Baseball Releases Spring Schedule

GARDEN CITY, KAN.—Head Baseball Coach Chris Finnegan has released the 2008 Broncbuster Baseball schedule. The schedule features the new Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference West (KJCCC West) format that was adopted at the end of the 2007 season.

In the past, each KJCCC West team traveled to every other conference team once in order to complete the 32 conference games necessary. This season, each KJCCC West college will host four other conference teams for weekend double-headers. This season the Busters will host Butler, Dodge City, Pratt and Colby. In return, that means the Busters will travel to Barton County, Hutchinson, Seward County and Cloud County. The home schools will be reversed for those contests in 2009.

Garden City will be playing 23 of its 56 games within the friendly confines of Williams Stadium, the best on-campus facility in junior college baseball. The Busters are slated to host (games are in parenthesis): Brown Mackie (2), Lamar (2), Lamar (1), Otero (1) and Northeastern (1).

The single contests against Lamar, Otero and Northeastern are part of a Region VI (Kansas) vs. Region IX (Colorado) tournament which Garden City is hosting. Along with Garden City the other Region VI teams will be Dodge City and Barton County.

In 2007 the Broncbusters finished one game shy of the JUCO World Series in Grand Junction, Colorado. Last year’s championship game was the second for Garden City in only three years. The Busters completed the season with a record of 37-27.