University of Southern Mississippi Athletics
Baseball Announces 2002 Schedule
10/19/2001 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
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Baseball Announces 2002 Schedule
Hattiesburg, Miss. - Thirty-three home dates, including contests with in-state rivals Mississippi State and Ole Miss, along with seven teams that participated in NCAA Sub-Regional Tournaments, including College World Series participants Nebraska and Tulane, along with the McNeese State Tournament, highlight the 2002 Southern Miss baseball schedule.
"We're very excited about our schedule for the 2002 season," fourth-year Southern Miss Head Baseball Coach Corky Palmer said. "We always try to play the best competition that will not only challenge our club but also prepare us for Conference USA competition. We're going to be a young club this year so we need to be ready to play.
" This year's schedule has seven opponents that were selected to participate in the NCAA Sub-Regional Tournament and two advanced as part of the eight elite teams in the College World Series. The Conference schedule will be tougher with the addition of TCU and East Carolina this year. We will travel to TCU, Charlotte, St. Louis, UAB and Tulane and have home series with Cincinnati, Houston, Louisville, Memphis and East Carolina. I also believe the McNeese State Invitational, where will face Nebraska, McNeese State and Louisiana-Monroe, will be a challenging event for our team before we open conference play.
Highlighting the Southern Miss 2001 baseball schedule will be contests with 2001 NCAA participants East Carolina, Houston, Mississippi State, Ole Miss, Nebraska, South Alabama and Tulane. East Carolina, Mississippi State, Nebraska and Tulane advanced to the Super Regionals and Nebraska and Tulane advanced to the College World Series.
The Golden Eagles open the 2002 season with four-straight home contests, three with Lipscomb and a single with South Alabama, before traveling to Lake Charles, La., to participate in the McNeese State Invitational. Then Southern Miss will play single games at New Orleans and with Ole Miss before hosting Buffalo for three games, Louisiana-Monroe for two and a three-game series with Eastern Illinois before beginning Conference USA play at TCU on March 15-17.
Once conference action has begun, non-conference contests with Alabama, two with Mississippi State, Mississippi Valley State, New Orleans, South Alabama and two with Southeastern Louisiana will be sprinkled around the conference schedule.
