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D-3 World Series starts today

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The 2017 NCAA D-3 College World Series opens today (Friday) at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton.  The field doesn’t include any Wisconsin teams and four of the eight teams in the field will be taking the field for the first time in program history.

Only Cal Lutheran and Wheaton (Mass.) have made more than one previous trip to the championship round.  Cal Lutheran is making their sixth trip to the final series, but are playing in Appleton for the first time.

Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton will host the D-3 College World Series for the 18th time.

College World Series lineup

Concordia Chicago (33-11) vs. Wash. & Jeff. (38-11)  10:00 a.m.
Oswego St. (32-9) vs. Roanoke (33-17)  1:15 p.m.
UMass Boston (37-10) vs. North Central (IL) (29-16)  4:30 p.m.
Cal Lutheran (35-10) vs. Wheaton (MA) (27-15)  7:45 p.m.

The tournament runs through Wednesday, May 31.

Trinity captures NCAA D-3 baseball championship

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NCAA D-3 Baseball (Appleton)Trinity University captured the NCAA Division III baseball championship with a 10-7 win over Keystone College on Tuesday night at Fox Cities Stadium.

Trinity swept the best 2-of-3 series after posting a 14-6 win in the opener on Tuesday.  They finished 44-7 on the season, earning the right to call themselves NCAA D-3 baseball champions.

Keystone’s season came to an end at 40-11.

Trinity finished 5-0 and never trailed during the tournament.

The Tournament was hosted by UW-Oshkosh and Lawrence University.

La Crosse eliminated from D-3 CWS (AUDIO)

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Chris Schwarz - Photo Jim Lund/UW La Crosse Athletics

Chris Schwarz – Photo Jim Lund/UW La Crosse Athletics

Both Wisconsin teams have been eliminated from the NCAA Division 3 College World Series field.

UW-Whitewater was eliminated Saturday night, falling 4-3 to St. John Fisher of New York.  The Warhawks saw their season come to an end at 34-17.

UW-La Crosse followed suit on Sunday night, falling to SUNY Cortland 8-3 at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton.

The Eagles (39-10) got three hits from Ben Morgan, but senior Taylor Kohlwey went 0 for 5, seeing his 51-game hitting streak come to an end.

SUNY Cortland eliminated La Crosse in last year’s championship game.

Five teams still remain in the field, heading to action on Monday morning.

AUDIO: Coach Chris Schwarz on the loss :22

AUDIO: Coach Chris Schwarz says they’ll miss the seniors :23

La Crosse still alive, Whitewater eliminated from D-3 CWS

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Troy Kenkel - Photo by Doug Sundin - UW Oshkosh IMC

Troy Kenkel – Photo by Doug Sundin – UW Oshkosh IMC

The 4th ranked UW-La Crosse baseball team remains alive for at least one more day at the NCAA Division 3 College World Series at Fox Cities Stadium.  Their WIAC counterpart, UW-Whitewater lost their first two games and has been eliminated from the double elimination tournament.

The Eagles responded from a 8-0 shutout loss in game one to Trinity with a 12-3 win over Emory University in an elimination game at Fox Cities Stadium.

The Eagles broke the game open with a seven-run fourth inning to go up 9-3 and cruise to their 39th victory (39-9) of the season.  They finished with 18 hits for the game.

La Crosse will play next at 4:30 this afternoon against the loser of the game between the State University of New York Cortland and Trinity University. [Read more…]

La Crosse falls in World Series championship opener

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NCAA Baseball Championship logoIt was a long day for the UW-La Crosse Eagles on Tuesday.  La Crosse was able to reach the best-of-three championship round against top-ranked SUNY-Cortland by holding on to beat Trinity University of Texas 10-7 in an elimination game.  The game included a 5 hour, 4 minute rain delay.

The Eagles would need to pick up and face Cortland in game 1 of the best-of-three championship, but they fell behind by 5 runs early and lost the championship opener 11-3.

Game 2 is set for 11 a.m. this morning.  La Crosse needs a win to force a third and deciding game later today.

It’ll be a tall order for the Eagles, trying to find a way to beat the number-1 team in the nation twice.  La Crosse (36-15) is looking for its first National title.

Cortland (44-4) is in the same boat.

 

UW-La Crosse facing elimination game today

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NCAA Baseball Championship logoTrinity University (40-13) built an 11-1 lead after 2 1/2 innings and won a third straight elimination game, 16-6 over the Eagles of UW-La Crosse in the NCAA Division III World Series on Monday night at Fox Cities Stadium.

La Crosse (34-15), which used five pitchers in the loss, must turn around and face Trinity at 11am this morning.  The loser goes home and the winner moves into the best-of-three championship series against top-ranked SUNY-Cortland (43-4).

The Championship series is scheduled to follow the La Crosse-Trinity game, but rain once again, continues to threaten the tournament.

The loss is the first for the Eagles in the tournament was their first.

 

NCAA D3 College World Series opens today with newcomer UW-La Crosse seeking first national title

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Eight teams will continue their pursuit of a national title starting today at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute.

This year’s field includes a WIAC representative making its NCAA Division 3 College World Series debut in the UW-La Crosse Eagles.

UW-L (33-13) opens pool play against Salisbury (33-4-1) at 7:45 p.m.

Prior to that game, play begins with Frostburg State taking on Ramapo at 10 a.m., then Webster battles Cortland State and Trinity squares off with Emory.

UW-La Crosse reaches first ever NCAA D3 World Series

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It took a pair of wins Sunday in La Crosse, but the UW-La Crosse Eagles earned their first ever trip to the NCAA Division 3 College Baseball World Series.

The Eagles won Game 1, 5-4, on Ben Morgan’s RBI single in the top of the ninth against Coe College (Iowa).

Needing yet another victory against the Kohawks, UW-L found themselves down 4-2 early after surrendering a couple of home runs. Then the Eagles (33-13) got hot, scoring seven runs in the sixth inning en route to a 15-4 Midwest Region-clinching victory.

The No. 20 Eagles will open the D3 World Series Friday against No. 5 Salisbury (Md.) at 6:45pm at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton.

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Warhawks shoot for World Series crown today

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UW-Whitewater will be well rested when facing Emory today for the NCAA Division 3 College World Series Championship.  The Warhawks had yesterday off and will be shooting for their second World Series title, having won back in 2005.

The Warhawks are 3-0 in the double-elimination tournament and 43-7 on the season.  They’ll need to win just once to claim the title.  If Whitewater loses the opener, then a second Championship game would be played.

Emory comes into the game swinging a hot bat.  They combined to score 25 runs on 33 hits in a pair of elimination victories over Southern Maine and St. Thomas on Monday.

The Warhawks carry a 10-game win streak into play today.  Winning the championship would mean Whitewater would gain its first-ever sweep of the three major sports…football, men’s basketball and baseball, all in the same year.

AUDIO: Mgr. John Vodenlich says they’ll be ready :13