Coyotes close in on a regional berth
The new Division II West Region poll is out, As expected Cal State San Bernardino moved up from eighth to seventh. The Coyotes won their last two regular season games while Central Washignton, which was ranked seventh last week, lost two games although they were to the teams ranked first and second in the region.
There was better news for the Coyotes the previous night. Cal State Dominguez Hills lost to Chico State 63-60 in CCAA Tournament quarterfinal play on Tuesday. Dominguez is ranked 10th in the region and had the Toros won the CCAA Tournament they likely would have bumped the Coyotes out of the mix.
Cal Poly Pomona and Humboldt State are ranked third and fourth in the region and have already punched their tickets. Only one more CCAA team is getting in and with Dominguez out of the mix it clears the way for the Coyotes.
The monkey wrench would be if Chico were to win the CCAA Tournament. But listen to those around the conference and Dominguez was clearly a bigger threat than Chico.
The conference semifinals will be at Humboldt State on Friday. Cal Poly Pomona will square off with Chico State while the Coyotes get to play the host Lumberjacks, a team to whom they lost the last time they played.
On the women's side Cal Poly Pomona moved up a spot to fifth in the region.
About Michelle
Michelle Gardner has been a staff writer for The Sun and the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin since 2002 and has covered the local college sports scene since 2004. She ventured West after working at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale for eight years and is a graduate of the University of Florida.
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