Division II Baseball Regionals Announced

INDIANAPOLIS, IN—The NCAA Division II Baseball Committee has selected the 48 teams that will participate in the 2010 NCAA Division II Baseball Championship.

The championship provides for eight regional sites – six sites will host six teams, the West region will host four teams and the South region will host eight teams. All regionals are double-elimination tournaments and will be played at on-campus sites May 13-17. Regional champions will advance to the double-elimination championship finals May 22-29 at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina. The finals will be hosted by Mount Olive College and the town of Cary, North Carolina.

Nineteen conferences receive automatic qualification into the 2010 championship. Each conference and its automatic qualifier are listed below:

California Collegiate Athletic Association – UC San Diego
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference – Dominican (New York)
Conference Carolinas – Mount Olive
East Coast Conference – C.W. Post
Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Wayne State (Michigan)
Great Lakes Valley Conference – Southern Indiana
Gulf South Conference – Valdosta State
Heartland Conference – Incarnate Word
Lone Star Conference – Abilene Christian
Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association – Central Missouri
Northeast-10 Conference – Stonehill
Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference – Minnesota State Mankato
Peach Belt Conference – Columbus State
Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference – California (Pennsylvania)
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference – New Mexico Highlands
South Atlantic Conference – Catawba
Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Albany State (Georgia)
Sunshine State Conference – Tampa
West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference – Seton Hill

In the 2009 championship, Lynn University captured its first national championship title with a 2-1 victory over Emporia State University.