For the second straight year, Chapman will be facing Pomona-Pitzer Colleges in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) Football Championship game. 

After beating Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges 9-7 this Saturday they clinched the Surf Division title, and Pomona-Pitzer did the same for the Sun Division. The rematch will be played on Nov. 16 at 1 p.m., while it is currently unknown who will host. If Pomona-Pitzer wins their final game against Redlands University the championship will be at their house, but if they lose and Chapman beats La Verne University then it will be at Ernie Chapman Stadium.

Against CMS, the Panthers generated only 57 yards of offense through the air. It was the run game that dominated a very sloppy and defensive affair, with 230 yards in total. Chapman won the game because their defense stifled everything their opponents tried to do. Their first win over CMS was a 41-13 blowout, but Chapman won’t care how they won — just that they won. Chapman has handed their rivals the only two losses of their season and denied them a shot at the championship.

In other news, men’s water polo has shot up the SCIAC standings after another outstanding week. They now sit in third place, and have won their last five games in conference play. This past week they dismantled Whittier College 18-14, and La Verne 20-12. These results are a far cry from the team that started the SCIAC season with only one win in four games. With three games left on the year, and Chapman in peak form, they are in prime position to make the playoffs.

This weekend also saw cross country complete its championship meet, with senior communication studies major Annika Carlson finishing third on the women’s side. It was the highest finish for a Chapman runner in school history. Both men and women’s teams finished 6th in the conference.

Swimming and diving had its first dual SCIAC meet of the season in Claremont against CMS and Whittier. They were beaten by the home team but edged out Whitter to finish second. Diver Reid Omillian, a junior communication studies major, finished first in the one-meter board event. After being ranked third in the preseason SCIAC polls, Chapman will be hoping to build off a solid start on the road.

Men and women’s soccer had a rough week, both losing their final games at home, but will have a chance at redemption in the playoffs. The men lost 4-0 to Occidental College and the women lost 3-0 to Whittier. With the expansion of the SCIAC playoffs to include five teams, both squads will be playing away from home against the fourth place teams in SCIAC. That means men’s soccer will travel to Thousand Oaks to play California Lutheran University, and women’s soccer gets to play Whittier again. Both teams can reverse their fates after a rollercoaster season.

Volleyball won two out of three matches this week, beating Pomona-Pitzer and Occidental before losing at the California Institute of Technology on Saturday. They are currently fifth in the SCIAC standings with seven wins and seven losses, and have two games remaining against Whittier and Cal Lutheran.