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UW-Stevens Point remains unbeaten at the NCAA Division 3 Baseball championships after rallying with 3-runs in the 8th inning to top Kean 4-3 on Saturday.
The Pointers will face Linfield (40-7) at 8pm tonight with the winner advancing to the Monday championship game.
Luke Watson shut out Kean in the final two innings for the save. JP Feyereisen went the first 7 innings for the victory.
Other Saturday finals
Linfield 10, Southern Main 1
Ithaca 5, Millsaps 2
Webster 5, Manchester 3
The Wisconsin Badger women’s golf team had their best round of the 72-hold NCAA tournament, shooting an 11-over-par 297 in 3rd round action in Athens, Georgia. Wisconsin is 43-over par, tied for 24th place at the NCAA women’s golf championships.
No. 1 USC is running away with the team title. They’re at 19-under par on the par 72 hole course. The Trojans shot a 12-under 276 total yesterday alone.
No. 3 Duke, now in second place, is the only other team under par at -2 (862).
This is just the second trip to the national championship for the Badger program and the first since 2003 when the team finished 24th with a 4-round total of 1,291.
The final round of the event is today.
UW-Stevens Point opens play in the NCAA Div. 3 College World Series later today when they face Manchester University of Indiana at Appleton’s Fox Cities Stadium.
The Pointers are making their 5th appearance in the World Series. Previously, they made the 8-team field in 1997, 2006, 2007 and 2010. Their best finish came in 2007, placing 5th.
The Pointers enter the tournament ranked 18th in the ABCA ranking and 16th on the D3baseball.com poll.
Today’s lineup
10am University of Southern Maine (42-8) vs. Millsaps College (38-12)
1:15pm Linfield College (38-7) vs. Ithaca College (38-6)
4:30pm Stevens Point (39-9) vs. Manchester University (39-5-1)
7:45pm Kean University (38-11) vs. Webster University (36-10)
The UW-Stevens Point Pointer’s are the only unbeaten team in the NCAA Div-3 Whitewater baseball regional. The Pointers beat the Warhawks 7-6 in 10-innings yesterday to move to 2-0 in the double-elimination tournament.
The Pointers trailed 5-2 before scoring once in the 8th, twice in the 9th and 2-more times in the 10th inning to pull out the win.
Stevens Point (37-9) will play at 6pm tonight against the winner of today’s noon elimination game between St. Scholastica (28-10) and Whitewater (35-8).
Top seeded St. Thomas eliminated Benedictine 10-1 on Thursday.
At the Central Regional in Moline, Illinois, Ripon College was eliminated. They were swept by Wartburg College 10-0 yesterday.
The Wisconsin women’s softball team opened the NCAA Oregon Regional with a 3-2 loss in 8-innings against North Carolina in Eugene, Oregon.
Wisconsin (42-12) is still alive in the four-team, double-elimination tournament. They’ll face BYU this afternoon (4pm). The Cougars fell to host Oregon in their opener 5-2 on Thursday.
The Badgers forced extra innings when Marissa Mersch belted a home run to right on the first pitch.
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