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Baseball Earns At-Large Berth to NCAA Tournament

The George Mason baseball team earned an at-large berth to the NCAA Baseball Championships on Monday afternoon and the Patriots will play South Carolina on Friday in an opening round contest. The Patriots, a third seed in the Greenville, N.C. Regional, will play the second-seeded Gamecocks at 3 p.m. East Carolina is the host institution and the No. 1 seed in the regional while Binghamton is the fourth-seed. Live audio for Mason's games in the NCAA Tournament will be available on GoMason.com.

The regional site is a double-elimination four-team event with the winner moving on to a Super Regional the following weekend at a site to be determined. The Patriots will be making their sixth NCAA Tournament appearance. They went to the tournament in 1985, 1988, 1992, 1993 and most recently in 2004. Mason is 1-10 all-time in the NCAA Tournament.

At 42-12, Mason has set a school record for wins and winning percentage. After leading the nation in winning percentage for most of the season, the Patriots currently find themselves second in the nation in that category trailing only Arizona State, which is 44-12. Only seven schools in the country have won more than Mason's 42 games.

The Patriots are 0-6 all-time against South Carolina with the last meeting coming in 2004 at Columbia, S.C., a 5-0 loss. Mason is 30-43 all-time against East Carolina but the teams have not met since ECU left the CAA after the 2001 season. The Patriots and Binghamton have never met.

Henderson Selected First-Team All-America, Krieger and Modica Make Second Team

Chris Henderson became the first George Mason baseball player in school history to receive first-team All-America honors as the junior catcher was named to the Louisville Slugger NCAA Division I All-American team as selected by the staff of Collegiate Baseball newspaper. Senior outfielder Scott Krieger and senior pitcher Mike Modica also were honored as they were chosen to the All-American second team. Mason's three selections to the first and second team are more than any other school in the nation.

Henderson, who had previously been as a semifinalist for the Howser Trophy and the Bench Award, enters tomorrow's NCAA Regionals batting .415 with 14 homers, 54 RBI and 69 runs scored. He leads all the first-team players with 21 doubles and his 24 strikeouts are the fewest on the team. His 94 hits are second on the team. He was named CAA Defensive Player of the Year and he shared the Player of the Year award with teammate Kreieger.

Krieger is batting .378 with 20 homers, 80 RBI and 67 runs scored. A preseason first-team All-American, Krieger leads all active players in NCAA Division I in career homers (69), career RBI (238) and career total bases (587). This is Krieger's second All-America honor. In 2007, he was named third-team All-America by the American Baseball Coaches Association.

Modica is 11-1 on the year with a 4.17 ERA and he has held the opposition to just a .225 batting average. He has struck out 73 batters in 82 innings and he is Mason's all-time leader in career starts and he is second in career strikeouts and third in career wins. He is one shy of the school record for wins in a season. He has faced more batters than any other pitcher in school history.