INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA has placed the East Stroudsburg University baseball team as the No. 6 seed entering the Division II College World Series. The Warriors will play No. 3 Lenoir-Rhyne at 1:30 p.m. Friday, May 30, at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina.
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East Stroudsburg (40-14) went 5-0 through the Atlantic Regional — defeating Fairmont State, West Chester and Fairmont State again — and the Atlantic Super Regional, with back-to-back wins over Seton Hill.
The Warriors join Bracket 1 along with No. 2 Central Missouri (43-11), the Central Super Regional champion; No. 3 Lenoir-Rhyne (48-13), the Southeast Super Regional champion; and No. 7 Northwood (40-20), the Midwest Super Regional champion.
Bracket 2 will feature No. 1 Tampa (49-8), the South Super Regional champion; No. 4 UT Tyler (48-11), the South Central Super Regional champion; No. 5 Northwest Nazarene (44-14), the Northwest Super Regional champion; and No. 8 Felician (42-20), the East Super Regional champion.
Top seeds Tampa and Central Missouri are making their second consecutive appearance at the final site of the championship. The Tampa Spartans won the 2024 national title over Angelo State.
The Warriors' first opponent, the Lenoir-Rhyne Bears, are also making their first College World Series appearance in program history. The Bears earned their spot by defeating top-seeded Catawba twice on Saturday in the Southeast Regional.
Lenoir-Rhyne boasts one of the most powerful offenses in the country, with five players hitting double-digit home runs. Three players have surpassed the 20-home run mark, led by sophomore Mackenzie Wainwright, who has hit 25. Wainwright also leads the nation with 110 hits and enters the tournament slashing .433/.508/.874.
Redshirt senior Sal Carricato is second on the team with 23 home runs and is hitting .372/.444/.784. Fellow redshirt senior Cole Stanford, the team's catcher, has 20 home runs and ranks second among qualified hitters in OPS at 1.282.
While the Bears are known for their power hitting, their pitching staff has also been effective. The team leans heavily on its starters, with three pitchers logging more than 80 innings.
Graduate student Andrew Harlow leads the rotation with 105.2 innings pitched, 119 strikeouts, and a 3.32 ERA. William Girardi follows with 95.2 innings, 92 strikeouts, and a 3.48 ERA. Kellen Gradisar has contributed 80.2 innings, a 4.02 ERA, and 64 strikeouts.
The Bears are led by head coach Adam Skonieczki, who is in his first season at the helm after five years as an assistant and associate head coach with the program. Prior to Lenoir-Rhyne, he was head coach at Southern Vermont College, where he led the Mountaineers to a playoff berth, ending an eight-year postseason drought.
2025 NCAA DII baseball championship
Friday, May 30-Saturday, June 7 at USA Baseball National Training Complex | Cary, NC
May 30
May 31
June 1
- Game 5: Loser of Game 1 vs. Loser of Game 2, 1:30 p.m.
- Game 6: Winner of Game 1 vs. Winner of Game 2, 6 p.m.
June 2
- Game 7: Loser of Game 3 vs. Loser of Game 4, 1:30 p.m.
- Game 8: Winner of Game 3 vs. Winner of Game 4, 6 p.m.
June 3
- Game 9: Winner of Game 5 vs. Loser of Game 6, 1:30 p.m.
- Game 10: Winner of Game 7 vs. Loser of Game 8, 6 p.m.
June 4
- Game 11: Winner of Game 6 vs. Winner of Game 9, 1:30 p.m.
- Game 12: Winner of Game 8 s. Winner of Game 10, 6 p.m.
June 5 (if necessary)
- Loser Game 11 vs. TBD
- Loser of Game 12 vs. TBD
- Championship from June 5-7 (Best two of three)
