Championship Thursday

The WIAA State Baseball Championship Games are being held today.

Here are the results from the semifinals that were played on Wednesday.

Follow along on the Live Blog.

Catholic Central just won the Division 4 title.

Marathon v. La Crosse Aquinas starts soon for Division 3.

University School v. Altoona is the Division 2 final later today.

Madison La Follette v.Bay Port in the Division 1 final tonight.

WIAA Tournament so far

Rain and a long day.

Click here for the Post-Crescent wrap on Day 1. Click here for some tournament notes, including the future of the WIAA at Time Warner Cable Field.

The second Division 1 semifinal (Between Waterford & Madison La Follete) had to be moved to the campus of UW-Oshkosh due to the late night last night. It is being played at noon today.

Day 2 is already underway with Catholic Central from Burlington winning 3-0 over Southwestern from Hazel Green.

Follow the action today on the PC's Live Blog.

Welcome, WIAA!

The Rattlers will be on the road for the next week. As the team clears out, the WIAA comes into Time Warner Cable Field for the Wisconsin State Baseball Tournament.

The Post-Crescent will be hosting live chats during all of the games.

The Opening Round games:

DIVISION 1
Quarterfinals: Tuesday, June 15
Game 1: Merrill (22-4) vs. Bay Port (22-7), 8 a.m.
Game 2: Waunakee (25-4) vs. Kimberly (22-7), approx. 35 min. following Game 1

Game 3: Hartford Union (9-15-1) vs. Waterford (14-11), 1 p.m.
Game 4: Fort Atkinson (8-21) vs. Madison La Follette (17-9), approx. 35 min. following Game 3

DIVISION 2
Semifinals: Wednesday, June 16
Game 1: Madison Edgewood (18-8) vs. University School (22-7), 6 p.m.
Game 2: Altoona (24-4) vs. West De Pere (24-5), approx. 35 min. following Game 1

DIVISION 3
Semifinals: Wednesday, June 16
Game 1: Aquinas (22-7) vs. Winnebago Lutheran (19-7), 1 p.m.
Game 2: Elk Mound (21-3) vs. Marathon (25-3), approx. 35 min. following Game 1

DIVISION 4
Semifinals: Wednesday, June 16
Game 1: Southwestern (21-4) vs. Catholic Central (19-10), 8 a.m.
Game 2: McDonell Central (24-3) vs. Rosholt (25-1), approx. 35 min. following Game 1

Good luck to all of the teams. But, I know exactly who I am pulling for this year.

As for Waterford, this is a team that graduated Jake Dostalek after a monster season in 2009, lost three of its top four pitchers for extended stretches because of injuries and had to promote four sophomores late in the season just to patch holes. But after the Wolverines endured losing streaks of six and five games during the regular season, they put it together at just the right time to sweep through Horlick, Wilmot, Kenosha Bradford and Kenosha Tremper in the postseason.

Waterford (14-11) makes its third state tournament appearance in school history (the others were 1987 and '04, when it lost its first game each time) with a 1 p.m. Division 1 quarterfinal Tuesday against Hartford Union (9-15-1).

It was a lifetime ago, but 1987 was a pretty good year to play Waterford baseball...except in the State Tournament in Wausau.