How does Bishop get a #4 seed when they didn’t even win the weakest league in the division? Wow, that is unreal….

Let’s go Amat!!!! One game at a time.

Rio’s out of the picture in terms of not playing, but he’s still with the team and at every game, nothing’s changed in that regard. Bishop Amat’s done well without him so I don’t expect that to suddenly change. In this division, Amat can beat anyone. As for Rio, he’s expected to be in uniform at every playoff game, he just won’t be cleared to play for health reasons.

He is still taking blood-thinning medication and is not cleared to play while he’s on it and is expected to continue with his medication the rest of the playoffs. I thought he might DH, but Nieto said today he doesn’t expect it.

Also, I’m only going to address this once since I’ve had to delete several comments (rumors) involving Ruiz. He has not been expelled or lost his scholarship to USC, as some have suggested. He’s in school and everything is normal. Any rumors to the contrary will be deleted.

I didn’t think you could name a team in the Division or area with more quality wins, so you do what everyone does, talk rubbish. C’mon man, I challenge you, show me where I’m wrong?

Amat has wins over Loyola (19-9), Carlsbad (19-8), Spanish Fork (20-3), Pacifica (23-5), De La Salle (16-6), and Mira Costa (18-6), not to mention a 5-4 extra-inning loss to arguably the best team in the state, Mater Dei. Plus, several other losses were to top-ranked teams, showing they played the toughest schedule in the area by a landslide.

However, I do not think Amat’s the best team in the area. I would still take Bonita and probably South Hills in a head-to-head game. I might even take Glendora. But you can’t say Amat’s schedule and quality wins aren’t the best the area has to offer. Also agree about Zamora, where would they be without him?

Those are great wins, plus Bonita played J.W. North tough. But you named one BIG WIN each, I named several. Charter Oak did win the Gladstone tournament though.

Go Bearcats, Get a win, One at a time, As long as you win the last game of the season!

Bonita has been snake-bitten in so many recent playoff and championship games in multiple sports that I would love to see them get a title Think about the championship losses in football and basketball last year, plus the semifinal loss in baseball. This year’s girls water polo title loss, some of the softball playoff losses. At some point, it’s gonna happen.

The tenacity of the bloggers that go out of their way to try and discredit and bring down the Bishop Amat Program is just a testament to it’s greatness. In regard to The Baseball team this year and their success, there are many players on that team beside’s Rio (who played all of what,five games?) and D. Zamora. Zamora has pitched very well, as expected, but he hasn’t won a whole lot of 1-0 games. This team is getting some runs on the board and they play the whole game. They have been up and they have been down but they have not been out or quit. Kenny Ball has pitched well this year and the sophs, eppenbach and garcia have done well, not to mention that E.Vega has held his own too. Offensively Claproth, Alcantara, De la Cruz, Hurst, Medina and Moya are driving in runs and getting the job done when needed. All Lancers are chipping in to get it done. This years Amat team is really putting together a total team effort and that’s what it takes to win a championship. Continue playing together as a team boys and take it one game, one inning, one out, one batter at a time and we will be hoisting another banner in the gym shortly. Everybody hates a winner and the Lancers are winners. Good Luck and stay focused AS A TEAM!

Thank you Fred. Glad all has worked out.

You know the saying, nobody likes Goliath

WE LOVE OUR AMAT BOYS!!! NO ONE YES NO ONE CAN COMPARE TO. AMAT!!!! No one yes NO ONE at 16 years old has hit a homerun out of Dodger Stadium but our boy Rio!! Good luck Thur!

Amat’s first round game has been moved to Friday.

In regards to Amat’s chances…The Lancers CAN swing the bat but are NOT perfect with the bats. The averages are inflated due to the POOR league quality, PLUS Nieto leaves the starters in until the end of league games to further pad those stats.

Amat’s REAL Achilles heel is defense. All SEASON long WAY too many errors at EVERY position. Bunt defense is atrocious. In Oakland vs. De La Salle, DLS scored TWO runs on ONE bunt. Ask yourself when the last time you saw that at ANY level. In the last game vs. Mira Costa, MC’s big inning came when they bunted about 3 times in a row. Amat KNEW the bunts were coming and could do NOTHING to stop the ‘onslaught’. Sheesh.

Wish the Amat Lancers well, but they have a tough row to hoe once the division’s really weak teams are eliminated.

Ridgecrest Burroughs a small school in the high desert as a first opponent? Wow, that’s a tough game! Come on Amat, you recruit from a hotbed of baseball talent in the SGV, and then you play teams like the Burroughs in Division 4 competition and call yourself elite? Okay, so you play some teams outside of your division and participate in the Hard 9 Classic, big deal, in the end you should be embarrassed and ashamed for sandbagging in Division IV! Step up

Reality,
Why should we the AMAT fans catch hell for what Fred writes ( Goliath ) in his posts. He may be a fan of AMAT but surely not a Lancer to consider his post’s be held against us . You have a point with GoAmat as he does get a bit overzealous but many from other schools come out just as overzealous as he does and that is the reality of it . Look at the post above yours , it as if we told CIF to schedule that first game with Burroughs . Yes we should be in a higher division and if a school could move up just by asking CIF we would move up but we are in the Catholic school Dey Rey association for sports and that’s were we fall in baseball and try to make up for it with non league scheduling . You are right that there are many fine programs in the SGV and at times their fans get a bit wild also but it seems when it concerns an AMAT fan it get magnified by the haters , not putting you in that group , but read this thread, basically Fred is the only one answering all the anti AMAT posts, not many from AMAT and only Joe and I addressing your post.

fb102-Amen! Bunt defense is horrid to say the least. Hopefully Nieto and company are spending a little quality time on that very detail this monday through thursday. To say that all stats are inflated due to league is an easy swipe considering their league but they have to have had some production against the “better” schools to get those “W’s”. I don’t mind an honest take especially if it’s based in “Fact” but when dip-sticks like “Reality” and “SGV Fan” come on here with sophamoric BS like they did below, it’s a little hard to take; however, I will temper myself and just say that maybe you guys should try reading the thread first. Do you really think that Bishop Amat had a say in who their first game would be against? And when reading Pro-Amat posts that sound extremely absurd….ask yourself if that really sounds like an Amat Fan? Maybe it’s just another dirtball hater trying to get a rise out of inattentive posters like yourselves??? Eitherway, Good Luck to my Lancers and All SGV Teams this week. One Game At A Time Lancers! One Game At A Time!!!!

Well said Joe Amat………. Well said…,.,