INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - After a week of waiting, the Trinity University Tigers travel plans for the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship have been announced.
Trinity (28-14) will be the third seed in a four-team bracket in the Marshall, Texas Region, hosted by East Texas Baptist. The Tigers are scheduled to face Pacific (OR) at 2:30 p.m. CT on Friday in game two of the opening day of the regional. The Boxers, 25-13, earned one of 17 pool C at-large bids into the Tournament out of the Northwest Conference. Historically the SCAC is 10-10 all-time versus the Northwest Conference in NCAA Tournament action.
The winner of the Trinity, Pacific matchup will take on the winner of host East Texas Baptist and Cal Lutheran in the winner’s bracket final on Saturday.
Trinity led by head coach Tim Scannell in his 25th season, is making its fourth-straight and 15th overall NCAA Tournament appearance, which includes last year's appearance in the NCAA III College World Series. That marked the third such appearances for Trinity, which made the final site in both 2015 and 2016, and won the NCAA III National Championship in 2016.
The Tigers will enter the tournament having won eight of their last nine contests, including three-straight having swept through the SCAC Baseball Championship bracket with wins over Centenary and Texas Lutheran.
Four teams will compete at fourteen regional sites and two teams will compete at two regional sites. The four-team regionals will use a double-elimination format and the two-team regionals will play a best-of-five series. Forty-one conference champions qualified automatically.
Winners of the sixteen regional tournaments will qualify for eight, best-of-three series at the super regionals, Friday-Saturday, May 26-27. The eight super regional winners will then qualify for the pool play double-elimination championship at Perfect Game Field at Veterans Memorial Stadium in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Friday-Thursday, June 2-8, 2023.
To view the full NCAA release, click here.
To view each regional bracket, click here.
