BASEBALL: UCLA, USC NO. 1S LOYOLA 3RD SEED; PEPPERDINE OUT.Byline: Chris Cocoles Staff Writer USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. is a No. 1 seed and will play close to home at Cal State Fullerton in the NCAA NCAA abbr. National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Baseball Regionals. But Trojans coach Mike Gillespie There are 3 sports coaches with the name Mike Gillespie:
``If I had my choice, there'd be a half-dozen other places I'd enjoy going to more than (Fullerton),'' Gillespie said. The 16 four-team sites were announced Monday. UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX , which shared the Pacific-10 Conference The Pacific-10 Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I. Membership Full members title with Stanford and Arizona State, was shipped to Oklahoma City as the top seed. Second seed Oklahoma, Oral Roberts and Delaware round out the Bruins' regional. The Cal State Fullerton-hosted regional appears to be one the strongest. USC meets fourth-seeded Virginia Tech on Friday at 3 p.m. and Fullerton faces Loyola Marymount at 7 p.m. The seemingly weaker Lafayette regional features unranked No. 1 seed East Carolina, host Louisiana-Lafayette, McNeese State and Marist. Rutgers, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , Penn State and Army fill out the Upper Montclair bracket. LMU LMU Ludwig Maximilians Universität (München) LMU Loyola Marymount University LMU Leeds Metropolitan University (UK) LMU Lincoln Memorial University LMU Location Measurement Unit , 39-17 and ranked in the Top 25 in all the major polls, is seeded third behind the Trojans and Titans. ``That Loyola is a third seed is absurd,'' Gillespie said. ``Loyola is underrated and underappreciated. Not by us and not by Fullerton, but across the country they are.'' The Lions' West Coast Conference title wasn't much of a boost in the selection process. WCC WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → COE m (Conseil œcuménique des Églises) WCC n abbr (= World Council of Churches) → Weltkirchenrat m runner up Pepperdine (36-23), which considered itself on the bubble after losing the conference championship to LMU, was left out. But other mid-major conferences were rewarded while the WCC was snubbed. The Sun Belt got four teams in, while the Southland and Trans America had three each. ``They sure don't do West Coast baseball any favors. That's the way it is,'' LMU coach Frank Cruz said. ``We can't cry about it. . . . If you want to win a national championship, you might as well do this now.'' Pepperdine's exclusion didn't seem to bother committee chairman Dick Rockwell. ``There's no one I feel we left out of this tournament,'' Rockwell said. ``We had a group of about seven, eight or nine teams that we considered, but there wasn't really a 65th team.'' UCLA and Delaware meet at 1 p.m. PDT PDT abbr. Pacific Daylight Time PDT Pacific Daylight Time PDT n abbr (US) (= Pacific Daylight Time) → hora de verano del Pacífico PDT Friday. The 16 regional winners advance to eight Super Regionals June 2-4. NCAA DIVISION I BASEBALL REGIONALS Friday's games At Cal State Fullerton USC (38-18) vs. Virginia Tech (39-16), 3 p.m. Loyola Marymount (39-17) vs. Cal State Fullerton (36-19), 7 p.m. At Oklahoma City UCLA (35-42) vs. Delaware (37-19), 1 p.m. Oral Roberts (48-13) vs. Oklahoma (37-19) 5 p.m. CAPTION(S): photo, box Photo: UCLA, here celebrating a homer by Matt Pearl (8), is seeded No. 1 in the Oklahoma City regional. Tom Mendoza/Staff Photographer Box: NCAA Divsion I baseball regionals (see text) |
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