INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – The University of West Alabama is among the 48 team field selected by the NCAA Division II Baseball Committee for the Division II Baseball Championship. UWA (37-14), which is the No. 3-seed in the South Region, makes its seventh appearance in the national tournament. The Tigers face No. 6-seed Florida Southern at 4:30 p.m. at the Southern Arkansas Baseball Facility in Magnolia, Ark. The game will be broadcasted on WZNJ 106.5-FM and at athletics.uwa.edu.

Southern Arkansas, the 2009 Gulf South Conference champion, will serve as the host for the South Regional, as the top seed in the tournament. Barry, the Sunshine State Conference champion, is the No. 2-seed. Fellow SSC members Tampa and Lynn hold the next two spots. GSC constituent Valdosta State is the seventh seed with Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion Stillman rounding out the eight-team field.

All regionals are double-elimination tournaments and will be played at on-campus sites May 14-18. Regional champions will advance to the double-elimination championship finals May 23-30 at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, North Carolina. The finals will be hosted by Mount Olive College and the town of Cary, North Carolina.

Further information about the NCAA Division II Baseball South Regional will be made available at athletics.uwa.edu.