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| Christopher Newport will be one of 16 teams to host a regional in the first round of playoffs. d3photography.com photo by Mike Atherton |
The NCAA Division III baseball committee has announced the 60 teams that will compete in the 2023 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship. As is the new normal, four teams will compete in double-elimination play at 14 regional sites and two sites will have two teams which meet in a best-of-five series.
Winners of the 16 regional tournaments will qualify for the second super regional round in Division III baseball history, with the teams competing in a best-of-three format. The Division III World Series will be held in Eastlake, Ohio, for the first time.
We missed on four teams this year as the D3baseball.com mock committee matched 56 of the 60 teams ultimately given playoff bids. It was a big day for the SCIAC as the committee elected to take all four teams in the SCIAC tournament. We saw a team blocking many of the SCIAC teams that made it in while the committee saw a blocking team in Region 4. While we had Catholic as the first team out, They made it in with a couple spots to fill as we are guessing that Cal Lutheran was the 19th at-large selection.
The teams were announced via a selection show on Monday, as follows:
Regional at UW-Whitewater #: UW-Whitwater vs Crown; Centre vs Cal Lutheran*
Regional at UW-La Crosse: UW-La Crosse vs Bethel (Minn.); Benedictine vs Coe
Regional at Denison: Denison vs Hanover; Rowan vs Millikin
Regional at Transylvania #: Spalding vs Beloit; Transylvania vs Birmingham-Southern
Regional at Trinity (Texas): Trinity (Texas) vs La Verne*
Regional at Case Western Reserve #: Case Western Reserve vs Alvernia; Ithaca vs Lynchburg
Regional at Pomona-Pitzer: Pomona-Pitzer vs Willamette*
Regional at East Texas Baptist #: East Texas Baptist vs Centenary (La.), Claremont-Mudd-Scripps* vs Concordia-Texas
Regional at Babson: Salisbury vs Mass-Dartmouth; Babson vs Mitchell
Regional at Cortland #: Salve Regina vs Colby; Cortland vs Washington & Jefferson
Regional at Christopher Newport: Christopher Newport vs Immaculata; Scranton vs N.C. Wesleyan
Regional at Misericodia: Misericordia vs St. John Fisher; Middlebury vs Keystone
Regional at Johns Hopkins #: Johns Hopkins vs St. Joseph's (L.I.); Arcadia vs Ramapo
Regional at Eastern Connecticut State: Endicott vs Husson; Eastern Connecticut State vs SUNY New Paltz
Regional at Penn State-Harrisburg #: Penn State-Harrisburg vs Bridgewater State; Randolph-Macon vs Elizabethtown
Regional at Baldwin Wallace: Baldwin Wallace vs Penn State-Behrend; Catholic vs Adrian
* Teams flying in the first weekend.
# Schools hosting a Super Regional (if advancing)