Baseball 2023 Schedule and Roster Released

Nate Cain

Bellevue College baseball has released their 2023 spring schedule and roster. The schedule features games with six of the eight teams that played in last year’s NWAC Championships, giving the Bulldogs another competitive schedule put together by Head Coach David Olson. BC will open up with Olympic College (February 17 and 19), and for the first time, will be a non-league four-game set as Olympic has moved regions and are no longer part of the North as they have been for decades. The Rangers will now play in the West Region, along with Tacoma (March 4-5), Lower Columbia (February 25-26), and Pierce (March 11-12), who Bellevue will also play in pre-season action.

Bellevue will also welcome Spokane and Mount Hood, last year’s NWAC runner up, to Bellevue the weekend of March 18-19 for a three-team round-robin featuring three top teams.

League play will have a new look this year with the departed Olympic out. Each team will play a six game set against each other. In round one, each team will play a doubleheader against one team followed the next day with a twinbill against another North Region team. To open things off, Bellevue will have the luxury of battling league rivals Everett and Edmonds on back-to-back days in week one of region play.

Following the one-time through, each team will then play their traditional four-game set (two home, two away against same team).

Bellevue’s 2023 roster has been set since day one of fall ball and is available here. With no cuts needed as part of their program philosophy, Bellevue will carry 28 players this year, but only 27 active as Noah Deese, one of BC’s top pitching recruits, will sit out the 2023 campaign recovering from reconstructive elbow surgery.

The roster features 12 returners who all have extensive experience with many starters in the field returning. The squad has 14 pitchers with ace Rylen Bayne returning. BC also welcomes two transfers to add to the mix. The veteran experience showed on the mound this fall as the ‘dogs return 250+ innings of the teams 441 total from last spring. “At least we don’t have to hold anyone back on travel squad since we don’t even have enough players to fill the NWAC travel squad limit,” joked Olson.

Last Updated October 21, 2022