Lake youth football, cheer registration nears
The Lake Youth Football association is seeking youth football players and cheerleaders for the upcoming 2019 season.
The association is joining Areawide Youth Football Elite this year, which will reduce travel time as well as implementing 8-man tinymite teams. Anyone interested in playing for Lake Youth Football or if you know of anyone age 5-12 (no seventh graders) that would like to be a part of Lake Youth Football, please contact Robert Savell at 601.919.7924. If there’s no answer, leave a message or send a textn and he will get back to you as soon as possible.
State gets national seed
For the second time in program history, the Mississippi State baseball program has earned a national seed for the NCAA Baseball Championship, garnering the No. 6 national seed on the Road to Omaha in 2019.
The top seed in the Starkville Regional, MSU earned the No. 6 national seed to tie its highest national seed since the NCAA began the practice in 1999. The Bulldogs also took the No. 6 seed into the 2016 NCAA Baseball Championship, winning the 2016 Starkville Regional before dropping the NCAA Starkville Super Regional to eventual national runner-up Arizona.
Miami (Fla.) earned an at-large bid and the No. 2 seed in the Starkville Regional and will play No. 3 seed and Mid-American Conference champion Central Michigan in the opening round. State will face No. 4 seed and SWAC champion Southern its first game of the Starkville Regional.
Mississippi State (46-13) and Southern (32-22) will open the tournament at Noon CT, with Miami (Fla.) (39-18) and Central Michigan (46-12) playing the second game on the opening day at 7 p.m. CT. The winner of the Starkville Regional will advance to meet the winner of the Stanford Regional hosted by the No. 11 overall seed Stanford.
Ole Miss to host regional
Ole Miss baseball was announced as a host for the 2019 NCAA Baseball Tournament Sunday night, and Monday morning, the Rebels learned who they'll see in the NCAA Oxford Regional at Swayze Field this weekend.
No. 4 seed Jacksonville State, No. 3 seed Clemson and No. 2 seed Illinois will join the No. 12 overall seed Ole Miss in the NCAA Oxford Regional.
Illinois and Clemson will open the Oxford Regional action at 3 p.m. CT on ESPNU on Friday, May 31. The Rebels will then begin their Road to Omaha against Jacksonville State at 7 p.m. CT, which will be streamed live on the ESPN App.
The Oxford Regional is paired with the Fayetteville Regional, hosted by No. 5 national seed Arkansas. The winner of the Fayetteville Regional and Oxford Regional will meet in the Super Regionals. Should Arkansas advance out of its regional, it will have the right to host the Super Regional as the higher overall seed.
Southern Miss heads to Baton Rouge for regionals
The Southern Miss baseball team knew that they were in the NCAA Tournament after defeating Florida Atlantic 4-0, Sunday, in the Conference USA title contest.
Now, the Golden Eagles (38-19) are aware of who and where they will be playing.
Southern Miss will play Pac-12 Conference at-large recipient Arizona State (37-17) at 12 noon in the Baton Rouge (La.) Regional. The Golden Eagles are the No. 3 seed in the regional, while the Sun Devils are the No. 2 seed. No. 1 seed and host LSU (37-24) takes on No. 4 seed Stony Brook (31-21) at Alex Box Stadium, starting at 6 p.m.
The Golden Eagles have never faced the Sun Devils or Seawolves in baseball. LSU leads the Golden Eagles 38-11-2 in their respective series as the two teams could meet for the first time since the 2014 season.
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