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NCAA Division III Baseball Committee Announces The Teams That Will Compete In The 2006 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship

For Immediate Release

Monday, May 15, 2006
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R. Wayne Burrow
Director of Championships
317/917-6943

INDIANAPOLIS---The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the teams that will compete in the 2006 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship.

The Division III championship provides for a maximum field of 53 teams. 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-two conference champions qualified automatically.

Winners of the eight first-round tournaments will qualify for the double-elimination championship at Appleton, Wisconsin, May 26-30.

DATES/SITES/SEEDINGS:

May 17-21

Hosted by Chapman University, Orange, California
  1. Redlands (30-9)
  2. Trinity (Texas) (33-11)
  3. Chapman (27-10)
  4. Cal State East Bay (24-10)
  5. Texas Lutheran (32-11-1)
  6. George Fox (27-13)
Hosted by University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin
  1. Ripon (32-5)
  2. St. Olaf (28-8)
  3. St. Thomas (Minnesota) (29-9)
  4. St. Scholastica (36-4)
  5. Wisconsin-Stevens Point (28-15)
  6. Coe (26-17)
  7. Dominican (Illinois) (21-19)
Hosted by North Carolina Wesleyan College, Rocky Mount, North Carolina
  1. Salisbury (36-8)
  2. Emory (31-7)
  3. Rowan (27-13)
  4. Bridgewater (Virginia) (31-12-1)
  5. North Carolina Wesleyan (27-16)
  6. Virginia Wesleyan (22-20)
Hosted by Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
  1. Carthage (33-7)
  2. Millsaps (34-11)
  3. Washington-U. in St. Louis (34-5)
  4. Aurora (29-11)
  5. Webster (26-16)
  6. Mount St. Joseph (28-15)
Hosted by Alvernia College and Pennsylvania Athletic Conference, Boyertown, Pennsylvania
  1. The College of New Jersey (32-5)
  2. Montclair State (27-16-2)
  3. Kean (29-15)
  4. Gwynedd-Mercy (31-13)
  5. Franklin & Marshall (28-9)
  6. Alvernia (30-11)
  7. Frostburg State (27-11)
Hosted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana
  1. Wooster (38-7)
  2. Otterbein (29-14)
  3. Marietta (35-10)
  4. Manchester (33-9)
  5. Adrian (25-15)
  6. King�s (Pennsylvania) (25-14)
  7. Elizabethtown (25-14-1)
Hosted by Eastern College Athletic Conference, Harwich, Massachusetts
  1. Wheaton (Massachusetts) (34-8)
  2. St. Joseph�s (Maine) (33-8-1)
  3. Middlebury (24-9)
  4. Salem State (33-6)
  5. Southern Maine (29-15)
  6. Western New England (33-10)
  7. Bowdoin (28-8-1)
Hosted by Ithaca College, Auburn, New York
  1. Cortland State (37-7)
  2. Ithaca (31-9)
  3. Rensselaer (33-9)
  4. Eastern Connecticut State (29-17)
  5. St. Lawrence (23-12)
  6. Centenary (New Jersey) (28-11)
  7. Endicott (23-20)
First round matchups for the championship site will be as follows:
  • Ithaca regional winner vs. Chapman regional winner
  • Eastern College Athletic Conference regional winner vs. North Carolina Wesleyan regional winner
  • Washington University in St. Louis regional winner vs. Alvernia regional winner
  • Rose-Hulman regional winner vs. Wisconsin-Stevens Point regional winner
CONFERENCES RECEIVING AUTOMATIC QUALIFICATION BERTHS:
  • Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference � Frostburg State
  • American Southwest Conference � Texas Lutheran
  • Centennial Conference � Franklin & Marshall
  • College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin - Carthage
  • Commonwealth Conference - Elizabethtown
  • Commonwealth Coast Conference - Endicott
  • Freedom Conference � King�s (Pennsylvania)
  • Great Northeast Athletic Conference � Western New England
  • Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference � Mount St. Joseph
  • Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference � Coe
  • Lake Michigan Conference � Dominican (Illinois)
  • Liberty League � St. Lawrence
  • Little East Conference � Eastern Connecticut
  • Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference � Salem State
  • Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association - Adrian
  • Midwest Conference - Ripon
  • Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference � St. Olaf
  • New England Small College Athletic Conference - Middlebury
  • New England Women�s and Men�s Athletics Conference � Wheaton (Massachusetts)
  • New Jersey Athletic Conference � The College of New Jersey
  • North Coast Athletic Conference - Wooster
  • Northwest Conference � George Fox
  • Ohio Athletic Conference - Otterbein
  • Old Dominion Athletic Conference � Virginia Wesleyan
  • Pennsylvania Athletic Conference - Alvernia
  • Skyline Conference � Centenary (New Jersey)
  • Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Redlands
  • Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference � Trinity (Texas)
  • St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference - Webster
  • State University of New York Athletic Conference � Cortland State
  • USA South Athletic Conference � North Carolina Wesleyan
  • Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference � Wisconsin-Stevens Point


In the 2005 Division III championship game, the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater, defeated State University College at Cortland 11-4 to claim the title. Wisconsin-Whitewater went undefeated in the tournament while Cortland State continued to win after falling to the loser�s bracket in the first round.

The 2006 NCAA Spring Seasonal Show will air on CBS from 3 to 4 p.m. Eastern time, Saturday, July 1, and will include some highlights from the championship.


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