May 27, 2023

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Max Oliver and Tyler Leonard combined for eight scoreless innings as Misericordia wrapped up the Super Regional Title with a 6-2 win at Marietta, Saturday. Oliver tossed three no-hit innings and Leonard held the Pioneers scoreless until their final at-bat as the Cougars clinched the second World Series berth in school history. Regional MVP Joe Comins had three hits, including a double and a solo homer, and Garrett McIlhenney had three hits to extend his on-base streak to 52 games.
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After two weeks of regional and super-regional action, the eight teams that will advance to the 2023 DIII World Series are determined. Endicott was the first to clinch a spot 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. Johns Hopkins won twice on Saturday while UW-La Crosse and East Texas Baptist failed to advance in two games but won the third.

Destiny continues to be on #19 East Texas Baptist University's side as they punched their ticket to the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament winning the Marshall, Texas Super Regional Championship. It took two games on day two of the Super Regional as ETBU won the final game, 14-6, over the University of Laverne after losing the first game of the day, 9-8. ETBU is now 40-13 on the year. "That's a really, really good ball club we beat today. I am so proud of our guys as we could have cashed it in after losing that first game in the fashion that we did. It felt like the wheels were coming off a little bit but these guys found a way to reel it back in and stay centered and to go out and get another game," says head coach Jared Hood. ETBU scored 23 runs combined with 30 hits in two games with three home runs. Jake Miller led the way with five hits going 5-for-6 in game three with three RBI. Also adding five hits were Brett Wagner and Jacob Evangelista while Jordan Hara posted four hits. Wagner led with six RBI as Carson Wilson had four with a grand slam home run. Miller and Jase Jones collected home runs to go with Wilson's for three on the day for the team.

UW-La Crosse clinched a berth in the NCAA Division III World Series with a 16-10 victory over UW-Stevens Point Saturday afternoon at Copeland Park. The Eagles, ranked 13th on D3baseball.com Top-25 Poll, advance to Cedar Rapids, Iowa to play in the NCAA III World Series June 2-8. UWL improves to 36-11 on the season while UW-Stevens Point, ranked 13th on D3baseball.com Top-25, finishes 33-14. The Pointers forced a second championship game with a 24-20 victory earlier Saturday.   UWL's 36 wins are tied for second in single-season school history. UWL also won 36 games in 2015. The Eagles won a school record 39 games in 2016. It will be UWL's third appearance in the NCAA III world series after making back-to-back trips in 2015 and 2016. UWL made its first-ever appearance in the NCAA III Championship in 2015 in Appleton, Wisconsin, advancing to the best-of-three championship series and a runner-up national finish. UWL started the scoring right away in the first inning in Saturday's second game as Jordan Williams walked and advanced to third on a single by Jack Olver. Mac Born then walked before Ty Hamilton singled to score Williams to make it 1-0. Anthony Vivian then gave the Eagles a 5-0 lead with a grand slam for his 18th home run of the season. The inning continued as George Seaman walked with one out, advanced to second when Tim Urlaub reached on a throwing error and Jack Moran's single loaded the bases. After a strikeout, Olver walked to score Seaman and make it 6-0. Born recorded his second walk of the inning to score Urlaub, giving the Eagles a 7-0 lead after the first inning. 

Nicolas Notarangelo drilled a tie-breaking solo home run in the sixth inning, and No. 4 Endicott scored five late runs to pull away from Ithaca for a 7-3 victory on Saturday at North Field, sweeping the best-of-three NCAA Super Regional set and clinching its first trip to the NCAA Division III College World Series. Danny MacDougall, John Mulready, and Notarangelo all had two hits for the Gulls. While appearing in its eighth NCAA Tournament, Endicott hosted an NCAA Super Regional for the second straight season, havingn  qualified for the round for the first time last spring. The Gulls won the first two Super Regional contests in program history this weekend. With his school-record 80th hit of the spring, Shpur snapped a tie with Endicott Hall of Famer and 2014 D3baseball.com Player of the Year Tad Gold whose prior mark came nine seasons ago.

Lynchburg will join Endicott as World Series rookies as they punched its ticket to the NCAA Division III national championship with a 3-1 win over Shenandoah in the Lynchburg super regional Saturday. Avery Neaves hit a two-run go-ahead home run to left field in the 8th inning scoring Benton Jones. Mason McDowell earned the win on the mound after Brandon Pond pitched six innings of one-run ball. Jack Bachmore tallied his 13th save stranding two runners on base in the top of the 9th. He got Colby Martin to pop out to Ryan Long at first base and secured the win.

No. 12 nationally ranked Baldwin Wallace are heading back to the NCAA Division III World Series with a sweep of Aurora. The Yellow Jackets cruised past Aurora with a 16-6 victory in game two on the Jim Schmid Field at the Stuart Sports Complex. BW (36-10) was led by sophomore All-Ohio Athletic Conference infielder Sean Kolenich who broke the single season record for most hits and most singles. Kolenich is the first player to get six hits in a game since 1986. He went 6-for-7 with four runs scored. Senior All-OAC first baseman Alexis Castillo went 3-for-4 with five runs batted in (RBIs) and four runs scored.

For the third straight year, second-ranked Salisbury will end its season on college baseball's biggest stage. Down by margins of 8-0 and 12-5, the Sea Gulls scored 12 runs over the final two innings to surge past the 23rd-ranked Rowan Profs, 17-12, to clinch the Salisbury Super Regional championship on Saturday afternoon at Donnie Williams Sea Gull Baseball Stadium. The Sea Gulls nailed the coffin shut with a four-run ninth. After back-to-back one-out walks, Luke Weddell squared up for an RBI single, then two batters later Scott Cameron lofted one into the jet stream in left for an opposite-field three-run homer, punctuating the game and boosting the SU advantage to 17-12.

John Hopkins rapped out 16 hits and sophomore starting pitcher Matt Savedoff allowed just one earned run over eight innings in a 12-2 victory over No. 8 Wheaton (Mass.) this afternoon in the NCAA Division III Super Regional Championship to earn a trip to the College World Series in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The Blue Jays advance to the College World Series for the sixth time in school history, while the Lyons fall to 42-9 to conclude their season tied for the school record for victories. Johns Hopkins came into the day needing to defeat Wheaton twice to earn a spot in Iowa to vie for the NCAA Championship. The Lyons lost two in a row for the first time all season. JHU scored two runs each in the second and third innings to take a 4-0 lead, before Wheaton got on the board with a run in the third to make it 4-1. The teams traded single runs to keep it a three-run difference at 5-2, before the Blue Jays erupted for seven runs in the seventh to put the game out of reach.