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Baseball To Face Wake Forest in NCAA Tournament Sub-Regional

Colonials Join Navy and Richmond at Winston-Salem, NC

May 27, 2002

WASHINGTON, DC - The George Washington baseball team will play No. 7 seeded Wake Forest (44-11-1) in the first round of the NCAA Tournament this Friday, May 31, in a 7:00 p.m. game at Wake Forest's Ernie Shore Field in Winston-Salem, NC. The 64-team NCAA Tournament bracket was announced today matching the Atlantic 10 Conference champion Colonials with the ACC's Demon Deacons.

GW and Richmond (49-10), both members of the Atlantic 10, were assigned to the Wake Forest site along with the U.S. Naval Academy (22-23). Richmond and Navy meet in the other first-round match-up in the double-elimination format. Richmond and Navy will meet Friday at 2 p.m. Wake will take on GW at 7 p.m. The sub-regional continues with three games on Saturday and one or two games on Sunday. Wake Forest was ranked fourth in the May 20 Baseball Weekly/ESPN Top 25 College Coaches Poll. Richmond ranked 20th in that poll.

GW (42-21), coached by Tom Walter, is coming off a 6-4 victory over 19th-ranked Richmond Saturday to clinch the 2002 Atlantic 10 title and an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. The 42 victories represents the winningest season in GW baseball history. This is GW's first A-10 baseball title (and NCAA Tournament berth) since 1992.

Friday's game marks GW's seventh NCAA Tournament appearance having previously played in 1957, '58, '59, '79, '89 and '92. GW's lone NCAA Tournament victory was against Seton Hall in 1979. The Colonials lost to Wichita State and Minnesota at Wichita, KS, in their most recent appearance in '92.

Friday, May 31:
Game 1 - Richmond vs. Navy 2:00 p.m.
Game 2 - Wake Forest vs. G. Washington 7:00 p.m.

Saturday, June 1:
Game 3 - Lose 1 vs. Lose 2 11:00 a.m.
Game 4 - Win 1 vs. Win 2 3:00 p.m.
Game 5 - Lose 4 vs. Win 3 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, June 2:
Game 6 - Win 4 vs. Win 5 1:30 p.m.
**Game 7 - Win 6 vs. Lose 6 5:00 p.m.
** if necessary