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Quote from: Kuiper on October 30, 2025, 12:36:27 AMLate night SCIAC action:

Occidental 2 - Cal Lutheran 1

Oxy secures at least a tie for first in the SCIAC with the victory over lowly Cal Lu.  It was actually 1-1 in the 54th minute, but Oxy countered with a second goal in the 60th minute and held on for the rest of the game. Although the score wasn't high, the teams definitely were free-swinging tonight.  They each took 22 shots!  Occidental finishes the regular season on a three game winning streak and goes into the SCIAC tournament with a 6-3-3 record (8-5-4 overall).

Redlands 2 - CMS 1

Anders Beckton scored two goals, the second of which was a great target striker goal where he held off two defenders in the box and turned to his right for a quick strike between them that was just inside the post and left the CMS GK standing and watching.  CMS did get a late goal to make things interesting on a beautiful zig-zagging run through traffic at the top of the box by a CMS defender who dished it off to high left for an immediate shot and goal by Collin Ross.  There were shouts for a PK toward the end when John Laidlaw was upended by the GK in the box, but the ref was hearing none of it.  Redlands wins its 4th game in a row and jumps into second place in the SCIAC with one game left against Cal Lutheran and a chance to tie Occidental for the regular season championship.   

Oxy is labeling themselves as champions on Facebook.

Quote from: wildcat11 on October 29, 2025, 10:13:44 AMOxy was a pretty unique set up. I did enjoy the fact Oxy's team was on the opposite side of the stands. I figured that was done so the coaching staff didn't have to listen to armchair QB's in their home crowd and less distractions.

And the crowd could pick on the visiting players.

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Quote from: that guy 31 on October 27, 2025, 05:07:05 PMI think playing so many repeat games is bad for the conference. It's been quite a while since I was a player but if I was being recruited and some schools were playing regular schedules and the others were playing 3 repeat games I feel like that would impact my decision. Just makes it seem small time. Just my opinion

I don't think anybody loves it, but the SCIAC has probably made the best of a terrible situation.  Divisions go away next year, so hopefully that's the end of that. 

I agree with this take. I think at the time the SCIAC went to this system they were trying to keep SCIAC football alive while programs were bailing. In that way it accomplished its mission but I think harm was done and it will take time to build back.

Azusa and Whittier coming back is huge and hopefully in a few years we'll all look back and laugh at the division system once we're on the other side of the rebuild.

Many years ago the Pomona president wanted to be like NESCAC schools and cut the number of games to eight (what NESCAC did at that time).  The SCIAC teams ended up playing one of the SCIAC opponents twice.  Each contest between those two counted as half a game.  Any game with Pomona was not counted. Eventually the presidents forced them back in line.

Quote from: Pat Coleman on October 22, 2025, 01:05:49 PMA unified graphic package across all of their platform would be a good step -- it strikes me as unusual that it hasn't happened already.

I have watched some SCIAC coverage but not every school. Chapman continues to have the best production, as it did before joining Flo.

Chapman is considered a top media arts school.

Quote from: Kuiper on October 12, 2025, 01:10:06 AMSCIAC conference games after dark were crazy tonight

Whittier 3 - Redlands 3

For regular readers (are there any? as if! ), you know that I've been saying for the last few weeks that Redlands has missed Zachary Darmanyan on offense.  He provides some playmaking ability and he draws defenders away from Anders Beckton.  Lo and behold, first game Darmanyan is back since 9/24, Redlands goes out to a quick 2-0 lead with goals in the 13th and 18th minutes, both off of Darmanyan assists.  Whittier picks up a goal in the 25th minute to make it 2-1, but Redlands gets a third goal in the 28th to take a 3-1 lead, which they held onto for 50 minutes.  Darmanyan's return, however, didn't magically do anything for Redlands' defense.  Whittier scored in the 79th and 85th to salvage the tie and drop from 1st to a tie in 2nd with La Verne in the SCIAC.  Redlands loses a chance to move up and remains in second to last.

Occidental 3 - CMS 3

Like the Redlands-Whittier game, the beginning of the game was bonkers.  Two teams desperate to get back into the SCIAC conference tournament race came in with a game plan of throwing everything forward (and dispensing with defense).  By the 16th minute, it was 2-2.  Even crazier, they alternated goals and they were both braces.  CMS' John Laidlaw scored in the 2nd and 11th minutes.  Oxy's Devin Bening scored in the 9th and 16th minutes. The second half started like the first half.  CMS scored in the 48th and Oxy scored in the 57th to make it 3-3.  Then, in the 59th, Oxy's Matt Shea, who had the assist on Oxy's 3rd goal, got a straight red card and Oxy had to change its tactics and CMS couldn't break them down despite being a man up.  The tie does move Oxy past Pomona-Pitzer for the 4th and final SCIAC tournament slot, while keeping CMS just behind Pomona-Pitzer for the 5th spot with the two teams playing each other next week in the 6th street rivalry game.

Chapman 1 - Pomona-Pitzer 0

Very tight game, but Chapman had a moment of quality in the 53rd minute and that was the difference.  Chapman vaults to the top of the SCIAC table with the teams ahead of it tying or losing and Pomona-Pitzer drops out of the last tournament slot.

I assume that the SCIAC will again have the 4/5 first round matchup.

Quote from: PickSixNick on October 11, 2025, 02:35:20 PMI agree with you olddog. The liberal mindset is the biggest cancer to these small CA schools. It is happening all across the state and if we focus in on just SCIAC schools, Whittier, Oxy, and soon to be APU, they all have dwindling enrollment all because of liberal hires and mindsets. People do not want to donate money and send students to these campuses as they will be brainwashed.

I just saw an ad on Facebook that said APU was the best Christian University in California and one of the best nationally.  Is that not good enough?

Quote from: olddog on October 01, 2025, 12:26:37 PMI sure hope HC Good sent cut up on the game to their supervisor. In regards to the lady side judge...its still new to me. My personal opinion, referees (any gender)  that played the sport before make better referees, such as understanding intent of the play, how hard it is to stop and not flagrant. I am not the first to say or complain rules makers are being done by people that have not played the game.

Targeting is relatively new and before the experience of the older refs.

Quote from: olddog on October 01, 2025, 10:59:56 AMUR and CLU game, I have posted before but the crew referring had doing our game had to be the worse I have seen in a long while. UR got beat it has nothing to do with out loss, the league deserves better.

The worse call was targeting by one of our safeties. I hate that call in general because the plays happen so fast and sometimes the flag is thrown because it looked violent. In the third QTR, a Regal caught the ball, oops a Kingsmen in the hook to curl area. Our db turn his back and hit him with the back of his shoulder pad/cup to avoid using the 6" crown on his helmet. This four idiots got together and booted him, why the lady side judge running with the play did not join in I do not know. I hate how hard players work to have this kind of crappy job done by the official. I wont even discuss how much they allowed Jax/DE to be held every play, the only call he got was when the RB tackled him in pass protection.

The SCIAC crews have always been lacking.

"You are better than that Old Dog"

Don't be so sure.    

Quote from: PickSixNick on September 29, 2025, 05:39:03 PMExcited for NWC play to start. Here are my predictions for the season.

1) Linfield
2) Lewis & Clark
3) Whitworth
4) Pacific Lutheran
5) Pacific
6) George Fox
7) Puget Sound
8) Willamette

You need to change your name to PickEightNick.

Quote from: Ryan Scott (Hoops Fan) on September 24, 2025, 06:55:35 PMOk, so we've now become a thread arguing over the definition of "cliff."  Seems about right.

Sounds like the arguments on the NESCAC boards.

Quote from: olddog on September 19, 2025, 04:34:05 PMSo Cal, I think your spread on the LF games is too high, its a toss up to me. The UR game I think will be tighter, UR should have scored more (12 points) on GF ...but WW is a favorite for sure.

CMS should win but the spread seems high.

Fun stuff and why they play the game.

Linfield by 21
Whitworth by 21