Sports festival comes to town
Published 1:56 pm Tuesday, April 23, 2019
By KEVIN ECKLEBERRY
Daily News
It’s championship week.
For the third consecutive season, the USA South Spring Festival will be held in LaGrange.
Championships in the USA South will be determined in seven different sports, with each of the winners earning an automatic invitation to the NCAA Division III national tournament.
Conference champions will be crowned in baseball, softball, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, men’s lacrosse, women’s lacrosse and men’s golf.
LaGrange College will have teams in the men’s tennis, women’s tennis, baseball, and golf tournaments.
LaGrange College’s softball team lost to Huntingdon in the opening round of the conference tournament on Saturday.
BASEBALL
WHEN: Thursday through Sunday
WHERE: LaGrange College’s Cleveland Field in Williamson Stadium, and Point University’s West Point Park
FORMAT: Eight-team, double-elimination tournament
SOFTBALL
WHEN: Friday through Sunday
WHERE: Shuford Fields
FORMAT: Six-team, double-elimination tournament
TENNIS
WHEN: Friday through Sunday
WHERE: LaGrange College and McCluskey Tennis Center
FORMAT: Six-team, single-elimination tournament. Top two seeds on men’s and women’s side have byes into semifinals
MEN’S LACROSSE
WHEN: Saturday through Sunday
WHERE: Callaway Stadium
FORMAT: Four-team, single-elimination tournament
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
WHEN: Saturday through Sunday
WHERE: Callaway Stadium
FORMAT: Four-team, single-elimination tournament
MEN’S GOLF
WHEN: Thursday through Saturday
WHERE: Highland Country Club
FORMAT: Nine-team, 54-hole, stroke-play tournament