The Long Beach City College baseball team will head to San Diego County for next weekend's (May 15-17) Super Regional tournament. Top-seeded Palomar College will host a four-team, double-elimination tournament to determine one of the South's two repesentatives for the State Championships. No. 6 Long Beach will face No. 5 Santa Ana College on Friday at 4 p.m. Palomar (34-11-1) plays No. 14 Mt. San Antonio College (30-16) at noon in the tourney opener.
The Vikings (29-16) advance to the Super Regionals for the first time since their state championship season in 2006. LBCC is coming off a thrilling 10-8, 10-inning win over Grossmont College on Saturday to take their regional series 2-0. Santa Ana is 34-11 overall and was champions of the Orange Empire Conference. Santa Ana beat Southwestern College 2-0 to capture its regional series. GO VIKINGS.