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#1
Whittier registers first SCIAC W, knocking off Chapman in G2.  The Poets get a good and much needed win; Chapman is once again vexed by Whittier in what has been a not so irregular occurrence.  Whittier has struggled this season but they found their "Chapman Mode" powerup for one game.
#2
Cal Tech notches a SCIAC W over Oxy...
#3
Chapman and La Verne squaring off for the #1 regular season slot.  Chapman takes G1 and is looking secure in G2.  If I'm not mistaken, if Chapman takes G2 they clinch the regular season crown.
#4
Whittier takes G1 from Redlands, and in so doing avoids the SCIAC cellar.

Notably held the Bulldogs to less than a touchdown to help secure the W.
#5
COVID hit this board as hard as SCIAC opponents hit the Poets' pitching this year...
#6
Quote from: Purple Heys on March 27, 2022, 05:09:59 PM
Glad to see that Whittier bowed up and took G3 from #17 CLU.  Beating a ranked team is big regardless, but in the wake of 2 run-ruled games it certainly speaks to character and competitive spirit.  Nice going, Poets.

Poets went for 2 and the win in another football score game.   8-)
#7
Glad to see that Whittier bowed up and took G3 from #17 CLU.  Beating a ranked team is big regardless, but in the wake of 2 run-ruled games it certainly speaks to character and competitive spirit.  Nice going, Poets.
#8
It could've been worse but Chapman missed 2 PAT's.   :-\
#10
Quote from: Gray Fox on March 07, 2022, 05:16:49 PM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on March 07, 2022, 12:06:39 AM
I have often thought that Cal Tech is in the wrong conference. MIT draws from the same pool of student-athletes and has had a modicum of success. For Cal Tech's sake, it is too bad that the SCIAC is such a strong baseball conference.
MIT has 4 times the students.  The real key for Caltech (as baseball from MLB on down) is getting pitching.  Maybe they have one or two. :-\
One of the pitchers had a complete game, and the other pitched eight innings.

Cal Tech's coach is a former catcher, that's gotta play in there somehow.  During the last couple years of his tenure as asst. coach at Whittier, the pitching was notably sound.  He's a good dude.  I was happy for him to get the gig, but also leery that just this very thing would occur.

But the Cal Tech I've seen the last 8 years has always had 1 good starter and ridden him hard to squeeze a win.  Krop class of 2018 I think was a darn bulldog of a pitcher and could've got good innings with any SCIAC team. 
#11
Quote from: Purple Heys on March 06, 2022, 11:40:49 AM
Quote from: Jack Parkman on March 06, 2022, 11:19:31 AM
Quote from: Purple Heys on March 05, 2022, 04:25:00 PM
Cal Tech is 3 outs away from taking G2 and setting up a winner take all G3...yoiks.

About to board a cross country flight, won't be able following the game live.  Will land to the big reveal.  Can Cal Tech break though?  Can Whittier step up and stave off ignominy?

And the Beavers sweep the double header and take the series 2-1. First SCIAC series win for Caltech since the early 70's.

Oh the humanity... :'(

Actually, that's not fair to Cal Tech, who proved to be the better team.  Congratulations to them on getting this G-O-rilla off their backs.  It was truly only a question of when.
#12
Quote from: Jack Parkman on March 06, 2022, 11:19:31 AM
Quote from: Purple Heys on March 05, 2022, 04:25:00 PM
Cal Tech is 3 outs away from taking G2 and setting up a winner take all G3...yoiks.

About to board a cross country flight, won't be able following the game live.  Will land to the big reveal.  Can Cal Tech break though?  Can Whittier step up and stave off ignominy?

And the Beavers sweep the double header and take the series 2-1. First SCIAC series win for Caltech since the early 70's.

Oh the humanity... :'(
#13
Cal Tech is 3 outs away from taking G2 and setting up a winner take all G3...yoiks.

About to board a cross country flight, won't be able following the game live.  Will land to the big reveal.  Can Cal Tech break through?  Can Whittier step up and stave off ignominy?

#14
Round 1 goes to the Poets...it's a step in the right direction...DH at Pasadena today.
#15
First SCIAC rotation in the books.
Cal Lu sweeps Cal Tech
Oxy sweeps Whittier    :(
Redlands takes 2 of 3 from P-P

CMS has yet to lose a a non-conference series
Chapman and ULV are just getting out of the gate

Too early to call who will be the top 4 but it seems pretty apparent that the battle for the cellar is going down next weekend between Whittier and Cal Tech.  COVID seems to have stifled the forward progress of Cal Tech and it has absolutely wrecked the Poets.  I hate to think that Whittier could lose this series but right now they are struggling to keep runs off the board.  Cal Tech seems to have a similar affliction, so this series shapes up to be a toss up...but for the wrong reasons.  Neither seems to be competitive other than with each other, this is a tilt to see who is worse, not who is better.

Personally, I hope Whittier finds it within themselves to step up, lift their game, and meet the challenge...and maybe gain confidence to pull out of this swoon.