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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 1203710, member: 289"] NCAA Division III Here are the first round match-ups for the NCAA Division III playoffs: MACALESTER (Minn) 9-1, (259-151), lost to Hamline 13-23. Unranked. Post season record: none (0 titles) at WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER 10-0, (408-86), Ranked #1 post season record: 38-7 (5 titles) FRANKLIN (Ind)8-2 (418-263), lost to Lost to Illinois Wesleyan 35-42 and Wisconsin-Whitewater 13-42. Unranked, post season record 6-7 (0 titles) at WABASH (Ind) 9-1, (413-116), lost to Wittenberg 15-21, ranked #14, post season record: 10-7, (no titles) ST. SCHOLASTICA (Minn)10-0 (421-140), unranked , post season record: 0-3 (0 titles) at ST. JOHN’S (Minn) 9-1,(307-123), lost to Concordia 14-23, ranked #13 post season record: 39-19 (4 titles) ST.THOMAS (Minn) 8-2, (457-208), lost to St. John’s 14-24 and Bethel 24-35,ranked #18, post season record 12-7, (0 titles) at WARTBURG (Iowa)10-0, (453-116), ranked #4, post season record: 6-10 (0 titles) MUHLENBERG (Pa) 9-1, (386-152), lost to John’s Hopkins 26-42, ranked #22, post season record: 3-6 (0 titles) at WIDENER (Pa) 10-0, (405-119), ranked #10, post-season record: 17-11 (2 titles) CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT (Va) 7-3, (361-313), lost to Salisbury 32-41 and Hampden-Sydney 30-35, unranked, post season record: 2-9 (0 titles) at DELAWARE VALLEY (Pa) 9-1, (434-254), lost to Widener 28-44, ranked #19, post season record 7-5 (0 titles) CHAPMAN (Ca) 8-1, (362-179) lost to Linfield 14-21, ranked #20, post season record : none (0 titles) at LINFIELD (Ore) 8-1, (441-92), lost to Williamette 28-31, ranked #11, post season record: 34-21(4 titles) TEXAS LUTHERAN 9-1,(426-295), lost to Mary Hardin-Baylor 16-72, ranked #17, post season record: 4-1 (2) at MARY HARDIN-BAYLOR (Tx) 10-0, (575-145), ranked #2, post season record: 24-12 (0 titles) HAMPDEN-SYDNEY ((Va) 7-3, (377-270), lost to Wabash 21-34, Bridgewater 9-34 and Randolph-Macon 10-24, unranked, post season record 1-6 (0 titles) at WESLEY (De) 9-1, (512-112), lost to Charlotte 33-38, ranked #5, post season record: 22-10 (0 titles) MIT (Ma) 9-0,(363-211), ranked #24, post season record: none (0 titles) at HUSSON (Me) 8-1, (294-157), lost to Alfred 17-34, unranked post season record: none (0 titles) ROWAN (NJ) 7-3 (215-137), lost to Widener 7-19, Wesley 7-37 and Montclair State 16-20, unranked, post season record: 31-15, (0 titles) at JOHN’S HOPKINS (Md) 10-0, (402-143), ranked #6, post season record: 3-5 (0 titles) ITHACA (NY) 7-3 (269-167), lost to Buffalo State 27-38, Frostburg State 37-38 and Cortland State 20-23, unranked, post season record: 28-13 (3 titles) at HOBART (NY) 10-0,(333-139), ranked #7, post season record: 7-10 (0 titles) BENEDICTINE (Ill) 6-4, (216-156), lost to Central Iowa 7-31, Carroll, (Wisc) 6-34, Adrian 6-23 and Wisconsin Lutheran 6-17, unranked, post season record: 0-2 (0 titles) at WHEATON (Ill) 10-0,(299-137), ranked #8, post season record: 10-8 (0 titles) CENTRE (Ky) 10-0 (385-153), ranked #16, post season record: 3-2 at JOHN CARROLL (Ohio) 9-1, (521-98), lost to Mount Union 24-31, ranked #9, post season record: 5-4 (0 tiles) WASHINGTON & JEFFERSON (Pa) 9-1, (457-198), lost to Waynesburg, 28-31, ranked #21, post season record: 21-23-1 (0 titles) at WITTENBERG (Ohio) 9-1, (382-128), lost to Butler 16-22, ranked #12, post season record: 21-14 (3 titles) ADRIAN (Mich) 8-2, (306-137), lost to Wisconsin Lutheran 7-17, unranked, post season record: 0-3, (0 titles) MOUNT UNION (Ohio) 10-0, (608-78) ranked #3, post season record: 81-13 (11 titles) Comments: This division has been all about Wisconsin Whitewater and Mount Union for years. They have won the last nine championships between them, meeting each other for the title 8 times. Mount Union has put some incredible numbers over the years but this might be their best team of all. In the historically powerful Ohio Conference, (which may have faded under the Purple Raider’s dominance), they won their first nine games by 58-7, 62-6, 63-7, 75-0, 62-0, 58-17, 74-7, 66-7 and 59-3, an average of 64-6 with a 41 point margin being their closest game. Then John Carroll, a team that came in with an impressive record of their own, (9-0, 497-64), threw a serious care into MU, losing 24-31 after tying the game up with 3:17 left. Both teams will be strong contenders for the title. But Wisconsin Whitewater has been the team to beat for the last several years. After losing to MU for the title in 2005, 2006 and 2008, they came back to beat them in 2007, 2009, 2010 and 2011. All those games were close. After an off year in 2012, they came roaring back in 2013 to win a fifth title in seven years by a startling 52-14 over the Purple Raiders. I’ve watched all those games and the difference has tended to be dominance up front by the Warhawks. They ahven’t put up the fat numbers that Mount Union has but those numbers won’t eman a thing if and when they line up against each other for the 9th time John Carroll beat Marietta 80-0 and almost upset the Purple Raiders. Wartburg and St. Thomas have both had 80 point games. Wartburg beat Loras 81-21 while their opponent,St. Thomas nipped Carleton 83-7. Mary Hardin Baylor can top that: their last two games have been 84-13 over Howard Payne, (that must have been payneful), and 83-19 over East Texas Baptist. They got a rematch with a team they’d beaten 72-16 because DIII likes to make the first round as geographically appropriate as possible and there just isn’t anybody else down there at this level who was good enough to make the tourney. Benedictine got in by virtue of winning their conference after an 0-3, 1-4 start. Chapman opened their season against Linfield and now will be playing them again. I completed this so late that the above games have already been played. I’ll be summarizing them in the next week but here are the scores: Wisconsin-Whitewater beat Macalester 55-2 Wabash beat Franklin 33-14 St. John’s beat St. Scholastica 35-7 Wartburg beat St. Thomas 37-31 Widener beat Muhlenberg 36-35 Linfield beat Chapman 55-24 Christopher Newport beat Delaware Valley 29-26 Wesley beat Hampden-Sydney 52-7 MIT beat Husson 27-20 Johns Hopkins beat Rowan 24-16 Wheaton beat Benedictine 43-14 John Carroll beat Centre 63-28 Hobart beat Ithaca 22-15 Washington & Jefferson beat Wittenberg 41-25 Mount Union beat Adrian 63-3 Mary Hardin-Baylor was leading Texas Lutheran 14-10 when it was suspended due to a weather delay, (lightening). It will be resumed at 11:30AM tomorrow morning. [/QUOTE]

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