BB: Regionals (West) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011

[Ralph Turner]

I added the win for Chapman last night (I think).  All regionals are 6 teams.

Jack, I think that the West will be a 6-team bracket.

2009 Baseball Handbook  February 17th revision.

54 teams this year.   

[Jack Parkman]

I stand corrected.  I did not realize there were 8 team regionals.  The West will be a 6 team for sure, simply because of it's location and the amount of teams in the West.  Thanks for correcting me Ralph.

[TexasBB]

UTT has the best record of the teams in Texas so far. They are 14-4 overall and 11-3 against west region teams.

[wildcat11]

FAKE GRASS YUCK. LETS HOPE THE WEST IS NOT DECIDED BY WHO KNOWS HOW TO PLAY ON THAT SURFACE. ITS REAL GRASS IN APPLETON

Yes, thanks to that yucky fake infield grass Linfield was able to get 4 games in that were supposed to be played at Whitworth over the past two days.    The facility and college will be a great host and I'm looking forward to attending and I hope you can make it up so you can finally breath some clean air.

[cat_fan_08]

FAKE GRASS YUCK. LETS HOPE THE WEST IS NOT DECIDED BY WHO KNOWS HOW TO PLAY ON THAT SURFACE. ITS REAL GRASS IN APPLETON

If you don't know how to play on a surface where you don't have to worry about bad hops then you probably don't deserve to be in the regional.

Linfield has a great facility and will be a great host.

[Jack Parkman]

 Here is the "Far West" Regional standings as of 3/10/09

1. George Fox-            1.00%
2. Pomona-Pitzer-       .900%
3. Cal Lutheran-          .833%
4. Redlands-                .818%
5. Claremont-              .700%
    Linfield    -               .700%
7. Chapman                 .643%
8. Pacific Lutheran-     .615%
9. Puget Sound-          .600%
10. Whittier-                .545%
11. Occidental-            .533%
12. Willamette-           .500%
13. CSU East Bay-       .417%
14. Menlo-                   .364%
15. La Verne-              .273%
16. Whitman-              .250%
17. Pacific-                   .231%
18. Whitworth-            .143%
19. Lewis & Clark-       .091%
20. Cal Tech-                 0%

Obviously these will change a lot every week.  I will try and keep up with it as much as possible.  I really don't know if these mean all that much, but I thought I would take a look at it.

[TexasBB]

George Fox's overall record is 11-3 with one of those losses being to Concordia Oregon a confernce foe back in late February. The other two losses were to a team from Hawaii that may not be an NCAA DIV III school.

[TexasBB]

I errored Concordia Oregon is not a conference team or an NCAA III west regional team. It may be an NAIA school. Accept my apology.

[Ralph Turner]

George Fox's overall record is 11-3 with one of those losses being to Concordia Oregon a confernce foe back in late February. The other two losses were to a team from Hawaii that may not be an NCAA DIV III school.

GFU has losses to UH-Hilo, D-II and Concordia Oregon, an NAIA school.

[BigPoppa]

George Fox's overall record is 11-3 with one of those losses being to Concordia Oregon a confernce foe back in late February. The other two losses were to a team from Hawaii that may not be an NCAA DIV III school.

GFU has losses to UH-Hilo, D-II and Concordia Oregon, an NAIA school.

I got my ever college coaching win against Concordia, Oregon. I will never forget it. They are a pretty solid program that usually make a nice run in the NAIA post-season.

[cat_fan_08]

Concordia has not looked that impressive this year. Being in the same conference as LC State, they are usually over matched. It was a little surprising that Fox lost to them this year.

[Jack Parkman]

Updated "Far West" regional rankings. As of 3/15/09

TEAM                                    WINNING %
1.   George Fox                      1.000
2.   Pomona-Pitzer                  .917           
3.   Cal Lutheran                     .867
4.   Linfield                              .786
      Redlands                          .786
6.   Claremont                        .667
7.   Chapman                         .643
8.   Pacific Lutheran               .615
9.   Whittier                           .500
      Occidental                       .500
11. Willamette                       .455
12. Puget Sound                   .444
13. La Verne                         .400
14. Menlo                              .385
15. Pacific                              .333
      East Bay                          .333
17. Whitman                          .125
18. Whitworth                        .111
19. Lewis & Clark                   .091
20. Cal Tech                           0

There could be some mistakes but I think these are pretty much right on.  Thoughts?

[Jack Parkman]

I finally added the ASC and SCAC schools to the mix.  Pretty interesting as it looks like all of the Texas schools are beating up on each other.


TEAM                                    WINNING %
1.   George Fox                      1.000
2.   Pomona-Pitzer                  .917           
3.   Cal Lutheran                     .867
4.   UT Tyler                             .833
5.   Linfield                              .786
      Redlands                          .786
7.   Claremont                        .667
8.   UT Dallas                          .647
9.   Chapman                         .643
10. UMHB                               .625
 
That is the top 10 as of 3/16/09

I realize there is still a lot of baseball to be played but the SCAC West needs to have a team win their conference tourney to get in.

[Jack Parkman]

Here are the West regions top 8 by winning %.  There should be some more movement int he next few weeks now that all of the tournaments are over.  Like it was said somewhere else, UT Tyler looks to be the only ASC/SCAC team with a shot at a pool C at this point in time.

1.  George Fox         .923%
2.  Pomona-Pitzer    .917%
3.  Cal Lutheran       .867%
4.  Linfield                .833%
5.  UT Tyler               .818%
6.  Redlands             .750%
7.  Pacific Lutheran   .706%
8.  Chapman             .667%

George Fox squares off with Pacific Lutheran in the NWC this weekend.  Neither team can afford to lose more than 2 games.
Pomona-Pitzer and Redlands play in the SCIAC this Friday-Saturday.  I don't see Redlands having the pitching to win.  After looking over stats, it seems to me that Redlands struggles when anyone besides Nicholson is on the mound.  This weekend is HUGE for Redlands.  They can't afford a bad weekend with Cal Lu and Chapman still on their schedule.

[Jack Parkman]

Updated West Region standings as of 3/30/09.  A little bit of movement this weekend...

1.  Pomona-Pitzer    .933%
2.  Cal Lutheran       .889%
3.  Linfield                .857%
4.  George Fox         .824%
5.  UT Tyler               .808%
6.  Chapman             .722%
7.  Pacific Lutheran   .696%
8.  Redlands              .632%


Chapman continues to climb but there was mention the other day that Kitchens left his start early due to injury.  No idea what happened but that could be a bad break for Chapman.
Linfield and Pomona are on fire!  Both teams still have big games left.  Pomona has Cal Lutheran and Linfield still has George Fox.
Cal Lutheran keeps putting up wins but still has two very big weekends left with Redlands and Pomona.  If they slip up this weekend with Redlands it could mean trouble.
UT Tyler is ranked very high but I still think they have things to prove.  They are racking up wins, but a loss here and there could hurt them.
PLU must keep winning every game. 
Redlands has a make or break weekend ahead with Cal Lutheran.  Losing this series spells doom for Redlands.

The West has some very good teams this year.  I think the regional breaks down with 2 from the SCIAC, 2 from the NWC, Chapman and UT Tyler.