2016 West Regional - Spokane, WA

[Westside]

Yea, Trinity and UW-LaCrosse look like they are on a collision course. Easily the two best offense in the country, in my opinion. Of course there could still be upsets...

PLU has 3 runs on 6 hits in the first inning against Whitworth... Here we go.

[108 Stitches]

Well, whomever makes it to the championship round from the West will get the opportunity to go through most likely #4 UW Lacrosse to get to #1 Cortland in Pool A play.  The Pool A winner should be battle tested, to say the least. 

First-round matchups for the championship site will be as follows:
Pool A: South vs. New York and West vs. Midwest
Pool B: Mid-Atlantic vs. New England and Central vs. Mideast

You have to beat the best to be the best. IMO the two best teams in Appleton last year were Cortland and Trinity by a good margin. Weather and a bit of bad luck prevented the meeting, so hopefully there will be that opportunity to have those games this year....but let's not get ahead of ourselves, there are a lot of very talented and capable teams ahead of all of them for that to happen.

[Bmo]

I agree that anything can happen in the west, where all teams left are more than capable of getting hot.  But let's be honest, UW Lacrosse and Cortland have been provided nothing more than a couple sessions of organized batting practice in their respective regionals..

[108 Stitches]

Thanks BMO I really have not been following the other regions to much. That is OK with us out here in the West as whoever emerges from Spokane will be battle tested and ready for what comes next. There are a few teams sitting at home who would have done better than CWRU, but of course the NCAA does not pay attention to message boards. 

[Ralph Turner]

Well, whomever makes it to the championship round from the West will get the opportunity to go through most likely #4 UW Lacrosse to get to #1 Cortland in Pool A play.  The Pool A winner should be battle tested, to say the least. 

First-round matchups for the championship site will be as follows:
Pool A: South vs. New York and West vs. Midwest
Pool B: Mid-Atlantic vs. New England and Central vs. Mideast

Does that mean that Trinity's #1 and #2 pitchers most likely face the two best opponents with Trinity's best arms?

[Ralph Turner]

PLU 8 Whitworth 5.

Another game with the margin of 3 runs or less that did not involve Trinity.

[CAK72B]

One thing I have kinda noticed compared to previous regionals which I think kinda shows these past couple years...before there were stud pitchers like Klimesh/Haddeland/Lucero/Peterson (CLU)/Schebe (Whitworh in 2012)/etc...maybe that has led to these more high scoring games where their are a bunch of above average pitching but their aren't those horses that teams send out knowing it's a guaranteed 7 innings 2 runs or less...anybody else notice that or am I missing something?

[Bmo]

Well, whomever makes it to the championship round from the West will get the opportunity to go through most likely #4 UW Lacrosse to get to #1 Cortland in Pool A play.  The Pool A winner should be battle tested, to say the least. 

First-round matchups for the championship site will be as follows:
Pool A: South vs. New York and West vs. Midwest
Pool B: Mid-Atlantic vs. New England and Central vs. Mideast

Does that mean that Trinity's #1 and #2 pitchers most likely face the two best opponents with Trinity's best arms?

No, nothing about Trinity, but the arguement could be made that this year's 4 strongest regions all got grouped into the same WS pool somehow someway.  I realize some teams like Randolph Macon and Oswego got drawn into other regionals, but if you look at the top 14 d3 ranked teams, only Ramapo and La Roche are not in pool a regions.  The path of least resistance is most certainly pool b..

[SoCalBaseballfan]

Trinity or Cortland will win the National Championship in 2016. CrashDavis D3 OUT.

[Ron Boerger]

Surprisingly a pitcher's battle so far between UT-T (Stallings, see p. 10) and PLU (Cole Johnson, 5-4, 14 GS, 80.1 IP, 4.93 ERA, .316 OBA).   Lutes up 1-0 after 4.

[Ron Boerger]

Tied at 2 after 6 1/2 as UT-T finally chases Johnson with a two-RBI triple with two outs in the inning.   Jacob Clark relived Stallings in the fifth. 

Edit:  PLU gets a two-out single from Johnson to regain the lead, 3-2.

Edit 2:  PLU gets two more walks to load the bases, chasing Clark, but Belcher comes in for the Patriots and gets a fly out to stop the bleeding.

[Ron Boerger]

It'll be a rematch of Game 1 tomorrow as PLU holds on to defeat UT-Tyler, 3-2.

[Ralph Turner]

Another close game in the West Region not involving Trinity.

Did I count 3 HIDP for Tyler?  Ouch

[TexasBB]

UTT is eliminated but did better than expected. The western regional teams, with the exception of standout Trinity, were all evenly matched. Trinity is just much better than the rest of the field this year. However CLU, Whitworth, PLU and UTT all appear to be on the same level with any of those teams being capable of winning against the others. I could not get a feel for CWR. From what I saw of them they appeared to be a half step below the west regional based teams. I agree with everyone else who said that Oxy or TLU or CTX were probably deserving of a bid and would have been as good or better than CWR. I fully expect Trinity to win against PLU which has depleted its pitching. I hope that Trinity can win the College World Series and put a spotlight on our region.

[Westside]

Round One:

#1 Trinity (TX) vs. #6 Pacific Lutheran
Trinity wins 7-3.

#2 Cal Lutheran vs. #5 Texas-Tyler
Texas-Tyler wins 4-3.

#3 Case Western Reserve vs. #4 Whitworth
Whitworth wins 8-5.

Round Two:

#2 Cal Lutheran vs. #6 Pacific Lutheran
Pacific Lutheran wins 8-6.
Cal Lutheran eliminated.

#1 Trinity (TX) vs. #3 Case Western Reserve
Trinity wins 10-0.
Case Western Reserve eliminated.

#4 Whitworth vs. #5 Texas-Tyler
Texas-Tyler wins 6-4.

Round Three:

#1 Trinity (TX) vs. #5 Texas-Tyler
Trinity wins 14-2.

#4 Whitworth vs. #6 Pacific Lutheran
Pacific Lutheran wins 8-5.
Whitworth eliminated.

#5 Texas-Tyler vs. #6 Pacific Lutheran
Pacific Lutheran wins 3-2.
Texas-Tyler eliminated.

Final Round:

#1 Trinity (TX) vs. #6 Pacific Lutheran