Baseball | 12/4/2025 11:40:00 AM
MIAMI SHORES, Fla.-- Head coach DJ Price has assembled his schedule for the second season at the helm of the baseball team at Barry.
"To start off the 2026 season, we have some new and old faces coming to the Shores," Price said. "In the first two weeks of the season, we have our annual round robin format that allows us to stay home and play some strong competition that had great seasons in 2025. We look forward to playing new teams especially ones from different parts of the country and conferences as well as solid competition from several teams that had conference and NCAA tournament post season runs. I feel having strong opponents right away gets the team ready and excited for conference play. You also can't beat starting the season off with 14 straight home games.
Our conference schedule looks like it has some nice ebbs and flows to it this year. There is a good mix of home and away games allowing us time to recover from some of the long conference trips. We end the year with back-to-back travel weekends which will be a nice test for us. I like the position of those two away trips so guys can get away, focus solely on baseball, and end the season strong."
The Bucs have 50 games on tap, including 29 in the friendly confines of Feinbloom Field, where they are 160-102 over the last 10 years and 708-500-7 all time.
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With the January 31 falling on a Saturday, the season gets under way in the first month of the year for the second year in a row and the second time since 2016. With four games over the first weekend, the Bucs face Cal State-East Bay on Friday, followed by Wingate, Valdosta State and Catawba Saturday-Monday.
The CSU-East Bay Pioneers are coming off a 20-30 season in the California Collegiate Athletic Association. This will be the first meeting with the Pioneers.
The Wingate Bulldogs went 26-26 last year, finishing sixth in the South Atlantic Conference (SAC). The overall series is tied 4-4 and the team has split the last four meetings. Barry won 9-8 last year. Seven of the eight games have been played in The Shores.
Valdosta State comes to town on Sunday, leading 9-6 in the overall series and winning five of the last six meetings. Most of the games have been played in Georgia, but Barry is 2-1 in home games. The Blazers were 30-22 last year, earning the #2 seed at the Gulf South Conference Tournament, but going 1-2 in the field.
The first weekend closes with a matchup against the Catawba Indians. Catawba went 46-14 last year, winning the SAC regular season and tournament titles and advancing to the Super Regionals. The Bucs had their best win of the season against the Indians last year, winning 5-4 on a walk-off homer. Overall, they lead the series 3-1, with all games at Feinbloom Field.
With four more games on the second weekend, the Bucs face Coker, Bentley, Erskine and Washburn.
On Friday, Barry plays a split doubleheader, taking on Coker at 1:00 pm and Bentley at 6:00 pm. The Cobras went 30-22 last year, finishing fourth in the SAC. This will be the first meeting with the Cobras. The Falcons finished 33-15 last year, second in the Northeast-10. They snapped a four-game losing streak to the Bucs in the series last year with a 7-2 win.
The Flying Fleet went 19-31 a year ago and make their fourth straight trip to Feinbloom Field. The Fleet won the first two meetings, but Barry came out on top 6-4 last year.
After taking off on Sunday, the Ichabods, who have been a steady presence on the schedule the last five years, as they play their six game against the Bucs in five seasons, come to play on Monday. Washburn went 28-25 last year, including their second-straight win over the Bucs, to pull the series to 3-2 in favor of Barry.
Weekend three sees the Bucs face the Owls of Southern Connecticut State in a three-game set. The Owls went 24-20 last season. They are making their first trek down to The Shores since 2015. Barry has won all five previous meetings.
Sunshine State Conference play kicks off week four, with Barry hosting cross-town rival Nova Southeastern Feb. 20-22. The Sharks were 25-22 last season, winning four of the five contests with the Bucs, including 2-of-3 in the SSC series. Barry holds a 65-62-1 edge in the series, including 35-26 at Feinbloom Field. The Bucs also face the Sharks in non-conference mid-week matchups on Mar. 24 at home and Apr. 14 in Davie, Fla.
The Bucs leave the friendly confines for the first time in week five, visiting Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach, Fla., Feb. 27-28. The Eagles went 25-24 last year, finishing 10th in the SSC. ERAU swept the Bucs last season, to flip the series to a 14-12 edge for themselves. Last time in Daytona, the Bucs won two of three.
Barry has four games at the Russ Matt Baseball Classic in Orlando Mar. 5-7. The Bucs face St. Cloud State on Mar. 5. The Huskies went 28-26 last season, finishing fifth in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference. On Mar. 6, the Bucs play a twin bill with the Point Park Pioneers. The Pioneers went 41-13 last year in their first provisional year in NCAA Division II after transitioning from NAIA, and won the Mountain East Tournament. The Bucs close the tournament on Mar. 7 against the Winona State Warriors, who finished 22-28 and 10th in the NSIC last season.
Barry returns home to face the Florida Tech Panthers in a non-conference game on Mar. 10. The Panthers went 24-24 last year, sixth in the SSC. Barry swept the conference series in Melbourne, but Tech took the mid-week game, leaving the series 73-72 in favor of the Bucs. The get back together May 1-2 for the SSC series.
Florida Southern, who were second in the SSC last season after going 38-14-1, come to Feinbloom Mar. 13-14. The Moccasins won all three games in the series last year, and hold an 84-36 edge in the series. Despite the sweep last year, Barry has won six of the last 10 games.
Barry goes to Saint Leo Mar. 20-21 for the SSC series. The Lions were 21-29 last year and tied for eighth in the league. Barry swept the series in The Shores and holds a 69-66-1 edge in the overall series.
After a midweek game with NSU, the Bucs host the Eckerd Tritons Mar. 27-28. Eckerd was 10-38 last year, finishing last in the conference. Barry took 2-of-3 from the Tritons in the SSC series last year in St. Petersburg and hold a 76-44 edge in the series.
Barry takes to the road for the first of five games with the Palm Beach Atlantic Sailfish on Mar. 31 in a non-conference game. The 'Fish were 19-28 a year ago, tying Saint Leo for eighth. PBA won three of five last year, and have split the last 10 games in the series, although the Bucs lead overall 71-43.
The Buccaneers are off to Boca Raton, Fla., on Apr. 2-3 to face arch-rival Lynn. The Knights went 30-10 to finish third in the league and advanced to the NCAA Regional. Lynn won two of three last season in Miami Shores, but the Bucs lead the series 72-60-1.
After Barry hosts the PBA Sailfish in another non-conference game on Apr. 7, then hosts Rollins Apr. 10-12. The Tars are coming off a 29-19-1 season in which they finished fourth in the SSC. They won two of three in the series last year in Winter Park and lead the overall series 70-53.
After the final non-conference game at NSU on Apr. 14, Barry hosts the Sailfish in the conference series.
The Bucs visit Florida Tech (May 1-2), then Tampa (May 8-9) to close the season with six road games. The Spartans were SSC and NCAA champions last year, going 55-10. The swept the series from the Bucs in The Shores last year, and lead the series 87-29.
The NCAA Tournament selections will be announced on May 10, as the Bucs look to get back to the post-season.
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