Once again, the first game of the year at Dunkin Donuts Park in Hartford will be a college baseball game with the University of Hartford. The Hawks are hosting a doubleheader Saturday with Central Connecticut State and UConn beginning at 11:30 a.m.
HARTFORD, March 30 – The Eastern League season doesn’t open until April 5 when the Hartford Yard Goats host the New Hampshire Fisher Cats at 7 p.m.
But baseball will be played at Dunkin Donuts Park earlier than that. The University of Hartford baseball team will host a doubleheader against Central Connecticut State and UConn on Saturday beginning at 11:30 a.m.
That kicks off a slate of eight collegiate games at Dunkin Donuts Park this spring and at least 16 high school games at the two-year-old facility.
This will be the first of four games at Dunkin Donuts Park for the Hawks (5-19). Hartford lost to Connecticut, 9-1 on Thursday but has won three of their last four games. The Hawks face Central Connecticut State at 11:30 a.m. and the Huskies at 3:30 p.m.
The Huskies (14-9) played their first 21 games of the season on the round and are thrilled to be back home with two games this weekend – all in Connecticut against Northeast opponents. Central Connecticut (7-10) lost to UConn on Friday, 6-1, but the Blue Devils have won four of their last six games. Central won the Northeast Conference a year ago and played in the 2017 NCAA Division I tournament.
UConn is also playing five games at Dunkin Donuts Park including Friday night and Saturday afternoon games against American Athletic Conference opponents Tulane and Houston on April 27-28 and May 11-12.
Avon will play a doubleheader at Dunkin Donuts Park on Monday, April 30 by facing Bulkeley/Weaver at 3:30 p.m. and then South Windsor in the nightcap beginning at 5:30 p.m. The Falcons faced Bulkeley/Weaver at Dunkin Donuts Park a year ago.
Avon High baseball coach Jon Yolles goes over the park’s ground rules before last April’s game against Bulkeley/Weaver at Dunkin Donuts Park in Hartford.
Avon Old Farms will challenge Kingswood-Oxford of West Hartford on Wednesday, April 18.
Hartford school Sport Science Medical Academy (SMSA) will play five games at Dunkin Donuts Park while Bulkeley/Weaver is scheduled to play three games at the park.
| Collegiate Baseball | |
| Saturday, March 31 | Hartford (5-19) vs. Central Connecticut State (7-10), 11:30 a.m. |
| Hartford vs. UConn (14-9), 3:30 p.m. | |
| Friday, April 27 | Tulane vs. UConn, 7:05 |
| Saturday, April 28 | Tulane vs. UConn, 2:05 p.m. |
| Tuesday, May 1 | Hartford vs. UMass, 7 p.m. |
| Friday, May 11 | Houston vs. UConn, 7:05 p.m. |
| Saturday, May 12: | Houston vs. UConn, 2:05 p.m. |
| Wednesday, May 16 | Hartford vs. Central Connecticut State, 7 p.m. |
| High School Baseball | |
| Thursday, April 12 | Kingswood-Oxford vs. Hopkins-New Haven, 3 p.m. |
| Hotchkiss vs. Choate Rosemary Hall, 5:30 p.m. | |
| East Catholic vs. Northwest Catholic, 7:30 p.m. | |
| Friday, April 13 | University High/Classical vs. Cheney Tech, 3 p.m. |
| Monday, April 16 | SMSA vs. Windsor Locks, 7 p.m. |
| Tuesday, April 17 | SMSA vs. East Windsor, 7 p.m. |
| Wednesday, April 18 | Kingswood Oxford vs. Avon Old Farms, 2 p.m. |
| Windsor vs. Wethersfield, 6 p.m. | |
| Thursday, April 26 | Bolton vs. HMTCA, 3:30 p.m. |
| SMSA vs. Suffield, 6:30 p.m. | |
| Monday, April 30 | Avon vs. Bulkeley/Weaver, 3:30 p.m. |
| Avon vs. South Windsor, 5:30 p.m. | |
| Monday, May 21 | Bulkeley/Weaver vs. Capital Prep, 3:30 p.m. |
| Bulkeley/Weaver vs. Hartford Public, 7:30 p.m. | |
| Tuesday, May 22 | East Windsor vs. Windsor, 6:30 p.m. |
| SMSA vs. Stafford, 3:30 p.m. | |
