Baseball is back on the diamond

ORANGE, Calif. – The Chapman baseball group kicks off the 2022 year and property timetable Fri., Feb 18 and will host the Whittier Poets at Hart Park in a 2:30 p.m. matchup. The crew springs back again into action following a shortened 2019-20 season because of to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Only four Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) teams had been ready to perform in the 2020-21 year. Chapman, one particular of the 4, gained the best seed in the SCIAC Postseason Tournament and gained its semifinal contest versus the Bulldogs, 7-6 (10 innings.) adopted by back again-to-back again victories about Cal Lutheran (5-2 and 8-2) to gain the double-elimination tournament.

The Panthers attained the SCIAC’s automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Championship and fell 4-3 to St. Thomas (Minn.) in the Collegeville, Minn. Regional remaining.

Chapman will see some critical returning expertise using the subject this spring along with some promising additions to the squad. Senior catcher and San Francisco indigenous Cooper Foard returns the diamond. In 2020 Foard appeared in 9 video games for the Panthers as a corner outfielder and designated hitter. He hit .348 with 6 RBI and stole four bases on the period.

Through the 2021 season Foard appeared in 21 online games at the rear of the plate for Chapman and tallied 84 at-bats and strike .333 with a .536 slugging proportion. He racked up 17 operates, 28 hits and six doubles along with his a few dwelling runs and 23 RBI

A different critical returner for the Panthers is junior right handed pitcher Grant Manning. In 2020 Manning appeared in 5 games for Chapman out of the bullpen in his rookie debut. He pitched 7.1 innings permitting 6 attained, he struck out eight though only walking a single.

In the 2021 season Manning started out five online games for the Panthers and appeared in a few out of the bullpen tallying a 2- file. In his 32 innings pitched he served up 31 strikeouts averaging 8.72 strikeouts for each nine innings. He finished the time with a 3.09 Era.

All 9 SCIAC institutions will return to participate in in the 2021-22 year, 5 groups returning for the 1st time given that 2019-20. SCIAC play is slated to begin the week of February 25-27 but the Panthers will kick off their convention plan with weekend of March 4-6 with a 2:30 p.m. dwelling recreation from the Stags on March 4 and a 11:00 a.m./2:30 p.m. doubleheader on the road at Claremont-Mudd-Scripps on March 5.