BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Following over a month of preseason work, the WKU Baseball team will wrap up its fall schedule with its annual Fall World Series at Nick Denes Field, with the first game set for Sunday, Oct. 18, at 1 p.m. CT.
The Hilltoppers will take part in a five-game intrasquad series over the next two weeks, with four of the contests playing on the next two Sundays and Mondays (Oct. 18-19, Oct. 25-26) and the other a midweek contest on Thursday, Oct. 22.
Both Sunday games will have a 1 p.m. CT first pitch, and the Monday games will start at 6:30 p.m. CT. The contest on Thursday will begin at 3:30 p.m. CT. The Fall World Series is free and open to the public all five games.
Fans will get to see new WKU head coach John Pawlowski in his first coaching action after arriving on The Hill in June. The veteran manager has earned 505 wins, 11 NCAA Tournament appearances and developed 80 MLB Draft selections (50 pitchers) during his 22-year coaching tenure at the collegiate level. Pawlowski won over 60 percent of his games in 14 seasons at College of Charleston, which included six seasons with at least 36 wins, three NCAA Regional appearances and a Super Regional appearance in 2006.
Sunday's pitching matchup will feature a pair of veteran seniors for the Hilltoppers in LHP Austin King (Black) and RHP Josh Bartley (Red), which is a matchup of two weekend starters for WKU in 2015. On Monday, the black squad will throw out RHP Cody Coll against red's RHP Kevin Elder. Pitchers for games 3-5 will be announced next week.
