INDIANAPOLIS—Swarthmore College Baseball will begin its 2018 NCAA Tournament run in the Auburn, New York Regional, the NCAA announced shortly after midnight on Monday morning.
The Garnet, looking to continue the winningest campaign in program history (33-9), begin the double-elimination regional tournament on Thursday at 10 a.m. Swarthmore, the fifth seed in this bracket, will open the tournament against fourth-seeded Baldwin Wallace University. The Yellow Jackets went 31-12 in 2018 and won the Ohio Athletic Conference.
Win or lose game one, Swarthmore will pick up play on Friday. The tournament has the potential to run all the way until Monday the 21st.
SUNY Cortland is the top seed in the tournament and is the regional host. Cortland begins with eighth-seeded Westfield St. Second seed Salisbury opens with seventh seed St. Joseph's Long Island, and third seed Southern Maine gets Amherst in round one.
Swarthmore earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament after defeating Johns Hopkins University on May 5 for the Centennial Conference Championship. The Garnet are making the program's second trip to the NCAA Tournament; the last team to make the tournament was the 1985 squad.
The tournament is hosted by SUNY Cortland at Falcon Park, located at 130 North Division St., Auburn, N.Y. 13021. Tickets are $3 for adults and $2 for students with ID, senior citizens and children under 12. Children under two are free.
NCAA Regional Bracket
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