Ribbie reporter -- Stay tuned later this week for D-III action

The Ribbie Reporter has been enjoying the great outdoors -- and some high school baseball up at Woodberry -- instead of watching the Royals waste good pitching with terrible hitting, baserunning and defense. He heads out tomorrow for Salisbury, MD on the Eastern Shore, where Washington and Lee is the No. 8 seed (out of 8) in the NCAA D-III regionals. The winner of the 8 team double elimination tournament heads for the D-III World Series.
Here's a list of the seedings:
1. Salisbury (37-6)
2. Shenandoah (28-6)
3. N.C. Wesleyan (27-19)
4. Christopher Newport (24-11-2)
5. Washington and Jefferson (33-12)
6. York (Pa.) (27-14)
7. Johns Hopkins (24-14)
8. Washington and Lee (22-13)

The only team in this bunch that W&L faced this year was Shenandoah. The Generals lost 5-4 in Lexington and certainly did not look outmatched at any point. We used out #3 starter and our #4/swing reliever in that game. Salisbury will be a tough out of course, and they'll have the advantage of a home crowd behind them. But W&L started the conference tournament by beating Lynchburg College (No. 1 seed in the ODAC) in Lynchburg. It'll help in this case that the game is at 1:15 on Wednesday.

-- Stay tuned later this week for recaps and analysis of all the action.