BEVERLY, Mass. — The first-seeded Endicott baseball team (38-5) will host second-seeded Salve Regina (36-7-1) on Saturday for the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Championship.
Endicott will need to win one game to hoist the CCC Championship, while Salve Regina will need two victories to claim the league title.
Game one is scheduled for 12 PM. The if-necessary game would be played 30 minutes after the conclusion of game one.
FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Salve Regina is 11-6 all-time in the CCC Championship.
- The Gulls and Seahawks are ranked No. 1 and No. 2 in the NCAA Division III Region II Rankings, respectively.
- NCAA ranks for Salve Regina include (as of 5/11): batting average (12th, .342), earned run average (12th, 3.42), fielding percentage (9th, .975), hits allowed per nine innings (1st, 7.06), strikeouts per nine innings (3rd, 10.7), walks and hits per innings pitched (3rd, 1.21).
- NCAA ranks for Endicott include (as of 5/11): earned run average (1st, 2.89), fielding percentage (2nd, .980), hits (6th, 515), hits allowed per nine innings (2nd, 7.22), home runs (8th, 56), home runs per game (13th, 1.33), runs (20th, 385), shutouts (7th, 6), strikeout-to-walk ratio (9th, 3.02), walks and hits per innings pitched (1st, 1.13), and walks allowed per nine innings (16th, 2.97).
- This is the first meeting in the CCC Championship between the two teams since 2021.
WHAT'S NEXT
The last team remaining after Saturday will be named the 2023 CCC Baseball Tournament Champion and earn the league's automatic qualifier into the 2023 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship.
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(Photo Credit - Demetrius Kazanas '22 M'23)
