2010 Schedule

Wise, Va. - With the start of the season only 54 days away, UVa-Wise announces a tough and challenging 2010 baseball schedule for the upcoming season. The docket details a full slate of 55 contests including four NAIA ranked and/or receiving votes teams along with a 2009 NAIA World Series participating team.

After two 30-win seasons, the Highland Cavaliers will look to regain their form this spring after a 23-24 final result in 2009. First baseman/pitcher Brad Robbins and outfielder Luis Roa will guide the 2010 squad after both hit over .400 and combined for 29 doubles, 15 home runs and 98 rbi.

The UVa-Wise slate will see 24 home games, 26 road contests and five affairs on neutral site venues. The Cavs season starts at home when Rio Grande, who is receiving national votes, comes to Stallard Field on Feb. 6^th. 

On the road, UVa-Wise will have a swing to Georgia to face 2009 NAIA World Series qualifier Berry College for three games over Feb. 19^th and 20^th. The Cavs will also make an early season trip to the Newport News Apprentice School to play a doubleheader at the historic War Memorial Stadium in Hampton, Va. on Feb. 27^th.

The club makes a long road swing to begin the month of March. Following a three-game set at Bryan College to start Appalachian Athletic Conference action, UVa-Wise will play five games in three days at the Cocoa Expo in Cocoa Beach, Fla. on March 8-10. On the way back northward, the Cavs will stop for a second three-game AAC set this time at Covenant College.

UVa-Wise will have the usual ranked two conference foes for three games apiece at 16^th-rated Union College (3/19 & 3/22) and hosting 11^th-ranked Tennessee Wesleyan to end the regular season (5/1-2). A third league team which is receiving votes in the preseason, Bluefield College will play a series in Wise in mid-April (4/10-11).