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

[baseballcrazy]

There is live feed for the George Fox-Chapman game at George Fox's website

[Ralph Turner]

GFU beat Chapman 5-4 in the bottom of  the 10th inning.

Wyckoff singles to RF, gets to second on a wild pitch, SAC Bunt by Thunell to third and home on a SAC FLY to RF by Anderson

[Ralph Turner]

Chapman wins, 7-4.

[chakote]

THERE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHAPMAN WINS GOING TO APPLETON

[chakote]

THERE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHAPMAN WINS GOING TO APPLETON

THE COURAGE TO CONTINUE IS WHAT COUNTS
Without there #1 it was a team effort and what a great  ride I am going to miss you!!!

[diviiibbjunkie]

Great job Chapman.  Its 3 for 3 for us Chakote, but we have one more year.  Chapman is awesome!

[OshDude]

THERE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHAPMAN WINS GOING TO APPLETON

The Nickel awaits your patronage.

[ludawg6]

I apologize for not posting last night - couldn't get the wifi to work on the laptop in the new hotel... however... first off - congrats to Chapman... that is one of the great things about college baseball - "lower seeded teams" sometime come out on top (see Fresno State - CWS 2008)... a few comments on the PP-CLU game...

My Kingmen appeared a step slow... and it showed - especially after a 10-spot in the 3rd...
Hedman came as advertised... the guy can rake - hit the ball on the screws each time... (maybe we should have checked his bat??? - LOL)...
As always happens in college baseball - once you get into a bullpen you have a better shot at things... not that our pen was bad - just, again, a step slow it seemed...
I don't really understand why PP fans don't wear shoes???
It was great to reconnect with old friends and meet new ones - some will be rooting me and their sons on as teammates in next years CLU alumni game - a big one for old ones like me  - I hope you will root as passionate about this 40yr old has been as you will for your own kids next year...
And thank you to the Chapman fan whom I spoke with during the game - take some big figs to come up like you did and I respect you bigtime for that... like I said - I am all about the passion of the game - which speaks volumes for rivalries such as we saw... no harm no foul - its all good...
And - great job to George fox - have to say that I was rooting for them to win... moreso for PLU's sake than anything...  I have spent over35yrs up here and still the NW region gets no respect for our baseball - "how can you play up there - it rains all the time"  its not like GFU won the title and OSU won in Omaha two years in a row.... I feel that PLU got jobbed for not getting into the tourney... and,personally,  as a casualty of a "vote" for not making the playoffs way back when, there is always a place in my heart for the "non-popuular" teams that dont make it (BCS bids, etc)... PLU deserved to be there...

Will be watching the tourney on line as best I can from work... will get back on this next season.... and mabybe somebody can "Blog" the CLU alumni game when some hungover, overweight, "has been" tries to relive it - one last time....

Ludawg6

[CrashDavisD3]

Great job CHAPMAN PANTHERS......9th trip to APPLETON in 12 years.

You did what seem to be the impossible overcoming injuries, a roller coaster
season with great wins and some bad losses...most doubted that Chapman would even make the playoffs and even more wonder why you were there
and nobody thought you would win the region.

You believed in yourselves and played like a true team with contributions by everyone on the team to overcome all the roadblocks to win the region. You beat some great teams in the region who fought you hard every inning and you came out on top.

Seniors enjoy your 4th consecutive trip and now more lifetime memories.

Coach T, Coach Edwards, Coach K. who did their best coaching job this year with the challenges they had.

Hats off to to Linfield for hosting a outstanding tournament including the balcony crowd from Linfield who cheered the Panthers on. Thanks to the weather gods for some beautiful weather.

Texas-Tyler, Cal Lu, Pomona, Hendrix and George Fox. Chapman played you all this year and you have outstanding teams with players that play baseball hard and the right way. It was pleasure to watch these games with your outstanding teams. fans, and coaches.

And to the Chapman fans and parents...who travel everywhere to watch this team...We are blessed with watching these team accomplish things we can not believe. Now time to make our way to APPLETON and the WOODEN NICKEL....

Do you believe in miracles.....I DO and so do the 2009 WEST REGION CHAMPION CHAPMAN PANTHERS

[infielddad]

In my view, it is almost an upset in the West Region if Chapman does not get to Wisconsin.
As I have posted many times before, the talent base from which Chapman recruits in Orange County, the Inland Empire and the San Diego area/Southern CA. is certainly the top pool of talent in the Country.  When you combine that with the relatively small  number of DI and DII programs, that increases their pool even more.
I would also think the new DI transfer rules will help them even more(Vass would be an example.)
To use Trinity as one comparative example, they have to recruit nationally, their talent pool is  thin because of the academic standards now in place, and, unfortunately, a substantial portion of the financial aid at Trinity is merit based, not need based.  With that said, I think they have top skill players/pitchers on par with Chapman.  TU does not have the depth of talent.
UT Tyler is another interesting comparison.
While they can recruit baseball rich Texas, Tyler, TX isn't Orange CA.
Also, UTT needs to recruit where there are numerous DI programs, even more DII's and NAIA's and at least as many, if not more JC's which can  offer scholarships.
This isn't to say anything negative about Chapman.  They still need to identify the talent, recruit the talent, coach the talent and the talent needs to produce.  But we cannot lose sight of the obvious: Chapman has an abundance of talent  from which to recruit.
It is a different situation trying to compete with Chapman when coaches are recruiting kids to Conway, Ark.(Hendrix) and/or with the academic/financial limitations at a school like Trinity. They will get kids, some really good ones.  I just don't think they can get as many.
If there was ever evidence that the depth of talent at Chapman is a key difference in the West Region, this year has to be proof.

[Ralph Turner]

In my view, it is almost an upset in the West Region if Chapman does not get to Wisconsin.
As I have posted many times before, the talent base from which Chapman recruits in Orange County, the Inland Empire and the San Diego area/Southern CA. is certainly the top pool of talent in the Country.  When you combine that with the relatively small  number of DI and DII programs, that increases their pool even more.
I would also think the new DI transfer rules will help them even more(Vass would be an example.)
To use Trinity as one comparative example, they have to recruit nationally, their talent pool is  thin because of the academic standards now in place, and, unfortunately, a substantial portion of the financial aid at Trinity is merit based, not need based.  With that said, I think they have top skill players/pitchers on par with Chapman.  TU does not have the depth of talent.
UT Tyler is another interesting comparison.
While they can recruit baseball rich Texas, Tyler, TX isn't Orange CA.
Also, UTT needs to recruit where there are numerous DI programs, even more DII's and NAIA's and at least as many, if not more JC's which can  offer scholarships.
This isn't to say anything negative about Chapman.  They still need to identify the talent, recruit the talent, coach the talent and the talent needs to produce.  But we cannot lose sight of the obvious: Chapman has an abundance of talent  from which to recruit.
It is a different situation trying to compete with Chapman when coaches are recruiting kids to Conway, Ark.(Hendrix) and/or with the academic/financial limitations at a school like Trinity. They will get kids, some really good ones.  I just don't think they can get as many.
If there was ever evidence that the depth of talent at Chapman is a key difference in the West Region, this year has to be proof.

Respectfully, I am missing your point on recruiting in areas that are heavy with scholarship schools.

The last count that I had was 18 D-1's, 10 D-II's, 10 scholarship NAIA's and almost 40 scholarship JUCO's in Texas.

Thanks. 

[wildcat11]

Just curious to see how well the regional was hosted by Linfield?  Good? Bad?  Can people see Linfield hosting another regional down the road?

[infielddad]

Ralph,
You made the point I intended and did it much better.  While Texas is talent rich, it isn't concentrated like it is in Southern CA.  where Chapman is located.
On top of that, schools like UT-T are competing against the large number of DI, DII, NAIA and JC schools.
Chapman doesn't have anything near that number or level of DI, DII, NAIA or JC schools in their available talent pool.

[royhobbs]

infield dad, you're way off base on your comments about Chapman not having to compete for the talent like UTT does. It's a compliment to Coach T, and some of the other SoCal D3 coaches that they are able to get some of these players. Chapman does not have the depth they've enjoyed in the past, they just win when they have to. The ASC needs to quit making excuses about injuries, long season, etc. All the teams are banged up, and Chapman won the Regional with their All American Ace only throwing 2 innings. If he's ready for Appleton, that would be a huge lift for thr Panthers.

[80sshorts]

Linfield did a superb job of hosting.  Great facility, great atmosphere, it looked the Linfield coaching staff was always hustling around.  I would give it to them year after year given their performance in this regional.