Carolina one of the 16 regional hosts for Baseball Championship

While the ACC baseball tournament definitely did not go as the Tar Heels expected, last night UNC received something they were probably expecting. For the third year in a row North Carolina will be one of the sixteen regional hosts for the 2008 Division I baseball championship. The games will go from Friday, May 30^th through Sunday, June 1^st. If there is a need for an extra game it will be played on Monday, June ^nd.

Playing at home for the Heels should do them well, as they were 25-6 this year. UNC was one of four Atlantic Coast Conference teams that is a hosting site. Along with the Heels Florida State, Miami and N.C. State will have home field advantage in the first part of the tournament. The remaining sites are the following: Arizona State, Cal State Fullerton, Coastal Carolina, Georgia, Long Beach State, LSU, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma State, Rice, Stanford and Texas A&M.

The winners of the 16 regionals will meet June 6^th through June 9^th in the best of three Super Regional round to determine the eight-team field of the 2008 College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. The CWS will run from June 14^th to the 25^th.