North Greenville's Website reports game times the the event and Ray and Bea Dillard Field will be announced Monday. Newberry's games will be at the Smith Road Complex.
Fifty-six teams were selected for the tournament. The NCAA tweaked its regional format this season. Four of the eight regionals nationwide will have two four-team subregionals. The Southeast Regional and three others are six-team regionals featuring two three-team subregionals. In past years, there was one regional site with six or eight teams competing over one weekend.
The two subregional champs in each regional meet in a best-of-three series May 24-25, with the winners forming the eight-team field for the Division II World Series in Cary, N.C., June 1-8.
North Greenville (42-9), the Conference Carolinas regular-season and tournament champion, enters the playoffs on an 11-game winning streak. The Crusaders will have a first-round bye while fourth-seeded Mount Olive (31-17) and fifth-seeded Lincoln Memorial (33-17) meet. Mount Olive and Lincoln Memorial received at-large bids to the NCAA Tournament. The loser faces the coach Landon Powell's Crusaders in the second round of the double-elimination event..
Newberry (41-14) is making its first-ever appearance in the NCAA playoffs. The Wolves won the South Atlantic Conference regular-season title, but lost to Catawba in the league tournament final. Newberry earned an at-large bid on the strength of its season's work..
Coach Russell Triplett's team has a first-round bye while third-seeded Catawba (42-12) and sixth-seeded Young Harris (35-19) meet in the first round. Catawba qualified as the SAC Tournament champ and Young Harris won the Peach Belt Conference Tournament.
The Catawba-Young Harris loser faces the Wolves in the second round of the double-elimination event.. Newberry was 23-2 at home this season.
Peach Belt Conference regular-season champion North Georgia, which failed to advance from pool play in the conference tournament, was the only team among the top six (it was fifth) in the final regular-season regional rankings to fail to get a bid.
* North Greenville was 7-2 against other Southeast Regional teams this season: 3-0 vs. Newberry, 1-0 vs. Catawba and 3-2 vs. Mount Olive
* Newberry was 5-9 against other Southeast Regional teams: 0-3 vs. North Greenville, 3-2 vs. Catawba, 2-1 vs. Lincoln Memorial and 0-3 vs. Mount Olive
* Catawba vs. 6-6 vs. other Southeast Regional teams: 0-1 vs. North Greenville, 2-3 vs. Newberry, 3-1 vs. Lincoln Memorial and 1-1 vs. Mount Olive
* Lincoln Memorial was against other Southeast Regional teams: 1-2 vs. Newberry and 1-3 vs. Catawba
* Mount Olive was 6-4 against other Southeast Regional teams: 2-3 vs. North Greenville, 3-0 vs. Newberry and 1-1 vs. Catawba.
North Greenville Regional
Ray and Bea Dillard Field, Tigerville
Thursday, May 16
Game 1: No. 4 Mount Olive vs. No. 5 Lincoln Memorial, 8 p.m.
Friday, May 17
Game 2: No. 1 North Greenville vs. Game 1 loser, 4 p.m.
Game 2: No. 1 North Greenville vs. Game 1 loser, 4 p.m.
Game 3: North Greenville vs. Game 1 winner, 8 p.m.
Saturday, May 18
Game 4: 4 p.m.
Game 5: 8 p.m., if necessary
Newberry RegionalGame 4: 4 p.m.
Game 5: 8 p.m., if necessary
Smith Road Complex, Newberry
Thursday, May 16
Game 1: No. 3 Catawba vs. No. 6 Young Harris, 7 p.m.
Friday, May 17
Game 2: No. 2 Newberry vs. Game 1 loser. 3:30 p.m.
Game 3: Newberry vs. Game 1 winner, 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 18
Game 4: 3:30 p.m.
Game 5: 7 p.m., if necessary
Note: If the top seed wins Game 2, Game 3 becomes the first game of a best-of-three playoff between the top seed and the winner of Game 1. If the winner of Game 2 is the loser of Game 1, the loser of Game 2 will play the loser of Game 1. If three teams remain after Game 3, an alternate bracket will determine matchups. Source: NCAA.com
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