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May. 17Gorloks rally late with seven run seventh to beat Wisc.-Stevens Point, 9-7Webster
(Moline, Ill.) – With eight outs to play and down 7-2 the Webster Gorloks were on the verge of its season ending before rallying with seven runs in the home half of the seventh to take a 9-7 lead and hold on for the win over Wisconsin-Stevens Point on Friday afternoon [ more ]

May. 17Webster heads to Central Region Championship game with 14-13 win over AugustanaWebster
(Moline, Ill.) – The Webster Gorloks are headed to its first ever regional championship game in any sport with a 14-13 win over the Augustana Vikings on Friday night at Swanson Stadium in Moline, Ill. With the win tonight WU equaled the school record for wins in a season with its [ more ]

May. 16Wheaton Suffers First Loss with 6-2 Setback to 40-0 TrinityWheaton (Mass.)
HARWICH, MA- The second-seeded Wheaton College baseball team ran into undefeated Trinity College in the winner's bracket final of the NCAA Division III New England Regional Tournament Friday afternoon, as the Lyons suffered a 6-2 setback to the top-seeded Bantams at Whitehouse Field.

Wheaton will face the winner of Saturday's [ more ]

May. 16Montclair State’s 7-6 Win Knocks Ithaca Out Of NCAA Baseball PlayoffsIthacaGame Notes
The fourth-seeded Montclair State Red Hawks (28-19) beat the second-seeded Ithaca Bombers (30-13) 7-6 in Friday’s game of the NCAA Division III baseball regional tournament hosted by Ithaca College at Auburn’s Falcon Park. The Red Hawks advance to play either fifth-seeded Eastern Connecticut or seventh-seeded Ohio Wesleyan Friday at 7:45 p.m. [ more ]

May. 16Chapman hangs on in slugfest, will play for championship on SaturdayChapmanGame Notes
With a berth in Saturday’s NCAA Division III West Region championship game on the line, the Chapman University and Trinity University (Texas) baseball teams pleaded their own cases with their bats. It was top-seeded Chapman that edged No. 5 Trinity 10-9 at Driggers Field on Friday afternoon in a see-saw slugfest [ more ]

May. 16Tenth Inning Rally Carries Warhawks to NCAA Regional Championship GameUW-Whitewater
UW-Whitewater (38-8) defeated the University of St. Thomas 4-1 on Friday at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Midwest Regional at E.J. Schneider Field in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The Warhawks advance to the Regional Championship game on Saturday at noon. The Tommies (34-8) will play again on Friday, May [ more ]

May. 15 Four-Run Seventh Snaps Tie and Pushes Lyons Past Keene State, 12-2Wheaton (Mass.)
HARWICH, MA- Freshman Eric Laliberte's (Nashua, NH/Bishop Guertin) bases-clearing double to left center capped a four-run seventh and helped push the second-seeded Wheaton College baseball team into the winner's bracket final of the double-elimination NCAA Division III New England Regional Tournament with a 12-2 triumph over number-three Keene State College Thursday [ more ]

May. 15Two Days, Two Big Wins at NCAA Mideast Regional for Adrian CollegeAdrian
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - What a fantastic regional it has been for senior Bobby Rickstad! One night after delivering the game-winning hit, he scored the game-winning run and threw a complete game three-hitter in a huge 4-3 victory over host Rose-Hulman. Rickstad threw an incredible 151 pitches and struck out 10 [ more ]

May. 15Carthagte Drilled by UW-Whitewater, 24-3, on Thursday at NCAA Midwest RegionalCarthage
The Carthage College baseball team (36-9, 17-4 CCIW), ranked 10th in the May 13 “D3baseball.com” poll, lost to No. 11 Wisconsin-Whitewater (37-8), 24-3, on Thursday, May 15 in a second-round game at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional Championship at E.J. Schneider Field in Oshkosh, Wis. Earlier on Thursday, No. [ more ]

May. 15TRINITY BASEBALL DEFEATS WESTERN NEW ENGLAND IN NCAA REGIONAL TOURNEY Trinity (Conn.)
Harwich, Mass. – Senior RHP Tim Kiely (Swampscott, Mass.) struck out a career high 12 batters without allowing a walk in a complete game performance to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a 7-2 win over the Western New England College Golden Bears in a winner's bracket game in the NCAA [ more ]

May. 15UW-W Pounds Carthage in NCAA RegionalUW-Whitewater
The Warhawks scored early and often as they defeated Carthage College 24-3 at the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Regional at E.J. Schneider Field in Oshkosh, Wisconsin Thursday. The Warhawks advance to play St. Thomas University at 10:00 am Friday, May 16. The tournament uses a double-elimination [ more ]

May. 15LC Hornets Ready For NCAA South Regional Game vs. CNU (Tournament Notes)LynchburgGame Notes
Lynchburg College (31-11/15-3 ODAC)
at the
2008 NCAA South Regional

NCAA South Regional Tournament in Danville, VA (Dan Daniel Field)
Wednesday-Saturday, All Day

Hornet Happenins: The Hornets are enjoying their first postseason appearance since the 1983 season, and the eighth in program history. The Hornets are 31-11 after last night's 9-1 win over Piedmont, [ more ]

May. 15Piedmont roughs up Salisbury's bullpen in 10-6 regional winSalisbury
DANVILLE, Va. - The No. 12 Piedmont College Lions were able to knock off No. 4 Salisbury University, 10-6, on Thursday afternoon in a NCAA Division III South Regional baseball game at Dan Daniel Memorial Park in Danville, Va. The third-seed Lions devoured the top-seed Sea Gulls' bullpen as Piedmont scored [ more ]

May. 15Hopkins Bats Out last Randolph-Macon 13-8Johns HopkinsGame Notes
DANVILLE, VA – The Johns Hopkins baseball team used four runs in the top of the eighth to break a 7-7 tie and defeat Randolph-Macon 13-8 in an elimination game at the NCAA South Regional Tournament on Thursday morning. The Blue Jays (35-6) got four hits from sophomore Brian Youchak (Pittsburgh, [ more ]

May. 15Saint Vincent grad asked to pro campSt. VincentMiscellaneous
Recently graduated Saint Vincent College catcher Abe Weimer will report to training camp on Friday for the New Jersey Jackals in Montclair, NJ.

Weimer participated in an open tryout for the Jackals last week, and after returning back to his home in New Alexandria, PA, didn't think much of his chances.

"When the [ more ]

May. 15Rensselaer Defeats Farmingdale in Ninth InningRPI
AUBURN, N.Y. – Sophomore Patrick Reardon (Troy, NY/LaSalle Institute) singled up the middle with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, scoring pinch runner Mike Giacoia (Marlboro, NY/Marlboro) from second base, to give the third-seeded Rensselaer baseball team a 7-6 victory over sixth-seeded Farmingdale in game one of the [ more ]

May. 15Sea Gulls swat Yellow Jackets in regional openerSalisburyGame Notes
DANVILLE, Va. - The No. 4 Salisbury University baseball team held onto win its first game of the 2008 NCAA Division III South Regional on Wednesday afternoon as the Sea Gulls defeated Randolph-Macon College 7-4 at Dan Daniel Park in Danville, Va.

Salisbury (39-2) will face No. 14 Piedmont College on Thursday [ more ]

May. 15Kean Opens NCAA Tournament with 8-6 Win Over Gwynedd-MercykeanGame Notes
The Kean University baseball team opened defense of its NCAA Division III National Championship with an 8-6 victory over Gwynedd-Mercy College on the opening day of the Mid-Atlantic Regional on Wednesday afternoon.

The top-seeded Cougars (36-9) scored two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning to erase a one-run deficit [ more ]

May. 15Bronson, Early power Trinity to win over GFU, 8-1Trinity (Texas)Game Notes
ABILENE, Texas – Behind the arm of Evan Bronson and the bat of Dylan Early, the Trinity Tigers knocked off No. 2 seed George Fox University on the first day of the NCAA Division III West Region Baseball Championships Wednesday at Walt Driggers Field. Bronson pitched a complete-game 6-hitter, Early homered [ more ]

May. 14Guillerault's Late-Game Heroics Lift Wheaton Over Worcester State, 4-3 in 12Wheaton (Mass.)
HARWICH, MA- Wheaton College baseball senior Scott Guillerault's (South Portland, ME/South Portland) two-run blast over the left field fence on the game's final out in the bottom of the ninth inning run pushed the second-seeded Lyons into extra innings with seventh seed Worcester State College before scoring the winning run in [ more ]

May. 14Chapman squeaks by La Verne, 4-3 in game oneChapmanGame Notes
ABILENE, Texas – The No. 1 ranked Chapman Panthers used a 3-run first inning and never looked back on the way to a narrow 4-3 win over La Verne in the first game of the 2008 NCAA West Region Baseball Championships at Walt Driggers Field. Patrick O’Hail hit a 2-run single [ more ]

May. 14Cortland Pounds Grove City 10-1 In NCAA Baseball PlayoffsCortland StateMiscellaneous
AUBURN, N.Y. – The top-seeded Cortland Red Dragons (39-3) posted a 10-1 win over the eighth-seeded Grove City Wolverines (18-17) in Wednesday’s second game of the NCAA Division III baseball regional tournament hosted by Ithaca College at Auburn’s Falcon Park. The Red Dragons advance to play fifth-seeded Montclair State at 4:30 [ more ]

May. 14Montclair State Rallies For 8-7 NCAA Win Over E. ConnecticutMontclair StateGame Notes
AUBURN, N.Y. – Senior first baseman Luke Politan hit a two-out three-run home run in the bottom of the eight to cap as the fourth-seeded Montclair State Red Hawks (27-18) rallied for an 8-7 win over the fifth-seeded Eastern Connecticut Warriors (29-14-1) in Wednesday’s first game of the NCAA Division III [ more ]

May. 14Western New England College downs Huskies in 12 innings at NCAA TournamentSouthern MaineGame Notes
HARWICH, Mass. – Sophomore Matt Rogers (Portsmouth, RI) pitched four scoreless innings in relief and senior designated hitter Travis Schwamb (West Springfield, MA) had the game-winning hit as Western New England College outlasted Southern Maine 8-6 in 12 innings in the opening game of the 2008 NCAA Division III New England [ more ]

May. 14Rose-Hulman Tops Calvin for Program's First NCAA WinRose-Hulman
TERRE HAUTE, IND. – Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology earned its first NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament victory in school history with a 4-0 victory over Calvin College in game three of the Mideast Regional on Wednesday.

Derek Eitel tossed a three-hitter in the second shutout of his college career that featured a [ more ]

May. 14Ninth Inning Single Leads Adrian Past WoosterWoosterMiscellaneous
TERRE HAUTE, IND. – Bobby Rickstad slapped a two-out RBI single in the top of the ninth to snap a 3-3 tie and lift Adrian College to a 4-3 victory over the College of Wooster in game two of the NCAA Division III Mideast Baseball Regional at Rose-Hulman.

Rickstad slapped a [ more ]

May. 14Carthage Defeats Wisconsin-Oshkosh, 6-3, in Midwest Regional First RoundCarthage
The Carthage College baseball team (36-8, 17-4 CCIW), ranked 10th in the May 13 “D3baseball.com” poll, opened play in the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship on Wednesday, May 14 with a 6-3 win over No. 16 Wisconsin-Oshkosh (29-10) at the Midwest Regional Championship at E.J. Schneider Stadium in Oshkosh, Wis. [ more ]

May. 14Webster blanks Illinois Wesleyan, 7-0 in NCAA OpenerWebster
(Moline, Ill.) – The Webster Gorloks got a complete game six hit shutout from starter Brett Mueller while the offense banged out 12 hits in a 7-0 win over the Illinois Wesleyan Titans in the opening round of the NCAA Central Region tournament at Swanson Stadium in Moline, Ill. on Wednesday [ more ]

May. 14Transy falls to Heidelberg in NCAA opener, 10-3TransylvaniaMiscellaneous
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Heidelberg used a seven-run third inning rally Wednesday to knock off Transylvania10-3 in the opening game of the NCAA Division III Mideast Regional, hosted by Rose-Hulman.

The Pioneers, seeded sixth and representing the Heartland Conference, is 31-13 while Heidelberg, the Mideast Region's top seed from the Ohio Athletic [ more ]

May. 14Zalnis Powers UW-W in NCAA Tourney OpenerUW-Whitewater
BASEBALL … Zalnis Powers UW-W in NCAA Tourney Opener

UW-Whitewater defeated St. Scholastica Wednesday 7-4 in their first game of the double elimination National Collegiate Athletics Association Division III regional tournament at E.J. Schneider Field in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The win advances the Warhawks (36-8) to the next game in the winners [ more ]

May. 14McCullick leads six Edgewood College Eagles with All-NAC honorsEdgewoodGame Notes
MADISON, Wis. (May 14, 2008) - Junior outfielder Cory McCullick led a contingent of six Edgewood College baseball players honored on the All-Northern Athletics Conference teams, released today. McCullick was named to the first team, while teammates Alex Berta, Cody Flynn, Matt Krueger and Kyle Lode earned honorable mention. Lode and [ more ]

May. 13D3Cast to Provide Live Coverage of Wheaton's NCAA Tournament GamesWheaton (Mass.)
NORTON, MA- The Wheaton College baseball team will have each of its NCAA New England Regional Tournament games webcast through D3Cast, beginning with the second-seeded Lyons' first-round contest tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. The webcast will include both audio and video and be available through www.d3cast.com.

Windows Media Player will be required to [ more ]

May. 13NCAA Division III Mideast Regional Media Kit Available OnlineRose-Hulman
Please click the following link for NCAA Division III Mideast Regional notes:


MIDEAST REGIONAL MEDIA KIT [ more ]

May. 13Midwest Conference Announces All-Conference Teams/Award WinnersMWC
Midwest Conference All-Conference Teams/Award Winners (5-13-08)


RIPON, WIS. -- St. Norbert became the first squad since Ripon in 2006 to sweep the annual Midwest Conference North Division awards. Junior shortstop Adam Frost repeated as the North Division Player of the Year, as did Green Knight head coach Tom Winske with [ more ]

May. 12Saint Vincent duo receives honors from PACSt. VincentMiscellaneous
Saint Vincent second baseman Mark Shouey and catcher Abe Weimer have each received Presidents' Athletic Conference Coaches Honors for their performances in 2008.

Coaches Honors are the equivalent of All-Conference recognition for athletes from schools, like Saint Vincent, that are in provisional status in NCAA Division-III.

Shouey, a junior, had an excellent debut [ more ]

May. 12Teams Announced For NCAA Division III Baseball Regional Co-Hosted By USA SouthUSACMiscellaneous
(FAYETTEVILLE, N.C.) - The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee announced the six teams that will be heading to Danville, Virginia for the South Regional. The USA South Athletic Conference, along with the City of Danville Parks, Recreation and Tourism Department will co-host the regional at American Legion Memorial Post 325 Stadium-Dan [ more ]

May. 12LC Baseball Season Continues With At-Large Bid Into NCAA South RegionalLynchburgGame Notes
For Immediate Release – 5/12/08 - #362

LC Baseball Season Continues With At-Large Bid Into NCAA South Regional

LYNCHBURG, VA – The NCAA selection committee thought enough of the Lynchburg College baseball team’s overall resume to honor them with an at-large (Pool C) bid to the six-team NCAA South Regional Baseball Tournament, which [ more ]

May. 12Wheaton Headed to NCAAs for Fourth Straight Year, Tabbed as Second SeedWheaton (Mass.)
NORTON, MA- The Wheaton College baseball team is headed to its fourth consecutive NCAA Division III Tournament and eighth in nine seasons, as the Lyons were selected as the second seed in this week's eight-team regional at Whitehouse Field in Harwich, Massachusetts. Wheaton's appearance at the Cape will mark its [ more ]

May. 11Tommies win MIAC playoffs for 7th time in 9-year historySt. Thomas
Junior Brian Schmitz homered twice and drove in five runs to lead a 22-hit attack and lift No. 13-ranked St. Thomas to a 17-4 win over St. Olaf in Sunday's MIAC baseball playoff finals in Dundas.

The Tommies (32-7) ran their winning streak to 11 and won the MIAC playoffs for the [ more ]

May. 11No. 20 RPI Wins Liberty League Tournament Title, 13-4, to Earn 16th NCAA BerthRPI
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Senior shortstop Matt Muscatiello went 4 for 5 with a double, a home run, a run and three RBI to lead the No. 20 Rensselaer baseball team to a 13-4 win over St. Lawrence in the championship game of the Liberty League Tournament at Towers Field. With [ more ]

May. 11Knox Completes Unprecedented Sweep To Win Midwest Conference Title MWC
The South Division squads appeared to be an afterthought entering the 2008 Midwest Conference Baseball Championship Tournament on May 9 and 10. Monmouth came into the tourney having lost nine of 13, while host Knox did not reach double-digit overall victories until it earned the hosting rights with a pair of [ more ]

May. 11LEHMAN BASEBALL DEFEATS MITCHELL, FALLS TO CSI AS SEASON COMES TO AN ENDLehmanMiscellaneous
The Lehman College baseball team (19-16 Overall, 9-6 CUNYAC) saw their bid for their first CUNYAC title since 1995 come to an end Saturday evening as the team fell to the Dolphins of the College of Staten Island by a score of 13-8 in the day’s final contest. Earlier, in the [ more ]

May. 11Mass. Maritime Uses Late Inning Rally to Advance in ECAC TournamentWentworth TechGame Notes
BRISTOL, R.I. – Junior Mark Mozelak’s (New Hartford, Conn.) two-run home run in the top of the seventh inning gave Mass. Maritime a 5-4 lead, while sophomore David Hike’s (Riverview, Fla.) six innings of shutout relief pitching helped propel the Buccaneers to a 6-4 win over the Wentworth Institute of Technology [ more ]

May. 10Spirited late-season Central run comes to a close at conference tourneyCentralMiscellaneous
CEDAR RAPIDS (Iowa)—A three-run rally in the seventh inning could not catapult the Central College baseball team past Loras College Saturday as a season-ending 10-3 loss gave the Dutch a third-place finish in the Iowa Conference tournament.

Central (22-21) had put together a late-season five-game winning streak, sweeping three games at Dubuque [ more ]

May. 10Transy powers to first HCAC tourney titleTransylvaniaMiscellaneous
CINCINNATI, Ohio - Transylvania bounced back from disappointment in a big way Saturday, hitting Rose-Hulman with a seven-run rally in the second inning and six more in the fourth en route to a 16-10 win over Rose-Hulman, clinching its first Heartland Conference tournament championship.

The Pioneers and Engineers had to play [ more ]

May. 10Heidelberg Wins Second OAC Touranment TitleHeidelberg
It would take two-straight victories over second seeded Marietta College on the championship day of the 2008 Ohio Athletic Conference Tournament for the nationally-ranked and number one seeded Heidelberg College baseball team to claim the program’s second OAC Tournament Title. And that is exactly what took place. The Berg opened the [ more ]

May. 10GROVE CITY CLINCHES P-A-C TITLE, FIRST-EVER NCAA BERTHGrove City
CINCINNATI -- In the 2008 Presidents' Athletic Conference Baseball Championship Tournament, the last shall be first.
Just six days after earning the last of four available berths in the PAC Tournament, the Grove City College baseball team captured its third conference title since 2001 by earning a pair of victories over Mercer [ more ]

May. 10Liberty League Championship to Air Live on www.wrpi.orgRPI
TROY, N.Y. - Sunday's championship games of the Liberty League Tournament will be aired live on WRPI, 91.5 FM, and www.wrpi.org from the University of Rochester. Perry Laskaris '07 will be on the call when second-seeded Renesselaer (32-10; 18-6 LL) faces third-seeded St. Lawrence (21-17; 12-9 LL) on Sunday at [ more ]

May. 10Conference Tournament Title Hopes Fade; Await NCAA Tournament AnnouncementUW-Whitewater
The Warhawks faced UW-Stevens Point on Saturday in the championship game of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament and lost 3-0 at Witter Field in Wisconsin Rapids. The Warhawks lost to Stevens Point on Friday night 7-5 for their first loss of the double-elimination tournament.

In a low scoring affair UW-Stevens [ more ]

May. 10Warhawks Rally to Defeat Titans in Bottom of NinthUW-Whitewater
Playing in their third game of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference tournament, the UW-Whitewater baseball team rallied from a four-run deficit to defeat UW-Oshkosh 5-4 on Saturday in Wisconsin Rapids. The win advances the Warhawks to a game against UW-Stevens Point to be played at 3:15 pm on Saturday. [ more ]

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