UW-Whitewater heading for Division III baseball championships

The UW-Whitewater baseball team opens play on Friday at the NCAA Division
III baseball championships in Eastlake, Ohio.  Whitewater has the third
seed, and will face number-six Trinity of Texas in the first round Friday
at 7:00.  In the other first round games on Friday, Endicott of New York
plays Kean of New Jersey; top-seed Johns Hopkins of Maryland faces Messiah
of Pennsylvania; and Denison of Ohio meets Rowan of New Jersey.  Play
continues Saturday, Sunday and Monday, with the best of three championship
series scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday, June 4 and 5.  Whitewater
finished in second place at the Division III national championships last
season, losing in the championship series to Misericordia of Texas.
Whitewater did win Division III national championships in 2005 and 2014.