Black College Nines continues its annual overview of HBCU baseball filing this pre-season report on NCAA Division II and III teams and well as those in the NAIA and the United States Collegiate Athletic Association. Benedict College 2017 Record: 25-16…
Black College Nines continues its annual overview of HBCU baseball filing this pre-season report on 19 NCAA Division I teams Alabama A&M University 2017 Record: 12-45 .211 Conference: SWAC BCN 2017 HBCU Baseball Final Poll: Unranked The Bulldogs return key…
Black College Nines caught up with Florida Memorial University Head Baseball Coach Florentino Burgos during the Lions scheduled double header against Broward College. The Miami, Florida native is widely known and respected in the baseball community. His energy and enthusiasm…
Edward Waters College opened its baseball season scattering nine hits helping to account for eight runs in defeating Brewton Parker College 8-4 Friday afternoon at James P. Small Memorial Park in Jacksonville, Florida. EWC scored two runs in the first…
This weekend, HBCU baseball returns for a number of programs. Surprised? Is it too early? No, it’s not too early for us at Black College Nines. Not too early for HBCU baseball fans. And especially, not too early for those ballplayers…
The 2018 HBCU baseball season opened up on Saturday with the Florida Memorial University Fighting Lions hosting Taylor University (of Indiana) in Miami Gardens, Florida. The visiting Trojans took the first game of the double header by the score of…
It was made official Thursday evening by Bethune-Cookman University Vice President for Intercollegiate Athletics Lynn W. Thompson that Barrett Shaft will serve as Acting Head Coach for Bethune-Cookman Baseball for the 2018 campaign. His role in the Acting Head Coach…
The HBCU Baseball Community was shocked when the circumstances behind head coach Jason Beverlin departure from Bethune Cookman was announced. This comes at the time when the baseball program return its entire roster for the 2018 season being the only…
After spending just over six years at the helm of the Bethune-Cookman Baseball program, Jason Beverlin has decided to step down as head coach of the Wildcats program in Daytona Beach. An acting head coach for the program will be…
Steve Williams, President of Professional Scouting for the Pittsburgh Pirates Baseball Club, was all smiles on a recent chilly Saturday morning. What brought a smile to his face was the sight of 100 young, mostly black, men on the baseball…
