{"id":289131,"date":"2026-05-29T17:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289131\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:35:08","slug":"st-johns-baseball-game-thread-tallahassee-regional-at-2026-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289131\/","title":{"rendered":"St. John\u2019s baseball game thread: Tallahassee Regional at 2026 NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Red Storm begin their latest foray into the NCAA Tournament on Friday afternoon, when they face national 10-seed Florida State at their home ballpark of Dick Howser Stadium in the Tallahassee Regional. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m., and the game will be broadcast on ACC Network. The winner will take on either Coastal Carolina or Northern Illinois in the 1-0 game on Saturday evening. The full double-elimination bracket can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Getting the Friday start for St. John\u2019s will be their ace and unanimous All-Big East First Team selection, Liam O\u2019Leary (8-4, 2.97 ERA). The junior right-hander from Souderton, Pennsylvania had his best performance as a Johnny in the opening round of the Big East Tournament, throwing eight innings on 137 pitches and only surrendering two earned runs in a 4-2 win over Creighton.<\/p>\n

The Seminoles will send out Bryson Moore, another junior right-hander who enters Friday\u2019s game with a record of 6-2 and a 3.88 ERA. The Virginia transfer pitched a season-best 7.2 innings and allowed two earned runs in a 7-4 loss to Miami (FL) in their regular season finale on May 16.<\/p>\n

St. John\u2019s enters the NCAA Tournament with a 33-24 record and captured their conference-best 11th Big East championship after going a perfect 3-0 in last week\u2019s tournament. The Red Storm\u2019s 39th postseason appearance is tied for 12th-most all-time among NCAA Division I programs and is the most among any Northeast team.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s trip into the tournament is the program\u2019s second in three years, following its last, which finished with a 1-2 record at the Charlottesville Regional in 2024. They are hoping to beat the odds and become the fifth regional fourth-seed to advance to the College World Series, which was last accomplished by Murray State in 2025.<\/p>\n

Florida State and St. John\u2019s have only met in three games before this weekend\u2019s regional. The Red Storm visited the Seminoles in a three-game series down in Tallahassee in March 2016, dropping the first two games before avoiding the sweep with a 5-1 victory.<\/p>\n

The Red Storm has more history with Coastal Carolina, holding a 3-4 record in seven previous meetings. In their most recent meeting on Opening Day of the 2017 season, they upset the defending National Champions and ninth-ranked Chanticleers in a 7-4 extra innings victory.<\/p>\n

St. John\u2019s has only faced Northern Illinois once, back in 2012, besting the Huskies in an 11-9 extra innings battle at Texas Tech\u2019s Rip Griffin Park in Lubbock, Texas. That season was also the last time the Red Storm advanced to the Super Regionals.<\/p>\n

2026 NCAA Tallahassee Regional Schedule<\/p>\n

Friday, May 29
Game 1: #1 Florida State vs. #4 St. John\u2019s – 3 p.m. – ACCN
Game 2: #2 Coastal Carolina vs. #3 Northern Illinois – 8 p.m. – ESPN+<\/p>\n

Saturday, May 30
Game 3: Loser Game 1 vs. Loser Game 2 – 1 p.m.
Game 4: Winner Game 1 vs. Winner Game 2 – 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

Sunday, May 31
Game 5: Winner Game 3 vs. Loser Game 4 – 1 p.m.
Game 6: Winner Game 4 vs. Winner Game 5 – 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

Monday, June 1
Game 7: Winner Game 6 vs. Loser Game 6 (if necessary)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Red Storm begin their latest foray into the NCAA Tournament on Friday afternoon, when they face national…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[122296,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-289131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-st-johns-baseball","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}