OVERLAND PARK, Kan. – The No. 5-ranked Johnson County baseball team is set to get its 2025 season underway this weekend against Amarillo College at HODGETOWN.
The Cavaliers will play a four-game series against the Badgers beginning Saturday, February 1 at noon with a seven-game contest, followed by a nine-inning game. The two teams will square off again on Sunday, February 2 with a doubleheader.
JCCC opened it 2024 season at Amarillo as well and split the four-game series. The Cavaliers went on to qualifiy for the NJCAA D-I World Series for a second straight year, and fourth time overall. The team ended the year ranked No. 1 in the final NJCAA Poll and were awarded the No. 1 seed in the World Series, a first in program history. JCCC went to place sixth in World Series, their highest finish ever. They closed out the year with a record of 53-13, including a 28-4 mark in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference East Division to capture the program's 12th title.
Amarillo, playing just its third season in program history, finished with a winning mark of 29-26 last year.
Earlier this month, JCCC head coach Eric Horner's team was picked to win a third-straight KJCCC East Division title in the annual KJCCC East Division baseball preseason order of finish as voted on by league head coaches. Horner returns nine players from last year's squad, among them second-team all-conference outfielders Ryker Edwards and Jake McClure, and catcher Miken Miller and right-hand pitcher Josiah Golden, both all-conference honorable mention selections in 2024.