Discuss, Report WCLL Games Week 0f 5 -11 February

by **SDSULAX** on Mon Feb 05, 2007 12:40 pm

Fri Feb 09
BYU vs Arizona @ Ariz 3:00pm
St. Mary's vs California @ Cal 7:00pm
Willamette vs Pacific @ UOP 7:00pm
Fullerton vs Biola @ Biola 7:00pm
Sat Feb 10
Loyola Marymount vs UC San Diego @ UCSD 1:00pm
Claremont vs Chapman @ Chap 1:00pm
USC vs San Diego State @ SDSU 1:00pm but, in the event of rain, game time changes to 6PM on turf field PG 610.
Willamette vs UC Santa Cruz @ Santa Cruz 1:00pm
Cal Poly vs Chico State @ Chico 2:00pm
BYU vs Arizona State @ ASU 2:00pm
UC Santa Barbara vs San Diego @ San Diego 2:00pm
Cal Lutheran vs UC Irvine @ Irvine 2:00pm
Southern Oregon vs UC Davis @ Davis 5:00pm
Sun Feb 11
Stanford vs UC Davis @ Davis 1:00pm
Southern Oregon vs St. Mary's @ St.Mary's 1:00pm
Santa Clara vs Sonoma @ Amador 1:00pm
Pepperdine vs Fullerton @ Intramural 1:00pm
Dominican University vs UC Santa Cruz @ Santa Cruz 1:00pm

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by **eplsoccer77** on Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:59 pm

Chico State vs. Cal Poly will be a great game. The BOOT is at stake. A great rivalry in the WCLL...

by **freddy** on Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:47 am

both teams have a lot to prove and this game is always fought hard with a lot of intesity. not sure which team will pull out in the end....is cal poly deserving of their ranking? does chico deserve more credit? we'll see

by **SOCAL** on Wed Feb 07, 2007 1:07 pm

I will guarantee that the boot will be in the hands of the Mustangs by the end of this weekend. If my memory serves me Chico was beat in the fall by Nevada, the same team Poly just chewed up and spit out. There will be a few old Chico players wearing Poly jerseys after this one, once they lose their bets.

by **eplsoccer77** on Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:23 pm

You can never look too literally into a fall ball game. Apparently that was Chico's 3rd game of the day. They played and beat Cal 1st who just played UCSB to a one goal game. Plus I hear that Chico has finally come over some of their eligibility issues. Will be a tough game and looks like it may be raining up in Chico.

by **Phantanimal** on Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:29 pm

Cal Poly will win by a margin of about 5 goals. Their faceoff guy will dominate Chico's, and the fact that Nevada was "chewed up and spit out" doesn't say much considering they had a middie in goal. Also, Fall Ball means nothing.

by **CATLAX MAN** on Wed Feb 07, 2007 2:40 pm

Phantanimal wrote: Fall Ball means nothing.

I wish I had a dollar for every time this has to be pointed out. I could retire early.

by **Baller1** on Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:40 pm

CATLAX MAN wrote: I wish I had a dollar for every time this has to be pointed out. I could retire early.

If you retire early, then who pays for my lacrosse dues?

by **freddy** on Wed Feb 07, 2007 10:53 pm

would anyone like to comment on the ucsb/cal scrimmage....cal losing by only 1? what this reflects upon the two teams

by **Ravaging Beast** on Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:04 pm

I was at the game (it wasn't a scrimmage). Cal is a much improved team. Their goalie looked amazing. However, I saw very few stick saves from him. Is that a good keeper, poor shooting by the Gauchos, or a combination of both? Only time will tell. Other than the first five minutes, UCSB defense looked pretty solid. Both offenses looked poor, but that is the way it always seems to go. Offense usually takes a few games to catch up to the level that defenses play at. What I took away from the game was that Cal looked much better than they have in the past, but both teams looked to have some serious first game jitters.

by **freddy** on Wed Feb 07, 2007 11:12 pm

cal lost by 1 to ucla also......are these teams significantly improving or is it safe to say that the gauchos have lost a step...or two?

by **Ravaging Beast** on Thu Feb 08, 2007 3:21 am

It is only the beginning of the season. Things change after a few games. There is a chance that UCSB lost a step, but I highly doubt it. Even with five regular season losses last year, they still managed to finish 3rd/4th in Dallas. And if you looked at their game on Sunday, they beat Stanford pretty easily. I haven't seen UCLA play yet this year, but they were second in the LA division last year. So they might be on their way to another good season. We will give it a few weeks before we can make some judgments on these teams. That is one of the reasons why they don't release the first poll after the first week.

by **laxer0308** on Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:16 am

How is no one talking about the BYU vs. Arizona game, this could be the biggest game of the year so far. I am predicting BYU winning by 6.

by **RopeNoRope** on Thu Feb 08, 2007 10:44 am

I agree how is no one talking about the upcoming AZ games with BYU.

Also, I think it is great that BYU has the manpower and resources to put out so many releases, but does anyone really care how their in practice scrimmage went this week.

Sounds like some cheesy scare tactics or maybe some people up in Provo have too much time on their hands.

by **Sonny** on Thu Feb 08, 2007 11:41 am

RopeNoRope wrote:Also, I think it is great that BYU has the manpower and resources to put out so many releases, but does anyone really care how their in practice scrimmage went this week.

Sounds like some cheesy scare tactics or maybe some people up in Provo have too much time on their hands.

The local student newspaper at BYU puts out the coverage. Not the team.

If a local student or commercial newspaper put out an article on your favorite WCLL team, let us know. We will run that too.

We should welcome ANY and ALL coverage we get at this level of the game.

That being said, I'm looking to hire some sports writing interns to cover the WCLL including Southern California/Arizona. More info here:
http://forums.collegelax.us/viewtopic.php?p=66285