BB: Top Teams in West Region

[CrashDavisD3]

 Correction
http://www.d3baseball.com/top25/2013/2013week-1

Top Teams in the West in the polls
Trinity
Whitworth
Linfield
Pomona-Pitzer
Concordia TX
Cal Lutheran
Texas-Tyler
Whittier
La Verne


Whitworth is currently ranked 15th at 4-3-1

[CrashDavisD3]

Top Teams in the West

1) NWC Linfield 9-1
2) SCAC - Trinity 11-2
3) ASC - LaTourneau 9-2
4) ASC - Texas Tyler 10-3
5) NWC - Pacific Lutheran 9-3
6) SCIAC - Cal Lutheran 7-4-1

[108 Stitches]

Top Teams in the West

1) NWC Linfield 9-1
2) SCAC - Trinity 11-2
3) ASC - LaTourneau 9-2
4) ASC - Texas Tyler 10-3
5) NWC - Pacific Lutheran 9-3
6) SCIAC - Cal Lutheran 7-4-1

I would add:

7) SCIAC - Pomona  10-3 (2 of 3 losses to CLU)

* Centenary - 9-3

* Not eligible but still a very good team 

Crash - what are you doing up at 4:30AM?....

[Patriotfan87]

UT Tyler goes 4-0 in Clements Fluids Classic including two wins over Whitworth 5-4 and 12-2.

[108 Stitches]

Linfield looks like they are back in a big way, Whitworth looks like they are fading and should drop out of the top 25 this week. UT-Tyler looks strong as Patriotfan just posted.

Trinity took care of business as they should have and go into probably the toughest stretch of their season with two mid week games vs Cardinal Stretch and DeSales this week then an away series at Centenary, then right back at a Tuesday game vs TLU. Should be a good stretch to stretch out the pitching staff. Just to show how deep this team is the number 6 outfielder went 3-3 with a single, a triple, a HR 4 RBI's plus a stolen base.

[Ron Boerger]

CTX lost three this weekend to a previously 4-8 UT-Dallas squad, what in the world is going on in Austin?

Glad to see Trinity do what they should have done against 1-15 Southwestern.  So it's Austin AND Georgetown where strange things are going on. 

[CrashDavisD3]

CTX lost three this weekend to a previously 4-8 UT-Dallas squad, what in the world is going on in Austin?

Glad to see Trinity do what they should have done against 1-15 Southwestern.  So it's Austin AND Georgetown where strange things are going on. 

Austin is not the only place

2011 CTX 31-17 Semifinals Western Regional                       
2011 Chapman 37-13 Finals NCAA DIII Championship Game   

2013 CTX(7-10) 10th in overall record in ASC
2013 Chapman(6-8) 7th in overall record in SCIAC

Still enough time for both teams to turn things around but better start soon.

[108 Stitches]

I have not seen CTX play this year yet, but Chapman does not seem like a Regional team to me. (at this point in time). 

Linfield, George Fox, UT-Tyler, TLU, P-P, CLU and Trinity are starting to separate themselves from the pack.  (I am ignoring Oxy  )

Question is LaTourneau a West team?

[OshDude]

I have not seen CTX play this year yet, but Chapman does not seem like a Regional team to me. (at this point in time). 

Linfield, George Fox, UT-Tyler, TLU, P-P, CLU and Trinity are starting to separate themselves from the pack.  (I am ignoring Oxy  )

Question is LaTourneau a West team?

All ASC teams, including LeTourneau, are in the West Region.

[Ralph Turner]

I have not seen CTX play this year yet, but Chapman does not seem like a Regional team to me. (at this point in time). 

Linfield, George Fox, UT-Tyler, TLU, P-P, CLU and Trinity are starting to separate themselves from the pack.  (I am ignoring Oxy  )

Question is LaTourneau a West team?

All ASC teams, including LeTourneau, are in the West Region.

LeTourneau still has much to prove, IMHO.  I think that an upper echelon ASC-East team wins all of those games.

[Whatagame]

I have not seen CTX play this year yet, but Chapman does not seem like a Regional team to me. (at this point in time). 

Linfield, George Fox, UT-Tyler, TLU, P-P, CLU and Trinity are starting to separate themselves from the pack.  (I am ignoring Oxy  )

Question is LaTourneau a West team?

Don't over look Pac Lu.....

The big enigma looks like Whitworth.  They start NWC conference play next weekend.  I looked at their record heading into NWC conference play last year, and they were  6-5-1, this year they are 5-5-1, so tough to say where they stand.  However, it will shake out very soon, as next week Whitworth plays Puget Sound at home (a pretty interesting series, I believe) then it gets really tough, Whitworth plays at PLU, then, Linfield at Whitworth the following weekend.

[Westside]

I think PLU and Linfield have the best shot in the NWC because they have the pitching that can dominate on any given day. I still can't understand how Whitworth and Pacific won that league last year (That's why you play the game!). I think Fox's pitching will get exposed against the better teams in conference, and I will take strong pitching over hitting every time.

Of course I realize I will probably be completely wrong about this too. 

[Jack Parkman]

Here is the toughness of the SCIAC teams' schedules by opponents winning %.

1) Chapman- .773%
2) CLU- .596%
3) CMS- .589%
4) Redlands- .560%
5) La Verne- .516%
6) Whittier- .487%
7) Pomona-Pitzer- .483%
8) Oxy- .194%

Pretty interesting numbers and I would say Chapman is doing a good job playing against a very tough schedule.  They might not be around at the end of the year but I fully expect them to be back next year.

[108 Stitches]

Timing and getting hot at the right time is so important and I think Whitworth got hot at exactly the right time last year and it carried them through their conference into the Regionals. Whether that can happen again with a resurgent Linfield, GF and PLU - time will tell. I am not discounting their team at all but I am not sure they can repeat what they did last year.

I went and looked and they were beating teams pretty convincingly just looking at their scores. When Trinity beat them in the second game of the Regionals I thought they were done, and that shows you how much I know.

[CrashDavisD3]

Teams in West in the polls
http://www.d3baseball.com/top25/2013/2013week-2

6 Trinity - TX
15 Linfield
22 Whitworth
24 Texas-Tyler

Others receiving votes
Pomona-Pitzer
Concordia Texas
George Fox
Hardin Simmons
Texas Dallas

No love for Cal Lutheran. They have beat Pomona twice,  Whitworth win and a tie, George Fox twice. I guess they ran out of votes for SCIAC teams. 5 teams from Texas got votes.... ....Could there be 4 teams in the West Regional from Texas.  ... I guess we will check back in May,,,,

Teams with .500 or lower overall records should not be getting votes......Does anyone do they homerwork?