LA JOLLA, Calif. - The No. 14 University of California San Diego baseball team has altered its weekend competition schedule to try and maneuver around rain in the forecast on Saturday and Sunday.
Instead of a Friday night primetime opener at 6 p.m. of a four-game California Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) series with visiting Sonoma State University, the teams will now play a doubleheader that day. First pitch is set for 3 p.m., with a shortened seven-inning nightcap as is customary for CCAA twin bills. Saturday's intended single game is slated for a 2 p.m. start, with the getaway-day Sunday finale pulled an hour earlier, from 12 p.m. now to 11 a.m. All of that is still subject to further change. Please stay tuned here to UCSDtritons.com, and to relevant Twitter feeds (@UCSDbsb, @UCSDtritons).
UC San Diego enters the weekend at 9-4 overall and an even 4-4 in the CCAA, while Sonoma State is 4-4 overall and 3-2 in league play, having suffered multiple weather casualties in a challenging month against Mother Nature up and down the California coast.
General admission at Triton Ballpark on East Campus in La Jolla is $5. Parking is free on Saturday and Sunday, but permits are required the entire day on Friday. All four games this weekend should still be aired on UCSDtritons.tv, but the schedule is subject to change if further weather issues arise. The pay-per-view cost is $5.99 for a 24-hour window. Live stats are always available here, or follow along with frequent updates on the team's Twitter page (@UCSDbsb).
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With 30 national team championships, nearly 150 individual titles and the top student-athlete graduation rate among Division II institutions in the United States, the UC San Diego intercollegiate athletics program annually ranks as one of the most successful in the country. The Tritons sponsor 23 intercollegiate sport programs that compete on the NCAA Division I and II levels and, in summer 2020, will transition into full Division I status as a member of the Big West Conference. UC San Diego student-athletes exemplify the academic ideals of one of the world's preeminent institutions, graduating at an average rate of 91 percent. A total of 80 Tritons have earned Academic All-America honors, while 36 have earned prestigious NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships. In competition, more than 1,300 UC San Diego student-athletes have earned All-America honors.
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