Division III Baseball Championship

Dates and sites: Regionals will be May 19-22 at eight on-campus or neutral sites. The finals will be May 27-31 at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wisconsin. Wisconsin-Oshkosh will host.

Field: Forty-two teams, including champions of 33 conferences that have received automatic qualification.

Selection date: May 16.

2004 champion: George Fox.

Top contenders: Wisconsin-Whitewater, Rowan, Chapman, Wooster, Mary Washington.

Championship notes: Wisconsin-Whitewater just missed advancing to last year's championship game, losing on eventual runner-up Eastern Connecticut State's come-from-behind two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning. The Warhawks' career pitching victories leader, Kevin Tomasiewicz, was undefeated with 11 victories through April 30, matching his own record season total from the 2003 season ... Rowan also features a record-setting pitcher, Josh Schwartz, who holds the longest consecutive-victories streak in history in any NCAA division (34 through May 2). Schwartz notched a complete-game win over Wisconsin-Whitewater in Appleton last year ... Chapman, the 2003 champion, was unable to survive a highly competitive regional on its home field last year, watching George Fox advance to claim the national crown. The Panthers are counting on a senior-laden pitching staff -- including tournament veteran Jairo Ochoa, who missed last season after undergoing Tommy John surgery, and '03 championship-game winner Jeff Green -- to lead the way back to Appleton this spring.

Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship

Dates and sites: First-round games (May 11), second-round games (May 14), quarterfinals (May 18) and the semifinals will all be played at campus sites. The final will be May 29 in Philadelphia.

Field: The Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship provides for a maximum field of 17 teams.

Selection date: May 8.

2004 champion: Salisbury.

Top contenders: The latest USILA poll ranked Salisbury, Cortland State, Roanoke, Middlebury and Gettysburg as the top teams.

Championship notes: Salisbury has won the title five times -- in 1994, 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2004 -- and will attempt to add their sixth and third in a row this year. The Sea Gulls were undefeated through April 29 ... The Roanoke Maroons tied a school record with a 12-win season, finishing the regular season with an eight-game winning streak ... Middlebury has played in the NCAA championship game in five of the last six years, winning the title in 2000, 2001 and 2002 ... Gettysburg completed an 8-0 run through the Centennial Conference with a 13-12 win over Franklin & Marshall. The Bullets also have a win this season over Middlebury.