WILMINGTON, North
Carolina - UNCW head baseball coach Mark Scalf has announced the 2013
schedule for the Seahawks, one that includes 32 home games including contests
against College World Series participants Kent State and Stony Brook.
Included in that total of 32 games at Brooks Field are nine
games against teams that played in the NCAA tournament. The Seahawks will play
a total of 14 games against 2012 NCAA participants including College of
Charleston, San Diego, Coastal Carolina, East Carolina, NC State and UNC Chapel
Hill.
The Seahawks open the season with 14 their first 16 games at
Brooks Field.
In Colonial Athletic Association play, the Seahawks open at
James Madison on March 15 and host Georgia State the following week on March 22
to open the home conference slate. In a rematch of the 2012 CAA Championship,
UNCW hosts Delaware on Apr. 12-14.
Kent State and Stony Brook made magical runs to Omaha by
winning the Gary and Coral Cables Regionals, respectively. KSU then bounced
Oregon in three games in Eugene, Ore., while USB eliminated Louisiana State,
also in three games, in Baton Rouge. NC State, meanwhile, eliminated the
Seahawks in the Raleigh Regional before ending Vanderbilt's season. The
Wolfpack was then knocked out in the Gainesville Super Regional by Florida.
UNCW will also face off with Lehigh, Elon, Davidson,
Charleston Southern and VCU in non-conference games.
2012:
42-19 ... Finished 3rd at Columbia regional ... Won Big South ... Teams
split two games in 2012 ... Coastal leads series, 52-31.
2012:
36-24 ... Finished 3rd at Chapel Hill Regional ... Finished 6th in C-USA
... Teams split series in 2012, each winning on the road ... ECU leads 69-56.
2012:
43-20 ... Won Raleigh regional, lost at Florida in Super Regional ... Finished
2nd in Atlantic Division of ACC ... NCSU eliminated Seahawks in 2012 regional
... Wolfpack leads series, 61-18.
2012:
46-16 ... Finished 2nd at Chapel Hill Regional ... Won Coastal Division
of ACC ... Tar Heels won only meeting in 2012 ... UNC leads series, 52-12.
2012:
33-26 ... Finished 3rd in SoCon ... UNCW has won seven of last 10 against
Phoenix, split in 2012 ... UNCW leads series, 25-19.
2012:
17-31 ... Finished 11th in SoCon ... First meeting between teams since 1994
... UNCW leads series, 14-2.