WCAC Baseball Tourney
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Anonymous
| Anyone have knowledge of how WCAC baseball playoffs work or bracket scenarios? Seems like some good games with playoff implications coming on Monday. |
Anonymous
| Unless they have changed the rules, the top 8 teams are seeded based on the regular season records, there is a one game quarter final elimination game played at the higher seed field, then the semis and finals are best of three series, with two games at the higher seed home field and one at the lower seed. |
Anonymous
| There is a lot of parity this year. There are four teams who could win it depending on matchups. Will be a great tournament. |
Anonymous
| Amazing tournament so far. High level play with plenty of drama. |
Anonymous
My kid plays in the PVAC (small schools in DMV) and their baseball playoffs are single elimination for quarter, semi, and finals. Not sure any team in the league has the depth of pitching for three games in a weekend, but my kid would love that model. It also has a better chance of the best team winning (in the PVAC the 1,2 and 3 seeds were knocked out in the quarter or semis). |
Anonymous
It’s a superior model and better preparation for what they will experience in college. It gets more kids playing time and prevents a lucky team from beating the best team. It’s the way baseball championships are supposed to be decided. The WCAC does it right. |
Anonymous
| Who’s in the finals? |
Anonymous
SJC vs. Gonzaga. Gonzaga defeated PVI in a storybook HR walk-off earlier in the week to reach the championship. SJC swept DeMatha (#1 team in MD) in their typical ruthless business-like approach to the game. In these crazy times it’s refreshing to seeing American kids playing America’s game with passion. |
Anonymous
| Which school won? |
Anonymous
| SJC!! |
Anonymous
| It’s incredible how dominant SJC baseball is. It feels like PVI is catching up with their new facilities, but SJC just seems to get it done every year. |
Anonymous
| Anyone know why SJC is not competing in the DCSAA championships? |
Anonymous
Just a guess. But there is really no upside for them. They were already 4-0 against Gonzaga and cruised through the WCAC tournament. And as they do every year they played a lot of games against not only all WCAC competition, but also ten nationally ranked teams from around the country. I don’t think the coach is going to trot out his guys again and risk potential injury just for another trophy against teams he’s already beaten. Mission accomplished, let the seniors enjoy the last two weeks of school, time to turn the page. It’s actually really commendable and unusual in the crazy world of youth sports. |
Anonymous
There is nothing commendable or not about it. It just is. SJC participates in DCSAA for nearly every other sport except football (boys and girls basketball, softball, tennis, Xcountry, track & field), so indirectly you are accusing the other SJC coaches of what (in particular softball, tennis and track & field which are Spring sports)? Every now and then they do participate...they played in 2021 when there was no WCAC playoffs and they played in 2018 and 2019. Not sure why they somewhat consistently played, then stopped as the coaching staff is the same. |