Oklahoma State University Athletics
Cowboy Baseball Releases 2004 Schedule
November 26, 2003 | Cowboy Baseball
“I think the schedule is a very competitive and balanced one,” said first-year head coach Frank Anderson. “We will play several quality opponents in both non-conference and Big 12 play and we look forward to the challenge.”
The 56-game slate is evenly divided with 28 home and away dates. The Cowboys will open their season at Reynolds Stadium in a three-game series against 2003 NCAA tournament team Eastern Michigan starting on Friday, Feb. 13 at 3 p.m.
The Cowboys will also play in tournaments in Frisco, Texas, (TCU, Furman, Dallas Baptist) and DeLand, Fla., (Virginia Tech, Stetson, South Florida) in February with single home dates against TCU and Dallas Baptist on Feb. 24 and March 2 respectively.
OSU will participate in McNeese State's Lake Area Classic (McNeese State, Southern Miss, Indiana State) in Lake Charles, La., on the weekend of March 5-7, before returning home for a three-game set against Louisiana Tech on March 12-14.
The Pokes will travel to Tempe, Ariz., to take on Arizona State in midweek action on March 16-17 and will head back to Stillwater to host Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on that following weekend of March 19-21.
OSU will open Big 12 play against 2003 College World Series participant Texas in Austin on the weekend of March 26-28. Other conference road trips include Baylor (April 9-11), Kansas State (April 23-25) and Missouri (May 21-23).
The Cowboys conference home opener will be against Texas A&M (April 2-4), with Kansas (April 16-18), Nebraska (May 8-10) and Texas Tech (May 14-16) also visiting Stillwater this season.
The annual Bedlam Series will be played on a Thursday-Friday-Saturday rotation this year, starting on April 29th in Tulsa at 7:05 p.m. The venue will shift to Oklahoma City and the Bricktown Ballpark for the next two games (April 30, May 1), set for 7 p.m. starts.
Other notable games include a single-game at Arkansas on April 20th at 6:35 p.m. and a home and home series against Texas-Arlington (March 23 in Stillwater, April 13 in Arlington).
This year's Big 12 baseball tournament will once again be played at The Ballpark in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers. The Ballpark hosted the tournament in 2002 in the first of its two opportunities. The tourney is slated to begin Wednesday, May 26 and will run to the championship game on Sunday, May 30.
Schedule Notes: The Cowboys will play 16 games against seven teams that finished with 40 or more wins in 2003 ... 18 of the 26 teams on the slate finished with 30 or more Division I wins last year ... 22 teams had winning records in 2003 ... Dallas Baptist is in the process of moving to Division I in baseball and their games will count as Division I contests ... The Cowboys longest homestand of the season will be a eight-game skein in May against Nebraska, Texas Tech and Western Illinois ... OSU's first 14 games will be against teams that had winning records in 2003.
