BB: SCAC: Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference

Started by Ralph Turner, January 04, 2006, 11:16:50 AM

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Ron Boerger

SCAC preseason poll is out:

1. Trinity (7) - 62 points (out of 64, meaning Scannell voted his own team 3rd)
2. TLU (1) - 56
3. Centenary - 42
4. Southwestern University - 41
5. University of Dallas - 30
6t Schreiner University - 21
6t University of St. Thomas - 21
8. Austin College - 13

Austin kicks off the season with a DH against Ozarks on Saturday.   PLAY BALL!

Ron Boerger

#3601
Man, this has been a long month.  Most of the schools in TX were impacted in one way or another by last week's prolonged cold spell which disrupted power and then water across a wide part of the state.  Austin (city, not school) set all kinds of records including longest duration of freezing or below temperatures, record lows, record low highs, and longest period of time with at least 1" of snow on the ground (by two days).   Similar conditions led to the SCAC calling off all competitions last week but things are looking much better (from a temperature perspective; there are still millions without water) and Trinity will finally kick their season off today against Howard Payne this evening, followed by four games with Southwestern split home/away this weekend.   SCAC conference play kicks in mid-March. 

Ron Boerger

Trinity improves to 5-0 on the young season with a 19-3 run-rule shellacking of Southwestern.  Brian Schaub continued his hot hand at the plate with 4 RBIs including a bases-loaded double with two outs in the bottom of the third when the outcome was still in doubt.   In five games he is batting .545 with 8 RBI, 2 HR, and a 1.182 slugging percentage in 11 official at-bats.  He's also drawn 8 walks and been HBP 4 times for an outstanding .783 on-base percentage.   Rafe Chaumette is also having a fine early season, batting .500 with 6 RBI from the leadoff position.

Trinity now heads out of town for basically the entire month of March, doing the ASC West starting with a single game Tuesday at HSU, followed by visits to McMurry, Sul Ross (3), and Concordia (2) before a conference set at TLU (3).  The road trip ends with a single at UMHB and three SCAC games at St. Thomas.   The Tigers' next home game will be March 30th against Concordia. 

Ron Boerger

After last night's Sul Ross victory over Trinity, today's game, originallly scheduled for 1pm, was pushed to this evening due to strong winds which took the roof off the Kokernot Field batting cages.   See that here:  https://www.instagram.com/p/CMX1JkOl7vR/?igshid=ij7ok45v2enn

jekelish

What a wild, wild day in the SCAC. Southwestern sweeps Centenary, Dallas beats TLU, and Schreiner beats Trinity. Add in there were multiple walk-offs around the conference (Southwestern and UD each had walk-offs, and Austin College beat St. Thomas with a walk-off homer in game two), and it's one of the craziest days in the conference I can recall.

Ron Boerger

Texas Lutheran survives a gallant effort by Trinity, who after defeating Southwestern 13-9 around 1AM yesterday morning came out of the loser's bracket and forced not only a second, winner-take-all game on Sunday, but managed to push it to extra innings before falling 16-15.  The winning run scored thanks to a three-base throwing error in the top of the tenth after Trinity tied it in the bottom of the ninth thanks in no small part to a three-base fielding error.  TLU's Blade Strzelczyk allowed no hits in two innings of relief to pick up the W; in 9 appearances in short relief (11 innings) this season he has yet to allow a run. 

Ron Boerger

Rafe Chaumette, who hit .406 for Trinity last season, has transferred to Boston College for his final year of collegiate ball.  His absence will be keenly felt (four-time first-team All-SCAC) but I wish him the best with this opportunity!

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Ralph Turner

Here's hoping that the Willamette/ETBU/Centenary series is not rained out this weekend in Shreveport.

Tyler schools are closed tomorrow, but I bet that it warms up reasonably quickly for that series to go on.

Ralph Turner

#3608
Big games this weekend. 3 game series at TUTX. TLU comes to town.

My first impression is that TLU will try to find their #3 starter.

Ron Boerger

#3609
Centenary takes two of three from Trinity and earns the SCAC title for the second time in program history.   

In the openers, #1 Trinity defeated #4 St Thomas 11-6 and #3 Centenary squeezed past #2 TLU 2-1 as SCAC pitcher-of-the-year Tyler Herrera went to 7-0 allowing only the one run in 8 1/3.   Centenary then earned a spot in the championship final with a 12-8 win over Trinity that wasn't that close (12-4 going to B9) as the Gents used five pitchers over the last three innings to hold off the Tigers.

In the consolation bracket, St. Thomas dealt TLU their second one-run loss thanks a two-out single in the top of the ninth from Cameron McClure which brought home the winning run after Leo Galvan tied the game up with a one-out double which plated Noah Martinez.  That earned a rematch with Trinity who got their best effort from the mound during the championships, as Jack Martinez had nine strikeouts while allowing only a single hit (and a run) in 7 2/3rds in an 11-1 run-rule victory.

In Sunday's championships, Trinity would win the first game as Luke Pfieffer and Harrison Durow split the nine innings and runs allowed in a 6-4 win.   The depleted Tiger pitching lineup could not hold for the second game as it took three pitchers to get out of the first inning in a 10-5 win by the Gents which clinched the tourney title.  Zach Clark picked up his first win of the season as he and three counterparts held Trinity to six hits and none after the sixth inning (take a bow, Hank Bennett, who earned his second save of the year in those three innings). 

Now the question is does Trinity earn a pool C bid with losing two of three (edit: to Centenary) this weekend?  Would help if Centenary gets in the regional rankings but 27-16 may not get them there.  3 wins over Trinity and one win against ETBU balance out with two losses to La Verne, three to Trinity, and one to ETBU as the only RRO opponents on their schedule. 

Ron Boerger

#3610
Trinity is in but despite being shown as the higher seed is being sent to UT-Dallas for the 'regional' round.   Edit:  the school didn't submit a bid to host.

Ralph Turner

Centenary LA gave up 4 unearned runs and lost 7-3.  Tyler Herrera took his 1st loss of the season.
Trinity won the first game, 7-4 over UTD.

Ron Boerger

Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 20, 2022, 04:45:11 PM
Centenary LA gave up 4 unearned runs and lost 7-3.  Tyler Herrera took his 1st loss of the season.
Trinity won the first game, 7-4 over UTD.

Trinity turned four double plays.  UTD hung in there pretty well despite their starter, Dylan Hugley, having to come out for injury after 2 2/3.  Imagine Carter Cochrane (6-3, 3.58) takes the mound for the Comets today.

Centenary dropped their second to LaGrange, 9-7, and is danger of going three-and-teehee (?) if they don't win today.

Ron Boerger

#3613
Centenary got out to an early 5-0 lead after 2 1/2 but gave up 13 unanswered runs and could not rally from that hole, falling 14-9 to end their season at 27-19.

Trinity bashed 21 hits in an 18-13 slugfest to win the second game of their series, but the Comets are doing all the slugging in Game 3 leading 25-4 with Trinity just trying to get three outs so the game will be run-ruled after five.  UT-D shelled the Trinity starter who recorded no outs and gave up five hits.  His successor got out of the inning with only two runs allowed but got shelled in the second, again recording no outs and also being assessed another five runs.  Getting a game in tomorrow given the weather forecast could be challenging. 

And run-ruled it was, final 25-5. 

Oh, you have to be kidding, they're still playing.   27-5 after six. 

Ralph Turner

Congrats Trinity.

The final scores in the UTD-TUTX series:

7-4
18-13
9-32
21-13.

...need to find some pitching...