The first teams were eliminated from the Field of 54 this today and Illinois Wesleyan was one of them. Central Region top seed Illinois Wesleyan went two-and-out, falling to Scott Brosius' Linfield Wildcats 5-4 on Thursday afternoon. Catcher Drew Van Cleave had two hits and two RBI and Evan Hilberg closed the door with 2-1/3 innings of scoreless relief for the save.

Facing elimination themselves, Eastern Connecticut State rallied from a 5-2 deficit and defeated Grove City 10-5. They ended the Wolverines' first trip to the NCAA Tournament after two games. Joe Esposito struck out 10 in throwing his first complete game of the season for the Warriors.

Southern Maine, another Pool C team out of the Little East, gave up seven runs to Castleton State as the Spartans rallied to cut the Huskies' lead to 9-7. But Southern Maine pulled away and won 16-7, eliminating Castleton State.

Tim Kiely struck out a career high 12 batters without allowing a walk in a complete game performance to lead the Trinity Bantams to a 7-2 win over the Western New England Golden Bears in a winner's bracket game in the Whitehouse Regional. The Bantams, ranked No. 2 in the nation, extend the best-ever start in NCAA Division III to 39 games and move within one win of tying the all-time Division III record of wins in a row, currently held by Marietta. Trinity will face Wheaton (Mass) who defeated Keene State 12-2.

Worcester State jumped on St. Joseph's (Maine) early, touching up starter Pat Moran for three home runs in an eight-run first, including a grand slam by Ryan LaPrade. The Lancers finished with a 14-4 win.

Piedmont roughed up Salisbury's bullpen as the Lions knocked off No. 4 Salisbury, 10-6, in the Danville Regional.

An Ohail two-run home run in the 12th inning ended the contest between Chapman and host McMurry in the Abilene Regional with the Panthers on the top by a 5-3 score. With their second loss in as many days, McMurry is eliminated from the Regional.

The Warhawks scored early and often as they defeated Carthage 24-3 at the Oshkosh Regional. A grand-slam by Joe Munn in the bottom of the third highlighted an eight-run inning by the Warhawks started the offensive explosion and the rout was on.

Penn State-Behrend was eliminated from the Newark Regional as Gwynedd-Mercy survived with a 5-3 win. St. Scholastica eliminated Knox with a 15-7 win. Johns Hopkins answered Randolph-Macon's rally with a 13-8 win to eliminate the Yellow Jackets. An early four-run lead by George Fox was not enough to deter the La Verne Leopards, who rallied for an 11-6 victory over the Bruins in an elimination game. Transylvania and George Fox were sent packing as well.

Adrian scored two runs in the eighth inning to rally for a 4-3 victory over host Rose-Hulman. This was the second straight game Adrain took the lead in the late innings to win by a single tally. They will meet Heidelburg in the winners bracket of the Terra Haute Regional.

The Bulldogs scored two unearned runs due to three Engineer errors in the eighth inning, with a sacrifice fly by Jake Cappelletty providing the tiebreaking run to lift Adrian to the victory.