Posted: May 11, 2015
Cortland will play on Wednesday, May 13, at 1:15 p.m. versus eighth-seeded Oberlin College (18-26). Wednesday's other games feature: fourth-seeded Oswego State (27-11) versus fifth-seeded Amherst College (26-13) at 10 a.m.; third-seeded Keystone College (31-12) versus sixth-seeded RPI (26-15) at 4:30 p.m.; and second-seeded Baldwin Wallace University (31-10) versus seventh-seeded SUNY Old Westbury (25-11) at 7:45 p.m.
Tournament action continues with four games on both Thursday and Friday, starting at 10 a.m., along with two games Saturday and one game, if needed, on Sunday. Tickets each day are $3 for adults and $2 for students with ID, senior citizens, and children 12 and under, and can be purchased at the gate. The winner of the double-elimination regional advances to the eight-team NCAA Division III World Series, which will be held May 22-26 in Grand Chute, Wis. (near Appleton; south of Green Bay). The World Series will be in Wisconsin for the 16th straight year and will utilize a new, two-pool format this season.
The Red Dragons earned an automatic berth into this year's NCAA tournament by winning the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) postseason tournament May 1-3 in Cortland. Under 16th-year head coach Joe Brown, Cortland reached the 30-win plateau for the 21st time in the last 22 seasons. Cortland's run of 23 straight NCAA appearances is the longest active streak in Division III.
Cortland has won regional titles in 12 of the last 20 years. Cortland advanced to the World Series in 1995, five straight years from 1997-2001, as well as in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014. Cortland placed second in the region in 1996, 2003, 2006, 2011 and 2013. The Red Dragons finished second nationally at both the 2010 and 2005 World Series, third in 1997 and 1998, and fourth in 2007 and 2012. Cortland tied for fifth place nationally last spring.
Cortland will host the regional in conjunction with the Auburn Doubledays - a Class A minor league affiliate of the Washington Nationals. The Red Dragons last hosted NCAA regional play in 2010 and 2011, both in Auburn.
In all, nine previous NCAA regionals have been held at Falcon Park, all since 2000. Ithaca College hosted seven of those regionals, most recently in 2013. Cortland served as a co-host in 2005. Six of the Red Dragons' 12 regional crowns occurred in Auburn (2000, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010), along with three second-place finishes (2006, 2011, 2013).
2015 NCAA Division III Baseball New York Regional at Falcon Park (Auburn, N.Y.)
(hosted by SUNY Cortland)
Wednesday, May 13
Game 1: (#4 seed) Oswego (27-11) vs. (#5 seed) Amherst (26-13), 10 a.m.
Game 2: (#1 seed) Cortland (36-4) vs. (#8 seed) Oberlin (18-26), 1:15 p.m.
Game 3: (#3 seed) Keystone (31-12) vs. (#6 seed) RPI (26-15), 4:30 p.m.
Game 4: (#2 seed) Baldwin Wallace (31-10) vs. (#7 seed) Old Westbury (25-11), 7:45 p.m.
Thursday, May 14
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 15
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 16
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 17
Game 15: Same teams as Game 14 (if necessary), 1 p.m.
Other Regionals (seeds in parentheses):
South Region Hosted by Piedmont, Demorest, Ga.
(1) Rhodes, (2) Pacific Lutheran, (3) Birmingham-Southern, (4) Marietta, (5) Emory, (6) Methodist
Mideast Region Hosted by Washington and Jefferson, Washington, Pa.
(1) Frostburg St., (2) Adrian, (3) Heidelberg, (4) La Roche, (5) Shenandoah, (6) Washington & Jefferson
Central Region Hosted by Wartburg, Waverly, Iowa
(1) Wis.-Stevens Point, (2) Webster, (3) Wartburg, (4) Anderson, (5) Carthage, (6) Greenville
West Region Hosted by Texas-Tyler, Tyler, Texas
(1) Texas-Tyler, (2) Trinity (Texas), (3) Millsaps, (4) Whitworth, (5) Linfield, (6) La Verne
Mid-Atlantic Region Hosted by York Revolution / Middle Atlantic Conferences, York, Pa
(1) Kean, (2) Alvernia, (3) Johns Hopkins, (4) Salisbury, (5) Mitchell, (6) Misericordia, (7) Catholic, (8) Penn St. Berks
New England Region Hosted by ECAC, Harwich, Mass.
(1) Southern Maine, (2) Wesleyan (Conn.), (3) Ramapo, (4) Salem St., (5) MIT, (6) Castleton, (7) Curry, (8) Suffolk
Midwest Region Hosted by Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse, Wis.
(1) Wis.-Whitewater, (2) Wis.-La Crosse, (3) Washington (St. Louis), (4) St. John's (Minn.), (5) Coe,
(6) Concordia-Chicago, (7) St. Scholastica, (8) Ripon
First-round matchups for the championship site will be as follows:
Pool A: Mideast vs. New England; New York vs. Central
Pool B: West vs. South; Midwest vs. Mid-Atlantic
(NOTE: New format for the Div. III World Series in 2015 consisting of two, four-team double-elimination pools. Winners of the two pools will play a best-of-three series for the title.)
