Well hello there! I don’t need to tell you that the Blog has been pretty much dormant for the past year-plus. There are more than a few reasons for that, and it’s not just Covid. Yes, the season being cancelled last year took a lot of wind out of everyone’s sails, and while there is…
D3RegionalNEC: Don’t mind me! Just posting this for my buddy DIIIWest. Take it away pal… DIIIWest: Here we are – what I like to call the April Madness of DIII tennis. A spectacle in college basketball, I believe The Ojai is college tennis’ equivalent out on the west coast. A beautiful and storied tournament with…
Though the fall season is a relatively quick one for the players out West, I see it as one of the most grueling weekends of the year. There aren’t many times in the spring where you’ll play up to 10 matches (singles and doubles) in one weekend, so huge props to those who played an…
It’s the final week of the pre-NCAA’s season, and that means it’s the SCIAC championships. The conference isn’t quite as strong as it once was, but with three teams in the top 15, it’s still clearly the third strongest conference in the country. Here’s a preview: Quarterfinals (1) CMS def. (8) Occidental 5-0 – The Stags…
With the regular season winding down, it’s time for the most unique event on the DIII tennis calendar: The Ojai. Here are the draws. You’ll notice that the following changes have been made: The singles draw has decreased from 64 to 32, and the doubles draw has decreased from 32 to 16. The draw is…
Now that we are beyond the mid-season point and all of the writers have already come out with their mid-season reports, I wanted to throw my hat in the ring and give it a shot. D3RegionalNEC and D3West have already covered pretty much all of my teams, but I wanted to do some quick hitters…
Alright squad, before I get into yet another regional roundup, let me praise myself for a second. My predictions have been on point lately, as I called the exact score of both the Whittier vs. Whitewater match and Lewis & Clark vs. Denison. If only my March Madness picks were half as good as my…
ITA weekend is upon us, and it’s a weekend that always has me feeling a bit left out as a regional writer. However, D3West decided to be charitable/lazy and let me take the lead on writing about the west ITA, which frankly feels like a wide open tournament this year. There are several story lines,…
The SCIAC tournament has always been one of the best conference tournaments in the country. At times, the conference has had three or four teams in the top ten (much like the current UAA), and there are usually some major post-season implications in the final weekend before NCAA selections. One thing the SCIAC tournament has…
Hey Y’all! I am back (finally) with a Preview of everything there is to know about the final ITA Regional Championship for the Fall season, from the West! It’s so preeeettttyyyyyyyy……… Ok, enough staring……We have quite the stacked field this year with many consistent forces and some new faces that I really do not…
