Emory Supplemental Packet Championship Bracket Live Video Live Stats
Emory University begins play at the 2016 NCAA Division III Baseball Championships in Appleton, Wisconsin against top-ranked and defending national champion Cortland State on Friday morning at 10:00 AM CST.
Fans unable to be in attendance can still follow the action with live video: http://www.ncaa.com/liveschedule and live stats: http://www.ncaa.com/game/baseball/d3/2016/05/27/suny-cortland-emory.
Emory (34-10) rolled through the Mount Berry Regional, going 4-0 with victories over Thomas More (6-5), Marietta (8-0) and Shenandoah twice (14-7 and 15-2). Sophomore Bubby Terp was named the Most Valuable Player of the Regional after a heroic effort at the plate for the Eagles. Terp 10-for-18 (.556) with a .778 slugging percentage, .526 on-base percentage, one double, one home run and 13 runs batted in. He added his first career stolen base and scored four runs. Junior Hans Hansen ran his current scoreless innings streak to 20 with a complete game shutout against Marietta. It was the first ever complete game shutout in 71 all-time NCAA tournament games for the Eagles and just the second ever whitewash for an Emory team. Fellow junior and D3Baseball.com Honorable Mention All-American Kyle Monk pitched 6.2 scoreless innings in three outings during the regional to extend his current consecutive scoreless streak to 23.1 innings.
This is will be the Eagles third straight appearance in the World Series and the program's sixth overall. Emory will be in search of its first national title having finished second in both 2007 and 2014.
Cortland (41-6) enters the World Series having won 20 of their last 21 games and is the top-ranked team in both the D3Baseball.com and Baseball News Magazine Top-25 National polls. The Red Dragons went 4-1 to capture the New York Regional title with wins over Castleton (14-4), Frostburg State (6-0), Ramapo (13-4) and Susquehanna in the title game (10-9). Cortland will be making its 14th appearance in the World Series and won its first championship in 2015. The Red Dragons' projected starting pitcher on the mound Friday morning will be the D3baseball.com Pitcher of the Year Seth Lamando. Lamando is 9-0 with a 0.80 ERA this season and is one three Cortland players selected to the D3Baseball.com All-America teams along with starter Tanner Whiteman and reliever Turner Perry.
The winner of the Emory-Cortland matchup will face the winner of the other Pool A contest between Trinity (TX) – Wisconsin-La Crosse at 1:15 PM (CST) on Saturday afternoon.
Emory is 3-0 all-time against the Red Dragons with two wins coming in the 2007 and 2014 World Series. The Eagles are 2-2 in four previous meetings with Trinity including a 1-1 mark against the Tigers at last year's World Series. Emory and Wisc.-La Crosse have also met four times all-time, having split the series.
The winner of Pool A will face either Keystone, La Roche, Wisconsin-Whitewater or St. John Fisher in a best-of-three national championship.
NCAA Division III Baseball World Series; May 27-June 1, 2016; Grand Chute, Wis.
FRIDAY, MAY 27 (All times Central)
Game 1 (Pool A) - 10 a.m. - SUNY Cortland (41-6) vs. Emory University (Ga.) (34-10)
Game 2 (Pool A) - 1:15 p.m. - University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (38-8) vs. Trinity University (Texas) (39-7)
Game 3 (Pool B) - 4:30 p.m. - Keystone College (Pa.) (37-9) vs. St. John Fisher College (N.Y.) (38-11)
Game 4 (Pool B) - 7:45 p.m. - La Roche College (Pa.) (41-10) vs. University of Wisconsin-Whitewater (34-15)
SATURDAY, MAY 28
Game 5 (A) - 10 a.m. - Loser of Game 1 vs. Loser of Game 2
Game 6 (A) - 1:15 p.m. - Winner of Game 1 vs. Winner of Game 2
Game 7 (B) - 4:30 p.m. - Loser of Game 3 vs. Loser of Game 4
Game 8 (B) - 7:45 p.m. - Winner of Game 3 vs. Winner of Game 4
SUNDAY, MAY 29
Game 9 (A) - 10 a.m. - Winner of Game 5 vs. Loser of Game 6
Game 10 (B) - 1:15 p.m. - Winner of Game 7 vs. Loser of Game 8
Game 11 (A) - 4:30 p.m. - Winner of Game 6 vs. Winner of Game 9
Game 12 (B) - 7:45 p.m. - Winner of Game 8 vs. Winner of Game 10
If no "if necessary" games are needed for either pool:
Monday, May 30:
Game 13 - 12 p.m. - Pool A winner vs. Pool B winner (first game of best-of-three championship series)
Tuesday, May 31:
Game 14 - 11 a.m. - second game of best-of-three championship series
Game 15 - (30 min. after Game 14) - third game of best-of-three championship series, if needed
If one pool needs an "if necessary" game:
Monday, May 30:
Game 13 - 12 p.m. - Pool A or Pool B "if necessary" game
Tuesday, May 31:
Game 14 - 11 a.m. - Pool A winner vs. Pool B winner (first game of best-of-three championship series)
Game 15 - (30 min. after Game 14) - second game of best-of-three championship series
Wednesday, June 1:
Game 16 - 11 a.m. - third game of best-of-three championship series, if needed
If both pools need an "if necessary" game:
Monday, May 30:
Game 13 - 12 p.m. - Pool A "if necessary" game
Game 14 - 3:30 p.m. - Pool B "if necessary" game
Tuesday, May 31:
Game 15 - 11 a.m. - Pool A winner vs. Pool B winner (first game of best-of-three championship series)
Game 16 - (30 min. after Game 14) - second game of best-of-three championship series
Wednesday, June 1:
Game 17 - 11 a.m. - third game of best-of-three championship series, if needed