With their 40th straight win, the Trinity Bantams tied Marietta for the longest win streak in D-III history. Trinity sent Wheaton into the losers bracket with a 6-2 win at the Harwich Regional. Trinity will have to wait until Sunday for a chance to break the record. The Bantams advanced into the championship game which is scheduled for Sunday against an opponent to be determined.

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Adrian advanced to the championship game of the Terre Haute Regional with a 4-1 victory over Heidelberg. Ryan Domschott emerged as the hero for the victors with seven strong innings of work out of the bullpen. Domschott entered with two runners on base in the second inning and tossed the next seven frames, allowing just one run and three hits. Adrian will play Heidelberg again, needing only one win in two games to advance to Appleton.

The top-seeded Cortland Red Dragons beat RPI 9-5 in the Auburn Regional for their 37th win in a row. The Red Dragons advance Saturday’s championship round and will play either RPI or Eastern Connecticut. In the game with RPI, Khyle Dimino singled in the winning run to highlight a four-run Red Dragon eighth inning that broke a 5-5 tie and sent Cortland to the win. In earlier action, Ed Kloepping led off the top of the ninth with a triple and scored the winning run a batter later on Steve Piscitello’s sacrifice fly as Montclair State eliminated Ithaca 7-6. Eastern Connecticut eliminated Ohio Wesleyan and Montclair State up a Warriors/Red Hawks matchup.

UW-Whitewater defeated St. Thomas 4-1 to advance to the Oshkosh Regional championship game. Jordan Stine led off the top of the tenth with a base hit to center field to get things going for UW-Whitewater. Relief pitcher Dan Leslie then struck Joe Munn with an errant pitch to put runners on first and second. After a botched sacrifice, a Mike Kenseth single followed to score Munn and a lead they would not relinquish.

Webster defeated Augustana 14-13 and advances to the Championship game. The Gorloks will play the winner of Augustana and Linfield in the early game on Saturday.

Chapman had its largest offensive output in this year's playoffs and needed every bit of it to earn a 10-9 victory over Trinity (Texas). The Panthers scored 10 runs on 15 hits and led 10-7 heading into the bottom of the ninth. Trinity had the tying and winning runs on base before Kurt Yacko fielded a comebacker for the final out of the game.

Salisbury defeated Christopher Newport 5-1 in Danville, then came back in the night cap and beat Lynchburg 5-2. The Sea Gulls scored five in the bottom of the eighth to advance to the championship game. Salisbury will play either Johns Hopkins or Lynchburg for the right to represent the South region.

Rain has settled in Newark pushing today's games to Saturday. The Keystone-Messiah game will start at 10 a.m. as they attempt to play four games on Saturday and finish the rest on Sunday.

Harwich also got rained on, pushing Southern Maine and Western New England into Saturday afternoon. Earlier, Southern Maine's Tim Therrian pitched his first collegiate shutout blanking Keene State 8-0 in an elimination game. Earlier Bryan Calzone pitched the first nine-inning complete game of his career as Western New England eliminated Worcester State 8-3.

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