Baseball Tournament

wiu712
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Friday's results:
Omaha beat Oral Roberts 3-2.
Oral Roberts beat South Dakota State 4-0. South Dakota State has been eliminated.

Weather: Low 80's, partly cloudy, humid.

Attendance = 525.


Saturday's schedule:
11:00 AM: Omaha vs Oral Roberts. If Oral Roberts wins, a second game will follow.

The winner of The Summit League Championship earns the league’s automatic berth to the NCAA Tournament.
wiu712
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Oral Roberts beat Omaha 6-0 today.

A second game between those two will start at 2:00 PM. The winner of that game will move on to the NCAA Tournament.
wiu712
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Omaha beat Oral Roberts 4-0 to win the Summit League Tournament. Omaha wins its first conference championship.

Oral Roberts had won its previous 19 Summit League Baseball post-season tournaments (1998-2012 and 2015-18).

This was Omaha's second appearance in the Championship (2016; lost 0-2).

Weather: 80's, partly cloudy.

Attendance = 763.

Omaha will move on to an NCAA Regional. Those assignments will be made on Monday.

No Western player was named to the All-Tournament Team.
wiu712
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The Omaha baseball team was selected to play in the NCAA Los Angeles Regional as a No. 4 seed.

It marks the first time in program history that the Mavericks will play in an NCAA Division I Regional.

Omaha (31-22-1) opens post-season play against No. 1 national seed UCLA (47-8) on Friday, May 31 at 9 p.m. CT on ESPN3. No. 2 Baylor (34-17) and No. 3 Loyola Marymount (32-23) play the first game of the regional at 3 p.m. CT on Friday.

The 64-team NCAA Tournament bracket was revealed on ESPNU's hour-long selection show Monday at 11 a.m. CT. Each of the 16 NCAA Regionals features a four-team, double-elimination format.


NCAA Los Angeles Regional Schedule

Friday, May 31
Game One: (2) Baylor vs. (3) LMU - 3 p.m. CT
Game Two: (1) UCLA vs. (4) Omaha - 9 p.m. CT

Saturday, June 1
Game Three: Loser of Game One vs. Loser of Game Two (Elimination Game)
Game Four: Winner of Game One vs. Winner of Game Two

Sunday, June 2
Game Five: Winner of Game Three vs. Loser of Game Four (Elimination Game)
Game Six: Winner of Game Five vs. Winner of Game Four (Championship Game)

Monday, June 3
Game Seven (if necessary): If Winner of Game Five wins Game Six vs. Winner of Game Four
wiu712
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Omaha had a short stay in the NCAA Tournament.

They lost their first game to #1 UCLA 5-2.

Then they lost their second game to #2 Baylor 24-6.
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