NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament
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| Sport | College baseball |
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| Founded | 1976 |
| No. of teams | 56 |
| Most recent champion(s) | Salisbury (1st title) |
| Most titles | Marietta (6 titles) |
| TV partner(s) | ESPNU |
| Official website | NCAA.com |
The NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament is an annual college baseball tournament held at the culmination of the spring regular season to determine the NCAA Division III baseball champion. The tournament has been played since 1976, soon after the formation of Division III. Most of the 56 teams who qualify do so by winning an automatic bid that comes along with their conference's championship; others receive at-large bids. The initial round consists of six- and eight-team regionals held at pre-selected sites in eight regions: New England, New York, Mid-Atlantic, South, Mideast, Midwest, Central, and West. The eight regional champions advance to the final round of the Division III Baseball Championship tournament, which is hosted at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 2019 and 2021. The event was formerly held at Fox Cities Stadium in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, just outside of Appleton until 2018.
In both the regional and final rounds, the tournament uses a "double elimination" format, in which teams must lose twice to be eliminated.[1]
Results[]
| NCAA Division III Baseball Championship | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Finals Site | Stadium | Championship | |||||||
| Champion | Score | Runner-up | ||||||||
| 1976 Details |
Marietta, OH | Pioneer Park | Cal State Stanislaus | 13–6 | Ithaca | |||||
| 1977 Details |
Cal State Stanislaus | 8–5 | Brandeis | |||||||
| 1978 Details |
Glassboro State | 5–3 | Marietta | |||||||
| 1979 Details |
Glassboro State | 3–0 | Cal State Stanislaus | |||||||
| 1980 Details |
Ithaca | 12–5 | Marietta | |||||||
| 1981 Details |
Marietta | 14–1212 | Ithaca | |||||||
| 1982 Details |
Eastern Connecticut State | 11–6 | Cal State Stanislaus | |||||||
| 1983 Details |
Marietta | 36–8 | Otterbein | |||||||
| 1984 Details |
Ramapo | 5–4 | Marietta | |||||||
| 1985 Details |
Wisconsin–Oshkosh | 11–6 | Marietta | |||||||
| 1986 Details |
Marietta | 11–6 | Ithaca | |||||||
| 1987 Details |
Montclair State | 13–1210 | Wisconsin–Oshkosh | |||||||
| 1988 Details |
Bristol, CT | Muzzy Field | Ithaca | 7–5 | Wisconsin–Oshkosh | |||||
| 1989 Details |
North Carolina Wesleyan | 8–713 | Cal State Stanislaus | |||||||
| 1990 Details |
Battle Creek, MI | C. O. Brown Stadium | Eastern Connecticut State | 8–1 | Aurora | |||||
| 1991 Details |
Southern Maine | 9–0 | Trenton State | |||||||
| 1992 Details |
William Paterson | 3–1 | Cal Lutheran | |||||||
| 1993 Details |
Montclair State | 3–1 | Wisconsin–Oshkosh | |||||||
| 1994 Details |
Wisconsin–Oshkosh | 6–2 | Wesleyan (Conn.) | |||||||
| 1995 Details |
Salem, VA | Kiwanis Field | La Verne | 5–3 | Methodist | |||||
| 1996 Details |
Salem, VA | Salem Memorial Baseball Stadium | William Paterson | 6–5 | Cal Lutheran | |||||
| 1997 Details |
Southern Maine | 15–1 | Wooster | |||||||
| 1998 Details |
Eastern Connecticut State | 16–1 | Montclair State | |||||||
| 1999 Details |
North Carolina Wesleyan | 1–0 | St. Thomas (Minnesota) | |||||||
| 2000 Details |
Grand Chute, WI | Fox Cities Stadium | Montclair State | 6–2 | St. Thomas (Minnesota) | |||||
| 2001 Details |
St. Thomas (Minnesota) | 8–4 | Marietta | |||||||
| 2002 Details |
Eastern Connecticut State | 8–0 | Marietta | |||||||
| 2003 Details |
Chapman | 15–7 | Christopher Newport | |||||||
| 2004 Details |
George Fox | 6–3 | Eastern Connecticut State | |||||||
| 2005 Details |
Wisconsin–Whitewater | 11–4 | Cortland | |||||||
| 2006 Details |
Marietta | 7–2 | Wheaton (MA) | |||||||
| 2007 Details |
Kean | 5–4 | Emory | |||||||
| 2008 Details |
Trinity (Conn.) | 5–4 | Johns Hopkins | |||||||
| 2009 Details |
St. Thomas (Minnesota) | 3–2 | Wooster | |||||||
| 2010 Details |
Illinois Wesleyan | 17–5 | Cortland | |||||||
| 2011 Details |
Marietta | 18–5 | Chapman | |||||||
| 2012 Details |
Marietta | 7–2 | Wheaton (Mass.) | |||||||
| 2013 Details |
Linfield | 4–1 | Southern Maine | |||||||
| 2014 Details |
Wisconsin–Whitewater | 7–0 | Emory | |||||||
| 2015 Details |
Cortland | 11-3, 6–2 | Wisconsin–La Crosse | |||||||
| 2016 Details |
Trinity (TX) | 14-6, 10-7 | Keystone | |||||||
| 2017 Details |
Cal Lutheran | 2-12, 12-4, 7-2 | Washington & Jefferson | |||||||
| 2018 Details |
Texas–Tyler | 8–1, 9–6 | Texas Lutheran | |||||||
| 2019 Details |
Cedar Rapids, IA | Veterans Memorial Stadium | Chapman | 6-4, 11-0 | Birmingham–Southern | |||||
| 2020 |
Cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic | Cancelled | ||||||||
| 2021 |
Cedar Rapids, IA | Veterans Memorial Stadium | Salisbury | 6-1, 4-2 | St. Thomas (Minnesota) | |||||
Champions[]
Teams that no longer compete in Division III are in italics. All such teams now compete in Division II.
| Rank | Team | Titles |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marietta | 6 |
| 2 | Eastern Connecticut State | 4 |
| 3 | Montclair State | 3 |
| 4 | Chapman Ithaca North Carolina Wesleyan Rowan Southern Maine Stanislaus State St. Thomas (MN) William Paterson Wisconsin–Oshkosh Wisconsin–Whitewater |
2 |
| 14 | Cal Lutheran Cortland George Fox Illinois Wesleyan Kean La Verne Linfield Ramapo Salisbury Trinity (CT) Trinity (TX) UT Tyler |
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See also[]
- NCAA Division I Baseball Championship
- NCAA Division II Baseball Championship
- List of college baseball awards
- National Club Baseball Association
- Pre-NCAA baseball champion
- U.S. college baseball awards
References[]
- ^ "Baseball : Division III : Results" (PDF). Fs.ncaa.org. Retrieved February 14, 2014.
External links[]
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| Single-division sports and championships | ||
Events listed in italics have been discontinued. | ||
- NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament