Super regional redirects here. For the super regional shopping mall, see shopping mall.

The NCAA Division I Baseball Championship tournament is held each year from May through June and features 64 college baseball teams in the United States, culminating in the College World Series.

The tournament is unique in that it features four tiers of competition, each contested on a double-elimination basis. In fact, throughout the entire tournament, a team can lose a total of four games and still be crowned champions.

During team selection, eight teams are given national seeds. These teams automatically host a super regional if they advance past the regional round. As in other NCAA tournaments, conference champions (usually determined by a tournament) receive automatic bids, and the selection committee fills the remaining spots.

The first tier, called Regionals, consists of 16 locations that include four teams, seeded 1 through 4, competing in a double-elimination bracket. The 16 host sites are determined mostly by merit - most No. 1 seeds host - but are also contested by bids from schools guaranteeing the NCAA a certain amount of revenue from that regional. Host teams traditionally have a large advantage, although the home team for each game is determined by rule, so the host school sometimes plays as the visiting team. The winner of each regional moves on to the second tier, the Super Regionals.

Super Regionals are played at eight locations throughout the country and consist of the 16 surviving teams, matched up by predetermined regional pairings. National seeds cannot meet each other in the super regional and are guaranteed to host. If the national seed in the bracket is eliminated in the regional stage, the super regional will be bid upon by the two competing teams. The two teams play a best-of-three series to determine who moves on to the College World Series. Although one school hosts all three games, the teams split home-field advantage in the first two games and toss a coin to determine home-field advantage in the third game.

The final eight teams meet in Omaha, Nebraska in the College World Series. The CWS mimics the earlier rounds, consisting of two double-elimination brackets of four teams each. Thereafter, the winners of each bracket meet in a best-of-three final. The winner of this final series wins the College World Series and is crowned National Champion.

Past formats[link]

1947[link]

The first tournament was an 8 team single elimination tournament. Four teams each were put into two playoff brackets, named the "Eastern Playoff" and the "Western Playoff." The winner of each bracket moved onto the College World Series, which was, at that time, a 2 team best-of-three game series.

1948[link]

The second year of the tournament maintained the "Eastern Playoff" and "Western Playoff" format, however, they were now double elimination. The winner of each bracket moved onto the College World Series to play a best-of-three game series.

1949[link]

The third year of the tournament consisted of four regions named Region A, Region B, Region C and Region D. Each region consisted of two teams playing in a best-of-three game series. The winner of each region moved on to the College World Series, which was now a four-team double elimination tournament.

1950–1953[link]

From 1950 to 1953 the preliminary rounds were not managed by the NCAA but rather by the district colleges, and thus these games are not recorded in the official history books of the NCAA. The winner of each district managed playoff (although some districts did not have playoffs and chose to select their teams by committee) were sent to the College World Series. The College World Series was a double elimination tournament.

1954–1974[link]

From 1954 until 1974 the tournament consisted of eight Districts named District 1 through District 8. Each district consisted of between two and five teams playing in differently formatted tournaments. Some years included automatic College World Series qualifiers. In that case, no District games were played for that team. For an example see: 1959 NCAA Division I Baseball Tournament. The winner of each district moved on to the College World series, which was a double-elimination tournament.

1975[link]

1975 was the first year of the Regional format. Eight Regionals consisted of four teams in a double elimination tournament. The winner of each Regional moved onto the College World Series, which was also a double elimination-tournament.

1976–1981[link]

The tournament essentially remained unchanged from the 1975 version, however, one Regional consisted of six teams in a double-elimination tournament, instead of four like the other 7 Regionals. The winner of each Regional moved onto the College World Series, which was also a double elimination-tournament.

1982–1987[link]

The tournament expanded again in 1982 to include two Regionals with six teams while the other six Regionals only had four teams. The Regionals remained double-elimination with the winners moving onto the College World Series, which was also a double elimination-tournament.

1988–1998[link]

From 1988 until 1998, the NCAA tournament featured 48 teams, which contested in eight regionals of six teams each for the right to go to the College World Series. The four-team regional format and the best-of-three super regional format debuted in 1999.

The best-of-three championship series at the College World Series debuted in 2003 after CBS ceased coverage of the one-off College World Series championship game, allowing the NCAA to institute the best-of-three series, which better mimics the traditional three-game series played during the regular season and makes a pitching staff's depth a key factor. ESPN and ESPN2 now cover the entire CWS.

National Seeds[link]

Since 1999, the NCAA has awarded eight teams with a National Seed. These teams automatically host a super regional if they advance past the regional round.

Green Shade and Italics indicates team made the College World Series. Bold Italics indicates team won the College World Series.

Attendance[link]

The highest single-game attendance for an NCAA Super Regional was at Dudy Noble Field, Polk-Dement Stadium at Mississippi State University. On June 9, 2007, 13,715 watched MSU beat Clemson to send the Bulldogs to the CWS. The second highest was set the day before, 12,620, for a two-day Super Regional record of 26,381. In 2009, Ole Miss hosted Virginia in a Super Regional that broke the MSU Super Regional total attendance with 29,646 over 3 games which is now the record for an On-Campus Super Regional. The highest for a 3-day regional and highest for an off-campus facility was set at Zephyr Field, a minor-league park in New Orleans. In 2001, Tulane and LSU battled for 3 games in front of 34,341 fans.

The highest single-game attendance for an NCAA Regional game was also set at Mississippi State; 11,496 watched MSU vs Florida State on May 27, 1990. For total attendance during a Regional series, LSU holds the top 2 spots at 67,938 in 1998 and 66,561 in 1997. MSU holds the next three to round out the top 5--64,723 in 1997, 63,388 in 1989, and 62,191 in 1990. All of those Top 5 regional attendance records were set under the old six-team Regional format.

Longest game in college baseball history[link]

The longest college baseball game was played between The University of Texas and Boston College on May 30, 2009, in a Division I regional tournament game at Austin, Texas. Texas won the game, 3-2, in 25 innings. The game lasted seven hours and three minutes.^[1][2]

See also[link]

• College World Series
• NCAA Division I college baseball team statistics
• List of college baseball awards
• List of college baseball career home run leaders
• World University Baseball Championship

Footnotes[link]

External links[link]

• Official website

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Michael Ray Garvin (born September 29, 1986) is an American football wide receiver. He was signed by the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Florida State.

Garvin has also been a member of the Detroit Lions.

Early years[link]

Hailing from Upper Saddle River, New Jersey,^[1] Garvin attended Don Bosco Preparatory High School in Ramsey, New Jersey where he played football and ran track.^[2]

As a junior, Garvin rushed for 615 yards on 32 carries for six touchdowns. As a defensive back, he recorded 45 tackles and four interceptions, two of which were returned for touchdowns. As a senior, he recorded 50 tackles and three interceptions. For his career, Garvin rushed for 1,600 yards and 34 total touchdowns.

While at Don Bosco, Garvin played in the Army All-American game, was ranked the fifth best player in New Jersey by Rivals.com, he was also a four-star player, rated by Rivals.com and the 85th best player in the nation. He was rated the fourth best player in the state by Superprep Magazine and the 16th best defensive back in the nation. He was also an All-State first-team selection as a member of the school's track team.

College career[link]

After graduating from Don Bosco in 2005, Garvin attended Florida State University.

Football[link]

As a true freshman in 2005, Garvin appeared all 11 of the Seminoles games, recording 16 tackles, one sack, a forced fumble and one pass break-up. He ranked first on the team, among true freshmen, with 12 solo tackles.

As a sophomore in 2006, he appeared in all 13 games while earning starts against NC State, Duke, Virginia, Wake Forest, Western Michigan and Florida and finished sixth on the team with 35 tackles. On the season, he was one of two Seminoles who recorded a sack, tackle-for-loss, interception, pass-break-up and fumble recovery, the other being Lawrence Timmons. Garvin was also the team's leader in kickoff returns with 16 for 362 yards and ranked ninth in the ACC with a 22.6 yards-per-kick return average.

As a junior in 2007, Garvin started eight games and led the team's cornerbacks in tackles with 49.

As a senior in 2008, Garvin recorded 12 tackles on the season and became the only player in school history to average 30 yards or more per return in a season in 2008 with 30.1. He was also a Sporting News first-team All-American as a kick returner and was a third-team All-American by SI.com and Scout. He finished the season second in the nation in kick off returns and led the conference as well. He earned All-Acc second-team honors as a specialist. He was also the defensive special teams' player of the year, as voted by the team's coaching staff. He set the school record for career kickoff return yards (1,721), average yards-per-return (23.57) and tied Keith Ross for the all-time record for returns in a career with 73.

Garvin's father, Johnny Ray Garvin, was his secondary position coach in high school and had a short stint in the National Football League and USFL.

Track and field[link]

While at Florida State, Garvin was a seven-time All-American sprinter and a member of the winning 4x100 meter relay in 2007 NCAA outdoors. He finished third at the 100 meters (10.3). He also attempted to make the United States Olympic track and field team in the spring of 2008, qualifying for the trials and making it to the semifinals of the 200 meters.

Garvin earned his undergraduate degree in social science in December 2008.

Professional career[link]

Arizona Cardinals[link]

Garvin went unselected in the 2009 NFL Draft and was signed by the Arizona Cardinals. While with the Cardinals he was converted from cornerback to wide receiver.

Detroit Lions[link]

He was later signed to the Detroit Lions practice squad during the 2009 season. Garvin was waived on April 26, 2010.

Las Vegas Locomotives[link]

The Las Vegas Locomotives selected Garvin with their second round pick in the 2010 UFL Draft.^[3]

External links[link]

• Arizona Cardinals bio
• Detroit Lions bio
• Florida State Seminoles football bio
• Florida State Seminoles track bio

References[link]

Parson Jonathan Fisher (1768–1847) was the first Congregational minister from 1794 to 1837 in the small village of Blue Hill, Maine in the United States. Although his primary duties as a country parson engaged much of his time, Fisher was also a farmer, scientist, mathematician, surveyor, and writer of prose and poetry. He bound his own books, made buttons and hats, designed and built furniture, painted sleighs, was a reporter for the local newspaper, helped found Bangor Theological Seminary, dug wells, built his own home and raised a large family.

Truly a renaissance man in the breadth of his accomplishments Fisher invites comparison with a Franklin or Jefferson. In his manners, morals and writings Fisher represents the best of the vigorous New England churchmen who shaped the standards of their congregations during America's formative years.

Biographical information[link]

Jonathan Fisher was born in New Braintree, Massachusetts in 1768 and reared in the home of his uncle a minister, because his father, a Revolutionary War soldier had died. As a young man he considered becoming a blacksmith, cabinet maker or clockmaker, but his intellectual gifts were evident and his family was able to send him to Harvard in 1788. He studied liberal arts and divinity, supporting himself by waiting on other students in the dining hall. During this time he developed a curious shorthand or code in which his notes were kept.

He came to Blue Hill Maine in 1796 as the first settled pastor of the Congregational Church. By November 2, 1797, his original house was completed by the work of his own hands, aided by those of his parishioners. The first house, which was in use for 100 years, was unfortunately torn down by a Fisher descendant in 1896. It formed the shell of the present house which was begun in 1814, again largely by the parson himself. His skill and taste as a builder and designer are evident in its rooms.

The Reverend Jonathan Fisher, Master of Arts, a degree and title in which he took much pride, was a most unusual and remarkably gifted man. When at the close of the 18th century he came to Blue Hill, then a frontier village 'in a wilderness", he was seemingly leaving behind him all those intellectual and artistic pursuits and resources in which he delighted. Yet, instead of leaving these in the "Seat of the Muses", which was his name for Harvard College and Cambridge, he transported them to his lonely, far-flung parish, and with no little success, grafted many of them upon the people, and upon the pioneer institutions of his new charge.

A student of languages all his life, he did not neglect his Hebrew, his Latin, or his Greek. In his study on the right entrance to his house, he read his Hebrew Bible at five o'clock each morning, in winter by the light of his "blazing logs"; his Latin and Greek he taught to four or five young men, who usually boarded with him and his own large family. Devoted to drawing and painting, he somehow managed to pursue these arts even in Blue Hill.

Industrious almost beyond belief, and possessed of an unflagging physical vitality, he relieved his omnipresent poverty and increased the few hundred dollars of his meager salary by farming his own acres, concocting medical remedies, braiding numberless straw hats, sawing out buttons from the bones of farm animals, and even of dead household pets, painting names on vessels or painting sleighs (at $2.50) each, making pumps, chairs, chests, hair-combs, tables, bureaus, bedsteads, cradles, even drumsticks for the local militia (at 25 cents a pair), and by repairing much of the shaky furniture in Blue Hill. And, with all these labors, he found time to write many poems, and several books!

Nor were his activities confined to his parish. Although he nurtured its library, was the power behind its Academy, founded in 1803 (in which he encouraged "the fine arts" as well as the study of classics and mathematics), and watched over the minds as well as the souls of its people, he went on long missionary journeys, was an active Trustee of the Bangor Theological Seminary (and an untiring beggar for its needs as well!). He was an ardent speaker and writer in the cause of bettering the lot of the Negroes and sponsored from its beginning the American Society for the Colonization of Liberia.

Through these and other labors both and home added immeasurably to the cultural dignity of this village for more than half a century. Blue Hill still respects and honors him.

Mary Ellen Chase, JONATHAN FISHER: MAINE PARSON 1768 - 1847

The Blue Hill Congregational Church[link]

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  Fisher's Meetinghouse

No one can hope to understand Jonathan Fisher unless they realize that first and foremost he was a Calvinist minister. He lived his life in obedience to the precepts of his religion and did his utmost to defend the faith as he understood it. In his writings, his artwork, but perhaps most of all in the example of his life he strove to center his attention on his religious duties.

The Calvinist's believed that the chief end of man was "to know and do the will of God". Fisher constantly chided himself for his pleasure in "temporal" matters such as painting, mathematics, etc. which he believed took away from his primary religious responsibilities both to himself and his congregation.

In Jonathan Fisher's time the Calvinist religion was strong throughout New England. It was a stern religion, even by the standards of the day. Calvinists believed that God is infinite and transcendent. To know the will of God is man's supreme end. This will is known to man through the scriptures, whose writers were "sure and authentic amanuenses of the Holy Spirit". While God is the source of all good, man is guilty and corrupt from birth. To redeem man, the Son of God became incarnate in the person of Jesus Christ

When man is united to Christ, the benefits of salvation are achieved. This union is achieved only through the special operation of the Holy Spirit in the faithful. This assurance which the believer has of salvation rests on the divine choice of the man to salvation; and this falls back on God's eternal sovereign purpose, whereby He has predestined some to eternal life and some to eternal death. The former he calls to salvation, and they are kept by him in progressive faith and holiness.

The Calvinist Church is universal, with the multitude gathered from diverse nations agreeing on the tenants of one common faith. This universalism may explain why Fisher campaigned so strongly for better treatment for Native Americans. He was also very active in the attempt to eliminate slavery by proposing that slaves be purchased from their owners and sent back to Africa as free men and women.

The pastor played a central role in the Calvinist Church. He not only administered the sacraments, but also was responsible for maintaining church discipline - admonishing, or even excommunicating those who failed to abide by church doctrine. Over time and as new sects such as the Baptists entered the Blue Hill region, the severity of the Calvinist doctrine became less acceptable to the congregation. Fisher however, never wavered from his sense of duty. "Father" Fisher as he liked to be called spent his years supporting and maintaining the faith that he first embraced as a young man.

Jonathan Fisher's Notebooks and Journals[link]

Throughout his life, Fisher kept a daily journal, and copies of all his letters, providing an almost unparalleled glimpse into a life in Federal era New England. His notebooks and sketchbooks record his observations and interests in scientific matters, surveying, engineering, mathematics, geometry, agriculture, and natural history.

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  Mariner's Compass, 1791
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  Garden Pea

Writings by Jonathan Fisher[link]

• Scripture Animals, or Natural History of the Living Creatures Named in the Bible Written Especially for Youth Illustrated with Cuts. By Jonathan *Fisher, A.M. Portland, Published by William Hyde, (1834)

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  Elephant
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  Bitterns

Jonathan Fisher Bibliography[link]

• Jonathan Fisher, Maine Parson, 1768-1847- Mary Ellen Chase, New York, MacMillan Company (1948)
• Index to Mary Ellen Chase Jonathan Fisher, Maine Parson prepared by Rev. Gary Vencill [1]
• Let Every Hour Be Filled to the Brim, Down East Magazine Article, September, 1995
• Historic Maine Parsonage - The Jonathan Fisher House, Blue Hill, Maine - article by Esther E. Wood, Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine, August–September 1961

• A Lantern in the Wind - The Life of Mary Ellen Chase - Elienne Squire, Fithian Press, Santa Barbara - (1995).
• Head of the Bay - Sketches and Pictures of Blue Hill, Maine - Annie L. Clough The Shoreacre Press, (1953)
• Maine in the Early Republic: From Revolution to Statehood - Chapter 11, 'Jonathan Fisher and the 'Universe of Being' by Richard Moss. University Press of New England (1988).
• Versatility Yankee Style: the Cultural Diversity of Rev. Jonathan Fisher, John H. Bellamy and the Hardy family (1977)
• The Language of Jonathan Fisher, 1768-1847 (1985)
• Versatile Yankee: The Art of Jonathan Fisher, 1768-1847 by Alice Winchester. Princeton, NJ, Pyne Press, 1973
• Biographical Sketch of the Rev. Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine by Gaylord Hall (1945)
• Memoir of Rev. Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine (1889)
• "The House the Parson Built" by Abbott Lowell Cummings. Old Time New England Magazine, Volume: 56 Number: 204, Spring, 1966
• The Philosophical Alphabet of Jonathan Fisher by Raoul N. Smith, Lee Pederson American Speech, Vol. 50, No. 1/2 (Spring - Summer, 1975), pp. 36–49
• Property and Progress: Antebellum Landscape Art and Property Law

The Historic Jonathan Fisher House and Museum[link]

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  Front View
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  Fisher's Floorplan
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  Parson Fisher's Study

Marcus Rivers (portrayed by child-actor Bobb'e J. Thompson) is a fictional 12 year-old character used by Sony Computer Entertainment America as part of their Step Your Game Up advertising campaign for the PlayStation Portable and PSPgo consoles in North America, much like the PlayStation 3's "It Only Does Everything" advertising campaign commercials with Kevin Butler.^[1] He stars as the publicist of the PlayStation Portable division of Sony, responding to "Dear PSP" queries.^[2] The character was created by Deutsch/LA, the advertising agency responsible for the campaign. The YouTube channel "marcuspsp" that hosted his videos, was closed in June 15, 2011 for an undisclosed reason.

Appearances[link]

Marcus Rivers first appeared at E3 2010 in a promo called "Marcus meets Kevin" where Marcus Rivers claims the PSP needs more publicity, Kevin agrees, and hires Marcus as the new PSP publicist.^[3] After this, the his first "Step Your Game Up" television commercials ensue. Marcus also appears in various YouTube videos titled "Don't Play That" where he talks about games that people shouldn't waste their money on, instead instructing them they should get a PSP.

Like Kevin Butler, Marcus has a different title in each commercial. His first title was "PSP Gamer" before he got hired by Kevin Butler. His first title as the PSP publicist was "Deputy of Gameland Security" in a commercial for Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker. He is later called "Sibling Conflict Advisor" in a ModNation Racers PSP commercial^[1] and "Deputy of Great Game Deals" in a commercial promoting "$9.99 Games".^[4]

See also[link]

• Kevin Butler

References[link]