CMU baseball looks forward to start of MAC play
Baseball season starts to change gears as the month of March nears its end, but this week it seems the team will be stuck in the snow.
The CMU baseball team's game scheduled game for today against Bowling Green has been postponed to April 26 because of winter weather conditions. The Chippewas are going to take advantage of their day off and try to continue to get better.
“We will stay sharp and we just have to be ready for Friday,” said head coach Steve Jaksa. “We will work on what we need to work on and practice Wednesday and Thursday and then we will play this weekend.”
Conference play starts this weekend for CMU with a three-game series against Miami, assuming the weather will allow the teams to do so.
Today’s game against BGSU was going to be a staff day, meaning multiple pitchers would throw as a tune-up game for the weekend series.
Though the Falcons are in the Mid-American Conference, this would not have been a conference game. Each MAC baseball season a team will play every team in their own division and then play all but two teams in the opposite division.
This season is the end of a four-year cycle in which the Chippewas do not play BGSU in conference, but play them out of conference.
Junior starting pitcher Trent Howard said the team will continue to work on their off-day.
“I am just going to try and go out and get some work in,” Howard said. “It is always hard to duplicate what you do in a game in a bullpen session.”
With the game postponed, CMU will have an extra day to prepare for Miami. The Chippewas have struggled a bit to start the season, going 9-12 in non-conference play, but Howard said the team feels they have shown some great signs of what is to come later this season.
“We are all very excited for conference play,” Howard said. “We feel we have shown some good signs and we know we just have to put it all together at the right time.”
Junior leadoff hitter Tyler Hall currently leads CMU with a .360 batting average. Hall’s 27 hits and four triples also lead the team and he is a perfect 6-6 on stolen base attempts.
CMU won two out of three games against the RedHawks last season in Oxford, Ohio.
