(May 12, 2008) - The Castleton State College baseball team earned its first-ever trip to the NCAA Division III National Championship by winning the North Atlantic Conference Championship, and the automatic qualifier that comes with it.

Castleton will be the eighth seed in the eight-team New England Regional and will face top-seed Trinity (Conn.) in the opening round on Wednesday, May 14 at 1:00 pm.

The championship field consists of 54 teams competing in eight first-round regionals.

Six teams will compete at five first-round sites; eight teams will compete at three first-round sites. All first rounds will use a double-elimination format. Thirty-four conference champions qualified automatically.

Winners of the eight first-round tournaments will qualify for the double-elimination championship at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wisconsin, May 23-27.

DATES/SITES/SEEDINGS:

May 14-18
Hosted by Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, Harwich, Massachusetts
1.   Trinity (Connecticut) (37-0)
2.   Wheaton (Massachusetts) (32-8)
3.   Keene State (33-9)
4.   Southern Maine (32-12)
5.   Western New England (31-11)
6.   St. Joseph’s (Maine) (28-16)
7.   Worcester State (23-16)
8.   Castleton (22-18)

Hosted by USA South and Old Dominion, Danville, Virginia
1.   Salisbury (38-2)
2.   Johns Hopkins (34-5)
3.   Piedmont (33-12)
4.   Lynchburg (30-11)
5.   Christopher Newport (28-12)
6.   Randolph-Macon (25-15)

Hosted by Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana
1.   Heidelberg (37-8)
2.   Wooster (34-9)
3.   Calvin (32-8)
4.   Rose-Hulman (31-13)
5.   Adrian (30-10)
6.   Transylvania (31-12)

Hosted by Kean University, Newark, New Jersey
1.   Kean (35-9)
2.   Rowan (30-12)
3.   The College of New Jersey (28-10)
4.   Penn State-Behrend (34-10)
5.   Messiah (27-16)
6.   DeSales (24-18-1)
7.   Keystone (30-10)
8.   Gwynedd-Mercy (21-18)

Hosted by Ithaca College, Auburn, New York
1.   Cortland State (38-3)
2.   Ithaca (28-11)
3.   Rensselaer (30-10)
4.   Montclair State (26-18)
5.   Eastern Connecticut State (29-13)
6.   Farmingdale (23-13)
7.   Ohio Wesleyan (28-17)
8.   Grove City (18-16)

Hosted by Augustana College (Illinois), Moline, Illinois
1.   Illinois Wesleyan (33-9)
2.   Wisconsin-Stevens Point (28-14)
3.   Augustana (Illinois) (32-11)
4.   Wartburg (26-13)
5.   Linfield (30-10)
6.   Webster (28-13)

Hosted by McMurry University, Abilene, Texas
1.   Chapman (35-3)
2.   George Fox (28-12)
3.   McMurry (29-17)
4.   Cal State East Bay (26-14)
5.   Trinity (Texas) (32-13)
6.   La Verne (25-14-1)

Hosted by University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1.   St. Thomas (Minnesota) (31-7)
2.   Wisconsin-Whitewater (35-8)
3.   Carthage (35-8)
4.   Wisconsin-Oshkosh (29-9)
5.   St. Scholastica (32-4)
6.   Knox (15-23)

First round matchups for the championship site will be as follows:

McMurry regional winner vs. Kean regional winner
Rose-Hulman regional winner vs. USA South/Old Dominion regional winner
Wisconsin-Oshkosh regional winner vs. Augustana (Illinois) regional winner
Ithaca regional winner vs. Eastern College Athletic Conference regional winner

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