Penn baseball team will play 12th-seeded Virginia on Friday in NCAA Charlottesville Regional
While Penn is seeded fourth in the regional field, the Quakers have had some recent success from that position.
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Penn’s baseball team is headed to Virginia.
The Quakers were selected Monday to the Charlottesville Regional, hosted by 12th overall seed Virginia (41-15). Seeded fourth in the regional, Penn (24-23) will take on the top-seeded Cavaliers in the opening game on Friday (noon, ESPN+).
Rounding out the regional field are No. 2 Mississippi State (38-21) and No. 3 St. John’s (37-16-1), who will play Friday at 7 p.m. (ESPN+).
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The regionals are a double-elimination format. The last team standing will advance to the Super Regional round and play a three-game series against the winner of the Fayetteville Regional in Arkansas. The eight Super Regional winners will make up the College World Series field.
Penn has had success as a fourth seed. The Quakers were seeded fourth in this year’s Ivy League tournament and mounted a comeback from the losers’ bracket to win their second straight league title on May 20.
At the Auburn Regional in 2023, fourth-seeded Penn upset No. 13 national seed Auburn and then defeated Samford to become the first Ivy League team to play in a regional championship. The Quakers were defeated twice in a row by Southern Miss.
No. 4 seeds have advanced to the College World Series three times, most recently Oral Roberts in 2023. No Ivy League team has ever made it to a Super Regional.