Grand Prairie Airhogs Tournament
Cameron vs. Southern Arkansas on Feb. 5 at 11 a.m. | Live Stats
Cameron vs. East Central on Feb. 6 at 10 a.m. | Live Stats
Cameron vs. Washburn on Feb. 6 at 4 p.m. | Live Stats

The Aggies will be looking to raise the bar as they open their season with three games in Grand Prairie, Texas beginning Friday. Cameron enters the season being picked as the fifth best team in the Lone Star Conference tied with Eastern New Mexico with a first place vote.
 
Brady Huston will begin his second season as head coach of the Aggies with assistant coach Josh Barnett and graduate assistant Gary Capolino continuing their subsequent seasons with the Black and Gold as well.
 
The team returns 18 players from the 2015 season including ten seniors, six juniors, one sophomore and a redshirt-freshman. New to the Aggie squad are 12 freshmen, seven junior-college transfers, and one former CU golfer.
 
Among the returners are three who took All-Lone Star Conference second team awards: Dirk Masters, Jonathan Reyes, and Tyler McKinzie. Masters had a team high 76 strikeouts in 13 appearances with five wins on the hill, Reyes was CU's top batter with a .306 average and 10 doubles and was also selected as a LSC Hitter of the Week, and McKinzie went .245 at the plate but recorded 121 assists and 82 putouts on the field.
 
The Opponents:

Southern Arkansas (0-0)
-The Muleriders were pegged as the No. 15 team in the Perfect Game Division II Preseason Top-25 poll and No. 19 in the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) Division II Preseason Top-25 poll.
 -Last season, the Muleriders won the Great American Conference regular season title for the third time in the last four years while also capturing their fifth-consecutive    conference tournament championship en route to advancing to their eighth-straight NCAA regional tournament.
-Finishing the 2015 season with an overall record of 40-18 in 2015, the SAU baseball program has won 40 or more games in seven of the past 10 seasons and also has eclipsed the 30-plus win mark for the 15th-consectuive year.
 
East Central (0-1)
-East Central has been picked to finished 10th, out of 12 teams, in the 2016 Great American Conference Preseason Poll.
 -The Tigers, who finished seventh in 2015 with a record of 22-19 overall and 12-13 in the GAC, will return six student-athletes that saw action a year ago.
 -In their season opener, ECU fell 8-19 to Northeastern State. The Tigers (0-1) were led by junior Riley Roberts at the plate.  Roberts hit .667 for the day, with two hits, one run and two RBIs.  Senior Casey Kenney added three hits and two RBIs with a.600 batting average.
 
Washburn (0-0)
-Washburn was picked No. 6 in the MIAA Preseason Baseball Coaches Poll, after finishing last season 33-20 and was one of the final three teams in the MIAA Tournament, just missing out on a trip to the NCAA Tournament.
 -The Ichabods return three All-MIAA Third Team picks in Kyle Carnahan, David Gauntt and Parker Gibson who have supplemented a roster that returns 22 letter winners with 23 newcomers, including 17 new arms on the pitching staff.