NORFOLK, Va. – Old Dominion baseball head coach Chris Finwood announced the team’s complete schedule for the upcoming 2024 season on Tuesday. The Monarchs will play 55 games during the regular season, to include 32 games at Bud Metheny Ballpark and an April 16 game versus Virginia to be played at Harbor Park.
The upcoming season features games against six teams that appeared in the 2023 NCAA Regionals and one team that reached the College World Series.
“As always, we feel like we have a challenging schedule,” said Finwood. “Non-conference games versus Rutgers, Northeastern, Charlotte, East Carolina and Virginia as well as a very strong Sun Belt Conference schedule will give us plenty of opportunities to put together a good RPI if we can win enough of them!”
The Monarchs are coming off a 2023 season that saw the team finish 32-23 overall and 15-15 in their first year back in the Sun Belt Conference. ODU won 12 of its first 13 games and went 17-7 in non-conference play with series sweeps of Fordham, William & Mary, Saint Joseph’s, and Princeton. In conference action, the Monarchs swept ULM and added series wins over Marshall, Georgia Southern and Arkansas State. Perfect Game named Ben Moore a Second Team Freshman All-American, Hunter Fitz-Gerald earned All-Sun Belt First Team honors and was a semifinalist for the Dick Howser Trophy, and Sam Armstrong landed on the All-Conference Second Team.
ODU will start off its 2024 campaign at home against George Washington on Feb. 16-18. The Monarchs will also host non-conference series against Rutgers (Feb. 23-25), Charlotte (March 1-3), Northeastern (March 8-10) as well as a pair of midweek games against Princeton (March 12-13).
ODU also has several home-and-home series against East Carolina, William & Mary, Richmond, and VCU. The Monarchs will host the Pirates on…
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