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The SUNY Cortland baseball team will continue its impressive streak of 23 consecutive NCAA appearances as the top seed in the New York State Regionals that get underway Wednesday at Falcon Park in Auburn.
That run of success by the Red Dragons is the longest active streak in Division III.
Cortland (36-4) is the top seed for the eight-team, double-elimination tournament and will face eighth-seed Oberlin College (18-26) on opening day at 1:15 p.m.
The rest of Wednesday’s schedule has fourth-seeded Oswego (27-11) facing fifth-seeded Amherst (26-13) at 10 a.m., third-seeded Keystone College (31-12) going up against sixth-seeded Rensselaer (26-15) at 4:30 p.m. and second-seeded Baldwin Wallace (31-10) taking on seventh-seeded SUNY Old Westbury (25-11) at 7:45 p.m.
Tournament action continues with four games on both Thursday and Friday, starting at 10 a.m., along with two games Saturday and one game, if needed, on Sunday.
Cortland has won regional titles in 12 of the last 20 years.
The winner of the double-elimination regional advances to the eight-team NCAA Division III World Series, which will be held May 22-26 in Grand Chute, Wis.The World Series will be in Wisconsin for the 16th straight year and will utilize a new, two-pool format this season.
The Red Dragons earned an automatic berth into this year’s NCAA tournament by winning the SUNY Athletic Conference postseason tournament May 1-3 in Cortland. Under 16th-year head coach Joe Brown, Cortland reached the 30-win plateau for the 21st time in the last 22 seasons.
Cortland advanced to the World Series in 1995, five straight years from 1997-2001, as well as in 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2014. The Red Dragons finished second nationally at both the 2010 and 2005 World Series, third in 1997 and 1998, and fourth in 2007 and 2012.
The Red Dragons tied for fifth place nationally last spring.
Cortland will host the regional in conjunction with the Auburn Doubledays — a Class A minor league affiliate of the Washington Nationals. The Red Dragons last hosted NCAA regional play in 2010 and 2011, both in Auburn.