In a game circled on most NACC fans calendar, No. 12 Benedictine swept a pair from No. 10 Aurora. Benedictine remains one of four teams in the NACC with a perfect conference record and now holds the tiebreaker over Aurora.
No. 15 Aurora is the only ranked team in the preseason rankings but not the only team that is expected to compete and win at their level. You don't need to get out of the NACC to see that Benedictine is more experienced in 2024 and will challenge the Spartans not only for top conference team honors but on the national stage as well.
Aurora claimed the first spot in next week's super-regional round on Saturday with 13 more regional champions joined them on Sunday. There are two more regional titles to be earned and they will be won on Monday
The Mitchell Regional was washed out with others having delays. Top ranked Johns Hopkins is just one win away from a super-regional spot as is Salisbury. No Sunday game for Aurora as they swept John Carroll three games to none to advance to the next round.
Johns Hopkins ends the 2023 regular season as the top team in the D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25. Salisbury, the preseason favorite, is second followed by Shenandoah, Endicott and Aurora.
It was a historical afternoon at the 2023 Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Tournament for Aurora. With a 6-1 victory over Benedictine, the Spartans advance to the 2023 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship field for the 25th time in program history.
Aurora swept the Cougars in a doubleheader, winning 11-1 (7 innings) and 15-9. With the two wins, head coach Adam Stevens won his 500th career game and also surpassed the legendary Coach Schmid for third in AU baseball all-time coaching wins.
The Cougars of CUC set a runs record (51 runs in a DH) in a NACC doubleheader sweep of Wisc. Lutheran on Monday. Aurora also won big with 33 runs of their own.
Aurora scored five runs in the tenth inning to take an extra inning win from St. Mary's (Minn.) on Monday. Elsewhere it was Wilson and Waynesburg splitting in a chilly Pennsylvania field. Williams also earned a W in their first nine inning contest of the season.
Aurora has their largest run total in their five game win streak to open the season on Wednesday. Their margin of victory in the seven inning game was the largest for ranked teams, tying the margin Salisbury put up in nine.
Region 8 was the last of the regions to advance one of their own to the Championship circle and more often than not were out of World Series play. Those days are behind us with powerhouse teams like Aurora, North Central (Ill.) and Webster.
Eureka run ruled Blackburg 11-1 in their SLIAC series. In Altoona, the Lions of Penn State Altoona scored 26 to close a doubleheader with Chatham. In the Top 25, Aurora had 22 in seven innings in a whitewashing of Luther.
The Johnnies pounded No. 2 Marietta than fell in extras to Heidelberg as they logged ten home runs on the day. Three other Top 25 teams fell with only No. 11 Johns Hopkins and No. 20 Aurora escaping the upset bug.
Aurora traveled to Concordia University Wisconsin on Saturday afternoon for the 2021 Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Tournament Championship Series. A site that is no stranger to recent AU championship celebrations was once again a willing host as the Spartans defeated the Falcons 13-5 behind a solid start from Skyler Yamamoto and big scoring innings aided by a pair of two-run home runs from Jett Wedekind and Nick Baldassano
After their NEWMAC series was delayed a week, nothing was settled as two of the top teams in the New England region split a pair of games. Elsewhere, Marietta and Aurora were upset as undefeated Washington & Jefferson continues to win.
Washington made it four wins in their last six games over Top 10 competition entering the weekend with a 14-0 record with a 3-2 and 6-2 sweep of No. 5 Aurora.
Aurora (11-0) had it easier than Washington (9-0) and St, John's (9-0) but the results on Wednesday were the same as all three teams stayed unbeaten on the season.
The days you can bank on a Midwest team in the D-III World Series are days gone by. The Warhawks of Whitewater and Cougars of Concordia have not fallen from this rarefied air but it seems that many teams have.
The final day of No. 21 Aurora's spring trip saw a dominant pitching performance by Skyler Yamamoto and timely late inning hitting to win 5-0 over 15th ranked Webster. The ninth win of the season for AU marked the 400th career win for Head Coach Adam Stevens.
Aurora bounced back from a loss yesterday with a sweep of Penn State-Altoona. Elsewhere, Cal Lutheran needed comebacks to win twice but top ranked Washington University was unable to get a comeback of their own as they fell to Coe.
It took an extra day of #NACCtion but for the second consecutive year, the Aurora University baseball team prevailed and are Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Tournament Champions on Mother's Day. In a winner take all NACC Tournament Championship against #1 Concordia University Chicago, the Spartans jumped all over the Cougars in the first inning and got a tremendous effort from freshman pitcher Nick "Money" Malmberg who tossed seven strong innings. AU would go on to claim their second straight NACC Baseball Tournament title with a 5-2 victory.
The Aurora University baseball team once again defeated the top seed and No. 1 ranked Cougars of Concordia University Chicago in the Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Tournament. This time the Spartans knocked off the Cougars 6-2 to advance in the tournament as the last remaining unbeaten team.
The two additional teams in the NCAA Tournament, expanding the field from 56 to 58 teams, land here, turning the Central Regional from a six-team regional to an eight-team regional. Whether that means a team will be more tested, or just less rested, remains to be seen.
It took 24 nail-biting innings of #NACCtion but Aurora prevailed and is the 2018 NACC Tournament Champions. The Spartans and Cougars traded extra inning wins and Aurora earned their first NACC Baseball Tournament title since 2012.
Aurora, Berry, and Case Western all knocked off nationally ranked teams on Saturday. Aurora dealt TCNJ their first loss, Berry completed a three game sweep of Birmingham-Southern and Case gave Cortland their fifth loss.
The Aurora Athletic Department announced today the hiring of Adam Stevens as the next head coach of the Spartan baseball program. Stevens comes to Aurora from Central (Iowa).
Aurora, Benedictine, Castleton State, Oberlin and Rockford were some of the teams that started their conference schedule undefeated, sweeping season opening doubleheaders.
Thomas More gave Aurora their first loss on the season, defeating the Spartans 7-3. In other Top 25 action Trinity (Texas) won their eighth straight 8-5 over DeSales.
How sweep it is
March 27, 2024In a game circled on most NACC fans calendar, No. 12 Benedictine swept a pair from No. 10 Aurora. Benedictine remains one of four teams in the NACC with a perfect conference record and now holds the tiebreaker over Aurora.
