CCAA Teams Up with Eleven Sports USA and Bay Area Online Sports Network for Softball, Baseball Championships
SAN RAMON, Calif. – The upcoming California Collegiate Athletic Association softball and baseball championship tournaments will be available for viewing on Eleven Sports USA and the Bay Area Online Sports Network (BAOSN), interim Commissioner Mitch Cox is pleased to announce.
“This is a big step up for the CCAA,” said Cox. “The Bay Area Online Sports Network will provide us with a four-camera, professional-grade production that all CCAA fans are sure to enjoy! And with our partnership with Eleven Sports USA, we will have the ability to connect new fans around the world to the high-quality competition the CCAA offers.”
The 2018 CCAA Softball Championship will feature the top four finishers in the conference with the winner of the tournament receiving the automatic bid to the NCAA Division II West Region Championship Tournament.
Eleven Sports USA will carry all the games from Bill Simoni field on the campus of the University of the Pacific beginning on Friday, May 4 with a 5 p.m. game followed by the day’s second contest at 7:30 pm. There will be three games on Saturday, May 5 with Sunday’s final day of action culminating with the crowning of the tournament champion.
Chico State earned the top seed in the bracket and enter the postseason riding a 20-game winning streak. The Wildcats will face off against No. 4 seed Cal State San Bernardino in Friday’s first game. No. 2 UC San Diego will battle No. 3 Stanislaus State in the Day 1 nightcap, as the four vie for the championship title in a double-elimination bracket.
The following week, the 2018 CCAA Baseball Championship will return to Stockton’s Banner Island Ballpark, home of the Single-A Stockton Ports (Oakland A’s affiliate). The six-team, double-elimination tournament gets underway Wednesday, May 9, and Eleven TV and BAOSN begin their coverage with Thursday’s triple-header as first pitch of the day’s slate is scheduled for 11 a.m. Action will continue with three more games on Friday and then the remaining teams head into Championship Saturday with everything on the line.
Cal State Monterey Bay, the No. 2 team in the West Region, is not surprisingly, the top team in the CCAA at this point, but their lead over UC San Diego a slim one game heading into the final weekend of the regular season. Perennial power Chico State is in third with two contests remaining as the top three have secured a trip to Stockton. The battle for the final three spots will come down to five squads. Cal Poly Pomona holds a razor-thin edge over the duo of Cal State LA and San Francisco State with Sonoma State and Cal State East Bay also in the hunt to make the six-team field.
“Eleven Sports is thrilled to announce our partnership with the California Collegiate Athletic
Association”, said Anthony Bailey, SVP Managing Director for Eleven Sports in the U.S. “We are looking forward to showcasing the CCAA Softball and Baseball Championship and excited to be
airing the games nationally for the first time.”
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Eleven Sports USA is a global sports provider dedicated to delivering world-class international and domestic sports and lifestyle entertainment. Eleven Sports USA is available in 70 million homes worldwide in Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Italy, Singapore, Taiwan and the United States.
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Bay Area Online Sports Network mission is to deliver cost-effective, high definition, quality broadcasts of local high school and college sporting events over the web. Broadcasts are available live and then archived for several years. Any broadcast, live or archived, is viewable by everyone for free.
The California Collegiate Athletic Association has been the nation’s most successful Division II intercollegiate athletic conference since its establishment in December 1938.
The 13-member league is home to some of the nation’s finest
NCAA Division II athletic programs in Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State East Bay, Cal State LA, Cal State Monterey Bay, Cal State San Bernardino, Cal State San Marcos, Cal Poly Pomona, Chico State, Humboldt State, San Francisco State, Sonoma State, Stanislaus State, and UC San Diego.