Behrend Lions to Open NCAA Baseball Tournament Versus Messiah
The Penn State Behrend baseball team
will head to Kean University to compete this week in the NCAA Division III
Baseball Tournament. The blue and white snagged the AMCC conference title
on May 11, and will now head to the program's first-ever NCAA Tournament to
compete in opening round play in an eight-team regional on Wednesday, May
14.
Behrend (34-10) earned the #4 seed in the Mid-Atlantic regional and will play #5 seed
Messiah College (27-16) at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday at Bears & Eagles
Riverfront Stadium in Newark, New Jersey.
Head coach Paul Benim said, "Our guys played really well this weekend
and earned the AMCC title. We are looking forward to representing Penn
State Behrend and competing at the NCAA Regional. The NCAA
Mid-Atlantic Region is viewed as one of the toughest regions in the country
and features the defending national champions of Kean."
The other teams competing in the double-elimination regional include
regional host and #1 seed Kean University (35-9), #2 seed Rowan (30-12), #3
seed The College of New Jersey (28-10), #6 seed DeSales (24-18-1), #7 seed
Keystone (30-10), and #8 seed Gwynedd-Mercy (21-18).
All tournament games
will be web cast with Live Stats accessible via the internet from the
Official Tournament Host webpage at:
http://www.keanathletics.com/NCAA/baseball2008/index
The winner of the Behrend/Messiah game will play the winner of Kean vs.
Gwynedd-Mercy at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. The losing teams from each of
those games will meet Thursday at 10:00 a.m.
NCAA Baseball Regional Schedule
Wednesday, May 14
Game 1: 10:00 a.m. #4 Behrend vs. #5 Messiah
Game 2: 1:15 p.m. #1 Kean vs. #8 Gwynedd-Mercy
Game 3: 4:30 p.m. #3 TCNJ vs. #6 DeSales
Game 4: 7:45 p.m. #2 Rowan vs. #7 Keystone