May 17, 2011
University Park Regional Central
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics announced its complete coverage of the NCAA University Park Softball Regional on Tuesday, as each game will have live video coverage on GoPSUsports.com. All games streamed on GoPSUsports.com will be free of charge. Sunday's action is schedule to be shown live on the Big Ten Network.
Nittany Lion softball is hosting an NCAA Regional for the first time in 28 years as No. 13 seed Oregon, Fordham and Albany travel to Happy Valley for games beginning Friday. With coordinated help from Penn State Athletics' video production department, fans from all around may follow their favorite team in an exciting weekend of softball action at no spared expense.
All Penn State games will feature live audio streaming on GoPSUsports.com including Friday's Penn State-Fordham game (5:00 p.m., which will be picked up by 1390 AM WRSC on Forever Broadcasting in the State College region. The broadcast team of Kris Petersen and Mark Wishnia will bring call the action for Penn State. The Oregon-Albany game at 2:30 p.m. will have video only.
For Saturday, the schedule is still to be determined based on games and opponents, but any Penn State game and any Fordham game will have audio accompanying the video streamed by GoPSUsports.com. Other Nittany Lion contests may be put on air by 1390 AM depending on air availability. Fordham's WFUV broadcasting crew will also have audio married into the video component of GoPSUsports.com's coverage during non-PSU matchups.
On Sunday, the Big Ten Network is scheduled to be on site to cover the University Park Regional at Noon. If there's a second game on Sunday, it is expected the BTN will also carry coverage of the game.
All games will also feature live stats coverage through GameTracker, while Penn State games can be followed on Twitter at @PSULionSoftball for commentary. Penn State also released its Tournament Central page on Tuesday, which has total information from the host site.
For fans, who are making the trip to University Park, they can purchase tickets starting Tuesday at the Bryce Jordan Center ticket office (Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.) and until Friday at Noon. Tickets may also be purchased over the phone at (814) 865-5555. Tickets may also be purchased at the Nittany Lion Softball Park one hour prior to the day's game time.
All-session tickets for general admission adults will be $25 with a student/youth price at $15. Groups of 15 or more will be $12 a person. Daily ticket prices will go $10 for general admission adult, $6 general admission student/youth and $5 per person in groups of 15 or more. Groups may contact Joel Diamond at (814) 867-2557 ahead of time.
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