Fri. & Sat., April 15 & 16, 2022
We've been watching a lot of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball on TV this past week and I definitely had the itch to watch a game live.
For that reason, I headed out Saturday morning for the drive to the California Lutheran University (CLU) campus in nearby Thousand Oaks.
There would be a pair of Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) baseball games there today between home team CLU Kingsmen (18-11) and the Chapman University Panthers (21-7).
These were the current SCIAC Baseball standings:
1. La Verne Leopards 14-2
2. Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens 12-3
3. Chapman Panthers 10-3
4. Cal Lutheran Kingsmen 7-6
5T. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Stags 5-7
5T. Redlands Bulldogs 5-7
7. Occidental Tigers 5-10
8. Whittier Poets 2-11
9. Caltech Beavers 2-13
The Kingsmen have an excellent stadium complex for a DIII university.
Ullman Stadium is clean and well kept
with excellent sight lines
The playing field is named after long
time Thousand Oaks resident and Baseball
Hall-of-Famer Sparky Anderson
Anderson was the highly successful Manager of the Cincinnati Reds and Detroit Tigers. He was the first man to ever lead clubs in both the National and American Leagues to World Series Championships.
His NL Reds won the World Series in 1975 and 1976, while his AL Tigers won a World Series title in 1984.
CLU Baseball is no stranger to
playoff success
One of the endearing things about CLU athletics, both male and female, is that they never charge admission for any of their regular season games.
The CLU Concessions are
also quite the bargain!
PLAY BALL!
Chapman taking an early 2-0 lead
CLU would trail for most of the game
A long out on this swing but the
Kingsmen would rally in the bottom
of the 8th inning to win 5-3!
While the baseball game was going on, I heard lots of yelling coming from the adjacent CLU Softball diamond.
Again, with free admission, why not see a little bit of the CLU Regals (the nickname for all of the CLU Women's teams) in SCIAC softball action.
The Regals (8-21) are having a rough season but not quite as rough as their opponents the Occidental Tigers (8-24).
Here are the current SCIAC Softball standings:
1. Chapman Panthers 10-3
2. La Verne Leopards 9-4
3. Redlands Bulldogs 11-5
4. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas 10-6
5T. Whittier Poets 6-7
5T. Pomona-Pitzer Sagehns 6-7
7. Cal Lutheran Regals 2-11
8. Occidental Tigers 1-12
Again, another excellent CLU venue
to watch a game on a
lazy Saturday afternoon
On this fine day, the Tigers
were too much for the Regals
Some of Softball's traditional
organized cheering from the CLU dugout
When it was all said, cheered and
done, the Tigers had won the game
by a final tally of 6-1
What a revolting development that turned out to be.
Wait, what was that coming from CLU's William Rolland Stadium located just behind the Softball field?
It was more athletics related yelling of encouragement, it was a SCIAC Women's Lacrosse game.
I came for a simple baseball game and now I was in the middle of a a SCIAC/CLU three ring circus!
And, in keeping with CLU's enlightened athletics ideals, it was still all for FREE.
It was again a CLU (1-11) vs. Chapman (8-4) battle just as it was in the earlier baseball game.
The current SCIAC Women's Lacrosse standings are:
1. Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens 8-0
2. Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Athenas 6-2
3. Chapman Panthers 4-4
4. Occidental Tigers 3-4
5T. Redlands Bulldogs 3-5
5T. Whittier Poets 3-5
7. Cal Lutheran Regals 0-7
Action BEHIND the net is a
big part of the charm of lacrosse
Chapman was simply too much
for the struggling Regals
The cellar dwelling Regals were swamped by the Panthers, 17-0.
Even though the CLU Regals lost both of their Softball and Lacrosse games, I still had a good time watching all three CLU teams in action today.
Reading Is FUNdamental!
Yes, it was a lot more
than just a pamphlet
This book is an anthology of short biographies about 50 different Jewish men and women who have impacted a wide assortment of sports over the years.
These stories were always informative, especially to the uneducated Gentile mind. They were also often funny, sometimes tragic and usually offbeat.
Fifty Jewish sports legends, who knew?
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