Category: SPORTS

Rowan Baseball Advances to NCAA Regional Final

Joey Bogart drove in four runs, Damon Suriani had four hits and Brayden Davis hit his first career grand slam as #5 Rowan defeated host Southern Maine, 18-7, in the 2026 NCAA Division III Baseball Regional. The Profs now advance to the regional championship on Monday morning at 11 a.m. against either Babson or Southern Maine. 

Rowan (34-5) needs to win just one game to advance to next weekend’s NCAA  Super Regional (May 22-23) for the fourth time in the last five years.

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CNB Sports: Rowan Women’s Lacrosse Ends Season in the NCAA 3rd Round

CNB SPORTS: Top-ranked Middlebury scored the first seven goals of the game en route to a 21-4 victory over #18 Rowan in the Third Round of the NCAA Division III Women’s Lacrosse Championship. The Profs end the season with a 15-5 record, having reached the final 16 of the NCAA Championship for the second year in a row. 

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Rowan to Send 29 Student-Athletes to Nationals

26 men and three women will represent Rowan at the 2026 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championship as selections were announced on Friday.

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse is the host of the three-day event that runs Thursday, May 21st through Saturday, May 23rd at the Veteran’s Memorial Field Sports Complex in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

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Rowan Softball Stays Alive In NCAA Tournament

#16 Rowan fought its way back to the NCAA Tournament Regional Final with a 5-1 win over St. Thomas in an elimination game Friday evening at the Marshall Regional on the campus of East Texas Baptist.

The Profs (37-9) move on to take on the host #6 Tigers needing two wins to advance to the Super Regional round tomorrow starting at 11:00 a.m. (CT) / 12: 00 p.m. (ET) with the ‘if necessary’ game 30 minutes after.

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#18 Rowan Women’s Lacrosse Places Six Players on the All-Region Team

Rowan’s Elaina Corson, Leah Corkhill, Alexis Lowry, Madison Rothwein have been named to the IWLCA All-Boardwalk Region First Team while Fiona Lockhart and Jenna O’Neill were named to the All-Region Second Team. 

This marks Corson’s third consecutive year on the All-Region First Team while Corkhill, Lowry, Rothwein, Lockhart and O’Neill are earning the honor for the first time. 

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Rowan Names Rob DePersia ’19 as Head Men’s Basketball Coach

GLASSBORO, NJ – Rob DePersia has been named the head men’s basketball coach at Rowan University, marking a return to the program for the 2019 alumnus. Director of athletics Shawn Tucker announced the appointment as DePersia becomes the 14th head coach in the Profs’ history. 

DePersia returns to Glassboro after spending seven years at the Division I level. He worked for a total of five seasons with the Villanova University basketball program, including two with Naismith Hall of Fame coach Jay Wright, while also gaining experience at Fordham University, and most recently, at the University of New Haven. 

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Mike Joy To Serve as Honorary Starter for NASCAR All-Star Race at Dover Motor Speedway

Legendary FOX Sports broadcaster Mike Joy will add another milestone to his celebrated motorsports career this weekend at Dover Motor Speedway, serving as the honorary starter by waving the green flag for Sunday’s NASCAR All-Star Race at The Monster Mile.

The moment carries special meaning for Joy, who grew up in the Northeast and has spent decades calling races at many of the region’s most historic tracks. Despite more than five decades in motorsports broadcasting, Joy has never before served as the honorary starter for a NASCAR Cup Series race.

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Somerdale Residents Win National Pool Championship in Vegas

A pair of Somerdale residents are $5,000 richer after a recent visit to Sin City. But their good fortune didn’t happen in the casino.

Joey Rivera and Jatin Bhakta of the team dubbed the “A-Team” won the 2026 APA 9-Ball Doubles Pool Championship late last month in Las Vegas.

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Rowan Baseball Will Open Play in the NCAA Regional at Southern Maine

The fifth-ranked Rowan baseball team will begin play in the 2026 NCAA Division III Baseball Championship in the Gorham, Maine Regional on May 15-17. The Profs will face RIT in the first game, with host Southern Maine and Babson rounding out the field in the double-elimination regional. 

Rowan and RIT (24-13) will face off in Game 1 of the regional (time tba) with Southern Maine (30-10) hosting Babson (26-13) in Game 2, with the tournament consisting of three games on Saturday and possibly two on Sunday. 

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Rowan Women’s Lacrosse Moves on to the NCAA Sweet 16

Elaina Corson and Madison Rothwein combined for five unanswered goals in the fourth quarter as #18 Rowan rallied to an exciting 13-11 win over #12 Scranton in the Second Round of the 2026 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Championship. The Profs now advance to the Third Round next weekend at top-ranked and defending champion Middlebury.

Rothwein netted three straight goals, to tie the game and then give Rowan (15-4) a 12-11 lead. That goal on a free-position shot with 3:50 to play proved to be the gamewinner and Corson added the insurance goal at 1:26, her 79th goal of the season, to secure the victory.

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