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Follow both the Stanford men and the Stanford women's lightweight crews at the IRA championships:  


Results: http://ira.qra.org/

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Intercollegiate rowing, apart from the women's heavyweight category, remains outside of the NCAA. 

Here are a few articles from recent years about how the sport of rowing is split between the NCAA and the IRA.  

http://dailyorange.com/2011/05/rowing-sp...from-ncaa/

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2006/...ffer-brin/

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The Stanford men's varsity eight came in 4th in their first race:  

1 CALIFORNIA 5:37.319
2 PRINCETON 5:41.557
3 DARTMOUTH 5:46.992
4 STANFORD 5:51.347
5 FIT 5:53.694
6 HOBART 5:57.469


Washington had the fastest time out of all four heats, Cal the second-fastest.

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The men's varsity eight will be in the repêchage, rowing against Oregon State, Navy, and Santa Clara.

Stanford women's rowing competes for Stanford's seventh NCAA championship of the year starting today in Indianapolis. I'll defer to the experts on our chances, but considering how close the competition was at the Pac-12 tournament (where Stanford finished 2nd), and because the top three teams in the country hail from the Pac-12 (#1 UW, #2 Cal, #3 Stanford), it seems like a small boost in performance could see Stanford take home another trophy. 

Here's the Stanford preview: https://gostanford.com/news/2019/5/29/wo...ahead.aspx
And here's a link to live results: http://www.regattatiming.com/results/502/

Schedule

They were supposed to have started already this morning, but rowing has been delayed several hours due to debris at the starting line from overnight storms. Preliminary heats and repechages are today, semifinals are tomorrow, and the finals in each race on Sunday morning. Top 2 in each heat make the A/B semifinals, with the rest to the repechages. The top 2 in each repechage race make the A/B semifinals, while the rest go to the C/D semifinals. The top 3 in each semifinal make the Grand (or "A") Final, while the lower 3 make the Petite (or "B") Final. (To have a chance to win the title, you need all three of your boats to make their respective A finals.)

Analysis

At Pac-12s, Stanford finished second in each race--I Varsity Eight, II Varsity Eight, III Varsity Eight, and Varsity Four. Washington won three races (Second and Third Varsity Eights and Varsity Four) while Cal won one (First Varsity Eight), resulting in Washington winning the Pac-12 with 39.5 points, Stanford finishing second with 39, and Cal finishing third with 38.5 points.

At NCAAs, though, I believe it's just three races that count--I and II Varsity Eights and the Varsity Four. In those races, here's how Stanford did vs. Washington and Cal, as they went 1-2-3 in each event:

I Varsity Eight: Stanford finished 0.933 seconds behind Cal and 0.38 seconds ahead of Washington
II Varsity Eight: Stanford finished 7.336 seconds behind UW and just 0.57 seconds ahead of Cal
Varsity Four: Stanford finished 8.334 seconds behind UW and 14.473 seconds ahead of Cal

As I understand it, the scoring system is as follows:

* The winner of the Varsity Four gets 22 points, second place 21, third place 20, etc.
* The winner of the II Varsity Eight gets 44 points, second place 42, third place 40, etc. (i.e., double the points for the Four)
* The winner of the I Varsity Eight gets 66 points, second place 63, third place 60, etc. (i.e., triple the points for the Four)

Thus, team depth is incredibly important. So, the recipe for the Stanford women seems pretty straightforward: pick up the second you need to win the I Varsity Eight (though the gap between Cal and Stanford has been bigger than just one second in other races this year), hold off Cal (and everyone else) for second in the II Varsity Eight, and hold onto second place in the Varsity Four, and that's just enough for a title (that would be 129 points; if UW finished 1st in both the II Eight and the Four and second in the I Eight, they'd also be on 129 points, but if teams are tied on points, the team with the higher placing in the I Eight is the NCAA champion). But even winning the I Eight won't be enough if Stanford doesn't stay right on UW's heels in the other two races.

Does anyone know anything about this young man from following high school recruiting? He’s a four-star tackle from Hawaii (Kahuku HS on Oahu) headed to Ohio State. My husband and I met him last night at SFO; he’d been on our flight coming in from Honolulu. We wound up chatting while looking for our baggage claim and waiting for suitcases. He seems like a terrific kid, and I may find myself in the unusual position of rooting for an OSU player.

Starts on Monday.
Baseball America lists in order their top 200.
Stowers is at 103
Miller 106

No Stanford signees are listed.

So many on the Stanford team are eligible for the draft.

Very surprised to not see Little listed

This is the year they broke the bee.

With 8 contestants left after 17 rounds and no one being eliminated for 3 rounds of the most difficult words, they’ve taken the extraordinary step of declaring that anyone left after the 20th round will be a co-champion. The reason? It appears many if not all of these finalists know every word in the dictionary. It strikes me as the right call. Perfection is possible and it seems like they could go on and on and on. They look exhausted — it’s close to midnight EST — but they keep going.

Mind-blowing and humbling to see these kids.

As the first comment says: Nicole Gibbs beat cancer 6-0, 6-0

BC

"Care for some strawberries?" Graduate honors immigrant parents

A nice story.  And you'll see why I linked it here, when you read about what her planned major in college will be.

There are quite a few baseball articles being uploaded every day on gostanford.com.

I enjoyed this in-depth article on Handley:

Quote:THE CHALLENGE FACING Stanford catcher Maverick Handley each game is daunting.
Handley must remember the sequence of pitches for every batter every time up. He must notice their feet, hands, and swing and where they’re standing in the box. He must know the score, the count, the outs, and whether the baserunners are slow or fast, or straying off the bag. And he must know his pitchers, how they’re throwing and what’s their state of mind.
Handley prepares for a game with the same passion he plays with. He watches video of every hitter, learns the pitches they like and don’t like, where they drive the ball, and what gets them out.
And that’s just the mental side of the game.
Some catchers let their coaches shoulder the load, and are content taking signals from the dugout. Handley, however, prefers to think for himself.
If he gets it right, it can play out spectacularly.

http://gostanford.com/feature/MavMoments


Will the Thrill for Olerud Award:

http://gostanford.com/news/2019/5/30/bas...alent.aspx


Twelve (TWELVE!!!) All-Academic

http://gostanford.com/news/2019/5/30/bas...demic.aspx

Nine recognized (posted in postseason thread already):

http://gostanford.com/news/2019/5/29/bas...nized.aspx

Brandon Wulff's story:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbUQEFM0C...e=youtu.be

Thought this might be a good time to give a rundown of our first opponent in the baseball regional: the Sacramento State Hornets.

Sacramento is 39-23 overall, and was 18-9 in the WAC regular season. That was good for a tie for 4th/5th. They were the 3rd seed in the WAC tournament, I think because Cal Baptist is not yet eligible for the tournament. They started that tournament with a loss to Utah Valley (6th seed), but then proceeded to win six straight to win the WAC automatic bid.
On their own web page, Sacramento State is proud to point out that their 39 wins is the most among the 4 seeds in the tournament.

The highlights from Sacramento's schedule this year would be a road win at UCLA (1-2 in the series), a 6-0 home win over cal, and their six game run in the WAC tournament. Lowlights from the schedule would include losing 3 of 4 at Pacific early on and a 3-8 stretch in the middle of their conference season.

Overall, they have a Massey rating of 84th, and an ISR (BoydsWorld) of 99th.

Sac State's strength is pitching. Their team ERA is 3.69, tops in the WAC and 27th in the country. They've given up 39 home runs in 62 games.
Sac State's offense is less strong. Their batting average is 0.235 (9th of 10 in the WAC), they've hit 37 HRs in 62 games, and have a team OPS of 0.692.

The guy I would think we would face as a starter is Scott Randall, a sophomore who has gone 8-1 in 14 starts, 90 IP, and a 2.50 ERA. He's their best pitcher and workhorse. However, he seems to have mostly been a day two starter, including in both of their final two series and the WAC tournament. Sac St does seem to rotate their rotation a lot, so he's likely the guy we'd see. If not Randall, I'd guess we'd see Jr Austin Roberts (4-4, 6 saves, 3.18 ERA) who started game 1 of their final two series. Jr. Parker Brahms (4-4, 4.52 ERA) started game 1 of the WAC tournament, but I think they were trying to get away with saving their better pitchers because they thought they could win game 1 anyway (which did not work).
They also have a lot of guys they can bring out of the bullpen - I see 8 guys with >48 innings pitched and ERAs 4.5 or below. [For comparison, Stanford has a very good bullpen but to get to 8 guys you have to go down to 31 innings pitched.]

The Hornet offense is not their strength, averaging 5.14 runs/game and hitting 0.235 as a club.
Some comparisons: Arizona (probably the best offensive team in the country) is averaging 9.79 runs/game and hitting 0.326. Stanford is scoring 6.75 runs/game and hitting 0.281. Oregon State (whom Hulk complains is offensively challenged) is scoring 5.71 runs/game and hitting 0.264.

Sac St's best hitter is their leadoff guy, LF Matt Smith (0.318, SLG 0.479, 6 HR). He's also their only hitter over 0.300. In fact, they only have one other guy hitting over 0.250 - usual DH Bacho at 0.277 AVG, 455 SLG, 8 HR. Their leading HR hitter is 3B Moretto with 9 but he's only hitting 0.215 AVG. 

I would tend to expect a low scoring game. 
I expect Stanford to stick with Beck as game one starter.
[Should we manage to win, it will be interesting to see if Esquer flips Matthiessen for Miller in the very important winners bracket game.]

BC