Baseball program plays defending MEAC Champions on national
television
Brian Harvey
April 2, 2007
GREENSBORO, -- The North Carolina A&T baseball program will be
face of the N.C. A&T Athletics Department over the next six days as it
plays five games in that stretch, including two high-profile games.
On Tuesday at 6 p.m., the Aggies face cross-town rival UNC-Greensboro
downtown Greensboro at First Horizon Park, home of the Class A
Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball team. It will mark the second
consecutive season the two Greensboro Division I schools have competed
against one another at the two-year old state-of-the-art facility that
holds more than 7,000 fans.
The next day head coach Keith Shumate and his Aggies team travels to
Buies Creek, N.C., to face Campbell at 7 p.m., before starting what will
be a crucial three-game series against Bethune-Cookman, the defending
MEAC Champions.
The Aggies play at 1 p.m., doubleheader against the Wildcats at War
Memorial Stadium. The third game of the series will mark the Aggies
second high-profile game of the week. N.C. A&T will play on national
television for the second consecutive season as ESPNU comes to town. The
televised game with the Wildcats will start at 1 p.m., Sunday.
The Aggies are 9-17 overall and 3-3 in the MEAC. They possess two of the
best players in the country in Charlie Gamble and Jeremy Jones. Gamble
was a preseason candidate for national player of the year by the Brooks
Wallace Watch organization. He is also a candidate for player of the
year by CSTV.
Jones was a 25th-ruond draft pick by the Colorado Rockies in June before
deciding to return to school for his redshirt junior season.
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