Voorhees College senior Calvin Coach III has been named a 2020 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Competitiveness Scholar by the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. The HBCU Competitiveness Scholars is the initiative’s highest student recognition…
Because of the COVID-19 world health crisis that abruptly ended the 2020 collegiate baseball season this past March, Major League Baseball held its shortest June draft in its history with just five rounds. Since then, two HBCU draft-eligible players…
SAN FRANCISCO – North Carolina Central University baseball senior Carter Williams (Brown Summit, N.C.) will be moving on to the professional ranks as he signed a free agent deal with the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball, the club announced on…
The first round of the 2020 Major League Baseball player draft will get underway on Wednesday, June 10th. Instead of the normal 40 draft rounds, the 2020 draft will be limited to just 5 rounds. Historically Black College and…
Xavier University of Louisiana announced this past January, the hiring of Adrian Holloway as head coach of its recently relaunched intercollegiate baseball program, dormant since 1960. The Xavier athletic department is excited to have recruited Holloway. He will prove to…
As the college baseball season started in 2020, the Coronavirus was already out mapping its way to the U.S. The disease, caused by a new coronavirus, has been confirmed in every state. Once the alarming levels of the spread took…
Jose’ Vazquez was named head baseball coach for Alabama State University baseball program on July 13, 2016. This season marked his fifth for the Hornets. In 2020, Vazquez helped lead Alabama State to Black College Nines HBCU Baseball “Shortened Season”…
Reginald Hollins began his first season as head coach of the Tuskegee University baseball program in 2017 after serving the previous six as an assistant coach in multiple roles. During his baseball career at Tuskegee as a player, Hollins was…
The collegiate baseball season was shut down due to the growing threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. This forced Major League Baseball to alter its annual amateur draft’s original scheduled start date of June 10th, consisting of 40 rounds in three…
The Association of Independent Institutions (A.I.I.) recently recognized its student-athletes with their selection to the All-Conference and Champions of Character teams for the shortened 2020 season due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The conference honored their baseball teams which list five…
