BB: Top Teams in West Region

[108 Stitches]

#   School (1st votes)   Rec   Pts   Prev.
1   UW-Whitewater (14)   0-0   588   1
2   St. Thomas (6)   5-0   583   2
3   Cortland State (2)   9-0   574   3
4   Salisbury   5-0   549   4
5   Birmingham-Southern (3)   14-0   532   7
6   Kean   8-1   479   6
7   Cal Lutheran   14-4   403   5
8   Rhodes   17-3   388   14
9   Baldwin Wallace   8-0   381   17
10   Emory   12-5   367   9
11   Southern Maine   5-2   330   8
12   Trinity (Texas)   14-4   316   11
13   UW-Stevens Point   3-2   299   10
14   Shenandoah   4-2   266   12
15   Randolph-Macon   11-1   247   22
16   Frostburg State   12-0   221   25
17   Misericordia   7-1   182   20
18   Marietta   6-4   136   16
19   Bridgewater (Va.)   10-3   124   18
20   Heidelberg   7-1   120   rv
21   Pacific Lutheran   14-6   91   19
22   Webster   6-4   83   rv
23   Linfield   14-7   82   21
24   Johns Hopkins  3-0  78   rv
25   Case Western Reserve   4-4   76   15
Dropped out: No. 13 Concordia-Chicago, No. 23 Rowan, No. 24 Eastern Connecticut State

Others receiving votes: Concordia-Chicago 66, Concordia (Texas) 53, UW-La Crosse 46, Wesleyan (Conn.) 42, Catholic 41, Otterbein 37, Tufts 31, Buena Vista 30, Augustana (Ill.) 28, Pomona-Pitzer 26, Concordia-Moorhead 26, Wartburg 24, Ohio Northern 24, Washington (Mo.) 23, Rutgers-Camden 22, Millsaps 20, Adrian 11, La Roche 11, Willamette 10, Rowan 8, Huntingdon 5, Trinity (Conn.) 4, Mary Washington 4, Texas-Tyler 4, Endicott 4, Eastern Conn. St. 3, Southwestern (Tex.) 2, Mass.-Dartmouth 1.

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[NWBaseballFan10]

At this point, Pool C bids are looking suspect for West-region teams. The NWC and SCIAC continue to beat up on one another, which is removing either conference from the Pool C discussion. Trinity (TX) and Concordia (TX) appear to be the top 2 teams in the West thus far. Aside from them, everything else looks pretty muddy in the West.

[108 Stitches]

I agree with NWest it looks very muddled in the West right now.

Trinity split with TLU yesterday in schizophrentic fashion. It played one of the most uninspired a pathetic games I have seen from them in 4 years in game 1, they frankly made a good pitcher look great. Then Scannell juggled the line up and they actually seemed to be interested in playing a baseball game. Good news is that they got to work in some arms and the pitching looks like it has even more depth than I thought. They will have plenty of pitching come a Regional (if they get there). The main concern with this team is whether they can raise their level of defensive play and hit well enough in a tight contest, and probably more importantly -  if they can come out and compete in every game they play, so far they have not shown they can do this consistently.

I think we will have a better idea what kind of team Trinity is after the next two weeks. They have a third game vs TLU tonight, then a weekend series with SWest, then H-S, MHB and a pair of games vs Concordia.  The problem they have is if they get knocked off in their conference tournament I am not sure if their SOS will hold up (as Crash has pointed out a number of times) Like I said we will know more about them in two weeks. The Concordia games look interesting for both teams and it is nice they get to play each other twice in three days. I wish the ASC played a few less conference games so the SCAC and ASC could get some more games in between them.

[tony_baldwin]

CTX has won eight straight and 14 of their last 15.

Cameron Cox has been dominant this season. He's 6-0 with a 1.37 ERA and 44 strikeouts in 46 innings. Cox has allowed just one run (unearned) in his last 34.2 innings, and he has three shutouts and four complete games in his last four starts.

[BamColt]

Cox is looking like an All American.

I remember him being effective coming out of the pen when he was at the University of Texas with Augie 3 years ago.

[Jack Parkman]

Cox is looking like an All American.

I remember him being effective coming out of the pen when he was at the University of Texas with Augie 3 years ago.

Using him in the 7 inning game (which is a TERRIBLE league decision) has been pretty nice.  Getting a CG out of him every time he goes out there is a nice way to save arms in a double header.

[108 Stitches]

Looks like teams better plan on winning their conference, if they want to make a Regional. We could see two teams flown in this year if this continues. CTX looks like the best team in the West right now.

[NWBaseballFan10]

Looks like teams better plan on winning their conference, if they want to make a Regional. We could see two teams flown in this year if this continues. CTX looks like the best team in the West right now.

Last season Pool C contenders CTX (31-14), Chapman (30-13), and George Fox (28-12) were left home. Odds of a Pool C contender getting a spot this year look pretty bleak based on win/loss records thus far and how the conference schedules are lined up. The NWC is going to continue to beat up on one another, ASC doesn't have a clear-cut #2 who could make a case, SCIAC could have a team in the running as long as they don't beat up on one another too much, and the SCAC has Trinity and/or TLU at the moment (sorry Southwestern).

[CrashDavisD3]

Looks like teams better plan on winning their conference, if they want to make a Regional. We could see two teams flown in this year if this continues. CTX looks like the best team in the West right now.

Last season Pool C contenders CTX (31-14), Chapman (30-13), and George Fox (28-12) were left home. Odds of a Pool C contender getting a spot this year look pretty bleak based on win/loss records thus far and how the conference schedules are lined up. The NWC is going to continue to beat up on one another, ASC doesn't have a clear-cut #2 who could make a case, SCIAC could have a team in the running as long as they don't beat up on one another too much, and the SCAC has Trinity and/or TLU at the moment (sorry Southwestern).

Only Pool A for ASC, SCIAC, SCAC, NWC

SCIAC has 3 teams at the bottom that will kill the SOS for a Pool C team from the SCIAC.

[Richard Hamstocks]

Only Pool A for ASC, SCIAC, SCAC, NWC

SCIAC has 3 teams at the bottom that will kill the SOS for a Pool C team from the SCIAC.

Conference wins are pretty much a wash in terms of SOS (if every team only played a balanced conference schedule, every teams SOS would be .500).
Cal Tech is 2-1 against non-conference D3 opponents (and can be at worst 2-2 depending on MIT this week), so it's really just 2 teams killing SOS.

[BamColt]

It's unfortunate the SCAC and ASC don't get the respect some of the teams in the North get.
Are the voters and committee located more in the northern regions?

[Ralph Turner]

It's unfortunate the SCAC and ASC don't get the respect some of the teams in the North get.
Are the voters and committee located more in the northern regions?

Voters come from all of the 8 regions.

They also consider the ASC and SCAC in their past performances.

The ASC has 2 losses by CTX in Nationals, 2002.  That is all. Only one regional champion in nearly 15 years.

We are good but there are plenty of other schools that are comparable to the ASC and SCAC.

[CAK72B]

It all depends on the timing. For a while it seemed like it was a Chapman or a Linfield team making it out of the West. Even though maybe some of those SCAC/ASC teams were better than most in the country, the only results people tend to look at are World Series appearances. Without a clearly dominant team this year, maybe it could be a year for one of the Texas schools to make some noise...although we have been saying that mainly about CTX/Trinity for years yet some reason...most notably Trinity...has not been able to get that last win in the regional. Until other schools in the West are able to show quality performances in the WS, people may look down a little on the rest of the West schools. Fun fact: Since 2000, Geroge Fox is the only other West region school to make it to the final game of the World Series...which they won.

[Ralph Turner]

Great post CAK72B.

Welcome to the Boards. Keep posting.

[108 Stitches]

. Fun fact: Since 2000, Geroge Fox is the only other West region school to make it to the final game of the World Series...which they won.

uhh what about Linfield two years ago.....