INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Baseball Committee has announced the 56 teams that will compete in the 2015 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship.
Six teams will compete at four regional sites and eight teams will compete at four regional sites. All regionals will use a double-elimination format. Forty conference champions qualified automatically.
Winners of the eight regional tournaments will qualify for the double-elimination championship at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wisconsin, May 22-26/27, 2015.
In the 2014 Division III championship game, Wisconsin-Whitewater defeated Emory 7-0. With that win, Wisconsin-Whitewater became the first program to win a football, men's basketball and baseball national championship in the same year.
DATES/SITES LISTED ALPHABETICALLY PER REGION:
May 13-16/17
South Region
Hosted by Piedmont, Demorest, Georgia
Birmingham-Southern
Emory
Marietta
Methodist
Pacific Lutheran
Rhodes
Mideast Region
Hosted by Washington and Jefferson, Washington, Pennsylvania
Adrian
Frostburg State
Heidelberg
La Roche
Shenandoah
Washington and Jefferson
Central Region
Hosted by Wartburg, Waverly, Iowa
Anderson (Indiana)
Carthage
Greenville
Wartburg
Webster
Wisconsin- Stevens Point
West Region
Hosted by Texas-Tyler, Tyler, Texas
La Verne
Linfield
Millsaps
Texas-Tyler
Trinity (Texas)
Whitworth
Mid-Atlantic Region
Hosted by York Revolution / Middle Atlantic Conferences, York, Pennsylvania
Alvernia
Catholic
Johns Hopkins
Kean
Misericordia
Mitchell
Penn State-Berks
Salisbury
New York Region
Hosted by SUNY Cortland, Cortland, New York
Amherst
Baldwin Wallace
Keystone
Oberlin
Old Westbury
Oswego State
Rensselaer
SUNY Cortland
New England Region
Hosted by ECAC, Harwich, Massachusetts
Castleton
Curry
MIT
Ramapo
Salem State
Southern Maine
Suffolk
Wesleyan (Conn.)
Midwest Region
Hosted by Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wisconsin
Coe
Concordia Chicago
Ripon
Saint John’s (Minn.)
St. Scholastica
Washington U. in St. Louis
Wisconsin-La Crosse
Wisconsin-Whitewater
First-round matchups for the championship site will be as follows:
Mideast vs. New England
New York vs. Central
West vs. South
Midwest vs. Mid-Atlantic
