23 miles is all that separates Constellation Field, home of the AAA Sugar Land Space Cowboys and the Astros MLB stadium 🏟.
When you finally get ” The Call 📞 ” to the Show ” its a local call. Seattle and Tacoma have a similar situation out in the Pacific Northwest.
Getting to Round Rock, Texas earlier today completed the Class AAA Baseball ⚾️ Loop and the goal now for me is to not create any more Loops !!!
The AAA trek absolutely happened by accident over the years, until the past few weeks. Albuquerque, El Paso, Salt Lake City, Sugar Land and Round Rock were the remaining ones. Easy enough to finish off.
Softball is a more enjoyable watch for me but there’s something about the individualality ( not sure if that’s a real word) of the Baseball parks, at all levels.
MLB, AAA and four of the Class A leagues are among the 100+ ball parks that I’ve attended and each one is different from the previous ones.
Round Rock, home 🏡 of the Nolan Ryan Express.Albuquerque, New MexicoEl Paso wins the Award for most original ways to feed their Fans !
In a few hours it will be an Early Bird 🐦 flight ✈️ out of Houston, 5am departure might be way to early Bird….
A quick stop ✋ over at Duke University and an important trip to The Hill on Thursday morning 🌄.
Cool 😎 Scoreboard, rivals the one they have in Nashville…
Some of the Treks :
ACC Basketball 🏀 arenas
ACC Football Stadiums 🏟
Major League and AAA Baseball ⚾️
All 41 NCAA Football 🏈 games
61 years of Duke University Football Bowl 🏈 games – easier than you think being there has only been 11.
Every golf ⛳ course in the Old Dominon, playing each that I could talk my way on to.
Visiting all 50 🇺🇲 States in the same calendar 📅 year.
WNBA arenas
Each college in the Commonwealth where Basketball 🏀 is played.
Proof of that one, which was actually enjoyable !
It’s time to collect the final 7,000 steps 🚶♂️ needed to keep the streak of 20K everyday going so its a great stopping point.
Mississippi State University pilfered the University of Virginia Baseball program, then UVA did the same to Duke University and now we wait to see how Duke rebounds. Hopefully they can break the trend of hiring a current Head Coach that will trigger a complete rebuild.
Mississippi State is in a better position now to challenge for a Natty. Virginia is in a better position to play on as Big of a stage that the Atlantic Coast Conference. Duke is the next domino in this process.
Pollard left Appalachian State University for the opportunity to work his magic on a bigger stage. Coach put Duke on the baseball map but it wasn’t a quick fix as it took the better part of a decade.
Carla Williams, Athletic Director at UVA, did her job and then some by replacing a Icon of the game with a proven commodity in Pollard. Now its time for her Duke counterpart to do the same.
Things like this happen all the time in College Football with the most recent Big Time example was when Nick Saban retired from Alabama. The Crimson Tide plucked their next Head Coach from the Washington Huskies. UW had just fell to Michigan in the National Championship game but was forced into a near complete rebuild by the time the final domino fell.
Welcome 🙏 to the world 🌎 of Big Time College sports, it’s here to stay. But if you are a fan of College Baseball ⚾️, which I am, its a good thing to be on the front page of the Business section of the NCAA.
The WVU Institute of Technology Baseball Team is excited to release its 2025 schedule. After closing the 2024 season with a 29-22 record and finishing in the semi-finals of the River States Conference Tournament, the Golden Bears will open the 48-game season. On February 7-8th, the season kicks off with a four-game series in Johnson City, TN. The Golden Bears will be facing three 2025 NAIA top 35 ranked teams, highlighted with the fourth game against Cumberland (KY) which qualified for the 2024 NAIA National World Series. Cumberland is ranked #5 in the pre-season NAIA National Poll.
The Golden Bears are hosting 26 home games at Linda K. Epling Stadium in Beckley, WV and one home game at GoMart Park in Charleston, WV. The first home games are scheduled for February 15-16th, a four-game series, in Beckley against Lourdes University (OH).
The team will open a 24-game River States Conference regular season on February 28th at Midway University in Lexington, KY. The nine-team conference schedule will conclude with the final weekend of the season on April 25-26th against IU Southeast with Senior Day Recognition held on Saturday, the 26th. IU Southeast will be the third ’24 World Series qualifier that the Golden Bears will face this season. They are ranked #17 in the pre-season NAIA National Poll.
April 11-13th, the Golden Bears will be hosting a unique mid-season, three team non-conference series. Fisher College from Boston, MA and Georgia Gwinnett from Atlanta will visit Beckley, WV. Gwinnett is another ’24 NAIA World Series qualifier and #3 ranked pre-season NAIA National Poll.
Lawrence Nesselrodt enters his 17th season as a Head Coach at WVU Tech. His career has totaled 34 years as a head coach and 8 years as an assistant coach at the collegiate level. Legendary Joe Goddard is in his 8th season as an assistant coach at WVU Tech, with an impressive track record of 45 years of coaching. Prior to his coaching career Joe was a Hall of Fame player for Marshall University, then extended his career for 6 years of professional baseball with the San Diego Padres. They have decided to take a former player under their wing, Isaac Wengert in his 2nd season as the pitching coach, who was an outstanding pitcher for the Golden Bears.
WVU-TECH BASEBALL 2025 SPRING SCHEDULE
DATE
DAY
OPPONENT
LOCATION
TIME
GAMES
02/7/25
Friday
Milligan Univ. (TN)
Milligan, TN
11am
1×7
02/7/25
Friday
Indiana Wesleyan
Milligan, TN
2pm
1×7
02/8/25
Saturday
Indiana Wesleyan
Kingsport, TN
11am
1×7
02/8/25
Saturday
Cumberland Univ. (KY)
Kingsport, TN
5pm
1×7
02/15/25
Saturday
Lourdes Univ. (OH)
Epling Stadium
12noon
1×9 1×7
02/16/25
Sunday
Lourdes Univ. (OH)
Epling Stadium
12noon
1×7 1×9
02/18/25
Tuesday
Kentucky Christian
Epling Stadium
12noon
1×9
02/21/25
Friday
Point Park (PA)
Epling Stadium
11am
1×7
02/22/25
Saturday
Bluefield State (WV)
Epling Stadium
2pm
1×7
02/23/25
Sunday
Point Park (PA)
Epling Stadium
2pm
1×7
02/25/25
Tuesday
Bluefield State (WV)
Bluefield, WV
1pm
1×9
02/28/25
Friday
Midway Univ. (KY)
Midway, KY
3pm.
1×9
03/1/25
Saturday
Midway Univ. (KY)
Midway, KY
12noon
1×9 1×7
03/7/25
Friday
IUPUC (IN)
Epling Stadium
1pm
1×9
03/8/25
Saturday
IUPUC (IN)
Epling Stadium
12noon
1×9 1×7
03/11/25
Tuesday
Bluefield Univ. (VA)
Bluefield, VA
3pm
1×9
03/14/25
Friday
Rio Grande (OH)
Rio Grande, OH
3pm
1×9
03/15/25
Indiana Wesleyan
Saturday
Rio Grande (OH)
Rio Grande, OH
1pm
1×9 1×7
03/18/25
Tuesday
Davis & Elkins (WV)
Epling Stadium
Milligan, TN
12noon
1×9
03/21/25
Friday
IU Kokomo (IN)
Kokomo, IN
12noon
1×9
03/22/25
Saturday
IU Kokomo (IN)
Kokomo, IN
12noon.
1×9 1×7
03/25/25
Tuesday
Milligan Univ. (TN)
Epling Stadium
1pm
1×9
03/28/25
Friday
Shawnee State (OH)
Epling Stadium
3pm
1×9
03/29/25
Saturday
Shawnee State (OH)
Epling Stadium
1pm
1×9 1×7
04/01/25
Tuesday
Davis & Elkins (WV)
Elkins, WV
3pm
1×9
04/04/25
Friday
Oakland City (IN)
Epling Stadium
3pm
1×9
04/05/25
Saturday
Oakland City (IN)
Epling Stadium
12noon
1×9 1×7
04/08/25
Tuesday
WV Wesleyan
Charleston, WV
3pm
1×9
04/11/25
Friday
GA Gwinnett (GA)
Epling Stadium
4pm
1×9
04/12/25
Saturday
GA Gwinnett (GA)
Epling Stadium
2pm
1×7
04/12/25
Saturday
Fisher College (MA)
Epling Stadium
5pm
1×7
04/13/25
Sunday
Fisher College (MA)
Epling Stadium
12noon
1×9
04/15/25
Tuesday
Kentucky Christian
Grayson, KY
1pm
1×9
04/18/25
Friday
Brescia (KY)
Owensboro, KY
3pm
1×9
04/19/25
Saturday
Brescia (KY)
Owensboro, KY
12noon
1×9 1×7
04/22/25
Tuesday
Bluefield Univ. (VA)
Bluefield, VA
3pm
1×9
04/25/25
Friday
IU Southeast (IN)
Epling Stadium
3pm
1×9
04/26/25
Saturday
IU Southeast (IN) Senior Day
Epling Stadium
12noon
1×9 1×7
TBA
TBA
River States Conf Tourn.
Chillicothe, OH
TBA
TBA
May 12-15, 2025
NAIA Regional Tourn.
TBA
TBA
NAIA World Series
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