LSU's Alex Box Stadium to fill again
--WHO: LSU and three other teams.
--WHEN: Friday-Sunday (Monday if necessary). Games are scheduled for 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. each day.
--WHERE: Alex Box Stadium.
--TICKET INFO: Booklets are priced at $75 for Gold Seats, $65 for grand stand, $50 for bleachers. Season ticket holders and students can purchase tickets online at http://www.LSUsports. net/, by phone at either (225) 578-2184 or (800) 960-8587, or in person at the ticket office on the first floor of the LSU athletic administration building. Regional tickets not purchased by season ticket holders or LSU students by 5 p.m. Tuesday will go on sale to the public at 8 a.m. Thursday. Should any individual-session tickets be available, they will go on sale at 8 a.m. Friday.
Key dates, times
--TODAY: 11:30 a.m., announcement of 64-team NCAA tournament field, regional pairings (ESPN, http://www.ncaa.com).
--FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY, JUNE 2: Regionals; selected games live (ESPNU/CBS College Sports Network).
--JUNE 2: 10 p.m., super regional site announcements (http://www.ncaa.com/).
--JUNE 6-9: Super regionals; all games live on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU or ESPN360.com.
--JUNE 9: College World Series game times announced on ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNews, http://www.ncaa.com.
--JUNE 14: College World Series begins; all games live on ESPN HD, ESPN2 HD or ESPN360.com.
NCAA baseball regional sites
The 16 regional sites, listed by city and host school:
--Tempe, Ariz. (Arizona State).
--Fullerton, Calif. (Cal State Fullerton).
--Conway, S.C. (Coastal Carolina).
--Tallahassee, Fla. (Florida State).
--Athens, Ga. (Georgia).
--Long Beach, Calif. (Long Beach State).
--Coral Gables, Fla. (Miami).
--Ann Arbor, Mich. (Michigan).
--Lincoln, Neb. (Nebraska).
--Raleigh, N.C. (North Carolina State).
--Chapel Hill, N.C. (North Carolina).
--Stillwater, Okla. (Oklahoma State).
--Houston (Rice).
--Stanford, Calif. (Stanford).
--College Station, Texas (Texas A&M).
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HOOVER, Ala. — For the 18th and final time, 70-year-old Alex Box Stadium will host an NCAA baseball regional tournament.
LSU learned Sunday night it is one of 16 sites for four-team regional tournaments in the 64-team postseason that starts Friday and culminates with the College World Series beginning in mid-June.
“I’m so happy for the LSU fans that they get to come back out again to The Box,” second-year LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. “I’ve heard so much about what regionals and super regionals are like in that stadium, and I want to experience it myself.
“I know the fans want to experience it one more time. It’s going to be thrilling. I’m so looking forward to it.”
The news came moments after LSU won the Southeastern Conference tournament championship with an 8-2 victory against Ole Miss.
The 64-team NCAA tournament field, LSU’s seeding and the identity of the three other teams that will be in the regional at The Box are scheduled to be announced at 11:30 a.m. today on ESPN.
After the last regularly scheduled game at Alex Box Stadium — a Mother’s Day game between LSU and Mississippi State — LSU held a farewell ceremony of sorts for the ballpark, which will close after the season.
The Tigers will open a new Alex Box Stadium for the 2009 season.
At that May 11 game, LSU Athletic Director Skip Bertman changed a season-long countdown sign on the left-field wall to show: 0 Games Remaining At The Box.
His wife, Sandy, then placed a smaller sign over the zero, and it featured the NCAA logo and the suggestion of more games to come.
LSU fans left the ballpark not sure if they’d seen the last game at The Box, but hopeful they had not. The Tigers then extended a 12-game winning streak to 20 and counting.
Sandy Bertman’s makeshift sign proved prophetic.
LSU had a lot of competition from other schools that wanted a regional.
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