After being upset by St. John\u2019s on Friday, No. 10 seed Florida State is attempting to fight its way out of the loser\u2019s bracket in the Tallahassee Regional to make a return trip to the super regional stage.<\/p>\n
The Seminoles, in a game that took nearly 24 hours to complete due to weather delays and a postponement, took down Coastal Carolina 2-1 on Sunday to keep their season alive.<\/p>\n
Florida State will now face off against Northern Illinois at approximately 7:15 p.m ET (ESPN+) to try to advance to the Tallahassee Regional championship, where St. John\u2019s awaits after going 2-0. The Seminoles will serve as the away team in the matchup, hitting first.<\/p>\n
The Huskies led 5-0 after three innings, but a nine-run fourth inning and a six-run fifth propelled the Red Storm to a blowout 21-8 win. NIU was forced to use eight pitchers after rolling out four in its Friday win over Coastal Carolina, including its ace Max Vaisvila.<\/p>\n
No. 3 Northern Illinois (35-17) is making its second-ever NCAA Tournament appearance and first in 44 years, earning a bid after winning the MAC, with its win on Friday serving as its first-ever NCAA Tournament win. The Seminoles have faced off against Northern Illinois just once before this weekend, a 7-1 victory in Tallahassee on April 8, 1971.<\/p>\n
2026 Tallahassee Regional: Schedule<\/p>\n
Game 3: No. 1 Florida State 2, No. 2 Coastal Carolina 1<\/p>\n
Coastal Carolina eliminated<\/p>\n
Game 4: No. 4 St. John\u2019s 21, No. 3 Northern Illinois 8<\/p>\n
Game 5: No. 1 Florida State vs. No. 3 Northern Illinois<\/p>\n
Game 6: No. 4 St. John\u2019s vs. Winner Game 5<\/p>\n
Game 7: No. 4 St. John\u2019s vs. Loser Game 6 (if necessary)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being upset by St. John\u2019s on Friday, No. 10 seed Florida State is attempting to fight its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[71160,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-291211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-florida-state-baseball","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291211","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=291211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}