Feb. 9, 2007
- Updated Notre Dame 2007 Baseball Schedule (HTML, as of Feb. 9)
Notre Dame 2007 Baseball Schedule in PDF Format (as of Feb. 9)
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BIG EAST Championship Bracket in PDF Format
Notre Dame baseball fans should be apprised of several alterations to the 2007 schedule. Most notably, the March 10-12 games in Clearwater will be played at Jack Russell Stadium while the BIG EAST has announced that the site for its 2007 baseball championship will be Keyspan Ballpark in Brooklyn, N.Y. Several start times also have been adjusted and are noted later in this release (also see links for complete updated HTML and PDF versions of the 2007 schedule).
Here’s a rundown of the recent schedule adjustments:
Notre Dame will play in several highly-rated minor-league ballparks during the 2007 season, including Coastal Federal Field in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
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* The Baseball at the Beach tournament in Myrtle Beach, S.C., will feature six total D-I teams. Some games will be played on the campus of Coastal Carolina but all games involving Notre Dame are set for Coastal Federal Field, home of the Myrtle Beach Pelicans (high-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves). The Irish face three of the teams in the tournament – UNC-Wilmington, TCU and Coastal Carolina – with N.C. State and West Virginia also participating. Links to the tournament and Pelicans home pages are included above.
* The start time for the sixth game of the season – Feb. 25 vs. Coastal Carolina – has been pushed back a half-hour to 12:30 p.m.
* All games in the Clearwater (Fla.) College Invitational will be played at Jack Russell Stadium, the former spring training home of the Philadelphia Phillies. Earlier schedules indicated that the games were being played at Bright House Networks Field. A link to the tournament page is included above.
* The adjusted schedule for the Notre Dame games in Clearwater includes: 10:00 a.m. on Sat., March 10, vs. Sacred Heart; 10:00 a.m. on Sun., March 11, vs. Duquesne; and 2:15 on the 11th vs. Harvard.
* Some earlier schedules indicated the Notre Dame and Harvard also will be playing on March 12 (time TBA), but that game is only a provisional matchup and would be played only if the Irish have an earlier rainout.
* Times have been announced for the Florida Gulf Coast University Classic, with Notre Dame facing: Dayton at 6:00 p.m. on Wed., March 14; New York Tech at 1:00 p.m. on Thur., March 15; Florida Golf Coast at 7:30 p.m. on Fri., March 16; and Harvard on Sat., March 17 at 4:00 p.m. A link to the FGCU athletics homepage is included above (also a link to the homepage for Stetson, which will play host to ND, Nebraska and Iowa from March 2-4).
* As a reminder, two BIG EAST series involving Notre Dame will be played on a Thursday-Friay-Saturday format (due to the Easter holiday and the final week of the regular season): April 5-7 at Cincinnati and May 17-19 at home versus Connecticut. Two road series will feature a Saturday doubleheader and single Sunday game (Apri 28-29 at Rugers and May 12-13 at Louisville).
* All home night games from April 10 until the end of the regular season will begin at 6:05 (some earlier may have been listed at 5:05).
* Notre Dame football fans are reminded that they can see the Irish baseball team in action on the day of the Blue-Gold football intrasquad scrimmage, as Notre Dame and West Virginia will play that day (Sat., April 21) at Eck Stadium.
* The series finale versus Seton Hall on May 6 will start an hour earlier (12:05), due to SHU’s travel plans.
* Times have been set for the series at Louisville, with a noon doubleheader on May 12 and the final game at 1:00 p.m. on May 13.
* The eight-team BIG EAST Championship (PDF of bracket linked above) is set to make its debut in 2007 in Brooklyn, N.Y., at Keyspan Ballpark – home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, the single-A affiliate (N.Y.-Penn League) of the New York Mets. The Coney Island amusement park Astroland sits a few blocks from the ballpark, creating a wonderful view over the leftfield fence (especially at night, when lights on the rides are flashing). The Atlantic Ocean is visible beyond the rightfield wall and the concourse lights have multicolored shades. Parts of the concourse have angular pavilions and there is a boardwalk connecting the infield seats with the outfield seats. The stadium lights have giant neon rings around them and the scoreboard features a silloughette of the “Cyclone” rollercoaster. An old parachute ride that once was a popular attraction still stands beyond the rightfield corner. The stadium – which opened in 2001 and has a seating capacity of 8,000 – includes the Brooklyn Baseball Gallery memorabilia.
* NCAA Regional play will be three or four days (if necessary), from June 1-4. The Super-Regional round also spans four days (June 8-11), with some of those best-of-3 series starting on the 8th and some on the 9th (to accomodate TV coverage).