It will be the Baton Rouge Regional for the University of Rhode Island baseball team while making its third NCAA Tournament appearance.

The Rams will play their regional games at Alex Box Stadium, and No. 6 national seed LSU will serve as the host. Dallas Baptist and Arkansas-Little Rock have also been drawn in that four-team field, one of 16 spread throughout the country that will be in action later this week.

URI is the No. 3 seed in the regional and will face the Dallas Baptist Patriots in a 7:30 p.m. first pitch on Friday night. The Rams steamed to both regular-season and tournament titles in the Atlantic 10, winning three straight games over the weekend to punch their ticket. URI sealed its trip with a 4-1 victory over George Mason at Capital One Park in Virginia. That followed triumphs over Davidson and Saint Louis.

The Rams carry a 38-20 mark into the double-elimination format and are powered by their offense. They sit in the national top 15 in multiple major categories, including walks, hits, on-base percentage, runs scored, runs per game and triples. URI averages 9.1 runs per game and plated four times that many in an incomprehensible 36-22 victory over William & Mary early in the season.

It hasn’t just been local foes who have been on the wrong end of the Rams attack. URI dealt a 12-11 stunner to Oregon in an early road swing through Eugene. The Ducks will host a regional this weekend as the No. 12 seed. The Rams put up 17 runs while winning at Massachusetts, 20 more while beating Richmond and 16 apiece in wins over Brown and Saint Joseph’s.

Third baseman Anthony DePino, right fielder Eric Genther and designated hitter/first baseman Jack Hopko are the primary driving forces atop the lineup. DePino is a top-20 player nationally in walks, on-base percentage and runs scored while Genther is tied for sixth in runs scored. Hopko has benefited from hitting behind those two, tied for fifth nationally in runs batted in.

Dallas Baptist (40-16) is making its fifth straight NCAA Tournament appearance and its 14th since 2008. The Patriots were in Division II two decades ago before elevating and rolling through multiple leagues. They currently play out of Conference USA and fell to Jacksonville State twice in the championship round.

Dallas Baptist checked in at No. 20 in national RPI as of Monday afternoon while URI was sandwiched by Boston College and Indiana at No. 68. The Rams wouldn’t have been an at-large selection to the field but still had better metrics than programs like Michigan, Central Florida, Baylor, South Carolina and Rutgers. URI is 23-14 in road/neutral games, including its three victories at the conference tournament.

The Rams will face the winner of the Clemson Regional if they can advance out of this four-team pod. The Tigers are the No. 11 seed nationally and are hosting South Carolina Upstate, Kentucky and West Virginia. The Super Regional round — a best-of-3 series between two teams — would start on June 6.

Multiple in-state players have been regulars for URI this spring. Cumberland alum Scott Penney and Ponaganset alum Rob Butler started at second base and catcher, respectively, during the league title game against the Patriots. Bishop Hendricken alum Ryan Thompson, Central alum Adonis Medina and Lincoln alum Nicholas Toro have all appeared in at least 22 games as position players.

The pitching staff includes Johnston alum Jeremy Urena, who has made 14 starts and is second on the team in innings pitched. North Kingstown alum Braeden Perry has made all but two of his 19 appearances out of the bullpen as a leverage reliever. Bishop Hendricken alum Dorsy Asencio has pitched in 15 games after not recording an appearance with the Rams in his first two seasons.

URI’s inclusion in the field is another chapter in what has been a strong spring for the sport in Rhode Island. Bryant won an America East regular-season title and fell in extra innings against Binghamton in the conference tournament championship game. Salve Regina and Johnson & Wales both reached the Division III NCAA Tournament, with the Seahawks coming a lone victory against Kean (N.J.) away from qualifying for a second straight World Series.