BATON ROUGE — Cox Sports Television will broadcast the championship game(s) of the NCAA Softball Regional in Baton Rouge this Sunday at Tiger Park beginning at 1 p.m. on cable channel 37.
The four-team double-elimination regional will begin play on Friday and conclude on Sunday with the winner advancing to Super Regional play next weekend. Baton Rouge Regional action will kick off on Friday at 4 p.m. with second-seeded NC State against third-seeded UL-Lafayette. Play will conclude on Friday with top-seeded LSU facing fourth-seeded Princeton at 7 p.m.
On Saturday, the winner of game one will face the winner of game two at 1 p.m. The loser of game one and the loser of game two will face off in an elimination game at 4 p.m. The day will conclude with the loser of game three facing the winner of game four for the right to advance to championship Sunday.
The NCAA Regional will conclude on Sunday with the winner of game three taking on the winner of game five at 1 p.m. If the game five winner defeats the game three winner in game six, the pair will square off once again at 4 p.m. Cox Sports will carry the 1 p.m. game and the 4 p.m. game if necessary.
Fans can purchase tickets for the Baton Rouge Regional Tournament online at LSUsports.net. All-Session tickets are $40 for adults and $25 for youth under 12 years of age. The all-session tickets are good for every game of the regional tournament. All tickets must be picked up at will call with a valid ID beginning on Wednesday, May 17.
As of mid-afternoon on Tuesday, almost 500 all-session tickets had already been sold for the regional tournament. With additional bleachers being added to Tiger Park, the capacity of the complex has been increased to 1,100, which means almost half of the available tickets have been sold in less than two days. Single-game tickets will be available on game day at the Tiger Park ticket office for $6 for adults and $4 for children.
Sixteen teams will be seeded and each of the seeded teams will be placed at one of the regional sites. Four teams will participate at each of sixteen regional sites in a double-elimination tournament. The sixteen teams advancing from regional competition will participate in a two-team, best of three super regional at eight sites on Friday, May 26 and Saturday, May 27. The Women’s College World Series, which begins June 1, will include the eight super regional winners.