St Bonifacius, Minn. - Defending UMAC Champions Crown Polars and head coach
Brooks Repking released its full schedule for the 2023 season on Monday.
Coming off a record-setting season that included 30 regular season wins, the most ever by Crown College Baseball, The Polars will look to get back to the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year.
Last season the Polars took home their first UMAC Championship in program history and the first NCAA tournament berth. The Polars are slated to play 14 of their 40 games at home, at the newly renovated Missile Park in downtown Saint Bonifacius.
They open their season at the US Bank Stadium, home of the Vikings, where they will play Hamline in a doubleheader before they take their annual trip to Florida over spring break.
In Florida, they are excited to have drawn a challenging schedule. The Polars will play seven teams in Florida, two of which made an NCAA Regional appearance the previous spring. To start the trip, they open against Illinois College in a doubleheader. Then four more games before facing off against Southern Maine, and NCAA Regional Teams Wheaton, and Coe to close out the trip that will set the tone for the season. Once the Polars return home after their trip to Florida they open play with two MIAC favorites Gustavus Adolphus College and Saint John's University.
Tuesday, March 28
th marks the start of the conference season where the Polars will open with the University of Minnesota Morris at home. Thursday, April 20
th Crown will face yet another NCAA tournament team when they face off against Bethel a team who ended up in the same NCAA tournament region as the Polars. The Polars close out the regular season with another game against Bethel on the road, before preparing for the UMAC Tournament. The UMAC Conference Tournament will be held May 11
th through 13
th at ISG Field in downtown Mankato.
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