June 3, 2024

Four games, two comebacks in the books

Brandon Grover flies high as the Seahawks center fielder takes a home run away from UW-Whitewater All-American Matt Scolan.
 Photo by Ryan Coleman, d3photography.com
 

EASTLAKE, Ohio - Lynchburg and Salve Regina are back, but in order to clinch their berths in the Division III Championship Series, they needed to get one win today.

Neither one did, as Misericordia and UW-Whitewater each won twice to clinch their trips to the D3CS, which starts Tuesday evening.

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This will be the 23rd D-III World Series D3baseball.com staff have attended to report on the action. Our record book will be updated as record are tied or broken during the week-long tournament.

Misericordia stands in Lynchburg's way, and the Cougars forced the Hornets to a second game by defeating Lynchburg 3-2 in the first game of the day on Monday. The Hornets had a suicide squeeze taken off the board in the seventh inning when Josh Gjormand was ruled, upon video review, to have interfered with the throw by not being in the runner's lane while running down to first. Then, in the very next half-inning, Jack Regenye evaded the tag of Sean Pokorak at the plate and scored the tying run. Although Lynchburg called for a review, it was ultimately not reviewable because -- unlike runner's lane interference -- running out of the baseline cannot be reviewed.

And in the second game, Misericordia scored late and made Max Oliver's incredible complete game performance stand up in a 5-1 win. The Cougars are the third team from the state of Pennsylvania to advance to the Division III Championship Series in the nine years since the best-of-three event was added to the Division III World Series.

Our second game of the day saw UW-Whitewater force a rematch as well, as the Warhawks defeated Salve Regina 7-4 to force another meeting. Whitewater won that as well, defeating the Seahawks 5-2. 

The best-of-three D3CS starts on Tuesday evening with Game 1 at 7 p.m. Wednesday is expected to be a complete washout, weather-wise, and Game 2 will take place on Thursday, with Game 3, if necessary, immediately following.

You can follow live stats and live video of every game from the Division III World Series on the D3baseball.com Scoreboard. There are also more links below, and a game program we've put together to help you follow all eight teams and all 15 to 17 games.