2016 Baseball Schedule
JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Saint Peter's baseball head coach T.J. Baxter has announced his 2016 schedule. The 51-game schedule is highlighted by 16 home games.
While the Peacocks will have 16 games at Jaroschak Field in 2016, the squad starts the year with 17-straight games on the road during the months of February and March. Saint Peter's begins the season at the University of Richmond on Feb. 26 where the Peacocks will play UMES (Feb. 26 and Feb. 27) and Richmond (Feb. 27 and Feb. 28) in a three-day span.
"With our first 17 games are on the road, our guys are mentality prepared to play the first month away from Jaroshak field," said Baxter. "Our schedule is very competitive before the first conference matchup of the year at Canisius. We are slated to play three Top-35 teams before conference begins with Wake Forest, St Joseph's and Richmond."
The squad then heads down to Wake Forest for three-games, starting with the Demon Deacons on Mar. 3 where Baxter will face his former team for the first time as a head coach after serving as an assistant coach for Wake Forest from 2012-13. Saint Peter's will then face Richmond for the third time in six days only this time in Winston-Salem on Mar. 4 before battling Harvard on Mar. 5 to conclude the three-day stretch at Wake Forest.
The Peacocks return to the New York-New Jersey area when it travels to Stony Brook on Mar. 11 and Fordham on Mar. 12 before heading down to Pennsylvania for four games.
The squad heads to Villanova on Mar. 13 and Mar. 18 with the second game the start of the Big Five Baseball Bash, an event Saint Peter's will play in for the second-straight season. After the game against the Wildcats on Mar. 18, the Peacocks face La Salle on Mar. 19 and Saint Joseph's on Mar. 20.
A game at Seton Hall will be the final tuneup for the Jersey City team before starting conference play with a three-game series at Canisius on Mar. 26-27. Saint Peter's starts the league slate in Buffalo for the second time in three years.
The Peacocks will make its 2016 Jaroschak Field debut on Mar. 29 against NJIT in the first of three games against the Highlanders. Starting with the game on Mar. 29, the Jersey City team will play eight of its next 10 games at home. After a game at Lehigh on Mar. 30, Niagara comes to town for a three-game set on Apr. 2-3.
"We have some favorable matchups at Jaroshak Field against conference opponents," said the second-year head coach. "Our non-conference schedule is one of the better schedules in the Northeast playing rivals Rutgers and Seton Hall. Three of our last four conference opponents will be played on the road which will be a test for my team."
Midweek games at NJIT on Apr. 5 and a home tilt against Hofstra on Apr. 6 will prepare Saint Peter's for its three-game series with Monmouth on Apr. 9-10.
After the homestand against Monmouth, the Peacocks hit the road for five games in the state of New York. The road trip will not start that far away from Jersey City with a game at Wagner on Apr. 12 before heading to Albany for a three-game series on Apr. 16-17 and then concluding this stretch at St. John's on Apr. 19.
Fairfield comes to town for a three-game set on Apr. 23-24. The squad travels to NJIT to complete its three-game series on Apr. 26 before Seton Hall completes a home-and-home series on Apr. 27.
Saint Peter's then embarks a stretch where the squad will play the next seven of the next eight games on the road, starting with a pair of league three-game series at Marist on Apr. 30-May 1.
After a trip to Rutgers on May 3, the squad hosts Lehigh on May 4 and then hits the road at Siena on May 7-8.
The Peacocks return home for its final series at Jaroschak Field against Manhattan on May 14-15 before concluding the regular season at Rider on May 21-22. Both the Jaspers and Broncs return to the schedule after being the two teams Saint Peter's did not play in 2015. The squad will not play Iona and Qunnipiac in 2016.
The Top-6 teams in the league advance to the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championships on May 25-29 at the Dutchess Stadium in Fishkill, N.Y.
