BB: Just Some Guy's West Region Rankings

[Browneagle64]

Welcome to the Boards Hen Alum 47:

While you maybe excited about the Hens current hot 19 or so gaming winning streak, you need to understand that the SCIAC co-champs 19 gaming winning streak comes against opponents that were highly ranked (ehhmm.... 2007 worldseries champ (D3) Kean Univeristy, McMurray, soon to beat Dallas and Pomona.) This team is just loaded with talent as previous poster have mentioned and will do their best to beat the hens. In the end, the panthers walk away with strong wins.

[sagehenalum47]

browneagle, I think you are working on a streak of your own. Last I checked, you predicted the Hens lose every spring break game (and instead they've went UNDEFEATED) along with numerous others which came out wrong. Also, I'd check some of the sagehens quality wins: Ithaca, Eastern Conn (both ranked in the top 10 at the time and both against their aces) 2 againt redlands, and against division II cal state san bernardino. This weekend will be a great test to see the sagehens against the best d3 has to offer. but give them a little credit: this team has put together a solid resume and obviously the other d3 voters agree as they are ranked 11th in the latest poll.

[DIIIBASEBALLFAN]

Wow 2 teams with 26 wins. 2 teams with long winning streaks this season.  Both ranked teams.

These games will be a real challenge to both teams Chapman vs Pomona. A preview of teams that could meet again at the Regionals.

Could have playoff game like intensity at these games. Glad I will get a chance to watch all 3 games this weekend.  Almost like a SOCAL championship series.

An exciting baseball weekend.

[Browneagle64]

You're absolutely right Hen47 about my own predictions and streak on pomona's games throughout this season. Don't get me wrong, i have given them credit for their wins, but i still feel that the SCIAC co-champs are far better.  In the end, all i have to say is let's just wait and see how the hens do against the best team in the Nation and the best team out in the west.

[doctor K]

doctor K, you are so amazed with chapman's 18 game winning streak. you realize the sagehens had a 19 game winning streak of their own earlier this season?

I didn't realize the Sagehens had an amazing winning streak going earlier this season - thank you for bringing it to my attention.  Do you know of any other D3 teams that are on a roll with this many wins?  It would be interesting to know. 

This is going to be a very exciting weekend indeed.

[CUAfan]

Here is my new Top 10 from last weekend's games with offense/pitching/defense rankings after the expected winning percentage.

1. Texas-Tyler, ASC - .892 (1/1/3)
2. Linfield, NWC - .839 (24/2/1)
3. Chapman, IND - .805 (12/3/2)
4. Ozarks, ASC - .761 (3/7/11)
5. Pomona-Pitzer, SCIAC - .750 (6/10/7)
6. La Verne, SCIAC - .719 (14/4/6)
7. Redlands, SCIAC - .718 (7/5/15)
8. George Fox, NWC - .716 (13/11/10)
9. Trinity (TX), SCAC - .701 (10/6/26)
10. McMurry, ASC - .699 (4/21/18)

[Browneagle64]

Thanks for the insight and assessment CUAfan on these top 10 west team. Here's to a great weekend of d3baseball around the west and the rest of the nation.

[DIIIBASEBALLFAN]

Any of these tops teams could win it in the regional. Pitching and defense will be the key. Who ever has the deepest pitching will go the farthest. Offense wins games and pictching/defense wins championships. It takes alot of arms to get through the regional.

[CUAfan]

Here are the new regional player top 5's.

BsR/PA
T. Fogerty, Dallas - .360, 135 PA
M. Olsen, Puget Sound - .351, 134
D. David, McMurry - .344, 175
T. Williams, Concordia-Texas - .335, 182
A. WeberShapiro, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps - .335, 127

VORP
T. Fogerty, Dallas - 33.70, 135 PA
M. Olsen, Puget Sound - 31.12, 134
D. David, McMurry - 30.84, 175
T. Williams, Concordia-Texas - 30.33, 182
D. Hedman, Pomona-Pitzer - 26.94, 140

Starter DBsRA
W. Kitchens, Chapman - 2.58, 33.2 IP
E. Bronson, Trinity (TX) - 2.98, 59.2
B. Booher, Texas-Tyler - 3.08, 71.2
B. Holland, Texas-Tyler - 3.24, 67.1
C. Curry, McMurry - 3.28, 57.1

Starter VORP
M. Ryder, Menlo - 36.40, 84.0 IP
B. Booher, Texas-Tyler - 33.54, 71.2
B. Holland, Texas-Tyler - 30.31, 67.1
E. Bronson, Trinity (TX) - 28.58, 59.2
G. Dorn, Linfield - 27.24, 62.1

Reliever DBsRA
K. Yacko, Chapman - 2.27, 38.0
B. Ziegler, Texas-Tyler - 2.46, 33.0
R. Vaughn, Linfield - 2.48, 12.2
T. Fransen, Pacific (OR) - 2.70, 22.2
J. Brunswick, Pomona-Pitzer - 2.78, 12.1

Reliever VORP
K. Yacko, Chapman - 21.20, 38.0
B. Ziegler, Texas-Tyler - 17.73, 33.0
D. Keine, Hendrix - 15.54, 44.2
Bueno, Whittier - 15.00, 35.2
K. Barton, Hardin-Simmons - 14.70, 36.0

[SoCalBaseball998]

Came out to the game of Chapman vs Pomona Pitzer today. Saw both. Chapman is stacked bottom to top in their line up. Ball was flying off the barrel, but the wind seemed to be knocking everything down. Yacko was impressive, but in the head-to-head battle Hedman seemed to have gotten the upper hand putting a great swing on a ball and lifting it to the wall. once again, knocked down by the wind. Talked to a cubs scout between games and they seemed very interested in hedman's abilities. kid would have had five bombs today if it wasn't for the wind. first game was rather sloppy overall.

second game was a solid performance on both sides. Tom church of pomona pitzer was dominant on the mound and seemed to be throwing stuff that chapman had never seen before. i think he was throwing a knuckle from my perspective. chapman was definitely hitting the ball hard as expected, but church just had some untouchable stuff at other times.

good series overall. west seems wide open for anyone to go to appleton.

[baseballroxmysox]

some of you were wondering the status of colvin on Pomona-Pitzer...according to some of my r sagehen sources, Colvin dislocated his left (his pitching arm) shoulder diving for a ball in batting practice, and needs offseason surgery. However, this kid is an incredible athlete and actually played a little bit of high school quarterback, in which he threw RIGHTY. not wanting to give up on his season he has worked the past two weeks to see if he can come back as a righthanded pitcher, and from what i've heard, he is every bit as nasty as a righty...possibly throwing in the mid 80s! he is going to get a start against whittier, so we'll see how he does. in any case this is one mentally tough kid and one mentally tough team. i'm expecting big things

I heard about this story, and I had to make the trip out from the San Fernando Valley to check this kid out. Believe it or not he had some amazing stuff coming from the other side. Off speed was solid and fastball had zip with movement. He is a well built kid so the velocity was not very surprising. However, the breakers were still extremely devestating to hitters. Kid has a lot of heart for going through with this. I will definitely be trying the keep up on the story for the remainder of the season.

I'm sorry to inform you that Colvin has been a RT handed pitcher his whole career. Please double check for yourself on MaxPreps.com -   Max Preps is an awesome website that has California High School baseball stats on it.  You can look up anyone who played high school Varsity baseball (in Calif) and find out their past stats. 

Here is Colvin's info from his Jr yr.
David Colvin #18 

Position: RHP     Class: Junior 

It would have been an amazing story though     It certainly created a lot of hype.

[Ralph Turner]

JSG has been quiet about the West Region for a couple of weeks now.

To summarize:

Trinity won the SCAC Pool A bid.  There were no SCAC teams in the Regional Rankings last week, so Rhodes are Millsaps earning a Pool C bid is remote.  If they did, they would likely be sent someplace else to balance the bracket at 6 or 8 teams.

Linfield was stuck on a magic number of "1" until George Fox dropped their magic number to "1".  Linfield earned the NWC Pool A bid for its Monday win over GFU.  Where GFU is ranked in this week's West Regional Rankings remains to be seen.

The ASC begins its tourney on Friday.  McMurry  (ASC-West #1) hosts CTX (ASC-West #2), UT Tyler (ASC-East #1) and Mississippi College (ASC-East #2).

The SCAC is a big mess.  Here (Post # 677) is the link to  pomonaalum's excellent summary of the permutations involved in determining the SCIAC Pool A Bid.

Chapman is almost assured a Pool B bid.  I think that CSU-East Bay (Post # 138)  is also in contention, if they sweep three games in the St Louis area this weekend.

[SCIACfan5]

Just_Some_Guy,

Got any plans to post up 2009 pre-season rankings for the West Region?

[Jack Parkman]

JSG-  You still out there?  It's getting to be that time of year again and I would love to hear what you think of the '09 season.

[Dawgsdad]

JSG-  You still out there?  It's getting to be that time of year again and I would love to hear what you think of the '09 season.

JSG,

There must be something magical about your analyses of the west? Being new to this board and to this conference, I'm surprised that not much buzz is happening just two weeks before the season opens... What's it going to be like? Anybody?

Being new to the conference limits my ability to start something, so I'd like to hear from the regulars and those that have some background within the western side of the ASC...

Don't know much about Austin College, but I know a little about Trinity and the match in about three weeks between Trinity and TLU is likely to be a good one. Thoughts?

What about Cal State Hayward (sorry Eastbay) [my wife went there went it was CSUH] - I hear these guys always have good squads...?