NAIA Release
NAIA Selection Show
NAIA Opening Round Schedule/Results (Coming Soon)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Bellevue University has been chosen to host one of the ten 2021 NAIA Baseball National Championship Opening Round Sites, as announced by the NAIA National Office on Monday afternoon.
The Bruins will host the NAIA Opening Round – Bellevue Bracket, scheduled for May 16-19, at Don Roddy Field on the campus of Bellevue East High School. This will be Bellevue's fourth time hosting an Opening Round, having previously done so in 2015, 2017, and 2021. In each of those seasons, the Bruins reached the championship round.
The Opening Round will be either a four- or five-team, double-elimination format.
Bellevue wrapped up the regular-season with a 41-10 overall record, going 25-2 in NSAA play to secure their third-straight NSAA Regular-Season Championship. BU is the top seed in this weekend's NSAA Tournament which begins Friday, May 6 in Forest City, Iowa.
The field for the Bellevue Bracket, along with the other nine Opening Round sites, will be announced on the NAIA Baseball National Championship Selection Show on Thursday, May 12 at 4 p.m.
Additional Information will be released as it becomes available.
All wills will by live-streamed free of charge via the Bellevue Stretch Portal will longtime Bruin play-by-play broadcaster Mick Krupski handling the call for all games.
