MILWAUKEE – Trips to Florida, Mississippi, Arizona and Utah as well as 21 home games in a new ballpark mark some of the highlights of the 2019 schedule for the Milwaukee baseball team, head coach Scott Doffek announced today.
“We are looking forward to an exciting season,” Doffek said. “Not only are we heading to some places we haven’t been to before, or haven’t been in a while, but the opportunity to get to move into Routine Field at Ballpark Commons is something that has been on everyone’s minds for some time. We will get to play some well-known, tough opponents early and the schedule includes first-ever games against teams like Arizona, Purdue, Pittsburgh, Villanova and BYU. We feel this schedule will bring our team some real challenges to get ready for Horizon League play.”
For the third year in a row, the Panthers will take on a handful of the Big Ten – this time playing against Purdue, Northwestern, Minnesota, and Iowa over the course of the 2019 campaign.
March 29 is also circled on the calendar, the date the Panthers get to play their first game at Routine Field, their new home park in Franklin.
Milwaukee gets back to work with the season opener in mid-February. The Panthers are set to take part in the Diamond 9 Sunshine State Classic, playing three times on the opening weekend in Florida.
The opener is set for February 15, taking on Marshall for the first time in program history in a contest set to start at 5:30 p.m. CST. While in Kissimmee, MKE will also battle Villanova and Pittsburgh.
Early-season trips while Wisconsin is still in the middle of winter include a trek to Mississippi to take on Jackson State the last weekend in February.
March opens with a three-game set in Tucson, Ariz., taking on Arizona for the first time. Then, the next weekend, it is off to Utah for a four-game set at BYU. Just after that, the Panthers make a midweek stop at Purdue March 12 – their first-ever matchup with the Boilermakers.
Horizon League play then opens with a trip to Ohio for a set at Wright State March 15-17, taking on a Raiders squad that won 39 games last year and played in the NCAA Tournament. The next weekend will be in Kentucky, making a weekend stop at Northern Kentucky.
The last of 22 scheduled road games to open the campaign takes Milwaukee to Illinois State March 26.
The first of 21 scheduled home games is set for the last weekend of March, as the Panthers are slated to welcome UIC in the home opener March 29.
It will be an exciting day for the program, getting set to call the new 4,000-seat facility home following a long run of success at Henry Aaron Field.
In addition to the full conference slate, the Panthers will play a home-and-home with Northern Illinois (April 3 on road/May 14 at home), as well as a seven other midweek games: home contests against Lakeland (April 2), Northwestern (April 9), Valparaiso (April 10), Edgewood (April 16) and Parkside (May 7), as well as road affairs at Iowa (April 23) and Minnesota (May 1).
2019 MILWAUKEE BASEBALL SCHEDULE
