Miami Opens Postseason Play Against San Francisco In Lincoln Regional
May 30, 2006
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (www.hurricanesports.com) – The University of Miami baseball team will begin its quest for a fifth College World Series title against San Francisco on Friday, June 2 at 8:05 p.m. ET at Hawks Field at Haymarket Park in Lincoln, Neb. Miami, the second seed in the 2006 Lincoln NCAA Regional, is making its NCAA-record 34th consecutive postseason appearance. Regional host and No. 6 national seed Nebraska opens regional play at 2:05 p.m. ET against fourth-seeded Manhattan.
Tickets can be purchased by calling the Nebraska ticket office at (800) 8-BIGRED or by logging onto www.huskers.com for more information.
All of UM’s Regional play can be heard on three different Miami stations. The Student Voice of UM, WVUM 90.5 FM; UM’s flagship, WQAM 560 AM and WWFE 670 AM or WHRC 1550 AM (Spanish) will carry the games locally. The television schedule for the Regional has yet to be determined as of May 29.
Miami (36-21) will be facing West Coast Conference runner-up San Francisco (38-21) for the first time ever. It is also the first-ever postseason appearance for the Dons, who were an at-large selection for the tournament.
Nebraska (42-15), the Big 12 Conference Tournament runner-up, has advanced to the College World Series three of the past five seasons, and is making its sixth tournament appearance in the last seven years.
Manhattan (32-21) won its’ first-ever MAAC Championship to earn its first NCAA appearance since 1957. UM defeated the Jaspers, 12-2, in the only meeting between the two programs on March 15 in Coral Gables.
UM is entering familiar but unwelcome territory in Lincoln. The Hurricanes’ season ended last year at Hawks Field against the Cornhuskers with a pair of losses in the 2005 NCAA Lincoln Super Regional in the only meetings between the two schools.
This is the third time Miami has not hosted a NCAA Regional in head coach Jim Morris’ 13-year tenure. Miami traveled to the 2002 Gainesville Regional and the 1996 Central I Regional in Austin, Texas, advancing out of the bracket in both instances.
