Baseball Weekend Scrimmage Schedule - Sept. 30-Oct. 1
September 27, 2011 | Baseball
Sept. 27, 2011
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - With fall workouts nearing the halfway mark, the Louisville baseball team will continue its work with a pair of open scrimmages on Friday and Saturday at Jim Patterson Stadium.
The Cardinals will open the weekend scrimmage schedule on Friday at 3 p.m., ET before concluding on Saturday at 11 a.m., leading up to U of L's home football game against Marshall (3:30 p.m., ET kickoff). Both scrimmages are open to the public and batting practice will begin approximately one hour prior to first pitch.
Louisville is in its fourth week of fall workouts in preparation for the 2012 season. The Cards will conclude the fall with the annual Pizza Bowl series, which is tentatively set to begin on Oct. 12. A complete Pizza Bowl schedule will be announced in the coming days.
About the Cardinals
Led by the return of All-BIG EAST junior right-handed pitcher Justin Amlung and talented senior righty Derek Self, the Cardinals welcome back nearly the entire pitching staff and numerous position players with starting experience from last year's squad. Overall, Louisville returns 19 letterwinners from the 2011 team, which finished 32-29 overall.
Head coach Dan McDonnell enters his sixth season leading the Louisville baseball program. In his five previous seasons, McDonnell is 217-106 with two BIG EAST regular-season titles, two BIG EAST Tournament titles, four NCAA Regionals, two NCAA Super Regionals and one College World Series.
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