BB: SCIAC: Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference

[Browneagle64]

Ahh. Great win for the Pups. Just when a Leo come back seemed possible, the early runs allowed made the difference.
However, according to a classmate, After three innings today the Leo's were leading the pups in the first game. Hope i get more updates, as the SID at U.L.V seems to always procrastinate updating their site.

Oh, btw, congrats to the Poets for slamming the stags 13-3. As expected this surprise team will cause havoc when the race for the SCIAC really starts to heat up. 

[Just_Some_Guy]

Redlands take 2 of 3 from La Verne this weekend.

Box Score One
Box Score Two

The Redlands have a great offensive team and this was a HUGE series for them, but they don't need to get comfortable. They need to work to find more pitching because Nicholson can't pitch every game in a tournament sitation. McCarthy was good enough for the win today.

As for La Verne, Sweet was pretty decent again, but needs to get to where he can go longer in games. Wheatley and Wilfong remain very solid out of the pen.

La Verne is probably better suited for tournament play (ala a West Regional), but without a conference tournament they probably need to win their conference. It should be a tight race between Redlands, La Verne and Pomona.

I could see the Redlands losing a game 3 (due to their lack of depth on the bump) to teams they should probably beat and allowing the window of opportunity to remain open.

JSG

[Browneagle64]

Talk about a good series. Wow, from the stats and what i heard from classmates, it looks like both teams came to play saturday. As i predicted, this series was indeed going to be huge for both ball clubs in their race for the SCIAC crown.
Let's just hope and see if both of these clubs will do well this week during the always though California Classic.

Speaking of the C.A. classic, how about this for a prediction: Pomona loses to Ithaca, Rutgers-Newark and to Frankin & Marshall as well. I know, i know, i should be rooting for the SCIAC school's, but lets be honest here: so far the hens haven't played really good teams. If they wanted to be ranked higher then these games should be the determining factor. Not a 27-o blowout of the beaves. 

Btw, the Poets will take their game away from Mass.-Dartmouth this week as well.
It should be fun to watch several of these games. Especially with this awesome surf-like weather that we down in so. cal are currently experiencing. I'll definately be attending the Ithaca v.s Leo game and the 2nd game between Wesleyan  (Conn.) and oxy this week.

[Browneagle64]

Congrats to the Hens on their 9-1 win against Ithaca College. So far, my prediction about the Hens losing to Ithaca was completely wrong. However, i will still hold my prediction that Rugters-Newark and F & M beat the Hens.

[Browneagle64]

Great job to the men in orange and black in taking advantage of Ithaca college's big mistake's during today's game at the Rock. That's the 2nd time this year that the tigers have beaten a ranked team.

Here's a summary: from the Tiger website.
Teamwork, confidence and the will to win came into play today as the Tigers of Occidental College defeated # 21 Ithaca College 14-10 on Anderson Field today. The teams combined for 24 runs on 29 hits in a battle of the bats.

Oxy jumped out to a 3-0 first inning lead as Seth Goss singled to lead it off followed by a successful hit-and-run by shortstop Case Miyahira. Oxy added a pair more but quickly saw that lead turn into a deficit as the Bombers tagged Tigers starter Noel Banuelos for six second inning runs.

With runners at first and second with one out in the fourth Jason Jebbia made a diving stop and flipped it to Miyahira at second for a force out, saving a run. With runners on the corners Suzuki forced a ground ball to second where Jebbia again flipped the ball to Miyahira for the final out of the inning.

Occidental's defense continued to shine in the top of the fourth when Andersen used his speed in the outfield to track down a fly ball, ending the inning with a diving catch in shallow centerfield to cap off a 1-2-3 inning by freshman Kris Suzuki.

The Bombers added to their lead in the sixth with a two RBI single to right by shortstop Josh Smith adding to the lead.

Trailing by four the Tigers pushed three runs across in the bottom part of the inning. Jebbia led off with a double off the centerfield wall and Sarkissian hooked a ball just  inside third base down the left field line, scoring Glenn Gray who reached on a single. Jebbia and Goss, who was hit by a pitch, both scored as well pulling the score to 9-8.

Ithaca added a run in the seventh and threatened for more, but Miyahira made another spectacular play at short to end the inning, catching a line-drive doubling up the runner at first base.

Occidental continued to claw back, scoring a pair in the bottom of the eighth to knot the game at 10-10. They then batted around in the eighth. Again Sarkissian led off with a double down the line, almost identical to the first. Veihl drove him in with a bases loaded single to keep the bags full of Tigers. Goss then connected for a bases clearing triple to center to give the Tigers a 14-10 advantage going into the ninth.

Kieran Doherty closed out the game to record his first collegiate victory as a Tiger. He struck out two and scattered three hits, allowing no runs in 2.2 innings of work. Suzuki went 3.0 and fellow freshman John Clair threw 1.1 innings, striking out three.

Goss finished the game 3-4 with four RBIs and three runs. Sarkissian finished 3-5 with two RBIs and a run. Andersen, Jebbia and Adam Franks each collected two hits today. Gray drove in three and scored twice for Oxy. 

Occidental was aggressive and effective on the base paths today. Goss stole second twice while Jebbia, Andersen, Ball and Richie Veihl each swiped a bag as well.

The Tigers (6-9) defeated a nationally ranked team for the second time this season. Oxy beat Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference foe # 18 Redlands earlier this year.

Ithaca starter Nick Sottung threw 5.2 innings, allowing eight runs on eight hits while striking out five. He hit four men and issued one walk.

Beginning on Friday the Tigers will host the California Classic along with the other SCIAC schools. Oxy will play a pair against Wesleyan on Friday beginning at 11:00 a.m

[Browneagle64]

Hey Folks,

Ithaca will be playing the Leo's tomorrow afternoon with their game slated at 2:30pm. (Sorry, i jumped a day ahead. That's what having to work on a term paper, getting ready for midterms and little of sleep can do. I'm heading out there for classes and will update you guys on the outcome still ( since most of the SCIAC school's and probabiliy their SID's are out for spring break and could careless about updating us on the game. hahah, just kidding). Best of luck. The leo's take this game away by three touchdown's, as Mr. JMac over on the empire 8 board would say. 

[Browneagle64]

Tomorrow's schedule for all SCIAC school's.

Mar. 14  Wesleyan (Conn.)   Occidental   11:00 AM   

California Classic Tournament game   
   Puget Sound   Claremont-Mudd-Scripps   2:30 PM   
    Ithaca   Redlands   2:30 PM   
California Classic   
   Cal Lutheran   Menlo   3:00 PM   
   
Wesleyan (Conn.)   Occidental   3:00 PM   

California Classic Tournament game   
   Mass.-Dartmouth   Whittier   3:00 PM   
California Classic   
   Rutgers-Newark   Pomona-Pitzer   3:00 PM 

Btw: SCIAC game of the Weekend will be on Sunday Mar. 16 between the Co-SCIAC champs and 07' DIII world series champ Kean U.

[Browneagle64]

Congrats to the Leo's on their big win against a struggling Ithaca College team today at Ben Hines Field. I got a chance to catch the game during the 6 inning, 7th and 8th inning and saw the Leo's making hits and runs that were need to reach their final score of 9-5. SS Jack Mehl (for the Leo's) is indeed good. This guy has some good defensive skills, a rocket launcher for an arm and good batting skills.

[Browneagle64]

Quick update on this mornings games' between Oxy v.s. Wesleyan (Conn.) and Menlo v.s. Cal Lu.

After 9 innings of play Oxy loses to Wesleyan by a score of  12 to  4. In addition, Cal Lu  drops a tough 7 inning game to the Oaks by a score of 1 to 2.

I'm heading to the Rock in an hour to check game two of the series. I hope that the Tigers learn from their mistakes and take at least this game away from Wesleyan. 

[cawcdad]

In the first game today the CLU pitching staff got rouged up for 7 runs in a 7 inning game. In one of the gutsier moves I've seen the Oaks had the bases loaded and 2 outs and tried a squeeze play. The ball rolled foul.

In the second game Alex Casillas silenced the Menlo bats when he threw a no hitter. He was dominating, mixing his pitches well with tremendous location and kept Menlo off balance all afternoon. Paul Hartman simply crushed the ball with a first inning homerun.

Pictures should be up tomorrow.

[cawcdad]

Pictures from the Cal Lutheran at Menlo games are posted.

Great form from Alex Casillas.

[Browneagle64]

Great Pics Cawdad. Cal Lu always seems to have good pitchers every year as your pictures can prove. However, i'm not sure what's happing to their bats.
Here's an update from yesterday scores:
   
California Classic Tournament   
   Puget Sound  5  Redlands  14  Final   
California Classic   
   Kean  6  La Verne  1  Final  Boxscore  Recap   
   Rutgers-Newark  2  Whittier  8  Final - 9 innings   
California Classic   
   Cal Lutheran  15  Menlo  0  Final   
   
   Kean  11  La Verne  8 
   Rutgers-Camden  3  Occidental  10  Final - 9 innings  Boxscore  Audio   
   
   
   Mass.-Dartmouth  5  Redlands  19  Final - 7 innings 

And yes congrats to the tigers and all the teams who won big games yesterday

[cawcdad]

Browneagle, CLU has at least one good stick in Hartman. Picture is right before the HR. He hit the ball hard each time besides the roundtripper and he's only a sophomore. He had a couple of wicked foul balls that went right to where I took pictures from near third base. I'm glad on each occasion I shooting from near first.

Looks like the Oaks are headed south this week. I get to see some good teams the next couple of weekends, George Fox at East Bay and then Linfield at East Bay

[Browneagle64]

Thanks to D3baseballfan in supplying us with info about the Panther (co-sciac champs) v.s. Kean (2007 d3world series champs) game.

here's the end result:

Orange, Calif. (3/16/08) - Chapman Junior Kurt Yacko (Costa Mesa, Calif.) had 4 hits and recorded six RBI as #1 Chapman University defeated #10 Kean University, 19-2, Sunday evening at Hart Park. Yacko singled twice, doubled and tripled.

Chapman Wayde Kitchens pitched five innings giving up 2 runs on 2 hits.

Chapman Travis Cross pitched 4 scoreless innings.

Chapman Ryan Hall also had 4 hits 3 RBI's and scored 4 runs.

Chapman John Semel had a 3 run home run along with a single for 3 RBI's

http://www.keanathletics.com/sports/bsb/2007-08/stats/bb0316.htm

Chapman's record is 15-2 for the season

[Browneagle64]

Congrats to the Tigers in Pounding U.P.S by a score of 14 to 6. Great to hear that the boys in orange and black wont give in despite previous loses.