Millington, TN – The Indian Hills Baseball squad is set to open its 2025 campaign this weekend with the PG JUCO Invitational. The Warriors open up the three-day pool play tournament at 10:00 AM Friday.

DETAILS: Indian Hills at PG JUCO Invitational

Millington, TN  |  USA Stadium

PG JUCO Invitational Tournament Central

LEADING OFF

The Warriors will make the first of two trips to Millington, TN in back-to-back weekends with this weekend's three-day PG JUCO Invitational.

• The Warriors enter the new year with nine sophomores returning from last year's 34-20 squad that reached the NJCAA Region 11 Championship series.
• Indian Hills is coming off its fourth consecutive 30-win season, the first time with four-straight 30-win seasons since 2012-15.
• The Indian Hills pitching staff returns 29.0 percent of its innings from last year, including Kurtis Smith, Cole Huebner, and Aiden Ennis who combined for more than 110.0 IP.
• Zachari Pace and AJ Marchetti return to the lineup after both hitting above .315 at the plate last year.
• Indian Hills has won three of its last four opening days, including last year's season-opener with a 9-7 victory over John Wood Community College (IL) in Millington.
• The Warriors have been projected to finish second in the ICCAC Preseason DI Baseball Coaches Poll.
• Head coach Matthew Torrez is set to begin his seventh year at the helm of the program. Torrez has amassed 178 career wins at Indian Hills.

HOME SWEET TENNESSEE

Head coach Matthew Torrez's squad will be making the trek to Millington, TN for the third consecutive year where the Warriors have made the friendly confines of USA Stadium feel like home away from home.

• The Warriors are 13-3 over the last two years at the annual early-season events at USA Stadium.
• Indian Hills heads south with a nine-game winning streak in Tennessee, having won all eight games to start the year in 2024 and its final contest in 2023.
• The Warriors, who made their first trip to state of Tennessee this century in 2023, have outscored their opponents 106-62 during the team's 16 contests in Millington over the last two years.

TORREZ'S NOTES

"It is always amazing to see the excitement of the kids every year for opening day," stated head coach Matthew Torrez. "With Wabash Valley being our opening game, that excitement probably becomes a little higher. It will be a big test early and be good for us to see how we respond in a tough contest early."

SCOUTING THE (WABASH VALLEY) WARRIORS

Wabash Valley, ranked No. 15 in the preseason NJCAA DI Baseball Poll, heads into the 2025 season just two seasons removed from a national runner-up finish at the 2023 JUCO World Series.

• The Warriors are off to just a 1-6 start on the year after winning 42 games last year, falling in the NJCAA Midwest District Championship.
• Wabash Valley has faced two teams from last year's JUCO World Series to open the 2025 campaign, along with multiple national title contenders in both Florida and Texas.
• The Warriors head to Millington, TN with a .232 team batting average and an 8.01 earned run average.
• Indian Hills is 4-3 vs. the Wabash Valley since 2017 and have won three consecutive in the series.

SCOUTING THE TRAILBLAZERS

Set to open just its second-year of competition at the NJCAA level, ASU Mountain Home is coming off a 30-17 record after advancing to the NJCAA Region 2 Tournament.

• The Trailblazers are off to a 1-5 start on the year, having dropped two games by just one run.
• ASU Mountain Home has hit five home runs through the team's first six games.
• Dating back to the 2011 season, Indian Hills is 4-0 against teams from the state of Arkansas, having swept a four-game series at North Arkansas College in 2014.

SCOUTING THE FIELD

The 16-team bracketed tournament features a number of prominent junior college programs.

• 10 of the 16 teams won at least 30 games a year ago, including five that won more than 40 ballgames.
• Four teams are currently ranked in their respective NJCAA preseason rankings.
• This year's field includes teams from Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, and Tennessee.

WHAT'S NEXT

The Warriors' trip to Millington, TN is the first of two consecutive trips to the USA Baseball Stadium. The Warriors return to action next weekend with the Babe Howard JUCO Classic for a four-game, two-day series.

NEW YEAR - WHAT TO KNOW

Fans can keep up the Indian Hills Baseball squad all year long through a number of ways:

• X (formerly Twitter): @IHCCBaseball  |  @IHCCAthletics
• Facebook: Indian Hills Baseball  |  Indian Hills Athletics
• Instagram: @IHCCBaseball  |  @IHCCAthletics
• Youtube: Indian Hills Athletics
• Website: www.indianhillsathletics.com
• Catch up with the history of Indian Hills Baseball with the official Indian Hills Baseball Record Book
• All home games are played at the Pat Daugherty Field on the Indian Hills Centerville campus.
  • Admission is free of charge for all home contests.

HOW TO WATCH

As always, GoHillsTV provides free live broadcasts of all Indian Hills home baseball games. Fans can tune in a number of ways all season long:

• Facebook: visit www.facebook.com/gohillstv
• GoHillsTV App: Download the GoHillsTV app on your android or ios device
• Website: https://www.gohillstv.com/browse to catch all live and archived information
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