Friday, September 8 Match Day

Once again, here are the conference links and the games of interest.

• ASC Scores

• Northwest Conference Scores

• SCAC Scores

• SCIAC Scores

1:00 p.m. (All times central)
UTD vs TLU	Video	Stats	UTD 3, TLU 1
ETBU at Southwestern	Video	Stats	Southwestern 3, ETBU 0
Puget Sound vs Chris Newport	Video	Stats	Chris Newport 3, PS 0
2:30 p.m.
Trinity vs Pomona-Pitzer	Video	Stats	Trinity 3, PP 0
Pac Lutheran vs CMS	Video	Stats	CMS 3, Pac Lu 2
3:00 p.m.
Birmingham-Southern at UTT	Video	Stats	UTT 3, B-S 0
Hendrix vs UMHB	Video	Stats	UMHB 3, Hendrix 1
3:30 p.m.
Chapman vs Millsaps	Video	Stats	Chapman 3, Millsaps 1
Howard Payne at Emory	Video	Stats	Emory 3, Howard Payne 0
Puget Sound vs ETBU	Video	Stats	PS 3, ETBU 2
5:00 p.m.
Whittier vs Pac Lutheran	Video	Stats	Whittier 3, Pac Lu 0
Babson vs La Verne	Video	Stats	La Verne 3, Babson 1
TLU vs Hardin-Simmons	Video	Stats	TLU 3, H-S 1
Santa Cruz at Cal Lutheran	Video	Stats	Cal Lutheran 3, Santa Cruz 0
6:00 p.m.
Chris Newport at Southwestern	Video	Stats	SU 3, Chris Newport 2
Chapman at Emory	Video	Stats	Emory 3, Chapman 0
7:00 p.m.
Hendrix at UTT	Video	Stats	UTT 3, Hendrix 2
Birmingham-Southern vs UMHB	Video	Stats	UMHB 3, B-S 1
Trinity vs CMS	Video	Stats	Trinity 3, CMS 1
Whitworth vs Pomona-Pitzer	Video	Stats	Whitworth 3, P-P 0
Whittier vs Santa Cruz	Video	Stats	Whittier 3, Santa Cruz 0
9:00 p.m.
Whitworth at Cal Lutheran	Video	Stats	Cal Lutheran 3, Whitworth 1

Random Thoughts:  We’ve got some interesting in-region match-ups as the ASC and SCAC have some matches together. Trinity, Whitworth and Pac Lu all take a stroll through the SCIAC and Puget Sound even has a match with an ASC opponent. All of these matches help greatly when ranking the west region. Remember, that the conferences all should be rooting for their teams because common opponent is a big player later down the road. ETBU upsets Southwestern and then lose conference matches to other ASC opponents and all of sudden SU has a big hole to climb because a bunch of ASC teams have a piece of them.

Out-of-region looks good, too. We have some matches against the best South Region teams. The south typically struggles to put teams into the tournament via Pool C bids but no reason to give them any help. Chris Newport (Mid-Atlantic) is another team that always seems to be in the tournament so a victories against them will always prop up the west.

Finally, we have La Verne in the New England region. Such a smart scheduling move by their coach as the NE Region always seems to do well with the Pool C bids. If La Verne can sweep through the three teams they play they’ll have a very strong out-of-region resume after 2 weeks. And, of course, it will also help the SCIAC for any team that can beat La Verne later in the season. Now, if they struggle then it just puts more pressure on the other SCIAC teams to beat La Verne.