Category: HBCU Baseball

SIAC Announces Preseason Baseball Honours

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Courtesy of the SIAC The 2023 preseason team returns 14 of the 30 players from the 2022 Baseball All-Conference Teams. Savannah State paced this year’s preseason team with nine selections after closing last season with one of the best records in modern Tigers’ history at 34-12. They led the regular season with a 28-2 conference mark and entered last year’s tournament as the No. 1 seed. The Tigers return 2022 SIAC Player of the Year, Joe Smith, who had an incredible redshirt-junior season. The Brunswick, Georgia native led the Tigers…

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West VA State Baseball picked third in MEC South Division

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Courtesy of James Garcia, Sports Information Director, West Virginia State Athletics BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. – The Mountain East Conference released its annual baseball preseason poll on Thursday afternoon following a vote by the league’s head coaches. West Virginia State was slotted third in the MEC South Division. The Yellow Jackets are coming off a 2022 campaign in which they finished 25-20 overall and 17-15 in league play. They entered the final week of the regular season with the possibility of making the postseason if results went their way, but narrowly missed out…

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Langston Basketball hangs on to no.3 ranking in latest NAIA Men’s Basketball Top 25 rankings

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Courtesy of Kyle Taylor – Langston Sports Information, Langston University KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Langston University men’s basketball team remained in the No. 3 slot in the fifth edition of NAIA Men’s Basketball Coaches’ Top 25 Poll, the national office announced. Langston is currently 19-1 on the season and 13-1 in Sooner Athletic Conference play and ranked third overall with 513 total votes. The Lions are the highest rated team in the Sooner Athletic Conference and ranked in the NAIA Top-25 for the fourth consecutive NAIA Coaches Top 25 Poll.  Statistically, the…

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2023 SWAC Baseball tournament to take place in Atlanta

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Courtesy of the Southwestern Athletic Conference BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- The Southwestern Athletic Conference has announced that the upcoming 2023 SWAC Baseball Tournament slated for May 24-28 will be hosted in downtown Atlanta at Mac Nease Baseball Park at Russ Chandler Stadium. “We’re extremely excited to host our upcoming baseball tournament in the City of Atlanta,” said SWAC Commissioner Dr. Charles McClelland. “Aside from what we envision being an extremely exciting and competitive baseball tournament, the City of Atlanta undoubtedly will offer our fans and supporters a wide variety of leisure and recreational activities, restaurants,…

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2023 Albany State Baseball season preview

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Courtesy of Albany State Atheltics Albany State University is coming off a 32-16 record last year under head coach Scot Hemmings. The Albany State Golden Rams ended their season playing in the SIAC championship game, losing to Spring Hill College 8-7. The Albany State Golden Rams also participated in the Black College World Series in Montgomery, AL. The Rams are looking forward to the 2023 baseball season with a shot at winning the SIAC conference championship and returning to the NCAA regionals. The last time ASU Baseball played in the…

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Grambling Baseball announces 2023 schedule

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Courtesy of Curtis Ford, Grambling State Athletics GRAMBLING, La. | Grambling State University head baseball coach Davin Pierreannounced on Tuesday the 2023 schedule for the upcoming season. GSU opens the season with a trip to Houston, Texas to participate in the inaugural Cactus Jack HBCU Classic hosted by the Houston Astros. The Tigers face Prairie View A&M (Feb. 17), Southern (Feb. 18) and Mississippi Valley State (Feb. 19) in the event.  Grambling State heads to Fayetteville, Ark. for a midweek contest versus Arkansas on Feb. 21 before traveling to New Orleans, La.,…

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Bethune-Cookman Baseball brings in highest-ranked JUCO class in program history

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Courtesy of Bethune-Cookman Athletics DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Bethune-Cookman head baseball coach Jonathan Hernandez has landed another nationally ranked recruiting class this year as the Wildcats skipper and his staff haul in the 37th ranked JUCO recruiting class in the country. The JBB, a Junior-College baseball publication, has ranked B-CU’s JUCO signing class as the 37th best in the country for this recruiting cycle. This marks the 3rdtime a recruiting class has been ranked nationally under Hernandez’s tenure.Hernandez and his staff inked 11 Junior-College players who arrived on campus this Fall in Daytona Beach.  “We are very…

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Grambling promotes Davin Pierre to head baseball coach

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Courtesy of Brian Howard, Senior Associate AD for Athletic Communications, Grambling State Athletics GRAMBLING, La. | Grambling State University Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics, Dr. Trayvean Scott, announced on Friday he has elevated Davin Pierreto head baseball coach. “We are excited to elevate Coach Pierre as our head baseball coach,” Scott said. “Coach Pierre did an outstanding job during the 2022 season as the interim head coach and we wanted to promote him for all his hard work. His success of his student-athletes on and off the field speaks for itself and continues…

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Albany State Baseball to hold walk-on meeting

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The Albany State Baseball team went 32-16 ( 28-7, SIAC), but came up short in the conference championship game, falling 8-7 to Spring Hill. The Goden Rams were tapped to participate in the Black College World Series in Montgomery. After defeating the Thoroughbreds of Kentucky State 12-2 in the opening game, the Golden Rams fell 15-10 to Miles College. As the path to improvement does not just lay on the recruiting trail or the transfer portal, sometimes there is considerable untapped talent and potential walking around campus, Albany State baseball…

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Tyson Foods donates $10K to Albany State Baseball

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Courtesy of Albany State Athletics Tyson Foods donated $10,000 to the Albany State University Golden Rams baseball team to celebrate the team’s participation in the 2022 Black College World Series.  Tyson Foods was the first title sponsor of the event and indicated that they are looking forward to helping grow and promote HBCU baseball in the coming years. “I would like to thank Mr. John Tyson and Tyson Foods for their generosity.  Tyson’s acknowledgement of our participation in the Black College World Series is meaningful.  The $10,000 contribution will make…

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