BB: SCIAC: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[BigPoppa]

Check out this interesting list on the Carthage web page:

Do any of the teams listed surprise you?

http://www.carthage.edu/athletics/index.cfm?page=325

[pomonaalum]

Not surprisingly, PP dropped a pair to Chapman over the weekend.  1st game was relatively close, second game was a blowout.

[Tom Brady]

Pomonaalum-  I saw that they hung pretty well in the first game and then got smoked.  Does P-P have a pretty young team?  Not to worry, they are doing better than Cal Lu.  I went to the first game on Sat. and left after a few innings (along with many other people).  They looked terrible and ended up losing by 10 or 11.  Funny thing though, they came back to win the second game 16-0.  Go figure.  Looks like the top 3 from last year are all off to bumpy starts.  ULV=1-3  CLU= 2-4 Redlands= 0-1.  Maybe its going to be a great year for OXY???

[rbaikie]

Menlo swept Whittier on Saturday with two high scoring games.

CMC beat Menlo 8-7 on Sunday.

CMC bombed Cal Tech on Saturday something like 35-3!!!

[Sabretooth Tiger]

Oxy dropped three to Willamette.  9-3 and 6-0 in the Saturday doubleheader and 6-4 on the Sunday game.



Next up Caltech on Tuesday.

8)

[rbaikie]

Sabretooth Tiger -

Did you see any of the games?

Willamette is only picked to finish 6th in the NWC.  Do you think they are better than that?

Willamette plays 3 this upcoming weekend at Menlo.

[Sabretooth Tiger]

No, didn't see any of them, just reporting results as posted on Oxy's website, last Oxy baseball game I saw was the alumni game a few years back right before everything went south.

[pomonaalum]

Believe Pomona lost a bunch of people off last year's team, including Jase Turner and Felipe Aguilar, two big holes to fill, along with a couple of other starters in the lineup.  They do return some decent pitching.  From the looks of it, 3 or 4 FR starters at the moment, so yeah, a young team.

[Browneagle64]

Hen-alum,

Just out of curiosity and no means to offend anyone.
Do you think that pomons 4 Fr starters can really be a huge difference towards the end of the season? If so will they crack under pressure? I am sure they did pretty well during practice to get the starting job, but in the end can these four be a big part to reaching the top of the SCIAC.

I hope the tigers bounce back from their recent lost. I am sure they will do fine within the nest weeks of play. I'm sure the will upset a couple of teams that are listed to win over them in the next weeks.

[Browneagle64]

Btw----SCIAC fans

What would you guys think if the SCIAC championship between 1 and 2 be played at a big arean like at Dodger stadium or Angel sadium to keep the event neutral from home field advantage. I am sure there are some connections out there that can make this possible.

[Tom Brady]

I heard from my buddy at CLU that their was supposed to be a conference tournament this year.  Anybody know if that is real or just a rumor???

A few slow starts in the SCIAC this year, but not to bring any OXY fans down, they will get beat over and over this year.  The new coach has his hands full.  Who is the frontrunner right now??  Is there even a favorite?  Glad this board is here so we can talk a little about some spring sports since hoops are almost done.

[rbaikie]

Not that I really trust the website (www.thesciac.org) because it tends to be very much behind the times in info, but it does show that for the 2005-2006 year, the baseball champion will be determined based on conference won-loss records - no mention of a tourney -

I also checked some of the school's websites and the schedules end with their final regular season series.

[BigPoppa]

I would have to think that Cal Lu and LaVerne will figure it out in the next few weeks and get rolling into SCIAC play...

If Pomona's freshmen get some experience under their belt, they could be a darkhorse in the SCIAC...

I think that Oxy could be a sleeper capable of pulling off a few upsets this spring.

[Gray Fox]

At least the old SCIAC website was fairly current.

I think the SCIAC got taken by their webmaster contract..

[bergybit]

I watched the three Willamette vs. Occidental games over this past weekend (my son is a freshman on the Willamette), and Willamette showed some surprisingly (to me at least) good pitching in games 1 and 2.   I think both games were 1-hitters.  Occidental had a good chance at winning game 3 but  a 3-run home run late in the game basically put it out of reach for Occidental.

Willamette lost quite a few seniors and their roster this year includes a lot of freshmen and sophomores.  For that reason, it's possible that their ranking (6th.) in the North West Conference is lower than it ought to be.  At least, I hope that turns out to be the case.

By the way, Occidental needs more bleachers!