This post was written by Hatchet staff writer Josh Solomon.
With spring registration around the corner, the GW baseball team is ready to study their opponents with the release of the 2015 baseball schedule.
The season starts Feb. 14, and conference play begins March 20. The Colonials will then host the Atlantic 10 Championship, which begins May 20, for the first time in program history.
GW will face difficult games before the team dives into Atlantic 10 play. Last year ended hopefully when the team, one of the youngest in the country, nearly qualified for the conference championship. Non-conference foes this year include Georgetown, Virginia, Manhattan and William & Mary, and GW will travel to the West Coast to play Long Beach State and Cal State Northridge.
The spring break trip to California will be the first to the West Coast for the baseball team since it competed in the Cal State Northridge Tournament in 2002, the last year GW made it to the NCAA Regionals.
GW will face off against a tough foe in Long Beach State, which has not played an East Coast team in the regular season since 2012 when they faced VCU. The Dirtbags returned to the NCAA Regionals last year after a six-year hiatus.
The Colonials are scheduled to make their annual trip down to Charlottesville on Feb. 24 to take on Virginia. The usually nationally-ranked Cavaliers have not lost against GW since 2008, when the Colonials downed the then-No. 15 squad 17-5 for their first win since the two teams started facing each other 20 years before.
Conference play starts on the road at Saint Joseph’s. GW will then host its first A-10 series March 25, against St. Bonaventure. The final conference series is against Saint Louis – last year’s regular season champion.
The Colonials will look to build on their 12-15 conference record last year, in the hopes of returning to the A-10’s and defending their home field for this year’s conference championship.
The season starts at home against New Jersey Institute of Technology with a back-to-back doubleheader.
