The Carthage College baseball team (28-13), tied for 43rd place in the May 12 "D3baseball.com" poll, was assigned to the Central Region Championship in Waverly, Iowa, when the field was announced for the 56-team NCAA Division III Baseball Championship.  Carthage will be part of a six-team regional hosted by Wartburg College at Waterloo Riverfront Stadium. 

The fifth-seeded Red Men (28-13) will play second-seeded and No. 24 Webster University (30-13) in a first-round game on Wednesday, May 13 at 3:30 p.m.  In the other two first-round games, top-seed and No. 8 Wisconsin-Stevens Point (31-12) takes on sixth-seeded Greenville College (22-19) at Noon, with third-seeded and No. 16 Wartburg (32-12) playing fourth-seeded and No. 38 Anderson University (31-11) at 7 p.m.  Game continue at Noon, 3:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Thursday, May 14.