Colby and Randolph-Macon swept their conference tournament games last weekend and as a result are back in the D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25. The top three remain Endicott, Denison and East Texas Baptist (but in a different order than last week).
Colby is one of four new teams to the D3baseball.com NCBWA Top 25 this week. East Texas Baptist made a move into the top 3 as Baldwin Wallace moved down one spot. Endicott continue to be the top team. Week 2,3 number one Shenandoah fell out this week.
East Texas Baptist University pitcher Sayers Collins collected the NCBWA NCAA Div. III Pitcher of the Week honors for the third time. A seven-home run week by Patrick Gillen and an 11-RBI week by Greg Pierantoni garnered the Hitter and Rookie of the Week awards for games played March 4-10.
Kalamazoo dominated their opener with shutout pitching and hots bats. East Texas Baptist did the same in a 18-0 whitewashing of Sul Ross State as did Hamline with a 15-0 win over Martin Luther as part of a sweep in Kansas. Methodist joined the parade with a 18-0 win over Penn State Abington.
Making a major statement, No. 5 East Texas Baptist pitchers, Sayers Collins and Robert Croft, combined for a no-hitter knocking off reigning national champions No. 6 Lynchburg, 5-0 to pitch the first no-hitter of the 2024 season.
Pomona-Pitzer showed that good pitching can tame good hitting as they split with No. 5 Texas Baptist in the opener for both. The season that opened in Southern California and Texas last weekend expanded to the Northwest and Soutern parts of the nation.
In 2023, semifinalist East Texas Baptist made the deepest run into the national tourney from the Region since Chapman won it all in 2019. No. 5 ETBU has the inside track for a repeat World Series appearance but a trio from the SCIAC, the top of the SCAC and NWC will have something to say about that.
Lynchburg receives all 25 first place votes followed by DIII World Series runner-up Johns Hopkins. Baldwin Wallace, Salisbury, and East Texas Baptist occupy the top five spots in the final D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25.
It was a complete game that featured lights out pitching, timely hitting and web gems as Lynchburg finished bracket play 3-0 with a 7-1 win over East Texas Baptist.
ETBU's greatest season continues as the Tigers defeat Salisbury 21-7 in the final elimination game on Sundayat the 2023 D-III World Series being played on PG Cares Field at Veterans Memorial Stadium.
After a rocky first inning staked Lynchburg to a 5-3 lead, Hornets starter Brandon Pond settled down and faced the minimum 24 batters over the final eight innings to lift his team to the 8-3 win.
No. 19 East Texas Baptist rode the arm of Sayers Collins to give the Tigers a 7-3 win over No. 2 Salisbury in the third game of the 2023 DIII World Series being held at PG Cares Field at Veterans Memorial Stadium.
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As the DIII World Series plays their final year in Cedar Rapids, the teams playing in Perfect Game Field will be the strongest since the games started here in 2019. D3baseball.com took time out today to survey the coaches.
The Division III baseball World Series will be returning to Cedar Rapids, Iowa for one more time. Will it be another year where Salisbury returns to the Championship Series. How will the World Series Rookies fare. We will make our picks in the D3baseball.com World Series Preview.
Endicott was the first to clinch a spot n the DIII World Series 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.
MARSHALL, Texas – Destiny continues to be on #15/19 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.
MARSHALL, Texas – Throwing a no-hitter through four innings and allowing just one run, #15/19 East Texas Baptist University pitchers combined for a four-hit victory over the University of La Verne, 9-1. The Tigers have now won 39 games which continues to be a program best.
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
MARSHALL, Texas – Down 2-0 after four innings, #15/19 East Texas Baptist University scored nine runs in four of the final five innings for a 9-4 win over Trinity University advancing to the NCAA Division III Marshall, Texas Regional Championship game. It is the first program win over Trinity University and only the second meeting of the two teams as ETBU moves to 37-11 on the year.
After starting out 5-7 with four games against the current Top 10, Cortland has lost just twice since then and is back in the latest D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25. East Texas Baptist and N.C. Wesleyan also return this week. Johns Hopkins stays at No. 1.
MARSHALL, Texas – Words cannot describe the moment that took place on Sunday evening at Woods Field as East Texas Baptist University won their first-ever American Southwest Conference Baseball Tournament Championship. #20 ETBU came out of the loser’s bracket and won five straight games to claim the championship defeating Hardin-Simmons University twice, 16-8, and 8-1 for the championship. The win put ETBU at 35-11 setting a new record for wins in a season as the 35 wins are third best in NCAA Division III this season behind #1 John Hopkins 39 wins and #3 Shenandoah’s 36 wins.
Home runs were the name of the game last week, as this week’s NCBWA Div. III Hitter and Rookie of the Week combined to hit eight and drive in 33. A two-hit nine-inning shutout claimed the Pitcher of the Week for games played April 10-16.
No. 10 Baldwin Wallace stayed perfect on the year with a win over No. 17 Oswego State. USMMA head coach Michael Notebaert got his 250th career-win when Maritime swept Wells. in Texas, No. 24 ETBU secured a series sweep of Sul Ross on a high note, turning a triple play.
Pre-Covid, the West Region was the home of champions but since then, only one team has made the final eight. Trinity (Texas) has a shot to return and Chapman, who lost in the super-regionals, has one as well.
East Texas Baptist’s Sayers Collins book-ended the 2022 season with NCBWA Div. III pitching honors, while Minn-Morris claimed two awards in the same week, Alex Baumann as Hitter and Jacob Schaafas Rookie of the Week.
In the first round of the NCBWA player, pitcher and rookie awards, they are awarded for their performance for the month of February. Jack Thomson, Lewis and Clark, Sayers Collins, East Texas Baptist and Andrew Gryniewicz, Lesley earned honors on Wednesday March 2nd.
Texas Lutheran gave their new head coach a win in their fourth straight years opening the season with a win. in Austin, Texas as No. 21 Concordia-Texas dropped two to unranked East Texas Baptist.
Centenary (La.) braved the cold for a win over ETBU to move to 2-0 on the young season. In Mississippi, Belhaven hosted Piedmont and Covenant welcomed Erskine.
2024 D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 - week 11
May 07, 2024Colby and Randolph-Macon swept their conference tournament games last weekend and as a result are back in the D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25. The top three remain Endicott, Denison and East Texas Baptist (but in a different order than last week).
