Baseball Earns One of Eight National Seeds

CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The University of Miami baseball program earned one of eight coveted national seeds and will host No. 2 seed East Carolina, No. 3 Columbia and No. 4 FIU in the Coral Gables Regional beginning Friday, May 29 at Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field.

Miami, which earned the No. 5 national seed and will host the Super Regional round if they successfully emerge from the Coral Gables Regional this weekend, begins its postseason run Friday night against FIU at 7 p.m.

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American Athletic Conference champions East Carolina and Ivy League champion Columbia will open the Coral Gables Regional at 1 p.m. on Friday. FIU was an automatic qualifier after successfully capturing the Conference USA Championship Sunday.

Miami was announced as one of 16 host sites for NCAA Regionals on Sunday, extending the Hurricanes active Division I record to 43 consecutive years of postseason play.

The Hurricanes, who finished the 2015 season with a 44-14 record and their second straight ACC Coastal Division title, have not missed the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship since 1972, and own an all-time Regionals record of 120-45 (.727).

Miami’s all-time mark in the postseason stands at an impressive 181-93 (.661).

The Coral Gables Regional was paired with the Dallas Regional hosted by Dallas Baptist University, which includes the host No. 1 Patriots, No. 2 seed Texas, No. 3 seed Oregon State and No. 4 seed VCU.

The 69th Men’s College World Series begins play Saturday, June 13, at the TD Ameritrade Park Omaha in Omaha, Nebraska.