Comments on: East Bay Baseball Poll – 4/23

By: Prep Fan

Prep Fan — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 01:44:00 +0000

And CP’s loss was at home to boot. SRV clobberred Pitt yesterday by double digits, and will surely stay ahead of CP despite the loss to Cal on Friday. I see them at #5 behind Dougherty. St. Marys may just drop out of the top 10 with their 2 losses this week and the lack of quality wins.

1) Campo
2) Deer Valley
3) DLS
4) Dougherty Valley
5) SRV

By: redandblue2

redandblue2 — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 21:30:20 +0000

You may be right Prep Fan as Joe DeMers and College Park lost 7-1 yesterday to Casa Grande. In the midst of an incredible freshman season at the varsity level, DeMers shows he is human after all.

By: Prep Fan

Prep Fan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:00:37 +0000

I could see CP move past both St. Mary’s & Foothill, but they shouldn’t pass SRV, at least not right now. CP may be hot, and I really like their frosh sensation DeMers, but they play in a weaker league then SRV. They have similar records, but SRV has played a much tougher schedule.

By: redandblue2

redandblue2 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:03:58 +0000

I think you may see College Park slide into #5 as well as Dougherty Valley moving up to #4 on Monday. Both teams are incredibly hot right now.

By: Prep Fan

Prep Fan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:40:46 +0000

The Grizz came up big yesterday with a 4-3 come from behind extra inning victory over #4 SRV to move the teams into a 2nd place tie at 6-2, a game back of 7-1 DLS. The Wolves face DLS next week with a chance to get back a share of first place.

With St. Mary’s losing twice in league this week, coupled with the SRV loss, Dougherty has a shot to move into the #4 slot.

By: FNL680

FNL680 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:03:40 +0000

Cal-SRV have now played two nail biters. Grizzlies down by one in each of the 6th, 7th (two out RBI) and wins 4-3, walkoff RBI single with no outs in the 9th. Similar scenario as first meeting when SRV had a B7 walkoff. In consecutive weeks, Cal has beat the #4. La Salle maintains one game EBAL lead, with Grizzlies/Wolves tied for second.

Regarding national or state polls, they have to include a modest amount of subjectivity. Post #6 is an example. As more head-to-head in-league transpires, there’s discernable movement in the local poll. In ’11 AV was nationally ranked pre-season,#2 @ 5-1 after six games, out of the BANG poll early May, and finished 11-13, 5-9 EBAL, out of NCS.

The Cowboy P has superior level private pitching coaching so mechanics should allow going deep innings. That was a huge number of pitches though for ANYone if fact, and following two knee issues, should be cause for concern.

By: Mr. Baseball

Mr. Baseball — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 20:45:23 +0000

Pride, Not if hitting coach Mr. Dunlap and Pitching coach Mr. Guerro has anything to say about it. Down goes Salesian.

By: Baseball Scout

Baseball Scout — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 14:13:52 +0000

@Livermore Parent – I’ve watched EBAL baseball for many years and coach Willis’ program since he took over. I’ve never witnessed or heard of him rolling out pitchers beyond acceptable limits. In fact Granada brought on a well known travel coach to be their pitching coach. I guarantee that the Granada pitching staff is one of the best conditioned staffs in NCS and are pitching focused. Let’s not throw a program under the bus by making a blanket statement. I’m talking about one game and one game only.

By: Prep Fan

Prep Fan — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:52:16 +0000

Re: 314 Voice – Obviously, it is more important to have a high rating as opposed to a high strength of schedule. I wasn’t commenting on the relative importance of the two. Just pointing out as part of the discussion that the EBAL has a higher non-league strength of schedule than the DFAL. And also stated that both are very strong leagues and the top 2 in NCS. And yes, the DFAL is rated higher, but that was already brought up by redandblue2.

By: Pride Baller

Pride Baller — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 23:07:40 +0000

Well, not as sexy as the EBAL but the BSAL has a pretty interesting race going. Salesian (one loss) has now snuck in to first place with frontrunners St. Mary’s and Encinal (two losses each) both falling to lesser teams this week.

St. Mary’s lives by it’s pitching and it looks as though lefty ace Mahoney is injured, no appearances on the mound in April. Salesian will have its hands full Friday against Flemer, who I believe no hit the Pride last season.

Fourth place Piedmont has been the surprise of the league with nice wins against both Encinal and St. Mary’s. Kennedy has apparently folded up for the season with all games forfeited since early April.

Any other BSAL fans out there??