Elimination day

P.J. Tyson went 3-for-5 with four RBI for Wabash, including a bases-loaded triple in the Little Giants' four-run fourth. Wabash athletics photo

Coe was the first No. 1 seed eliminated from the tournament as 20th-ranked Carthage bounced the unseeded Kohawks from the tournament with a 5-3 win. Coe rallied for three runs in the ninth but left the tying run on first. Christopher Newport, the No. 2 team in the D3baseball.com Top 25 (No. 1 in the coaches poll), was eliminated by Wabash 9-3. CNU was outscored 20-4 in its two games.

No. 1 seeds Linfield, Tufts and Kean survived elimination on Thursday in the second day of the NCAA Division III baseball regionals.

And while Adrian wasn't a top seed, the 2008 Championships participant ended up going two-and-out in a particularly painful way, coughing up ninth-inning leads in both games. On Thursday, it was Penn State-Altoona dogging the Bulldogs, as Cord Heine capped a three-run rally with a walk-off double to lift the Lions to a 3-2 win.

After falling to eighth-seeded Catholic last night, Kean threw Kevin Herget and got a three-hitter to stave off elimination, sending Messiah packing with a 6-0 win. The Cougars exploded for five runs in the ninth to provide the ultimate insurance. For Tufts, center fielder David Orlowitz and DH Chase Rose each went 3-for-4 to lead a 14-hit attack as the top-seeded Jumbos hung on for a 3-2 victory Thursday morning against MIT. 

St. Thomas eliminated Aurora with an 11-hit attack in an 8-3 victory, while seventh-ranked St. Scholastica edged sixth-ranked UW-Stevens Point 3-2 to remain alive in the Midwest.

Heidelberg remained unbeaten in the Mideast Regional, handing Case Western Reserve its first loss of the tournament, 8-1 behind a 3-for-4 day from Andrew Buelow and Ethan Holt's ninth win of the season. No. 1-ranked and No. 1-seeded Marietta is still unbeaten as well, defeating Franklin 6-0.

Zach Prentice homered and drove in three to lead Brockport State in a 10-0 elimination of Mitchell. Mitchell entered the tournament as the first automatic qualifier from the fledgling New England Collegiate Conference and led Division III in batting average at .362, but was held to a .183 average in the regionals. Clarkson stayed alive in the New York Regional as well, defeating Ramapo 5-2 in improving to 20-18.

Rowan defeated Randolph-Macon 8-5 as the Mid-Atlantic Region finally got its fourth game in, and Randolph-Macon was eliminated later in the afternoon by Johns Hopkins in another 8-5 score.