<345p>NEW ORLEANS — Cox Sports Television has been awarded the exclusive television rights to the 2004 NCAA regional baseball tournament in Baton Rouge this weekend. The double elimination tournament features LSU, Southern Mississippi, College of Charleston and Army.
CST will air all games live on its affiliates in Louisiana, southern Mississippi, western Alabama and the Florida panhandle. The games can be seen in Baton Rouge on Cable Ch. 37.
“The road to Omaha starts in Baton Rouge for these teams and their fans and we are excited to be bringing all the action live to our viewers throughout the Gulf Coast,” stated CST head Rod Mickler.
CST is the exclusive regional sports network of LSU Athletics and televises over 40 Tiger events each year.
Cox Sports Television, the home of the NBA’s New Orleans Hornets, is an innovative 24-hour local sports network that delivers exclusive programming, including both professional and collegiate sporting events, to over 900,000 viewers.
Cox Sports Television is available to pay television distributors throughout its coverage area and is a part of Cox Communications Louisiana LLC, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the state of Louisiana.
The Baton Rouge regional is one of sixteen regional tournaments being played around the country this weekend. The winners of these tournaments will meet the following weekend in eight Super Regional tournaments with those winners moving on to Omaha for the College World Series.
Traveling to Baton Rouge this weekend will be Southern Mississippi (44-17), Army (37-13) and the College of Charleston (45-14). They will be hosted by LSU (41-17), which is hosting a regional for the 15th straight year and 16th overall.
The tournament is a double elimination affair with Number 1 seed LSU taking on #4 Army in game 1 beginning at 2PM Friday, followed by #2 Seed Southern Miss matching up with #3 College of Charleston in game two at 6:30 PM.
Saturday will showcase a tripleheader beginning at 11 AM with a loser’s bracket game (game 3) followed by the winner’s bracket game at 3:00 PM (game 4), then at 7:30PM in game 5 it’s another elimination game with the winner moving on to Sunday.
Championship Sunday begins at 1PM with game 4 winner versus the game 5 winner (game 6). If necessary, a game seven will begin 50 minutes after game 6, with the same two teams battling for the right to take on the winner of the Houston Regional in the Super Regionals.
Calling all of the NCAA Regional action for CST will be play-by-play announcer Lyn Rollins and analyst Ben McDonald, a former LSU and major league star pitcher.
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