FROM CBB NEWS SOURCE
GREENSBORO, N.C. – UNC Greensboro will play 54 regular season games, including 19 of its first 21 games in the friendly confines of the UNCG Baseball Stadium as head coach Mike Gaski announced the 2010 baseball schedule on Monday afternoon.
The Spartans will open the season with a weekend series at home against Cleveland State on Feb. 19-21 before traveling to Chapel Hill, N.C. to take on returning College World Series participant North Carolina on Feb. 23 in the Spartans’ first midweek contest.
UNCG returns home that weekend to face Albany in a three-game series before traveling to NC State on March 3 to face the Wolfpack in a midweek game. The Spartans then play at home for 13 straight games beginning with a three-game series against Army on March 5-7.
The Spartans host Eastern Kentucky on March 9 for a midweek game before facing Princeton in a rare Saturday-Monday weekend series on March 13-15, which kicks off UNCG playing eight games in nine days. UNCG will take on Harvard on March 17 and 18 before facing College of Charleston on March 19-21 at home in a three-game weekend series. UNCG will cap off its homestand with a midweek game at home against UNC on March 26 at 6 p.m.
A three-game road trip to Georgia Southern on March 26-28 breaks up UNCG’s homestand as they return home on March 30 for a midweek conference game against Davidson at 7 p.m. The Spartans will face Davidson in three separate midweek games this season instead of playing them in one weekend series.
UNCG will then host North Carolina A&T on March 31 in the annual game played at NewBridge Bank Park, the home to the Greensboro Grasshoppers of the South Atlantic League. The Spartans will kick off the month of April as they host Elon on April 2-4 before playing Davidson on April 7 in the second meeting of the year.
The Spartans then begin an eight-game road trip at Samford on April 9-11 before playing at Duke on Wednesday April 14 at 6 p.m. UNCG then makes the trip to Boone, N.C. to take on Appalachian State in a weekend series. The Spartans then face another ACC midweek opponent as they make the short trip to face Wake Forest on April 21.
UNCG comes home again on April 23-25 as they host Wofford for a three-game series before wrapping up its series against Davidson on April 28 at 7 p.m. The Spartans then hit the road and face Western Carolina on April 30-May 2.
The Spartans will play their final midweek games in the beginning of May as they face North Florida for two games on May 4-5. UNCG will have that weekend off before facing Wake Forest at home in the final midweek game of the season.
UNCG will travel to The Citadel on May 14-16 before hosting Furman on May 20-22 for the final games of the regular season. The Spartans will wrap up the season at the Southern Conference Championships in Charleston, S.C. on May 26-29.
