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Taking 2025 season off

While we – I – had anticipated spending December updating the 2025 calendar as schools release their upcoming season schedules, life is dictating that SoCalBaseball will be taking the 2025 season off.

This is a one-man show, done out of passion for the last two seasons. Adding in the L.A., Inland Empire and Santa Barbara – Ventura County schools last year added far more hours to the project than anticipated.

Having lost both parents this last year, and having volunteered to help organize a church conference in May, something had to give – and I can’t afford to quit my day job just yet. 😉

We’ll still be out and about at college games throughout Southern California this year – we already took in the San Diego State fall exhibition against BYU, and have scheduled a UCLA – Dodgers doubleheader road trip in April.

As always, we encourage you to get out and catch a couple college baseball games. The level of play is likely better than you anticipate, and you’ll be far closer to the action than you’ll ever get at Chavez Ravine, the Big A or Petco.

– Jim

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USD wins WCC tourney

The University of San Diego defeated Portland on Saturday to win the West Coast Conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Div. I regionals. The Toreros went 3-0 in the WCC postseason tournament to earn the bid, and will find out where they will be playing on Monday.

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PLNU advances to NCAA Div. II nationals

For the second time in three seasons, Point Loma Nazarene University has advanced out of the Super Regionals and to the national title round. After losing the opener to Cal State Monterey Bay on Friday afternoon, PLNU rebounded to take both games on Saturday.

In 2022, PLNU was the national runner-up.

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UCSB wins Big West crown

University of California, Santa Barbara won the Big West title with a conference record of 26-4, edging UC Irvine by four games. Next year, the Big West will institute a post-season tournament to determine its automatic bid for the NCAA Div. I tourney.

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PLNU to host CSUMB in Super Regional

Point Loma Nazarene University will host an NCAA Div. II Super Regional for the second time in three years. Cal State Monterey Bay will visit the PLNU campus May 24 and 25 for the double-elimination round. The winner will advance to the Div. II national championship.

Tickets can be purchased via the PLNU website.

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Pomona-Pitzer, La Verne make Div. III Super Regionals

Two schools from the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference won their regional opening round, and will advance to the second round of the NCAA Division III baseball tournanent.

The Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens won over Willamette in a series they hosted, and next will face East Texas Baptist (which defeated fellow SCIAC and Claremont Colleges team Claremont-Mudd-Scripps).

University of La Verne, located less than 5 miles west of the Pomona College and Pitzer College shared campus, won its regional by defeating host Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. They will face off against the University of Lynchberg.

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PLNU headed to Super Regionals

For the second time in three seasons, the Point Loma Nazarene University Sea Lions are headed to the Super Regionals.

Hosting the double-elimination Western Region #1, PLNU swept all three of its games, defeating Cal State San Marcos on Thursday, then beating Cal Poly Pomona on both Friday and Saturday.

As the highest ranked team in its bracket, PLNU should be hosting the winner of the Western Region #2. Cal State Monterey Bay and San Francisco State play later Saturday, SFSU having won Friday’s matchup.

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SCIAC sends four squads to NCAA Div. III tourney

The Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference saw four of its nine teams qualify for the NCAA Division III tournament.

The Pomona-Pitzer Sagehens won the post-season conference tournament, earning the automatic NCAA bid. Receiving at-large bids were regular season champs University of La Verne, as well as Claremont-Mudd-Scrips and California Lutheran.

Sixty teams in total qualified for the national championship. Eight regional winners will advance to the Div. II College World Series.

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CSUSM eliminated from NCAA Div. II tourney

California State University, San Marcos lost both games on opening day of the NCAA Div. II Regional 1 held at Point Loma Nazarene University. CSUSM lost the first game to California Collegiate Athletic Association rival Cal Poly Pomona, 13-5. The Cougars then dropped the second game to the host Sea Lions, 4-2, ending their 2024 campaign.

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HIU wins regional – heads to NAIA World Series

Hope International University is headed to the NAIA World Series for the second time, after beating Tabor College 9-3 in the Fayette Regional. The HIU Royals are in their second NAIA World Series in seven years, after having qualified in 2017.

Also from the Golden State Athletic Conference (GSAC) in the NAIA World Series is Arizona Christian University, from Glendale.

Hope International enters the NAIA World Series ranked #10 nationally. While HIU won the regular-season conference crown by going 19 and 4 (37-14 overall), they lost to Jessup in the conference tournament. Both NIU and ACU earned at-large berths in the NAIA post-season. Arizona Christian won the Lewiston Regional to advance. Jessup lost on the second day in the Wakesha Bracket.

Both HIU and ACU will travel to Lewiston (ACU for a second time!) for the 10-team NAIA World Series which begins May 24. Lewis-Clark College will host the tournament, although they lost to Arizona Christian at the regional they hosted.