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GW Baseball Announces 56-Game 2008 Schedule

Colonials Begin Season Feb. 22-24 at USC Upstate Tournament

Dec. 11, 2007

WASHINGTON, DC - George Washington University baseball's head coach Steve Mrowka has released the program's schedule for the 2008 season, which features 26 home games, including three-game series against Yale and Oakland and Atlantic 10 Conference rivals Saint Joseph's, Massachusetts, Dayton and Temple, as well as nine games against teams who finished in the top-half of the final 2007 NCAA RPI ratings.

GW will open their season at the USC Upstate Tournament in Spartansburg, SC, where they will face Tennessee-Martin, New Jersey Tech and the host-school Spartans. The Colonials begin their home schedule a week later, when they host Yale for three games at Barcroft Park. It will mark their first meeting against the Bulldogs since 1972, when they split a pair of games.

An early-season highlight for the Colonials will be a trip to Charlottesville, VA, where they will face Virginia (RPI: 13), a team that finished No. 12 in the 2007 Baseball America College Top 25. Other out-of-conference contests include home-and-home, two-game series with George Mason, William & Mary (RPI: 115), James Madison, Georgetown, Mount St. Mary's, Towson, MD-Baltimore County and MD-Eastern Shore.

A three-game set against Saint Joseph's (Mar. 21-22) will signal the start of A-10 Conference play for the Colonials. Their remaining league schedule will have them playing at Richmond (RPI: 114), A-10 Championship Runner-Up Fordham (RPI: 138), Saint Louis, La Salle and Xavier, with home series against Massachusetts, Dayton and Temple. Three of those nine conference opponents - Richmond, Fordham and Xavier - advanced to the A-10 postseason last year and combined to finish the regular season with a record of 54-27 in league play.

George Washington was 23-31-1 overall in 2007 and 14-13 in the A-10, finishing just one spot out of the conference tournament, despite ending the year with a season-best six-game winning streak. It was their 14th straight season with at least 20 wins.

 

 

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