D 3 softball

[7express]

Anyone have an idea why NCAA does not pick 3 more teams for tournment. They have one 6 team  and one 7 team regional. I know in the 7 team one the bracket gets very confusing. The 6 team is also goofy. Just pick 3 more teams.

I agree.  I mean, it's not like the basketball tournament where it's incredibly easy to only select 60 teams because you can give 4 teams a bye on each corner of the bracket.  In softball, the 6 team field is weird and the 7 team regional is just goofy.  I know the majority of D-3 schools are East of the Mississippi River, but really, it can't seem that difficult to fit 3 more teams in the field.

[7express]

Regional updates (will be updated throughout the day as I get finals in), Alma:
Trine beat Geneva 6-5, Chicago beat JC 3-2. 
Alma came up with 4 runs in the 7th to knock off Denison 6-5
Behrend vs. Ohio Northern starts soon to end the day
Ohio Northern up 2-0, bot 2
Ohio Northern over Penn state-Behrend 6-1

Amherst:
Started at 3 because of rain
Cortland over Keuka 4-3
St. Joes (ME) vs. Keene ends day at 5; Amherst vs. Husson, Plattsburgh vs. UNE moved to tomorrow due to the weather.
St. Joes Keene tied at 0 bot 3
Keene beats St. Joes 4-2
it turns out Amherst vs. Husson is going to take place today; Plattsburgh vs. UNE moved to Friday
Bloomington:
IW 4 St. Norbert 1
Eau Claire 6 Fontbonne 1
Anderson 5-0 over Carthage bot 5
Anderson beat Carthage 9-1; 4 runs for Anderson in the 7th blew the game open.
Linfield vs. Benedictine should begin in about 20 or 30 minutes
Linfield up 3-0 top 4

Newport News:
Emory 4-1 over McDaniel
Messiah loses to Roanke 2-7
Ferrum over Salisbury 5-2
Farmingdale vs. Newport starts at 5
Newport beats Farmingdale 12-4 in 5

Union:
Montclair shuts out Baruch in 6 innings 8-0
TCNJ in 9 over Alvernia 2-1
Rowan over Misericordia 4-0
Moravian vs. Centenary starts at 5
Centenary up 2-0 top 4
Centenary upends Moravian 3-0

Willamantic:
Eastern 10-1 over Lesley
Coast Guard over Ithaca 2-1
Fisher leads Rochester 3-0 top 3
Fisher up 6-2 top 6
SJF defeated Rochester 8-5
Tufts vs. Salem should be starting around 7

[7express]

Keene state vs. St. Joes.  Was supposed to start at 12 noon, but due to weather in the area, not starting until 5 and will end this rain-shortened session at Amherst. 
St. Joes is the 5 seed coming in with a record of 33-7 winners of the GNAC conference.  Keene state is the 4 seed coming in with a record of 25-10-1.  Keene finished tied for 2nd in the LEC with RIC; Keene made it to championship Saturday of the LEC tournament before losing to Western to begin that day, their first loss to the Colonials in 4 games this year.  Keene began that tournament by defeating the Colonials.  Maddie Kluna starts for the Monks, Keene's ace Emily Albin steps in the circle.  Keene is the home team and will get last ups if need be.
St. Joes 0 Keene 0 top 1.  Game should be starting in a few minutes.
St. Joes 2 Keene 0 top 3.  After each team stranded 1st and 2nd in the 1st and 2nd with no one out in the 2nd (St. Joes started with a lead off double, Keene got a walk and wildpitch to get her to 2nd), St. Joes gets the first run.  Danyelle Shufelt walked, and after a sac bunt and a wild pitch Emily Leverone hit a 2 run homer. 
St. Joes 2 Keene 2 top 4.  Jessica Fiorenza scored on a Monk's error, and Keene tied the game on a Nicole DuPuis sac fly which scored Haley Chandler.
St. Joes 2 Keene 4 bot 5.  Nicole DuPuis home run scores Sara Stocklinski
Final: Keene 4 St. Joes 2.  St. Joes goes onto face Cortland, St. Joes faces keuka in the first elimination game Friday.

[WLCALUM83]

Last IL Wes regional final:

Linfield 3, Benedictine 0

Irony of this one is, the at bat power-squad Linfield got its runs in, wouldn't you know, what started the action? A bunt single-- of all things--with 2 out. (Talk about giving a team a taste of its' own medicine--). 

[sbparent]

80% chance of rain tomorrow for the Tyler regional

[sflzman]

Anyone have an idea why NCAA does not pick 3 more teams for tournment. They have one 6 team  and one 7 team regional. I know in the 7 team one the bracket gets very confusing. The 6 team is also goofy. Just pick 3 more teams.

I agree.  I mean, it's not like the basketball tournament where it's incredibly easy to only select 60 teams because you can give 4 teams a bye on each corner of the bracket.  In softball, the 6 team field is weird and the 7 team regional is just goofy.  I know the majority of D-3 schools are East of the Mississippi River, but really, it can't seem that difficult to fit 3 more teams in the field.

It got explained to me yesterday at the Alma regional (which I'm predicting either Alma over Chicago, Chicago over Alma, or the same scenario with ONU. Trine did not look good one bit, while Chicago did) and it has to do with the percent of dIII schools that sponsor softball.  That's the same reason men's and women's LAX have different number of teams in the field.  It all has to do with the number of schools.  There's a big mathmatical formula to determine it I guess.

[sbparent]

Not disagreeing with you but that just seems odd.  Just did a quick look on the NFCA website and there are approximately 425 D3 schools listed there.  I counted quickly so probably not accurate.  I then looked at the NCAA RPI list for the total number of D1 schools; total of 289.
Oh well, I guess it just is what it is.  But really 3 more teams would make more sense to me.

[Phred]

PELLA REGIONAL  (6 teams first day)

Friday:  St. Scholastica eliminated by Central (game #4)

Saturday at 10.  Luther vs St Thomas (game #5)
                 noon:  River Falls vs Coe (game #6)
                  2PM:  either Central vs loser between River Falls and Coe  (depending upon whether LUTHER
                           or                                                                    (beats St. Thomas who would be
                           Central vs winner of Luther and St. Thomas            ( eliminated.)
                  4 PM  HELP!!!!!!!!!!

[7express]

Sorry was at work then went out afterwards.  Catching up right up. 

Alma:
John Carroll beat Geneva 4-2 (Geneva eliminated)
Denison 5-4 over Behrend (Behrend eliminated)
Trine beat Chicago 6-1
Ohio Northern beat Alma 2-1

Amherst:
Amherst over Husson 6-4 (final from Thursday)
Plattsburgh over UNE 10-0 (5 innings)
Keuka in 9 innings over St. Joes (ME) 5-4 (Monks eliminated)
UNE beat Husson 11-8 (Husson eliminated)
Keene state beat Cortland state 2-1

Bloomfield:
Linfield over Benedictine 3-0 (final from Thursday)
St. Norbert beat Fontbonne 7-0 (Fontbonne eliminated)
Carthage 1-0 over Benedictine (Benedictine eliminated)
Illinois Wesleyan over Eau Claire 2-1
Linfield shut out Anderson 8-0 (final 5 innings)

Newport News:
McDaniel knocks out Messiah in 10 1-0 (Messiah, 1 of my darkhorse picks is out)
Salisbury shuts out Farmingdale state 11-0 (Farmingdale eliminated)
Roanoke sends Emory to the losers bracket with a 4-2 win
CNU shuts out Ferrum 8-0

Pella:
Luther over St. Scholastica 8-1
River Falls over Central 8-1
Coe over St. Thomas 3-0
Central over St. Scholastica 10-2 (Scholastica eliminated)

Tyler:
Claremont-Mudd Scripps over Louisiana College 9-2
Redlands over Birmingham Southern 6-4
Pacific Lutheran over Huntington 8-0 (final 5 innings)
Tyler over Louisiana College 5-2 (LC eliminated)

Union:
Alvernia in 5 innings over Baruch 8-0 (Baruch eliminated)
Moravian dispatches Misericordia 11-2 (Misericordia eliminated)
Montclair pitches a shut out of TCNJ, 7-0
Rowan gets past Centenary 2-1

Willamantic:
Tufts over Salem state 10-5 (final from Thursday)
Ithaca over Lesley 6-0 (Lesley eliminated)
Rochester beat Salem state 4-3 (Salem eliminated)
Coast Guard beat Eastern 5-0 (is that a typo??  Really??)
Tufts over Fisher 3-0

[WLCALUM83]

Take on IL Wes results:  Benedictine outhit Carthage today, just couldn't string enough hits together at the right time -- how much longer can St. Norbert hang around?

UT-Tyler regional:  Louisiana College makes an earlier-than-usual exit.

Pella regional:  Wasn't expecting Central to lose its' opener.

(Saturday's play in Tyler will be delayed until 1:00 pm due to rain -- downpour began right after the last game ended).

[WLCALUM83]

5/12 updates:

Alma Regional:  Chicago 1, Denison 0 (Dension eliminated)
                     Alma 2, John Carroll 0
                      Trine 2, ONU 0
                     Alma 3, Chicago 1 (Chicago eliminated

5/13 schedule:  ONU vs. Alma
                      winner of that game needs to beat Trine twice to take the regional.


IL Wesleyan 5/12 finals:  Carthage 4, UW-Eau Claire 1 (UW-EC eliminated)
                                  Anderson 1, St. Norbert 0  (SNC pitcher hurls no-hitter  but loses the game,
                                                                         Anderson's run came on a walk, 2 errors and a
                                                                         sac-RBI) St. Norbert eliminated.
                                  Linfield 3, IL Wes 0
                                 
                                  Carthage/Anderson about to get underway.
                                 
                                   Carthage 6, Anderson 1, (Anderson eliminated).

5/13 Schedule:             Carthage vs. IL Wesleyan
                                 Winner vs. Linfield (will have to get 2 wins over Linfield to take the regional.)
                                 
                                                           
                                                       

5/12 Pella Regional Finals:  Luther 2, St. Thomas 0 (St. Thomas eliminated)
                                    UW-River Falls 2, Coe 0
                                    Coe 2, Central 0  (Central eliminated)
                                    Luther/UW-River Falls in progress yet.   

                                    Norse got the win, 1-0.

5/13 Schedule:                Coe vs. UW-River Falls
                                     Winner of that game vs. Luther--will need to beat the Norse twice to take Pella regional.


                                                         

[WLCALUM83]

5/12 Amherst Regional Finals:  Plattsburgh St. 5, Amherst 2
                                         Cortland St. 1, UNE 0  (UNE eliminated)
                                         Amherst 2, Keuka 1 (Keuka eliminated)
                                         Plattsburgh St. 15, Keene St. 0

5/13:   Cortland State 4, Amherst 1 (Amherst eliminated)
           
          Keane St. vs. Cortland State
          winner gets Plattsburgh State

         (Keane St./Cortland State winner will need 2 wins over Plattsburgh State to take the regional.)


5-12 Newport News Regional Finals:

        Salisbury 2, Emory 0  (Emory eliminated)
        McDaniel 3, Ferrum 1  --14 innings  (Ferrum eliminated)

5-13:  Roanoke 4, CNU 1
         
         Salisbury/McDaniel
         S/McD winner vs. CNU
         
5-12  Willmantic Regional finals:

        ECSU 6, Rochester 1 (Rochester eliminated)
        Ithaca 8, St. John Fisher 0  5 innings  (SJF elilminated)
        Tufts 3, Coast Guard 0
        ECSU 6, Ithaca 1 (Ithaca eliminated)

5-13:  ECSU vs. Coast Guard
          winner will need 2 wins over Tufts to take this regional.   

5-12 UT-Tyler finals:

        Birmingham Southern 8, Huntingdon 1, (Huntingdon eliminated)
        Pacific Lutheran 2, Redlands 1 (8 innings)
        C/M/S 3, UT-Tyler 1
        Birmingham Southern 1, Redlands 0  (Redlands eliminated)

5-13:  Pacific Lutheran/CMS
          BSC/UT-Tyler
         BSC/UT-Tyler winner vs. PLU/CMS loser
                                             

[Pat Coleman]

Like in every other Division III sport, there's one NCAA Tournament spot for every 6.5 teams that sponsor the sport.

Tournaments are then capped at 64 (such as women's basketball is) and 32 (football).

[7express]

Saturday results:

Alma:
Chicago 1-0 over Denision (Denision eliminated)
Alma 2-0 over John Carroll (JC eliminated)
Trine 2-0 over Ohio Northern
Alma 3-1 over Chicago (Chicago eliminated)

Amherst:
Plattsburgh over Amherst 5-2
Cortland over UNE 1-0 (University of New England eliminated)
Amherst over Keuka 2-1 (Keuka eliminated)
Plattsburgh over Keene 15-0
Cortland over Amherst 4-1 (Amherst eliminated)

Bloomington:
Carthage 4-1 over Eau Claire (Eau Claire eliminated)
Anderson over St. Norbert 1-0 (St. Norbert eliminated)
Linfield over Illinois Wesleyan 3-0
Carthage over Anderson 6-1 (Anderson eliminated)

Newport News:
Salisbury over Emory 2-0 (Emory eliminated)
McDaniel in 14 over Ferrum 3-1 (Ferrum eliminated)
Roanoke 4-1 over Newport

Pella:
Luther over St. Thomas 2-0 (St. Thomas elkiminated)
River Falls over Coe 2-0
Coe over Central 2-0 (Central eliminated)
Luther 1-0 over River Falls

Tyler:
Birmingham Southern over Huntington 8-1 (Hunt eliminated)
Pac Luthern over Redlands 2-1 (8 innings)
C-M-S over Tyler 3-1
Birmingham Southern over Redlands 1-0 (Redlands eliminated)

Union:
Moravian 5-4 over TCNJ (TCNJ eliminated)
Alvernia shuts out Centenary in 5 innings 8-0 (Centenary eliminated)
Montclair 3-2 over Rowan (final 8 innings)
Moravian 3-0 over Alvernia (Alvernia eliminated)

Willamantic:
Eastern 6-1 over Rochester (Rochester eliminated)
Ithaca in 5 innings over SJF 8-0 (St. John Fisher eliminated)
Tufts shuts out Coast Guard 3-0
Eastern over Ithaca 6-0 (Ithaca eliminated)

[7express]

Sunday regional:

Alma:
Ohio Northern over Alma 4-1 (Alma eliminated)
Ohio Northern needs to beat Trine twice
Ohio Northern up 4-2 top 5
Trine Ohio Northern tied at 6 top 7
Christin Miller single in the 7th gives Ohio Northern a 7-6 win over Trine which sets up a game Monday for the all the marbles.  Game will be at 10:00 am Eastern.

Amherst:
Cortland beats Amherst 4-1 (Amherst eliminated)
Keene beats Cortland 6-1 (Cortland eliminated)
Keene needs to beat Plattsburgh twice
Plattsburgh beats Keene 6-1.  Keene eliminated, Plattsburgh advances to Salem joining Montclair state

Bloomington:
Illinois Wesleyan beat Carthage 2-1 (Carthage eliminated)
IWU needs to beat Linfield twice
Linfield leads Illinois Wesleyan 2-0 bottom 2
Linfield up 6-0 top 5
Linfield beats IWU 6-2; joins Plattsburgh, Tufts, and Montclair in Salem

Newport News:
Roanoke 4-2 over Newport
McDaniel 4-2 over Salisbury (Salisbury eliminated)
McDaniel vs. Salisbury starts in a few minutes (loser is eliminated, winner has to beat Roanoke twice)
Newport leads McDaniel 7-2 top 7
Newport beats McDaniel 7-3 (McDaniel eliminated)
Newport must beat Roanoke twice
First game tomorrow is 10:00 AM, second game if neccessary is at noon eastern

Pella:
River Falls over Coe 3-1 in 9 (Coe eliminated)
River Falls must beat Luther twice
River Falls beats Luther 1-0 to set up a game Monday for the championship.  Game will be at noon eastern.


Tyler:
Pac Lutheran leads C-M-S 2-1 bottom 6
Pac Lutheran beats C-M-S 5-1 to advance to the championship game
Tyler beat Birmingham Southern 5-0 (BSC eliminated)
Tyler vs. C-M-S 0-0 bottom 1st in the final elimination of the game
Tyler beats Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 2-0 (C-M-S eliminated).  Tyler must beat Pac Lutheran twice to advance to Salem; first game starts at 2:30 PM eastern.

Union:
Rowan over Moravian 3-1 (Moravian eliminated)
Rowan must beat Montclair twice
Montclair beats Rowan to become first team to go to Salem

Willamantic:
Eastern beats Coast Guard in 8 innings 5-4 (Coast Guard eliminated)
Eastern must beat Tufts twice
Tufts leads 3-0 top 4
Tufts leads 5-0 heading into the 7th.
Tufts beat Eastern 5-0 to advance to Salem.  Jumbos starter Allyson Fourmier allowed only 3 baserunners on the day, none advancing past 2nd.