College Baseball: Chapel Hill Regional schedule, seeds and more
By Zack Pearson
We take a look at the Chapel Hill Regional for the 2019 College Baseball Tournament including the teams, seeds and schedule
Despite losing the final two series of the regular season, the North Carolina Tar Heels were able to rebound in a big way last week. The Diamond Heels won all four games in the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament including beating the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets for the title on Sunday afternoon.
With their 4-0 weekend and a conference championship, UNC ensured they would host a Regional in the upcoming 2019 College Baseball Tournament.
Shortly after that 6-1 final over the Yellow Jackets, the Tar Heels were announced as one of the 16 Regional hosts in the tournament. Now, we have the full bracket including seeding, schedule and more for the Chapel Hill Regional.
The full 64-team bracket was officially revealed on Monday afternoon including regional and super regional seeding. The Tar Heels were named the No. 14 overall seed and will matchup with the Atlanta Regional winner which includes the No. 3 seed Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.
Joining the Tar Heels in the Chapel Hill regional this weekend are (2) Tennessee, (3) Liberty and (4) UNC-Wilmington. Below is the full schedule for the Chapel Hill regional including times which are all Eastern:
Friday, May 31
Game 1: (1) North Carolina (38-18) vs. (4) UNCW (32-29), 2 p.m.
Game 2: (4) Liberty (42-19) vs. (2) Tennessee (38-19), 7 p.m.
Saturday, June 1
Game 3: Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2,11 a.m.
Game 4: Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2, 4 p.m.
Sunday, June 2
Game 5: Winner Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4,12 p.m.
Game 6: Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5, 6 p.m.
Monday, June 3
Game 7: If necessary, 1 p.m.
You can find the full bracket here.
The winner of the Chapel Hill regional will meet up with the winner of the Atlanta regional for the Super Regional in Atlanta next week. The Atlanta regional consists of (1) Georgia Tech, (2) Auburn, (3) Coastal Carolina, (4) Florida A&M.
This is the third-straight year UNC has hosted a regional, losing it in 2017 and winning it in the 2018 season on their way to the College World Series.
For more on the Chapel Hill regional including game previews and recaps, please check back with Keeping It Heel.