Finally… just two more days of this spring training stuff before the real season starts. The 1994 Major League Baseball season officially begins Sunday as the Cincinnati Reds host the St. Louis Cardinals at 8 p.m..

The game will be heard on WZON (620 AM) in Bangor and seen on ESPN-TV.

Here’s a look at upcoming baseball broadcasts for TV and radio.

Television

ESPN will follow up strong with a live doubleheader Monday: Seattle at Cleveland at 1 p.m. and Pittsburgh at San Francisco at 4 p.m.

Monday is opening day as far as New England fans are concerned. Monday, the teams – the Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees – begin play for real.

Boston’s opening day game against Detroit at Fenway Park Monday will be aired by Boston’s WSBK-TV (Channel 38) at 1 p.m.

On the local television front, the good news is WLBZ-TV (Channel 2) will again air selected Red Sox games. The bad news? The Bangor station won’t even start its broadcast schedule until Friday, June 3.

No opening day coverage?

“We haven’t done opening day games for a few years, said Jeff Marks, WLBZ’s station manager. “We don’t like to break up our midday programming lineup.”

“We’re not doing games until June, July, and August because those seem to the months people have the most interest in the Red Sox. And it’s just a gut feeling on my part that advertisers prefer the summer months to advertise on baseball broadcasts.”

WLBZ’s Sox schedule is also down from 30 to 26 games, six of those games coming from NBC’s Baseball Network coverage of the Sox beginning Friday, Aug. 26.

“We’re finding the Sox games increasingly difficult to schedule since we take our games a limited number aired by WSBK-TV,” Marks explained. “We try to do a number of Friday and Sunday games.

NBC will show Friday night baseball games over the last six weeks of the regular season as part of its partnership with ABC under the new Baseball Network agreement signed with Major League Baseball.

ABC (WVII-TV Bangor, Channel 7) will provide regular season coverage over the previous six weeks, tentatively scheduled go begin Saturday, July 16.

Radio

Sox games will be broadcast by 56 radio stations covering seven states, including Florida.

Local radio stations are also ready to jump into spring. Red Sox games will be carried by 13 radio stations in Maine, from Biddeford to Dover-Foxcroft to Calais.

Virtually every region of Maine will have access to Red Sox games… every region except Aroostook County.

According to a recently updated list of stations providing Boston Red Sox radio network coverage provided by Sox flagship station WRKO of Boston (680 AM), no stations in Somerset or Aroostook county are part of the network.

Sox fans in Somerset County need not worry however, as signals from nearby stations in Farmington and Waterville should penetrate far into the area.

WZON will also carry games involving other teams on the CBS Radio Network. The Sports Zone will broadcast at least 35 games in addition to full postseason coverage and the All-Star Game. – – –

Bangor’s WZON will air several Portland Sea Dogs baseball games this season, beginning with Portland’s first game of the season at Reading, Penn. The game is Thursday at 7 p.m. – – –

Final Four basketball action is the main focus this weekend as both the women’s and men’s games will be on TV and radio.

On Saturday, WABI-TV (Channel 5) of Bangor will air the women’s games at noon and 2:30 p.m. (approximate time) and the men’s games at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m.

WZON will also broadcast both women’s games and the second men’s game. The first men’s game (Arkansas vs. Arizona) will be joined in progress after the 4 p.m. Red Sox exhibition game concludes.

Both WZON and WABI-TV will air the women’s championship game Sunday at 3:45 p.m. – – –

Former Mount View of Thorndike and University of Maine women’s basketball star Emily Ellis Throckmorton is hosting the March edition of the University of Maine’s “Snapshots” TV show. One of the segments on the show will focus on Maine’s Scholar-Athlete Awards, given annually to student-athletes earning at least a 3.0 grade-point average. The award was presented to 62 students this year.

They’ve got their Sox on

WZON (620 AM) Bangor

WDME (103.1 FM) Dover-Foxcroft

WDEA (1370 AM) Ellsworth

WQSS (102.5 FM) Camden

WQDY (92.7 FM) Calais

WQDY (1230 AM) Calais

WTVL (1490 AM) Waterville

WMME (1440 AM) Augusta

WKTJ (99.3 FM) Farmington

WJTO (730 AM) Bath

WIDE (1400 AM) Biddeford

WLPZ (1440 AM) Portland

WOXO (92.7 FM) Norway

WTBM (100.7 FM) Mexico