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9/29/2006 12:00 AM | Baseball
Sept. 29, 2006
SALT LAKE CITY -- The University of Utah baseball team will open its 2007 schedule with 16 consecutive road games. The Utes will make up for that later in the season, however. The Utah slate for the upcoming season features 20 home dates.
The Utes open the season Feb. 2-4 with a road trip to Santa Clara, Calif. to face the Santa Clara Broncos in a three-game series. Three-game sets with New Mexico State and San Jose State follow. Mid-February sees a return to Santa Clara for a single game on Feb. 19. Utah wraps up the month with a three-game series at UC Irvine, which competed in the NCAA Baseball Tournament last season.
"The first month of our season is going to be very competitive," Utah head coach Bill Kinneberg said. "Santa Clara, New Mexico State, San Jose State and Irvine are all quality clubs. Hopefully that first month will really get us prepared for conference play."
Utah opens March with a trip to Cedar City, Utah for a three-game series with Southern Utah. The Utes are scheduled to host their first home games of the season March 12-13 when Gonzaga visits Franklin Covey Field. Utah heads back west for a three-game set with Portland in mid-March. Utah and BYU will hook up at Franklin Covey Field on March 20 in a non-conference affair.
"Having Gonzaga and a non-conference game at home with BYU in March will good for us," Kinneberg said. "Again, our non-conference games are really pointing toward getting us ready for the Mountain West Conference."
Conference play begins March 23-25 in Albuquerque, N.M. for the Utes. A single game with Utah Valley State on March 27 at Ute Field precedes the first home MWC series of the season. UNLV comes to Franklin Covey March 30-April 1.
The Mountain West Conference schedule changes again in 2007. After playing a preseason tournament and one series with each conference foe in 2006, there will be an unbalanced, 24-game slate this season.
"This is something we worked for a while as coaches," Kinneberg said. "It is an unbalanced schedule, but at least we're playing 24 conference games. I think this is our best option at this point. I'm sure there will be years where we really like it and years when we don't. But it does give us one more home series in conference every year. That's definitely a positive."
The first week of April wraps up with a three-game, back-and-forth series against UVSC. Southern Utah visits Ute Field on April 11, before Utah jumps back into the MWC slate. Three-game sets at Franklin Covey Field with San Diego State and New Mexico are then sandwiched around a single game at UVSC. The Utes wrap up the month of April with a trip to UNLV.
May opens with defending the defending MWC Champion TCU Horned Frogs invading Franklin Covey from the 4th-6th. The series with TCU also marks the final home dates of the season for Utah. The Utes have a single game at UVSC before wrapping up the regular season with trips to Air Force and BYU.
The Mountain West Conference Tournament is slated for May 22-26 in Las Vegas.
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