The Salve Regina University baseball team is headed to Pennsylvania after earning its 10th trip to the NCAA Division III Championships.
The 10th-ranked Seahawks will take on Little East Conference champions Keene State College in their first game of the regional, while host and 19th-ranked Penn State Harrisburg matches up with The College of New Jersey.
The Seahawks are the No. 1 seed in the regional after winning the NEWMAC Championship in walk-off fashion to earn the automatic bid. One season removed from a trip to the College World Series, Salve Regina will take a 32-7 record and program-best 17-game winning streak into the national tournament. This also marks the sixth straight appearance for the Seahawks in the NCAAs and third straight as the top seed (2023 – Misericordia Regional; 2024 – Cortland Regional).
Keene State joins the regional pod after sweeping its way to an LEC title. The Owls’ conference crown was their first in 17 years, and a 17-2 record in their final 19 games helped secure the program’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.
Penn State Harrisburg is the two-seed in the regional and is set to host at the baseball field on the Middletown campus, just outside of Harrisburg. The Lions enter the NCAA Tournament with a record of 33-11-1, losing to Keystone in the United East Championship Game.
TCNJ (26-17-1) is making its 25th appearance in the NCAA Tournament and third since the new regional format began in 2019 after finishing as the runner-up in the NJAC Tournament. The Lions put together a strong case for their at-large bid, closing the year out with wins over Kean and Rowan – both of which were ranked in the Top 10 in the National Power Index (NPI) – in the conference tournament before falling to Rutgers-Camden.
Salve Regina and Keene State will open the regional on Friday, May 16, followed by TCNJ’s matchup against Penn State Harrisburg. Game times are to be determined.
Regionals | Friday-Sunday, May 16-18 (Thursday-Saturday, May 15-17 if there is a Sunday no-play)
- Johns Hopkins Regional
- Teams: Johns Hopkins, Farmingdale State, Rutgers-Camden, Rensselaer
- Case Western Reserve Regional
- Teams: Case Western Reserve, North Central (IL), Centre, Arcadia
- La Verne Regional
- Teams: La Verne, Whitworth, Pomona-Pitzer, McMurry
- East Texas Baptist Regional
- Teams: Trinity (TX), Huntingdon, Millsaps, East Texas Baptist
- Bridgewater State Regional
- Teams: Endicott, Bridgewater State, Concordia (TX), Oswego State
- Wisconsin-La Crosse Regional
- Teams: Wisconsin-La Crosse, Bethany Lutheran, Buena Vista, Claremont-M-S
- Lynchburg Regional
- Teams: Lynchburg, Marymount (VA), Emory, Maryville (TN)
- Mount Union Regional
- Teams: Rowan, Grove City, Mount Union, Catholic
- Denison Regional
- Teams: Denison, Manchester, Keystone, Penn State-Behrend
- Webster Regional
- Teams: Webster, MSOE, Belhaven, Rhodes
- Kean Regional
- Teams: Kean, Husson, Cortland, Middlebury
- Penn State Harrisburg Regional
- Teams: Salve Regina, Keene State, Penn State Harrisburg, TCNJ
- Adrian Regional
- Teams: Wisconsin-Whitewater, Adrian, WashU, Ohio Northern
- Gustavus Adolphus Regional
- Teams: Gustavus Adolphus, Beloit, Wisconsin-Oshkosh, UChicago
- Salisbury Regional
- Teams: Salisbury, JWU (Providence), Baldwin Wallace, Ramapo
- Randolph-Macon Regional
- Teams: SUNY Brockport, Methodist, Randolph-Macon, Messiah
