College Sports

The Trinity College baseball team is on a roll… a big roll.

The NCAA Division III team has won 41 consecutive games, and remains undefeated. The Bantams set the D-III record for fastest start with their 34th win of the season, but that hasn’t slowed them down. Their 41st win broke the previous win streak mark of 40 that was held by Marietta College.

Trinity, located in Hartford, Conn., won the NCAA Regional Baseball title with a 10-3 win over the University of Southern Maine Huskies. The team now advances to the NCAA Division III National Championship Tournament in Appleton, Wisc., for the third time in the last six years.

The Bantams will open this Friday, May 23, against Cortland State. The Red Dragons are the last team to defeat Trinity, knocking them out of the 2007 NCAA Regionals by a score of 10-6 one year ago.

Streaks are nothing new to the Trinity College athletic department. The football team won 31 in a row before losing in 2006, and the men’s squash team hasn’t lost a match in more than 10 years… 10 years!

The baseball team is looking to make history. No college baseball team has gone undefeated to win a national championship. This year’s team has outscored opponents 380-103.

Pitching is getting the job done, that’s for sure. The Bantams have a team ERA of 1.86, while their opponents are at 8.61. And hitting, well, TC has that, too. The team batting average is .341, to their opponents .212.

We’ll keep you posted on how the Bantams do in the National Championship this weekend.

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