![]() ![]() ![]() The 2002 NCAA Baseball Championships will take place May 25 to June 1 at Paterson Field in Montgomery, Ala. The 2002 NCAA Division II Western Regional will take place at the highest-seeded qualifier May 16 to May 18. Once there, it needs a convincing win over Grand Canyon in an effort to persuade the selection committee that it is worthy of a bid. The latest regional ranking had the Tritons in fourth place, but since then UCSD dropped seven of 10 games while then fifth-ranked Grand Canyon has won six of nine, including two wins over top-ranked Chico State.Īdding all this information up, UCSD has a “”magic number”” of four wins to make the CCAA playoffs. Four teams from each region are selected to make up the 32-team field. The CCAA tournament determines only the winner of the conference bids to the NCAA tournament are decided by an eight-member selection committee. Looking ahead, UCSD travels to third-ranked UC Davis for four games CSUSB has a game left with second-place Grand Canyon University and bottom-feeder Cal State Stanislaus and a four-game series with last-place San Francisco State University Sonoma State has one game left with Cal State Los Angeles before hosting Grand Canyon University. UCSD holds the tiebreaker over Cal State San Bernardino with a four-game sweep of the Coyotes earlier in the season the Tritons split their series with Sonoma State. Cal State San Bernardino is a game behind with a 19-15 record, and CCAA defending champion Sonoma State University is in sixth, 2.5 games back with a record of 18-17. UCSD is currently in fourth place with a record of 21-15. The Tritons are the surprise team of the CCAA after bringing up the rear last season in their first year of Division II play. The top four finishers in the CCAA advance to a double-elimination playoff May 9 to May 11 at Chico State University. The baseball team’s late-season struggles have put a question mark over advancement to the California Collegiate Athletic Association postseason. ![]()
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