NCAA BASEBALL SELECTIONS ANNOUNCED

The NCAA Monday morning announced the 48 teams who will compete for the 2006 Division II baseball national championship. And D-II South Nation is well represented, as the Peach Belt Conference, to no one's surprise, earned five of the six bids in the South Atlantic Regional, while Montevallo, Southern Arkansas, and West Alabama were the lone Gulf South Conference teams selected South Atlantic Regional. In the South Regional, Albany State University (Ga.) earned its first-ever NCAA tournament bid after winning the SIAC tournament last month.

Here are the complete pairings for the South, South Atlantic, and South Central Regional tournaments, courtesy of NCAA Sports.com. Teams in conferences covered by D-II South Sports are marked in BOLD type.

South Regional at Tampa, Florida

1. *Tampa 46-6

2. Florida Gulf Coast 39-15

3. Catawba 44-12

4. Florida Southern 38-17

5. Lynn 33-21

6. Albany State (Georgia) 23-31

South Atlantic Regional at Milledgeville, Georgia

1. *GC&SU 49-10

2. Francis Marion 37-15

3. Columbus State 41-18

4. Armstrong Atlantic State 39-16-1

5. South Carolina-Aiken 43-17

6. Mount Olive 39-12

South Central Regional at Abilene, Texas

1. *Abilene Christian 43-16

2. Southern Arkansas 38-16

3. Montevallo 37-16

4. West Alabama 41-20

5. Central Oklahoma 40-18

6. Incarnate Word 36-19