even the pets are pissed off about it.  Make no mistake, Whittier gave one away yesterday.

Looking for a bounce back on Sunday.

[purplefan]

Well said PH!  I was at the game Poets game Thursday,  I would have had more fun pulling my finger nails out one by one!   We have 17 errors thru 5 games and that is home cooking more like 21 or 22!  Changes need to be made or this ship will never sail, I don't care how well you hit the ball.  But what do I Know I'm just a pitchers dad!

[Purple Heys]

Well said PH!  I was at the game Poets game Thursday,  I would have had more fun pulling my finger nails out one by one!   We have 17 errors thru 5 games and that is home cooking more like 21 or 22!  Changes need to be made or this ship will never sail, I don't care how well you hit the ball.  But what do I Know I'm just a pitchers dad!

Poor defense has cost us 2 potential W's...but the problems there are correctable.  Just better do it quick.

We'll see how we bounce back Sunday...

[Purple Heys]

6 more errors, lucky we only got beat 6-4 in the first game today.

[Purple Heys]

At least they finally beat us in game 3...

Not the happy weekend we had planned.

[Jack Parkman]

SCIAC Recap:

Tough weekend for some, good for others.

Pomona has now lost 5 in a row after a hot start, which is exactly what happened last year.  Nishioka is off to a great start with 8 bombs in the first 10 games.

La Verne took 2/3 from Cal Lu with a couple of 1-run games on Sunday. 

CMS swept Caltech in a very competitive series.  I watched on Saturday and CMS should be embarrassed at the way their dugout acts.  Caltech battled and it is very apparent to see the improvements they continue to make.

Oxy swept Whittier but I'll let Heys handle this one.  Either way, Oxy and Cal Lu play a huge series this weekend.

Chapman did just enough to take a couple of 1-run games at Redlands.  Solid weekend for Chapman with game 3 coming Tuesday.

I think the SCIAC is wide open this year but it's only a few weeks into the season.  No team has been overly impressive but plenty of season left.

[NWBaseballFan10]

Pomona has now lost 5 in a row after a hot start, which is exactly what happened last year.  Nishioka is off to a great start with 8 bombs in the first 10 games.

I see all the rain that hit the SoCal area in recent weeks hasn't been enough to cool off Nishioka's hot bat. He's putting up some insane numbers thus far (haven't seen power numbers like that since the bat change back in 2011).

[Purple Heys]

Oxy swept Whittier but I'll let Heys handle this one.  Either way, Oxy and Cal Lu play a huge series this weekend.

So it wasn't just a bad dream...

[Purple Heys]

Poets wasted 2 "good enough" pitching efforts with ridiculous fielding in games 1 and 2.  Poets should have at least split those two if they played reasonably well

Game 3 was all Oxy, gotta give them credit.  Oxy may not be what they were last year, but you gotta play college level baseball against them.

The Poets so far have played Jekyll and Hyde.  The team that beat Puget Sound and Willamette sweeps or goes 2-1 last weekend; the team that got beat by Willamette gets swept.