Friday, January 30, 2004
PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE BASEBALL READY TO OPEN 2004 SEASON Blue Hose open season against #3 North Florida
CLINTON,
SC – 24 home dates, a trip to Jacksonville, Florida
to open the season along with three matchups with
preseason ranked teams highlight Presbyterian College’s
2004 regular season baseball schedule announced today by
11th-year
Blue Hose head coach Doug
Kovash.
Presbyterian College returns 18 letterwinners, one starter and a deep pitching staff from the 2003 Blue Hose baseball squad. The Blue Hose are coming off an 27-28 season in 2003 where they won the 2003 Food Lion/SAC Tournament Title and advanced to the 2003 NCAA Division II Southeast Regional Tournament. Presbyterian, who finished second (12-8) for the South Atlantic Conference regular season title last spring, are picked 5th in this season's pre-season coaches poll.
Presbyterian opens the season with a trip to Jacksonville, Fla. to
face the #3 ranked University of North Florida on Jan. 31 and
Feb. 1. The following weekend the Blue Hose return home for a three-game home series against #4
ranked Kennesaw State University. On Feb. 12, PC hosts #15 ranked Francis Marion University before
they head to Laurinburg, N.C. on Feb. 14-15 to play St. Andrews College in a
three-game series that weekend.
The Blue Hose then travel to Florence, S.C. to square off
against #15 Francis Marion University for their second meeting
of the season on Feb. 19 before hosting Shepherd College for a four-game series
on Feb. 21-22.
PC will open South Atlantic Conference play the last
weekend in February for a three-games series against
Carson-Newman in Jefferson City, TN.
In March,
the Blue Hose
return home for an seven-game home stand against Erskine
College (3/2), a three-game series versus Tusculum College
(3/6-7), followed by single games against UNC-Pembroke (3/9), Belmont Abbey College (3/10),
and Fairmont State University (3/11).
Presbyterian then travels to Honolulu, HI to face Hawaii-Pacific
University in a six-game series on March 15-17 as part of the
school's spring break.
The Blue Hose return home to host Catawba College in a three-game
series on March 23-24 before hosting West Virginia
State College in a two-games series on March 23-24.
PC travels to
Wingate, N.C. for a three-game series against Wingate University
on March 27-28. The Blue Hose
wrap up the month of March on the 31st by hosting Lander University.
April
opens with a home three-game series against Mars Hill College
on April 3-4.
PC hits the road for a nine game road trip with
Lander University on (4/7), a three-game series with Newberry
College on (4/9-10), USC Spartanburg on (4/13), Belmont Abbey
College on (4/14), and ending the trip with a three-game series
with Lenoir-Rhyne on (4/17-18) to end SAC
regular season play.
On April
21-25, the Blue Hose head to Rock Hill, S.C. for the Food
Lion/South
Atlantic Conference Tournament.
In May, the Blue Hose travel
to Kennesaw, GA to face #4 ranked Kennesaw State University
for the fourth meeting of the season on May 1. PC returns home to face North Georgia College (5/2) before
heading to Dahlonega, GA on May 3 to play North Georgia to
finish the 2004 season.
“I
am very excited about our upcoming season,” Kovash said.
“We have put together a very demanding schedule early
to get us prepared for conference play.”
Led by Kovash, who owns a 295-254-2 school record in ten seasons with Presbyterian, Presbyterian will welcome back All-American outfielder Kevin White (Spartanburg, S.C.) for his final season as a Blue Hose. Along with White, PC brings back a deep pitching staff with seniors Travis Hill (Rock Hill, S.C.), and Charles Assey (Columbia, S.C.) leading the staff.