http://www.d3sports.com RSS Feed for www.d3sports.com en-us D3sports.com RSS Software 1.1 Tue, 13 May 2008 18:00:01 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/13/get-ready-for-wall-to-wall-baseball.html Follow the Division III baseball tournament all day Wednesday with D3baseball.com, as games start at 9:30 a.m. ET and threaten to go past midnight. All 54 teams are in action, with 27 games running eight at a time across the country. It starts with TCCC champ Western New England against Little East Pool C pick Southern Maine at 9:30 a.m., with live video provided by our friends at D3Cast in Harwich, Mass. The D3sports.com audio coverage kicks in from Auburn, N.Y., at 10 a.m. ET in a battle of Pool C teams as Montclair State faces Eastern Connecticut. Wednesday's full schedule, with links to audio, video and live stats. We'll also update the scores in progress throughout the day. Playoffs: 2008 bracket | D3baseball.com analysis | More discussion on D3boards.com Unbeaten Trinity (Conn.) is on live video in Harwich's second game of the day, against Castleton State at 1 p.m. ET, while No. 1 Chapman takes the field at the same time in the opener of the Abilene regional against La Verne. Two WIAC teams will play simultaneously, as UW-Stevens Point plays Linfield while UW-Oshkosh hosts Carthage. The fourth NJAC team of the day is scheduled to take the field at 7:45 in Newark, N.J., as Rowan plays NEAC champ Keystone. And then we'll start all over again on Thursday, as nobody gets eliminated before Day 2. Check back for more as we get you ready for all the action on the Road to Appleton. Tue, 13 May 2008 09:11:38 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/13/get-ready-for-wall-to-wall-baseball.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/12/regional-playoff-teams-announced.html Will it be Tim Kiely carrying Trinity (Conn.) to a regional sweep, keeping the Bantams' undefeated streak alive? Will Kurt Yacko take Chapman to another Championship appearance? Can Matt Tone be the missing piece of a national championship that has eluded Cortland State for years? Will Kenny Moreland put a finishing touch on a stellar career with Christopher Newport and deny Salisbury and Johns Hopkins a spot in Appleton? These and other question will be answered this week as the number of teams seeking a D-III national championship in baseball number 54. After many hours of speculation on Sunday, the NCAA released the field of 54 on Monday morning. Missing from this year's field are two teams from last year's Championship round. Marietta came within one win of a playoff bid and Emory was narrowly beat out for the last Pool B bid by Cal State East Bay. Returning to defend their national championship is Kean. Not a fan of the selections? Can't figure out why your team wasn't chosen? Come vent on our blog, the Daily Dose, and our Division III baseball experts will try to help you find peace, or a sympathetic ear. The story this year is that of the win streaks. Three teams entering the playoffs have a winning streak of 30 or more games on the season. Cortland State has won 34 in a row and with one more win will tie Salisbury for the second longest streak this year. Trinity (Conn.) has yet to lose a game and with its 37th straight victory qualified for this year's playoffs with an undefeated season. None of these teams are strangers to the playoffs but Grove City and Knox are uncommon names to hear at playoff time. Both teams got fitted for Cinderella slippers at their conference tournaments. Grove City upset team after team as it rolled through the Presidents' Athletic Conference tournament. Knox found itsrlf needing to win two games against Ripon on Saturday and did so, qualifying at 15-23 and denying the Red Hawks a Mon, 12 May 2008 13:41:01 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/12/regional-playoff-teams-announced.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/11/amherst-advances-to-face-trinity.html Trinity (Conn) completed the season and NESCAC conference tournament undefeated and will wait tonight to see who they will play on the NCAA tournament. With the completion of the NESCAC championship game, all 34 conference bids have been awarded. See Playoff Central for the list. Pool B and C bids will be announced Monday morning. In the New York region, RPI beat St. Lawrence 13-4 in the Liberty League Championship game to claim the automatic bid. With the SLIAC playoffs washed out, Webster gets the tournament win and the automatic bid to the playoffs starting later this week. Pitt-Bradford defeated Penn State-Behrend, 4-3 on Saturday but Penn State-Behrend came back today to win 9-8 over Pitt-Bradford to claim the AMCC Championship. In a game postponed by rain and wet grounds, St. Thomas easily handled St. Olaf winning 13-1. With the win, the Tommies win the MIAC championship and automatic playoff bid (photo gallery). For Saturday's news, scroll down. Sun, 11 May 2008 20:33:46 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/11/amherst-advances-to-face-trinity.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/13/st-mary-s-minn--coach-steps-down.html For St. Mary's baseball coach Nick Whaley, the past 12 seasons have been filled with plenty of highs and lows. Tuesday afternoon, the Cardinal veteran experienced the highest of highs and the lowest of lows — at the same time. With a heavy heart, Whaley announced Tuesday that he was stepping down as the Cardinals' head baseball coach to become the head baseball and volleyball coach, as well as a physical education and health instructor at Winona Cotter High School. "This was probably one of the toughest decisions I've ever had to make," admitted Whaley, who along with his position as head baseball coach, also served as SMU's director of physical education. "St. Mary's has provided my wife Nancy and me with a wonderful environment to raise our kids and grow as a family. We now feel that it is time to move forward and grow in new and exciting ways. "My goal Tue, 13 May 2008 14:21:21 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/13/st-mary-s-minn--coach-steps-down.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/13/d3baseball-looks-at-the-playoffs.html By Jim Dixon D3baseball.com Mideast Regional: Hosted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology at Art Nehf Field, 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) Top to bottom, this is the best balanced regional. It would not be a surprise if any team ended up the winner. Transylvania had a good start and although the faded in mid season, they have righted the ship at just the right time. Only Wooster has made the Championship round before and this regional has the best chance of sending a first-timer to Appleton. Cinderella: The MIAA. Few people would have expected this regional to be dominated by the MIAA as they have been playoff fodder for many years. Not this year. Adrian signaled the change with big early wins against tough south competition and they are only a second place team. Calvin over took Adrian o the last day. Most likely Tue, 13 May 2008 14:37:50 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/13/d3baseball-looks-at-the-playoffs.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/12/2008-ncaa-d-iii-playoff-pairings.html 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 Mon, 12 May 2008 02:59:23 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/12/2008-ncaa-d-iii-playoff-pairings.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/12/putting-perfection-back-on-the-line.html After two years of missing the NESCAC tournament, Trinity (Conn.) came in at a perfect 34-0 and the top seed in the West Division. The Bantams made their unbeaten record stand up, downing Amherst 9-1 in Saturday morning's opener and Tufts 5-1 in the afternoon game. After losing to Trinity, Amherst came back to beat archrival Williams 9-8 in 10 innings. Amherst will play Tufts tomorrow, with Trinity awaiting the winner. For audio links, check out Saturday's D3baseball.com scoreboard. The Bantams are the last undefeated team in the nation, having passed Johns Hopkins' record of 33 consecutive wins to start the season and Texas-Tyler's 35-0 start last season in their last year of provisional status. The NESCAC championship is just one of five tournaments scheduled to end on Sunday. Who's clinched an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament already? Check out Playoff Central. That includes Castleton, which swept Husson Mon, 12 May 2008 22:10:37 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/12/putting-perfection-back-on-the-line.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/12/grove-city-is-playoff-bound.html In a wild, back-and-forth affair which saw five lead changes, 21 runs, 24 hits and nine errors, the fourth-seeded Grove City Wolverines completed their Cinderella run through the President Athletic Conference Tournament with an 11-10 decision over rival Thiel in the 2008 PAC title game. With the victory, Grove City captured its first PAC baseball crown since winning back-to-back league titles in 2001 and 2002, while also securing the PAC's first-ever automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament. Grove City led 4-0 in the middle of the fourth, only to see Thiel score three in the fourth and four more in the sixth for a 7-4 advantage. The two teams continuedto exchange the lead, with the Tomcats taking a 9-8 advantage after eight frames. The Wolverines would not be denied, scoring three times in the top of the ninth for an 11-9 lead, then withstanding a pair of Mon, 12 May 2008 03:28:27 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/12/grove-city-is-playoff-bound.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/13/2008-playoff-central.html The eight regionals will be played at: Mid-Atlantic Regional: Hosted by Kean University at Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium, 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) Central Regional: Hosted by Augustana College at Brunner Field at Duane R. Stadium, Rock Island, 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) Mideast Regional: Hosted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology at Art Nehf Field, 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) New England Regional: Hosted by the ECAC at Whitehouse Field, Harwich, Mass. 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) New York Regional: Hosted by Ithaca College at Falcon Field/Auburn Double Days, 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) South Regional: Hosted by USA South Athletic Conference/ODAC at American Legion Memorial Post 325 Stadium-Dan Daniel Tue, 13 May 2008 01:01:33 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/13/2008-playoff-central.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/11/southern-maine-tops-keene-state.html The third-seeded Southern Maine scored four runs in the fifth inning to erase a 1-0 deficit and went on to defeat top-seeded Keene State 8-4 on the third day of play at the 2008 Little East Conference Baseball Championship Tournament. The win advances the Huskies into the championship game on Saturday against Keene State. Keene State eliminated Eastern Connecticut 1-0 on a walk-off single in the ninth by a score of 1-0 to reach the championship game. Eastern Connecticut defeated Mass-Boston 9-6 earlier. Follow tournament action from the D3baseball.com scoreboard. Calvin swept Kalamazoo to claim the MIAA championship and automatic playoff bid. Calvin defeated the Hornets 9-2 in the first game as the offense delivered the game. The win in game two came on the strength of the pitching as Calvin won 2-0. Adrian finished second in the MIAA and must wait until late Sunday to Sun, 11 May 2008 18:59:37 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/11/southern-maine-tops-keene-state.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/12/ohio-wesleyan-joins-calvin-in-playoffs.html A.J. Dote drove in 3 runs and Joey McDaniel held Denison to 2 runs over 8.0 innings as the Bishops defeated the Big Red in Game 3 of the NCAC tournament championship series on Friday in Granville. With the win, Ohio Wesleyan takes the series, 2 games to 1, and wins its second consecutive NCAC championship. This marks the first time since 2000-01 that the Bishops have won back-to-back NCAC titles, and is Ohio Wesleyan's eighth NCAC tournament championship, the most among conference institutions. The win also gives Ohio Wesleyan the NCAC's automatic qualifier into the NCAA Division III tournament. In the three game series, Ohio weslyean won game one 5-2 and Denison forced a third game with a 4-2 win in game two. Carthage, ranked seventh in the May 6 Top 25, stayed alive in the CCIW Baseball Tournament by winning two games in the loser's bracket at Illinois Wesleyan's Mon, 12 May 2008 02:59:42 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/12/ohio-wesleyan-joins-calvin-in-playoffs.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/09/adrian-must-wait-after-split.html Senior Day is a special moment but the moment for six seniors was sour as visiting Alma pulled off a 5-4 upset in game two of a doubleheader. Adrian won the first game 10-6 and will await the Calvin-Kalamazoo four-game series to see if they can grab a MIAA title. Adrian is three wins up in the standings and need one Kalamazoo win to share for the title. If they at least claim a share, it will mean a trip to the NCAA regionals for the third time in four seasons. A winner of eight straight, second-seeded Eastern Connecticut (28-11-1) advances in the winners' bracket of the six-team double-elimination tournament to face No. 3 seed Southern Maine Thursday. Southern Maine advanced by an identical 6-5 in Wednesday's late game against No. 4 seed Rhode Island, scoring four runs in the bottom of the eighth to pull out the win. Top-seeded Keene Fri, 09 May 2008 17:55:53 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/09/adrian-must-wait-after-split.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/10/.html Slugging first baseman Tim McMenamin of Gwynedd-Mercy and ace right-hander Brent Kulavic of Illinois Wesleyan have been named the NCAA Division III National Hitter and Pitcher of the Week for the week of April 28-May 4, the ninth and final awards of the season, as chosen by members of the NCBWA. McMenamin batted .600 (6-for-10) with three home runs, 15 total bases, eight runs scored, 12 runs batted in, and a 1.500 slugging percentage en route to being named the Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Tournament Co-Most Valuable Player. The Griffins won their second straight PAC title last weekend, going 3-0 in the tournament. He hit a two-run homer in the 7th to ice a 6-1 first-game win over Centenary and drove in three runs. In a 15-8 semi-final win over Alvernia, he went 2-for-4 with a home run, a sacrifice fly, scored four runs and drove in three. Sat, 10 May 2008 10:41:44 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/10/.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/10/calvin-needs-sweep-to-get-miaa-crown.html Kalamazoo lost a pair of games at Calvin, 5-1 and 9-3. Kalamazoo was held to just two hits while committing five errors in the 5-1 loss. Kalamazoo held a 3-2 lead in the fourth inning before Calvin took the lead for good. Eddie Barclay and Kyle Kilpatrick each had a double. Calvin needs to sweep Kalamazoo tomorrow to win the MIAA. With a Calvin loss, Adrain will receive the conference's automatic bid. Bats came alive for Heidelberg in the seventh inning against Mount Union in a first round game of the OAC Tournament. It resulted in a 10-7 victory for the Student Princes, the program's 11th-straight. Offensively for Heidelberg, Jeremy Wentworth led the way from the leadoff spot going 3-for-4 with four runs. For Mount Union, Greg Ferrell led the offensive push going 3-for-5 with two RBIs, two runs, and a double. In the first game of the Sat, 10 May 2008 11:33:43 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/10/calvin-needs-sweep-to-get-miaa-crown.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/08/.html Greensboro split a doubleheader with visiting Rhodes on Tuesday. Rhodes took the first game 12-9, while the home team won the nightcap, 7-6 in 11 innings. Anthony Corona went 7-for-11 with 2 home runs, a double and one triple and 5 RBI for The Pride in the DH. In game one, the Lynx scored 3 runs off losing pitcher Greg Allen to break a 9-9 tie in the 7th inning. In the night cap, Dale Martin walked with the bases loaded to end the game. Anthony Corona tripled to lead off the 11th. Losing pitcher Taylor Babich then intentionally walked Lyle Donaldson and Kyle Bolick to pitch to Martin, who then walked on four pitches. The third time figured to be the charm for the Concordia (Ill.) Cougars. After having lost one-run games earlier in the season to Augustana and Illinois Wesleyan, both regionally-ranked teams from the CCIW, the Cougars Thu, 08 May 2008 22:32:50 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/08/.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/07/whitewater-sweeps-to-regular-season-title.html Aaron Dott struck out 11 and got 13 runs of support in a game one win over UW-Stevens Point Monday in Whitewater. The win clinched at least a share of the WIAC regular season title. A game two victory meant the Warhawks could have the title outright, accomplished with a 15-8 win to give UW-Whitewater its sixth outright title in the last eight years. The Warhawks moved to number 8 in this weeks D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25, finished the WIAC regular season with a 20-4 record, and earned the number one seed in the WIAC tournament beginning Friday, May 9 in Wisconsin at Witter Field in Wisconsin Rapids. More of Monday's scores. In game one, UW-Whitewater got on the scoreboard early but the Pointer's would answer in the top of the third when a pitch from Aaron Dott squirted past the catcher to score Kyle Cummings. The Warhawks' Wed, 07 May 2008 15:29:13 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/07/whitewater-sweeps-to-regular-season-title.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/08/nac-conference-final-set--finally.html Last Sunday the final round between Castleton and Husson was postponed due to unplayable field conditions at the double-elimination tournament's original site. It took until today to find a time and place to hold the North Atlantic Conference Championship. The Castleton State College baseball team will host the final round of NAC Championship on Saturday, May 10 at East Field in Glens Falls, New York. Castleton and Husson will square off at 12:00 noon in game one. If Castleton wins game one, game two will start 30 minutes after the completion of game one. Other NAC news announced this week were the conference honors. Centerfielder Mike Chamard of Thomas was honored as the NAC Baseball Player of the Year in a vote by the conference coaches. Chamard led the league in batting average (.388), slugging percentage (.600) while ranking among the league leaders in runs scored, hits and total Thu, 08 May 2008 10:26:50 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/08/nac-conference-final-set--finally.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/08/sunyac-awards-goes-to--.html Senior Rob Maxwell was voted the Bob Wallace Player of the Year (SUNYAC Most Valuable Player) in a vote of the conference coaches on Monday. Maxwell finished the regular season with a .439 batting average in conference games with a team leading five doubles and one home run. He also led the team with 15 runs batted in and a .634 slugging average. The senior split time as the first baseman and a starting pitcher and had a 2-1 SUNYAC record with a 2.95 ERA and a team leading 20 strikeouts in 21 1/3 innings. Cortland's Matt Tone was honored as the Don Axtell Pitcher of the Year while Oneonta hurler Dave Filak was named the Clark Whited Rookie of the Year. Cortland head coach Joe Brown was selected as the 2008 SUNYAC Walter Nitardy Coach of the Year after he guided the Red Dragons to a 36-3 record through SUNYACs, Thu, 08 May 2008 15:35:45 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/08/sunyac-awards-goes-to--.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/gwynedd-mercy-mcmurry-playoff-bound.html Gwynedd-Mercy made it a repeat, winning their fourth Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Baseball Title with a convincing 14-1 win over Centenary in the championship game Sunday afternoon. co-MVPs Tim McMenamin and Dan Strack led the offensive attack, each hitting grand slams. With the win, the Griffins (21-18) earn the PAC's automatic bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament with selections to made on Sunday, May 11. This is the last PAC title. Next year the conference will change its name to the Colonial States Athletic Conference. McMenamin who made his first start on the mound this season, made it a good one, limiting the Cyclones to one run on three hits in six innings while fanning six. Centenary scored their run in the top of the first, getting an RBI double from Jared Grant. From there Gwynedd-Mercy continued its torrid offense, notching double-digit runs for the second-straight game. Three times Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 EST http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/gwynedd-mercy-mcmurry-playoff-bound.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/njac-crown-belongs-to-kean.html Top seeded Kean Cougars avenged two regular season losses by defeating second seeded Montclair State, 12-4, in the NJAC Championship game. With the win, Kean (34-9) claims both the regular season and tournament title for the first time in program history. This win also gives the Cougars the conference's automatic bid into the upcoming NCAA Division III Tournament in defense of their National Championship from last year. After trading runs in the first inning, Kean went ahead for good, plating three runs in the bottom of the third. Eric Ammirata broke the 1-1 tie with a bases-loaded single to drive in two. Ammirata would later come around and score on a Mike Moceri single. The Cougars added plenty of insurance recording eight runs over the next three frames. Gabe Ramirez punched out his second homerun of the tournament, a two-run shot, to highlight the offense. On the hill, Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 EST http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/njac-crown-belongs-to-kean.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/grant-hits-for-the-cycle.html Wesley College third baseman Grant Morlock hit for the cycle as the Wolverines (27-14)closed out the regular season with a 26-3 drubbing of Polytechnic in a game played at KeySpan Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, the short season-A affiliate of the New York Mets. The sophomore from Bel Air, Maryland started off the game with a walk and a strikeout before tripling in the third inning. He then singled in the fifth and clubbed his second homer of the year in the seventh. Just a double short of the cycle, Morlock stroked his sixth two-base hit of the year in the eighth. He drove in four runs and scored two others. Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 EST http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/grant-hits-for-the-cycle.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/07/salisbury-sweeps-cac-awards.html Salisbury's baseball team, which won 35 games in a row this season on the way to its third consecutive CAC championship, was rewarded by the conference coaches with seven first-team all-stars, including co-Players of the Year Justin Armiger, Eric Willey, Rookie of the Year Dustin Herbert and Coach of the Year Doug Fleetwood. On the day CAC honors were announces, No. 4 Salisbury defeated Rhodes in its final home game of the 2008 regular season, 8-5 to set a new single-season record for the program (38 wins). Armiger, the Sea Gulls' third baseman, and Willey, one of the leaders of the Salisbury pitching staff, are the third and fourth Salisbury players, respectively, to be named CAC Baseball Player of the Year. Herbert, the second Salisbury player to be selected as CAC Rookie of the Year, along with three-time CAC all-star Ryan Bennick join Willey to give Salisbury three pitchers Wed, 07 May 2008 15:28:35 EDT http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/2008/05/07/salisbury-sweeps-cac-awards.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/desales-advances-to-ninth-straight-title-game.html Jeremy Stoltzfus pitched a complete game to lift Messiah to a 7-3 victory over Elizabethtown in the championship game of the Commonwealth Conference baseball tournament at Owls Field on Saturday. The Blue Jays had forced a second game in the title round with a 2-0 victory over the Falcons, as senior Chris Minakowski tossed a four-hitter in his second career start. Messiah scored four runs in the top of the second inning and added single runs in the fifth, seventh and ninth to win the conference for the first time since 2005. Craig Mease led the Falcons by going 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored, while Ben Kirk went 2-for-5 and Jon Shenk finished 2-for-4 as Messiah outhit Elizabethtown 11-8. Stoltzfus (4-4) allowed eight hits and struck out two in his second complete game in nine starts this season. The Falcons took two out of three games with the Blue Jays in Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 EST http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/desales-advances-to-ninth-straight-title-game.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/heidelberg-claims-oac-crown.html Despite battling rain throughout the afternoon a few rays of sunshine shown through allowing nationally-ranked Heidelberg and ninth-year head coach Matt Palm to sweep a doubleheader over visiting John Carroll at Peaceful Valley and earn the program's second-consecutive, third overall, Ohio Athletic Conference regular season championship. Heidelberg won game one 3-2 and posted the sweep with a 3-2 win in 11 innings in the nightcap. Simpson (25-14) swept Bethel (20-16) in a doubleheader to end the 2008 regular season May 3 in Arden Hills, Minn. The Storm won the opener 21-8 as the squad smacked five home runs and recorded 20 hits. Jason McClaflin established a school record for most hits in a game as he went 5-for-5 with two home runs and six RBI's. McClaflin also scored four runs. Jeff Kinkel-Schuster pounded out three hits (3-for-4) and two RBI's. Nick Hahn picked up two wins Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 EST http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/heidelberg-claims-oac-crown.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/leopards-claw-their-wat-to-top-of-sciac.html La Verne has captured the 2008 SCIAC Championship by completing a sweep over defending champ Pomona-Pitzer by scores of 7-4 and 13-3 Saturday in Claremont. The Leopards (25-14-1) also received help from Claremont-Mudd-Scripps, who swept Redlands in its doubleheader to knock the Bulldogs-who began the day in first place-out of championship contention. In the opener, La Verne spotted the Sagehens a 4-0 lead before posting two runs in both the fourth and fifth innings to draw even as Mike Belcher's two-run single in the fourth was followed an inning later by a two-run single by Trevor Boucher. La Verne went up for good in the sixth on an RBI double from Jack Mehl that scored catcher Ryan Jordan. La Verne scored single runs in the seventh and eighth innings while holding the Sagehens scoreless over the final six frames. Pitcher Jimmy Wilfong provided solid relief with 4 1/3 shutout Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 EST http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/leopards-claw-their-wat-to-top-of-sciac.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/desales-is-in-its-ninth-straight-title-game.html DeSales advanced to the Freedom Conference championship game using some good old fashioned pitching and defense, topping Manhattanville 3-2, in the winner's bracket championship game on Saturday afternoon in Quakertown Memorial Park. The Bulldogs (23-18-1) advance to the title game for the ninth straight season but for the first time in the last three years out of the winner's bracket. They will play Manhattanville as they advanced to the Freedom Conference Championship game with a 4-3 win over Arcadia. If The Valiants capture game one, the teams will meet again Sunday, shortly after the conclusion of the first game to decide who advances to the NCAA playoffs. Behind eight runs in the third inning No. 7 Johns Hopkins defeated Franklin & Marshall 16-6 on Saturday in Centennial Conference Tournament play. The Blue Jays (32-5) won their third straight contest and advance to Sunday's championship game. The Blue Jays will Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 EST http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/desales-is-in-its-ninth-straight-title-game.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/denison-ncac-west-champs.html Denison captured the NCAC West title by downing the Lords of Kenyon College, 15-3 and 6-5. They advance to play the winner of Wooster and Ohio Wesleyan who finish their series today with Wooster leading 1-0 after a 14-7 victory on Saturday. More of Saturday's scores Game one turned out to be "Senior Day Part Two" as right-handed starter James Clear went the distance, allowing one earned run and striking out six in nine complete innings. Fellow senior Tony Christopher came up two feet short of hitting for the cycle as his pair of triples and trio of RBIs led the offensive barrage from the Big Red. Innings of four, three and seven runs, combined with five Kenyon errors, allowed the Big Red to run through six hurlers out of the bullpen to close the game. The hot bats slowed to open game two. Park Smith singled through the left side Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 EST http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/denison-ncac-west-champs.html http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/westfield-johns-hopkins-cortland-advance-to-playoffs.html Worcester State snapped a 4-4 tie with a four-run, seventh-inning uprising in a 9-4 victory over Westfield State in the Massachusetts State College Athletics Conference baseball tournament championship game. Worcester State, 23-16 and riding a nine-game winning streak, earns and automatic berth to the NCAA Division III Tournament. The Lancers also claimed tournament titles in 2002 and 2005. Westfield State, the 2007 tournament champion and 2008 regular season co-champion with Worcester, is 22-15-1. Despite being out-hit 14-6, the Owls - the designated visiting team - held a 4-3 lead after six and a half innings. Several of Worcester's five errors helped contribute to two unearned Westfield runs. Trailing 4-1 heading to the bottom of the ninth, Johns Hopkins rallied for a 5-4 victory over Haverford in the Centennial Conference Championship game on Sunday afternoon. The Blue Jays (33-5) won their second straight Championship and ninth overall. Hopkins earns the Centennial Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 EST http://www.d3baseball.com/notables/1999/11/30/westfield-johns-hopkins-cortland-advance-to-playoffs.html