SECOND-SEEDED BLINN BASEBALL TO OPEN JUCO WORLD SERIES AGAINST NINTH-SEEDED LAKE LAND

The Buccaneers are the defending national champions and are making their third consecutive World Series appearance

The 10-team field is set for the 2025 NJCAA Division I Baseball World Series.

The fifth-ranked and second-seeded Blinn College Buccaneers will begin the defense of their 2024 national championship when they take on ninth-seeded Lake Land College (Mattoon, Ill.) at 3 p.m. on Saturday at Sam Suplizio Field in Grand Junction, Colo.

Each game of the World Series will be broadcast live on ESPN+, while Blinn media partner TSBN Sports will provide radio coverage of the Bucs’ games at www.tsbnsports.com.

Blinn (46-13) is in the JUCO World Series for the third time in as many seasons and opens play with its highest seeding during that span. The Bucs were the fifth seed in 2023 and were seeded sixth last season.

The Bucs are eyeing the second championship in program history.

Head coach Dusty Hart is in his third season with the Bucs and currently holds a 139-45 record at Blinn. He has led his team to a 7-3 mark at the World Series and is looking to capture his third championship. Hart led Grayson College to a title in 2008.

Elsewhere in the first round of the double-elimination competition, fourth-seeded Johnson County Community College (Overland Park, Kan.) hosts seventh-seeded McLennan Community College (Waco, Texas) in the tournament opener at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Game two will see top-seeded Walters State Community College (Morristown, Tenn.) face 10th-seeded Eastern Oklahoma State College (Wilburton, Okla.) at noon on Saturday. Saturday’s finale pit third-seeded Florida SouthWestern State College (Fort Myers, Fla.) against eighth-seeded Salt Lake Community College (Salt Lake City, Utah) at 7:30 p.m.

The winner of Blinn-Lake Land will battle either Florida SouthWestern or Salt Lake in round two. 

Round one concludes Sunday with a showdown between fifth-seeded Shelton State Community College (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) and sixth-seeded Florence-Darlington Technical College (Florence, S.C.) at 10 a.m.

Two consolation matchups will be played on Saturday, and winners and losers bracket games will resume Monday, May 26, until championship weekend on Friday and Saturday, May 30-31.

For more information on this year’s JUCO World Series, visit www.jucogj.org.

Story Courtesy of:
Joe Alberico   
Blinn Sports Information Specialist