NEW ORLEANS – The Sun Belt Conference has announced its Sun Belt Network baseball and softball television schedules which will include eight baseball and two softball broadcasts during the 2010 seasons.

Three baseball games will be broadcast during April and four will be broadcast during May, including the Sun Belt Conference Tournament Championship. The Sun Belt Network will feature two games for last year’s regular season and tournament champion Middle Tennessee. 23rd-ranked WKU, an NCAA tournament team in 2009, will also have two games broadcast in 2010 with a match-up against rival Middle Tennessee scheduled for May 22nd.

FIU, picked third by the coaches this year will have two games broadcast in 2010 beginning with an April 10th game against Middle Tennessee. The Panthers will then travel to Jonesboro on May 8th for a game against Arkansas State.

Troy, which was picked to finish fourth in the SBC this season by the coaches, will also have two home games broadcast by the Sun Belt Network. Troy will host UALR on April 3rd, and then host WKU on May 1st.

The Sun Belt Network schedule will once again culminate with the conference’s baseball tournament championship on May 29th. The Sun Belt Conference Tournament will be played at Reese Smith Jr. Field on the campus of Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn. from May 26-29, 2010.

For the Sun Belt Network softball schedule Louisiana-Lafayette will be featured at Troy on April 24th and the Sun Belt Softball Championship game will also air live May 15th on the Sun Belt Network.

"The Sun Belt Conference boasts many of the nations elite college baseball and softball programs, we are excited to once again offer CST viewers across the south a great dose of Sun Belt Conference events this spring," said Rod Mickler, VP of Regional Sports for Cox Sports Television.

All games will be aired by Comcast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS) and Cox Sports Television (CST). Please check your local listings for additional channel information.

About CSS Network
CSS is a 24-hour sports channel serving approximately 5.9 million cable subscribers across twelve southeastern states. Launched in 1999, the network is a partnership between Comcast Corporation and Charter Communications. CSS carries a full slate of college sports programming including over 40 live football games, 110 college football replay games, more than 200 men's and women's live college basketball games and over 50 live baseball games, as well as a comprehensive mix of sports news and in-depth sports analysis geared toward fans in the Southeast.

For more information on CSS, or to find out how you can get CSS on your cable system, log on to www.css-sports.com.

About Cox Sports Television
The New Orleans‐based sports network launched on October 28, 2002 in front of 450,000 Louisiana viewers. CST has grown over 400% to nearly 2 million in the five years since launch, making it one of the fastest growing regional sports networks in the south. CST is currently carried on cable systems in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Virginia and is available to Dish Network subscribers (Channel 421) in the Baton Rouge and New Orleans markets. CST is owned and operated by Cox Communications Louisiana, LLC. Initially targeted to be a Louisiana sports network, CST has secured collegiate, professional and high school events that have expanded the networks reach throughout the south. For more information about CST, please visit our website at www.coxsportstv.com.

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