Cullowhee, N.C. – Western Carolina baseball plays its first home weekend series of 2025 at Childress Field / Hennon Stadium as Big Ten foe Maryland provides the opposition for a three-game series opening Friday afternoon and continuing through Sunday.
Based on the winter weather forecast, the series will now open Friday at 3 p.m., with Saturday's game scheduled for a 2 p.m. start ahead of Sunday's 1 p.m. series finale. Each game is scheduled to be broadcast on ESPN+ (
paid subscription required), with links to live stats available online at CatamountSports.com.
Tickets for Catamount baseball can be purchased in person through the first-floor Athletics Ticket Office in the Ramsey Center, by phone at (828) 227-2401, or online at
CatamountSports.com/BuyTickets.
WCU (1-3) earned its first victory of the year in its midweek home opener on Tuesday night, riding a pair of three-run frames in the middle innings to grab a 9-3 lead over USC Upstate before holding the Spartans off for a 10-7 triumph. Maryland (2-1) had its midweek game against Delaware pushed a week due to weather. The Terps opened the season with a pair of wins in Charleston, S.C., at the Swig & Swine Classic, downing UAB (6-3) and Mercyhurst (19-1) with a loss to Ball State (5-3).
WCU and Maryland have met just once previously on the baseball diamond – a 3-0 win by the Terps back in 2012 in tournament action at the Keith LeClair Classic in Greenville, N.C.
Maryland marks the first Power Four conference opponent to come to Childress Field / Hennon Stadium since SEC-foe Tennessee and Wake Forest out of the ACC came to Cullowhee during the 2021 season. The Terps mark the first Big Ten opponent to visit Jackson County since the Catamounts took 2-of-3 from Purdue to open the home schedule back in 2015.
The Catamounts hold a 22-21 record all-time against baseball teams currently in the Big Ten Conference including a 2-1 record against USC when the Trojans were in the Pac-12. WCU has played 10 of the 17 teams now in the Big Ten with one other – Michigan State – on the schedule this year with a neutral field meeting at Fluor Field in Greenville, S.C., slated for March 5.
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