The 2011 NCAA Baseball Tournament picks back up on Friday with the super regionals round featuring eight best-of-three series to determine the eight participants in the 2011 College World Series. The Bay Area has two representatives in the super regionals with Stanford taking on North Carolina and Cal taking on Dallas Baptist. Stanford begins their series on Friday at noon pacific in Chapel Hill, NC, while Cal opens their series on Saturday at 5:00pm pacific in Santa Clara, CA.
ESPN continues its coverage of the NCAA tournament with ESPN, ESPN2, and ESPNU all joining in the coverage. Stanford's games will be on ESPN and ESPN2, while Cal's games will primarily be on ESPNU. For those that lack cable, extended cable, or just a television in general, ESPN3.com will be providing a live online stream for each of the games.
The ESPN coverage of the tournament kicks off Friday with four games on all three channels. Here is a rundown of Friday's action with times, channels, and announcers (all times pacific):
June 10
9 a.m.
Mississippi State vs. Florida (from Gainesville)
Dave Neal & Frank Thomas
1
ESPN2 / ESPN3.com / ESPN Mobile TV
Noon
Stanford vs. North Carolina (from Chapel Hill)
Mike Patrick & Kyle Peterson
1
ESPN2 / ESPN3.com / ESPN Mobile TV
4 p.m.
Arizona State vs. Texas (from Austin)
Carter Blackburn, Nomar Garciaparra & Jenn Brown
1
ESPN / ESPN3.com / ESPN Mobile TV
5 p.m.
Oregon State vs. Vanderbilt (from Nashville)
Justin Kutcher & Morgan Ensberg
1
ESPNU / ESPN3.com