Baseball game at Michigan State postponed; Jaksa confident home series vs. Bowling Green will be played


Weather and field conditions might have kept the baseball team from its Wednesday game, but coaches are confident the weekend series will go on.

CMU was scheduled to play in East Lansing against Michigan State on Wednesday afternoon, but that game has been postponed.

“It’s just like our field,” head coach Steve Jaksa said. “Our field would be very difficult to play on (Wednesday) because of the frost in the ground that isn’t out of the ground yet, therefore it’s really watered down.”

The game against MSU will be made up on April 2 before the Chippewas head to the University of Michigan for a game on April 3.

This weekend, Bowling Green will be coming to Mount Pleasant to play CMU in a three-game series beginning on Friday.

Jaksa said the field at Theunissen Stadium is wet as it thaws now, but he’s prepared to do whatever it takes to make sure the series takes place as scheduled.

“We’ll figure it out,” Jaksa said. “We will play.”

Jaksa said he was disappointed the game against MSU was postponed because it would have been helpful to play.

Instead, Jaksa said, the team will just have to turn its focus to getting ready to play the Falcons.

As of Tuesday, Jaksa was not ready to commit to the pitching lineup as he waited to watch senior Pat Kaminska throw in the bullpen.

“We’re pretty sure that he’ll be back in the rotation, and all reports are looking good,” Jaksa said. “We just hadn’t seen him throw because (Monday) was our day off.”

Bowling Green sits with a 4-15 overall record, while CMU is 10-12.

The Chippewas are coming off a 1-2 three-game series against Buffalo, while the Falcons were swept last weekend by Western Michigan.

Jaksa said his team is not going to let its guard down because of BGSU’s record.

“Their record is usually not an indication of how they’re going to play, because they’re going to try to come up here and get back on track at our expense,” Jaksa said. “So we just have to take care of our own business and make sure we get ourselves in a good hitting approach.”

Friday’s game to start the series will begin at 3:05 p.m.

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