Baseball announces 2003 schedule for new stadium

TCU head baseball coach Lance Brown has announced the Horned Frogs’ 2003 schedule. The 56-game regular-season schedule includes 29 games at Lupton Stadium, the new home of the Frogs,and Williams-Reilly Field.

TCU will open the Lupton Stadium era when they host Texas-Arlington on Wednesday, Feb. 5. The ballpark will be officially dedicated on Friday, Feb. 21, when the Horned Frogs host Texas Tech in the first game of a three-game weekend series with the Red Raiders.

Other highlights of the non-conference portion of the Frogs' home ledger include weekend series with Texas-San Antonio (Feb. 7-9) and former WAC-foe and 2002 NCAA regional-finalist BYU (March 6-8). TCU will also welcome Baylor (March 18) and Oklahoma (March 25) of the Big 12 to Lupton Stadium.

In Conference USA action, each of the league's five teams that reached the 2002 NCAA Tournament will play three-game series in Lupton Stadium. The Horned Frogs open league play with a three-game set versus Tulane March 14-16. The other C-USA foes that will visit TCU are Super Regional-participant Houston (March 28-30), regional finalists East Carolina (April 18-20) and South Florida (May 2-4) and NCAA regional-participant Louisville (May 15-17).

In all, 27 of the Frogs' 56 games will be against 2002 NCAA Tournament qualifiers, with 23 of those 27 played at Lupton Stadium.

Times for each ballgame will be released at a later date.