D3baseball.com Daily Dose

My plane leaves in about two hours and I am still thinking who wins this whole thing this coming week. The answer is difficult since I can see most every team having the chance to make it to the end. If there is a cinderella team, it is Adrian. They started the season with big wins down south as they defeated Emory and Piedmont back-to-back. The did not back down in a evenly matched regional in Terre Haute. They might have showed a crack when Heidelberg forced a winner take all game, but are now all square in Appleton.

Chapman, Cortland State, Trinity, Kean all breezed through their regionals without a loss….and in a few days two will have a loss as they have to play each other. The good news is that two teams can make it to the winners bracket final before one of these four emerges with out a loss. Throw in UW-Whitewater, and we have five favorites.

Linfield and Johns Hopkins had to battle to make the final round. Linfield needed extra innings while the Blue Jays were able to let their offense take over. Both team came back from first game losses to capture the regional.

The contest is wide open and nobody in the field will surprise me if they end up coming out of the winners bracket. I hope all will be following the games and enjoying the live video on the last two days. I myself am looking forward to five days of good baseball and let the teams decide the action on the field.

Hope to see many of you at Fox Cities Stadium.