Delaware County has some great baseball competitions.

From Little League and Cal Ripken district tournaments, to Legion, to the High School leagues, to the Delco League and beyond, there’s a lot to play for as players advance through their careers.

Being the sicko that I am, I decided to make another, somewhat imaginary, competition.

There are seven NCAA D3 baseball programs in Delco alone and most of those seven play at least a handful of the other teams in the county.

Why not create some kind of championship?

Philadelphia basketball has the Big 5, Delco Baseball can have the Small 7. That name’s still being workshopped, I really can’t think of anything good off the top of my head.

I tried to put together something inspired by the pre-tournament Big 5 competition, but with some measures to account for the fact that teams don’t play the same amount of games or the same teams. The result wasn’t perfect, but has been really fun to follow as the college baseball season progresses.

It’s basically a league table format, with teams ranked on in-Delco wins multiplied by in-Delco win percentage. The idea was to reward teams that play a lot of in-Delco games and win most or all of them. Head to head and overall record will be used in any tiebreakers.

We’re a good amount into the D3 season; every team has played an in-Delco game and some teams are even done with their Delco schedules. It seemed like a good time for our first look into the current standings.

So without further ado, here’s our first even Delco D3 Baseball Championship Table:

Team/Rank	Points	In-Delco	Overall
1 – Widener	3.2	4-1	13-12
2 – Swarthmore	3	3-0	11-12
3 – Neumann	1	1-0	11-6
4 – Haverford	0.5	1-1	11-8
5 – PSU Brandywine	0.5	1-1	4-18
6 – Rosemont	0.333	1-2	7-16
7 – Eastern	0.125	1-7	9-15

Eastern and Penn State Brandywine have both finished their in-Delco schedules and are eliminated from the 2025 competition. Brandywine went .500 but only scheduled two Delco games, a doubleheader against Rosemont this past weekend. Eastern had eight games scheduled and a really good opportunity to compete for the title, but lost some tough ones to good teams, finishing 1-7.

The main title race is between Widener and Swarthmore. Swarthmore beat Widener head-to-head early in the year but because the Pride have four wins in five games, they get the current first-place nod. 

It will be an interesting finish; both teams have two Delco matchups remaining. Widener plays Neumann on 4/2 and Rosemont on 4/14. They could seal the first ever title with two wins in those games. Swarthmore plays Haverford on 4/22 and 4/25 and would be in prime position if Widener were to lose any games.

Haverford, Neumann, and Rosemont are all still in contention, but would need a little help from the teams at the top. 

Neumann is undefeated but limited by the amount of in-Delco games they play. The Knights are still yet to play Rosemont and Widener but at best can only finish with three points.

Rosemont is still mathematically in, but would need to win their last three games and have pretty much everyone above them lose-out. Even then, I think they would need some sort of tiebreaker to win, but never say never. The Ravens play Widener, Neumann, and Haverford to finish out their Delco schedule.

Haverford probably has the best shot of these three. They have three games remaining, two of them against Swarthmore. Two wins there could eliminate their rivals and put them in a good place if Widener were to slip up.

Again, this isn’t perfect, but I thought it was fun. With so many teams in close quarters here, it’s been cool finding a way to put them all up against each other.

We’ll have an exciting race to the finish with so many teams still in contention for Delco’s newest baseball crown.