2007 Naval Academy Schedule

Paul Kostacopoulos and the Naval Academy have released their 2007 baseball schedule. The Navy Midshipmen will be led by Mitch Harris who was rated the number 2 pro prospect in the Cal Ripken Sr. League this past summer. The Midshipmen open the season on the road at Florida A & M. They will also take part in the Service Academy Classic in Millington TN from Feb. 23rd-25th. The teams which they are playing are Air Force and NCAA Tournament participant Missouri. Paul Kostacopoulos will also welcome back one of his old assistant coaches from his Providence College days in Charlie Hickey who leads the Regular Season NEC champs in the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils. Hickey was a key member of the Providence coaching staff during Paul's days there and ended up taking over the Providence program when Kostacopoulos left for Maine. The Midshipmen make a trip to Holy Cross this season so The College Baseball Blog will be there attending the games and giving you their insight on the Midshipmen in Late March/Early April. I believe that Navy will continue to raise the profile of their program with the work of Mr. Kostacopoulos and his great coaching ability but they will not beat the Army Cadets this season in the Patriot League.

The full schedule is available here.

The Citadel Baseball News

The Citadel Baseball team has released its 2007 schedule with many interesting match-ups. They open the season with a 3 game set with East Tennessee State. The following two weekends they will host two tournaments. One of the tournaments will be hosted by The Citadel with Liberty, Richmond, and South Carolina participating. The other tournament will have old BC head coach Peter Hughes and VA Tech visiting, Minnesota, and UNC Asheville. In their last tournament, the Bulldogs travel to the Great White North by visiting the Diary Queen Classic which is hosted by Minnesota with Ole Miss and Arkansas filling out the field. The Bulldogs host the following Southern Conference schools this year for key 4 game sets: Elon, Wofford, College of Charleston and Georgia Southern. They will also visit Western Carolina, Appalachian State, Davidson, UNC Greensboro and Furman.

Full schedule available here.

Rivals.com also had a very good article about The Citadel Bulldogs trying to reclaim their spot in the top of the Southern Conference. Click here for the full article.

Miami Hurricanes baseball news

The Miami University of Florida has released their 2007 baseball schedule in addition they have started up fall ball within the last week. They will be playing the entire ACC besides my Boston College Eagles and they will play OOC series against 2005 NCAA Finalist Florida Gators in Gainesville and Pac 10 member UCLA Bruins will be visiting Coral Gables. The Hurricanes will not leave the state of Florida until March 9th when they visit the North Carolina Tar Heels. On March 23rd, the Canes will visit the UVA Cavaliers in a key ACC match-up and the next weekend going to Clemson SC for another big weekend. These two weekends will decide how close Miami will get to winning the conference this year behind Jemile Weeks and Scott Maine.

Full Schedule available here
Interview with coach Jim Morris

Tigers release 2007 schedule

The Memphis Tigers have announced their 2007 schedule. They face some strong competition this upcoming season by taking part in the Service Academies Spring Classic in Millington, Tenn in the second week of the season. They will then host their first ever tournament at Autozone Park in Memphis with Northern Iowa, Eastern Illinois, and Indiana. They will also visit Mississippi State and Clemson in their OOC schedule. They will have to travel to National power Tulane during the Conference USA season in addition to Rice. They will likely finish fourth in the conference behind Rice, Tulane and Southern Miss. The full schedule is available here.