Defending GCAC Regular Season Champion Baseball Team Releases 2024 Schedule
HOLLY SPRINGS, Miss. – The Rust College baseball program is ready to finish what they started in 2023 after winning the GCAC Regular Season Championship with their eyes set on a tournament title as well, including a challenging 18-game home slate to take place on Bearcat Field.
Head Coach John Bates and the Bearcats open the year in Lawrenceville, Georgia with a pair of NAIA Tournament squads from a year ago as it will battle (RV) Midway (Kentucky) as well as World Series participant and #2 ranked Georgia Gwinnett on the weekend of February 2-3.
The Blue and White will then head in the opposite direction to Dallas for its annual trip to the Mountain View Tournament where it will take on Huston-Tillotson once and Jarvis Christian twice between February 8-10.
Next, RC will head to Tuskegee for a doubleheader matchup on February 13 before making its home debut as part of the Bo Sellers Classic when they welcome Arkansas Baptist, UHSP, and Harris-Stowe to Holly Springs.
Back on the bus go the Bearcats ten-game road swing which will take them to Blue Mountain Christian (February 20 doubleheader), its conference opener at Talladega (February 24-25), Lane (February 27), Southeastern Baptist (March 2 doubleheader), and Jackson State (March 5 doubleheader).
The road warriors will then not need to leave campus for approximately two weeks as LeMoyne-Owen comes to town for one on March 6, followed by Oakwood from March 10-11, a return trip by BMCU for a March 12 doubleheader, and concluding with future conference rival Stillman on March 19 for a pair.
Deep into the heart of Texas go Rust College for a Lone Star Showdown with Wiley University (March 23-24) then to the capital of Arkansas for a series at Philander Smith (March 29-30) with a single home date against Christian Brothers (March 26) sandwiched in the middle.
A quick trip up to Memphis awaits on April 3 to tussle with the Magicians of LOC before the much-anticipated GCAC Championship Game rematch looms between Dillard and Rust inside the friendly confines of Bearcat Field during the weekend of April 6-7.
The Bearcats will finish its home-and-home with CBU on April 9 and Stillman on April 16, ending its Gulf Coast Conference road series' in Smith-Wils opposite the Tougaloo Bulldogs (April 13-14).
Senior weekend for the 2024 campaign will be the regular season finale as it hosts another newcomer to the baseball scene; the SUNO Knights; on April 20 and 21
Finally, the Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Tournament will take place at some point in late April or early May back in the venerable Smith-Wils, located in Jackson, Mississippi.
To view the 2024 baseball schedule in its entirety, click here.