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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”

This roster breakdown will be a tad more complicated than they have been in the past. There are several reasons for that. First, due to the circumstances surrounding the 2020 season, the NCAA lifted the 35-man roster cap for the 2021 season. As a result, the current roster sports 44 players, including 6 returning seniors.Continue reading “2021 Roster Breakdown: Position Players”

The last time we saw the 49ers Baseball team on the field, Colby Bruce was throwing a 1-2-3 9th inning and Charlotte was celebrating a 9-8 victory over 9th ranked NC State at Doak Field in Raleigh.  That was March 10, 2020. The world changed in the following days and the remaining 2020 College BaseballContinue reading “First Look at the 2021 Charlotte Baseball Schedule”