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Cal To Host Super Regional At Santa Clara

Posted Jun. 7, 2011 1:08 pm by Aaron Fitt
Filed under: Around The Nation, Division I Postseason

The site of the California-Dallas Baptist super regional was still undetermined late last night, but the NCAA announced today that Cal will host at Stephen Schott Stadium on the campus of Santa Clara, about an hour south of Berkeley. The three games will be held Saturday, Sunday and Monday (if necessary).

It's an odd state of affairs when a Pacific-10 school (and the flagship university of the nation's richest baseball hotbed state) has to host at a West Coast Conference stadium because its own facilities are inadequate (and lack lights), but the Golden Bears are lucky just to have a program, at this point.

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Does anyone know why Evans Diamond doesn't have lights? I've heard off and on for the past decade or so that the baseball program has raised enough money to install lights and make other facilities improvements but is not being permitted to do so due to gender equity issues (i.e., the softball facility needs upgrades so Evans Diamond cannot be renovated/upgraded/get lights until the softball field is also upgraded). I'd like to think that's not the reason for Cal baseball being at a disadvantage in terms of facilities.

Posted by budman | June 7, 2011 at 3:50 pm | Shortcut

Does anyone know what facilities Cal lacks?
As to lights the super regionals are one game a day. A 1 pm start allows roughly 18 innings to be played. And this year's regionals show that the real risk of game delays and postponements come from rain and lightening at non-California sites.

Posted by Ally Palto Chuck | June 7, 2011 at 4:36 pm | Shortcut

Sadly I do think the baseball and softball programs are hurting each other at this point. I heard the softball team was actually hoping Cal would cut the baseball program so the softball field and facilities could be improved. I think it is pathetic that the softball team earned a top eight seed in the NCAA Tournament this season, yet had to travel pretty much across the country (by bus no less) to play its regional and super regional. The softball program has a national championship to its name from not too long ago, so its not like it would be ridiculous for them to get a few upgrades. This is where the Pac-10 starts to fall behind the SEC…pretty much all SEC schools funnel money to all sports for facility upgrades.

Posted by Nick | June 8, 2011 at 9:28 am | Shortcut

Having coached in the Mid South and in California, I'm not surprised by the two previous comments.
Fact is, West Coast schools have pretty marginal facilities. Pac 10 fans might talk about Oregon or Oregon State, but they're the exception and even they don't compare to the top 10-15 facilities in the country. Heck, compare most West coast stadiums to the University of Cincinnati's.
It's a tremendous stretch to believe Cal Baseball raised enough money to have lights, but the school wouldn't allow them to be installed. Evans Diamond is a pathetic D-I facility. In 10 years, Esquer didn't raise enough money to install lights or other significant improvements. Until the "we're losing the team" `fervor this year, Cal barely averaged 500 fans a game — actually, 451 in 2010.
Cal should have gone to Virginia, Dallas Baptist should have gone to Vanderbilt, and UC Irvine and Oregon State should have hosted.

Posted by fred4945 | June 10, 2011 at 5:58 pm | Shortcut

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