{"id":309633,"date":"2026-05-11T00:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309633\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T00:45:09","slug":"gamecocks-draw-cal-state-fullerton-in-ncaa-los-angeles-regional-university-of-south-carolina-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309633\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamecocks Draw Cal State Fullerton in NCAA Los Angeles Regional \u2013 University of South Carolina Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COLUMBIA, S.C. \u2013 The South Carolina softball team earned an at-large spot in the NCAA Tournament Sunday night (May 10), as the Gamecocks will travel to California for the Los Angeles Regional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gamecocks were selected as the No. 7 seed in their quadrant and will take on Cal State Fullerton Friday (May 15) in the opening round at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+ while host UCLA faces Cal Baptist at 10 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Carolina earns its 26th all-time bid to the NCAA tournament and its second under head coach Ashley Chastain Woodard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Gamecocks and Titans haven\u2019t met since Feb. 15, 2003, in Las Vegas. The Titans have won all five meetings, with the previous four coming between 1983-87. Carolina and UCLA met earlier this season at the Mary Nutter Classic and faced off a season ago in the NCAA Super Regionals, with the Bruins leading the all-time series 15-2. The Gamecocks have never faced Cal Baptist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Complete game times and television designations for the regional will be announced later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For the latest on South Carolina Softball, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/gamecocksonline.com\/sports\/softball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GamecocksOnline.com<\/a> or follow the team\u2019s social media accounts on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GamecockSoftbll\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@GamecockSoftbll<\/a>, Facebook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GamecockSoftball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/GamecockSoftball,<\/a> and Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gamecocksoftball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@GamecockSoftball<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-351027\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/c65cf5cf-sb_werein-819x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"520\" height=\"650\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBIA, S.C. \u2013 The South Carolina softball team earned an at-large spot in the NCAA Tournament Sunday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[66473,41390,101269,101267,34623,101268,48,52,51,47,50,49,14502,18891,13697,3533],"class_list":["post-309633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-carolina","tag-columbia","tag-featured-articles-home-page","tag-fighting-gamecocks","tag-gamecocks","tag-headlines-home-page","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-softball","tag-south-carolina","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}