CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Citadel baseball team will compete in a three-game series against the Maine Black Bears from Feb. 21-23 at Joe Riley Park. The schedule for the games is as follows: Friday at 3 p.m., Saturday at 2 p.m., and Sunday at noon.
 
Game Notes (PDF)
 
Probable Pitching Matchups
Friday, Feb. 21 | Live Stats | ESPN+
Will Holmes (1-0) vs. Colin Fitzgerald (0-1)
 
Saturday, Feb. 22 | Live Stats | ESPN+
George Derrick Floyd (0-0) vs. Caleb Leys (0-0)
 
Sunday, Feb. 23 | Live Stats | ESPN+
Ben Brash (0-0) vs. Gabe Gifford (0-0)
 
Weekend Weather
Friday will be sunny, with a high of 47 degrees and a low of 32 degrees. Saturday brings mostly cloudy skies and a slight warm-up, reaching a high of 54 degrees and a low of 37 degrees. By Sunday, conditions improve with partly sunny skies and a high of 60 degrees.
 
ESPN+
The weekend series against Maine will be broadcast on ESPN+.
 
Ticket Information
Tickets for all home games are available on CitadelSports.com/tickets or by calling the box office at 843-953-DOGS. Tickets will also be available at the stadium box office one hour before the first pitch.
 
Vs. Maine
This will be the first match-up between both teams in program history.
 
Scouting Maine
The Black Bears are 0-4 to start the 2025 campaign with four straight losses to Louisiana Tech. Maine is hitting .238 with one home run and 13 RBIs.
 
Quinn Murphy led the Black Bears over the weekend with a .385 average with five hits and three RBIs.
 
The Black Bears' pitching staff bolstered a 7.11 team ERA with 25 earned runs and 20 strikeouts.
 
Bulldogs 2-2 on the Weekend
The Citadel beat UIC on Friday and Monday but lost a doubleheader matchup against Miami (OH). Russell Triplett won his first game as head coach on Friday, 9-1.
 
Have a Weekend, 18.
Junior outfielder Matthew Lively had an impressive start to his junior campaign with two home runs on Opening Day against UIC and recorded a triple with three RBIs on Monday against the Flames.
 
Six-Run Inning
On Monday, the Bulldogs scored six runs in the sixth inning against the UIC Flames, propelling The Citadel to a 10-4 win.
 
Opening Day Home Runs
Matthew Lively's Opening Day home run marks the fifth straight opening day home run the Bulldogs hit since 2021.
 
On Deck
The Citadel welcomes the Yale Bulldogs to Joe Riley Park for a three-game series from Feb. 28 to Mar. 2.