A complete game performance with 12 strikeouts was plenty to shut down the top-ranked Endicott Gulls, as Lynchburg opened its second trip to the D-III World Series with a dominating 7-1 win against Endicott.
As the DIII World Series opens the Eastlake era, there are rookie teams, teams back for another year and one team that has been to more past Series' than the rest of the field together.
The Hornets have different faces at most positions, including at head coach, but Lynchburg has been on a fine postseason run that has kept the defending champions going, all the way to the D-III World Series. A feature by Joe Sager.
The Division III baseball World Series will be opening the Eastlake, Ohio era on the last Friday in May. Will Lynchburg defend its 2023 title? How will the World Series rookies fare? Can top ranked Endicott capture its first baseball national championship? We make our picks in the D3baseball.com World Series Preview.
We're happy to bring you an expanded Division III World Series preview, with a page on each team for quick and easy reference for your use throughout the entirety of Division III's first trip to Eastlake, Ohio. Key hitters and pitchers, scouting reports, feature stories and more!
Birmingham-Southern continued its Cinderella run, keeping the program alive for another week by clinching a berth in the Division III World Series, while UW-Whitewater advanced by winning twice on Saturday. Salve Regina and Pomona-Pitzer are first-time Series qualifiers, while the defending champs are still defending. More from Saturday.
For six of the eight hosts, they will need two wins on Saturday as they dropped the Friday openers to their visitors. Endicott and Randolph-Macon won the games they hosted in the final inning. The Gulls needed an extra inning while the Yellow Jackets finished their game in regulation.
The Hornets played the minimum amount of contests in posting three victories over the course of three days at Capital One Park to claim the program's 11th overall and second straight league title with a 9-4 victory over Roanoke College on Saturday afternoon in Tysons, Va.
University of Lynchburg baseball graduate student Wesley Arrington threw a no-hitter against Randolph-Macon Thursday as the Hornets defeated the Yellow Jackets 5-0 in the first game of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference championship weekend.
Lynchburg and Roanoke swept their best of three series and top seeded Randolph-Macon defeated Washington and Lee to set up a sweep of their own. Third seeded Shenandoah will start their series with Guilford on Saturday.
All season, Lynchburg has a target on their back as defending National Champions. Today it was Hampden-Sydney who won a close 3-2 win over the Hornets. Elsewhere Immaculata saw Joey Sacco and teammate Josh Crowding reach the 200 hit mark in a sweep of Centenary.
Ethan George collected eight RBIs as the Quakes were anything but friendly to the visiting Greensboro Pride in a 23-7 win. Around the Top 25, Johns Hopkins, Lynchburg and Marietta added to the win column.
Westfield State earned a pitching win and one with their bats as they bested St. Joseph's (Conn.) and the weather. Elsewhere top ranked Baldwin Wallace fell to Misericordia and York opened up with a win over No. 5 Lynchburg.
Baldwin Wallace traveled to Johns Hopkins and took the top ranking from the Blue Jays in the first regular season D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25. Endicott, Johns Hopkins, Salisbury, Shenandoah and UW-La Crosse were the other teams that received at least one first place vote.
It is why we play the game. Wild pitches were a factor in two extra-inning games as Arcadia used one to upset Baldwin Wallace and Cortland needed two to walk-off in a contest with Lynchburg. Out in Texas, Trinity (Texas) found 10 eighth inning runs to shock Babson.
Holy Hornets Bat Man. The Hornets of Lynchburg and Shenandoah are the top ranked teams in the south region - wait Region 6. It is no secret that Lynchburg came out on top in all three then preceded to finish first in the DIII World Series.
Lynchburg school officials announced changes to the Lynchburg baseball team's coaching staff. Head coach Lucas Jones will step down from his position, and associate head coach Travis Beazley will become the program's next head coach effective immediately.
Lynchburg receives all 25 first place votes followed by DIII World Series runner-up Johns Hopkins. Baldwin Wallace, Salisbury, and East Texas Baptist occupy the top five spots in the final D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25.
Lynchburg won its first baseball championship and second ever NCAA team championship with a 7-6 win over Johns Hopkins in the finale of the 2023 D-III World Series.
Lynchburg took advantage of several Johns Hopkins miscues and took Game 1 in the D3 Championship Series 5-2 to draw within one game of its first national championship. Johns Hopkins will need to win twice on Thursday for their first baseball title.
It was a complete game that featured lights out pitching, timely hitting and web gems as Lynchburg finished bracket play 3-0 with a 7-1 win over East Texas Baptist.
After a rocky first inning staked Lynchburg to a 5-3 lead, Hornets starter Brandon Pond settled down and faced the minimum 24 batters over the final eight innings to lift his team to the 8-3 win.
Another wild sixth inning, this one for the Hornets, got Lynchburg a big lead. UW-La Crosse then chased the Hornets' All-American closer before Lynchburg settled down to get into the winners bracket in their first trip to the Division III World Series.
We're happy to bring you an expanded Division III World Series preview, with a page on each team for quick and easy reference for your use throughout the entirety of Division III's first trip to Cedar Rapids. Key hitters and pitchers, scouting reports, feature stories and more!
As the DIII World Series plays their final year in Cedar Rapids, the teams playing in Perfect Game Field will be the strongest since the games started here in 2019. D3baseball.com took time out today to survey the coaches.
The Division III baseball World Series will be returning to Cedar Rapids, Iowa for one more time. Will it be another year where Salisbury returns to the Championship Series. How will the World Series Rookies fare. We will make our picks in the D3baseball.com World Series Preview.
Endicott was the first to clinch a spot n the DIII World Series followed by Lynchburg and Misericordia. Baldwin Wallace will return for the second straight year and Salisbury will be three-peating. Johns Hopkins, UW-La Crosse and East Texas Baptist needed three games to fill the final three spots.
Aurora claimed the first spot in next week's super-regional round on Saturday with 13 more regional champions joined them on Sunday. There are two more regional titles to be earned and they will be won on Monday
University of Lynchburg baseball team won their 10th championship second in three years. On Saturday, the Hornets won the 2023 crown with an 11-9 comeback victory over last year's champion Shenandoah.
The two best teams in the ODAC and both ranked in the Top 10, split with Lynchburg taking the opener and Shenandaoh winning in the nightcap. just north of this game in Winchester, Virginia, Penn State Harrisburg dealt the top ranked Salisbury a loss.