Baseball Ready for NCAA Regionals
NEW LONDON, Conn. -- Early on Thursday morning, the Mitchell College baseball team boarded a bus en route to the 2022 NCAA Baseball Championship.
The Mariners (30-11 overall) are the fourth seed in the Annville (Pa.) Regional and will face top-seeded and 10th-ranked Rowan University (30-8 overall) in the opening round of the double-elimination tournament, which begins Friday, May 20. Game time is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. at McGill Field (directions).
General admission tickets are $5 and can only be purchased at the gate. Tickets will go on sale one hour prior to the first game on each day.
The winner of Friday's game between Mitchell and Rowan will face either second-seeded Washington & Jefferson College or third-seeded Lebanon Valley College on Saturday at noon. The losers from Friday's game will meet in an elimination game on Saturday at 8:30 a.m.
The winner of the regional advances to super regionals and will face the winner of the Rochester (N.Y.) Regional.
Quick Hits
• Mitchell enters the NCAA Championship with an overall record of 30-11 out of the New England Collegiate Conference
• The Mariners have won seven of their last eight games
• Mitchell enters the tournament batting .294 as a team and averaging 7.9 runs per game
• The Mariners own a team ERA of 2.87 and have held opposing teams to 3.6 runs per contest
• Since 2015 the Mariners have posted the best winning percentage in New England with a record of 215-72 (.749)
• Mitchell has faced six teams in this year's NCAA field, going 5-2 against Swarthmore, Baldwin Wallace, Husson, Salve Regina, Middlebury and Immaculata
How They Got Here
• Mitchell finished second in the NECC standings (7-4) and were the second seed in the 2022 NECC Championship
• The Mariners went 4-1 and outscored their opponents by a 25-13 margin in the tournament
• Mitchell topped New England College by a 10-3 final in the title game to claim its eighth NECC crown (sixth under Travis Beausoleil)
• Daniel Driscoll was named tournament MVP while Bo Yaworski and Ryan Solimine earned all-tournament spots
Last Time Out
• Mitchell recorded a pair of wins over New England College in the title round of the NECC Championship
• In the first game, freshman Daniel Driscoll threw 8.1 innings and limited the Pilgrims to three runs in a 5-3 victory
• In the winner-take-all finale, senior Ryan Solimine yielded two runs over 7.0 innings, and the Mariners got home runs from Owen Robbins and Dougie DelaCruz in the 10-3 win
NECC Honors
• Bo Yaworski was named NECC Rookie of the Year, the third Mitchell player to earn that award and the first since 2019
• The Mariners had a total of six players receive all-conference recognition: Bo Yaworski (1B), Lelo Martinez (3B), Matt Falk (C), Dougie DelaCruz (OF), Hunter Yaworski (OF) and Chris Gibbs (P)
Mitchell in the NCAA Championship
• Mitchell is making its seventh appearance in the NCAA Championship (2021, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2011)
• The Mariners are 4-12 overall in the NCAA Championship, with the last victory coming against Merchant Marine in 2021
• Mitchell will be the fourth seed in the Annville, Pa. Regional
• The Mariners have never played Rowan, Washington & Jefferson or Lebanon Valley