Cal State Fullerton ready to take on high-powered BYU in NCAA baseball opener

Cal State Fullerton has made the NCAA baseball tournament 26 consecutive seasons. But when BYU takes on the Titans at 1 p.m. Thursday to open the Stanford Regional, the Cougars will be toiling in the playoffs for the first time since 2002.
“Yeah, I mean, it’s great,” BYU coach Mike Littlewood said Wednesday morning. “This is our fifth year as a coaching staff and that was part of our five-year plan — put together a team that would be regional-worthy and then hopeful