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Top Stories Four Straight C-USA Series Wins  – We are halfway through the 8 weekend Conference USA schedule and the 49ers are 14-2 in conference with 4 consecutive series wins. The 49ers only 2 losses have come in extra innings and they have identical 7-1 records at home and on the road in conference. AlongContinue reading “Niner Nuggets- Week 9”

Top Stories Sweeping the Sunshine State – For the second consecutive weekend the Niners earned a conference sweep over a team from Florida. This time is was 4 victories over FIU in Miami. As a result, the guys are sitting atop C-USA at 11-1, 22-9 overall.

Top Stories How SWEEP it Is!! — The Niners completed a 4 -game sweep over FAU at the Hayes this past weekend. It was a very exciting series that went back and forth, and the Niners coming away with four straight wins. Three of the wins were 1-run games and the two Saturday games bothContinue reading “Niner Nuggets- Week 7”

With conference play about to begin, we compared a sampling of metrics year-over-year between last year’s team and the current squad. Here are the numbers and a few observations below:

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It was an up and down week for the Niners as they went 1-3 on the week. After a dominating 9-0 victory over 14th ranked Tennessee on Tuesday, Charlotte dropped three highly contested games at #13 East Carolina over the weekend. The Niners now sit at 8-6 after 4 weeks of the 2021 baseball seasonContinue reading “Niner Nuggets: Week 4”

The Niners went 1-3 on the week dropping a back and forth mid-week match-up at UNCG, and then taking one of 3 games this weekend against Western Carolina.

The Niners stayed hot by sweeping the William & Mary Tribe over the weekend by a combined score of 31-5. No need to adjust your computer monitors, folks. This is not a post about the 1998 team, this is 2021. The schedule gets incrementally tougher over the next few weeks, but so far it’s hardContinue reading “Niner Nuggets: Week 2”

We are going to try a little something new this year to make more use of this blog. Every week we will provide you a wrap of the week and a few nuggets about the team. We will also track Conference USA and how our non-conference opponents are doing.

In the third piece of our 2021 Charlotte Baseball season preview, we will discuss the pitching staff.  Before we get into talking about the pitchers on this 49er staff, it is important to note that there was a change to Charlotte Coaching staff over the offseason.  In November, Coach John Stott took a position withContinue reading “2021 Roster Breakdown: Pitching Staff”