NCAA Destination Set; Oswego Headed to Maine
Oswego Sports Information Department
OSWEGO, N.Y. – The Oswego State baseball team learned its NCAA Championship destination during Monday's selection show. Second-seeded Oswego will head north to the University of Southern Maine and will face the third-seeded Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Engineers at 3:30 p.m. on Friday. The Lakers and Engineers each earned berths by winning their conference tournaments, with Oswego winning the SUNYAC while MIT captured the New England Men's and Women's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC).
Top-seeded Southern Maine – ranked No. 2 in both national polls – is hosting the double-elimination, four-team pod and the Huskies will face New England College on Friday. The four-team regional format can be seen in the table below:
| Friday, May 17 | |||
| Game 1 | 12 p.m. | No. 1 Southern Maine vs. No. 4 New England | |
| Game 2 | 3:30 p.m. | No. 2 Oswego vs. No. 3 MIT | |
| Saturday, May 18 | |||
| Game 3 | 12 p.m. | Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2 | |
| Game 4 | 3:30 p.m. | Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 | |
| Game 5 | 7 p.m. | Winner Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4 | |
| Sunday, May 19 | |||
| Game 6 | 12 p.m. | Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5 | |
| Game 7 | 3:30 p.m. | Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 6 (if necessary) |
For the first time, the NCAA Division III Championship has moved to a regional and super regional format before the eight-team World Series. The winner of the Southern Maine Regional will face the winner of the UMass-Boston Regional, which includes the host, Baruch College, Wheaton College (Mass.) and St. Joseph's College (Me.), in a super regional best-of-three series on May 24-25.
Super regional winners will play the familiar World Series format of double-elimination until two teams remain, with those two teams playing a best-of-three series. The World Series - for the first time in Cedar Rapids, Iowa - begins May 31 and will continue through either June 4 or 5.
