Baseball packs bags for break
The Panthers will travel to Charleston for spring break.
No, they won’t be staying at Eastern.
The baseball team is headed to Charleston, S.C., to play three different schools in the second largest city in South Carolina.
Before heading to the East Coast, the team starts off its annual spring break trip with a three-game set against Belmont in Nashville, Tenn.
The Bruins are 8-2 this season and will face the Panthers on three consecutive days, starting on Friday at 3 p.m. The last time Eastern played Belmont was in 2001, when the Panthers swept a doubleheader, 13-7 and 9-1.
The Panthers will travel more than 550 miles to Charleston, S.C. to play one game against both Charleston Southern and College of Charleston. Eastern closes out the spring break trip with a three game series against The Citadel from March 16-18.
The road trip will get the Panthers some additional field experience after poor weather at Eastern has kept the team’s practices indoor or on the artificial surface of the football field.
Senior third baseman Ryan Campbell has chance to hit more doubles than any other player in school history during the weeklong road trip.
Campbell needs only five more to tie current Eastern hitting coach Sean Lyons with 56 career doubles.
After spring break Eastern will host its first home game of the season, against Chicago State on March 21 and then will host Tennessee Tech on March 24 and 25 for the Panthers’ first games against Ohio Valley Conference competition.
Baseball packs bags for break
Senior pitcher Drew Gierch pratcies his delivery as junior pithcer Tyler Brandon watches on at baseball practice on Wednesday afternoon at O’Brien stadium. (Amir Prellberg/The Daily Eastern News)
