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1. Thank the tarps for Saturday baseball

   By The Bakersfield Californian

   Friday, Apr 13 2012 06:03 PM

   When you live in a desert like we do here in Bakersfield, most people don't give much thought to tarps that cover baseball fields.

   But after today's seven hours or so of steady rain, plus periodic times of heavy downpours, who has tarps and who doesn't will be evident on Saturday and Sunday when the wet weather moves east.

   The Blaze: rained out by midday Friday from their Friday night game in San Jose. The Cal League is the only professional baseball league in the country that doesn't require teams to own tarps, which cover the infield areas everywhere else.

   Major League teams all have tarps, and despite monsoon-like rainfall Thursday night and into Friday morning, the S.F. Giants played their home opener on schedule Friday afternoon.

   BC's baseball team has a tarp, and the Renegades have announced their game vs. L.A. Mission on Saturday will begin on time, at 1 p.m.

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2. An umpire's classy moment at CSUB game

   Umpires usually get the most grief at baseball and softball games, but during Tuesday's softball doubleheader between Cal State Bakersfield and UConn, one of the classier moments belonged to home plate umpire Kent Jacobsen.

3. A rematch for CSUB wrestler Iwamura

   CSUB junior wrestler Tyler Iwamura got good news Wednesday when he was added to the field of wrestlers for next week's NCAA Division I championships in St. Louis.

4. New ballpark essential for new Blaze owners

   The sale of the Blaze to Bakersfield oil businessmen Gene Voiland and Chad Hathaway gives local stability to the Cal League team, but the future success (or failure) of this deal depends on two words:

5. Catching up with 2 ex-Runners

   Last spring Cal State Bakersfield lost two key individuals who had played a notable role in the schools' basketball fortunes in recent years.

6. Think big man for CSUB basketball next season

   The Cal State Bakersfield men's basketball regular season ends Saturday with a home game against Nebraska-Omaha. The Roadrunners are 16-15 entering that game, a huge improvement over any other Division I season in the program's history. No other D-1 team even reached 10 wins before this season.

7. Conference adjustment for BC football

   BC football's schedule for 2012 is not expected to be released until March, but there will be some changes, coach Jeff Chudy said.

9. Local report: CSUB sports chatter on Californian Radio

   Executive Editor John Arthur is the host on Californian Radio today. He'll discuss sports at Californa State University, Bakersfield with the reporter who covers the Roadrunners, Jeff Evans.

10. Until the very end, BC never quit

    The Bakersfield College football season ended Saturday in the 36-26 loss at Mount San Antonio College in the semifinals (but first round) of the Southern California playoffs.

11. A season-best effort by BC vs. Canyons

    There have been so many exception games by the BC football team this season. Prior to Saturday, you could point to the 41-24 win over an excellent Saddleback team or the dramatic 27-24 overtime win against Ventura.

12. BC and playoffs: down to one game

    The wild finish to Saturday night's BC at Cerritos game, when the Falcons pulled out an amazing 27-21 win on a 97-yard return of a blocked field goal on the game's final play, means BC is in a must-win game next Saturday at home vs. Canyons in order to have any chance at earning a berth in the Southern California playoffs.

13. For BC, it was typical day at the office

    Bakersfield College kept on winning Saturday, this time 21-14 over an El Camino team that hasn't won a game since it was nailed for using an ineligible player and had to forfeit four victories.

14. Gades needed it all to overcome Ventura

    Tonight (Oct. 23) saw one of the most dramatic BC games in recent memory, a 27-24 come-from-behind overtime win over Ventura.