Field of 55 eye DIII title run

May 17, 2010

NCAA RELEASE

INDIANAPOLIS—The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the 55 teams that will compete in the 2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship.

Six teams will compete at four first-round sites; seven teams will compete at one first-round site; eight teams will compete at three first-round sites. All first rounds will use a double-elimination format. Thirty-six conference champions qualified automatically.

Winners of the eight first-round tournaments will qualify for the double-elimination championship at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wisconsin, May 8-June 1.

DATES/SITES/SEEDINGS:
May 19-23

Hosted by Augustana (Ill.) (Moline, Ill.)
1. Buena Vista (29-11)
2. North Central (Illinois) (31-9)
3. Ripon (24-15)
4. Webster (33-9)
5. Rose-Hulman (29-12)
6. Illinois Wesleyan (23-20)

Hosted by the State University of New York at Cortland (Auburn, N.Y.)
1. SUNY Cortland (32-8)
2. St. John Fisher (28-12)
3. Oneonta State 28-11)
4. Skidmore (30-13)
5. Keene State (26-15-1)
6. Farmingdale State (24-15)
7. College at Brockport (23-16)
8. Castleton (32-13)

Hosted by Eastern Connecticut State (Mansfield, Ct.)
1. Tufts (31-5)
2. Wheaton (Massachusetts) 32-8)
3. Western New England (33-10)
4. Eastern Connecticut State (30-13)
5. Worcester State (31-19-1)
6. Westfield State (30-9)
7. Massachusetts-Boston (28-15)
8. St. Joseph’s (Maine) (32-11)

Hosted by Kean (Trenton, N.J.)
1. Johns Hopkins (38-4)
2. Kean (34-10)
3. Widener (25-12)
4. Alvernia (32-10)
5. Keystone (29-7)
6. Rowan (24-14-1)
7. Manhattanville (22-19-1)
8. Moravian (26-13)

Hosted by Linfield (McMinnville, Ore.)
1. Chapman (30-9)
2. Linfield (30-10)
3. Pomona-Pitzer (29-9)
4. Texas-Tyler (35-10)
5. Mississippi College (36-9)
6. Trinity (Texas) 32-7)

Hosted by Marietta (Marietta, Ohio)
1. Heidelberg (37-6)
2. Wooster (34-7)
3. Marietta (32-11)
4. Washington and Jefferson (32-10)
5. Adrian (29-11)
6. Thomas More (31-14)
7. Penn State-Behrend (29-14)

Hosted by Methodist (Fayetteville, N.C.)
1. Shenandoah (34-8)
2. Salisbury (27-11)
3. Mary Washington (26-12)
4. York (Pennsylvania) (28-14)
5. LaGrange (26-17)
6. Bridgewater (Virginia) (23-18-1)

Hosted by Wisconsin, Whitewater (Whitewater, Wis.)
1. Wisconsin-Whitewater (38-5)
2. St. Thomas (Minnesota) (33-7)
3. St. Scholastica (38-6)
4. Wisconsin-Stevens Point (29-15)
5. Carthage (28-16)
6. Aurora (27-14)

First-round matchups for the championship site will be as follows: SUNY Cortland regional winner vs. Wisconsin-Whitewater regional winner; Eastern Connecticut State regional winner vs. Linfield regional winner; Marietta regional winner vs. Kean regional winner; Methodist regional winner vs. Augustana (Illinois) regional winner.

In the 2009 Division III championship game, the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota) defeated the College of Wooster 3-2 in 12 innings.

The 2010 NCAA Spring Seasonal Show will air on CBS at 4 p.m. Eastern time, Saturday, June 19, and will include highlights from the championship.