Flames Baseball Announces 2021 Schedule
1/20/2021 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Liberty 2021 Baseball Schedule
The Liberty Flames baseball team has unveiled its schedule for 2021. Currently, the slate features 23 games at Worthington Field at Liberty Baseball Stadium.
Liberty's schedule is tentative and subject to change. Attendance at Worthington Field at Liberty Baseball Stadium will be limited on a game-to-game basis per current Commonwealth of Virginia, ASUN Conference and NCAA regulations. Additional steps will be taken to increase fan safety. More details will be announced on Jan. 27.
Liberty will open its 2021 season on the road at Campbell, Flames head coach Scott Jackson's alma mater, Feb. 19-21. Liberty will then return to Worthington Field at Liberty Baseball Stadium for their home opener on Feb. 24 against North Carolina A&T.
Currently, 15 of the Flames' last 25 regular-season contests are scheduled for Worthington Field at Liberty Baseball Stadium.
Weekend Non-Conference Series
Along with the Campbell series, the Flames will travel to TCU and UCF for three-game weekend series, before ASUN Conference play starts in March. Liberty will face TCU in Fort Worth, Texas, Feb. 26-28. The following week, the Flames will visit Orlando, Fla., to for a series at UCF, March 5-7.
In addition, Liberty will square off with the VCU Rams in a weekend series, March 19-21. The Rams will host the Flames on the 19th and 21st in Richmond, while the Flames will welcome the Rams to Liberty Baseball Stadium on the 20th.
In April, Liberty will host Coastal Carolina for a three-game series, April 23-25.
Midweek Home-and-Homes
The midweek will see the Flames play home-and-home series with Commonwealth of Virginia opponents Virginia, Virginia Tech and Radford. Liberty's midweek slate will also feature home-and-home series with Duke, North Carolina and Wake Forest.
ASUN Conference
As previously released, the ASUN Conference will feature divisional play in 2021. The conference will be divided into North (Liberty, Bellarmine, Kennesaw State, Lipscomb, North Alabama) and South (FGCU, Jacksonville, North Florida, Stetson) divisions.
Liberty's schedule features 24 conference contests with four weekend three-game series and three weekend three-game road series. In addition, the conference will hold a crossover weekend, May 14-16, where the Flames will travel to Kennesaw State for two neutral site games against Stetson and one with FGCU.
The conference will release championship information at a later date.
