LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The NCAA announced Monday that the Trojan baseball team has been selected to the Baton Rouge Regional. The Trojans are the No. 4 seed and will play LSU, the No. 1 seed Friday at 2 pm.
"We are excited to be playing in the Baton Rouge Regional," Little Rock head coach Chis Curry said. "We made a great run through the OVC Tournament and are playing very well right now. This is a great opportunity for our team and the University. I am happy for everyone involved, and now we need to get ready to play against some outstanding competition."
No. 2 seed Dallas Baptist and No. 3 seed Rhode Island will play Friday at 6:30 pm.
Little Rock is making its first NCAA Regional appearance in 14 seasons. The Trojans (24-32) won five games in four days to take the Ohio Valley Conference Tournament title and the automatic bid.
"A good way to explain it is, we just re-started our season," said senior shortstop
Alex Seguine, who earned All-OVC Tournament honors. "The past two years, we have gotten into that tournament as the No. 1 and No. 2 seeds, and it hasn't gone our way. There are a lot of factors, but maybe we were a little over confident. But this year, it was a little easier to wipe away all the negatives and re-start. That is exactly what we did. We were just a brand-new team coming in."
Added Little Rock senior pitcher
Jack Cline.
"I could see and feel that positive attitude with the team," he said. "We knew if we got out of Little Rock's way, we could play a clean game and essentially beat anyone in the conference, and we didn't feel like there was a roster from top to bottom that was better than ours. We knew we were beating ourselves.
"We go into the tournament thinking, 'Everyone is 0-0 right now and nothing in the past matters.' We got it going on the first pitch of Game 1 and since then, we've just kept it rolling. We are looking to keep it going and play loose."
Check back later this afternoon for complete information on the NCAA Baton Rouge Regional including schedules, ticket requests, pre-game festivities and more.
