Lawrence University will host the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship through 2013.
Lawrence, which was already tabbed to host the tournament in 2011, won a two-year bid to keep the event at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium. Lawrence, which co-hosts the event with the Fox Cities Convention and Visitors Bureau, served as the lone host institution for the first time in 2010.
The NCAA Division III Baseball Championship is now assured of a run of at least 14 years in the Fox Cities. The longest previous tenure for any host site was Marietta, Ohio, which hosted the first 12 championships from 1976-87. The championship also has been played in Bristol, Conn., Battle Creek, Mich., and Salem, Va.
The eight-team, double-elimination tournament has been played at Time Warner Cable Field at Fox Cities Stadium since 2000. Fox Cities Stadium is the home of the Wisconsin Timber Rattlers, the Midwest League Class A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers.
The 2010 tournament, which saw Illinois Wesleyan University defeat the State University of New York-Cortland for the championship, had an attendance of 27,176. That is the second-highest attendance in tournament history, trailing only the record of 29,543 at Fox Cities Stadium in 2003.
The tournament, which is always contested over five days surrounding Memorial Day weekend, came to the Fox Cities in 2000 and was hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh for the first three years. Lawrence and UW-Oshkosh served as the co-hosts from 2003-09 before Lawrence became the lone host institution in 2010.