Here are the nine teams participating in the 2016 USCAA College World Series:
ONE SEED
Institution: COLLEGE OF SAINT JOSEPH’S (sic)
Team Name: FIGHTING SAINTS
Comment: The Fighting Saints were last year’s Runners-Up and hope to settle unfinished business in this year’s tourney.
TWO SEED
Institution: ROCHESTER COLLEGE
Team Name: WARRIORS
Comment: Year in and year out Rochester College seems to wind up in the USCAA Championship Series. They plan to make it further than in 2015. Continue reading
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NOR-CAL ROUND ONE – GAME ONE – The COLLEGE OF MARIN MARINERS welcomed their First Round opponents the CANADA COLLEGE COLTS. After a scoreless 1st Inning the Colts took a 1-0 lead in the 2nd and 2-0 in the 3rd before the 4th Inning ended with Canada College leading the Mariners by a score of 3-2. Neither team scored again until the 7th, when the College of Marin belted in SIX runs and rode them the rest of the way for an 8-3 victory. Mariners Pitcher Cooper Casad picked up the win. Continue reading
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TOHONO O’ODHAM COLLEGE JEGOS
Location: Sells, AZ
Division: NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association)
Comment: The team name is pronounced “Jug-ohs” despite the way it may seem. That is how the word is pronounced in the Native American language of the Tohono O’odham people. What are Jegos? Here is an answer in the words of the folks at Tohono O’odham College: Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog’s coverage of the world’s OLDEST team sport continues. Here are the men’s and women’s college polo champions for this year.
MEN
Champions – TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY AGGIES
Runners-Up – UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA CAVALIERS
Score – The Aggies defeated the Cavaliers 16-15. Continue reading
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MID-SOUTH CONFERENCE – ROUND TWO – The 2 seeds – the LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS – eliminated the 7th seeded UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS PATRIOTS, beating them two days in a row, this time in a 15-9 shootout. ### Meanwhile the (5) CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY PHOENIX completed their upset of the (4) GEORGETOWN (KY) COLLEGE TIGERS with a 4-2 triumph. Continue reading
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MID-SOUTH CONFERENCE – FIRST ROUND – The 5th seeded CUMBERLAND UNIVERSITY PHOENIX won a magnificent 2-0 upset of the 4 seeds – the GEORGETOWN (KY) COLLEGE TIGERS ### Meanwhile the (6) SAINT CATHARINE COLLEGE PATRIOTS edged the (3) UNIVERSITY OF PIKEVILLE BEARS 4-3 in another upset ### And the (2) LINDSEY WILSON COLLEGE BLUE RAIDERS defeated the (7) UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS PATRIOTS 5-2. Continue reading
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The victorious Orchard Hill team: Steve Van Andel, Facundo Pieres, Julian de Lusarreto and Juan Martin Nero.
Balladeer’s Blog continues its coverage of the world’s OLDEST team sport – Polo. The 112th U.S. Open has wrapped up at the International Polo Club in Palm Beach.
CHAMPIONSHIP GAME – Orchard Hill – the Clubmen as they’re known to readers of Balladeer’s Blog – took on the Dubai Gushers for the 2016 title. In the First Chukker the Clubmen took a quick 1-0 lead off a Facundo Pieres goal just 30 seconds in. As is often the case the Polo Grounds were fecund with Facundos and soon the Gushers tied the score at 1-1 when Facundo Sola swatted in a goal from the field and later made a 40-yard penalty shot for a 2-1 Dubai lead. Adolfo Cambiaso made it 3-1 to end the opening Chukker.
Scoring in the Second Chukker got started with a 30-yard penalty shot from Pieres to make the score 3-2. Rashid Albwardy put the Gushers up 4-2 with a goal from the field but Pieres pulled Orchard Hill to within a goal with less than a minute left, ending the Chukker with a score of 4-3.
Julian de Lusarreta managed the first goal of the Third Chukker, tying things up at 4-4 and his teammate Juan Martin Nero went on to put the Clubmen on top 5 goals to 4 with a shot rocketed in from ONE HUNDRED YARDS OUT! Facundo Pieres notched a pair of penalty shots later in the Chukker for a 7-4 Orchard Hill advantage but Cambiaso scored the lone goal for Dubai in the Chukker, making the score 7-5 in favor of the Clubmen going into Halftime. Continue reading
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Here’s one last round of congratulations to the college hockey champions in the FIVE divisions covered here at Balladeer’s Blog.
NJCAA (National Junior College Athletic Association)
National Champions – DAKOTA COLLEGE AT BOTTINEAU LUMBERJACKS
Runners-Up – Erie College Kats
2015 Champions – Erie College Kats Continue reading
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FORT PECK COLLEGE BUFFALO CHASERS
Location: Poplar, MT
Division: AIHEC (American Indian Higher Education Consortium)
Comment: Balladeer’s Blog welcomes the Buffalo Chasers, the latest AIHEC team to be featured here! This terrific institution is affiliated with the Assiniboine and Sioux Reservation in northwest Montana. Continue reading
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Balladeer’s Blog offers one last round of congratulations to the 2016 women’s college basketball champions in the divisions covered here.
NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics) DIVISION ONE
National Champions – MID-AMERICA NAZARENE UNIVERSITY PIONEERS
Runners-Up – Baker University Wildcats
2015 Champions – Oklahoma City University Stars Continue reading
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