Official NCAA Release
Oshkosh Regional Web site
INDIANAPOLIS – For the fifth straight year and the sixth time overall, the St. Scholastica baseball team has earned a bid to the 2009 NCAA Tournament and will take part in the Oshkosh Regional starting on Wednesday at E.J. Schneider Field.
CSS will be the No. 3-seed in the regional. The other five teams in the regional include the top seed and Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC) Tournament Champion St. Olaf College. The No. 2 seed with be the MIAC regular season champion University of St. Thomas. At the No. 4 seed is St. Norbert College from the Midwest Conference. The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Tournament champion University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is the No. 5 seed and Midwest Conference Tournament champion Beloit College (Wis.) is the No. 6 seed.
The Saints have had an emotional season from the start when head coach John Baggs passed away due to cancer. CSS then had 21-game win streak and earned its highest ranking in program history. The Saints then closed the regular season losing two of their last three games and were defeated on the first day of the Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) Tournament. However, they would respond by winning three games on Friday to capture their 13th straight UMAC Tournament crown.
Last year, the Saints had their farthest run into the NCAA Tournament as they fell to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in the regional championship game. This will be the first time the Saints will not open with a WIAC team as they will face St. Norbert College on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
All of the action will take place at E.J. Schneider Field the same venue as last season. Tickets can be purchased at E.J. Schneider Field on each day of the tournament.