ANGOLA, Ind.-- The Trine baseball team has released its 2016 schedule, the team announced Tuesday.
The Thunder open the season with the traditional trip to Florida for the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational. A doubleheader against Mount St. Joseph gets the year underway. Trine will also play doubleheaders against Wittenberg and Ursinus as part of the invitational, as well as single games against Muskingum and UMASS-Boston. Ursinus and UMASS-Boston each finished with a winning record last year.
After returning north, the Thunder will face Ohio Northern before opening the conference season. The nonconference schedule also includes a home, midweek game against Heidelberg. Both the Polar Bears and Student Princes should provide tough tests after finishing last season with over 30 wins apiece.
The conference schedule includes home and away doubleheaders against every conference foe. The MIAA will follow a new format of playing one seven-inning and one nine-inning game in doubleheaders this season, scrapping the old format of playing two seven-inning contests.
Trine will be looking to break back in the MIAA playoffs after finishing two games out of a playoff berth last year. The Thunder concluded the season 18-22 overall, 13-15 in the MIAA. Trine produced three all-conference performers last spring.
Left-handed pitcher Andy Farrell (Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio/St. Vincent St. Mary) is the lone returning All-MIAA performer for the Thunder. Farrell is expected to anchor the pitching staff, while six returning position players will anchor the team's lineup.
The complete schedule is listed below. Game times for the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational have yet to be finalized and will be announced at a later date.
Date | Opponent | Time |
Mar. 6-11: RussMatt Central Florida Invitational | ||
Mar. 6 | Mount St. Joseph (DH) | TBA |
Mar. 7 | Muskingum | TBA |
Mar. 8 | Wittenberg (DH) | TBA |
Mar. 10 | UMASS-Boston | TBA |
Mar. 11 | Ursinus (DH) | TBA |
Mar. 19 | Ohio Northern (DH) | 1 p.m. |
Mar. 25 | Calvin* (DH) | 2 p.m. |
Mar. 26 | CALVIN* (DH) | 1 p.m. |
Apr. 2 | OLIVET* (DH) | 1 p.m. |
Apr. 3 | Olivet* (DH) | 1 p.m. |
Apr. 5 | HEIDELBERG | 4 p.m. |
Apr. 9 | ALMA* (DH) | 1 p.m. |
Apr. 10 | Alma* (DH) | 1 p.m. |
Apr. 16 | Kalamazoo* (DH) | 1 p.m. |
Apr. 17 | KALAMAZOO* (DH) | 1 p.m. |
Apr. 22 | Hope* | 2 p.m. |
Apr. 23 | HOPE* | 1 p.m. |
Apr. 29 | Adrian* | 2 p.m. |
Apr. 30 | ADRIAN* | 1 p.m. |
May 5 | ALBION* | 2 p.m. |
May 6 | Albion* | 1 p.m. |
(DH)- denotes doubleheader
ALL CAPS denotes HOME event
* - denotes MIAA event
All game times EST