OMAHA — Coastal Carolina Baseball continues it’s MCWS run on Sunday with a winner’s bracket game against Oregon State at 7 p.m. ET inside Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska. The No. 13 national seed Chanticleers (54-11) and Beavers (48-14-1) have only met once — in a game that resulted in a 4-4 tie in Seattle in 2019.

The game will be televised by ESPN2, air on the Chanticleer Sports Network and will be available on the Chanticleer Mobile App. Entering the game, the Chants have the most wins in the country (54) and the nation’s longest active winning streak (24 games). Coastal beat Arizona in its opening game while OSU knocked off Louisville.

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STREAKS, STORYLINES, SIDEBARS

• Coastal Carolina is back in the MCWS after nine years.
• Coastal Carolina ranks among the national leaders in both pitching and hitting with a team ERA of 3.23 and a slash line of .292 /.410 /.451 and has outscored opponents 482-227.
• HC Kevin Schnall was named Sun Belt Coach of the Year and Perfect Game Coach of the Year.
  
  Jacob Morrison is 11-0, a First-Team All-American, the NCBWA District 4 Player of the Year and was a finalist for the National Pitcher of the Year Award.
• C Caden Bodine (.330, .464 OBP) — finalist for the Buster Posey Award and a PG Second-Team All-American, 1B Colby Thorndyke (.306, 40 RBI) and LF Sebastian Alexander (.318, 10 HR, 27 SB) lead a lineup that has slugged 66 home runs and tallied 440 RBIs.
• Starters Morrison, Riley Eikhoff and Cameron Flukey have combined to go 25-3 with 261 strikeouts and two complete games. 
• Coastal’s bullpen has plenty of arms — no pitcher that has thrown at least 20 innings has an ERA higher than 3.51, led by Ryan Lynch (8 SV, 0.59 ERA, 34 Ks) and Domenick Carbone (6 SV, 2.54 ERA, 49 Ks).

 

HOW THE MEN’S COLLEGE WORLD SERIES WORKS …

• The MCWS runs from June 13-22/23 in Omaha … eight teams play a double-elimination first round in two four-team brackets … the winners of the two brackets will play a best-of-three MCWS Finals, with the first game set for Saturday, June 21 at 7 p.m. ET on ESPN.

It’s Opening Day for recruiting for the high school class of 2027! (I don’t want to make you feel old but we’re talking about the college class of 2031.)

June 15, 2025, otherwise known as the first day of allowable athletic recruiting for rising high school juniors by NCAA Division I and Division II coaches, is finally here. Today, student-athletes in the class of 2027 can both initiate and receive communications –including email, text messages, social media messages, phone calls, and video calls– with college coaches. They can also make verbal commitments for the 2027-28 school year. (NCAA Division III coaches are not constrained by this rule; they can make contact and recruit year-round.)

Contact between coaches and prospective student-athletes, whether off-campus or on-campus (on-campus visits include both official and unofficial visits) may not begin until August 1st.

In the past, the NCAA has published separate recruiting calendars of allowable events for Division I baseball, women’s basketball, men’s basketball, football, men’s golf, women’s lacrosse, men’s lacrosse, softball, women’s volleyball, beach volleyball, and cross country/track and field. Recruiting timelines for all other Division I sports, including swimming and diving, are spelled out in a separate recruiting calendar.

As of today, the NCAA has only published the recruiting 2025-26 calendars for women’s and men’s basketball.

Each of the calendars lists the allowable and non-allowable contact periods for their respective sports. Over the last several years, the NCAA has sought to make the lives of prospective student-athletes and college coaches less stressful by curbing early recruiting (gone are the days when coaches were getting verbal commitments from 8th-graders) and giving coaches a break from year-round recruiting.

Contact Periods Defined

• Recruiting Period: Authorized athletics department staff may make in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts and evaluations.
• Quiet Period: A quiet period is that period of time when it is permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts only on the member institution’s campus. No in-person, off-campus recruiting contacts or evaluations may be made during the quiet period.
• Dead Period: A dead period is that period of time when it is not permissible to make in-person recruiting contacts or evaluations on or off the member institution’s campus or to permit official or unofficial visits by prospective student-athletes to the institution’s campus.
• Recruiting Shutdown: A recruiting shutdown is a period of time when no form of recruiting (e.g., contacts, evaluations, official or unofficial visits, correspondence or making or receiving telephone calls) is permissible.

Following the House vs NCAA settlement, the swimming and diving recruiting landscape will change in significant ways. To begin with, those schools that have opted into the agreement will have roster limits for 2025-26 and beyond. In most cases, this will mean fewer recruiting spots for the 2027-28 school year. On the other hand, the NCAA’s scholarship limits (14.1 per women’s team and 9.9 per men’s team) are no longer in effect and these schools will now be allowed –but not required– to offer full scholarships to every member of the team.

Class of 2027

The phones were likely ringing off the hook this morning for some of the biggest names in the high school class of 2027. Those include Luke Mijatovic, who has been named to Team USA for the upcoming World Aquatics Championships, and prospective members of the World Junior Championships squad: Audrey Derivaux, Brayden Capen, Collin Holgerson, Daisy Collins, Luke Vatev, Rylee Erisman, Shareef Elaydi, Thomas McMillan. In addition, the youngest members of the 2024-25 National Junior team will be on many coaches’ lists: Anthony Dornoff, Colin Jacobs, and Mia Su.

Other top recruits from the cohort include Davis Jackson, Ellis Crisci, Griffin Oehler, Hayden Vicknair, Joey Campagnola, Juan Vallmitjana, and Trent Allen; as well as Abby Chan, Adalynn Biegler, Alyssa Ton, Bianca Nwaizu, Blakely Hammel, Carly Afanasewicz, Chloe Teger, Emily Wolf, Nikki Nixon, Sadie Buckley, Sarah Paisley Owen, and Vivienne Zangaro.

Top 2027 boys, alphabetically:

Athlete	Hometown
Anthony Dornoff	Cerritos, CA
Brayden Capen	Lisle, IL
Colin Jacobs	Bradenton, FL
Collin Holgerson	Chattanooga, TN
Davis Jackson	Raleigh, NC
Ellis Crisci	Lawrence, KS
Griffin Oehler	Rockville, MD
Hayden Vicknair	Signal Mountain, TN
Joey Campagnola	Seminole, FL
Juan Vallmitjana	Fort Lauderdale, FL
Luka Mijatovic	Pleasanton, CA
Luke Vatev	Clarendon Hills, IL
Shareef Elaydi	Santa Clara, CA
Thomas McMillan	Saint Charles, IL
Trent Allen	Carmel, IN

Top 2027 girls, alphabetically:

Athlete	Hometown
Abby Chan	Madison, AL
Adalynn Biegler	Big Lake, MN
Alyssa Ton	Fountain Valley, CA
Audrey Derivaux	Haddonfield, NJ
Bianca Nwaizu	Irvine, CA
Blakely Hammel	Jacksonville, FL
Carly Afanasewicz	Pearl River, NY
Chloe Teger	Villa Park, CA
Daisy Collins	Chapel Hill, NC
Emily Wolf	Fishers, IN
Mia Su	Sunnyvale, CA
Nikki Nixon	Raleigh, NC
Rylee Erisman	Windermere, FL
Sadie Buckley	Fairfax, VA
Sarah Paisley Owen	Atlanta, GA
Vivienne Zangaro	Long Beach, NY

In past years, there was a recruiting dead period during “signing week,” which began on the second Wednesday in November. But with the dissolution of the National Letter of Intent program following the House settlement, it is unclear if there will still be a dead period in November. We can assume the following shutdown periods will remain in place:

Swimming and Diving Recruiting Shutdown Periods

• One week in August
• The final 14 days of December
• The first week of January
• The third and fourth weeks in February during the most popular period for conference championships

(NOTE: If you have a commitment to report, please send an email with a photo (landscape, or horizontal, looks best) and a quote to [email protected]. Do not leave it in the comments.

Tickets are now on sale for the Tri Nations Test Match Series, with the Ord Minnett Aussie Stingers set to take on the USA and Italy in Perth.

Ahead of the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, the Ord Minnett Aussie Stingers will host both nations for a training camp, before playing the two test matches at Perth HPC on July 5 (v USA) and July 6 (v Italy).

Ord Minnett Aussie Stingers Head Coach Bec Rippon said she’s looking forward to the series, and said it will be a great opportunity to play against two powerhouse nations ahead of the World Championships.

“It’s going to be a great opportunity to trial some new things that we’ve been working on, and to try things without being under the same pressure of being at a World Championships,” Rippon said.

“We are really happy to have both of those teams in Australia – we always have great battles with the US and such a strong history with them so it will be great to see how we’re matching up.

“And we will play the Italians at the World Championships, so it will be a really good chance to check in and measure up against each other before Singapore,” she said.

Tickets are on sale now, for $15 per person. CLICK HERE to secure your seat.

Can’t be in Perth? Both matches will be livestreamed on the Water Polo Australia Youtube channel from 7:30pm AWST – click here

Florence, 15 June 2025 – Rari Nantes Florentia returns to the top step of the podium and becomes Italian Champion in the fifth Italian Paralympic Water Polo Championship, closing an extraordinary season with a prestigious double victory. In the setting of the Water Sport GLS in Naples, the lilies dominated the semi-final by beating Lazio 11 to 5, and then imposed themselves authoritatively in the final against the home team of Water Sport GLS Napoli with a clear 11 to 4.

A success that is worth the second category championship for the Florentine team, after the one won in 2023, and which allows the florentia to reach the Neapolitans at two titles, fueling a sporting rivalry that continues to write exciting pages in this discipline. The seventh national title in the overall palmarès further consolidates the lily primacy in history of the Italian Paralympic Swimming Federation and testifies to the company’s constant commitment to promoting an inclusive and high-level technical sport.

«This tricolor is the result of teamwork involving athletes, technical staff, managers and families – the company comments – A goal that fills us with pride and confirms Florence as one of the capitals of Italian Paralympic sport». Rari Nantes Florentia thanks all the supporters, partners and institutions that continue to believe and invest in a project that puts sport, inclusion and passion at its centre.

TEAM RARE NANTES FLORENTIA: Pellegrino Giulia, Di Gangi Niccolò (cap), Vannucci Alessio, Cericola Francesco, Fattori Federico, Mazzinghi Federico, Capalbo Andrea, Ciulli Simone (vicecap), Nocera Cesare, Signorini Alessio, Aquino Federica. Coach Laura Perego, vice Allegra Lapi

FINAL FOUR COMPETITION PROGRAM: Rari Nantes Florentia – SS Lazio Nuoto 11 Rari Nantes Florentia vs Water Sport GLs Napoli 11-4