Clearing the bases
Feb
2008
Our first regular season poll is out and we are working on making schedules available. Congrats to Mary Hardin-Baylor, Redlands and NC Wesleyan for appearing in the Top 25 for the first time. Come to think about it it is everyone’s first time for the regular season poll.
Pacific University in Oregon played their second tripleheader in four seasons, just the second school to have played two in their schools history. The Boxers played Pomona-Pitzer on Saturday as the two teams were forced to play after rain scrubbed a single nine-inning game that was scheduled the day before. Pacific won the first
game 5-2, but then dropped the second and third games to the Sagehens by
finals of 7-4 and 7-5. All three games were seven innings. Pacific’s other tripleheader took place on Apr. 4, 2005, when Pacific played three against Puget Sound.
Our games to watch this week has two games on the radar. The first is at No. 3 Kean where No. 9 Eastern Connecticut comes in to play the Cougars. The second, for a different reason is the game that never got played last year. Bluffton takes on Eastern Mennonite on the one year anniversary of the Bluffton bus acident.
A couple of other good early season games are played every day. Stevens plays No 3 Kean today. For a couple of up and coming teams, York and St. John Fisher square off on Thursday. Friday and Saturday No 1. Chapman takes on No. 19 Redlands. Linfield travels to No. 18 Pacific Lutheran this weekend for two key NWC games. No. 23 NC Wesleyan also has a key conference match-ups with Christopher Newport this weekend. Ozarks, off to their best start ever, will host No. 22 Mary Hardin-Baylor for a three game series starting Friday.
As I started to write this blog D3baseball.com was only 500 hits from hitting the million mark. With that total cut in half as I end my weekly report, I want to thank all those who come to read and participate in our online discussions. D3baseball.com would not exist if the fans did not support all the web sites in the D3sports.com family.
