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Princeton University Athletics
Baseball Placed in Charlottesville Regional; Will Face Virginia Friday
May 31, 2004 | Baseball
May 31, 2004
Princeton, N.J. - The Princeton baseball team will open the 2004 NCAA Baseball Tournament this Friday night at 7 p.m. when it meets Virginia at Davenport Field at the UVa Baseball Stadium. Vanderbilt and George Mason are the other two teams in the Charlottesville Regional.
During the regular season, Princeton faced three NCAA tournament teams, posting a record of 3-4 in those games. The Tigers took three of four games from America East champion Stony Brook, dropped two games to North Carolina and fell at St. John's.
Princeton and Virginia will meet in Friday's second game. The two teams last met early in the 2000 season with the Cavaliers sweeping a doubleheader 11-5 and 5-2. The teams also met in the 1996 NCAA Tuscaloosa Regional where Virginia came out with a 12-2 win.
2004 Charlottesville Regional Schedule
The NCAA Regional is a double-elimination tournament consisting of four teams playing a total of at least six games (seven if necessary). There will be two games on Friday, three contests on Saturday and one game (or two if necessary) on Sunday. The time slots for the contests are as follows:
Friday, June 4
Game 1 - No. 2 Vanderbilt (42-17) vs. No. 3 George Mason (39-17) - 3:00 p.m.
Game 2 - No. 1 Virginia (42-13) vs. No. 4 Princeton (27-18) - 7:00 p.m.
Saturday, June 5
Game 3 - Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2 - 11:00 a.m.
Game 4 - Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 - 3 p.m.
Game 5 - Winner Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4 - 7 p.m.
Sunday, June 6
Game 6 - Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5 - 1 p.m.
Game 7 - Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 6 (if necessary) - 6 p.m.