Baseball Heads To The 2016 NCAA Mideast Regional Tournament

Written by Joshua Soto (SJC-LI Sports Information)

Washington, Pa. |  The St. Joseph's College (L.I.) baseball team has been tabbed as the #7 seed in the 2016 NCAA Mideast Regional Tournament hosted by Washington and Jefferson University at Ross Memorial Park.

The Golden Eagles will take on the #2 Randolph-Macon on May 18 at 7:45 PM in their first-round matchup.

SJC won the Skyline Tournament for the first time under head coach Rick Garrett and for the third time in program history on May 10 with a 9-8 win over Farmingdale State College.

St. Joseph's historic year comes after a 24-11 (11-5 Skyline) year finishing fourth in the conference. 

Randolph-Macon is making its fifth trip to the NCAA Tournament after posting a 32-6-1 mark, setting a program record for wins in a season. The Yellow Jackets won the ODAC Tournament which earned them an automatic bid into the tournament.

For more information about the NCAA Regional Tournament click here.

Mideast Region hosted by Washington and Jefferson, Washington, Pa.

No. 1 La Roche vs. No. 8 Widener
No. 2 Randolph-Macon vs. No. 7 St. Joseph (L.I.)
No. 3 Wooster vs. No. 6 Johns Hopkins
No. 4 TCNJ vs. No. 5 Ohio Wesleyan

First-round matchups for the championship site will be as follows:
Pool A: South vs. New York and West vs. Midwest
Pool B: Mid-Atlantic vs. New England and Central vs. Mideast