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Division III Qualifiers

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There are always posts in this forum asking about respective college teams and how good they are. Here is the listing for this year's NCAA regional qualifiers and provides a snap-shot of the top teams for 2007. Obviously, this list changes from year to year, but some teams seem to be on it practically every year. Congrats to all the teams who have made it!

NCAA selections released

May 14, 2007

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the 53 teams that will compete in the 2007 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship.

Six teams will compete at three first-round sites; seven teams will compete at five first-round sites. All first rounds will use a double-elimination format. Thirty-three conference champions qualified automatically.

Winners of the eight first-round tournaments will qualify for the double-elimination championship at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wisconsin, May 25-29.

DATES/SITES/SEEDINGS:

May 16-20

Hosted by Eastern College Athletic Conference, Harwich, Massachusetts

1. Wheaton (Massachusetts) (31-11)

2. Eastern Connecticut State (34-10)

3. Williams (25-8)

4. Curry (27-7)

5. Keene State (29-13)

6. Western New England (27-10)

7. St. Joseph's (Maine) (30-10)

Hosted by Ferrum College, Ferrum, Virginia

1. Emory (35-7)

2. Salisbury (32-8)

3. York (Pennsylvania) (29-12)

4. Methodist (29-13)

5. Bridgewater (Virginia) (21-21)

6. Ferrum (22-16)

7. Villa Julie (24-20)

Hosted by College of Wooster, Strongsville, Ohio

1. Wooster (40-5)

2. Otterbein (31-11)

3. Hope (28-11)

4. Marietta (28-14)

5. Ohio Wesleyan (24-13)

6. Mount St. Joseph (33-9)

Hosted by Alvernia College, Boyertown, Pennsylvania

1. Kean (35-8)

2. The College of New Jersey (32-9)

3. Johns Hopkins (35-9)

4. Gwynedd-Mercy (30-10)

5. Frostburg State (31-13)

6. Elizabethtown (22-16)

7. Wilkes (24-10)

Hosted by Ithaca College, Auburn, New York

1. Cortland State (35-4)

2. Ithaca (24-13)

3. St. John Fisher (26-11)

4. Manhattanville (23-17)

5. Trinity (Connecticut) (28-6)

6. Skidmore (20-18)

7. Westfield State (20-15)

Hosted by Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois

1. Luther (29-9)

2. Illinois Wesleyan (32-11)

3. Carthage (32-11)

4. Washington U. in St. Louis (30-9)

5. Webster (30-12)

6. Augustana (Illinois) (32-12)

Hosted by Chapman University, Orange, California

1. Chapman (35-5)

2. Pacific Lutheran (32-7)

3. Texas Lutheran (35-8)

4. Texas-Dallas (32-11)

5. George Fox (30-9)

6. Pomona-Pitzer (29-11)

7. Austin (22-23)

Hosted by University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point

1. Wisconsin-Stevens Point (28-14)

2. St. Thomas (Minnesota) (32-10)

3. Ripon (21-13)

4. St. Olaf (31-8)

5. Wisconsin-Oshkosh (32-10)

6. St. Scholastica (36-6)

First round matchups for the championship site will be as follows:

Ferrum regional winner vs. Wisconsin-Stevens Point regional winner

Illinois Wesleyan regional winner vs. Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference regional winner

Chapman regional winner vs. Wooster regional winner

Alvernia regional winner vs. Ithaca regional winner

CONFERENCES RECEIVING AUTOMATIC QUALIFICATION BERTHS:

Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference - Frostburg State

American Southwest Conference - Texas Lutheran

Centennial Conference - Johns Hopkins College

Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin - Carthage

Commonwealth Coast Conference - Curry

Commonwealth Conference - Elizabethtown

Freedom Conference - Wilkes

Great Northeast Athletic Conference - Western New England

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference - Mount St. Joseph

Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Luther

Liberty League - Skidmore

Little East Conference - Eastern Connecticut State

Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference - Westfield State

Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association - Hope

Midwest Conference - Ripon

Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - St. Thomas (Minnesota)

New England Small College Athletic Conference - Williams

New England Women's and Men's Athletics Conference - Wheaton (Massachusetts)

New Jersey Athletic Conference - The College of New Jersey

North Atlantic Conference - St. Joseph's (Maine)

North Coast Athletic Conference - Ohio Wesleyan

North Eastern Athletic Conference - Villa Julie

Northwest Conference - Pacific Lutheran

Ohio Athletic Conference - Otterbein

Old Dominion Athletic Conference - Bridgewater (Virginia)

Pennsylvania Athletic Conference - Gwynedd-Mercy

Skyline Conference - Manhattanville

Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Pomona-Pitzer

Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference - Austin

St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Webster

State University of New York Athletic Conference - Cortland State

USA South Athletic Conference - Ferrum

Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Wisconsin-Stevens Point

In the 2006 Division III championship game, Marietta College defeated Wheaton (Massachusetts) 7-2. It was the Pioneer's first national title in baseball since 1986.

The 2007 NCAA Spring Seasonal Show will air on CBS at 1:30 p.m. Eastern time, Sunday, July 1, and will include highlights from the championship.
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hokieonehokieone5,000+ posts
Do my guys at CNU get a gold star because they played the entire bracket at Ferrum, except Villa Julie? Of course, had we done better than 4-7 against the field, that would've helped.

I had the impression our guys played a decent schedule, so 11 out of 41 games against qualifiers
isn't too bad.

I learned something too; I thought Villa Julie sounded like a French cooking school..they were #2 in their conference tourney but winner wasn't eligible so a nice bump for them.
ClevelandDadClevelandDadHSBBWeb Administrator
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I had the impression our guys played a decent schedule, so 11 out of 41 games against qualifiers isn't too bad.


hokie - I agree. I think the kids look forward to playing tough schedules like that. One team on the list (Austin) had a sub .500 record I see which seems unusual. I am assuming they played a really tough schedule
infielddadinfielddad10,000+ posts
CD, just saw this thread and your post. I posted this elsewhere so hopefully it will provide a bit of insight into the pandemonium that is the DIII selection process.

"Texan, the NCAA, at the DIII level, doesn't quite work like we might think it should.
DIII has three pools from which teams are selected. Pool A are the winners of conference tournament championships. Austin College is now part of the SCAC and ended up winning the post season tournament to earn the DIII regional automatic bid for that conference in pool A.
Pool B is 6 bids which get distributed to teams that are indpendents like Chapman, Washington U and the like.
Pool C is about 14 or so bids which the NCAA awards out of the remaining 320 or so DIII teams. Out of the SCAC, Millsaps and Rhodes did not get Pool C bids even though they beat a number of teams that did get bids and even though there were the 2 best teams during the SCAC regular season. Each won over 35 games this year. Unless and until DIII increases the number of teams in post season play, the chances of not getting the best teams is very much increased when you get upsets in the post season tournaments."


BTW, these berths were announced around 2a.m. this morning and teams need to travel from TX to Southern CA and be on the field ready to play by Wednesday at 9:30am.
Even worse, their families need to try and find open seats on an airline and likely pay some large fares to watch their sons. It isn't easy, but we found that it is do able and truly enjoyable.
HeyBatterHeyBatter1,000+ posts
tourney just ended with Kean University as the Champs. Congrats to all.

I presume this will get one line in our local paper on the last page buried under the volleyball scores. College baseball gets no coverage in our paper- the Los Angeles Times- earlier last week they reported Emory, who played in the final, as being eliminated. D-1 doesn't get much more coverage nor does D-2 even with Cal State LA in the d-2 world series this year.
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