Men's Baseball releases 2012 season schedule

2012 baseball schedule, issue 15, Joshua De Bets, Sports - By Joshua De Bets on Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 02:49

The schedule for the upcoming 2012 Poet baseball season was released earlier this week by baseball Head Coach Mike Rizzo.

The 2012 season opens up on Friday, Feb. 3 as the Poets travel to take on Chapman starting at 4:30 p.m. and then return to Memorial Stadium the following day for their doubleheader home opener also against Chapman starting at 11 am.

The Purple and Gold then open up SCIAC play at home against the Pomona-Pitzer Sagehends on Friday, Feb. 10 followed by an exhibition game against British Columbia on Wednesday, Feb. 22.

The Poets also travel to Arizona from Feb. 17-19 where they will take on Whitman, Sul Ross State University, McMurry University and Pacific Lutheran.

Whittier will host 5 non-SCIAC teams starting with Ithaca College on Tuesday, March 13. Then on March 17 and 18 the Poets face Berry, Eastern Conn. St, Rutgers-Newark and Kean in the California Invitational.

The Poets will play each team in their conference four times and the last SCIAC game of the season is on Saturday, April 28 as Whittier hosts the rival Occidental College Tigers slated a 1:00 pm.

There will be 20 home games in total and 19 on the road as the Poets look to rebound from a 16-23, 8-20 SCIAC, 2011 season in which they finished seventh in SCIAC and missed the playoffs.

Like the home Women’s softball games, the Men’s Baseball Team’s home games will be on a live video feed with commentary.