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56 team field is announced for the 2015 D-3 baseball championship

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NCAA Baseball Championship logoThe NCAA Division-3 Baseball Committee has announced 56 teams that will compete in the 2015 NCAA Division-3 Baseball Championship.

The teams have been placed in eight regional sites.  All regionals will use a double-elimination format.  Forty conference champions qualified automatically.

The winners of the eight regional tournaments will qualify for the double-elimination championship at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, May 22-27.

In the 2014 championship game, UW-Whitewater defeated Emory 7-0.  The Warhawks became the first program to win a football, men’s basketball and baseball national championship all in the same year.

A total of five Wisconsin teams help make up the 56 team field.

In the Central Region, which is being hosted by Wartburg (Waverly, Iowa), both Carthage and UW-Stevens Point make up the 6-team field.

In the Midwest Region, La Crosse received one of the tournaments at-large bids and will host the 8-team field.  Defending NCAA D-3 champion Whitewater is also in the field.  Midwest Conference champion Ripon is also among the teams in the region.

Regional play begins on Wednesday.

St. Norbert in MWC title game for 6th straight year (D-3 Update)

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Kaukauna Basktball 0083rd-ranked St. Norbert College advanced to the championship game of the Midwest Conference Tournament for the sixth straight year with an 85-74 win over Ripon College in a league semifinal at Schuldes Sports Center.

The Green Knights (23-1) advanced to play Grinnell College in the tournament championship game (6pm) tonight.

Steven Hofacker led the Green Knights with 24 points, while Andrew Schwoerer added 22.  Kyle Loughrin led the Red Hawks with 29 points in the loss.

St. Norbert women

St. Norbert College knocked off Illinois College 61-51 in the MWC semifinals on Friday.  The Green Knights (21-3) will face Cornell College at 3 p.m. Saturday at Schuldes Sports Center in the tournament championship.

WIAC Championship

The WIAC Championship will be decided today when Whitewater plays host to upset minded Oshkosh.  The Titans upset 2nd seeded Stevens Point in the semifinals on Thursday to advance.

St. Norbert College extends conference win streak

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St. Norbert coach Gary Grzesk

St. Norbert coach Gary Grzesk

The St. Norbert College men’s basketball team continued its run at another Midwest Conference men’s basketball title, knocking off Ripon College 85-65 in De Pere on Tuesday night.

Andrew Schwoerer scored 23 points and pulled down 11 rebounds for the 14th ranked Green Knights, who won their 36th straight regular season Midwest Conference game.

The Knights (16-1, 12-0 MWC) hit 22 of their first 29 FG’s (75.9%) in the game.

Ty Sabin had 35 points to lead all-scorers for Ripon College (11-6, 8-4).

Elsewhere in the Midwest Conference on Tuesday night,

Beloit 54, Carroll 51
Lake Forest 78, Lawrence 60

 

Stevens Point and Whitewater advance in D-3 winners bracket

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Second seeded UW-Stevens Point and third seeded UW-Whitewater will square off in the winners bracket of the NCAA Division 3 Whitewater Regional Tournament today.  Both teams earned opening round victories yesterday

Stevens Point (36-9), which won the WIAC tournament last weekend at Whitewater, came from 4-runs down to beat fifth seeded Benedictine 6-5 in 10-innings.

Whitewater (35-7) got a complete game from senior right-hander Tom Kerndt and knocked off fourth seeded Case Western 2-0.

Top seeded St. Thomas (MN) lost its opening round game 1-0 to sixth seeded St. Scholastica in the opener.

The day 2 schedule follows:

12:00pm  St. Thomas (33-6) vs. Benedictine (32-11)
3:00pm    Case Western (27-13) vs. St. Scholastica (28-9)
6:00pm    UW-Stevens Point (36-9) vs. UW-Whitewater (35-7)

At the Central Regional in Moline, Illinois, top-seeded Webster scored six runs in the third inning and beat Ripon College 7-6 in an opening round game.

NCAA Div. 3 baseball Regionals start Wednesday

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UW-Stevens Point won the regular season WIAC Baseball title.  For their efforts, they’re the 2-seed in the Midwest Regional which opens tomorrow at UW-Whitewater.  The Pointers (35-9) will open play at 3pm against the 5-seed, Benedictine University (32-10), which received an at-large birth out of the Northern Athletics Conference.

The host team, Whitewater (34-7) also received an at large bid and is seeded No. 3.  The Warhawks will open play at 6pm against No. 4 Case Western Reserve (27-12), which is making its second NCAA tournament appearance.

St. Thomas (33-5) is the top seed.  They’ve won 25 of their last 26 games and will face the 6-seed, St. Scholastica (27-9) at noon Wednesday.

In the Central Regional in Moline, Illinois, Ripon College (24-14) is the 6-seed and will take on top-seeded Webster University (32-9) at noon Wednesday.

 

Warhawks off to good start in softball regionals

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Top-seeded UW-Whitewater knocked off Finlandia, 6-1, to open the NCAA Division III Whitewater regional on Thursday.

The Warhawks (32-5) will face Luther college in a winners bracket game against Luther, a 6-4 winner over Carthage.

UW-Eau Claire fell in their opening round game, 12-10 to North Central.  The Blugolds fell to 26-8.

College Baseball

The Midwest Conference baseball tournament opens today.  Top seeded Ripon hosts Grinnell and 2nd seeded St. Norbert College faces Knox in Fond du Lac.  –  The WIAC conference baseball tournament opens Saturday at host Whitewater.

 

 

Dick Bennett to be honored at Final Four

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Former Wisconsin and Green Bay head men’s basketball coach Dick Bennett will be honored by Athletes in Action during the men’s basketball Final Four in Atlanta as Bennett will be given the Coach Wooden “Keys to Life” Award at the 17th Annual AIA Legends of the Hardwood Breakfast on Saturday, April 6.

The event will feature Ernie Johnson, Clark Kellogg, Jerry Colangelo, Shaquille O’Neal and Kenny Smith.  Former winners of the award include:  Homer Drew, Clark Kellogg, David Robinson, Don Meyer, Charlie Ward, Mark Price and Jerry Colangelo.

In 2000, Bennett guided Wisconsin to the Final Four.  He has an overall coaching record of 489-307, at UW-Stevens Point, UW-Green Bay and Wisconsin.

Bennett was an accomplished three sport star at Ripon College.  He’ll be presenting the monetary award to Ripon College at the Final Four.

Gillespie retiring after long run at Ripon College

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Long time Ripon College basketball and baseball coach Bob Gillespie is retiring

Bob Gillespie

following the baseball season this spring. 

Entering his final season as head coach, Gillespie has compiled a combined coaching record of 852-517-3 in basketball and baseball.

As Ripon’s basketball coach, Ripon won the Midwest Conference championship six times and took the team to 10 NCAA tournaments, while averaging 16 wins per season.  In his 32 years as basketball coach, Gillespie saw just four losing seasons, while recording a school-record 22 consecutive winning campaigns from 1983-2004.  He finished his career this year as the school’s all-time winningest basketball coach.  His 510-248 career record gives him a winning percentage of .673, which ranks among the top 40 in Division III baseball history. [Read more…]

NCAA Divison 3 baseball regionals

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All four Wisconsin teams remain alive heading to Day 3 of the NCAA Division 3 baseball regionals.

In the Midwest Regional, hosted by UW-Whitewater, the Warhawks are still playing in the winners bracket.  Whitewater beat Hamline 7-6 yesterday to improve to 2-0 in regional play. 

Stevens Point is also in the Midwest Regional, but the Pointers stranded 14 base runners yesterday and fell to St. Scholastic 3-2.  That means the Pointers are a loss away from elimination.

In the Central Regional, both Carthage College and Ripon College are trying to make their way through losers bracket.  Carthage eliminated top seeded Coe College yesterday with a 5-3 win. 

Ripon fell to Thomas More 5-3 and will face Illinois-Wesleyan in an elimination game today.

NCAA Division 3 baseball tournament is underway

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Three of the four Wisconsin teams in the NCAA Division 3 baseball regionals earned opening day wins on Wednesday. 

In the Midwest Regional, top seeded Stevens Point scored on a suicide squeeze in the 10th to beat Aurora 3-2.  The Pointers (33-8) on the season, will face St. Scholastica at 1pm this afternoon.  Second seeded UW-Whitewater earned a 3-2 win over St. Thomas and will face Hamline at 4pm today.

In the Central Regional, 6th seeded Ripon College picked up a 3-2 win over top-seeded Coe in Bloomington, Illinois.  Ripon faces Thomas More at 3:30 today. 

Second seeded Carthage College suffered an 8-1 loss to Buena Vista and will face Coe in an elimination game at noon today.