Eagle Baseball Announces 2008 Schedule
10/5/2007 4:11:00 AM | Baseball
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The upcoming year marks the first in which the NCAA regulated the start of practice and the season-opener.
Six of
Following the series against BC,
The Eagles play host to
After the LeClair Invitational, nine of the Eagles' next 10 games are at home: a two-game series against USC-Upstate (March 11-12), four against
As in previous years
GS will face three other SoCon foes at home: Appalachian State (April 11-13), The Citadel (May 2-4) and UNC Greensboro (May 9-11). The Eagles travel for five SoCon series:
The SoCon Tournament will be held May 21-24 at Riley Park in
Hennon noted how the parity in the Southern Conference has increased in recent years, evident by ninth-seed Wofford winning the tournament title last year.
“It's another challenging schedule. The Southern Conference continues to make strides each year, top to bottom I think our league is as tough as it has ever been. Of course we always play a very competitive non-conference schedule and this year is no exception,” said Hennon. “That (Wofford winning the title) was a great example of how much our league has improved from a competitive standpoint from top to bottom and I think that can be said in college baseball right now.”
The Eagles started the 2007 season on February 1st at
“Well the new rule compacts your schedule, we're playing more midweek games than we have in past years due to the start date. That's really the biggest change,” said Hennon. “A lot of teams are playing four game series. We have one of those this year with Columbia during our spring break (Friday-Monday) and then we play at Mercer the next day Tuesday, so that gives us five games in five days. Again that's only something we do during Spring Break, which is the case this season.”
