UNCG Baseball Releases 2023 Schedule
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) baseball team and head coach Billy Godwin announce a full slate of games for the 2023 season.
UNCG, the reigning 2022 Southern Conference (SoCon) Tournament Champions, will play a variety of teams this season including from seven different conferences. The Spartans will host Notre Dame and Wake Forest this year, where the Fighting Irish made it to the College World Series and the Demon Deacons appeared in their 14th NCAA Tournament.
“We again have put together an outstanding schedule that will test our players on a national and regional level,” stated coach Godwin. “Our goal is to play the best non-conference teams possible that will prepare us for competing and winning a Southern Conference Championship.”
QUICK FACTS
· 54 regular season matches: 29 home & 25 away
· Non-conference opponents’ breakdown: CAA (3), ACC (3), Big Ten (2), ASUN (1), Big XII (1), Big South (1), WCC (1)
· UNCG begins the season with seven-straight home games with opponents from the CAA and ACC.
· The Spartans open the season with Northeastern for a three-game series (Feb. 17-19) at the UNCG Baseball Stadium. The Huskies fell to Hofstra in the CAA Championship game.
· UNCG then follows that series with its first of three games versus Wake Forest on February 21. The Demon Deacons recently earned a No. 6 preseason ranking from D1Baseball.com.
· The Fighting Irish and Spartans will face off for the first time in program history with a three-game series from Feb. 24-26.
· UNCG heads east to battle in-state foe Elon for its first game away from Greensboro on Feb. 28. The Spartans will host the
Phoenix the next day on March 1.
· UNCG will host its first Big Ten opponent in Rutgers (March 3-5), before traveling to Ohio State (May 12-14). The Spartans and Scarlet Knights will play for the first time against each other, according to record books, and UNCG has only played the Buckeyes for four games prior to the three-game series in May.
· The Spartans will host their lone Big XII opponent in West Virginia for three games (March 17-19).
· SoCon play begins from March 25-26 for UNCG as it welcomes Western Carolina to Greensboro.
· To break up conference play, UNCG travels out to Provo, Utah to play BYU from April 20-22.
· Along with Wake Forest and Elon, the Spartans will also battle in-state foes Gardner-Webb, High Point, NC State, and NC A&T. The Wolfpack received a preseason ranking of No. 21 from D1Baseball.com.
· The SoCon Baseball Tournament will take place from May 24-28 in Greenville, South Carolina at Fluor Field.
Courtesy of Denise Archetto
Assistant Athletic Director For Strategic Communications
UNC Greensboro