GAME TIMES: Game 1 (Friday, May 24th) - 12:00 p.m. | Game 2 (Saturday, May 25th) - 11:00 a.m. | Game 3 (if neccesary) 45 minutes following the conclusion of game 2

GRANVILLE, Ohio (May 20, 2024) – After winning its first-ever NCAA Regional Championship this past weekend, the No. 2 nationally-ranked Denison University baseball team will host Birmingham-Southern College for a best-of-three series in the NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament Super Regional round beginning on Friday, May 24.

 Winners from the 16 super regional rounds will move on to the NCAA Championship series at Classic Auto Group Park in Eastlake, Ohio, May 31-June 6, hosted by the North Coast Athletic Conference.

The Big Red advanced out of their own Granville Regional with a 13-0 win over No. 23 Rowan University on Sunday, going 3-0 over the three-day tournament while outscoring its opponents a combined 54-8. The plus-46 run differential for the Big Red was the highest among all 11 teams that won all three games of their regional. Denison saw seven players hit over .300 during the regional, led by senior shortstop Owen Wilson with a .615 average (8-for-13). Senior first baseman Noah Leib and senior catcher Colin Ravin were both 9-for-16 (.563) while senior right fielder Jake Welsch was 7-for-13 (.538).
Ravin led the team with nine runs batted in during the regional while Leib led with nine runs scored.

Junior left fielder Eric Colaco scored seven runs and was a perfect 4-for-4 on stolen base attempts. Leib also accounted for four of the team's 16 doubles across the three games. Winners of six-straight games, the Big Red have set a new program record for regular season wins with a 42-6 overall record.

For the first time since 2022, Birmingham-Southern (30-14 overall) is moving on to the NCAA DIII Super Regionals after also sweeping its way through their regional and defeating the host school, Transylvania University, 5-2 in the Lexington Regional title game. The Panthers, who boasted the fourth-winningest baseball program in the country during the 2010s, won't get a chance to make their mark after this season. The college announced in March that it will cease operations on May 31. So, the team's at-large berth to the Division III NCAA Tournament guarantees at least one final chance
for the team to compete together.