BOCA RATON, Fla. – (May 27, 2019) – For the fourth time in five years – and fifth in seven –the Florida Atlantic University baseball team is bound for the NCAA Tournament. This weekend the Owls head to Athens, Georgia, for a regional hosted by the national No. 4 seed University of Georgia, and will take on Florida State on Friday. It is only the third of 14 regional bids in program history that has seen the team leave the state of Florida, and marks the first time since 2013.
The No. 2-seeded Owls join the hosts Georgia, No. 3 FSU and No. 4 Mercer in Athens. The first round games will take place this Friday, May 31, with FAU taking on the Seminoles at noon at Foley Field, and the Bulldogs and the Bears in the nightcap at 7 p.m.
The 40-19 FAU squad won the Conference USA regular season championship and made it to the final game in the league’s postseason tournament. Last season, the Owls were sent to the Gainesville regional and took on the nation’s top overall seed in Florida, forcing a final game by defeating the Gators before UF would advance.
The Owls’ opener against FSU will be streamed live on ESPN3. The entirety of the Athens schedule will be released later on Monday, and more info will come soon about the specific FAU vs. FSU matchup.
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Florida Atlantic University Athletics:
FAU Athletics is comprised of 21 intercollegiate teams involving 450 student-athletes that compete in baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, soccer, softball, swimming and diving, tennis, indoor and outdoor track, volleyball, beach volleyball, cheer and dance. The Owls are a NCAA Division I-A (FBS) institution and compete in Conference USA and the Coastal Collegiate Sports Association (CCSA) (beach volleyball, men’s swimming). The Owls have been playing football since 2001 and are a perfect 3-0 in bowl games, the most recent being a 50-3 victory over Akron in the 2017 Cheribundi Tart Cherry Boca Raton Bowl. The dance team finished its 2014 season No. 8, nationally. FAU cheer won a national championship in 2016.
About Florida Atlantic University:
Florida Atlantic University, established in 1961, officially opened its doors in 1964 as the fifth public university in Florida. Today, the University, with an annual economic impact of $6.3 billion, serves more than 30,000 undergraduate and graduate students at sites throughout its six county service region in southeast Florida. FAU’s world-class teaching and research faculty serves students through 10 colleges: the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, the College of Business, the College for Design and Social Inquiry, the College of Education, the College of Engineering and Computer Science, the Graduate College, the Harriet L. Wilkes Honors College, the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, the Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing and the Charles E. Schmidt College of Science. FAU is ranked as a High Research Activity institution by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The University is placing special focus on the rapid development of critical areas that form the basis of its strategic plan: Healthy aging, biotech, coastal and marine issues, neuroscience, regenerative medicine, informatics, lifespan and the environment. These areas provide opportunities for faculty and students to build upon FAU’s existing strengths in research and scholarship. For more information, visit www.fau.edu.
