Bulldogs set for SWAC baseball tournament

NORMAL – Head coach Michael Tompkins and the Bulldogs learned who their first round opponent will be in the 2013 Southwestern Athletic Conference Baseball tournament.

Southern University will serve as the first round opponent for the A&M baseball team which will be entering the post season for the first time since 2009.

The Bulldogs have not faced the Jaguars since 2009 when they defeated AAMU 8-3 in the first round of the 2009 league tournament.

“Southern is a solid team but we are hot right now,” said coach Tompkins. “We have peaked at the right time with our bats and that’s going to help us in the tournament.”

In the last seven games the Maroon and White are 5-2 and have totaled double digit hits in all but one contest.

A&M and Southern will play their first round competition at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, May 15^th at LaGrave field in Fort Worth, Texas.

LaGrave Field opened in 1926. During its existence, LaGrave Field has hosted nearly 50 members of the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. That list includes Hank Aaron, Babe Ruth, Sparky Anderson, Yogi Bera, Roy Campanella, Joe DiMaggio, Larry Doby, Willie Mayes, Willie McCovey, Stan Musial, Jackie Robinson and Ted Williams, just to name a few.

LaGrave Field is the present-day home of the Fort Worth Cats minor league baseball team. The Cats are members of the United Baseball League.

The Fort Worth area is home to over 758,000 residents. The nation's 16th-largest city recorded the 12th-largest numeric increase in new residents adding over 16,000 between April 2010 and July 2011 according to new population estimates by the U.S. Census Bureau.

Live stats for the contests as well as all the information on the annual post season event are available by visiting SWAC.org.

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