Kyle Jensen set the tone for St. Scholastica, which shut out No. 2-ranked St. Thomas. Photo by Larry Radloff, d3photography.com

UW-Stevens Point celebrates its opening-round win against Benedictine. Photo by Larry Radloff, d3photography.com

Linfield pitcher Chris Haddeland threw a two-hitter to lead the Wildcats into the winner's bracket in Austin. Concordia (Texas) athletics photo

Eddie Nogay pitched into the ninth inning as the Presidents won their regional opener for the first time in program history. Washington and Jefferson athletics photo

Thomas More rounded third a few times in Wednesday's win. Rose-Hulman athletics photo

Four extra-inning games and two 1-0 games highlighted the first day of the 2013 Division III baseball NCAA Tournament. In addition, two top seeds found themselves headed for the losers's bracket. 

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Adrian and UW-Stevens Point each won in extra innings on Wednesday. The Bulldogs coughed up an early 4-0 lead by allowing three runs in the eighth but broke through  in the 12th inning scored a run to defeat Wartburg in the Central Regional. The Pointers loaded the bases with three walks in the 10th innings and Ryan Schilter's single made UW-Stevens Point a 6-5 winner over Benedictine.

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Cal Lutheran and Trinity (Texas) were locked into a pitchers' duel as Ryan Lucero threw his third shutout of the season, propelling the fifth-seeded Tigers to a 1-0 victory over the second-seeded Kingsmen. Salisbury found its scoring touch late, plating three runs in the ninth to steal a 3-2 win over Randolph-Macon.

St Scholastica defeated St. Thomas 1-0 on an unearned run to send the top-seeded Tommies into the losers bracket. In Millington, Methodist scored twice in the seventh to tie the game and a single run in the tenth inning to shock top-seeded Huntingdon.

Kyle Jensen went the first six innings for the Saints, while Thomas Rogers went the final three for his ninth save of the year. Jensen has dealt the Tommies two of their six losses on the season.

In the other extra-inning game of the day, Jeff Kosta went 3-for-4 and set up the winning run, which scored on a passed ball to give Texas-Tyler a 4-3 win in 11 innings against Pomona-Pitzer. Matt Shepperd picked up the win with three innings of scoreless relief.

Manchester build a 12-0 lead and settled for a 12-3 win over the OAC champion Mount Union Purple Raiders. Kean got a three spot in the first and cruised to a 12-7 win, thwarting a Penn State-Harrisburg rally in the late innings. Ithaca proved to be too much for Moravian, pulling away in the late innings to advance with a 11-2 win. Webster survived a determined Ripon, falling behind early and holding off a rally to win 7-6.

Logan Carman spun a three-hitter as Southern Maine blanked Daniel Webster, 5-0, at Whitehouse Field. In Austin, Linfield's Chris Haddeland was better, Haddeland pitched a two-hit shutout to lead top ranked Linfield over Texas Lutheran 2-0.

The 2013 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament opened this morning at Whitehouse Field in Harwich, Mass. where the fourth-seeded Western New England Golden Bears recorded a 5-2 triumph over No. 5 MIT. WNE sophomore Steve Buckley was the offensive hero as he went 2-for-4 with a two-run home run in the fourth inning.

Fifth-seeded Washington & Jefferson earned a 5-3 victory over fourth-seeded Illinois Wesleyan in the opening game of the Mideast Regional. It was the first time the Presidents have won an opening-round game in the NCAA Tournment.

“This was an important win for our team. We’ve never been in the winner’s bracket before, so to take a game right off the bat is something we really wanted to do,” said coach Jeff Mountain. His team will face Manchester in the second round.

Thomas More crushed Wooster, putting up 20 runs, 15 of them in the last four innings to beat the Scots 20-4. Jason Handley had four hits for the Saints, while Ryan Darner, Cody Makin and Tyler Graber added three apiece.

In other early action Alvernia put up six runs in the fourth inning and defeated Johns Hopkins 10-5 in the Mid-Atlantic Regional and Farmingdale State defeated Neumann 7-2 in the New York Regional. 

RPI opened up a three-run lead but could not hold back Cortland State, which rallied for a 4-3 win to advance in the New York regional. Keystone used a four run sixth inning to break their game open, defeating Franklin and Marshall 8-0. They will play Ramapo who earlier rode the arm of Travis Zilg to a 4-0 win over host Misericordia.

Case Western Reserve got the performance they wanted out of Garret Gish but the offense did not supply any runs as UW-Whitewater took the final game on day one in the Midwest Regional, 2-0.