RVC Baseball has been around since 1967 when Head Baseball Coach Ed Delaporte started the program. Since that time, RVC Baseball has had many hard working coaches, and has seen many great moments throughout its history. But above all, RVC Baseball has had numerous, quality baseball players play their junior college years here at RVC.

Click on the ‘Baseball Archives’ tab to see more about past players, coaches and seasons.

RVC Baseball can offer our Recruits…

• Excellent education for low cost.
• Extensive help with transferring to a 4-Year College Program after playing at RVC.
• Knowledgeable Coaching Staff to develop and prepare you for 4-Year level Baseball.
• Annual, week-long Spring Baseball Trip to hot, sunny Florida.
• A chance to play on one of the nicest baseball fields in the area.
• A chance to play college baseball in one of the toughest regions in the country.
• Plus, much, much more.
  

We play our home games at the Mulford Campus on our recently improved and perfectly manicured baseball field (built in 2003). Our competition consists of the teams in Region IV, as well as the N4C. 

 

About Region IV

Illinois is divided into only two regions. Region 4, which includes the junior colleges (approx.) north of Peoria, and Region 24, which includes the junior colleges south of Peoria. We play in the highly competitive Region IV, which consists of 24 junior colleges in Northern Illinois (and now Wisconsin, with the addition of Madison and Milwaukee in 2010). The baseball competition in Region IV is extremely good. Many players have moved on to play 4-Year Baseball, have been drafted to play in the minor leagues, while some have even made it all the way to the Major Leagues, including Hall of Famer Kirby Puckett (Triton).

Learn more about the colleges and teams in Region IV.

About N4C

N4C stands for North Central Community College Conference. The N4C consists of seven teams:

Rock Valley College, Joliet Junior College, College of DuPage, Triton College (D1), Madison Area Technical College (D2), Harper College, and Milwaukee Area Technical College.

For conference play, RVC plays each of the six other N4C teams for one double-header on Saturdays, starting at noon.

 

About NJCAA Division III Tournament

RVC is one of six Division III baseball programs from the total of 24 Region IV teams.

The differences between the three divisions are as follows:
Division I – Can give free tuition, room & board, and books.
Division II – Can give free tuition.
Division III – Can give no scholarships.

The six Division III teams in Region IV are:
Rock Valley College, Joliet Junior College, College of DuPage, Waubonsee C.C., Harper College and Milwaukee Area Technical College.

These are the only five teams Rock Valley College must play, and need to defeat in the post season regional tournament in order to get to the World Series in Tyler, TX.

However, RVC will still play the other Region IV teams during the season, regardless of division.