Cortland Top Seed and Host for NCAA Regional
The SUNY Cortland baseball team has received a berth into the 55-team NCAA Division III playoffs for the 18th straight season and the 19th time overall. The Red Dragons (32-8-1) have been chosen as the top seed in an eight-team regional that the Red Dragons are hosting with the Auburn Doubledays at Falcon Park in Auburn, N.Y.
Cortland will play Wednesday at 1:15 p.m. versus eighth-seeded Castleton State College (32-14). Wednesday’s other games feature fourth-seeded Skidmore (30-13) versus fifth-seeded Keene State (N.H.) (26-15-1) at 10 a.m., third-seeded Oneonta (28-11) versus sixth-seeded Farmingdale State (24-15) at 4:30 p.m. and second-seeded St. John Fisher (28-12) versus seventh-seeded Brockport (23-16) at 7:45 p.m. Tickets each day are $3 general admission and $2 for students and senior citizens and must be purchased at the gate.
NCAA Auburn Regional - Tournament Web Page
Tournament action continues with four games on both Thursday and Friday, starting at 10 a.m. each day, along with two games Saturday and one, if necessary, on Sunday. The winner of the double-elimination regional advances to the eight-team NCAA Division III World Series, which will be held May 28 – June 1 in Grand Chute, Wis. (near Appleton; south of Green Bay). The World Series will be in Wisconsin for the 11th straight year.
The Red Dragons earned a “Pool C” at-large berth into the NCAA tournament. Cortland won the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) regular-season title with an 11-1 record, but tied for second in the conference postseason tournament. Brockport was declared the SUNYAC champion and received the league’s NCAA automatic berth with a 2-0 record after weather forced the tournament to be cut short.
Under 11th-year head coach Joe Brown, Cortland reached the 30-win plateau for the 16th time in the last 17 seasons. Cortland’s run of 18 straight NCAA appearances is the longest active streak in Division III.
Cortland has won regional titles in nine of the last 15 years. Cortland advanced to the World Series in 1995 and five straight years from 1997-2001, as well as in 2005, 2007 and 2008. Cortland placed second in the region in 1996, 2003 and 2006. The Red Dragons finished second nationally at the 2005 World Series, third in both 1997 and 1998 and fourth in 2007.
2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
Regional at Falcon Park (Auburn, N.Y.)
(hosted by SUNY Cortland and the Auburn Doubledays)
Wednesday, May 19
Game 1: (#4 seed) Skidmore (30-13) vs. (#5 seed) Keene St. (26-15-1), 10 a.m.
Game 2: (#1 seed) Cortland (32-8-1) vs. (#8 seed) Castleton St. (32-14), 1:15 p.m.
Game 3: (#3 seed) Oneonta (28-11) vs. (#6 seed) Farmingdale St. (24-15), 4:30 p.m.
Game 4: (#2 seed) St. John Fisher (28-12) vs. (#7 seed) Brockport (23-16), 7:45 p.m.
Thursday, May 20
Game 5: Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 10 a.m.
Game 6: Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4, 1:15 p.m.
Game 7: Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 4:30 p.m.
Game 8: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 7:45 p.m.
Friday, May 21
Game 9: Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 7, 10 a.m.
Game 10: Winner Game 5 vs. Loser Game 8, 1:15 p.m.
Game 11: Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 8, 4:30 p.m.
Game 12: Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 10, 7:45 p.m.
Saturday, May 22
Game 13: Loser Game 11 vs. Winner Game 12, 1 p.m.
Game 14: Winner Game 11 vs. Winner Game 13, 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 23
Game 15: Same teams as Game 14 (if necessary), 1 p.m.
2010 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship – Regionals – May 19-23
Auburn (N.Y.) Regional (hosted by SUNY Cortland at Falcon Park)
1. Cortland (32-8-1)
2. St. John Fisher (28-12)
3. Oneonta (28-11)
4. Skidmore (30-13)
5. Keene St. (26-15-1)
6. Farmingdale St. (24-15)
7. Brockport (23-16)
8. Castleton (32-14)
Trenton (N.J.) Regional (hosted by Kean University at Waterfront Park)
1. Johns Hopkins (38-4)
2. Kean (34-10)
3. Widener (25-12)
4. Alvernia (32-10)
5. Keystone (29-7)
6. Rowan (24-14-1)
7. Manhattanville (22-19-1)
8. Moravian (26-13)
Mansfield (Conn.) Regional (hosted by Eastern Connecticut St. Univ. and Little East Conference)
1. Tufts (31-5)
2. Wheaton (Mass.) (32-8)
3. Western New England (33-10)
4. Eastern Conn. St. (30-13)
5. Worcester St. (31-19-1)
6. Westfield St. (30-9)
7. Massachusetts-Boston (28-15)
8. St. Joseph’s (Maine) (32-11)
Marietta (Ohio) Regional (hosted by Marietta College)
1. Heidelberg (37-6)
2. Wooster (34-7)
3. Marietta (32-11)
4. Washington & Jefferson (32-10)
5. Adrian (29-11)
6. Thomas More (31-14)
7. Penn St.-Behrend (29-14)
Moline (Ill.) Regional (hosted by Augustana College)
1. Buena Vista (29-11)
2. North Central (31-9)5
3. Ripon (24-15)
4. Webster (33-9)
5. Rose-Hulman (29-12)
6. Illinois Wesleyan (23-20)
Whitewater (Wis.) Regional (hosted by Univ. of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
1. Wisconsin-Whitewater (38-5)
2. St. Thomas (Minn.) (33-7)
3. St. Scholastica (38-6)
4. Wisconsin-Stevens Point (29-15)
5. Carthage (28-16)
6. Aurora (27-14)
Fayetteville (N.C.) Regional (hosted by Methodist College)
1. Shenandoah (34-8)
2. Salisbury (27-11)
3. Mary Washington (26-12)
4. York (Pa.) (28-14)
5. LaGrange (26-17)
6. Bridgewater (Va.) (23-18-1)
McMinnville (Ore.) Regional (hosted by Linfield College)
1. Chapman (30-9)
2. Linfield (30-10)
3. Pomona-Pitzer (29-9)
4. Texas-Tyler (35-10)
5. Mississippi College (36-9)
6. Trinity (Texas) (32-7)
First-round matchups for the championship site (Appleton, Wis.) on May 28 will be as follows:
Auburn regional winner vs. Whitewater regional winner, 10 a.m.
Mansfield regional winner vs. McMinnville regional winner, 1:15 p.m.
Marietta regional winner vs. Trenton regional winner, 4:30 p.m.
Fayetteville regional winner vs. Moline regional winner, 7:45 p.m.
NCAA tournament selections
