HBCU baseball programs have started putting together fall workouts and many programs are back to playing fall exhibition games.
Fall ball consists of on field practices and a lot of intersquad scrimmages. Practices will also consist of a team weight room workout. Fall practices are a tremendous resource for the ballplayer who desires to play at the collegiate level looking for advice or tips on anything to become a better player.
Each season, college baseball teams are permitted 56 games and most of them take place in the spring. However, the NCAA and the NAIA allows teams to hold some of those games during the fall as exhibition matches. Therefore, a team could choose to have two games in the fall and 54 during the spring. Ordinarily, teams take just one game for the fall season in order to have more games that count in the long run. In order to prepare for these exhibition matches, the NCAA and NAIA allows teams to have 27 practices in September and October.
Fall ball games provide a great opportunity for teams to develop chemistry and practice before the regular season gets underway.
Mississippi Valley State head baseball coach Stanley Stubbs is already making a difference since his hiring this past July 28, as the new head coach for the baseball program. Stubbs is preparing fall field practice mentally and physically and setting habits of hard work that will allow his players to better prepare for the level of college baseball.
Scheduled fall exhibition games and dates below:
Texas Southern vs San Jacinto(TX) October 12
Tuskeege vs Auburn October 15
San Jacinto(TX) vs Prairie View A&M October 19
Daytona State vs Bethune-Cookman October 22
Eastern Fla. State College vs Bethune-Cookman October 22
Eastern Fla. State College vs Alabama State October 22
Pensacola State Junior College vs Alabama State November 5
Mississippi Delta Communitty College vs Mississippi Valley State October 15 DH
Next Level Acedemy(Puerto Rico) vs Mississippi Valley State