May 16, 2011

D3baseball.com Regional Previews

This past January we took the pulse of D-III baseball and made our predictions. Now with the regular season behind and the regional playoff round about to start we reassessed our predictions. In our regional previews we pick our favorites to advance, our Cinderella and the team most likely to disappoint in each regional.

Regional Previews
West | Midwest | Central | Mideast | South | Mid-Atlantic | New York | New England

Thomas More is our surprise pick to make it out of the Central regional.
Thomas More athletic photo

Our playoff picks in the New York (Cortland), Mid-Atlantic (Kean), and Midwest (UW-Stevens Point) are the same today as they were in January.  Heidelberg and Western New England looked like safe choices four months ago and although they are no longer our favorites to move out of the regional, both are seeded second in their respective regional.

Follow all the playoff action on the D3baseball.com scoreboard

Linfield, our pick in the west regional, was considered back in January but we favored Trinity (Texas). In the Central regional the number one seed is Coe and our pick was conference mate Buena Vista. Both teams are in the playoffs but it is Thomas More, coming over from the Mideast region, who we think will come out of Central and advance.

May. 20
Final
Marietta 7, at Manchester 3
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Final
at Wheaton (Mass.) 2, Western New England 0
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May. 19
Final
at Kean 6, Ramapo 4
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Final
Marietta 6, at Manchester 3
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Final
Western New England 6, at Wheaton (Mass.) 4
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Final
at Christopher Newport 12, Salisbury 3
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Final
at St. Thomas 10, UW-Whitewater 6
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Final
at Ramapo 3, Keystone 2
Final
Whitworth 9, at Trinity (Texas) 2
Final
at Cortland State 2, Farmingdale State 1
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Final
at Western New England 2, Trinity (Conn.) 1
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Final
Marietta 9, at St. John Fisher 2
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Final
at Christopher Newport 9, Shenandoah 5
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Final
at Webster 3, Birmingham-Southern 2
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Final
UW-Whitewater 6, at St. Scholastica 5
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Final - 11 innings
Trinity (Texas) 6, at Coe 5
May. 20
Final
Penn State-Behrend 13, at Wesley 10
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Final
at Wheaton (Mass.) 2, Western New England 0
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Final
Marietta 7, at Manchester 3
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