The Misericordia University baseball team will host the NCAA Regional Championships, Friday-Sunday, May 17-19 at Tambur Field.
 
Admission is $10 daily for adults and $5 daily for seniors and students.
 
The top-seeded Cougars will host St. John Fisher in the first game of the four-team, double-elimination event.  Middlebury and Keystone will play game two at 1:30.
 
Misericordia is making its 12^th NCAA Tournament appearance after sweeping Arcadia in the MAC Freedom championship series.
 
The Cougars, 33-9, are led by MAC Freedom Player of the Year Connor Maryniak.  He is hitting .373 with 12 homers and ranks eighth in the country with 61 RBI.  On the mound, Maryniak is 9-2 with a 1.97 earned run average.
 
Garrett McIlhenney leads the team in hitting at .421 and 58 runs and ranks fourth in the nation with a .574 on-base %.
 
Joe Comins is hitting .414 with 44 RBI and Brock Bollinger is .362 with 42 RBI.
 
Joe Valenti is 8-2 with a 2.06 ERA and Steve Rinda is 6-1.  Matt Lanzendorfer is 2-0 with a 1.69 ERA and four saves and Justin Calvarese is 3-1 with a 2.25 ERA and 36 strikeouts.
 
St. John Fisher is 26-17 after winning its fourth straight Empire 8 Conference title.  The Cardinals are making their ninth appearance in the NCAA Tournament.
 
At the plate, Fisher is first baseman Brian Norsen and third baseman James Murphy. Norsen was second in the Empire 8 in batting (.398), runs (59) and RBI (51) and hit 10 homers.
Murphy led the league with 60 runs scored and was second with 66 hits and 33 stolen bases.

On the mound, the Cardinals are led by Ethan Fulton. He led the Empire 8 conference with a 2.83 ERA and was second in the league with 64 strikeouts.

Keystone is 33-11 and has won nine straight games after winning their first United East Conference championship to claim their 19^th consecutive conference title.

The Giants are making their 16^th straight NCAA Tournament appearance and rank third in the country with 144 stolen bases and fourth with 10.4 strikeouts per nine innings.

Darren Hagan is hitting .410 with 18 doubles, 55 runs and 41 RBI while Jacob Yager is hitting .386 with a team-high 42 RBI.

On the mound, Sean Brennan is 7-2 with a 2.68 ERA and 90 strikeouts…  Brayan Villar is 8-0 with a 3.70 ERA and 53 strikeouts.

Middlebury is 30-11 and is making its third consecutive NCAA Tournament appearance after winning the NESCAC championship.

Mitchell Schroeder leads the Panthers in batting (.371) and RBI (48) while Kyle McCausland leads the team with 10 homers, 92 total bases and a .657 slugging %.

Beau Root has scored a team-high 50 runs and is 22-22 in stolen bases while Chris Borter leads the team with 57 hits and 14 doubles and his hitting .365.

On the mound, Justin Lessing is 5-0 and leads the NESCAC with 1.88 ERA and tied for the league lead with 71 strikeouts.  Owen Tross and Sawyer Duarte are fourth and fifth in the NESCAC with 54 and 53 strikeouts, respectively.

Friday's winners will advance to the winner's bracket final, Saturday at noon while the losers will play an elimination game, Saturday at 8:30 a.m.