July 15, 2005

Tallahassee, FL - Florida State University announced its 2006 baseball schedule Friday and it features eight teams who played in the 2005 NCAA Baseball Tournament this past season. The Seminoles will face off with NC State, UNC, Auburn and Winthrop who all played in a regional this year. They will also take on Super Regional teams in Miami, Clemson and Georgia Tech on top of National Championship Runner-Up Florida. The schedule also features the first-ever meeting with Division II National Champion Runner-Up North Florida.

For the first time since 1999 the Seminoles will not be making a trip out West in 2006. The last six years FSU teams have made two trips to Stanford, CA, Tempe, AZ and Hawai'i. This season the Seminoles will not play a single game west of the Mississippi River. After traveling over 4,500 to get to Hawai'i last season, the Seminoles longest road trip this year will be a 1,100 mile jaunt to Chestnut Hill. The longest out-of-conference trip will be just 165 miles to Auburn, AL.

The 2006 out of conference slate sees the Seminoles opening the season at home February 3 versus Charleston Southern followed by an early season test at Auburn the following weekend. FSU then returns home for a 14-game home stand versus UNC-Asheville, Big 10 Tournament Runner-Up Minnesota, Ivy League Runner-Up Brown University, a single game with Mercer and concluding with the first ACC series of the year against Maryland. The home stand concludes with a single game against a Winthrop squad that went 44-21 last season and played in the NCAA Tournament.

Minnesota, Brown and Mercer are all coming off one of their best seasons in recent history. The Golden Gophers were a win away from securing an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament. Brown finished with the second-best Ivy League record in 2005 and it will be the first meeting between the schools since 1971. Mercer had its best campaign since 1999 last season and they will come to Tallahassee with former Seminole standout shortstop Link Jarrett in their dugout. It will be Jarrett's first trip to Dick Howser Stadium since he was an assistant coach with FSU in 2003. FSU's mid-week game with Winthrop will be the first meeting between the schools in over a decade. The Eagles posted a respectable 5-5 record versus ACC schools in 2005.

Florida State hits the road for its first series at Virginia Tech since 1990 before returning home for five more games. The first is one of four mid-week games with Jacksonville University. FSU then hosts Duke before its first ever game against newly minted Division I UNF. The Osprey finished their 2005 campaign in the Division II National Championship game and with a No. 2 national ranking.

The Seminoles head back on the road the next weekend as they travel to Chapel Hill to face the Tar Heels. Florida State went 4-0 against UNC in 2005 and will carry a five-game winning streak into Boshamer Stadium. After the second JU game of the season, Florida State will make its first trip ever to Boston College. It will not only be the first ACC meeting between the schools but the first-ever games played between the teams. FSU then continues its set with JU before welcoming the Hurricanes to Mike Martin Field at Dick Howser Stadium.

The series with UM signifies the start of a 12-game home stand that features seven games against teams that played in Super Regionals and the College World Series. After facing Miami April 14-16, national runner-up Florida comes to town for the first of just two meetings this season. That game will be followed by Georgia Tech's return to Tallahassee. The last time the Jackets visited FSU they became the first ACC team to ever sweep the Seminoles at home. Savannah State comes in the following weekend for the final non-conference weekend series of the year. FSU will then conclude its series with the Dolphins.

Florida State will embark on its longest road stretch of the season next as they play their next seven games away from home. The trek begins in Winston-Salem, NC for a series with the Demon Deacons. The Seminoles will then play four straight on the road versus teams that advanced to at least the Super Regional in 2005. FSU will head to South Carolina for three versus the Tigers and complete their home-and-home series with Florida in Gainesville. The Seminoles will then return home to wrap-up the regular season versus NC State. This will be the second straight year FSU and NC State complete the regular season against one another.

The ACC Tournament is slated for May 23-28 and once again will be played at the Baseball Grounds in Jacksonville, FL. NCAA Regionals begin June 2 with Super Regionals beginning as early as June 9. The College World Series kicks off a week later starting June 16.

 

FRI	FEB 3	CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	4:00
SAT	FEB 4	CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
SUN	FEB 5	CHARLESTON SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
FRI	FEB 10	AUBURN UNIVERSITY	AUBURN, AL
SAT	FEB 11	AUBURN UNIVERSITY	AUBURN, AL
SUN	FEB 12	AUBURN UNIVERSITY	AUBURN, AL
FRI	FEB 17	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-ASHEVILLE	TALLAHASSEE	5:00
SAT	FEB 18	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-ASHEVILLE	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
SUN	FEB 19	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-ASHEVILLE	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
FRI	FEB 24	UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA	TALLAHASSEE	6:00
SAT	FEB 25	UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
SUN	FEB 26	UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
FRI	MAR 3	BROWN UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	6:00
SAT	MAR 4	BROWN UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
SUN	MAR 5	BROWN UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
TUE	MAR 7	MERCER UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	6:00
FRI	MAR 10	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND	TALLAHASSEE	6:00
SAT	MAR 11	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND	TALLAHASSEE	6:00
SUN	MAR 12	UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
TUE	MAR 14	WINTHROP UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	6:00
FRI	MAR 17	VIRGINIA TECH	BLACKSBURG, VA
SAT	MAR 18	VIRGINIA TECH	BLACKSBURG, VA
SUN	MAR 19	VIRGINIA TECH	BLACKSBURG, VA
TUE	MAR 21	JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	6:00
FRI	MAR 24	DUKE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	6:00
SAT	MAR 25	DUKE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	6:00
SUN	MAR 26	DUKE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
TUE	MAR 28	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA	TALLAHASSEE
FRI	MAR 31	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA	CHAPEL HILL, NC
SAT	APR 1	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA	CHAPEL HILL, NC
SUN	APR 2	UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA	CHAPEL HILL, NC	1:00
TUE	APR 4	JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY	JACKSONVILLE
FRI	APR 7	BOSTON COLLEGE	BOSTON, MA
SAT	APR 8	BOSTON COLLEGE	BOSTON, MA
SUN	APR 9	BOSTON COLLEGE	BOSTON, MA
TUE	APR 11	JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE
FRI	APR 14	UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI	TALLAHASSEE	7:00
SAT	APR 15	UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI	TALLAHASSEE	7:00
SUN	APR 16	UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
WED	APR 19	UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA	TALLAHASSEE	7:00
FRI	APR 21	GEORGIA TECH	TALLAHASSEE	7:00
SAT	APR 22	GEORGIA TECH	TALLAHASSEE	7:00
SUN	APR 23	GEORGIA TECH	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
FRI	APR 28	SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	7:00
SAT	APR 29	SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	7:00
SUN	APR 30	SAVANNAH STATE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	1:00
TUE	MAY 2	JACKSONVILLE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	6:00
FRI	MAY 5	WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY	WINSTON-SALEM, NC	1:30
SAT	MAY 6	WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY	WINSTON-SALEM, NC	1:30
SUN	MAY 7	WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY	WINSTON-SALEM, NC	1:30
TUE	MAY 9	UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA	GAINESVILLE, FL	6:30
FRI	MAY 12	CLEMSON UNIVERSITY	CLEMSON, SC	7:00
SAT	MAY 13	CLEMSON UNIVERSITY	CLEMSON, SC	7:00
SUN	MAY 14	CLEMSON UNIVERSITY	CLEMSON, SC	1:00
THR	MAY 18	NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	7:00
FRI	MAY 19	NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	7:00
SAT	MAY 20	NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY	TALLAHASSEE	7:00
TUE-SUN	MAY 23-28	ATLANTIC COAST CONFERENCE TOURNAMENT	JACKSONVILLE, FL	TBA
FRI-SUN	JUNE 2-4	NCAA REGIONAL	TBA	TBA
FRI-SUN	JUNE 8-12	NCAA SUPER-REGIONAL	TBA	TBA
FRI--MON	JUN  16-27	COLLEGE WORLD SERIES	OMAHA, NEB	TBA