After their walk-off victory over Mercer in the Southern Conference baseball Championship Game, Caleb Robinson(Eastern Guilford HS), Brendan Nail(Page HS), Jake Moebius(Wesleyan Christian Academy) and Jason Smitih(Glenn HS), all local and all from Western Carolina University ,all will be beading to to the NCAA Baseball Regionals, with their WCU Catamount teammates and things are looking up these young men from
Cullowhee baseball fame…..
from the Western Carolina Baseball web site:
Cullowhee, N.C. – Southern Conference champion Western Carolina learned its postseason destination on Monday afternoon as the NCAA unveiled its 64-team bracket and regional pairings. The Catamounts will make the short jaunt to Doug Kingsmore Stadium and Clemson, S.C., as the fourth-seed in the four-team Clemson regional.
The team held a small gathering Monday in the first floor Hospitality Room in the Ramsey Center to watch the selection show together.
WCU will face the No. 7 national seed and regional host, Clemson (42-18), at 7:00 pm in the night cap of a two-game opening day in the double-elimination bracket play. Each game of the regional will be broadcast on ESPN3 with WCU’s games featuring Catamount Sports Network audio available online through CatamountSports.com. Game times Friday through Sunday are Noon and 7:00 pm, with Monday’s if-necessary game slated for a 7:00 pm first pitch.
The Catamounts and Tigers are joined in the Clemson Regional by No. 2 seed Oklahoma State (36-20) and No. 3 seed Nebraska (37-20), who will play at Noon on Friday on ESPNU and ESPN3.
Western Carolina (30-29) is making its 12th NCAA tournament appearance in program history — its first since securing an at-large bid back in 2007. The Catamounts garnered the SoCon’s automatic berth into the postseason field after winning its third game in two days with a walk-off victory over regular season champion, Mercer, in the winner-take-all second championship game Sunday evening at Fluor Field in Greenville, S.C. The Catamounts finished the season tied for second in the league, earning the No. 2 seed.
WCU dropped a pair of close games against Clemson — the 2016 ACC tournament champion — during the year including a 10-8 loss at home in Cullowhee and a 10-inning, 7-6, loss at Doug Kingsmore Stadium.