No. 20 UW-La Crosse (36-16)

No. 1 Cortland State (45-4)

Game 1: Cortland 11, UW-La Crosse 3

Cortland wins series, two games to none

How they got here
May 22: Def. Webster, 12-4
May 23: Def. Frostburg State, 4-1
May 25: Def. Frostburg State, 17-4

The skinny on the Eagles

Great season for UW-La Crosse, last team standing from the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, one of the finest in Division III. Enough pitching and enough hitting to be dangerous but not enough to overcome a traditional power playing at its best in a short series.

The skinny on the Red Dragons

Joe Brown finally has his trophy. They may have had better individual pitchers and more powerful individual hitters in the past but never the depth and consistency in production they had in 2015. Fought through the stronger half of the bracket and got the trophy.

X-Factor

Reliever Jameson Sadowske was our Game 2 pick and he certainly was a factor, but asking him to get 11 outs against the No. 1 team in the nation was just too much.

X-Factor

Left fielder Vinny Bomasuto was our X-Factor for Game 2 and he singled and scored from second on a base hit for Cortland's first run, but Nick Hart was the big hero.

Game 2 starter

Joe Miller (8-2, 3.14 ERA)

Photo by Larry Radloff, d3photography.com

Game 2 starter

Seth Lamando (6-0, 0.91 ERA)

Photo by Larry Radloff, d3photography.com

Game 1 starter

Shane Adler (0-3, 6.75 ERA)

 
2015 photo by Steve Frommell, d3photography.com

Game 1 starter

Brandon McClain (5-1, 2.22 ERA)

 
2014 photo by Larry Radloff, d3photography.com