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Trine wins 2023 DIII softball championship

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Trine wins the 2023 DIII softball championship
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11:02 pm, June 7, 2023

Trine wins 2023 DIII softball championship

Trine's Carolyn Biel hits a walk-off single to win the 2023 DIII softball championship 1-0 over No. 1 Salisbury.

Alexis Michon threw a complete game shutout for the Thunder, allowing just two hits on 79 pitches. Both teams struggled offensively until Emma Beyer lead off the bottom of the seventh with a single. She then advanced to second, before scoring on Biel's walk-off single down the left field line.

This is Trine's first title in DIII softball, just one year after finishing as the runner-up in the tournament.

1:13 pm, June 7, 2023

DIII softball champion to be crowned today

Trine vs. Salisbury softball

It all comes down to this. Trine and Salisbury will battle for the DIII softball national title today after Salisbury took a 1-0 lead in Game 1 on Tuesday. Trine responded Wednesday afternoon with a 6-2 victory. Game 3 will be for all the marbles. You can watch live coverage of Game 3 at 5:25 p.m. ET Wednesday, at Taylor Field in Marshall, TX, here on ncaa.com.

Here is today's schedule

Click or tap here to view the interactive bracket

Here are the results from Game 1

9:57 pm, June 5, 2023

Trine, Salisbury to meet for DIII softball title

Always the runner-up, never the champion. That changes on Wednesday.

Trine and Salisbury have advanced to the DIII softball championship finals, which is a best-of-three series taking place on June 6 and 7. Neither Trine nor Salisbury have ever won the softball championship, but they have come close.

Trine is the current runner-up, falling short to last year's champion, Chris. Newport last spring. Salisbury has been the runner-up three times, most recently in 2014.

The series will stream live on NCAA.com. Here's a look at the finals schedule and results:

2023 DIII softball championship game 1: Trine vs. Salisbury full replay
12:36 pm, May 18, 2023

Final scores, stats for DIII super regionals

DIII softball championship

The 2023 DIII softball championship continued with super regionals on May 26 and 27. The eight winners advance to the finals, which are set for June 1-7 in Marshall, Texas.

Below, get caught up on super regional action:

The super regional winners: Berry, Christopher Newport, Coe, Linfield, Moravian, Rowan, Salisbury and Trine. 

5:52 pm, May 15, 2023

Championship selections announced

The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 62 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship.

The regional round will be held May 18-20. Four teams will compete at 15 regional sites and two teams will compete at one regional site. The team advancing from each regional will compete in the super regional round May 26 and 27. The finals, hosted by East Texas Baptist University, will be held June 1-June 7 at Bell Park at Taylor Field in Marshall, Texas. All rounds will use a double-elimination format, and the two-team regional will play a best of five series.

Forty-three conferences received an automatic qualification (Pool A). One institution was selected from Pool B, which includes independent institutions and schools from conferences that do not meet the automatic qualification criteria. The 18 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis from automatic qualifying conferences and institutions included in Pool B.

The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification were:

  • Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference – Penn State- Altoona
  • American Rivers Conference – Wartburg
  • American Southwest Conference – East Texas Baptist
  • Atlantic East Conference – Cabrini
  • Centennial Conference – Swarthmore
  • City University of New York Athletic Conference – John Jay
  • College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin – Millikin
  • Colonial States Athletic Conference – Rosemont
  • Commonwealth Coast Conference – Endicott
  • Empire 8 – St. John Fisher
  • Great Northeast Athletic Conference – Simmons
  • Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference – Transylvania
  • Landmark Conference – Moravian
  • Liberty League – Rochester
  • Little East Conference – UMass Dartmouth
  • Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference – Framingham State
  • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association – Trine
  • Middle Atlantic Conference Commonwealth – York (PA)
  • Middle Atlantic Conference Freedom – Misericordia
  • Midwest Conference – Grinnell College
  • Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Bethel (Minnesota)
  • New England Collegiate Conference – Eastern Nazarene
  • New England Small College Athletic Conference – Williams
  • New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference –MIT
  • New Jersey Athletic Conference – The College of New Jersey
  • North Atlantic Conference – Husson
  • North Coast Athletic Conference – Hiram
  • Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference – Concordia Wisconsin
  • Northwest Conference – Linfield
  • Ohio Athletic Conference – Mount Union
  • Old Dominion Athletic Conference – Randolph-Macon
  • Presidents' Athletic Conference – Waynesburg
  • Skyline Conference – Manhattanville
  • Southern Athletic Association – Berry
  • Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Redlands
  • Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference – St. Thomas (TX)
  • St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference –Spalding
  • State University of New York Athletic Conference – SUNY Geneseo
  • University Athletic Association- Case Western Reserve
  • United East Conference – Penn State-Berks
  • Upper Midwest Athletic Conference – Wisconsin-Superior
  • USA South Athletic Conference – Pfeiffer
  • Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wisconsin-La Crosse

The 1 institution selected from Pool B was:

Salisbury

The 18 institutions selected from Pool C were:

  • Belhaven
  • Central (IA)
  • Christopher Newport
  • Coe
  • Eastern Connecticut State
  • Lebanon Valley
  • Luther
  • Mary Hardin-Baylor
  • Marietta
  • Ramapo
  • Roanoke
  • Rensselaer
  • Rowan
  • Texas Lutheran
  • Tufts
  • Virginia Wesleyan
  • Wisconsin-Oshkosh
  • Wisconsin-Whitewater

REGIONAL SITES AND HOST INSTITUTIONS (16):

  • Angola, Indiana – Trine
  • Annville, Pennsylvania- Lebanon Valley
  • Ashland, Virginia – Randolph-Macon
  • Belton, Texas- Mary-Hardin Baylor
  • Cambridge, Massachusetts- MIT
  • Cleveland, Ohio – Case Western Reserve
  • Marshall, Texas – East Texas Baptist
  • Marietta, Ohio- Marietta College
  • McMinnville, Oregon- Linfield
  • Medford, Massachusetts – Tufts
  • Newport News, Virginia – Christopher Newport
  • Oshkosh, Wisconsin- Wisconsin-Oshkosh
  • Pella, Iowa- Central College (IA)
  • Salisbury, Maryland – Salisbury
  • Virginia Beach, Virginia- Virginia Wesleyan
  • Whitewater, Wisconsin- Wisconsin-Whitewater
6:28 pm, May 8, 2023

Selections are May 15

The field and bracket for the 2023 NCAA DIII softball championship will be announced in a video stream here on NCAA.com at 1 p.m. ET on May 15 and published to the site shortly after that.

The championship is June 1-7 at Taylor Field in Marshall, Texas. Here is the schedule:

Day DATE TIME GAME
Thursday June 1 noon Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 1 -- TEAMS TBD (Seed # 8 vs. Seed # 1)
Thursday June 1 2:30 p.m. Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 2 -- TEAMS TBD (Seed # 5 vs. Seed # 4)
Thursday June 1 5:00 p.m. Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 3 -- TEAMS TBD (Seed # 7 vs. Seed # 2)
Thursday June 1 7:30 p.m. Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 4 -- TEAMS TBD (Seed # 6 vs. Seed # 3)
Friday June 2 noon Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 5 -- Game No. 1 Loser vs. Game No. 2 Loser
Friday June 2 2:30 p.m. Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 6 -- Game No. 3 Loser vs. Game No. 4 Loser
Friday June 2 5 p.m. Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 7 -- Game No. 3 Winner vs. Game No. 4 Winner
Friday June 2 7:30 p.m. Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 8 -- Game No. 1 Winner vs. Game No. 2 Winner
Saturday June 3 noon Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 9 -- Game No. 5 Winner vs. Game No. 8 Loser
Saturday June 3 2:30 p.m. Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 10 -- Game No. 6 Winner vs. Game No. 7 Loser
Sunday June 4 1 p.m. Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 11 -- Game No. 7 Winner vs. Game No. 9 Winner
Sunday June 4 3:30 p.m. Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 12 -- Game No. 8 Winner vs. Game No. 10 Winner
Sunday June 4 6 p.m. (tentative) Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 13 (if necessary) -- TEAMS TBD (Same Teams as Game No. 11)
Sunday June 4 8:30 p.m. (tentative) Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 14 (if necessary) -- TEAMS TBD (Same Teams as Game No. 12)
Tuesday June 6 noon Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 15 -- TEAMS TBD (Game No. 11 / 13 Winner vs. Game No. 12 / 14 Winner)
Wednesday June 7 noon Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 16 -- TEAMS TBD (Series Best Two of Three)
Wednesday June 7 2:30 p.m. (tentative) Division III Softball Finals - Game No. 17 (If Necessary) -- TEAMS TBD (Series Best Two of Three)
7:05 pm, May 8, 2023

Past champions

Year Champion (Record) Coach Score Runner-Up Site
2022 Christopher Newport (47-1) Keith Parr 3-0 Trine Salem, Va.
2021 Virginia Wesleyan (46-6-1) Brandon Elliott 9-1 Texas Lutheran Salem, Va.
2020 Canceled due to Covid-19  -- -- -- --
2019 Texas Lutheran (40-8) Wade Wilson 6-1 Emory  Tyler, Texas
2018 Virginia Wesleyan (55-3) Brandon Elliott 3-1 Illinois Wesleyan Oklahoma City, Okla.
2017 Virginia Wesleyan (54-3) Brandon Elliott  1-0 St. John Fisher Oklahoma City, Okla.
2016 Texas-Tyler (49-5) Mike Reed 7-0 Messiah Salem, Va.
2015 Tufts (51-0) Cheryl Milligan 7-4 Texas-Tyler Salem, Va.
2014 Tufts (47-4) Cheryl Milligan 6-0 Salisbury Tyler, Texas
2013 *Tufts (46-3) Cheryl Milligan 6-5 Cortland State Eau Claire, Wis.
2012 *Pacific Lutheran (45-11) Erin Van Nostrand 3-0 Linfield Salem, Va.
2011 Linfield (51-3) Jackson Vaughan 6-2 Christopher Newport Salem Va.
2010 East Texas Baptist (40-12) Janae Schlabs-Shirley 5-4 Linfield Eau Claire, Wisc.
2009 *Messiah (43-4) Amy Weaver 2-0 Coe Montclair, N.J.
2008 *Wisconsin-Eau Claire (36-11) Leslie Huntington 4-3 Wisconsin-Whitewater Salem Va.
2007 Linfield (45-7) Jackson Vaughan 10-2 Washington-St. Louis Salem Va.
2006 *Rutgers-Camden (47-5) Carl Taylor 3-2 St. Thomas (Minn.) Raleigh, N.C.
2005 *St. Thomas (Minn.) (43-6) John Tschida 9-3 Salisbury Raleigh, N.C.
2004 St. Thomas (Minn.) (46-3) John Tschida 2-0 Moravian Salem Va.
2003 Central (Iowa) (39-5-1) George Wares 5-3 Salisbury Salem Va.
2002 Ithaca (37-13) Deb Pallozzi 1-0 Lake Forest Eau Claire, Wisc.
2001 *Muskingum (47-6) Donna Newberry 4-1 Central (Iowa) Eau Claire, Wisc.
2000 *Saint Mary (Minn.) (40-6) John Tschida 5-0 Chapman Salem Va.
1999 Simpson (47-4-1) Henry Christowski 6-0 Chapman Eau Claire, Wisc.
1998 Wisconsin-Stevens Point (43-15) Dean Shuda 3-1 Chapman Salem Va.
1997 Simpson (39-7) Henry Christowski 2-1 Montclair State Eau Claire, Wisc.
1996 *TCNJ (41-3) Sally Miller 7-2 Chapman Salem Va.
1995 *Chapman (43-5) Lesle Lloyd 4-2 TCNJ Storm Lake, Iowa
1994 *TCNJ (48-4) June Walker 6-5 Bridgewater State Salem Va.
1993 *Central (Iowa) (38-2) George Wares 7-3 TCNJ Decatur, Ill.
1992 *TCNJ (48-2) June Walker 4-0 Buena Vista Pella, Iowa
1991 *Central (Iowa) (42-6) George Wares 4-0 Eastern Connecticut State Willimantic, Conn.
1990 Eastern Connecticut State (34-5) Jeff Anderson 1-0 TCNJ Storm Lake, Iowa
1989 *TCNJ (46-3) June Walker 8-7 Eastern Connecticut State Ewing, N.J.
1988 Central (Iowa) (35-10) George Wares 3-2 Allegheny Elmherst, Ill.
1987 *TCNJ (46-3) June Walker 1-0 Wisconsin-Whitewater Willimantic, Conn.
1986 Eastern Connecticut State (36-11) Clyde Washburne 1-0 Central (Iowa) Storm Lake, Iowa
1985 Eastern Connecticut State (39-9) Clyde Washburne 1-0 TCNJ Willimantic, Conn.
1984 *Buena Vista (29-8-1) Marge Willadsen 3-1 TCNJ De Pere, Wisc.
1983 TCNJ (41-7) June Walker 7-0 Buena Vista Willimantic, Conn.
1982 *Eastern Connecticut State (27-10) Clyde Washburne 2-0 TCNJ Ewing, N.J.

*Indicates undefeated teams in finals series

4:59 pm, June 4, 2023

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