No. 1 Miami To Host NCAA Coral Gables Super Regional
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami baseball team will play in its ninth NCAA Super Regional in the last 10 seasons when it hosts Arizona in a best-of-three series beginning Friday, June 6 at Mark Light Field. The entire series between Miami (50-8) and Arizona (41-17) will be televised in primetime on ESPN and ESPN2 with the winner earning a spot in the 2008 NCAA College World Series.<?xml:namespace prefix=”o” ns=”urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office”?>
The first two games of the Coral Gables Super Regional will be televised on ESPN with Friday’s contest slated for 7 p.m. and Saturday’s first pitch scheduled for 7:30 p.m. If the two teams split the first two contests, the deciding third game will be shown on ESPN2 at 7 p.m. on Sunday.
The top-seeded Hurricanes – winners of 17 of their last 20 – are coming off their 25th regional championship after defeating Ole Miss, 11-2, in the Coral Gables Regional final on Sunday. UM shortstop Ryan Jackson was named the Most Outstanding Player at the Coral Gables Regional after hitting .545 (6-for-11) with two home runs and four RBI in three games against Ole Miss, Missouri and Bethune-Cookman.
The Wildcats will be making their second-ever NCAA Super Regional appearance since the current postseason format began in 1999. Arizona won the Ann Arbor Regional over the weekend, knocking off Kentucky, 5-3, in the championship game.
UM leads the all-time series with Arizona, 4-2. The last meeting between the two programs came in 1989 when the Hurricanes defeated the Wildcats, 11-1, in Chapel Hill, N.C. In 1987, UM took two-out-of-three games against Arizona in the Wildcats’ only visit to Mark Light Field.
Ticket packages for the entire Coral Gables Super Regional are $60 for reserved field box and $48 for reserved chairback. Single game tickets are priced at $20 for field box, $16 for chairback, $10 for adult general admission and $8 for youth, seniors and students.
Ticket sales will open at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday morning. To order tickets, click here
or call 305-284-CANE or 1-800-GO-CANES or visit the UM ticket office.
The last season Miami hosted a Super Regional was in 2004. The last time the Hurricanes won a Super Regional was 2006 when UM defeated Ole Miss in the Oxford Super Regional.
The winner of the Coral Gables Super Regional will move on to the College World Series, June 14-25, at Rosenblatt Stadium in Omaha, Neb.
Coral Gables Super Regional Ticket Information
All Tournament Pack
Field Box Reserved – $60
Chairback Reserved – $48
Single Game Tickets
Field Box – $20
Chairback – $16
Adult GA – $10
Youth/Senior/Student – $8
