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GRINNELL, Iowa – The St. Norbert College baseball team won the Midwest Conference (MWC) championship tournament over the weekend and earned the league’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.  The Green Knights will head to the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater for the Midwest Regional. 

Six teams will compete at four regional sites and eight teams will compete at four regional sites. All regionals will use a double-elimination format. Forty-one conference champions qualified automatically.

Winners of the eight regional tournaments will qualify for the double-elimination championship at Fox Cities Stadium in Appleton, Wisconsin, Friday-Tuesday/Wednesday, May 26- 30/31, 2017.

St. Norbert (30-11, 15-2 MWC) will be the No. 8 seed in the double-elimination tournament and will face the host school in the opening round.  UW-Whitewater (35-7, 13-3 WIAC) is the top seed in the region and was ranked No. 3 in the latest D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 poll. The Warhawks recently swept a doubleheader from the Green Knights on May 7 in De Pere, 14-9 and 13-1. 

Concordia University-Chicago is the second seed in the region and is followed by Adrian College and the College of St. Scholastica.  The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is ranked fifth, while the University of St. Thomas and Macalester College are sixth and seventh, respectively.    

Tournament action in Whitewater will begin on Thursday with times to be announced at a later date.