May 24, 2015

Day 3: We go 0-for-4 in Appleton

Yeah. No. We're not playing.
Photo by Larry Radloff, d3photography.com

Monday schedule/results all times Central

All times really tentative

Elimination games
Game 9: Ramapo vs. Frostburg State, 11 a.m.
Game 10: Trinity (Texas) vs. Emory, 2 p.m.

Pool Championship games
Game 11: Cortland State vs  Ramapo/Frostburg, 5 p.m.
Game 12: UW-La Crosse, vs. Trinity/Emory, 8 p.m.

GRAND CHUTE, Wis. -- Although four games were on the schedule for Sunday at the Division III baseball World Series, none of them got played.

It was a tough call for the committee to make, and we ended up waiting through two-plus hours of overcast after rain was scheduled to hit the Appleton area around 10:40 a.m. But it's important to get an even number of games in on Sunday in order to keep the tournament balanced.

"We’re thinking about this in terms of getting in two games, and not just one," said Ben Shipp, baseball coach at Mary Hardin-Baylor and the chair of the Divsion III baseball championships committee. "If we did go with one, then we do get into messing up the design of the tournament, where someone is using pitching today and the other team is not.

"We’re going to play as many games as we can today in the bracket, but obviously with the prep time, notification of the teams, it’s not a quick turnaround. Our thought process is to try to get in two games, and we think that will preserve the integrity of the tournament."

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