CENTERVILLE, Iowa – Wabash Valley is headed back to Colorado. 

The third-ranked Warriors turned the championship game of the NJCAA Midwest District into a rout, scoring 11 runs in the first three innings and coasting in from there to a 15-1 victory over South Suburban. 

WVC (53-11 on the season) now heads to Grand Junction, Colorado for the 10-team Alpine Bank Juco World Series, a double-elimination affair that opens on Saturday, May 27. 

This will be the fourth trip to the World Series in school history. But it is the first time ever for back-to-back trips. Last year, the Warriors finished in fourth place with a 59-9 record. 

"It is an incredible feeling," said Biddle after the game. "I don't even have words." 

Biddle did have words for his pitching staff, which dominated throughout a three-game sweep to the crown. 

"The arms were great this weekend," Biddle said, reeling off the outstanding starts he got from Jacob Frost on Thursday, Agnel Miranda on Friday, and Louis Phillipe Langevin on Saturday. 

The bullpen "came up clutch in all three games. I couldn't ask for more," he said. 

Langevin allowed only three hits in his five innings of work, while striking out seven and walking only one. Biddle then turned to the pen for a parade of one-inning stints from Aidan Deakins, Manuel De Gracia, Brock Lucas, and Sam Mettert. Each reliever fanned at least one batter, with Lucas and Mettert setting two down that way. 

Dalton Fiveash, making only his fourth start of the season, came up big in the first inning, with a two-run triple down the right field line that put the cap on a five-run first. Keaton Mahan brought in the first two runs with an RBI single up the middle, and Daniel Contreras made it 3-0 with an RBI hit to the right side. 

The Warriors scored six runs in the third inning to put things out of reach. Nick Williams crushed a ball to left field, a three-run blast, his 13th of the year, that made it 10-0 just after a Richard Bonomolo, Jr. RBI hit. 

Williams is the Warrior Triple Crown leader, with team-best totals in homers (13), RBIs (87, fifth best in NJCAA Division I), and a .460 batting average (also fifth).  

In the sixth, Williams added a two-run single, completing his stat line showing 3-for-5 at the plate and five RBIs. 

Two other runs scored when Bonomolo reached safely on a fielding error. 

South Suburban (42-21) scored its' run in the seventh inning. 

What Biddle has managed to accomplish in his rookie season as a head coach cannot be overstated. 

Biddle, an assistant under Hall of Fame coach Rob Fournier when the Warriors took fourth place last year, had a solid core of pitchers to build around for this season, but not one position starter back from last year. 

"It is an incredible feeling (going to the World Series) regardless, but it means just a little bit more this time," Biddle admitted. 

The pairings for the Alpine Bank Juco World Series will be announced early next week. This will be the third straight year that the tournament will be seeded in advance. One year ago, Wabash Valley was seeded No. 2.