This Week In West: A SCIAC Showdown and a Texas Triad

Alright you worthless peons, I’ve got an upsetting amount of free-time on my hands, as I’m in between jobs at the moment (read: unemployed), which means I do what any self-respecting adult does when the chips are down, waste time on an unpaid leisure activity. I’ve been setting the NESCAC apologists straight in the comments of…

The Texas Quad: Hosting Duties

THE TEXAS QUAD: Hosting Duties D3 WEST INTRO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HoZNpPTRDU Trinity TX Power 6: 71.43. Chas Mayer (12.54), Wilson Lambeth (12.22), Jordan Pitts (12.12), Liam Crawley (11.80), Mckenna Fujitani (11.37), Matt Tyer (11.38). Midd (NO CUBA) Power 6: 74.79. William de Quant (13.03), Hamid Derbani (12.97), Kyle Schlanger (12.75), Timo Van der Geest (12.04), Allen Jackson…

State of the Region Address: West

Because the inaugural regional rankings are forthcoming this week, and most teams’ Spring Breaks are now completed, I thought it was a good time for a state of the region address. I’m gonna start by taking a dive into the mess of results that make up the individual qualifiers in both singles and doubles, and…

Slugs Go South: A UCSC Spring Break Preview

I’m going to add to the abundance of previews that have been released over the past couple days with a spring break preview for D3’s forgotten team, UC Santa Cruz. They currently hold a blog power ranking of #32 and an ITA ranking of….oh…obviously their scheduling is to blame :/. Santa Cruz has played 8…

Indoors Backdraw Rapid Reaction and Mini-preview: a West/Central showdown of proportions

The first back-draw matches just went final, and we finally got a taste of the drama that Indoors is known for. Since both matches featured teams from my region, and I wasn’t able to help with previews last night, I got stuck with mop up duty. Here are the box scores: #8 Case Western def.…

Swarthmore Invitational Report Cards

Intro: Just because it’s INDOORS WEEK (!!!!) doesn’t mean that we’ll be forgoing our non-Indoors-related DIII tennis coverage. There were some great matches this past weekend in Pennsylvania, as the middle of the Atlantic South started their seasons with a West region visitor crashing the party without bringing any In-n-Out with them. Rude. Box Scores:…

Spring Break Walla Walla Report Card

I know you don’t usually get grades over Spring Break, but let’s be honest, we all know none of these teams are actually on Spring Break, and we have only used this monicker to lightly poke fun at Walla Walla for being a potentially sub-optimal spring break destination. On to the grades. Here are the…

Spring Break Walla Walla!!!!

D3W: Welcome to the Spring Break Walla Walla preview, and boy do we have a doozy of a quad lined up for you this year. This is undoubtedly the best quartet since the very first (featuring CMS, Trinity, and a still-relevant UC Santa Cruz), and it’s nice to see some early interregional action with Gustavus…