The University of Alabama at Birmingham Athletics
Blazers To Face Southern Miss In C-USA Semifinal
5/28/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
May 28, 2004
HOUSTON, Texas - UAB will face third-seeded Southern Miss (42-16) Saturday at 9 a.m. in semifinal action at the Conference USA Baseball Tournament at Cougar Field on the University of Houston campus.
No. 7-seed UAB (30-27) defeated Memphis 7-6 Thursday in second-round play to advance to the semifinal round.
Southern Miss shut out sixth-seeded Memphis 13-0 in seven innings in an elimination game Friday afternoon.
A UAB win would put the Blazers in the championship game, which will be played Sunday at 1 p.m.
The championship game will be televised by affiliates of the Conference USA Television Network and CSTV: College Sports Television. Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast will carry the telecast live. The tournament champion receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Championship.
All of UAB's games at the C-USA Tournament will be broadcast live via the world wide web on the Blazers' official athletics website, www.uabsports.com. Air time is for Saturday's game against Southern Miss is approximately 8:45 a.m.
For those who are not Yahoo! subscribers, a monthly subscription can be purchased for $4.95 per month. To listen to the broadcast, click on either "UAB Audio Broadcasts" or "Multimedia" from the UAB athletics website's main page and follow the links.
If UAB were to lose to Southern Miss Saturday morning, the teams would meet in an elimination game Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m.
The Golden Eagles are ranked 23rd in both the Sports Weekly/ESPN Top 25 Coaches' Poll and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association poll. Southern Miss lost its first round game of the tournament 10-5 to Memphis.
UAB will be making its third appearance in the semifinal game of the Conference USA Tournament since joining the league during the 1995-96 season. The Blazers made appearances in the semifinal game in 2000 and 1997.
The Blazers have won 11 of their last 14 road contests, including nine of 11 against C-USA opponents on the road. UAB has also won six of its last eight games overall.
On the other side of the bracket, Houston (30-27), the four/five seed, is also undefeated in tournament play, posting wins over No. 4/5-seed TCU 9-5 Wednesday and top-seeded East Carolina 6-5 Thursday.
Houston will await the winner of the TCU-East Carolina matchup, which will be played Friday at 6:30 p.m. The Cougars will meet either the Pirates or the Horned Frogs at 12:30 p.m. Saturday.
A Houston win puts the Cougars in the championship game. If the Cougars lose the 12:30 p.m. game, the team will play in an elimination game Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
