INDIANAPOLIS – For the fifth consecutive season, the seventh-ranked Salisbury University baseball team will host national tournament games from the friendly confines of Donnie Williams Stadium. The Sea Gulls were announced as
one of 16 regional hosts for the 2026 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament, whose bracket was revealed on Monday afternoon.
Salisbury will begin its national title chase on Friday, May 15, against Bridgewater State, with Mount Union and Hobart also set to lock horns that afternoon. The four-team double-elimination pod will run Friday through Sunday, with game times to be announced.
The Sea Gulls went 32-9 in the regular season, currently boast a 12-game winning streak, and captured the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference (C2C) championship for the fifth time in six years. Slotting at No. 7 in the latest NCAA Power Index, SU earned an at-large bid into the 64-team field. SU has played in every NCAA Tournament since 2000, a span of 26 consecutive appearances (31 overall), good for Division III's second-longest active streak (Cortland, 33).
SU has now been tapped to play postseason games at home for the fifth straight year after hosting Super Regionals from 2022-24 and both Regionals and Supers in 2025. This will mark the 10th time in program history it will play at home in the NCAA Tournament.
The Sea Gulls hit the dance floor looking to make it to a fourth Division III World Series in the past six years and ninth overall. SU made the final eight in three straight seasons from 2021-23, winning the national championship in 2021 and finishing runner-up in 2022.
The NCAA Regional round will take place on May 15-17, with the 16 regional champions qualifying for eight best-of-three Super Regionals on May 22-23. The eight Supers winners will advance to the 2026 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship, set to be held on May 29 through June 4 at Classic Auto Group Park in Eastlake, Ohio.
Salisbury University is a proud member of NCAA Division III with primary membership in the Coast-to-Coast Athletic Conference, along with affiliate membership in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (football, men's & women's swimming), Coastal Lacrosse Conference (men's lacrosse), State University of New York Athletic Conference (field hockey), and Colonial Women's Golf Conference (women's golf). With over 500 student-athletes in 23 varsity sports, SU is recognized as one of the nation's most competitive intercollegiate athletics programs regardless of division, featuring dedicated coaches and staff that foster excellence on and off the field. The Sea Gulls have won a combined 23 team national championships, 24 individual national championships, and 211 conference championships, and have produced 54 Academic All-Americans.
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