Baseball Heads West For The NCAA Tournament

May 21, 2001

Having claimed its first Atlantic 10 Baseball Championship since 1984,

Skip Wilson's Temple Owls (27-29) will face Cal State Fullerton

(41-15), the tournament's top-seeded team, on Friday, May 25th at 7:00 PM

PST in the first round of the 2001 Division I Baseball Championship.

The Owls, making their first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 1984,

own a 19-22 all-time record in the tournament and are one of two teams from

the state of Pennsylvania (Bucknell) in this year's tourney.

The Owls lost to Michigan and Central Michigan in the 1984 tournament.

The double-elimination regional will be held in Fullerton, California on

May 25-27. Cal State Fullerton is ranked fourth in the Baseball America poll

and fifth by Collegiate Baseball Weekly.

The Owls are led by First team All-Atlantic 10 selections Greg Powell (P)

and Kyle Sweppenhiser (3B), who was named the Most Outstanding Player of the

2001 Verizon Atlantic 10 Baseball Championship this past weekend at Disney's

Wide World of Sports Complex in Lake Buena Vista, Fl.

Game times for the four-team tournament are as follows:

Fri. 5/25 Game 1 - 2 Arizona State vs. Texas Tech 3:00 pm PST

Fri. 5/25 Game 2 - 1 Cal State Fullerton vs. TEMPLE 7:00 pm PST

Sat. 5/26 Game 3 - Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game # 2 1:00 pm PST

Sat. 5/26 Game 4 - Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game # 2 4:30 pm PST

Sat. 5/26 Game 5 - Winner Game 3 vs. Loser Game # 4 8:00 pm PST

Sun. 5/27 Game 6 - Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game # 5 1:00 pm PST

Sun. 5/27 Game 7 - Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game # 6 TBA PST

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