UCF, Bethune-Cookman baseball rise after series victories
UCF and Bethune-Cookman won their respective road baseball series this weekend. Here's the rundown on the Knights, Wildcats and Stetson Hatters.
UCF , Bethune-Cookman and Stetson all played on the road over the weekend, and two of them won their respective series despite the lack of home-field advantage. No. 23 UCF beat No.
11 West Virginia in two out of three games to put itself in a position to rise in the next set of polls after making its first appearance since March 2025 a week ago. Bethune-Cookman continued its SWAC success with a series victory over Southern in New Orleans, complete with a sweep of a doubleheader on April 4. Stetson was the only local Division I baseball program to lose its respective series, falling to Atlantic Sun foe Jacksonville two games to one.
The wins propelled UCF and Bethune-Cookman to first place in their respective conferences. Here’s how they did it. UCF takes 2 of 3 from West Virginia UCF marched into Morgantown, West Virginia, and showed why it was ranked by D1Baseball and Perfect Game for the first time in more than a year.
The Knights won Games 1 and 3 to claim a three-game series at No. 11 West Virginia beginning on April 3 and ending on April 5. UCF nearly had the sweep against a Mountaineers team that was vying for a spot in the top 10, but a West Virginia rally forced a deciding match on Easter Sunday.
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