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2008 NCAA DIVISION III BASEBALL CHAMPIONSHIP

INDIANAPOLIS—The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the 54 teams that will compete in the 2008 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship. Six teams will compete at five first-round sites; eight teams will compete at three first-round sites. All first rounds will use a double-elimination format. Thirty-four 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 23-27.

DATES/SITES/SEEDINGS:

May 14-18
Hosted by Eastern College Athletic Conference, Harwich, Massachusetts
1. Trinity (Connecticut) (37-0)
2. Wheaton (Massachusetts) (32-8)
3. Keene State (33-9)
4. Southern Maine (32-12)
5. Western New England (31-11)
6. St. Joseph’s (Maine) (28-16)
7. Worcester State (23-16)
8. Castleton State (20-10)

Hosted by USA South and Old Dominion, Danville, Virginia
1. Salisbury (38-2)
2. Johns Hopkins (34-5)
3. Piedmont (33-12)
4. Lynchburg (30-11)
5. Christopher Newport (28-12)
6. Randolph-Macon (25-15)

Hosted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana
1. Heidelberg (37-8)
2. Wooster (34-9)
3. Calvin (32-8)
4. Rose-Hulman (31-13)
5. Adrian (30-10)
6. Transylvania (31-12)

Hosted by Kean University, Newark, New Jersey
1. Kean (35-9)
2. Rowan (30-12)
3. The College of New Jersey (28-10)
4. Penn State-Behrend (34-10)
5. Messiah (27-16)
6. DeSales (24-18-1)
7. Keystone (30-10)
8. Gwynedd-Mercy (21-18)

Hosted by Ithaca College, Auburn, New York
1. Cortland State (38-3)
2. Ithaca (28-11)
3. Rensselaer (30-10)
4. Montclair State (26-18)
5. Eastern Connecticut State (29-13)
6. Farmingdale (23-13)
7. Ohio Wesleyan (28-17)
8. Grove City (18-16)

Hosted by Augustana College (Illinois), Moline, Illinois
1. Illinois Wesleyan (33-9)
2. Wisconsin-Stevens Point (28-14)
3. Augustana (Illinois) (32-11)
4. Wartburg (26-13)
5. Linfield (30-10)
6. Webster (28-13)

Hosted by McMurry University, Abilene, Texas
1. Chapman (35-3)
2. George Fox (28-12)
3. McMurry (29-17)
4. Cal State East Bay (26-14)
5. Trinity (Texas) (32-13)
6. La Verne (25-14-1)

Hosted by University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1. St. Thomas (Minnesota) (31-7)
2. Wisconsin-Whitewater (35-8)
3. Carthage (35-8)
4. Wisconsin-Oshkosh (29-9)
5. St. Scholastica (32-4)
6. Knox (15-23)

First round matchups for the championship site will be as follows:

McMurry regional winner vs. Kean regional winner
Rose-Hulman regional winner vs. USA South/Old Dominion regional winner
Wisconsin-Oshkosh regional winner vs. Augustana (Illinois) regional winner
Ithaca regional winner vs. Eastern College Athletic Conference regional winner

CONFERENCES RECEIVING AUTOMATIC QUALIFICATION BERTHS:

Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference - Penn State-Behrend
American Southwest Conference - McMurry
Centennial Conference - Johns Hopkins
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin - Illinois Wesleyan
Commonwealth Coast Conference - Western New England
Commonwealth Conference - Messiah
Freedom Conference - DeSales
Great Northeast Athletic Conference - St. Joseph’s (Maine)
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference - Transylvania
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Wartburg
Liberty League - Rensselaer
Little East Conference - Keene State
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference - Worcester State
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association - Calvin
Midwest Conference - Knox
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - St. Thomas (Minnesota)
New England Small College Athletic Conference - Trinity (Connecticut)
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletics Conference - Wheaton (Massachusetts)
New Jersey Athletic Conference - Kean
North Atlantic Conference - Castleton State
North Coast Athletic Conference - Ohio Wesleyan
North Eastern Athletic Conference - Keystone
Northwest Conference - Linfield
Ohio Athletic Conference - Heidelberg
Old Dominion Athletic Conference - Randolph-Macon
Pennsylvania Athletic Conference - Gwynedd-Mercy
President’s Athletic Conference - Grove City
Skyline Conference - Farmingdale
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - La Verne
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference - Trinity (Texas)
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Webster
State University of New York Athletic Conference - Cortland State
USA South Athletic Conference - Christopher Newport
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Wisconsin-Stevens Point

In the 2007 Division III championship game, Kean defeated Emory 5-4 in 10 innings.
The 2008 NCAA Spring Seasonal Show will air on CBS at 2 p.m. Eastern time, Sunday, June 22, and will include highlights from the championship.

D3baseball.com has evaluated all the data that we can assemble and wishes to provide an informative, possibly fictional, scenario about the National Selection Committee deliberations. We have used the third (but not the final) Regional Rankings. We have combed the links to team websites and schedules to find out common opponents, games from in-region ranked teams and the other criteria that are in the Handbook. We do not have access to the OWP/OOWP, and we may have missed pertinent head-to-head and common opponent outcomes. With those caveats, let’s project the field.

Pool A bids are automatic. See Playoff Central for a list of Pool A bids awarded.

——— POOL B ———

The D3baseball.com selection committee looks at the Pool B bids intently and sees the first five teams easily are deserving of a Pool B bid.

Salisbury, Chapman, Ithaca, Piedmont, St Scholastica.

Remaining in Pool B are Emory (South #4) CSU-East Bay (West #6), Concordia IL (Central #6) and Juniata (Mid-Atlantic #9), Rochester Tech New York #6).

Emory is 25-11-1/23-9-1. (In-region percentage is .671) Records versus In-region ranked teams: Adrian 0-1, Methodist 1-0-1, and Piedmont 1-2. Emory’s in-region record is 2-3-1

Juniata is 26-12/ 25-9 (.735) (They have 2 losses to St Scholastica in Pool B, and went 1-0 vs. Elizabethtown in Mid-Atlantic Region.)

Concordia IL, 32-13/ 28-12 (.700), has in-region win over Wartburg and Carthage and losses to Augustana and IWU to give an in-region record versus ranked teams of 2-2. However they went 3-2 in the Northern Athletics Conference tourney and lost to Rockford. The 2 losses in the last week did not help Concordia IL in Pool B consideration.

CSU-East Bay is 26-14/ 20-10 (.667). Results versus In-Region ranked teams, 0-4 versus Chapman, GFU 2-1. CSU-EB also is 2-1 versus SCIAC Pool A LaVerne and 2-1 versus NWC Pool A Linfield. Since we don’t know the final West Region Rankings, CSU-EB may be 2-5 versus ranked teams or as good as 6-7. In common opponents, CSU-EB is 2-0 versus Washington U/St. Louis, whereas Emory is only 1-1.

Emory was the highest ranked team in the third Regional Rankings at 4th in the South. We think that the committee will determine that the criteria favor Emory, which gets the 6th Pool B bid.

After the committee has decided the six Pool B schools, they return CSU-East Bay, Juniata, Concordia-IL and RIT back to Pool C for re-consideration.

——— POOL C ———

The D3baseball.com selection Committee began looking at the best teams from the various regions. The best Pool C candidates by region were

Central: Carthage; Mid-Atlantic: Rowan; Mideast: Wooster; Midwest: UW-Whitewater; New England: Eastern Connecticut State; New York: Rochester, but barely; South: Lynchburg: West: George Fox. Those 8 bids were easily given.

With 6 bids remaining, the Committee saw these schools by region.

Central: Augustana; Simpson; Concordia IL
Mid-Atlantic: New Jersey (TCNJ); Montclair State; Manhattenville, Juniata
Mideast: Adrian; Thomas More
Midwest: UW-Oshkosh; Ripon
New England: Suffolk; Southern Maine
New York: Brockport
South: Methodist
West: Concordia-Austin; UT-Tyler; CSU-East Bay.

They looked at the regional criteria and gave the next Pool C bid to Augustana. They moved Simpson to the table and re-evaluated. Adrian got a Pool C bid. (Thomas More moved up.) TCNJ got the eleventh. UW-Oshkosh got the twelfth .

The teams at the table looked like this:

Central: Simpson
Mid-Atlantic: Montclair State, Manhattanville
Mideast: Thomas More
Midwest: Ripon
New England: Suffolk, Southern Maine
New York: Brockport
South: Methodist
West: Concordia-Austin; UT-Tyler

Montclair State got #13, although Rochester may have been the 12th or 13th best Pool C team.
We project that the last Pool C bid came between ultimately came between Concordia-Austin and Suffolk. Suffolk is 29-12, 26-11 (In-region percentage .711.) Suffolk lost 2 games to St Joseph’s ME this last weekend. Whether that hurts their Pool C chances versus given them 2 more results versus in-region ranked teams is a concern. Versus in-region ranked teams, Suffolk is 2-4 versus St. Joe’s Maine, 1-0 vs. Western New England, 2-0 vs. Southern Maine, 0-1 vs. TCNJ, and 0-1 vs. ECSU, 5-6 on the season.

Concordia-TX is 30-16/ 27-13 (..675) in-region. (CTX is 1-4 versus McMurry, 3-2 versus UT-Tyler or 4-6 versus West Region ranked teams. Concordia also split a DH with Trinity TX.)

Ripon was 27-10/19-7 (.730) but only played UW-Stevens Point among Regionally ranked teams, with whom they split a DH.

Selecting Concordia-Texas makes the 6th team in the West. Chapman and LaVerne fly to Texas and probably fly NWC Champion Linfield to Texas. Trinity TX and Concordia-Austin would bus to Abilene. Pool C George Fox gets flown to either Wisconsin or to Rock Island to complete a bracket. Selecting Suffolk would mean that both NWC teams Linfield and George Fox would be flown to Texas, and Suffolk or another team might be sent out of New England. If Suffolk and Concordia-Texas were listed in the baseball standings, Suffolk would have a half-game lead over Concordia-Texas. What would switching one outcome in a season do for Concordia-Texas? What about that loss to Texas Lutheran or to Howard Payne in ASC-West Division play? If Concordia-Texas wins either of those games, then they host the ASC Post-season tournament. It is probably that close, for everyone left on the table!

We think that Suffolk gets #14.

Gustavus third baseman Tory Herman digs a ball out of the dirt to throw out an Ole in the third inning

I’m finally getting settled back in at the home office after covering just one game of the MIAC Championship and play-in. St. Olaf exploited every single opportunity Gustavus Adolphus gave them in their 15-6 victory. St. Olaf was supposed to face St. Thomas 30 minutes after they shuttered the Gusties’ 2008 season.

But Mother Nature showed up in the 3rd inning of the play-in and never left. Rain was expected, the start of the first game was moved from 1pm to 11am in an attempt to get both games in before the field was unplayable. However, that was not the case. MIAC Executive Director Dan McKane, Asst. Executive Director

The grounds crew tends to the home plate area following the completion of the Gustavus/St. Olaf game.

Matt Ten Haken, St. Olaf head coach Matt MacDonald and St. Thomas’ Dennis Denning met just off the third base line at 2pm. It didn’t take long for them to make the postponement official and it was no surprise to the fans in the stands — the grounds crew, comprising the head coaches from Bethel, Carleton, Augsburg and two more, had already tarped, drained and staked both the pitching mound and the home plate area.

A photographer came up to me and asked the question I have heard posed each of the last three years: What happens if they don’t get the game(s) in tomorrow? The NCAA requires that Pool A conferences submit their auto qualifier at 6pm Eastern tomorrow. Most conferences want to have their auto qualifier to come from a tournament but they are allowed to determine it in whatever manner they wish.

Dan McKane shed some light on this particular situation for me this evening explaining that all games will be 9 innings in the MIAC tournament, they have no intention of slimming either games tomorrow down to 7 innings to fit them in before the deadline. In addition to that, he added that the committee is willing to let the MIAC complete their games a bit late.

But that brings up the question of what if the field is unplayable? St. Thomas gets the AQ for the MIAC having won the regular season title with an 18-2 conference record.

Gustavus right fielder Spencer Campion makes a catch in the fifth inning

St. Olaf turned four double plays in the game.

Division III Regional Rankings

Central Region
Rank Team Overall In-Region
1 Illinois Wesleyan 29-8 28-3
2 Carthage 32-5 26-5
3 Augustana 31-9 24-7
4 Wartburg 23-12 21-9
5 Simpson 25-14 22-9
6 Concordia (Ill.) 28-11 24-10

Mid-Atlantic Region
Rank Team Overall In-Region
1 Kean 34-9 28-7 (NJAC Pool A)
2 Johns Hopkins 34-5 31-4 (CC Pool A)
3 Rowan 30-12 26-10
4 TCNJ 28-10 26-10
5 Montclair State 26-16 24-11
6 Penn State-Behrend 31-9 29-6
7 Manhattanville 28-13 24-12
8 Elizabethtown 26-12 22-11
9 Juniata 26-12 25-9

Mideast Region
Rank Team Overall In-Region
1 Heidelberg 33-7 27-7
2 Wooster 34-9 28-8
3 Adrian 29-9 24-9
4 Calvin 28-8 20-5
5 Thomas More 25-11 19-5
6 Mount St. Joseph 24-15 20-6
7 Rose-Hulman 28-11 23-9

Midwest Region

Rank Team Overall In-Region
1 UW-Whitewater 33-6 30-6
2 UW-Oshkosh 28-7 28-7
3 St. Thomas 27-7 19-5
4 St. Scholastica 29-4 21-3
5 UW-Stevens Point 25-14 22-10

New England Region
Rank Team Overall In-Region
1 Trinity (Conn.) 34-0 25-0
2 Wheaton (Mass.) 32-8 29-6 (NEWMAC Pool A)
3 Keene State 28-8 25-7
4 Eastern Connecticut State 27-11-1 23-8-1
5 Suffolk 28-10 25-9
6 Western New England 31-11 28-11 (TCCC Pool A)
7 Southern Maine 29-10 24-10
8 Amherst 22-10-1 17-7-1
9 Williams 24-10 21-8

New York Region
Rank Team Overall In-Region
1 Cortland State 36-3 27-0 (SUNYAC Pool A)
2 Ithaca 27-11 23-5
3 Rochester 27-11 26-11
4 Rensselaer 30-10 26-9
5 Brockport State 23-17-1 19-10-1
6 RIT 22-12 20-9

South Region
Rank Team Overall In-Region
1 Salisbury 38-2 34-2
2 Lynchburg 30-11 24-8
3 Piedmont 33-12 31-12
4 Emory 25-11-1 23-9-1
5 Christopher Newport 28-12 21-11 (USAC Pool A)
6 Methodist 28-15-1 22-12-1

West Region
Rank Team Overall In-Region
1 Chapman 35-3 28-3
2 George Fox 28-12 27-11
3 McMurry 29-17 28-16 (ASC Pool A)
4 Concordia-Austin 30-16 26-13
5 Texas-Tyler 36-9 33-9
6 Cal State-East Bay 26-14 20-10

Posted: 5/8/2008
Revised: 5/9/2008 (West Region correction)

In this final edition we look at the Mideast, Central and Midwest conference tournaments. Don’t forget that all playoff information as we get it will be in Playoff Central. The regional sites are as follows:

The Mideast Regional will be hosted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology at Art Nehf Field, Terre Haute, Indiana.

The Central Regional will be hosted by Augustana College at Brunner Field at Duane R. Stadium in Rock Island, Illinois.

The Midwest Regional will be hosted by UW-Oshkosh at E.J. Schneider Field, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Number one seeded Mount St. Joseph will host the HCAC tournament that starts this Thursday as the Mount gets Transylvania for the first game. Transylvania came out of the blocks quickly and faded towards the end of the season. but still has the best overall winning percentage of the tournament field. Game two will feature Rose-Hulman and Franklin. The incentive for Rose-Hulman is that if they can advance, their regional will be a home series as they host the Mideast regional on their own field. All four teams had nearly the same record with just 1.5 game separating Transylvania for Mount St Joseph. Anyone can win and to advance but you have to do just that - win the tournament as Pool C hopes are slim for all.

There is no tournament for the MIAA so the regular season winner advances to the playoffs. Adrian has a single game advantage over Calvin with the end of the season just few days away. Adrian could clinch a playoff spot today, otherwise the playoff spot will be decided on Thursday, the last day of the regular season. The Pool C hopes for both Adrian and Calvin are as good as the teams in the HCAC so the automatic bid is important for either team so they can continue their fine seasons.

The NCAC will get two teams in the playoffs. Wooster, losers to Ohio Wesleyan last weekend will slip in with a Pool C bid and Denison will host Ohio Wesleyan as the two teams battle it out for conference playoff spot. Ohio Wesleyan split the series meeting between the two teams but Denison had the better record of these two west division teams.

Marietta was the favorite going into the 2008 OAC season. The Pioneers stumbled early and but are playing as well as anyone now. The story for this season is Heidelberg. Heidelberg will host the 2008 OAC Baseball Tournament Thursday-Saturday May 8-10 at Peaceful Valley in Tiffin, Ohio. Heidelberg finished the season at the top of the standings with a 15-3 mark to become the regular-season champions. Heidelberg gets Mount Union, whom they swept this season, in the opening round while Marietta will play Otterbein. Heidelberg should be relaxed as they are a possible Pool C candidate if they lose the tournament, although they still need a good showing to impress the committee. For all others winning is all that remains of their seasons.

The 2008 PAC Baseball Tournament will be at Thomas More College where on Thursday #4 Grove City will play #1 Thomas More and #3 Thiel gets #2 Westminster in the late game. This is the first year for the PAC to have an automatic bid and all four teams need to know this is their only way into the playoffs.

Illinois Wesleyan, the 12th ranked team in the D3baseball.com poll, earned the right to host the CCIW tournament for the second straight season after taking two of three from seventh-ranked Carthage in the final series of the year to win the regular season championship. Home field advantage did not help the Titans a year ago as they were eliminated at home in the conference and regional tournaments. The Titans will get surprise Wheaton in the opener. After beginning the season with 29 straight wins, Carthage closed with three losses in its final four conference games and is 3-4 in the last seven games. Augustana, ranked 14th, is vying for a Pool C slot and the right to play at home in the NCAA Tournament and meets Carthage in the opener. Wheaton has had a surprising season, winning 12 conference games to place fourth. The Thunder are making their first ever tournament in appearance and took a game in the regular season from both Augustana and Illinois Wesleyan. Winning the tournament is the only chance for Wheaton. Otherwise Augustana, Carthage, and Illinois Wersleyan all are sitting pretty for a Pol A and two Pool C bids.

The six-team IIAC conference tournament will be played on a neutral field at Veteran’s Memorial Stadium, the home of the Cedar Rapids Kernels. Wartburg ran away with the regular season IIAC crown. The Knights won 17 games en route to their 12th straight title. Wartburg overcame a 6-9 start to finish 23-12. Simpson improved in their second season under Ben Blake to finish second by a game over Coe. Wartburg and Simpson receive a first round bye. Wartburg gets the winner of Luther and Loras while Simpson faces the Coe-Central victor. With no teams in the regional rankings and neighboring conference CCIW doing well, a tournament win is what is needed to play past next weekend.

The NATHC is going to wait one more season for an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, but there is more than one team vying for a potential Pool B bid at the tournament this weekend played at Rockford’s home field, Road Ranger Stadium. Benedictine and Rockford shared the regular season crown, but Concordia (Ill.) also won 20 games in addition to the top two seeds. Benedictine is the top seed by virtue of their sweep over Rockford. The Eagles will face Concordia (Ill.), who just weeks ago was in the Top 25. Benedictine swept a pair of 9-8 decisions from Concordia earlier this year. Rockford faced Marian, who won the tie-break with Aurora for the final slot in the tournament. With so many Pool B teams on the bubble, tournament wins will be key to advancing.

It was a new year but the same story in the SLIAC as Webster captured its second straight title. The Gorloks finished 21-3 in conference and are looking for their fourth straight NCAA berth. They made some noise last season with an upset of Illinois Wesleyan in regional play. Webster opens with fourth seeded Greenville while Westminster (Mo.) takes on Maryville in the other semifinal. The path to the playoffs clearly sits with a tournemant win.

In the MIAC, No. 1 seed St. Thomas (29-7) appears to be in good shape for at least a Pool C bid, barring a two-and-done effort in the tourney to be held May 9-11. Even in that worst-case scenario, the Tommies, could limp in. No. 2 St. Olaf (25-10), which still has one regular-season game to play on Wedneday, has some work to do. Although not in the current regional rankings, the Oles are 19-6 in-region heading into today’s game and could move into the last published rankings in Stevens Point’s place. St. Olaf and St. Thomas both received NCAA bids the past two seasons, but the Oles may need to at least make the MIAC finals to continue that streak, although they may need to win. Longshots Hamline (23-16) and Gustavus (20-16) round out the 2008 MIAC field.

The MWC tournament will feature St. Norbert (24-9) and Ripon (25-8) from the North Division and Monmouth (9-22) and surprise host Knox (11-22) from the South for the MWC Pool A bid on May 9-10 in Galesburg, Ill. As the records indicate, Ripon and St. Norbert are the overwhelming favorites. Ripon has won the past four MWC tourneys and eight of the last 10. Ripon has also made eight NCAA appearances in the past nine seasons. St. Norbert won the 2003 MWC tourney and the last two regular-season titles, but the Green Knights have never made an NCAA appearance. A tournament winn will be needed to make the NCAA tournament since neither Ripon nor St. Norbert were in the latest regional rankings.

In the non-Pool A UMAC, all eyes are on St. Scholastica (29-4), which is in the Pool B hunt after winning the conference regular-season title for the 12th straight year. St. Scholastica, ranked No. 5 in the Midwest Region is looking for its 12th consecutive UMAC Tournament crown when it hosts on May 8-10 in Duluth, Minn. A three-game sweep at the UMAC tournament could be St. Scholastica’s ticket to the NCAA tournament. Anything less than a St. Scholastica three-game sweep of the UMAC tournament would be shocking considering CSS is the winningest D-III team in the 2000s with a 289-66 (.814) record. The Saints have also faired well against regionally ranked teams this season, registering wins over Oshkosh, St. Thomas, Juniata, Alvernia and Elizabethtown.

Like every year since 2000, the WIAC tournament has the usual suspects fighting for the Pool A bid: No.1 seed UW-Whitewater (33-6), No. 2 UWQ-Oshkosh (28-7) and No. 3 UW-Stevens Point (25-14). UW-La Crosse (19-18) is the fourth invitee to the annual heavyweight slugfest to be held May 9-10 in Wisconsin Rapids. The Big 3 are all in the region’s current top four, but the WIAC has not received three NCAA bids in the same season since 1998. History suggests that one of the perennial Big 3 may stay home this year, especially given Steven Point’s late-season struggles. If Whitewater or Oshkosh fail to make the finals, their postseason hopes could be in jeopardy despite high regional rankings. Stevens Point may fall from the regional rankings after losing four of its last six games and perhaps needs to make the finals for Pool C consideration. La Crosse must win it all.

The NCAA released its second set of Division III baseball regional rankings today. Please note, they are listed with overall record, followed by regional record. Teams in bold are already in the playoffs with a pool A bid.

Central Region
1 Illinois Wesleyan 26-6 25-2
2 Carthage 29-2 23-2
3 Augustana 26-9 19-7
4 Wartburg 19-12 17-9
5 Rockford 21-11 19-6
6 Concordia (Ill.) 27-10 23-9

Mid-Atlantic Region
1 TCNJ 28-8 26-8
2 Kean 30-9 24-7
3 Johns Hopkins 30-5 27-4
4 Rowan 28-10 24-8
5 Montclair State 22-14 20-9
6 Penn State-Behrend 28-8 26-5
7 Juniata 25-10 24-7
8 Alvernia 30-10 24-7
9 Elizabethtown 23-10 19-9

Mideast Region
1 Wooster 31-7 25-6
2 Heidelberg 29-7 23-7
3 Mount St. Joseph 20-15 16-6
4 Adrian 23-8 18-8
5 Rose-Hulman 26-9 21-7
6 Calvin 23-7 15-5
7 Thomas More 22-11 16-5

Midwest Region
1 UW-Oshkosh 23-6 23-6
2 UW-Whitewater 28-5 25-5
3 St. Thomas 21-7 13-5
4 UW-Stevens Point 23-10 20-6
5 St. Scholastica 25-4 17-3

New England Region
1 Trinity (Conn.) 32-0 23-0
2 Wheaton (Mass.) 31-7 28-5
3 Keene State 26-7 23-6
4 Eastern Connecticut State 24-11-1 20-8-1
5 Suffolk 25-10 22-9
6 Amherst 19-9-1 14-6-1
7 Roger Williams 29-10 26-7
8 Southern Maine 25-10 20-10
9 Western New England 27-11 24-11

New York Region
1 Cortland State 32-3 23-0
2 Ithaca 25-9 21-3
3 Rochester 27-9 26-9
4 RPI 27-8 21-7
5 Brockport State 21-15-1 17-8-1
6 St. John Fisher 21-9-1 17-8-1
6 St. Joseph’s (L.I.) 25-12-1 24-11-1

South Region
1 Salisbury 37-2 33-2
2 Piedmont 33-10 31-10
3 Lynchburg 30-11 24-8
4 Emory 25-11-1 23-9-1
5 Millsaps 29-18 27-14
6 Mary Washington 25-12 22-11

West Region
1 Chapman 32-3 25-3
2 George Fox 28-12 27-11
3 Texas-Tyler 35-7 32-7
4 Concordia-Austin 28-14 24-11
5 Pomona-Pitzer 27-10 18-9
6 Redlands 26-11 19-6

Updated: 5/1/2008