UCLA earns No. 2 seed
UCLA's softball team earned a No. 2 seed for the NCAA Tournament. The Bruins host Nevada, Purdue and Cal State Fullerton in a regional beginning Friday. UCLA plays Cal State Fullerton in Friday's second game.
Bruins Earn No. 2 National Seed for NCAA Tournament
May 11, 2008
LOS ANGELES - The UCLA softball team earned the No. 2 national seed for the
2008 NCAA Softball Tournament, as announced on Sunday night. The Bruins
will host Nevada, Purdue and Cal State Fullerton in a regional at Easton
Stadium that begins on Friday. UCLA will face Cal State Fullerton in the
second game on Friday, approximately 30 minutes after the first contest of
the day between Nevada and Purdue, which starts at 2:30 p.m.
All games of the Los Angeles Regional will be televised live on ESPNU. Game
times are as follows:
Friday
Game 1 - Nevada (2 seed) vs. Purdue (3 seed), 2:30 p.m.
Game 2 - UCLA (1 seed) vs. Cal State Fullerton (4 seed), 30 minutes after
Game 1
Saturday
Game 3 - Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 3:00 p.m.
Game 4 - Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2, 30 minutes after Game 3
Game 5 - Winner Game 4 vs. Loser Game 3, 30 minutes after Game 4
Sunday
Game 6 - Winner Game 3 vs. Winner Game 5, 2:30 p.m.
Game 7 - Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 6 (if necessary), 30 minutes after
Game 6
More information on ticket prices will be posted when it becomes available.
The Bruins concluded the regular season with a 45-7 record and a 17-4 mark
in Pac-10 play. Nevada, the second seed in the regional, won the
regular-season Western Athletic Conference title and earned an at-large
berth, finishing with a 42-16 mark. Third-seeded Purdue, an at-large
selection from the Big Ten Conference, was 34-21 overall and fifth in the
Big Ten, while #4 seed Cal State Fullerton was an at-large selection from
the Big West Conference after concluding the regular season with a 27-26-1
record and a fifth-place finish in the Big West.
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This is Brian Dohn's fifth season covering UCLA after spending 4 1/2 years covering the Dodgers for the Daily News and other Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers. He graduated from Rutgers, where the first college football game was played in 1869. Sure, the Scarlet Knights suffered for a long time, but now RU is doing what Jerseyans always thought was possible. Winning at Rutgers also proves winning is possible everywhere else in the nation, so underachieving coaches better be careful. Now, if only men's hoops can turn it around.
I would love to see more about UCLA softball on this page. The Bruins are looking hot this year!