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(photo by Amanda Morgan)
(photo by Amanda Morgan)

Baseball Releases Complete 2023 Schedule

SEGUIN, Texas -- Texas Lutheran Baseball announced its full 2023 schedule on Thursday, featuring 21 home games at Katt-Isbel Field.

The Bulldogs will open the season with a non-conference series against Pacific University (OR), a 2022 NCAA Tournament qualifier, Feb. 4-5, before participating in the CTX Classic hosted by Concordia University Feb. 11-12. The Bulldogs will face Pacific Lutheran and George Fox as part of the 2023 CTX Classic at Tornado Field in Austin, Texas.

Texas Lutheran will host UT-Dallas (Feb. 17-18), another 2022 NCAA Tournament qualifier, and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (Feb. 18-19) before closing out the month of February with a mid-week road contest against Mary Hardin-Baylor (Feb. 28).

Texas Lutheran starts the month of March with a mid-week matchup against DeSales (Mar. 7) before traveling to face the Tigers of East Texas Baptist (Mar. 10-11). Texas Lutheran will return to face SUNY Cortland (Mar. 13) in a rare Monday night matchup before traveling to face Centenary (LA), the 2022 SCAC Champions (Mar. 17-18). Following the trip to Shreveport, Texas Lutheran begins a five-game homestand at Katt-Isbel Field. TLU begins the homestand with a mid-week contest against Mary Hardin-Baylor (Mar. 21) before hosting a weekend series against rival Trinity (Mar. 24-26) and closing the home stretch against DePauw (Mar. 29).

Texas Lutheran will spend a majority of April on the road in SCAC play traveling to St. Thomas (Mar. 31-Apr. 1), Schreiner (Apr. 6-7), and Dallas (Apr. 22-23). Texas Lutheran will step out of SCAC play to host future SCAC foe McMurry (Apr. 11) before hosting Austin College (Apr. 14-15) and Southwestern (Apr. 28-30) to close the regular season.

The 2023 SCAC Championship Baseball Tournament returns to The Depot at Cleburne Station in Cleburne, Texas, Friday, May 5-Sunday, May 7.

The Bulldogs are headlined by D3baseball.com All-Region pitcher Joe Burch (Geronimo/Navarro) as TLU returns 11 All-SCAC players from last season's squad led by Rick Heines who enters his third season as head coach.

For more information on Texas Lutheran baseball and all TLU athletics, you can find updates on tlubulldogs.com and all official TLU social media channels (@tluathletics and @TLU_Baseball on Twitter, @tlubulldogs on Facebook, and @tlu_athletics on Instagram and TikTok).