Wrapping Up Regular Season Play, Conference Tournaments Starting

It is turning in to our favorite time of the year! The season's first official NCAA Division II regional rankings were released earlier this week, clearing up what was a foggy regional picture. In addition to that, we have conference tournament play already this weekend! Conference Carolinas, South Atlantic Conference and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference are already staging their conference tournaments, and the first two both include a couple teams that can be found in the Southeast regional rankings. For the SIAC, it will mean a regional bid that eliminates one of the auto-bids from the South region as none of the SIAC schools are close to being ranked in the region.

Down the Stretch They Come! Conference Races Heat Up

We are hitting the home stretch of the Division II baseball season, as a couple conferences finish up league play this weekend and others follow suit in the next few weeks. Conference races are tight around the country with only a couple runaways, and that has narrowed down our choices for some of the top series' in the nation as we focus on those which will have the biggest impacts in the conference races. On top of that, we have even *more* no-hitters to share with you.

Lander Sets D-II Record, Non-Conference Series Rules the Weekend

A couple impressive feats took place over the last week, as one team twirled its second no-hitter of the season and another set an NCAA Division II record. On the docket this week? How 'bout three match-ups between Top 25 squads and a host of very important conference series' that will have a big effect on both conference title races and regional positioning? It was an eventful week and will be another eventful week coming up as we dive in to the most recent week of Division II baseball.

SCSU Remains Perfect, Back-To-Back No-Hitters, and a Monster GSC Series

We've been keeping track of no-hitters this year in Division II for the most part, and this past week we had three of them take place. That isn't overly exciting until you consider that two of them were from the same team in back-to-back games. In addition to that news for you, we have our only undefeated continuing to be undefeated, the usual suspects continuing to dominate, and a host of very important series coming up this weekend around the country.

Top-15 Showdown Looms to Begin April

Well, we are in the dog days of...spring? Conference play has started across the country officially, some contenders are breaking out from the pack, and some pretenders are being shown as such. The race for the championship favorite is as convoluted as ever, and I think it will just become more cloudy as we move forward. This week, we are combining the recap and preview post in to one mega post for everyone to enjoy. Below, we also highlight our Marquee Match-Up of the Week, even though we are a day late on it...

Staying Out West for the Marquee Match-Up of the Week

It is getting hard to break out of the Pacific time zone lately for our Marquee Match-Ups of the Week, and it appears to be that way again this week. We have another spectacular series coming your way from the CCAA that is the highlight of the Division II docket, and we have quite a few contests coming up this week that feature teams on the cusp of regional tournament contention battling it out against each other.

Millersville Runs To 19 Straight Wins, Tampa With Surprising Setbacks

We are running a little bit late this week, so I'm only going to recap last week's Top 25 teams (plus a few outsiders looking to make their way in to the rankings) in this post so we can get on to this weekend's preview post! The top teams continued to roll last week, including Millersville pushing their impressive winning streak out to 19 games. Tusculum's Placido Torres put up yet another double-digit strikeout game, fanning 12 Cobras against Coker, and leads the universe in strikeouts with 92 in 54 innings. On the offensive side, UMD's Wojciechowski's lead the nation in batting, with Tyler second in batting average (.571) and Alex first in home runs per game and RBI per game (and fourth in slugging percentage) so far.

Top 25 Teams Ratchet Up the Competition This Weekend

This could be our biggest week yet across the Division II baseball landscape. Half of the PerfectGame.org Top 25 will be taking on quality competition, and we are bound to have some shake-ups somewhere along the way with this many high-quality teams facing off in one week. We have a pair of series' this week that feature Top 25 teams squaring off against each other, but our Marquee Match-Up of the Week heads in to the Southeast for a key conference series between two of the top teams in the nation, record-wise, early on in the season:

First Perfecto Thrown and One Perfect Team Left

It looks like the top teams will remain much the same this week after a bevy of dominating, high-scoring, great-pitched performances from some of the best teams in the nation. St. Cloud State stands alone as the final undefeated team in Division II baseball as they push their record to 15-0, and Maryville's Robbie Gordon threw D-II's first perfect game of the year in a 2-0 victory over Hillsdale. Gordon struck out nine in the contest, and accomplished the feat for the first time in Maryville program history.

Marquee Match-Up of the Week Heads to the MIAA

It is that time of week again! Inside, we preview the top series in the world of Division II baseball this weekend as well as giving you all the pertinent links to the rest of the top series' around the nation. Our Marquee Match-Up of the Week finally starts moving a little bit East across the plains, and finds itself in...