Baseball Headed to Miami

The two-time Ivy League champion Dartmouth baseball team (26-17) is headed to Florida to play host Miami (40-17) in the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship at Alex Rodriguez Park this Friday at 4 p.m.

The game is expected to be carried on ESPNU.

The other teams in the regional are Texas A&M (40-19-1) and Florida International (36-23).

It is a double-elimination format:

June 4
Game 1 - FIU vs. Texas A&M, 12 p.m.
Game 2 - Dartmouth vs. Miami, 4 p.m.
June 5
Game 3 - Game 1 Loser vs. Game 2 Loser, 12 p.m.
Game 4 - Game 1 Winner vs. Game 2 Winner, 4 p.m.
June 6
Game 5 - Game 3 Winner vs. Game 4 Loser, 12 p.m.
Game 6 - Game 4 Winner vs. Game 5 Winner, 4 p.m.
June 7
Game 7 - If necessary, 7 p.m.

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Walking outside this morning my first reaction was that a neighbor must be burning brush. But driving into town for Dartmouth's Selection Show party it became clear that, well, the sky wasn't clear. Turns out the smoke has floated down from Quebec, where fire is raging out of control.

From the Boston Globe:

The National Weather Service says smoke from dozens of fires that are burning in southern Quebec had spread south and east across much of Maine and New Hampshire and northeast Vermont on Sunday. Today, the smoke could be smelled and seen all the way to Cape Cod. The smoke had reduced the visibility to about three miles in places, and the smell of smoke was strong across the region.