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#1
West Region / Re: BB: NWC: Northwest Conference
April 08, 2013, 04:12:23 PM
Quote from: wildcat11 on April 08, 2013, 12:26:41 AM
Quote from: Whatagame on April 07, 2013, 07:48:56 PM
No shame for Linfield.  Lubking is one of the top, if not the top lefty in the entire West Region.

Interesting to save Lubking for game 3 of the series.  All three of Linfield losses in NWC play have come during game 3 of each weekend..  We already knew it before but it's all going to come down to the Linfield/Fox series.

LC saved their best for game 3 this week as well - Strombom is by far their best pitcher. They have done this a couple of times. it completely makes sense especially for a weaker team.

Speaking of LC, I can't remember the last time they took two series in a single season - definitely a major accomplishment for the team.
#2
West Region / Re: BB: Top Teams in West Region
April 06, 2013, 11:25:09 AM
The Chapman situation is one that makes me wonder about the importance of being in a conference. Assuming that the goal is to make the playoffs, which is easier - winning your league or getting selected as an independent.

In many ways Chapman was the Notre Dame Football of D3 previously - picking their own schedule and enjoying a great reputation. I wonder if they are regretting the move (from a baseball national title perspective - I understand and appreciate the value of league competition for the broader range of sports.)
#3
West Region / Re: BB: NWC: Northwest Conference
March 24, 2013, 11:55:33 AM
While not of interest in the league leaders race, LC finally got its first conference win over Willamette... Making it a very interesting weekend for that team.  ;D
#4
West Region / Re: BB: Top Teams in West Region
March 21, 2013, 01:39:56 PM
Here's a suggestion - only count the last 30 DIII games played. If teams need to add NAIA schools to fill out their pre conference game schedule, then those games won't matter. The same is true for the Northern schools coming down to play the warm weather schools - the first ten games on their schedule wouldn't count either, lessening the impact of a potentially difficult road trip.

Thirty isn't a magic number - could be 35 - but the idea would be that teams could have a pre-season warmup that doesn't count - and then a games count period which would be conference games or nearly all conference games.
#5
West Region / Re: BB: Top Teams in West Region
March 21, 2013, 11:54:30 AM
Some of the NWC schools also have the NAIA teams on their schedules due to a lack of opponents and/or a desire to contain travel costs. The games against Corban, Concordia (Portland) and Lewis and Clark State add diversity to the schedule as well as some quality opponents.

Not counting those games will probably result in the better of these schools adding more mid week "non-conference" games against each other which is less than desirable in my opinion.

The other option would be to move to a 4 games against conference opponents schedule which would make for some very long weekends and potentially more time away from class. Either you play double headers Saturday and Sunday or you play Friday, Saturday (2) and Sunday - which would mean missing class Thursday and Friday for the longer bus trips.

#8
According to Yahoo he got three games.
#9
West Region / Re: BB: General West Region Discussion
March 04, 2013, 11:53:58 AM
Runner can be awarded home without a touch given a call of Obstruction which was the obvious call here.

What really surprises me is that the pitcher wasn't ejected from the game. While I'm not a college level ump, I certainly would have tossed him at the high school level.
#10
West Region / Re: BB: NWC: Northwest Conference
September 14, 2012, 03:03:11 PM
So very glad to see this news - and best of luck to Max.

There is actually no such thing as a red shirt in any NCAA level rule book - it is simply an expression that the public uses.

The rules are different at D1. At this level, once you attend college full time, your clock starts and you have 5 years to play 4 seasons. Thus you will see players who sit out one year - either for medical, athletic or academic reasons - have what is referred to as a red shirt year. It also brings up the idea of gray shirting where a a player does not start college on a full time basis out of high school - going part time so as to have a year in the weight room to get bigger and stronger before starting the clock.

At D2 and D3, the rule is that you have ten full time semesters to play four seasons. So if you go part time or not at all as in the case of the player, then your semester doesn't count.

The reason I am aware of these various rules is that my son did both - went part time for a year out of high school while recovering from a knee injury and then, unfortunately, sat out last year while recovering from Tommy John surgery. So he is now four years post high school having played only two years and attended college only six full time semesters.

From an eligibility point of view (and he and I have had multiple calls with the NCAA and the NAIA to clarify this), it gets really complicated:

At NAIA, D2 or D3, my son could go to school for two more years, 4 full time semesters and play two more seasons as long as he didn't graduate or fulfill all of the requirements for graduation.

My son could also go D1 and play one year - but only if he graduated and attended as a grad student - otherwise he would have to sit out a year. he could play the second year at D1 if he petitioned the NCAA and was awarded a sixth year on the clock.

Which actually brings me back to the original article and one final point - petitions are routinely granted when there is good medical reason for an exception - and certainly, even if Max had used up all ten semesters, testicular cancer would result in another semester being awarded.

Hope this helps clear things up - happy to answer questions.

Piobark

P.S. Just FYI, my son decided to transfer to an NAIA school and play another year there.
#11
West Region / Re: BB: NWC: Northwest Conference
May 15, 2012, 03:41:34 PM
I too see the three tiers - but in the case of the NWC this year, the conference champ Whitworth is one of those regular tier three schools who has come out of nowhere to win.

I'd rather see them win than have the usual Tier 1s win in a short tourney.
#12
West Region / Re: BB: NWC: Northwest Conference
May 15, 2012, 10:22:08 AM
Lowly LC also has been upgrading their schedule under their new coach, Tom Flynn.

Previously they often played a 34 or 35 game schedule - with typically 5-6 of those games being mid week games against local NAIA schools.

This year they bumped up the schedule to 40 games, eliminated all of the midweek games other than during spring break, and they made two trips to Arizona to play other D3 schools. They still had 4 NAIA games - but they are early in the season and now represent a much smaller percentage of the games.

I give Coach Flynn a lot of credit for upgrading the schedule as part of his effort to turn this program around.
#13
West Region / Re: BB: Top Teams in West Region
May 14, 2012, 12:30:21 AM
Before you make the assumption that Lewis and Clark = Cal Tech, perhaps you might want to look at games played when LC had Michael Ball on the hill.

Pitching against:

Linfield - lost in the ninth 7-6 on an unearned run
George Fox - Win
Pacific - lost 2-0
Willamette - win
Whitman - win
Whitworth - lost 6-2
Puget Sound - No Decision - left with game tied after 8
PLU - lost 9-8

Was he a super star? No - but he kept his team in games, pitching 7 complete games in league and the 8th game he went 8 innings- on a team very short in pitching.

Lewis and Clark ended up 7-33. Cal Tech was 0-33.

Massey has LC at 278, Cal Tech at 357th

#14
West Region / Re: BB: NWC: Northwest Conference
May 05, 2012, 10:47:48 AM
All league NWC is now released:

http://www.nwcsports.com/sports/bsb/2011-12/releases/allnwc

Pitcher of the Year: Brian Ranta, George Fox
Player of the Year: Brock Gates, Pacific Lutheran
Coach of the Year:  Dan Ramsay, Whitworth
#15
West Region / Re: BB: Top Teams in West Region
April 30, 2012, 10:50:48 AM
Congrats to Whitworth!!! They were a fun team to watch - coming out of nowhere to become champs of the NWC...