By Steve Beard, LebCoSports Senior Baseball Contributor
Our second pre-season College Baseball Tracker has a little bit of a different look. Last week, we previewed the 2024 College Baseball Prospects themselves. This week, to keep the baseball fires stoked, we offer a preview of February games—yes February Baseball!— that you won’t want to miss.
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TRACKING THE CIRCUIT
Fortunately, an overwhelming majority of games are live streamed. Some of the D1 matchups will make it onto ESPN3 or SEC+. How do you find the streams? We have you covered at LebCoSports.com! Look for the Upcoming Schedule link in the player header during our regular articles. We offer Mount Saint Mary senior SS Tyler Long as an example:
Tyler Long, Mount Saint Mary’s University, (Annville-Cleona ’20) Season Stats Upcoming Schedule
In addition to clicking on Tyler’s name above to get to his team profile/bio, you can click on Upcoming Schedule to be taking directly to the Mount’s baseball schedule. (You will eventually be able to get to stats once they are posted). Look at the date that you want and there will be an icon for a live stream and one for Live Stats. Most streams are free. Many streams have multiple camera angles and announcers. The colleges do a nice job of linking information to the website and make it easy to find, even directing you to the away team link for the game stream as most teams rely on the home team for the feed.
Here’s a pro tip—go right to the team website. Most links you see on FaceBook or X/Twitter are clickbait at best, and scams at worst. Most teams will play doubleheaders or multiple games on a weekend, so if you miss one game, they might be right back on the field.
As of today, most live stream links are not posted, but they will be on game day. You can always bookmark this article and get to the current schedule for all the teams we track. Many of the games on spring break trips to FL, NC, SC etc are not streamed by the schools, but some of the complexes have streams. Many of those are paid streams, so buyer beware.
FEATURED MATCH UPS
February 2, 2024 5pm ET
Check out a groundhog day tilt featuring Millersville at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Tx. Nationally ranked at #6 when the dust settled in 2023, the Marauders will face one team in the preseason top 10 power ranking for D2, #2 Tampa, as well as St. Cloud and Central Missouri in game one. Upcoming Schedule
February 18, 2024 11am
Having received some national preseason top 25 votes, Penn State Harrisburg opens up versus Clarkson at Ephrata War Memorial Field for a double header and your first chance to catch a game that is fairly local. Upcoming Schedule
February 23, 2024 2pm
Catch a Friday matinee or wait a day for a Saturday doubleheader at the Shippensburg Raiders open their home game slate versus Pitt-Johnstown at Art Fairchild Field. Upcoming Schedule
February 24, 2024 12pm
Lebanon Valley College travels to Winchester VA for a doubleheader against #7 Shenadoah, a team that always earns its preseason rankings. Coach Jonas Fester sees Muhlenburg at home on February 27 a day before heading down 83 to visit defending D3 champion #1 Johns Hopkins. The Dutchmen squad were shut out of pre-season national ranking votes and will likely – and rightfully – have a bit of a chip on their shoulder as they look to prove that they belong on the national stage following a deep run in playoffs in 2023.
February 29, 2024 TBD
No reason to waste the leap year day—check out Mount Saint Mary’s at playing an SEC team, Mississippi State at a time to be determined. Upcoming Schedule
OPENING GAMES FOR ALL TEAMS WE ARE TRACKING
February 9, 2024 2pm
Ship at Carson Newman Upcoming Schedule
February 10, 2024
11am Virginia Wesleyan at William Peace University Upcoming Schedule
1pm Lock Haven at Virginia State Upcoming Schedule
February 11, 2024 11am
CCNY at Stevens Upcoming Schedule
February 16, 2024
3pm Mount Saint Mary’s at Norfolk State Upcoming Schedule
4pm (#20) Alabama at Manhattan College Upcoming Schedule Look for this game on SEC+ TV
5pm Messiah at Methodist Upcoming Schedule Keep an eye out for me to be posting on X this weekend!
February 17, 2024
12pm Bloomsburg at Barton Upcoming Schedule
12pm Clarion at Glenville State Upcoming Schedule
12pm Stevenson at Mary Baldwin Upcoming Schedule
February 18, 2024
11am Chesapeake Community College at Delaware Tech CC Upcoming Schedule
12pm Albright at Gallaudet Upcoming Schedule
February 23, 2024
6pm Central Penn at Mid Atlantic Christian Upcoming Schedule
6pm Mt. Aloysius vs Swarthmore at the Ripken Experience (MD) Upcoming Schedule
February 24, 2024
10:30am Neumann vs DeSales at Methodist Upcoming Schedule
12pm Northampton Community College at Atlantic Cape Upcoming Schedule Look for live X/Twitter content
12pm Penn State York at Lancaster Bible College Upcoming Schedule
12pm Penn State Altoona at Mary Baldwin Upcoming Schedule
12pm Penn State Schuylkill at Delaware Valley Upcoming Schedule
February 25, 2024 1pm
CCBC Essex at Delaware Valley Tech Upcoming Schedule
February 28, 2024 3pm
York at Catholic Upcoming Schedule
