NCAA Baseball Championship To Give Away Flags On Memorial Day
Fans attending the Memorial Day (May 29) games at the 2017 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Baseball Championship will receive a mini American flag.
The first 250 patrons to enter Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium on Monday will get a complementary American flag courtesy of Paul and Dawn Roth, Championship Team Hospitality members from Neenah, Wis. The mini American flags, measuring approximately 6 by 4 inches, will come affixed to a short wooden dowel.
A new giveaway item will be featured during each of the first five days of the championship. Fans on Friday (May 26) will receive a water bottle with the NCAA and Special Olympics logos. The giveaways also include a Rawlings NCAA Baseball Championship logo keychain on Saturday (May 27), sunglasses and a luggage tag courtesy of Appleton International Airport on Sunday (May 28), and a black mini-bat with the NCAA Baseball Championship logo on Tuesday (May 30).
The finals are being held in Appleton for the 18th consecutive year. Lawrence University, the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau are hosting the event.
Lawrence University, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh and the Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau are hosting the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship for the 18th straight year.
The final round of the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship is comprised of two four-team, double-elimination pools. Pool winners then square off in a best-of-three series for the national championship. The tournament features at least 15 games played over five or six days. Four games will be played on May 26-28, one or two games on May 29-30 and one potential championship game, if necessary, at 11 a.m. on May 30. Game times start at 10 a.m. each of the first three days and noon on May 29.
In the 2016 NCAA Division III Championship, Trinity University (Texas) won its first title in school history with a 10-7 victory over Keystone College (Pa.) in the final.
Other major local sponsors are the Bergstrom Corporation, J. J. Keller Foundation, Inc., Radisson Paper Valley Hotel, The Post-Crescent, and the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers.
Neuroscience Group Field at Fox Cities Stadium serves as the venue of this championship. The facility is the home of the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, the Class A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers.
Game tickets can be purchased by calling the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers ticket office at (920) 733-4152.
For more information on the 2017 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship, visit www.ncaa.com.
Additional information can be obtained by contacting Joe Vanden Acker, Lawrence University Director of Athletic Media Relations, at (920) 832-6878; Kennan Timm, UW-Oshkosh Sports Information Director, at (920) 424-0365; or Matt Ten Haken, Director of Sports Marketing for the Fox Cities Convention & Visitors Bureau, at (920) 734-3358.