BB: General West Region Discussion

[CrashDavisD3]

You guys are killing me with the baseball talk... as I look of my classroom window right now, I see nothing but snow coming down sideways today:( We are at least 6 weeks away from even seeing the grass...

In 2010 I saw rain come down sideways in near freezing temperatures while watching team play baseball in the regionals  in late May in the WEST.

Occidental could be 6-0 by the time they play Chapman on February 15th. By March 1st Chapman will have played 11 games.

[BamColt]

Concordia's new baseball facility is located in North Austin near the Lake. An absolutely beautiful stadium and campus.
The picture above is the old field downtown that was an incredible stadium as well. Texas would practice there when they were playing on grass to prepare for road games. Good to see Concordia finally hosting a regional, Mike Gardner put in a ton of work to get the old stadium built from basically a city park. Now Tommy Boggs has taken over and has done a very good job so far.

[CrashDavisD3]

Concordia's new baseball facility is located in North Austin near the Lake. An absolutely beautiful stadium and campus.
The picture above is the old field downtown that was an incredible stadium as well. Texas would practice there when they were playing on grass to prepare for road games. Good to see Concordia finally hosting a regional, Mike Gardner put in a ton of work to get the old stadium built from basically a city park. Now Tommy Boggs has taken over and has done a very good job so far.

Link to aerial view

Link to CTX site

[108 Stitches]

Things are starting to fire up out West. It's early so the first weekend does not mean too much however.....

In the SCIAC, Occidental, Pomona-Pitzer, LaVern and CLU all are off to solids starts. Oxy & P-P both are undefeated. CLU had a solid weekend going 1-1-1 vs #4 (not for long) Whitworth.

I agree with Crash that two teams from the SCIAC will likely be in the West Regional after this weekend.

George Fox probably had the most impressive start going 4-0 with solid wins over CTX, Dallas, LaVern and Redlands. Linfield, PLU, Whitman all showing that the NWC is going to be a dog fight. #4 Whitworth at 1-2-1 has some work to do to get back to last year's form.

The biggest shock out West has to be CTX starting out 0-6. They are going to host the Regional, but if something doesn't change fast they will not be between the lines and the team may be manning the snack shack. Again it's early, but the coaches should understandably be concerned.

TLU has also started strong and is showing that it is to be reckoned with in the West this year. Trinity was off and the other SCAC teams have not done anything impressive.

Was very nice to see some baseball firing up again.

[CrashDavisD3]

Things are starting to fire up out West. It's early so the first weekend does not mean too much however.....

In the SCIAC, Occidental, Pomona-Pitzer, LaVern and CLU all are off to solids starts. Oxy & P-P both are undefeated. CLU had a solid weekend going 1-1-1 vs #4 (not for long) Whitworth.

I agree with Crash that two teams from the SCIAC will likely be in the West Regional after this weekend.

George Fox probably had the most impressive start going 4-0 with solid wins over CTX, Dallas, LaVern and Redlands. Linfield, PLU, Whitman all showing that the NWC is going to be a dog fight. #4 Whitworth at 1-2-1 has some work to do to get back to last year's form.

The biggest shock out West has to be CTX starting out 0-6. They are going to host the Regional, but if something doesn't change fast they will not be between the lines and the team may be manning the snack shack. Again it's early, but the coaches should understandably be concerned.

TLU has also started strong and is showing that it is to be reckoned with in the West this year. Trinity was off and the other SCAC teams have not done anything impressive.

Was very nice to see some baseball firing up again.

Occidental 6-0 
CTX 0-6 

[dp643]

The ASC better not be complaining come at large discussion time after the egg they laid against the rest of the west this past weekend. CTX and UT Dallas are now a combined 0-10. Ouch!

[Ron Boerger]

Two of CTX's losses were to Lubbock Christian, a school in the NAIA preseason top 20 ... but 0-6 with 12 errors and a team ERA near 6 is not what anyone expected. 

[Whatagame]

Yep, solid start for the NWC in Arizona, going 13-3 (3 squads going 3-1, and Fox sweeping)  Beatty for PLU off to a great start on what hopefully will be one of the "feel good" stories of the season, tossing 8 shutout w/12 K's against CTX.  LaVerne looks tough, and was the talk of the weekend after shutting out Linfield, but G. Fox stole the show.

I thought I remembered Whitworth having a slow start last season in CA, and I checked, and they did, including a big blowout loss to Pomona-Pitzer.  Eastern WA has been a foggy, snowy icebox since the New Year, so I'm guessing Whitworth has had limited field time.  No reason to believe they won't be right there at the end of conference play.

I'm really interested to see how the Oxy/Chapman series goes next weekend.

[CrashDavisD3]

Best Records in the West 2-13-2013

ASC
Howard Paynes 6-0

NWC
George Fox 4-0
Pugent Sound 3-0


SCAC
Trinity-TX 3-1

SCIAC
Occidental 6-0
Pomona-Pitzer 4-0

What Happen? 
Both teams played in West Regional in 2011
Concordia-Texas (0-6)
Chapman(1-4)

[Just_Some_Guy]

Best Records in the West 2-13-2013

ASC
Howard Paynes 6-0

NWC
George Fox 4-0
Pugent Sound 3-0


SCAC
Trinity-TX 3-1

SCIAC
Occidental 6-0
Pomona-Pitzer 4-0

What Happen? 
Both teams played in West Regional in 2011
Concordia-Texas (0-6)
Chapman(1-4)

It's still very early in the season. I predict Chapman will take 2 of 3 from Oxy this weekend and that Concordia will finish the ASC at least 3 games ahead of Howard Payne.

6 ASC teams play in the Rudy's Country Store & BBQ Tornado Classic and UT Tyler & Hardin Simmons face each other this weekend. We'll have a little more insight into how the ASC hierarchy might look after this weekend. Also, I believe TLU is also 6-0 in the ASC.

JSG

[CrashDavisD3]

Best Records in the West 2-13-2013

ASC
Texas Lutheran 6-0
Howard Payne 6-0

NWC
George Fox 4-0
Pugent Sound 3-0


SCAC
Trinity-TX 3-1

SCIAC
Occidental 6-0
Pomona-Pitzer 4-0

What Happen? 
Both teams played in West Regional in 2011
Concordia-Texas (0-6)
Chapman(1-4)

It's still very early in the season. I predict Chapman will take 2 of 3 from Oxy this weekend and that Concordia will finish the ASC at least 3 games ahead of Howard Payne.

6 ASC teams play in the Rudy's Country Store & BBQ Tornado Classic and UT Tyler & Hardin Simmons face each other this weekend. We'll have a little more insight into how the ASC hierarchy might look after this weekend. Also, I believe TLU is also 6-0 in the ASC.

JSG

[Ron Boerger]

CTX got off the schneid by dealing TLU its first loss Thursday, 8-7, and defeated Sul Ross (1-6) today, 4-1 

[CrashDavisD3]

Chapman got its first ever win in the SCIAC conference game with a 3-2 win over Occidental College on Friday. Great defense, great pitching and timely hitting help Chapman get the win. Chapman plays a double header on Saturday at home vs Occidental.

http://www.d3baseball.com/seasons/2013/contrib/20130215lebc0e

http://www.chapmanathletics.com/sports/bsb/2012-13/boxscores/20130215_87oj.xml

[CrashDavisD3]

Top Teams in the West

SCIAC Pomona 7-0
SCAC Trinity TX 5-1
ASC  Texas Lutheran 7-2
NWC George Fox 5-2

[108 Stitches]

I would say that Pomona and TLU are off to solid starts. Too early to really tell on the rest since many have played so few games. I did a quick look and George Fox is 5-3 now. Linfield is 3-1, with PLU and Whitman at 4-2. Oxy is now 7-2 after dropping 2 of 3 to Chapman, so even though they have a good record I think they have played some cup cakes.

Trinity beat up a NAIA team on Sat, that frankly was not very good so there is not much to draw from this other than they crushed a team they should have. In reality they are only 3-1 vs D3 teams. Frankly their schedule looks pretty weak so they better win a ton of games IMO since their SOS will likely be low.

Concordia looks like they have things going in the right direction.

I have not looked at the match ups for next week yet.