A St. Thomas-St. John's match-up is set for one of the two opening-round games of the MIAC baseball playoffs Thursday night. The teams will play in Cold Spring at 7 p.m. while No. 1 seed Bethel plays Macalester, which held off Concordia to qualify for the final spot, at Collegville.
Bethel and St. Thomas tied for the conference title with 16-4 records.
Winners and losers of those games will play at 3 p.m. Friday in the double-elimination tournament, which is scheduled to conclude Saturday.
The tournament winner gets an automatic berth to the NCAA Division III tournament.
More information about the tournament is available here.
Live video of the games can be found here.
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