The Temple College baseball team needs one win today in its 1 p.m. doubleheader at last-place Vernon to clinch the Leopards’ seventh consecutive berth in the NJCAA Region V Tournament, and TC will seize its conference’s No. 2 seed if it sweeps the Chaparrals.

Temple (29-22) enters the final day of Northern Texas Junior College Athletic Conference play with a 17-13 league record, tied with Cisco for second place. Because coach Craig McMurtry’s Leopards own the head-to-head tie-breaker advantage over Cisco, a TC sweep would secure it the NTJCAC’s No. 2 seed for the Region V Tournament, set for May 11-15 at Lubbock Christian. The winner of the eight-team, double-elimination regional will advance to the Junior College World Series in Grand Junction, Colo.

If Temple gets swept today, however, the Leopards could miss the regional tournament. In that scenario, North Central Texas and Weatherford would jump ahead of Temple with doubleheader sweeps and idle Hill would gain the tie-breaker over TC because of its 3-1 win in the season series. Also, Cisco would need one win at North Central to finish ahead of Temple.