BIG SOUTH TOURNAMENT CENTRAL (including ticket information)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Radford has been tabbed the No. 5 seed in the upcoming Big South Baseball Championship presented by Brookwood Farms BBQ and Triangle Rent-a-Car, May 22-26 on the campus of High Point University.
The Highlanders (28-26-1, 12-12 Big South) will open up the tournament in the early game on Tuesday, taking on No. 4 seed Gardner-Webb at 9:30 a.m.
The entirety of the tournament can be watched live on the Big South Network presented by State Farm – all Radford games can be heard live, for free, on RadfordAthletics.com.
Radford finished the season in fourth place in the league standings with a 12-12 record, but tied with Gardner-Webb and UNC Asheville. However, the tiebreaker procedure for multiple-team ties was used -- composite records of the tying teams against each other to determine if one team won more games against the other institutions. Gardner-Webb and Radford were both 4-2, while UNC Asheville was 1-5 to fall to the No. 6 seed. With the tie being reduced back to Gardner-Webb and Radford, the Runnin' Bulldogs claim the No. 4 seed due to winning the season series over the Highlanders, 2-games-to-1, which drops Radford to No. 5.
In addition to the tournament, the Big South will announce the 2012 All-Conference teams and annual award winners Monday evening during a special awards presentation for the teams at the Fine Arts Center on High Point's campus.
Tuesday, May 22 (Games 1-4)
Game 1: No. 4 Gardner-Webb vs. No. 5 Radford, 9:30 am
Game 2: No. 1 Coastal Carolina vs. No. 8 Charleston Southern, 45 minutes following Game 1
Game 3: No. 3 Liberty vs. No. 6 UNC Asheville, 4:30 pm
Game 4: No. 2 Campbell vs. No. 7 High Point, 45 minutes following Game 3
Wednesday, May 23 (Games 5-8)
Game 5: Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 9:30 am
Game 6: Loser Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4, 45 minutes following Game 5
Game 7: Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 4:30 pm
Game 8: Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 4, 45 minutes following Game 7
Thursday, May 24 (Games 9-10)
Game 9: Loser Game 7 vs. Winner Game 5, 3:00 pm
Game 10: Loser Game 8 vs. Winner Game 6, 45 minutes following Game 9
Friday, May 25 (Games 11-12 [13-14])
Game 11: Winner Game 8 vs. Winner Game 9, 10:00am
Game 12: Winner Game 7 vs. Winner Game 10, 45 minutes following Game 11
Game 13: if necessary - Winner Game 11 vs. Loser Game 11, 5:00 pm (7 innings)
Game 14: if necessary - Winner Game 12 vs. Loser Game 12, 45 minutes following Game 13 (7 innings)
Saturday, May 26 (Championship Game)
Winner Game 11 (or 13) vs. Winner Game 12 (or 14), 4:00 pm (TV: ESPN3)
