2010 Baseball Schedule
MOREHEAD, Ky. – A non-conference slate that features home contests with Kentucky and Indiana, road tilts at Louisville and Tennessee, and a challenging Ohio Valley Conference slate highlight the 2010 Morehead State baseball schedule which was released Wednesday. MSU will play teams from 13 different conferences and have 28 home games and 28 away games.
“For me, it’s a very balanced schedule,” stated Morehead State head coach Jay Sorg. “We’re excited to play teams from 13 different conferences and it will be good to see how we stack up against the programs from those conferences. We play some of the top teams in the country and we’re excited for the challenge that this schedule will bring us.”
The Eagles will begin their season Feb. 19-21 with a four-game set on the road against the Mercer Bears of the Atlantic Sun Conference. The Eagles will then have a tough early season test when they travel to battle Louisville on Feb. 23. The Cardinals finished last season ranked 17th in the final USA Today/ESPN Coaches poll and qualified for the NCAA Super Regionals.
MSU then travels to the UNC Wilmington Hughes Bros. Baseball Challenge the following weekend. While in Wilmington, the Eagles will play single games against UNC Wilmington and Liberty and will play a pair of contests against Lehigh.
MSU’s home-opener will be against in-state Southeastern Conference foe Kentucky on March 2. The Eagles host Buffalo for a four game series and Transylvania for a mid-week game before heading to their second tournament of the season, the University of Evansville Dunn Hospitality Diamond Classic March 12-14. Evansville, Purdue, and LeMoyne join MSU in Evansville for the tournament.
MSU travels to Knoxville for a game at Tennessee on March 17, before hosting IPFW for a four-game series the following weekend. The Eagles final tune-up before starting OVC play will be a home contest versus the Big Ten’s Indiana on March 23.
Morehead State will play home OVC series with SEMO, Eastern Kentucky, UT Martin and Jacksonville State. The Eagles will hit the road for series against Eastern Illinois, Tennessee Tech, Austin Peay, and Murray State.
Three separate mid-week games with Marshall, a home-game with Georgetown (Ky.), a road battle with Cincinnati, and a three-game home set with SIU-Edwardsville highlight the non-conference games during the OVC portion of the MSU schedule.
This year’s OVC Tournament will be contested May 26-30 at Pringles Park in Jackson, Tenn. Pringles Park is the home of the West Tenn Daimond Jaxx, the AA affiliate of the Seattle Mariners.
