Highland Community College Baseball is excited to release their 2024 game schedule. The 2024 schedule features 56 games in total with 32 conference games and 24 non-conference games for the Scotties. Highland will open its season on Friday, February 2^nd as they travel to Ottawa, Kansas to play the Braves of Ottawa University in a double header at 1:00pm. The Braves will make a return trip to Highland on Saturday the 3^rd and complete the 4-game series in a double header starting at 1:00pm from Highland Community Ballpark.

    Highland will then take to the road for the remainder of February, The Scotties will head south to Miami, Oklahoma to face the Norsemen of Northeastern Oklahoma College in a 4-game series scheduled for February 9^th-10^th. Highland will then face off in a 3-way round robin event at Metropolitan Community College – Maple Woods vs. Metropolitan Community College – Maple Woods and Iowa Lakes Community College on February 16^th and 18^th. The Scotties and Wolves of MCC-Maple Woods will open the weekend with a single game on the 16^th and then the 3 teams will each play each other on the 17^th. Game times for this weekend have not yet been announced. The remainder of the Scotties non-conference slate includes a trip to Dodge City, Kansas to play in the Dodge City Invitational February 24^th and 25^th where Highland will face the Conquistadores of Dodge City as well as the Rough Riders of Luna Community College (Las Vegas, New Mexico) and the Hawks of Northeastern Community College (Norfolk, Nebraska.)
    
    The marque weekend of the non-conference slate for the Scotties will again be the HCC Invitational, this year's event will be played at Seamen High School in Topeka, KS. Southwestern Community College (Creston, IA) and Pratt Community College will join the Scotties in Topeka to play 4 games in 2 days in the Capitol City on March 1^st and 2^nd. Highland will also face off with Cloud Community College in a non-conference double header on April 4^th during their bye-week from conference play as well as a home and home single game match-up with the Bobcats of Southeast Community College (Beatrice, Nebraska) on April 9^th and April 23^rd.
    
    Highland will then turn its focus to KJCCC play which opens March 7^th and 9^th as Highland will face the Blue Devils of Kansas City Kansas Community College. March 7^th will be at home as the Scotties will be at Highland Community Ballpark for the first time since opening weekend. Highland will then travel to Kansas City to complete the series with the Blue Devils on the 9^th. The Scotties will wrap up conference play on May 2^nd and 4^th with a four-game series vs. perennial KJCCC-East powerhouse Cowley College. The Scotties will first travel to Arkansas City on May 2^nd with the Tigers making the trip to Highland Community Ballpark to wrap up the 2024 regular season on May 4^th.
   
    "We believe we have a great slate of games scheduled this spring" said Highland head coach, Landon Hay. "It is a great balance of games against a wide variety of opponents in the non-conference slate that will really prepare our guys for the tough task that awaits us in the Jayhawk Conference. We are very excited to see our guys compete this spring, returning a ton of experience with over 20 sophomores who got significant playing time as freshmen last year should make us a very mature group who has the ability to really make some noise this season."

The Full Scottie Baseball schedule can be found at https://scottieathletics.com/sports/baseball/schedule and be sure to tune into the Scottie Sports Network to watch all home games.