DII College Baseball National Championship Set

Go Tampa!

Go San Diego.

Go Georgia College!

Go Franklin Pierce!!!! My Alma Mater!!!

Go Cary!

Thanks for the update - went last year - great ball and had fun talking to the parents and fans! :-)

GO Central Missouri!

GO UCSD Tritons!

Rooting for UCSD. Son has a few friends that play on the team. Should be a great world series!

Rootin' for the Tritons!

BTW, for our eastern brethren...UCSD is a real quality university. Ranked #35 amongst Tier-1 national universities by US News & World Report, right behind Boston College, tied with Lehigh, Georgia Tech and the University of Rochester...and right ahead of the University of Illinois. All great schools.

Its a great destination for in-state kids and others too!

Region 8(Florida) is a much more difficult tournament than the national championship! Take for instance last year, Lynn University(Boca Raton) won the national championship. You know where they finished in the Sunshine State Conference?? Fourth!! I would like to see how the other teams would do during the year if they played in that conference! Its harder to get out of Region 8 than to win a national championship!

VinceFar, I agree with you. I don't have a horse in this race but I have seen all of the Sunshine State teams this year and Tampa, Florida Southern, Rollins, and Florida Tech were all very good teams. It is just a shame that they all have to go to the same regional or 2-3 of those teams would still be playing.

Franklin Pierce is always tough!

http://all-access.cbssports.co...de=ncaa&media=180755

Coverage from video to Live Stats

SMAN


I have learned over the years to never underestimate what Coach King gets out of his players---they get this far they are always a threat

I saw Franklin Pierce play this year as well and they aren't on the level of most of the Sunshine State teams. Franklin Pierce did play 4 games against Sunshine State teams this past March and went 0-4.

Had the pleasure of watching first round action today. Brooks Martin from Central Missouri shut out Tampa. That's an amazing accomplishment when you consider Tampa was averaging over 10 runs a game. Nothing Martin threw was straight, and he threw all his pitches for strikes. Color me impressed.

During the rain delay before the UC San Diego and Georgia College game the UCSD kids put on multiple entertaining performances: mimicking curling and bobsledding, and a killer YMCA dance performance. Needless to say, they weren't too uptight.

Hot Corner Dad - who is still in it and how many have been eliminated? Who is in the drivers seat to win this thing?

Just started today, ClevelandDad. Double elimination ending next Saturday, May 29.

The eight teams are divided into 2 brackets, much like the D1 World Series. However, the 4 highest ranked teams are all in one bracket: UC San Diego, Tampa, Central Missouri, and Georgia College and State. The survivor of that bracket will have earned its way into the championship round. Follow all the action here: DII Championship Info

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Originally posted by Hot Corner Dad:

During the rain delay before the UC San Diego and Georgia College game the UCSD kids put on multiple entertaining performances: mimicking curling and bobsledding, and a killer YMCA dance performance. Needless to say, they weren't too uptight.

HCD,

We've been to a number of college games this year in So Cal, including a couple times in La Jolla to watch UCSD. Coach O'Brien has the Triton kids loose during all their games. They're a fun group to watch, and it's hard not to cheer for them! So I for one am not very surprised that they weren't too uptight...they'll probably have the same attitude throughout the series...they have fun!

Central Missouri and UCSD are now in the 11th inning of a truly great college game.
0-0 through 8 with UCSD throwing a no-hitter but only having 2 hits.
Now, in the 11th, UCSD pushes across a run to go up 2-1 and still batting.
In the previous elimination game, Tampa loses 2-1 to Georgia College.
Every game has been even with the biggest margin being an 8-6 win by Southern Indiana.
Clearly, this is college baseball at its very best where the teams are evenly matched and are battling into the late innings and early morning hours.

UCSD Wins 2-1 in the 11th. Matt Rossman goes the distance for the win.

UCSD advances in the winner's bracket and plays Thursday. Central Missouri goes to the looser's bracket.

Amazing pitching performances at the DII national championship. Tampa University came into the tourny averaging 10.4 runs a game and was able to score one unearned run in two games. Great job by Jason Nicholas from Georgia College and State yesterday in holding a terrific offensive team in check. Sorry floridafan.

What Matt Rossman did on the mound for UC San Diego last night is the stuff of legends.

Watched the game online, Tampa's offense was definitely held in check! Two very low scoring games. Tampa managed 1 run in 2 games and gave up 5 in 2 games. Backstop17's son laid down a nice bunt to get the tying run into scoring position. But we could not get him home.

Perhaps next year.

Truly some great baseball in Cary

Great week for college baseball--Division I Conference Tournaments ready to kick off and the Division III Worlds Series begins this week

Fantastic baseball thus far in the series.

Southern Indiana seems to have the edge.

They have shown the better ability to adjust to the weather conditions and the level of talent of their opponents.

I'm hoping that the D-1, D-3 and NAIA series are just as good.

Got back last night from our (Tampa) 0-2-Bar-b-que. Even with being eliminated after 2 games, it was an exciting experience for the players just to make it to the CWS. We had a war fight to get to Cary and just didn't seem to be able to keep the bats going.

All the teams I saw had fantastic pitching through the first two games, it will be interesting to see the depth throughout the tournament. The ball was not flying very deep in the NC air, so the teams that are good singles hitters and small ballers should continue to do well.

Son hopes to have the opportunity to return in future years. Hopefully, Cary will continue to host and maybe they can build a fan base to increase attendance from the local area. It takes advertising and history (Omaha has great history for example) to get the crowd out. Some of the schools in D2 have as few as 1,000 students so it is hard to draw many student fans.

The USA National Training center is an awesome complex and the field is pristine. Great job by the grounds crew to keep the games going during the stormy weekend.

Now waiting for the 2011 season, and looking forward to having floridafan's son to help us mount a return to the D2 CWS.

During one of the many rain delays during the tournament, UCSD worked out their Bobsled team:

UCSD Bobsled team

and their YMCA dance:

YMCA Dance

Final four:
UCSD vs Franklin Pierce (New Hampshire) at 7pm et.

Southern Indiana vs. Georgia College & State - 3 pm et.

DII National Championships

Congrats to Coach king and his FP Ravens---

Anyone watching the Franklin Pierce /UCSD game--talk about taking yourself out of a ballgame with atrocious baserunning ---OUCH !!!!!

What's the score? I'm not where I can watch it?

4-3 UCSD in the 6th

Thanks, I'm watching it now.

Congrats to UCSD

UCSD Advances to the Championship game on Saturday with a 6-3 victory over Franklin Pierce.

They play the Friday winner of the Southern Indiana vs Georgia College rematch, since Georgia College won 3-0 on Thursday night.

Awesome. Congratulations.Good luck.

Great showing by Franklin Pierce!!! Final 4 for a small school from NH is pretty impressive!

The tournament thus far has been a joy to watch, but it surprises me that better tactics are not used in these close games.

In just about every situation where there is a one run difference, the team at bat plays for the win rather than the tie.

Maybe we will see more creative thinking as the championship nears.

Congratulations to the UCSD Tritons! Good luck in the Championship Saturday! Does anyone know if the D2 championship will be televised?

It is scheduled at noon tomorrow on CBS College Sports network. I also note that our local Cable Provider is playing it on their sports channel, which usually carries CSS network games.