Washington & Jefferson has an opportunity to go where no baseball team from the Presidents' Athletic Conference has gone the past two decades, according to league records -- the NCAA Division III tournament.

W&J (28-10) must win the PAC tournament, then hope to receive an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament because the league champion does not receive an automatic bid.

	Last Week Revisited Highlights from individual and team performances in district colleges last week: California's Pablo Montana, whose sixth-ranked Vulcans (27-1) are in the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament, was named the Division II women's tennis coach of the year by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association (ITA). West Virginia University rifle coach Jon Hammond, a native of Aberdeen, Scotland, earned a spot on Great Britain's rifle team that will compete at the World Cup in Munich, Germany, May 28-June 4. Geneva (28-18) swept two doubleheaders from Point Park to clinch its first American Mideast Conference North Division baseball title. Penn State Behrend's Nikki Kaschauer, a sophomore second baseman from South Park who led the league with a .477 batting average and 33 RBIs, is the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference softball player of the year. Washington & Jefferson junior All-American Michael Grasso is one of five players to earn an at-large bid to the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championships May 15-18 at Anderson, Ind. He tied for 22nd last year. The 14th-ranked Carnegie Mellon Tartans lost to Denison, 5-2, in the second round of the NCAA Division III team tennis championships. Amy Staloch won at No. 1 singles and teamed with Mona Iyer to win No. 1 doubles to account for CMU's two points.

Top seed and host W&J will play No. 4 Westminster (17-19) and No. 3 Thiel (27-13) will meet No. 2 Thomas More (24-9) today in the opening round of the double-elimination PAC tournament.

The 53-team NCAA tournament will be made up of 33 conference champions with automatic bids, six at-large teams from Pool B (teams from conferences without automatic bids) and 14 at-large teams from Pool C (all remaining teams eligible).

W&J is predicted to qualify from Pool C by d3baseball.com bracketology.

National and regional rankings are something to brag about, but they are meaningless when the committee determines teams to receive at-large bids. W&J is 26th in the American Baseball Coaches Association/Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division III poll and fourth in the Mideast.

W&J's offensive leaders are first baseman Sam Mann (.475, 3 HRs, 33 RBIs), shortstop Nick Fiorilli (.415, 4 HRs, 22 RBIs) and second baseman Chris Varacallo (.405, 2 HRs, 27 RBIs). John Astfalk (7-1, 2.28 earned run average), a senior from Chartiers Valley High School, and Mann (6-4, 2.25) head the staff.

Division I baseball

Pitt (23-21, 13-7) has a Big East Conference showdown this weekend against Rutgers (30-16, 16-5), which is tied with St. John's for first place. The games are scheduled for tomorrow night (6 p.m.), Saturday (3 p.m.) and Sunday (noon) at Trees Field.

The Scarlet Knights feature outfielder Todd Frazier (17 HRs, 51 RBIs), shortstop David Williams (.395) and catcher Jan Gossard (.326), who has a 23-game hitting streak.

Pitt's leading hitter is third baseman Gary Bucuren (.321, 5 HRs, 29 RBIs), a redshirt freshman from Ambridge who transferred from the University of Kentucky. The staff is solid with Kyle Landis (3-3, 1.77 ERA) and Paul Nardozzi (5-4, 4.02).

Division II softball

No. 7 Edinboro (19-18), making its first appearance in the NCAA tournament, will face No. 2 and host Kutztown (40-16) today in the opening round of the double-elimination Mid-Atlantic regional. No. 1 and defending national champion Lock Haven (45-3), featuring sophomore right-hander Kristin Erb (32-2, 0.46 ERA), will play No. 8 Bowie State (27-7) today in the same bracket.

Junior shortstop Jaclyn Corroto (.451, 3 HRs, 46 RBIs) leads No. 3 Gannon (37-13) against No. 6 Ferris State (27-15) today in the first round of the double-elimination NCAA Great Lakes regional at Romeoville, Ill.

Division III softball

Sixth-seeded Pitt-Bradford (20-17), the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference champion led by sophomore second baseman Lee Ann Kramer (.426, 4 HRs, 29 RBIs), will play No. 3 and host Ithaca (33-7) today in the first round of the double-elimination NCAA New York regional.

No. 7 Allegheny (18-17), the North Coast Athletic Conference champion, plays No. 2 DePauw (32-5) today in the first round of the double-elimination Ohio regional at Muskingum College. Allegheny's top hitter is sophomore infielder Rachel Ryan (.439, 5 HRs, 31 RBIs).

NJCAA Division III softball

Westmoreland County Community College (26-2), Region XX and Western Pennsylvania Collegiate Conference champion, will make its first appearance in the National Junior College Athletic Association Division III tournament May 17-19 at Rochester, Minn. Westmoreland CCC will find out its opponent this weekend.

WCCC is led by freshmen shortstop Jari Margliotti (Norwin), the third-leading hitter in the country with a .548 average, and Nikki Lindberg (17-2, 0.97 ERA), who has 189 strikeouts in 115 innings.