Kenyon junior Jesse Weiss (Los Angeles, CA/Winward) and Wabash junior Montana Timmons (Lafayette, IN/McCutcheon) highlight the list of conference baseball standouts who were named to the 2012 ABCA/Rawlings NCAA Division III All-Mideast Region Team.
Six North Coast Athletic Conference baseball players were named to the 2012 D3baseball.com All-Mideast Region team, while DePauw head coach Jake Martin was tabbed the region's Coach of the Year.
The 2012 NCAA Division III Championship season is drawing to a close with one NCAC team remaining alive in tournament play. The Kenyon men's tennis squad will compete in the quarterfinal round of the men's tennis championships today (May 21) against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps at the Cary Tennis Center in Cary, North Carolina. In addition, the Denison men's lacrosse team bowed out of the NCAA Tournament in the quarterfinal round with a 14-7 setback against Stevenson, while DePauw and Wooster were both eliminated from their respective double-elimination regional tournaments as part of the NCAA Div. III Baseball Championships.
Wooster (27-16), which claimed its 14th all-time North Coast Athletic Conference baseball championship and the conference’s automatic bid, will be joined by DePauw (33-12) in the NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament after the Tigers earned an at-large invitation.
DePauw University posted top-five finishes in 18 of 23 sports to earn the 
Three North Coast Athletic Conference baseball players were named to the 2012 Capital One Academic All-District 7 First Team, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). Kenyon junior Tyler Dierke (Hudson, WI/Hudson) was joined on the first team by a pair of Oberlin Yeomen, including senior Jason James (Lakewood, CO/Mullen) and sophomore Mike McDonald (Weston, CT/Weston). As members of the Academic All-District first team, Dierke, James and McDonald will now advance to the Academic All-America Ballot. The Academic All-America honorees will be selected later this month.
Wabash senior first baseman John Holm (Naperville, IL/Naperville Central) and Wooster senior pitcher Josh Stidham (Monclova, OH/Anthony Wayne) have been named the Player and Pitcher of the Year, respectively, to highlight the 2012 All-North Coast Athletic Conference baseball selections.
The College of Wooster captured its 14th all-time North Coast Athletic Conference baseball championship with an 8-6 victory over DePauw in game 7 of the 2012 NCAC Baseball Tournament on Saturday at the VA Memorial Stadium in Chillicothe, Ohio. With the victory, the Fighting Scots have earned the league's automatic bid into the NCAA Div. III Baseball Tournament.
The 2012 NCAC Baseball Tournament is scheduled for this weekend (May 3-5) at VA Memorial Stadium in Chillicothe, Ohio. The top two teams from each division (East & West) qualify for a spot in the four-team double elimination tournament.
2012 NCAC Champions
Wooster
* Final NCAC Baseball standings are based on the tournament results. The tournament winner is the NCAC Champion, the runner-up earns second place and the two other tournament teams tie for third-place. Places 5-10 are determined by the divisional standings - the third-place teams in each division tie for fifth, fourth-place teams tie for seventh and the fifth-place teams tie for ninth.