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New University of Maryland Eastern Shore head coach Pedro Swannhas announced the 2013 schedule. The Hawks will play 52 regular season games with a full conference slate and contests against local rivals. UMES will play 26 games at home at Hawks Stadium, including four Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference series and a home tournament in March. Along with their MEAC North opponents, [...]

Morehouse College catcher/short stop Bryan Butcher has been named SIAC Baseball East Division Player of the Week while Benedict College pitcher Christopher Lail has been named SIAC Baseball East Division Pitcher of the Week. Stillman College outfielder Jarius Brown and pitcher Austin Leary have been named SIAC Baseball West Division Player of the Week and Pitcher of the Week, respectively. [...]

Grambling (11-7, 5-1 SWAC West The Tigers scored the biggest non-conference win of the season for any SWAC school knocking off #5 Rice in the finale of their series on Sunday. GSU moved a half game in front of Prairie View for the division lead after the Panthers fell at Southern. Prairie View A&M (11-8, 4-1 SWAC West) Despite dropping [...]

Bethune-Cookman sophomore Anthony Stokes earned Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Player of the Week honors in baseball, the conference announced on Monday. Teammate Rayan Gonzalez was named the Pitcher of the Week, while Juan Pizarro earned Rookie of the Week accolades for the second consecutive week. Stokes (1B/DH/P, 6-3, So., 230, Chesapeake, Va.) hit .524 with 11 hits in 21 appearances [...]

Benedict College first baseman David Weber and pitcher Luis Cotto have been named SIAC Baseball East Division Player of the Week and Pitcher of the Week, respectively. Stillman College third baseman Paul Winterbottom and pitcher Josh Cagle have been named SIAC Baseball West Division Player of the Week and Pitcher of the Week, respectively. Weber, a native of Lawndale, CA, [...]

Benedict College first baseman David Weber and pitcher Lamar Lewis have been named SIAC Baseball East Division Player of the Week and Pitcher of the Week, respectively. Kentucky State University third baseman Benjamin Tabb has been named SIAC Baseball West Division Player of the Week while Kentucky State University pitcher Arefes Everett has been named SIAC Baseball West Division Pitcher [...]

Jennifer Holliday and Ruben Studdard will be part of the proceedings at Minute Maid Park on Feb. 18 as part of the fifth annual Urban Invitational, a round-robin baseball tournament designed to give better exposure to players at historically black colleges and universities. Studdard, who earned fame by winning the second season of American Idol, and Holliday, who has won [...]

The Urban Invitational, the annual, round-robin collegiate baseball tournament designed to give Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and their baseball programs national exposure, is relocating to Houston, Texas and will feature five HBCUs – the most-ever in the tournament’s five-year history. The Houston Astros MLB Urban Youth Academy at Sylvester Turner Park will be the primary site of the [...]

Star shortstop Rashaad Ingram (Savannah, Ga.) of Saint Augustine’s College was drafted Tuesday by the San Diego Padres on the second day of the 2011 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Ingram was taken by the Padres in the 28th round with the 863rd pick. He becomes the second Saint Augustine’s College player in three seasons to be drafted. Anthione [...]

Southern University teammates, Frazier Hall and Cody Hall (no relation), were selected on Tuesday in the Major League Baseball Draft. The duo became the Jaguars 30th and 31st MLB draft picks since 2000. And on Wednesday, Roddarick Jones became the 32nd draftee. The Los Angeles Angels took Frazier Hall in the 16th round, bringing to a culmination a great career [...]

GREENSBORO- North Carolina A&T slugger Xavier Macklin is a member of the Oakland Athletics organization. On the second day of the First-Year Major League Baseball Player Draft, Macklin was selected in the 12th round as the 376th pick. Macklin is the first Aggie taken in the draft since the St. Louis Cardinals selected C.J. Beatty in the 26th round in [...]

SECAUCUS, N.J. – Keeping with the legacy of Bethune-Cookman baseball’s standard of developing players for the next level, catcher Peter O’Brien joined the ranks of the drafted, Tuesday afternoon, as the Colorado Rockies picked him with the 17th pick in the third round (107th overall) of the 2011 MLB Draft.The Wildcat junior from Miami Gardens, Fla. has more than earned [...]

NORMAL – The Alabama A&M baseball team fell 4-1 to Jackson State University on Wednesday, May 11, in their final bid for the SWAC baseball post season tournament. A&M was lead by senior Joseph Bryant who posted the lone run with a solo blast over the center field wall in the bottom of the seventh inning. Unfortunately the Maroon & White [...]

WSSU rallies to claim first championship since 2000

GREENSBORO – Kelvin Freeman went on a rampage at the plate late last season to earn MEAC Rookie of the Year honors. The North Carolina A&T baseball team hopes he can produce a replay of that in 2011 as the season gets closer to the MEAC Tournament. Freeman hit a big two-out, two-run RBI single in the seventh inning to [...]

The defending CIAA baseball champions from Saint Augustine’s College are on fire once again as they prepare for this year’s CIAA Baseball Tournament April 21st through the 23rd at Virginia State University in Petersburg, VA.