May 17, 2025

Regionals - Day Two

 
Beloit saw their season come to a close with a 17-7 loss to Chicago. The Maroons advance in the Gustavus Regional to face the loser of the Gustavus- Oshkosh game.
d3photography.com by Ryan Colemen

While the morning games were all about avoiding elimination and advancing, in most cases, to an evening elimination game, the afternoon games had plenty of drama but each team knew they will have at least one more game. For the teams coming out ahead in the winners game, they will all advance to Sundays Championship game.

No. 4 Endicott was one of the first teams to book a spot in the regional championship game. They defeated No. 24 Concordia (Tex.), 11-0, in the NCAA Tournament Bridgewater Regional. Evan Scully's quick work of the Tornados' lineup allowed the Gulls to stay in rhythm at the plate against the Tornado's pitcher, amassing 11 runs, scoring in five of the eight innings. Scully, the junior righty, only allowed one runner to reach scoring position (T2 — 2nd) and compiled five 1-2-3 innings (3rd-5th, 7th-8th) to finish off his second straight complete-game (first career nine-inning shutout).

Starting Pitcher Kieren Collins sent top-ranked Johns Hopkins to the NCAA Regional Finals for the third-straight year with a dominant 8-3 victory over Rutgers-Camden on Saturday afternoon at Babb Field. Collins couldn't have asked for a better start from his offense in his 30th-career win - the most all-time in Johns Hopkins history. The Blue Jays (41-3) wasted no time taking the lead – one held for the remainder of the game –on a three-run homer in the first frame from senior slugger Dillon Souvignier. Collins improved to 8-1 on the season, hurling a season-high 8.0 innings, surrendering seven hits, three earned runs and a walk, striking out eight.

17th-ranked Case Western trailed by as many as six runs and were down a run heading into the bottom of the ninth against Arcadia on Saturday afternoon, but the Spartans rallied with two-outs for a 14-13 walkoff win to reach the championship game of the NCAA Division III Baseball Cleveland Regional at Nobby's Ballpark in Cleveland. Down to their final out in the ninth with the bases empty and trailing 13-12, graduate student first baseman Dane Camphausen singled to start the rally. He was pinch run for by junior Jasiah Harris, who proceeded to steal both second and third. After graduate student Franco Alonso drew a walk, senior pinch hitter Jay Smith was hit by a pitch to load the bases. On the first pitch of the next at bat, junior center fielder Matt Trout was hit by a pitch, forcing across the tying run. With graduate student third baseman Zack Carinci at the plate, the Spartans ran a play called "Bianca," where Smith intentionally tried to get in a rundown at second base on a pickoff attempt. Once Smith got into a rundown, Alonso broke for home and the Arcadia catcher could not handle a low throw from the second baseman as Alonso slid across the plate to give CWRU the walkoff win.

Karson Harcourt and Phil Sedalis each had five RBI
as #15 Rowan's offense exploded for a 26-9 win over
Catholic in the second day of the NCAA Mount Union
Regional. Rowan remains in the winner's bracket and
needs just one victory to claim the Regional title. The
Profs will take on the winner of Mount Union versus
Catholic on Sunday at 11 a.m. for the crown and a trip
to the Super Regional.
Rowan athletics photo by Ed Hall Jr.

No. 2 UW-Whitewater advances to the Regional Final in Adrian, Michigan with a walk-off win against Washington University in St. Louis on Saturday evening. Dominik McVay sent Darryl Jackson into score on a walk-off RBI double in the bottom of the 11th to give the Warhawks the 4-3 win in a defensive battle. Between the two teams, there were seven double plays throughout the game. Heading into the ninth, the Warhawks were still up 3-2 with Logan Eisenbarth getting the call to pitch the final three outs. The Bears only needed one swing, tying the game up with a solo home run in the top of the 9th. The game headed into extra-innings, with both teams not allowing a single base-runner for 12 straight outs until Jackson's walk to set up the winning run. UW-Oshkosh and UW-La Crosse also finished out their regionals on Saturdy without a loss. UW-Oshkosh will play for the 18th NCAA Division III Regional title in program history on Sunday after defeating Gustavus. 15-10, on the Gusties' home field. La Crosse was a 8-6 winner over Claremont-Mudd-Scripps.

Freshman Nolan Romanowski came in relief in the top of the first with no outs and No. 7 Salve Regina already facing a 3-0 deficit, and all the Seahawk first-year righty did was record all 27 outs on the mound while his teammates rallied for a 7-4 victory over the NCAA regional host Penn State Harrisburg at Nittany Field on Saturday afternoon. Romanowski (W, 5-0), who had a 1-2-3 inning of work in yesterday's 5-0 win against Keene State (with two strikeouts), struck out just one Penn St. Harrisburg batter today over nine frames, but limited the Lions to just four hits and one earned run. The Seahawks (34-7) have reached the regional championship round for the fourth straight year and third straight season with no losses.

Seventh-ranked Salisbury pounded out 23 hits, including five home runs, on the way to a 15-5 bashing of the Baldwin Wallace Yellow Jackets in the 2025 NCAA Division III Tournament at Donnie Williams Sea Gull Baseball Stadium. With the win, the Sea Gulls advance to the Salisbury Regional championship round with a chance to claim their fifth consecutive regional title. Already winning 11-4, Salisbury's Trent Waire and Inman Ehrhardt teamed up for back-to-back opposite field shots in the seventh to make it 13-4, and eighth-inning rib-eyes by Cole Swift and Waire pushed it to 15-4. BW got one back in the top of the ninth but it was far too little, too late, as the Sea Gulls booked a trip to the regional final with a 10-run win.

The McMurry War Hawks are one win from the Super Regional round. They defeated host school La Verne Saturday afternoon at Ben Hines Field 5-4. La Verne's pitcher ended the day with a season-high 11 strikeouts, and McMurry's Ethan Wendel traded scoreless innings until the top of the 7th inning with La Verne holding onto a 2-1 advantage. McMurry scored two runs to take the lead in the seventh. For the second game in a row, Michael Smosna led off the inning with a triple. Beckham Paul laid down a well-placed bunt to bring Smosna home and reach on a single. The inning's second run came when Xavier Escobar reached on a throwing error, allowing Paul to score, making it 3-2. Although McMurry cashed in some insurance, La Verne tied the game in the bottom of the 8th inning, scoring two runs on a triple to make it 4-4. In the top of the ninth, Blake Beach, who played stellar defense all game, came through with a leadoff triple. Xavier Escobar brought Beach home on a sacrifice fly to center field. McMurry was one of two three seeds to enter Sunday undefeated. Third seeded Messiah used a two-run go-ahead home run to defeat the Monarchs of Methodist, 6-3, to advance to the Regional Finals. Evan Wagaman ripped a two-run home in the bottom of the eighth to give the Falcons a 4-3. Dustin Isanogle and Isaiah Parido each added RBI singles shortly after the home run to give the Falcons the 6-3 lead headed into the top of the ninth. Noah Barrall pitched a scoreless top of the ninth to give the Falcons the 6-3 win and a trip to the Regional Finals tomorrow. No four seeds survived the firat wo days without a loss.

Three Regionals will feather the two top seeds as they compete in the Regional Championship games. Salisbury will meet Baldwin Wallace, Case Western will meet Centre and Endicott will take on Concordia (Texas). This is a rematch from the winners bracket game with only Centre getting a loss on Friday and need to win twice on Saturday.

Centre was not the only team with a loss on Friday who will play in their regional Championship game. RPI also needed two wins and defeated Farmingdale State 5-4 and shutout Rutgers-Camden 10-0. Now all the Engineers have to do is win two agasinst the No. 1 team at their own ballpark. Cortland defeated Middlebury 4-3 in the late game in the Kean Regional, the second of two wins on the day. Adrian also wone twice on Saturday. With an extra inning win over Ohio Northern, Adrian defeated Washington Univ 7-3 to set up a rematch with UW-Whitewater whoo gave them their only loss of the Regional.

Chicago, making their regional debut, won their first two regional games and will have to win twice on Sunday to move to the Super Regional round. A 9-1 win over host Gustavus, also making the playoffs for the first time, put the maroons into championship Sunday. Chicago was not the only team making history. The MSOE made history in a multitude of ways on Saturday, winning the program's first ever NCAA tournament games to advance to the regional final, defeating Rhodes College 4-3 in their first game behind AJ Hamilton's fourth-straight complete game and getting revenge on Webster , 4-2, in the second game. The Raiders also set a new program record in wins in a season in the process, getting their 28th and 29th victory of the season.

In Eastern Virginia, Methodist and Messiah will play for the regional championship as both top seeds were eliminated. Methodist's 5-4 win over host Randoph-Macon gives the Monarch's a change to advance to next weekends games. Catholic also earned a championship spot.They had to do this with two wins over Mount Union. The first win came on Friday and the second in the final eliimination game of Saturday.

La Verne was only the third top seed eliminated today. Pomona-Pitzer defeated La Verne 2-1 in 10 innings in the final game of the day in the La Verne Regional to stay alive for a return to the DIII World Series. The Sagehens are one of five teams from last year's DIII World Series field that are still alive but the only one that will need two wins on Sunday to reach the Super Regional round.  SCIAC rival Claremont-Mudd-Scripps will also need two wins to get to the next weekend. Andrew Mazzone was 6-for-6 with two homers and six RBI, including a grand slam to break both an 8-8 tie and the program's career home run record with his 37th, as CMS advanced with a 22-8 win over Buena Vista on Saturday evening. Alex Henderson added a 6-for-7, 6-RBI performance, including four RBI in a 10-run ninth inning (on a two-run homer and a two-run double) that salted the win away. CMS fell in the first game of the day to host Wisconsin-LaCrosse 8-6, after the Eagles rallied from a 6-1 deficit in the fifth. Four other conferences have multiple teams still alive. WIAC and UAA have three teams each playing Sunday. The SCAC and NJAC have two.

Expectations were high starting the Regional round on Friday but an early loss then put half the teams playing to extend their seasons. North Central (Ill.) opened on a promising note pon Saturday but Centre scored five runs in the second and the Cardinals never could catch up as Centre advanced in the Elimination round with a 13-4 win. For Centre Six different players drove in runs, led by Jamison Craig with a career high four RBIs, including his first career home run in the second that put Centre up for good. Every player who made a plate appearance for Centre had at least one hit, with Lohr leading with three hits. Ben Prather pitched seven innings and struck out eight to get the win and improve to 8-0 on the year.

It was a different story as Mount Union and Oswego shut out their opponents sending Grove City and Bridgewater State home earlier than their fans had hoped. Mount Union advanced with a 10-0 win over Grove City and Oswego did the same 14-0 over Bridgewater State.

Brockport had expected to play host Randolph-Macon but in a winners game. Dual upsets yesterday but them into the elimination round and Randolph-Macon used a 9-4 win to advance and send home the first top seed of the weekend. Messiah doubled up Methodist 6-3. The Monarchs now will drop into the elimination round and game five of the regional wil featureMethodist and Randolph-Macon.

Third seeded Ramapo came back to defeat #4 seeded JWU Providence at the NCAA Salisbury Regional, 10-6. Johnson & Wales built a 6-4 lead throught six innings. In the seventh, the Roadrunners tacked on five runs on five hits giving them a 9-6 lead and control of the game. In the bottom of the eighth with two outs, Swartout drove in Novakowski with a big RBI double to extend the Roadrunner lead, 10-6. The Roadrunners shutdown the Wildcats in the ninth to close out the game and advance in the NCAA Tournament. Nick Danbrowney (7-3) worked the final 2.2 innings of the game to earn the win on the mound. He struck out four, including his 223rd of his career which set a new program record for stirkeouts.

Ohio Northern was eliminated 13-9 in an extra-inning thriller by host Adrian in Game 3 of the NCAA III Adrian Regional Tournament on a chilly and cloudy Saturday. Sophomore Devon Morris crushed a three-run home run to right field in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game at 9-9 and send it into extra innings to keep the Polar Bears' hopes alive. In the 10th, the Bulldogs loaded the bases with two outs, then got a walk and two consecutive singles to plate four runs and take a 13-9 lead. Ohio Northern was unable to answer, going 1-2-3 in their half of the tenth inning.

Bethany Lutheran mounted a valiant ninth-inning comeback on Saturday afternoon but ultimately came up just short, falling to Buena Vista 11-9. Both teams were held scoreless in the sixth, and while Bethany couldn't add on in the seventh, BVU tied the game in the bottom half with the score at 6-6 heading into the eighth. Bethany was again held off the scoreboard in the top of the eighth, and the bottom of the inning turned disastrous for the Vikings. The defense committed four errors, and BVU capitalized with five runs on four hits. After recording an initial groundout, three consecutive Bethany errors opened the floodgates for the Beavers. Trailing 11-6 entering the ninth, the Vikings saw their first batter strike out, but then rallied with three straight singles. A bases-loaded walk by Aiden Russell brought in a run, followed by a sacrifice fly from Xander Meissner. Back-to-back walks to plated another run, making it 11-9. However, with the bases still loaded, the BVU second baseman fielded a ground ball up the middle and stepped on second base to end the game.

Seven more teams also saw their seasons end. Farmingdale State, Husson, Keene State, Manchester, Millsaps, Rhodes and Whitworth all lost their elimination game. The final 0-2 team comes out of the Lynchburg Regional. Maryville and Marymount fought to a 8-6 win for the Maryville Scots. Maryville will play agaon on Sunday as the schedule shifted due to rain in central Virginia.