Duquesne's baseball team needs a "Perfect 10" over the final days of the season to reach the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament.

That's the combination of wins and losses it will take for the Dukes (22-26, 10-14) to qualify for the six-team field that will compete for the league championship at Dayton.

Here's what must happen for Duquesne to get in: The Dukes must sweep a three-game series at George Washington today, tomorrow and Saturday; St. Bonaventure loses all three against Temple; Massachusetts loses all three against Xavier; Saint Louis loses at least one of three against Dayton.

George Washington (20-30, 11-13) is among the pack of teams that could qualify for the tournament. In the event of a tie for the sixth and final berth, Duquesne loses tiebreakers to St. Bonaventure, Massachusetts and Saint Louis.

The Dukes' 22 victories is the sixth most by an A-10 team.

Duquesne kept its faint hopes flickering with a three-game sweep against Temple this past weekend in a record-setting display of hitting. The Dukes scored 48 runs for the school's most in a three-game series against an A-10 opponent, and they also set a school record for runs in a Division I game with a 21-17 victory against the Owls.

For the series. junior catcher Derek Mechling was 7 for 10 with three home runs and seven RBIs and junior first baseman Aaron Janusey (Peters Township) was 7 for 11 with a home run and eight RBIs.

Duquesne, with just one senior in the starting lineup. has won five of its past six games and nine of its past 13, averaging 9.0 runs per game with a team batting average of .325 during that span. The Dukes have scored double-digit runs in five consecutive games.

NCAA Div. I baseball
Pitt (26-23, 14-9), picked to finish ninth in the Big East Conference in a preseason vote of the coaches, already has secured one of the eight spots in the league tournament heading into the final weekend with a three-game series against Seton Hall (22-24, 7-14) at Trees Field, tonight, tomorrow and Saturday.

Pitt's leading hitters are first baseman Seth Button (.328, 7 HRs, 27 RBIs), third baseman Gary Bucuren (.319, 5 HR, 29 RBIs) and catcher Morgan Kielty (.294, 4 HR, 30 RBIs). Bucuren, a redshirt freshman who transferred from Kentucky and is a graduate of Ambridge High School, has missed the past eight games with a hand injury.

Paul Nardozzi (5-5, 3.95 ERA) heads the staff.

NCAA Div. II baseball
No. 3 seed California (36-15) will meet Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference rival No. 4 Slippery Rock (33-15) today in the opening round of the double-elimination North Atlantic regional at Kutztown.

In other first-round games, top seed Kutztown (45-5) plays No. 6 Shippensburg (27-22) and No. 2 West Virginia State (36-15) meets No. 5 West Chester (30-15).

The winner of the regional tournament will advance to the eight-team national championship, May 25-June 1 in Montgomery, Ala.

California and Slippery Rock split six games this season.

NCAA Div. III baseball
Washington & Jefferson (31-11), bypassed when the committee handed out at-large bids to the NCAA tournament despite winning the Presidents' Athletic Conference championship, will participate in the ECAC Southern Championship single-elimination tournament for the third consecutive season.

The PAC champion doesn't receive an automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.

No. 2 seed and defending champion W&J will play No. 3 Wesley College (29-13) and top seed Keystone (34-5) will meet No. 4 Alvernia College (27-13) in opening games tomorrow morning at Keystone College in La Plume, Pa.

The winners will advance to the championship game in the afternoon.

Last Week Revisited

Highlights from individual and team performances in district colleges last week:

Lock Haven won the 2006-07 Dixon Trophy given to the most successful all-around athletic program in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. Slippery Rock was third, IUP sixth. The award is based on a school's top six men's finishes and top six women's finishes in the 21 sports sponsored by the league.

The La Roche Lady Hawks (29-15), led by MVP Bethany Peracchio, won the ECAC softball tournament with victories against Kean University, 3-2 and 4-3, and Penn State Behrend, 5-4.

Washington & Jefferson's Sam Mann, a senior pitcher/catcher, is the baseball player of the year in the Presidents' Athletic Conference.

Allegheny's Abby Bodenlos, a junior second baseman from Shady Side Academy, is the softball player of the year in the North Coast Athletic Conference. Bodenlos set a school season record with 29 stolen bases and was fifth in the league with a .408 batting average. She was joined on the first team by teammate Crystal Ptacek, a junior from North Allegheny who is a utility player.

Geneva center fielder Jackie Anthony, a junior from Rochester, Pa., catcher Amy Pearce and pitcher Ashley Archer were named to the All-North Division first team of the American Mideast Conference.