Easton SoCal Showdown 2011

OK I looked over the brackets and here are my first round predictions. This is really risky since I have not even looked at some of the winterball scores, and it is early but here goes:

Alemany should prevail but Saugus has a chance to win. Saugus vs Alemany game will be key to group A.

Chaminade, Chastworth, and Crespi should win their brackets.

Moorpark should win their bracket, but Cleveland should not be taken lightly. Moorpark vs Cleveland game should decide winner.

Camarillo has a tough draw and has to play two very good teams to win their bracket. Harvard-Westlake or Ventura could easily come through group F.

Valencia should win, but Simi is always tough.

West Ranch should win but Quartz Hill is usually good also.

I'm pretty removed from it but I'll go with Alemany, Chatsworth, El Camino, Valencia, West Ranch, Harvard/Westlake, Moorpark, and Agoura.

Out of group A I would say Saugus because Alemany has to play Palmdale and they have a 6'6" lefty that can stop anybody, Groub B Agoura, C Chatsworth, D The baseball factory Crespi,E Moorpark, F the other Baseball factory Harvard, G Valencia should win and H West Ranch - They have too many arms and should win the whole thing

Welcome Jaxx we need some more California participation.

Good analysis, I am not sure Agoura has the arms to get through Kennedy and Chaminade, but it is early season baseball so anything is possible.

A-Alemany
B-Chaminade
C-Chatswoth
D-? Don't want to boast so you decide for yourself
E-Hart
F-Camarillo
G-Valencia
H-West Ranch

I wanna play (put me in coach)
A.Westlake
B. Chaminade
C. Chatsworth
D.Elco
E. Moorpark
F. Calabasas
G.Valencia
H West ranch
probably Valencia champs over Chatsworth

I love the fact that the season is about to start and people are paying attention now.

IJD lots of consensus but some interesting choices.

Westlake? They have lost a lot over the past two years. I have not heard about any new kids coming up replacing some pretty good players lost.

Elco is always good. Not sure if they can take out Crespi. Could happen.

Calabasas...are you drinking so soon in the evening.

Way too early to predict a winner, will wait for second round ....at least.

It's going to be a loooonnngggg year for crespi....

as for Calabasas (could be a big year, and I said it here first)

Games start tonight!

IJaD Calabassas is going to find out REAL early how good they are as Giolito is supposed to throw. (he has hit 94 this season and it is early....)

No offense to Calabasas, but I would not be surprised if they move him back to the Camarillo game. On Sat they face a Sr laden Ventura team and they will see the number 2 who has hit 89 this winter and is not even in top shape either. If they are competitive against these teams and are 0-2 they should still be happy.

Good luck to all teams!

BOF,
Each year you seem to be a bit optimistic about how Ventura will fare against the Marmonte League. Is this the year that it will happen?

Last year they were 2-0 against Maramonte teams.

edit actually 2-1. Lost one to Simi.

Which ones?

Beat Westlake and TO (with both their number 1's on the hill)

Not exactly the top teams, then again Calabasas usually isn't the top tier either.

After seeing them IJD I will give you that Calabasas will be a competitive school, but will still end up about midpoint in the Maramonte IMO. They do a good job of manufacturing runs, and are a solid team for a small school. They certainly are not an upper tier team. This is a case where the new bats will really help a team like theirs, and I like their approach.

They lost to Harvard Westlake 0 – 1 with Giolitto on the hill, and beat Ventura 3 – 2 with a junk baller who kept Ventura off balance until the end of the game and hung on for the win. Ventura saw a bunch of 90MPH fastballs the night before that helped him out, but I give him a lot of credit for pitching a great game. Nice start to the season, congrats.

New brackets are up, quite a few surprises. I will weigh in on the third round tomorrow but wanted to post them.

http://www.musketeerbaseball.c...Tourney-Results.html

4 outa 8? not bad....
Cbas lost to HW...1-0 Hw scored on a bases loaded Balk(@HW) after 2 Cbas errors...T.Cassidy gave up only 2 hits and out pitched HW's Stud....IMHO

HW Stud may have been "just Tossing safe and easy" in this game one...?

Why "...safe and easy" given a shutout?

Given my record on the outcomes of pool play I'd say I'm a bit too far out of touch with it to make any more predictions.

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T.Cassidy gave up only 2 hits and out pitched HW's Stud....IMHO

I can't really comment about Cassidy since I have never seen him, but Giolitto is the Real deal with a capital R...

OK some surprises, I have heard IJD that the Crespi team is nothing like some of the teams in the past few years. Time will tell.

For the remaining teams I am going with:

Chatsworth. Could get ugly for Oaks.

Hart, but not sure if they are a typical Hart team.

Chaminade.

Valencia.

It's Chatworth, Hart, Chaminade and Valencia.

I believe it will be Chatsworth vs Hart amd Chaminade vs Valencia.

I will go with Chatsworth and Valencia.

I will confirm later today on the games.

Props.....from Feb 17 to me

Valencia and Chatsworth advanced to Saturday's championship game of the Easton tournament with shutout victories on Thursday

Posted Feb 17, 2:27 PM Hide Post
I wanna play (put me in coach)
probably Valencia champs over Chatsworth

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Originally posted by I'mJustADad:
Props.....from Feb 17 to me

Valencia and Chatsworth advanced to Saturday's championship game of the Easton tournament with shutout victories on Thursday

Posted Feb 17, 2:27 PM Hide Post
I wanna play (put me in coach)
probably Valencia champs over Chatsworth

Same guy who said it was going to be a long season for the 4-0 Crespi team?

Agree that Valencia has the edge.

Posted Feb 17, 2:27 PM Hide Post
I wanna play (put me in coach)
probably Valencia champs over Chatsworth[/QUOTE]

Same guy who said it was going to be a long season for the 4-0 Crespi team?

Agree that Valencia has the edge.[/QUOTE][/QUOTE]

Wow now a month later you agree with a pick....wait till Crespi plays anyone good....I'll stand by my comment..it's gonna be a long year...call me next month...by the way ventura?.....oops

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Originally posted by I'mJustADad:
Wow now a month later you agree with a pick....wait till Crespi plays anyone good....I'll stand by my comment..it's gonna be a long year...call me next month...by the way ventura?.....oops

They are solid, not like some of the teams that Crespi puts out, but solid. We'll compare notes in a month.

Final Easton scores, congrats to Chatsworth who won the tournament.
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Chatsworth 8, Valencia 5

Hart 4, Chaminade 2

Westlake 4, Oaks Christian 1

Quartz Hill 10, Thousand Oaks 8

Moorpark 1, Crespi 0 (8)

Cleveland 8, Camarillo 7

Ventura 6, St. Francis 5

Buena 9, Burbank Burroughs 6

El Camino Real 10, St. Bonaventure 8

Dos Pueblos 4, Simi Valley 3

Loyola 12, Saugus 4

Lancaster 4, Santa Monica 2

Alemany 5, Rio Mesa 3

Granada Hills Kennedy 6, Harvard-Westlake 4

West Ranch 1, Agoura 0

Calabasas 5, Palmdale 1

Wednesday Marmonte opening day..
Calabasas @ Newberry Park 3:30
Travis Cassidy vs Danny Keller what a game!!!
great matchup.....

IJD how was the game? I understand that NP has a pretty good squad this year.

We open league tomorrow night.

Just found this on the LA Times. Did not end up being a pitchers dual I guess. Moorpark 16 vs Agoura is surprising also.

MARMONTE LEAGUE

Moorpark 16, Agoura 7

Newbury Park 10, Calabasas 3

Thousand Oaks 4, Royal 1

Westlake 6, Simi Valley 5 (9)

Wow Cbas had plenty of chances....just couldn't get a break or key hit when needed..Keller didnt beatem....np bats did...!
I've seen most/alot of the top pitchers north of LAX and I'll take Max Fried from Montclair Prep(jr) over any of them...Gilioti included!

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I've seen most/alot of the top pitchers north of LAX and I'll take Max Fried from Montclair Prep(jr) over any of them...Gilioti included!

Now, now I'mJustA(Cbas)Dad. Sounds like sour grapes to me. Maybe you mean you would have rather have been facing Max Fried instead of Gio? I don't think it would have made much of a difference, to be honest. They're both teriffic young pitchers but you can't compare apples and oranges: power right hander and a slick throwing lefty. Hell, I'll take them both. In fact, UCLA has!

I will take 'em both too! Wait...we do!

Hmmmmm....6'8" 95MPH FB....do I want him on my team or XYZ? I'll have to think about it for a millisecond or two. Congrats dad he is going to be special.

Qoute from Aldoinla
"Sounds like sour grapes to me. Maybe you mean you would have rather have been facing Max Fried instead of Gio?...... but you can't compare apples and oranges: power right hander and a slick throwing lefty."

Wow Aldo (Papa-gio)...one of the best things about baseball is your allowed to have an opinion...and after watching both pitch against my sons team...I'll take Fried...I'd take Koufax over Drysdale in a heart beat for that matter also, apples and oranges are you kidding! Your kid is good enough he doesn't need your biased defense here on a blog~!

I've seen each of them and I was impressed with different aspects of each of them. Fortunately I have no need to compare them. I don't see anything wrong with preferring one over another based on the style of pitcher one prefers though.

The key is that time will tell the answer and barring injury each of them is going to have a fair amount of time left in the game.

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Your kid is good enough he doesn't need your biased defense here on a blog!
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You are right. My apologies for my biased defense of Luc with my outlandish opinion that they are both terrific young pitcher. I was just crazy that day and over-reacted. Won't happen again.

But if you really want to compare them, here you go:

Luc is 6'6", Max is 6'3".
Luc weighs more than Max.
Max eats less than Luc.
Max lives in the Valley, Luc lives in Santa Monica.
Max wears braces, Luc doesn't.
Luc's feet are bigger than Max.
Luc wears a hat with HW on it while Max wears a hat with M on it.
Max's Dad is named Jonathan while Luc's Dad is named Rick.
Their Dad's are married to different women.

There's probably more but we'll stop here.

BTW, thanks for comparing my kid to HOFer Don Drysdale and Max to HOFer Sandy Koufax. I told Max's Dad about it. He was as thrilled with your opinion as I was. Much appreciated.

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Their Dad's are married to different women.

Whew! Had me worried for a while.

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Originally posted by CADad:

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Their Dad's are married to different women.

Whew! Had me worried for a while.

I bet I can find a women both dads want to be married to