FRISCO, Texas – Every game of the 2015 Southland Conference Baseball Tournament will be carried live by ESPN3. The event runs May 20-23 at Constellation Field in Sugar Land, Texas, home of the Atlantic League's Sugar Land Skeeters.
Coverage of the Islanders begins at 4 p.m. as they take on Southeastern Louisiana in the opening round of the Southland Tournament.
The Skeeters' entire home schedule is carried by ESPN3, and the installation of an in-stadium control room prior to this season will allow the Southland Conference to capitalize on that arrangement. ESPN3 has also delivered an exclusive selection of Southland football and basketball games during the 2014-15 academic year, as well as the championship games for softball, volleyball and soccer.
The Southland Conference Baseball Tournament is set up in similar fashion to the NCAA College World Series in that there are two four-team double-elimination brackets with the winners meeting for the championship. But unlike in Omaha, the bracket winners meet in a single game to decide the championship. The victor of the Southland tournament is the league's automatic qualifier for the NCAA tournament, which begins with regional play May 29.
Chris Mycoskie will handle play-by-play duties throughout the tournament, joined by several announcers from around the league. For the title game, Mycoskie will be matched with color analyst Greg Swindell, a first-team All-American at Texas and 17-year Major League veteran. The left-handed pitcher was named to 1989 American League All-Star team as part of the Cleveland Indians, and was part of the Arizona Diamondbacks' 2001 World Series championship squad.
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