Eagles positioned seventh in latest region rankings
The second edition of the NCAA's baseball region rankings, has #18 Carson-Newman (35-15) ranked seventh, as announced by the organization on Wednesday afternoon.
INDIANAPOLIS- The second edition of the NCAA's baseball region rankings, has #18 Carson-Newman (35-15) ranked seventh, as announced by the organization on Wednesday afternoon.
Carson-Newman is one of just three South Atlantic Conference schools in the region rankings. Catawba is the top team in the region with a 37-12 record, while Lenoir-Rhyne's 40 wins sit in third.
The Peach Belt is represented by just one school, North Georgia at five.
Conference Carolinas makes up the other six teams ranked in the region. North Greenville is two, Young Harris is four and Belmont Abbey sneaks in ahead of C-N at six. UNC Pembroke, Mount Olive and Francis Marion round out the top team in that exact order.
Among regionally ranked teams in the Southeast, C-N has played 7 games and has posted a 3-4 record. The Eagles did play and win a series against three-seeded Florida Southern in the South region. Those two wins would put Carson-Newman at 5-5 overall regionally ranked teams.
The selection committee uses these rankings as a guideline to make up the NCAA Tournament field. The top eight teams in the region make the NCAA Tournament with three automatic bids going to the winners of the conference tournaments from the South Atlantic Conference, Conference Carolinas and the Peach Belt Conference. The other five spots will consist of at-large bids.
The top two seeds will host the Southeast Region opening round tournament May 15th through May 18th. The team that wins the Southeast Regional tournament qualifies for the DII College World Series in Cary, North Carolina May 30th to June 7th.
The NCAA will release one more set of region rankings next Wednesday, May 7th before the selection show on Sunday, May 11th at 10:30 p.m. eastern time.
Carson-Newman begins South Atlantic Conference Tournament play this weekend against sixth-seeded Wingate. First pitch on Friday afternoon in Hickory, North Carolina is at 3:00 p.m. All of C-N's games this weekend at the SAC tournament will air with a free audio stream available courtesy of the Eagle Sports Network on cneagles.com/live.
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