BB: Top Teams in West Region

[Whatagame]

No, but there's something inherently nasty about southpaws, bishop.........!

[Bishopleftiesdad]

If your a hitter, yes. But lefties loved to be feared. The good ones do have nasty stuff......

[CAK72B]

If your a hitter, yes. But lefties loved to be feared. The good ones do have nasty stuff......

I feel like the lefty pitchers are only really feared by the lefty hitters. I still can't comprehend that after playing baseball since probably about 5 left-handed hitters still claim they "don't see left-handed pitchers enough" in order to feel comfortable. I guess over 15 years is not enough...

[Westside]

If your a hitter, yes. But lefties loved to be feared. The good ones do have nasty stuff......

I feel like the lefty pitchers are only really feared by the lefty hitters. I still can't comprehend that after playing baseball since probably about 5 left-handed hitters still claim they "don't see left-handed pitchers enough" in order to feel comfortable. I guess over 15 years is not enough...

I think that is still a fair excuse, especially at the D3 level. I mean, if a HS lefty is decent and throws 86+, there is a good chance he will get D1 looks. Especially compared to a righty that throws 86. So there are a lot less lefties at this level.

Using the NWC as an example. Looking at the top six teams in the league, there are just two lefty starters out of 18 (and they are both on Whitworth). Willamette, PLU, UPS, George Fox, and Linfield all go righty, righty, righty for their weekend series (I could be wrong).

So a good lefty will generally be made to look nasty since you see them less. That's my opinion, at least.

[BamColt]

Concordia tops Trinity in Austin 8-3 (Series split)

Cox improves to 8-0.

[108 Stitches]

Cox was as advertised, very good but not completely dominant. Overall a good game, a TU error caused an a couple of UR's. CTX strung some hits together and Trinity did not, that was the biggest difference in the game. Assuming CTX gets to the regional I would not want to be facing them game 1. Beyond him however they are suspect.

While Trinity's pitching is very deep they don't have a dominant number 1 that can go out and completely shut down a team. At this point it is probably Ryan Gray who over the past three games has only given up 2 runs and has 25 K's over 16 innings. Trinity's problem is they only have three more games against decent competition, the rest of their conf schedule is against all of the weak teams. They will probably go on a big winning streak but IMO won't mean much given the level of competition they will be facing.

[tony_baldwin]

Cox was as advertised, very good but not completely dominant.

He ran into a problem with two outs in the ninth. Outside of that he was pretty much doing what he's done each game.

He had 11 strikeouts and one walk in 8.2 innings. Cox fired 93 strikes in 132 pitches and started 22 of the 34 batters he faced with a strike (he also retired seven of the 12 that he started with a ball).

Moore, Serkowski, Wolf, Butler and Singer (Trinity's 1-5 hitters) were a combined 2-for-16 with five strikeouts. Trinity also did not record any extra-base hits in the game.

[Whatagame]

That sounds pretty dominant to me.

[Ralph Turner]

We are still trying to figure out who has the #3,#4 & #5 pitchers/pitch-by-committee-staffs to win the West.

[Whatagame]

We are still trying to figure out who has the #3,#4 & #5 pitchers/pitch-by-committee-staffs to win the West.

My vote right now goes to PLU

[108 Stitches]

We are still trying to figure out who has the #3,#4 & #5 pitchers/pitch-by-committee-staffs to win the West.

When you figure it out let us know...based on my SCAC predictions from last week I will not even venture to guess.

What I would like to know is where the heck the West Regional will be!

[Jack Parkman]

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What I would like to know is where the heck the West Regional will be!
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Makes me wonder if it will be somewhere that has never hosted and they are still pounding out logistics

[Ralph Turner]

What I would like to know is where the heck the West Regional will be!


Makes me wonder if it will be somewhere that has never hosted and they are still pounding out logistics

Rumor and innuendo make for good speculation.

You are down on record for the obligatory "I told you so", if you are right.

(UT-Tyler?)   

[108 Stitches]

#   School (1st votes)   Rec   Pts   Prev.
1   Salisbury (17)   18-0   616   1
2   Cortland State (3)   18-1   589   2
3   UW-Whitewater (4)   14-1   588   3
4   Heidelberg   16-2   484   6
5   Kean   19-6   479   5
6   Birmingham-Southern (1)   24-5-1   478   4
7   UW-Stevens Point   12-4   455   7
8   Frostburg State   21-3   414   12
9   Shenandoah   16-4-1   401   9
10   St. Thomas   13-5   372   8
11   Wartburg   21-4   337   14
12   Millsaps   22-5   332   21
13   Misericordia   14-2   320   13
14   Rhodes   23-8   273   11
15   Randolph-Macon   17-6   223   10
16   Baldwin Wallace   13-4   197   16
17   Wooster   18-3   183   25
18   Buena Vista   16-5   178   17
19   Concordia (Texas)   21-6   177   18
20   Augustana   19-5   152   24
21   Southern Maine   11-6   110   15
22   Trinity (Texas)   19-9   98   19
23   Methodist   24-7   85   rv
24   Linfield   21-9   67   rv
25   Ohio Northern   16-4   60   23
Dropped out: No. 20. Cal Lutheran, No. 22. Emory.

Others receiving votes: Cal Lutheran 60, Emory 48, Tufts 43, Thomas More 43, Adrian 29, Oswego State 25, Pacific Lutheran 21, Wesleyan (Conn.) 19, Otterbein 17, Rowan 17, Ohio Wesleyan 13, Carthage 12, Mary Washington 11, John Carroll 11, Bridgewater (Va.) 10, Texas-Tyler 10, Webster 8, Neumann 7, Texas Lutheran 4, Washington (Mo.) 3, Clarkson 3, Augsburg 2, Marietta 1, UW-La Crosse 1.

[CrashDavisD3]

Forget the polls 
Best 6 should go to the West Regional. No fly in's 
All conferences have Conference tourney's to determine Pool A bids in 2015

ASC
Concordia-Texas 21-6
Texas-Tyler 19-8

NWC
Pacific Lutheran 20-8
Linfield 21-9

SCAC
Texas Lutheran 20-9
Trinity 19-9

SCIAC 
Cal Lutheran 20-9
Chapman 20-9
Pomona-Pitzer 20-9
Redlands 20-9