UW-Whitewater will start the season as the number one team and Warhawks have been here before. It is a different hawk at the second spot with the Salve Regina Seahawks flying to their highest ranking ever. They are followed by Endicott, Misericordia, and Denison.
Misericordia tops the final 2024 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25. The Cougars were crowned national champions last week. Following Misericordia is UW-Whitewater, Salve Regina, Endicott and Lynchburg.
UW-Whitewater broke a tie game open with two in the eighth and one in the ninth to defeat Salve Regina for the second time on Monday and book their ticket to the Division III Championship Series.
Whitewater got some big hits and some timely ones, as the Warhawks avenged their one World Series loss in beating Salve Regina, 7-4. UWW and Salve meet again on Monday with a berth in the D3CS on the line.
The long ball uncharacteristically got it done for Salve Regina, which went up 7-0 before having to call on closer Kyle Carozza to finish off a 7-5 win against Birmingham-Southern, the team without a school which has been the talk of the sports world for the past two weeks.
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 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.
Salve Regina took two games from Babson, 7-3 and 8-5, and they earn a key NEWMAC series win. Nearby Eastern Connecticut State saw their division leading win steak stop at 20 games as they lost game two today to Southern Maine.
On the weekend, the teams in the first two regions got back to business with the snow and rain just a memory. Coast Guard split a tough doubleheader with No 6 Salve Regina. Both games were nail biters by final scores of 3-1 in favor of the Bears in game one and 6-5 in favor of the Seahawks in game two.
Worcester secured a split with MCLA on Monday with a 22 run outburst in game two but needed a few of those in s 5-4 loss in the opener. In the top 25, Salve Regina and Montclair State won close contests.
Shenandoah put up double digit runs as did Endicott, Johns Hopkins and Salisbury. Salve Regina could only manage a single run but their pitching made 1-0 a winning margin.
The top three teams all won last week and held their positions in week 10 of the D3baseball.com NCBWA Top 25. New to the poll is Salve Regina as Methodist drops out.
With the 320th pick, Pittsburgh selected Salve Regina's Dominic Perachi, the first D-III player taken in the 2022 MLB draft. Quinn Gudaitis, an IWU grad was selected in the 16th round by Detroit. D3baseball.com Player of the Year, Ryan McCarty was not selected but signed a free agent contact with the Toronto Blue Jays.
LYNCHBURG, Va. (May 21, 2022) - Salve Regina University sophomore center fielder Brandon Grover (Ashland, Mass.) went 5-for-5 including a walk-off double to deliver the Seahawks a comeback victory over Earlham College, 7-6, to stay alive in the NCAA Division III Baseball Regionals hosted by University of Lynchburg at Bank of the James Stadium.
LYNCHBURG, Va. (May 20, 2022) - Salve Regina University junior lefty Dominic Perachi (Washington Depot, Conn.) struck out 10 (or more) batters for the seventh time in his 11 starts in 2022, the latest one coming against No. 11 University of Lynchburg in the opening round of the NCAA Regional hosted by the Hornets at the Bank of the James Stadium.
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 13, 2022) - The second-seeded Endicott College baseball team knocked off first-seeded Salve Regina University, 14-9, in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Tournament play on Friday evening at Reynolds Field.
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 11, 2022) - Two-time defending Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) champion Salve Regina University baseball scored seven runs in the first three innings while pitchers Patrick Maybach (Saunderstown, R.I.) and Nicolas Santo (Pompano Beach, Fla.) combined on a two-hit shutout against Suffolk University, 7-0, in the opening round of the double-elimination format of the conference tournament at Reynolds Field.
William Peace earned their first post season win as the top seeds in each tournament pod scored double digit runs to come out as the only undefeated teams left. In non-tournament action, Salve Regina scored a big doubleheader sweep of No. 22 Endicott.
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 3, 2022) - Salve Regina University baseball had outstanding starting pitching from two of its bullpen arms - Graham Jeffries (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Nicolas Santo (Pompano Beach, Fla.) - as the Seahawks swept the visiting Cougars of Clark University, 13-1 and 12-2, in a non-league doubleheader at Reynolds Field on Tuesday afternoon. Both Jeffries and Santo combined to retire 24 of the first 25 batters they faced and finished with 15 strikeouts in 10 innings.
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 3, 2022) - Salve Regina University baseball had outstanding starting pitching from two of its bullpen arms - Graham Jeffries (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Nicolas Santo (Pompano Beach, Fla.) - as the Seahawks swept the visiting Cougars of Clark University, 13-1 and 12-2, in a non-league doubleheader at Reynolds Field on Tuesday afternoon. Both Jeffries and Santo combined to retire 24 of the first 25 batters they faced and finished with 15 strikeouts in 10 innings.
NEWPORT, R.I. (May 3, 2022) - Salve Regina University baseball had outstanding starting pitching from two of its bullpen arms - Graham Jeffries (Chelmsford, Mass.) and Nicolas Santo (Pompano Beach, Fla.) - as the Seahawks swept the visiting Cougars of Clark University, 13-1 and 12-2, in a non-league doubleheader at Reynolds Field on Tuesday afternoon. Both Jeffries and Santo combined to retire 24 of the first 25 batters they faced and finished with 15 strikeouts in 10 innings.
Seahawks honored seniors/grad students Patrick Maybach (Saunderstown, R.I.), Dylan Ketch (Clinton, Conn.), Jared Beniers (Abington, Conn.), Dustin Siqueira (Trumbull, Conn.), Michael Mathews (West Hartford, Conn.), Ryan O'Donnell (Saunderstown, R.I.), Andrew Roman (Monson, Mass.) before the doubleheader.
NEWPORT, R.I. (April 28, 2022) - Salve Regina University sophomore relief pitcher Nicolas Santo (Pompano Beach, Fla.) went four innings after freshman starter Nick Callano (Ocean, N.J.) threw the first two, and the Seahawks finished with a 5-1 win over visiting Mariners of Mitchell College in non-league baseball action on Thursday afternoon at Reynolds Field.
NEWPORT, R.I. (April 27, 2022) - Salve Regina University starting pitcher Dominic Perachi (Washington Depot, Conn.) improved to 8-0 on the season and lowered his earned run average to 0.36 with five innings of work as the Seahawks defeated visiting Roger Williams University, 8-1, in Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) baseball action at Reynolds Field on Wednesday afternoon.
LAKELAND, Fla. (March 13, 2022) - After Saturday's game was canceled due to lightning and a tornado watch, Salve Regina University baseball left 22 runners on base over 19 innings on Sunday while dropping two low-scoring games - 1-0 to Mount Union College at Lake Myrtle Park in the morning, and 2-1 in 10 innings to St. John Fisher College at historic Henley Field in the afternoon.
AUBURNDALE, Fla. (March 11, 2022) - Salve Regina University junior lefty Dominic Perachi (Washington Depot, Conn.) dominated once again in his second start of 2022 with 13 strikeouts in six innings pitched, allowed just a leadoff dribbler up the first base line that intended to spin foul but stayed fair, as the Seahawks defeated the Rams of Farmingdale State University, 9-0, in RussMatt Invitational action at Field #7 in the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex.
2025 Preseason D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25
January 21, 2025UW-Whitewater will start the season as the number one team and Warhawks have been here before. It is a different hawk at the second spot with the Salve Regina Seahawks flying to their highest ranking ever. They are followed by Endicott, Misericordia, and Denison.
