Playoff field of 60 teams is announced. There are 14 four-team regional brackets and 2 two-team best-of-5 regional brackets.
In the second weekend, there will be 8 Super Regionals playing best 2-of-3.
Those 8 winners will proceed to the National Championship which will be played in Cedar Rapids IA.
https://www.d3baseball.com/playoffs/2022/2022-playoff-field
Pool B: Salisbury
Pool C: Aurora, Baldwin Wallace, Catholic, Chapman, Christopher Newport, Lynchburg, Montclair St., North Central, Oswego State, Pomona-Pitzer, Rochester (NY), Rowan, Salve Regina, Stevens, SUNY Brockport, Trinity (TX), Wisconsin-Whitewater, Wooster
I love how the Regionals have been seeded. There are so many opportunities for schools to proceed to Cedar Rapids with their nemeses in opposite brackets.
I like how they disbursed the conference and region foes across the brackets. Trinity and Chapman/CalLu/PP/Pacific could meet in the finals. So could Cortland and Oswego; BSC and LaGrange; or Rowan and Montclair... it just goes on.
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 16, 2022, 06:31:28 PM
I love how the Regionals have been seeded. There are so many opportunities for schools to proceed to Cedar Rapids with their nemeses in opposite brackets.
I like how they disbursed the conference and region foes across the brackets. Trinity and Chapman/CalLu/PP/Pacific could meet in the finals. So could Cortland and Oswego; BSC and LaGrange; or Rowan and Montclair... it just goes on.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, that isn't the case for Whitewater and Stevens Point... I was hoping one of them would get matched up with the Webster Regional for a trip to Cedar Rapids, but instead they'd have to face each other.
Quote from: cubs on May 16, 2022, 08:53:09 PM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 16, 2022, 06:31:28 PM
I love how the Regionals have been seeded. There are so many opportunities for schools to proceed to Cedar Rapids with their nemeses in opposite brackets.
I like how they disbursed the conference and region foes across the brackets. Trinity and Chapman/CalLu/PP/Pacific could meet in the finals. So could Cortland and Oswego; BSC and LaGrange; or Rowan and Montclair... it just goes on.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, that isn't the case for Whitewater and Stevens Point... I was hoping one of them would get matched up with the Webster Regional for a trip to Cedar Rapids, but instead they'd have to face each other.
AND both CCIW reps are in those two regionals as well. I think both the WIAC AND the CCIW got screwed.
Wonder why the NCAA Reg'l rankings have not been released?
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d3/regional-rankings
Quote from: D-BAT on May 17, 2022, 07:59:49 AM
Wonder why the NCAA Reg'l rankings have not been released?
https://www.ncaa.com/rankings/baseball/d3/regional-rankings
Here you go!
https://d3baseball.com/playoffs/2022/regional-rankings-final
Love the first round games, where "underdogs" who have a really good #1 pitcher, go up against a "traditional favorite" and we watch for the upset!
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 20, 2022, 11:19:08 AM
Love the first round games, where "underdogs" who have a really good #1 pitcher, go up against a "traditional favorite" and we watch for the upset!
J&W 6 Wheaton MA 3
Dane DellaValle gets the Complete Game victory for J&W.
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 20, 2022, 11:19:08 AM
Love the first round games, where "underdogs" who have a really good #1 pitcher, go up against a "traditional favorite" and we watch for the upset!
Bridgewater St and Cortland St go to extra innings, tied 3-3.
Cortland scores in the bottom of the 10th, 4-3 Final.
BSC wins 10-2 in their first regional game.
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 20, 2022, 11:19:08 AM
Love the first round games, where "underdogs" who have a really good #1 pitcher, go up against a "traditional favorite" and we watch for the upset!
Keystone beats Immaculata, 7-5.
Even tho' Keystone was the number 4, the Giants made the playoffs in 2019 and 2021. Maybe they had fewer butterflies...
How about a Grand Slam Walk-off, NCC 12, Coe 8. That bottom of the 9th for NCC was a walk, a hit by pitch, a hit by pitch, an E6 that could have been an inning ending DP, and the Grand Slam.
I think Trinity and UT Dallas messed up and thought it was a football playoff and sent the wrong teams....
Quote from: 108 Stitches on May 21, 2022, 07:28:29 PM
I think Trinity and UT Dallas messed up and thought it was a football playoff and sent the wrong teams....
I thought so too, but UTD doesn't have a football team.
So far, we have 2 & BBQ for:
Elizabethtown, Mount Aloysius, MSOE, Lawrence, Montclair State, Stevens, Earlham, Bridgewater St, SUNY Brockport, PSU-Harrisburg, Rochester, Lebanon Valley, Pacific, and Centenary who went 0-3!
We await the loser of the Crown-Wooster game.
Edit: Crown lost to Wooster.
In the UT-Dallas/Trinity Regional, UT-Dallas went 1 win and 3 losses to Trinity.
By the end of the evening, only 7 of the fourteen 4-team brackets will have completed Game 5, the one that determines the Finals of the bracket.
So far, the teams that lost Game 5 and went home with a 1-2 record are:
Augustana, Coe, St Joseph's LI, St John Fisher, JWU(Providence), Mitchell, and Cal Lutheran.
Quote from: cubs on May 16, 2022, 08:53:09 PM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 16, 2022, 06:31:28 PM
I love how the Regionals have been seeded. There are so many opportunities for schools to proceed to Cedar Rapids with their nemeses in opposite brackets.
I like how they disbursed the conference and region foes across the brackets. Trinity and Chapman/CalLu/PP/Pacific could meet in the finals. So could Cortland and Oswego; BSC and LaGrange; or Rowan and Montclair... it just goes on.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, that isn't the case for Whitewater and Stevens Point... I was hoping one of them would get matched up with the Webster Regional for a trip to Cedar Rapids, but instead they'd have to face each other.
And it comes to fruition, as both Whitewater and Stevens Point with their respective Game #7 to secure a pair of Regional Championships.
The conference rivals will now square off in a best-of-three Super Regional to see who the WIAC representative will be at this year's D3 College World Series...
Quote from: cubs on May 22, 2022, 08:23:04 PM
Quote from: cubs on May 16, 2022, 08:53:09 PM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 16, 2022, 06:31:28 PM
I love how the Regionals have been seeded. There are so many opportunities for schools to proceed to Cedar Rapids with their nemeses in opposite brackets.
I like how they disbursed the conference and region foes across the brackets. Trinity and Chapman/CalLu/PP/Pacific could meet in the finals. So could Cortland and Oswego; BSC and LaGrange; or Rowan and Montclair... it just goes on.
Unless I'm misunderstanding you, that isn't the case for Whitewater and Stevens Point... I was hoping one of them would get matched up with the Webster Regional for a trip to Cedar Rapids, but instead they'd have to face each other.
And it comes to fruition, as both Whitewater and Stevens Point with their respective Game #7 to secure a pair of Regional Championships.
The conference rivals will now square off in a best-of-three Super Regional to see who the WIAC representative will be at this year's D3 College World Series...
The SUNYAC had 3 teams sent to 3 different brackets, and only Oswego has a chance to play in the Super Regional. They must beat Arcadia to get there.
Quote from: Ralph Turner on May 22, 2022, 12:55:21 AM
By the end of the evening, only 7 of the fourteen 4-team brackets will have completed Game 5, the one that determines the Finals of the bracket.
So far, the teams that lost Game 5 and went home with a 1-2 record are:
Augustana, Coe, St Joseph's LI, St John Fisher, JWU(Providence), Mitchell, and Cal Lutheran.
We add the other 7 teams who lost in Game 5 and went home with a record of 1-2:
Husson, Kalamazoo, Immaculata, Lynchburg, William Paterson, Webster, and Swarthmore.
Only 12 regions have completed.
The Finalists who finished with records of 2-2 are:
CNU, North Central IL, Salve Regina, SUNY Cortland, Wheaton MA, Middlebury, and Wash & Jeff.
The finalists who lost in Game 7 and finished with records of 3-2 are:
Aurora, Shenandoah, and Pomona Pitzer.
Of the 12 Regions completed, how many had a Pool A team win it? I know Whitewater was a Pool C and Stevens Point was a Pool A...
Regional Champions who swept their Regionals, going 3-0 are:
Marietta, Birmingham-Southern, Baldwin-Wallace, Eastern Connecticut State, Rowan and LaGrange.
Regional Champions who won the first 2 games, lost in Game 6 and won in Game 7 are:
UW-Whitewater, Catholic, Chapman.
Regional Champions who came through the Consolation bracket to finish 4-1 in the tourney include:
UW Stevens Point and Endicott.
Trinity went 3-1 in their best-of-five.
Four Regionals remain.
Quote from: cubs on May 22, 2022, 10:20:08 PM
Of the 12 Regions completed, how many had a Pool A team win it? I know Whitewater was a Pool C and Stevens Point was a Pool A...
With 4 Regionals remaining, here are the at-large teams in bold that won their Regional.
Pool B: Salisbury
Pool C: Aurora,
Baldwin Wallace,
Catholic,
Chapman, Christopher Newport, Lynchburg, Montclair St., North Central,
Oswego State, Pomona-Pitzer, Rochester (NY),
Rowan, Salve Regina, Stevens, SUNY Brockport,
Trinity (TX),
Wisconsin-Whitewater,
WoosterTeams in italics are still playing in the Regional Finals.
Thanks Ralph!
Six Pool C (with a chance at seven) out of 16 Regional winners is probably more than I would've guessed...
Here are the at-large teams in bold that won their Regional.
Pool B: Salisbury
Pool C: Aurora, Baldwin Wallace, Catholic, Chapman, Christopher Newport, Lynchburg, Montclair St., North Central, Oswego State, Pomona-Pitzer, Rochester (NY), Rowan, Salve Regina, Stevens, SUNY Brockport, Trinity (TX), Wisconsin-Whitewater, Wooster
Pool B Salisbury and 8 of the 16 Pool C teams are playing in the Super Regionals.
Final Regional Summary:
Regional Champions who swept their Regionals, going 3-0 are:
Marietta, Ithaca, Birmingham-Southern, Baldwin-Wallace, Eastern Connecticut State, Rowan and LaGrange.
Regional Champions who won the first 2 games, lost in Game 6 and won in Game 7 to finish 3-1 are:
UW-Whitewater, Catholic, Chapman.
Regional Champions who came through the Consolation bracket to finish 4-1 in the tourney include:
Oswego State, UW Stevens Point, Endicott, Salisbury and Wooster. (Wooster lost the opener and then won 4 straight.)
Trinity went 3-1 in their best-of-five.
Have you noticed the Super Regionals?
In every case (except Oswego at Marietta), the selection committee moved teams from west to east.
Longitude of Catholic University: -77.00
Longitude of Ithaca College: -76.48
Longitude of UWSP: -89.56
Longitude of UWW: -88.73
Shucks, I thought that I had a factoid there
BSC host Trinity(Texas) in the Super Regional in Birmingham. Play begins at 3:30 central, weather should be perfect, finally in Alabama. The Sun Belt and SEC tournaments have had all kids of delays in conference tournaments this week.
Stevens Point 6
Whitewater 2
End 4th Inning
Whitewater defense not doing WIAC Pitcher of the Year Westin Muir any favors... A pair of throwing errors has led to three unearned runs.
Casey Pickering has given up 9 hits through four innings, however has limited the damage thanks to a smooth 1-6-3 double play in the fourth inning. It also helps when eight out of the nine hits have been singles.
Stevens Point returns the favor with a throwing error of their own to lead off the ninth inning and Whitewater takes advantage by scoring three unearned runs off of Pointers closer Sidney Ferry to tie the game 9-9. (The Warhawks scored a pair of unearned runs off Ferry in the eighth inning as well to cut Point's lead to 9-6.)
Stevens Point will send their 3/4/5 hitters to the plate in the bottom half of the inning to try and walk it off.
Quote from: cubs on May 27, 2022, 03:33:39 PM
Stevens Point will send their 3/4/5 hitters to the plate in the bottom half of the inning to try and walk it off.
After a walk to the #4 hitter, Bradley Comer, Kyle Finger doubles in his first at-bat of the game to score Comer and give the Pointers a 10-9 victory.
Stevens Point will need one win tomorrow to advance to the World Series.
Trinity takes game one over BSC in Birmingham, 9-8.
LaGrange scored 2 in the bottom of the 8th to go ahead 6-3.
The problem with the webcast is that the placement of the microphone picking up crowd noise overwhelms the play-by-play call by the webstream.
Chapman's A J Anzai gets a two-out bases loaded double to tie in the top of the 6th. Chapman leaves runners on 1st and 3rd. Going to the bottom of the 9th...
LaGrange gets a bases loaded walk in the bottom of the 10th and win 7-6.
An extra inning 1-run victory
2 more 1-run wins
A 2-run win.
What a great opening day.
Baldwin Wallace is the first team to punch their ticket to the D3 World Series in Cedar Rapids, Iowa as they put up five runs in the sixth inning to knock off Endicott 7-4.
Stevens Point puts up a five spot of their own in eighth inning to break a 6-6 tie, and knock off WIAC rival Whitewater 11-7 for their first trip to the World Series since 2013 when they finished in 4th Place.
Baserunning error, a runner picked off 2nd base cost Chapman at least 1 run in the bottom of the 4th and possibly a 2nd. 3 BBs in this inning.
Chapman has lost 2 runners on the basepaths.
Score at the end of 4 is Chapman 4 LaGrange 2
Chapman 9, LaGrange 8. Chapman scores on a Sac Fly in the bottom of the 9th after LaGrange scored 2 in the top of the 9th, after Chapman pulled ahead scoring 2 in the bottom of the 8th...
Yes. It was that type of ballgame.
https://www.d3baseball.com/seasons/2022/boxscores/20220528_umf6.xml
Going to game 3...
LaGrange 4 runs 6 hits 0 errors
Chapman 2 runs 5 hits 2 errors.
LaGrange manufactured runs in 2 innings and got great pitching from Ethan Fry who went 7.1 IP and gave up 2 runs on 3 hits.
LaGrange got 2 unearned runs in the 5th to go up 2-0 then added 2 more in the 6th. Chapman leaves the tying runs on 1st and 3rd in the bottom of the 9th.
Just a very tight competitive game.
The field is set: (Regions are in parentheses)
Pool A: ECSU (2), LaGrange (6), Marietta (7), UWSP (9)
Pool B: Salisbury (6)
Pool C: BWC (7), Catholic (5), Trinity TX (10)
Seedings and schedule (https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/print/baseball/d3/2022) are out. Opening round on Friday:
#1 Marietta vs #8 Catholic, 10AM
#4 Salisbury vs #5 UWSP, 1:15PM
Saturday: Losers play at 10AM, winners at 1:15PM
#2 ECSU vs #7 Baldwin-Wallace, 4:30PM
#3 Lagrange vs #6 Trinity (TX), 7:45PM
Saturday: Losers play at 4:30PM, winners at 7:45PM
Article today in The Washington Post on Catholic in the baseball World Series; mentions former players Brian Cashman(Yankees' GM) and Matt Kurkjian(brother of ESPN analyst Tim). I remember attending a clinic given by HC Ross Natoli for coaches of youth baseball 37 years ago when he was still at GW.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2022/06/03/catholic-baseball-college-world-series/
Heretical to say this, but watching the inconsistencies of the strike zones in the Championship series, I am ready for a 2 year trial of the electronic strike zone.
Figure out which conferences want to try it and let the experiment begin.
The lack of picking depth finally caught up with Trinity, but you have to give them a lot of credit to get this far in the playoff's and even making it to the CWS as there are a lot of teams that would have liked to make it this far.
Really a credit to the scrappy nature of the team and the coaching staff.
I will be rooting for LaGrange to move on, but winning two will be a challenge for them tomorrow.
Quote from: 108 Stitches on June 05, 2022, 08:01:21 PM
The lack of picking depth finally caught up with Trinity, but you have to give them a lot of credit to get this far in the playoff's and even making it to the CWS as there are a lot of teams that would have liked to make it this far.
Really a credit to the scrappy nature of the team and the coaching staff.
I will be rooting for LaGrange to move on, but winning two will be a challenge for them tomorrow.
Chapman has been my proxy for how strong and balanced the top half of the SCIAC was this year.
Chapman was a Pool C, won the regional and was flown 3 time zones east to play LaGrange. LaGrange won the first in 11 innings, Chapman won by 1 in the 2nd and Chapman had the tying run at the plate in the bottom of the 9th in that 4-2 loss. That is an incredible series.
The SCIAC teams eleiminated Pacific and then fought among themselves in the Regional.
I think that the SCIAC was just that good.
Pat, Ralph, or others....
Has there ever been any discussion of having the Winner's Bracket losers (theoretically Games #7 and #8) switch pools after they lose for the D3 Baseball Tournament now that they've made the move to Pools instead of the traditional 8-team Bracket?
It honestly never crossed my mind until I was watching the D1 Women's College World Series and they mentioned that Texas and Oklahoma started in the same pool. After they lost to Oklahoma, they went into the other pool and ended up winning three straight games and will face Oklahoma again, but now in the best-of-three series for the National Championship and not in an elimination game like the D3 baseball bracket is constructed. It doesn't cause any extra games to be played, and to be honest, I kind of like the concept behind it.
Thoughts?
Quote from: cubs on June 07, 2022, 12:18:55 AM
Pat, Ralph, or others....
Has there ever been any discussion of having the Winner's Bracket losers (theoretically Games #7 and #8) switch pools after they lose for the D3 Baseball Tournament now that they've made the move to Pools instead of the traditional 8-team Bracket?
It honestly never crossed my mind until I was watching the D1 Women's College World Series and they mentioned that Texas and Oklahoma started in the same pool. After they lost to Oklahoma, they went into the other pool and ended up winning three straight games and will face Oklahoma again, but now in the best-of-three series for the National Championship and not in an elimination game like the D3 baseball bracket is constructed. It doesn't cause any extra games to be played, and to be honest, I kind of like the concept behind it.
Thoughts?
I do too but in fact D1 softball is the only one of the 6 that does the pool switch/bracket flip. Everyone else basically has 2 simultaneous 4-team mini tourneys where the winners meet at the end.
I've never understood why either of these is better than the old 8-team double-elimination format. ::)
Quote from: cubs on June 07, 2022, 12:18:55 AM
Pat, Ralph, or others....
Has there ever been any discussion of having the Winner's Bracket losers (theoretically Games #7 and #8) switch pools after they lose for the D3 Baseball Tournament now that they've made the move to Pools instead of the traditional 8-team Bracket?
It honestly never crossed my mind until I was watching the D1 Women's College World Series and they mentioned that Texas and Oklahoma started in the same pool. After they lost to Oklahoma, they went into the other pool and ended up winning three straight games and will face Oklahoma again, but now in the best-of-three series for the National Championship and not in an elimination game like the D3 baseball bracket is constructed. It doesn't cause any extra games to be played, and to be honest, I kind of like the concept behind it.
Thoughts?
So loser of Game 3 would come back faster to play Loser of Game 1 in Game 5, the first game of the 2nd day. Loser of Game 4 would need to come back "faster" to play loser of Game 2 in the second game of Day 2, Game 6.
What happens with weather postponements when Game 4 starts at 10 AM on Day 2 and Game 6 starts at 6 PM later that day? Loser of Game 2 would be much more rested.
Quote from: Ralph Turner on June 08, 2022, 12:49:15 AM
So loser of Game 3 would come back faster to play Loser of Game 1 in Game 5, the first game of the 2nd day. Loser of Game 4 would need to come back "faster" to play loser of Game 2 in the second game of Day 2, Game 6.
What happens with weather postponements when Game 4 starts at 10 AM on Day 2 and Game 6 starts at 6 PM later that day? Loser of Game 2 would be much more rested.
No... This doesn't come into play until the end of the second round, so the first 8 games remain set up exactly as they are now.
Using this year's bracket as a reference piece, once Marietta lost to Salisbury and La Grange lost to ECSU, they would've swapped pools. La Grange would've faced UWSP in an elimination game while Marietta would've played Trinity.
I can see your point though in this situation as La Grange played the last game of Day #2 and then would be scheduled for the first game of Day #3. That said, you could flip flop the La Grange vs UWSP and Marietta vs Salisbury games to give La Grange the second game of Day #3, which is when they played this year anyway.
Quote from: cubs on June 08, 2022, 10:32:35 AM
Quote from: Ralph Turner on June 08, 2022, 12:49:15 AM
So loser of Game 3 would come back faster to play Loser of Game 1 in Game 5, the first game of the 2nd day. Loser of Game 4 would need to come back "faster" to play loser of Game 2 in the second game of Day 2, Game 6.
What happens with weather postponements when Game 4 starts at 10 AM on Day 2 and Game 6 starts at 6 PM later that day? Loser of Game 2 would be much more rested.
No... This doesn't come into play until the end of the second round, so the first 8 games remain set up exactly as they are now.
Using this year's bracket as a reference piece, once Marietta lost to Salisbury and La Grange lost to ECSU, they would've swapped pools. La Grange would've faced UWSP in an elimination game while Marietta would've played Trinity.
I can see your point though in this situation as La Grange played the last game of Day #2 and then would be scheduled for the first game of Day #3. That said, you could flip flop the La Grange vs UWSP and Marietta vs Salisbury games to give La Grange the second game of Day #3, which is when they played this year anyway.
Thank for the clarificaiton, Cubs. I think that we ought to look at this more carefully.
So we flip the losers of Games 6 and 8 into the opposite brackets...
Now I need to play with the brackets so one team does not get smited by the diurnal rhythms.