BB: Top Teams in West Region

[CrashDavisD3]

TOP TEAMS IN THE WEST March 12, 2012

1) Trinity(17-3) SCAC
2) Texas-Tyler(12-3) ASC
3) Concordia-Texas(16-4) ASC
4) Pacific Lutheran(10-5) NWC
5) Linfield(9-4) NWC
6) La Verne(13-6) SCIAC
7) Cal Lutheran(12-6) SCIAC
8) Hendrix(11-6) SCAC
9) Occidental(14-7) SCIAC
10)  Centenary(10-4)

So who *do* you have at #10, Crash?  "Not Chapman" isn't much help.   

[108 Stitches]

Way to go Crash! You will make some kids happy they are now on the Crash top 10!!! Pretty elite company if I don't say so myself.

Their number one (Cole Thompson) does a weekly blog and I know they are a bit saddened that they don't get any press in the step down from D1, so I am sure he will be happy to be on someone's top 10. 

[BamColt]

Concordia and Trinity should be odds on favorite at the end. Both are playing very good ball right now. Concordia just swept Howard Payne to go 17-4 on the year.

[CrashDavisD3]

2012 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 week 3
http://www.d3baseball.com/top25/2012/2012week-3
Through games of Sunday, March 11
#    School (1st votes)    Rec    Pts    Prev.
1    Marietta (20)    4-1    605    1
2    Kean (3)    8-2    579    2
3    Trinity (Texas) (1)    17-3    529    4
4    Christopher Newport    13-3    526    3
5    UW-Stevens Point    2-0    499    7
6    Rowan (1)    9-0    426    13
7    Piedmont    13-4    424    10
8    Salisbury    11-3    410    9
9    Eastern Connecticut    4-1    402    8
10    Linfield    9-4    372    5
11    UW-Whitewater    2-2    360    6
12    Adrian    6-1    355    11
13    Keystone    5-1    320    14
14    Carthage    0-0    254    15
15    Concordia (Texas)    16-4    253    18
16    Texas-Tyler    14-4    223    19
17    Wheaton (Mass.)    1-1    204    16
18    Western New England    2-1    149    17
19    Thomas More    5-1    141    22
20    Shenandoah    11-5    139    23
21    Misericordia    11-1    138    -
22    Cortland State    7-4    137    24
23    St. Thomas    4-2    107    25
24    Heidelberg    5-4    104    12
25    Bridgewater (Va.)    14-4    58    -


Dropped Out: No. 21 Chapman, No. 20 Alvernia.

Also receiving votes: Illinois Wesleyan 52, Alvernia 47, DePauw 44, Concordia (Ill.) 35, Ramapo 32, Augustana 23, Tufts 22, North Park 19, Huntingdon 19, Cal Lutheran 17, Wittenberg 14, Chapman 11, Neumann 11, St. John Fisher 11, Aurora 10, UW-Oshkosh 7, Ithaca 6, Birmingham-Southern 5, Washington U. 5, Mount Union 5, La Verne 4, St. Scholastica 4, Coe 3, Dubuque 2, Swarthmore 1, Otterbein 1, Ohio Wesleyan 1.

Not sure how some teams get even a single vote sometimes based upon how they have played and their records.

[Ron Boerger]

Concordia (TX) dropped a pair to Hardin-Simmons on Saturday, 1-2 and 4-5.   HSU improved to 9-9 with the two wins.   Concordia, which needed a walkoff homer to beat HSU in game one of the series, drops to 18-6.

[CrashDavisD3]

Monday March 19, 2012

Who has the most wins in the West
Trinity-Texas(19-3)
Concordia-Texas(18-6)
Texas-Tyler(16-6)
Hendrix(14-6)
La Verne(14-8)
Texas-Dallas(14-9)
Occidental(14-9)

Who has the least losses in the West
Trinity-Texas(19-3)
Linfield College(12-4)
Centenary(12-5)
Concordia-Texas(18-6)
Texas-Tyler(16-6)
Whitworth(11-6-1)
Hendrix(14-6)

Who is leading their Conference
SCIAC La Verne(9-3) & Occidental(9-3) 
NWC Whitworth(5-1)
SCAC-West Trinity(8-0)
ASC-West McMurry(6-0)
ASC-East Texas-Dallas(5-1)

[CrashDavisD3]

2012 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 week 4
Through games of Sunday, March 18
# School (1st votes) Rec Pts Prev.
1 Trinity (Texas) (16) 19-3 595 3
2 Marietta (7) 9-3 583 1
3 Kean (1) 10-3 577 2
4 Christopher Newport 16-4 541 4
5 Piedmont 15-5 492 7
6 UW-Stevens Point 4-1 462 5
7 Salisbury (1) 15-3 452 8
8 Linfield 12-4 402 10
9 Eastern Connecticut 6-2 338 9
10 Wheaton (Mass.) 7-1 324 17
11 Adrian 7-2 322 12
12 Rowan 10-3 311 6
13 Carthage 1-0 288 14
14 Keystone 7-3 233 13
15 UW-Whitewater 2-2 230 11
16 Cortland State 11-4 221 22
17 Shenandoah 15-5 210 20
18 Thomas More 8-2 198 19
19 St. Thomas 8-3 173 23
20 Misericordia 13-2 159 21
21 Concordia (Texas) 18-6 156 15
22 Texas-Tyler 16-6 141 16
23 Western New England 4-2 106 18
24 Ramapo 7-0 75 -
25 Neumann 12-3 60 -



Dropped Out: No. 24 Heidelberg, No. 25 Bridgewater (Va.).

Also receiving votes: Tufts 58, Augustana 56, Illinois Wesleyan 54, Bridgewater (Va.) 36, DePauw 32, St. Joseph's (Maine) 23, Otterbein 18, Alvernia 17, Concordia (Ill.) 17, North Park 16, Rhodes 16, Aurora 16, Spalding 14, Wittenberg 12, Wheaton (Ill.) 12, Washington College 12, William Paterson 10, SUNY-Old Westbury 10, St. John Fisher 8, Heidelberg 6, Westminster (Pa.) 6, Muhlenberg 5, Huntingdon 5, Baldwin-Wallace 5, Franklin 4, Lynchburg 3, Emory 2, Ohio Wesleyan 1, Birmingham-Southern 1, Texas-Dallas 1.

[CrashDavisD3]

Not a single SCIAC team received a single vote in the top 55 teams that received votes in the D3 Top 25 poll this week.

The other poll the ABCA coaches poll La Verne, Cal Lu and Claremont received votes but no Occidental 

[Ron Boerger]

Not a single SCIAC team received a single vote in the top 55 teams that received votes in the D3 Top 25 poll this week.

The other poll the ABCA coaches poll La Verne, Cal Lu and Claremont received votes but no Occidental 

P-P beating Kean (and their pitcher who hadn't allowed a run in three previous starts) should help the conference get a little visibility.  :-)

[Piobark]

About time for Whitworth to get a little attention as I pointed out 8 pages ago?

Nice win over Linfield yesterday, previously 2 wins over Oxy and two against PLU.

Their 12-7-1 record is a little misleading as three of the losses are against non D3 schools.

[Jack Parkman]

About time for Whitworth to get a little attention as I pointed out 8 pages ago?

Nice win over Linfield yesterday, previously 2 wins over Oxy and two against PLU.

Their 12-7-1 record is a little misleading as three of the losses are against non D3 schools.

Not a chance.  If you look deeper into their schedule you will see how poor it really is.  The 12-4 West Region record is nice but here is a little breakdown.

Opponents (only counting D-III) are a combined 60-72-2 for a .448 winning %
6 of their 12 wins are against Lewis & Clark and Puget Sound who are a combine 6-38-1 for a whopping .133 winning %

Not trying to be a jerk but just looking at wins/losses isn't going to give the real picture.

[108 Stitches]

Carefull Jack someone is going to tell you that the losing % is because they lost to Whitworth. 

Agree with you, but the program is going in the right direction.

[Jack Parkman]

Carefull Jack someone is going to tell you that the losing % is because they lost to Whitworth. 

Agree with you, but the program is going in the right direction.

Haha, no joke.  Agreed 100% that the program is headed in the right direction.  They are currently leading Linfield in the 8th of the rubber-game of that series.  That would be a huge series win for them.

[Jack Parkman]

And the third game is now a final.  Huge series win for Whitworth.

[108 Stitches]

Trinity swept UofDallas over the weekend. Pretty much dominated the series; even though game two's score was close. (9-8) They went with a promising Freshmen in game two, who was in control up 8-1, started to get a little shaky to make it 8-3. The coach brought in some of the bullpen that had not seen too much action and a couple of walks, 2 hits and 2 balls thrown over the first basemen's head and you have a tied game. The book shows 3 errors but 2 were on one pitcher that I think cost them 4 runs.

Lucero was in control on Sunday, I think it he was up 7-1 through 6 giving up one HR (foul ball according to some, but whatever) and a miss played ball by the SS ended up costing the Tigers 3 or 4 runs toward the back end of the game. They cruised on in with a 7-5 victory. Having a strong closer is huge as Michael Bentz came in and shut down the games on Sat and Sunday.

Their defense is as solid as ever and they are being much more disciplined at the plate. He has been running out different lineups so he has a pretty good idea what he has offensively and defensively and his bench. He is going to have to keep going to his pen to a figure out who he can trust prior to the Regionals if they want to make a run in the tournament.

You can really see how an error or two can really make a huge difference in the game now with the BBCOR bats. A costly error can end up costing a team 2-3 runs and you just can't make those runs up easily anymore.

They did not do anything IMO to take them out of the number 1 slot, but I have not looked at any of the other results from the weekend.