It will be interesting to see how the teams look after all the transfer portal stuff is over in a couple months.

I felt the PP coach did a better job considering he lost arguably 2 of the top 10 arms in the country before the season and still made the NCAA. I also thought the Redlands coach did a phenomenal job. Like you said as well, the McM coach was also very deserving.

Hate seeing the last Region X team knocked out. I felt like most of the Region X tournament teams had the makeup to get to the CWS. At this point in the season it just takes one team to get hot and another to cool off.

It will be interesting to see how things shake out in the offseason. Lots of huge impact seniors exhausting eligibility and some impact guys already in the transfer portal. For the SCIAC,LV is losing a ton of seniors including their top two starting pitchers. CMS loses the best hitter in the country but has the remainder of their lineup returning along with most of their pitching. Redlands loses a couple key pieces but they look poised to make the NCAA next year. CLU loses quite a bit of pitching and possibly some key pieces in their lineup. PP loses an all American and a couple other hitters, but they return some great hitters and most of their pitching production from this year.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on May 28, 2025, 02:26:43 PMWe could definitely have used more pitcher nominations in Region 10.

Do you think certain coaches didn't push for players with their SID, or the SID's just didn't push hard for those players? I imagine D3 baseball can't scour stats for every conference and then try to determine how good that competition was.

Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 28, 2025, 12:50:48 PMAll-Region teams are nominated & voted by the SIDs. That is the 1st thing I consider.

Yep. That's why I put snubs in quotes. Most likely the SID either didn't advocate hard for them or left them off completely

Looking through the D3 baseball all region team, there are a few obvious "snubs" or players who should have probably been higher than others. A couple that stand out, CMS had a reliever who had a 1.77 ERA through 56 innings in the regular season to lead the conference by more than half a point and didn't make any of the all region teams, and a starter who had a 2.50 ERA that also didn't make any teams. The starter had a CG shutout and two other outings where he went 7 shutout innings against SCIAC tournament teams.

Endicott seemed very prepared for CMS. The Friday Endicott pitcher was elite against CMS hitters and the Endicott hitters seemed to know exactly what was coming. CMS made some nice adjustments, but some bad luck and good play from Endicott ended their season. They had a ton of momentum against the Endicott starter before he had to be removed due to injury. CMS left a ton of runners on base where Endicott seemed to cash in almost every time they had runners on.

The CWS should be fun to watch. CMS will have a good opportunity to make it to supers again next year. The team is very young and only losing a couple seniors, although one is arguably the best hitter in the country.

McMurry is one I think has a great chance to pull off the upset. 2 teams in the finals would be awesome!

CMS pitching is much better than the numbers show. The ERA's in the SCIAC are super inflated due to having to face a gauntlet of great hitting teams. It will be probably be the best super to watch this weekend. Seems like tons of interest across social media.

It will be interesting to see how CMS does against the Gulls pitching. La Verne and CLU pitchers all had very low ERA's until they faced CMS. CLU held on a little better than LV, but 2 of those games it was cold and rainy and the wind was blowing in. It looks like the Endicott field is small and CMS hits a ton of bombs.

What a weekend for Region 10! CMS put on a serious power display in La Crosse. McMurry goes into SCIAC territory after squeezing in and wins the Regional! What a game between Trinity and ETBU!

So is CMS going to MA now? I've seen they are playing Endicott, but haven't seen a regional site listed yet.

Tough to see Redlands get left out. It's easy to say, "well don't lose to Whittier", but Whittier would be much better in most other conferences. Even Chapman had a stud pitcher this year that shut some top offenses down.

Hate seeing PP and LV have to face each other in a regional. Either team could make it to the CWS.

Anyone going to the ETBU regional needs to check out Best of Texas BBQ. No idea if it is the best in Texas, but it is the best I've ever had. It's in Marshall, just a few minutes from the field.

Sending CMS to WI and Concordia to the northeast seems dumb to me, but at least it spreads the region out a little to give it more chances for multiple teams in the CWS. Hate to see PP and LV have to play again right away (possibly).

Anybody know how good the other teams in the CMS regional are? I know LV handled UW-LaCrosse pretty well earlier in the year.

I like the idea of limiting OOR or setting a minimum of in-region games.

Which region(s) is this an issue for? The SCIAC is great with every team playing each other. However, adding APU next year will likely get rid of an OOC/OOR series for every team.