TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (bamastatesports.com) – The Alabama State baseball team saw its historic championship season come to an end with a 6-3 loss to South Alabama in an NCAA Tournament elimination game Saturday in the Tallahassee Regional. The Hornets, who won their first SWAC Championship in legendary fashion in going unbeaten in 28 games against conference opponents in setting a school…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Dylan Busby had three hits and matched a career high with five runs batted in as Florida State rolled to a 18-6 win over Alabama State on Friday in the opening round of the NCAA Tournament’s Tallahassee Regional. Quincy Nieporte and Taylor Walls also had three hits and two RBIs as the Seminoles (38-20) scored seven…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (bamastatesports.com) – The wait is over. The 2016 SWAC Champion Alabama State baseball team will play its inaugural game in the NCAA Division I baseball tournament Friday just after 5 p.m. CT against host team Florida State at Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium. Fans can listen to a live radio broadcast online at bamastatesports.com/showcase, beginning with…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (bamastatesports.com) – While the 2016 Alabama State University baseball team is making history as the first Hornet team to ever win the Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball Tournament and earn the automatic invitation to the NCAA Regionals, they’re not the first ASU baseball team to play in an NCAA tournament. That distinction belongs to the head coach Herbert Wheeler’s…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (bamastatesports.com) – The 2016 SWAC Champion Alabama State baseball team has been named HBCU National Champions for the second straight year. The Hornets, who won the first SWAC championship in program history this past Sunday, were again named HBCU National Champions by the blackcollegenines.com website in the large school division. Alabama State was the top ranked team in…
NEW ORLEANS, La. (bamastatesports.com) – The Alabama State University baseball team under head coach Mervyl Melendez completed an unprecedented run by winning the Southwestern Athletic Conference Championship (SWAC) in New Orleans with a 7-5 win over defending champion Texas Southern. This is the ASU baseball team’s first-ever SWAC championship title. Tournament MVP Dillon Cooper capped off a ‘week to remember’…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (bamastatesports.com) – For the second time in three weeks, Alabama State outfielder Dillon Cooper was named Southwestern Athletic Conference Player of the Week. Cooper (6-0, 220, Sr., Palm Bay, Fla.) hit .462 last week, scoring three runs with two doubles, one home run (a grand slam), and six RBI. He also walked four times and was hit by pitch…
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (bamastatesports.com) – The Alabama State baseball team lost a pitchers’ duel to Troy 3-1 Wednesday night at the Wheeler-Watkins Baseball Complex. The Hornets (31-15) scored in the fourth inning on a bases loaded hit-by-pitch to Dillon Cooper, scoring Yamil Pagan who doubled to lead off the inning. However, Alabama State failed to capitalize on the bases-loaded, none out…
LORMAN, Miss. (bamastatesports.com)– The red-hot Alabama State baseball team completes its Southwestern Athletic Conference road schedule in a three-game series beginning Friday at Alcorn State. Game times for the series are 6 p.m. Friday, 3 p.m. Saturday, and 1 p.m. Sunday, with a live radio broadcast of every game on bamastatesports.com. It’s the second series meeting between the Hornets and…
MONTGOMERY, Ala (bamastatesports.com) – Brandon Caples hurled seven strong innings, and Hunter Allen homered for the third straight game as Alabama State defeated Jacksonville State 4-1 Tuesday at the Wheeler-Watkins Baseball Complex. Caples (2-0) kept the Jacksonville State scoreless until the seventh, allowing four hits, one run, walking one and striking out five as Alabama State (27-14) defeated the Gamecocks…
