ALLIANCE, Ohio – The Mount Union baseball team is set to host the 2025 NCAA Regionals as it earned an at-large bid. The Purple Raiders will host the four-team regional tournament this Friday, Saturday and Sunday at Rafeld-Rogers Field.

It's only the second time ever the Purple Raiders have played in the NCAA Tournament and first since the 2013 season. Mount Union is seeking the program's first NCAA Tournament win (in 2013, it lost 12-3 to Manchester and 5-2 to Illinois Wesleyan).

Mount Union (27-11) will play Catholic (27-16), winners of the Landmark Conference in the first round on Friday, May 16 with a time to be determined. The Cardinals, out of Washington D.C., are making their sixth appearance in the NCAA Tournament in program history (third in the last four seasons). Catholic went to the Division III World Series in 2022.

The other two teams in the Mount Union pod are Rowan (31-10), who fell to TCNJ in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Tournament, and Grove City (31-11) who won its first Presidents' Athletic Conference (PAC) Championship since 2008 to earn an automatic bid.

Rowan is the highest rated team in the pod in the NCAA Power Index (NPI), finishing the season ranked 12th in the country. Mount Union is the next highest ranked 25th, followed by Catholic 47th and Grove City at 64th.

Saturday's meeting against Catholic will be the first meeting between the two schools since 1996 (Cardinals holds a 1-1 record all-time against Mount Union).

Grove City's only other NCAA Tournament appearance was in 2008. Rowan is making its 31st all-time appearance in the NCAA Regionals and the eighth consecutive.

The winner of the Mount Union regional will play the winner of the Lynchburg, Va., regional in a best-of-three Super Regional May 23-24. The Lynchburg tournament features Emory, Lynchburg, Maryville (Tenn.) and Marywood.