I am extremely excited to announce that I have decided to continue my academic and athletic career at Denison University. I would like to say thank you to @Spikes_Baseball, @natigerbaseball, and my family and friends for helping me get to this point.

ABCA Assistant Coach of the Year!! Congrats Coach Rome! #NotJustYet

More hardware!! Congrats to Head Coach Mike Deegan on being named the ABCA Coach of the Year and D3Baseball.com Coach of the Year! #NotJustYet

All-Americans!! 🇺🇸 #NotJustYet

He is a beast. My favorite center fielder in the entire tourney….

Final DIII Learfield Directors Cup Points, sorted by conference

Continuing the 2026 D3P Award rollouts with our MVP Category. Congrats to @ErikSundgren from @DU_Baseball. Listen to the full Awards Show, links below. Spotify: tinyurl.com/D3P100Spotify Apple: tinyurl.com/D3P100Apple #d3baseball

Ryan Pagenelis makes his 6th appearance for Denison in the DIII World Series, a WS record for appearances by a pitcher. Photo by Ryan Coleman @d3photography #d3baseball

We are proud to celebrate North Allegheny alumnus Erik Sundgren on an outstanding championship journey. After helping lead the Tigers to the 2021 WPIAL Championship, Erik recently captured the 2026 NCAA Division III National Championship with Denison University. Congratulations, Erik, on this remarkable achievement. Your hard work, dedication, and success continue to make the North Allegheny community proud.

2026 Denison Season Review using @PEARatings When the 2026 season began, Denison entered with championship expectations. By the time the final out was recorded, they had built one of the strongest statistical resumes in modern Division III baseball. The Big Red finished 51-3 with the nation's top NET rating (0.996), top Team Strength Rating (9.75), and the No. 1 Resume Quality Index. Along the way, they put together a remarkable 44-game winning streak, one of the longest and most dominant runs in Division III history. Offensively, Denison was the most feared lineup in the country. The Big Red averaged 10.26 runs per game while finishing: • #4 Batting Average (.351)
• #10 On-Base Percentage (.454)
• #6 Slugging Percentage (.548)
• #6 OPS (1.002) What made the offense special wasn't just the production, it was its consistency. They routinely strung together quality at-bats, pressured defenses, and turned small openings into crooked numbers. Opposing pitchers rarely received a break from the top of the order to the bottom. On the mound, the Big Red were equally impressive. • #3 K/9 (9.4)
• #3 K/BB Ratio (3.02)
• 3.13 Team ERA The staff combined swing-and-miss stuff with elite presence in the zone, giving Denison one of the most balanced profiles in the nation. They consistently controlled games early and rarely allowed opponents to sustain rallies. What separated Denison from everyone else, however, was their ability to dominate quality competition. The Big Red posted a perfect 12-0 record in Q2 games, 8-0 in Q3 games, and 11-0 in Q4 games while going 20-3 against Q1 opponents. Their schedule featured multiple nationally ranked teams, including wins over Endicott, East Texas Baptist, Johns Hopkins, Baldwin Wallace, Adrian, DePauw, and many others. Their only three losses all came against highly-rated competition, and each was followed by an immediate response. Time after time, the Big Red demonstrated that they could absorb adversity and quickly regain control. Perhaps the most impressive statistic of all was their TSR of 9.75, nearly an entire point ahead of the next-best team in Division III baseball. That gap illustrates just how far ahead of the field Denison stood throughout the season. The result was a 51-3 season, a 44-game winning streak, a national championship, and arguably the greatest single season in Division III history. #NotJustYet

🏆𝐍𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐈𝐎𝐍𝐒, 𝐇𝐈𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘 𝐌𝐀𝐊𝐄𝐑𝐒!🏆 For the first time in program history @DenisonSports are NATIONAL CHAMPIONS #WhyD3 | #D3baseball

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN PROGRAM HISTORY, DENISON BASEBALL ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS‼️ #GBR | #DenisonProud

A BIG INNING FOR THE BIG RED 🤯 Down 7-3 entering the seventh, @DenisonSports erupted for seven runs in the inning to storm back and top East Texas Baptist! #WhyD3 | #D3Baseball

All-Region Team: Region VII!! #NotJustYet

1st Annual D3 Region 7 X All-Region Teams Player of the Year - @JackLutte Pitcher of the Year - Bryan Carney Rookie of the Year - @drewtolfree_ Staff of the Year - @DePauwBaseball This was not an easy process. Tough decisions. Congrats to all.

All-NCAC! @DenisonSports #NotJustYet

RT @NA_Schools: Congratulations to NA grad, Aidan Dyga, for being named the Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year at @alleghenycol by the @PAC_A…

ALUMNI UPDATE: Former @natigerbaseball standout and current @DU_Baseball senior @ErikSundgren is heading back to the NCAA DIII baseball tournament with the nation's top team 🔗: athletics.northallegheny.org…

The Denison baseball team is 40-1 and ranked No. 1 in NCAA Division III. Peters Township grad Jack Lutte leads the team with a .484 average, 12 home runs and 58 RBIs, while North Allegheny grad Erik Sundgren is hitting .387 with 47 RBIs and 28 steals‼️⚾️

Take us back to the time when we first fell in love with the game! #NotJustYet

Erik Sundgren ’26 named to SCBOTY Player of the Year Watch List! #NotJustYet