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.