Voorhees College scholar athlete and baseball player Calvin Coach III completed his studies and has successfully met the challenges presented as a Competitiveness Scholar by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. After being named to the…
BATON ROUGE, LA – Kerrick Jackson has turned in his resignation, as Southern University’s baseball Head Coach, to accept a position with Major League Baseball as the President of the MLB Draft League. “On behalf of the Jaguar Nation, I want to express…
Recent coaching changes for HBCU baseball head coaching, assistant coaching, volunteer, and graduate assistance positions that have taken place before the start of the 2021 season. Black College Nines will continue to keep you updates on the latest coaching changes…
The Voorhees College baseball team can feel uncertain about many things. What the 2021 roster will look like, when and where games will be played and how that still isn’t clear. With the start to the coming season, it’s going…
Alabama A&M University has announced the hiring of its next head baseball coach – one who arrives with plenty of coaching experience at the NCAA Division I level. Elliot Jones, a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, will take over for the…
Former Alabama State University student-athlete and Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) staff member, Milton Taylor, passed away last week. He served at the SWAC for 15 years, from December 2004 until December 2019. Taylor is a graduate of Alabama State and…
GOLD OFFENSIVE STARS: Freshman outfielder Darren Hagan, who batted .467 this fall, accounted for two of Gold’s scores, going 2 for 2 with a Walk. He tripled to deep left center field in the third inning to plate freshman outfielder Jordan Hamberg (who was…
Head coach and Miami native Florentino Burgos was hired in 2017 to lead the Florida Memorial University baseball program. In his second season, the Lions made the Sun Conference tournament and finished with a school best, 24-19 record and a…
Today’s Black College Nines (BCN) podcast series features Voorhees head baseball coach Marcus Smith. Hired on August 1, 2019, in addition to his baseball coaching duties, Marcus Smith serves as the Athletic Academic Enhancement Coordinator responsible for ensuring that all student-athletes…
There is a myth that Black youngsters are not playing baseball these days. If you look at Major League Baseball (MLB) rosters and most Historical Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), it is easy to come away with that impression. Around…
