State Gets NCAA Bid To Tallahassee Regional
* Tallahassee Regional Ticket Information
NCAA Tallahassee Regional Tickets Now On Sale
STARKVILLE, Miss. - Mississippi State University's BaseballBulldogs will continue their 2007 postseason baseball competition inTallahassee, Fla., this weekend, competing in the NCAA TallahasseeRegional hosted June 1-4 by No. 6 national seed Florida StateUniversity.
MSU (33-20) received one of 34 teams at-large berths in the tournament,whose 64-team field was announced Monday by the NCAA. State will take onStetson (41-19) in an opening round game Friday at 12 p.m. (CDT) DickHowser Stadium. Top-seeded tournament host Florida State (47-11) willmeet Bethune-Cookman (33-25) in the other opening round game at 6 p.m.(CDT).
I'm happy that our young men have gotten a chance to continue onin NCAA regional play, said MSU head coach Ron Polk. Mike Martin,the head coach at Florida State, is one of my closest friends in collegebaseball, and Stetson is coached by Pete Dunn, who was a graduateassistant on my Georgia Southern staff in 1972 and has been on the USASBaseball staff with me. I don't know much about Bethune-Cookman otherthan they have a very solid baseball team. So it's a tough field, andwe're looking forward to that challenge.
Mississippi State is making its fifth consecutive regional tournamentappearance, its 11th in the past 12 seasons and its 24th since the NCAAadopted its regional tournament format in the mid 1970s. Including sixappearances in the NCAA District III playoffs, Mississippi State ismaking its 30th trip to NCAA postseason competition.
The Bulldogs, ranked 27th in the latest Collegiate Baseball poll,finished second in the SEC West and fourth in the overall SoutheasternConference standings before dropping a pair of closely-contested gamesin the sec Tournament, including a 3-2 decision to No. 1-ranked SECoverall and tournament champ Vanderbilt.
NCAA Tallahassee Regional Tickets Now On Sale
All-Tournament Books for the 2007 NCAA Baseball Tallahassee Regional ($45 for reserved seats and $30 for general admission seats) are now on sale via the Internet at www.seminoles.com. Tickets will also be available by phone at 888-FSU-Nole and at the Seminole Athletics Ticket Office between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday.
Single game tickets for the Friday session ONLY will go on sale via the web (seminoles.com) beginning at 6:00 p.m. Thursday. In person and phone sales of single game tickets for Friday's games will begin at 8:30 a.m. Friday. Single game tickets for games on subsequent days will go on sale on the web immediately following the last game of the previous day and at Dick Howser Stadium two hours prior to the start of the first game.
Prices for single game general admission tickets are $8.00 for adults and $5.00 for youth. If available, reserved seats single game tickets are $10.00.