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Regional tickets up for grabs today in Tempe
TEMPE, AZ — General public tickets for the 2005 NCAA
baseball regional at Arizona State University go on sale Tuesday, May 31 at
1 p.m. local time, ASU officials announced.
The Sun Devils, the host of the region as a No. 2
seed, will play No. 3 seed East Carolina on Friday in a night game, while
No. 1 seed Coastal Carolina will face No. 4 seed UNLV in the afternoon
opener.
All-Session Passes for the regional are priced at
$90 for field level reserved seats and $60 for public reserved seats.
Tickets are $50 for junior/senior reserved seats and $40 for general
admission seating.
Parking passes can be purchased for $8, which
provides parking for all games directly next to Packard Stadium. Parking
without a pass is $5 per day. ASU baseball regular-season parking passes are
not valid for the NCAA Tournament.
Tickets can be picked up at the Sun Devil Stadium
ticket office beginning Wednesday, June 1, prior to game day from 9 a.m.-5
p.m. through Friday.
A Will Call window will be located at the Packard
Stadium ticket office on game day and will open 90 minutes prior to the
first game of the day.
Packard Stadium is located at the corner of Packard
Drive and Rio Salado Parkway, just south of the Loop 202 Rural Road exit.
For more information can be obtained by contacting
the Sun Devil athletic ticket office at 480-965-2381 or visit
www.thesundevils.com.
Compiled from and
ASU Athletics report.
Tulane top dog in postseason pecking order
Tulane is
heading into the NCAA baseball tournament with the No. 1 national seed and
plenty of confidence.
The Green
Wave (50-9), ranked No. 1 in at least one of the major national polls for
all but three weeks this season, were selected as the top seed for the
64-team Division I college baseball tournament Monday.
``This is
a credit to our kids,'' coach Rick Jones said. ``They performed all year,
had preseason accolades and it's not easy to go out every day when you know
you're going to get the 'A' game of every other team you play.''
Tulane,
with Brian Bogusevic and Micah Owings both starring on the mound and at the
plate, opens against Southern as one of the hosts for the 16 four-team,
double-elimination regionals that begin Friday. Louisiana-Lafayette and
Alabama are also in Tulane's bracket.
``You
can't get the No. 1 seed in the country unless you do a lot of things
right,'' Jones said.
The other
national seeds, in order, are: Georgia Tech (42-16), Nebraska (51-13),
Baylor (39-21), Mississippi (44-18), defending champion Cal State Fullerton
(41-15), Florida (40-20) and Oregon State (41-9).
Those
schools can only face each other if they advance to the College World
Series.
``As long
as you're one of the top eight seeds, you have a tremendous advantage to
move ahead,'' NCAA Division I baseball committee chairman Charlie Carr said.
Cal State
Fullerton is trying to join Texas (1949-50), Southern California (1970-74),
Stanford (1987-88) and Louisiana State (1996-97) as repeat national
champions. The Titans open against Harvard, with Missouri and Arizona the
other teams playing in their regional.
Teams that
received top seeds in their regionals are: Clemson (39-21), Coastal Carolina
(48-14), Florida State (50-18), Long Beach State (36-20), Louisiana State
(38-20), Miami (38-17-1), Tennessee (41-19) and Texas (45-14).
Each is
hosting a regional, except for Coastal Carolina — No. 2 seed Arizona State
is hosting that one, which also involves third seed East Carolina and bottom
seed Nevada-Las Vegas.
The
winners of each regional will advance to the super regionals, played June
10-13. The eight winners of the super regionals will play in the College
World Series, which starts June 17 in Omaha, Neb.
The
Southeastern Conference received nine berths, tying the record it set last
year. Joining Florida, LSU, Mississippi and Tennessee are Alabama, Arkansas,
Auburn, Mississippi State and South Carolina.
``We try
very hard to look at it strictly as each team, not by conference or section
of the country,'' said Carr, the senior associate athletic director at
Florida State.
Auburn
became the third SEC team in as many years to make the field of 64 despite
not making the conference tournament. Mississippi State did the same last
year, and Florida in 2003.
``Our guys
had a lot of confidence that things were really going to work out,'' Tigers
coach Tom Slater said. ``To see our name on the board gave us a great
feeling.''
The
Atlantic Coast Conference sent seven teams to the tournament. Joining
Clemson, Florida State, Georgia Tech and Miami are North Carolina, North
Carolina State and Virginia.
``We have
an equal number of teams across the country that were competitive and
deserved to be in,'' Carr said.
Each of
the four-team, double-elimination regionals will be played on campus sites
from June 3-6.
Carr, a
former ECU athletics administrator, said the selection committee uses a
number of factors in deciding which at-large teams make the cut, including
overall record, RPI, non-conference schedule, strength of schedule, how a
team has played in its last 10 or 15 games, and performance in conference
tournaments and against Top 25 teams.
``There
were a ton of bubble teams this year,'' Carr said. ``Sometimes you have two
or three. This year you had about 25 or 30. It was hard to disseminate
differences between any of them.''
Among the
top teams left out of the tournament were California (34-23), Cal Poly
(36-20), Central Florida (42-18), UNC Wilmington (40-19) and Oklahoma State
(34-25).
``This was
the most difficult group to try to separate,'' Carr said. ``You don't feel
good about any you don't allow in. I could argue a case for each one of
them.''
The
Hurricanes, despite losing their last six games, are in the tournament for
the 33rd straight year to extend their NCAA record. Florida State is making
its 28th consecutive appearance.
Three
teams are making their first tournament appearances: North Carolina A&T
(27-25), Quinnipiac (26-22) and Rhode Island (34-19). Each won their
conference tournaments to make the field of 64.
``As
exciting as you think it would be when you dream of something like this,
it's even better to actually go through it,'' Rhode Island coach Frank Leoni
said. ``We're excited to have the opportunity to take on some of the
nation's top teams and show them what we can do.''
Oregon
State is in the field for the first time since 1986, while Furman won the
Southern Conference tournament to earn its first berth since 1991. Texas-San
Antonio (27-32) got in for the first time since 1994 despite a losing record
by winning the Southland Conference tournament.
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