Shippensburg at Wingate three-game series cancelled
2/6/2010 4:00:23 PM
Wingate, N.C.----The three-game NCAA Division II baseball series between Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and Wingate University scheduled for Sunday and Monday has been cancelled, Bulldog head baseball coach Allen Osborne announced this afternoon.
The Shippensburg Red Raiders will not be able to travel to North Carolina due to the snowstorm that blanketed the Northeast Friday and Saturday. The series will not be rescheduled. Wingate visits St. Andrews Presbyterian College Wednesday for a 2 p.m. contest. Shippensburg will visit Catawba College for a doubleheader Saturday, Feb. 13 at 12 noon.
WINGATE UNIVERSITY
Founded in 1896, Wingate University is a private four-year co-educational institution of 2,159 students offering active learning opportunities through personalized instruction, world travel, career discovery and community service.
Wingate offers more than 40 undergraduate majors in arts and sciences, business, communication, education, fine arts, music and sport sciences. It also offers graduate degrees in business, education, physician assistant studies and sport administration. In addition, the school awards the doctor of pharmacy and the doctor of education degrees.
Bulldog student-athletes compete in 19 NCAA Division II sports. Wingate University has won the South Atlantic Conference Echols Athletic Excellence Award for the past three years.
Wingate University is ranked number three among NCAA Division II Academic All-America® producing schools in the 2000’s with 34 honorees during this millennium. Only Pittsburg State (Kan.) University and Truman State (Mo.) University have produced more Academic All-America® honorees during this time period. Wingate’s 43 Academic All-America® honorees (lifetime) is tops among all SAC schools.