Georgetown Hoyas baseball

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Georgetown Hoyas
Baseball current event.svg 2024 Georgetown Hoyas baseball team
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Founded1870 (1870)
University Georgetown University
Head coach Edwin Thompson (4th season)
Conference Big East
Location Washington, D.C.
Home stadium Capital One Park
(Capacity: 650)
Nickname Hoyas
ColorsBlue and gray [1]
   

The Georgetown Hoyas baseball team represents Georgetown University in the Big East Conference, part of the NCAA's Division I level of college baseball. Baseball is Georgetown's second oldest sport after cricket, [2] with the first recorded game taking place in 1866, and the team formally organized and sanctioned in 1870. In 1899, Georgetown took the intercollegiate baseball world by storm, winning 18 of 20 games against college teams, beating national powers Princeton and Yale three times each and Virginia twice. The Hilltoppers reached the pinnacle of college baseball when they were acclaimed intercollegiate national champions at season's end.

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Upon their triumphant return from their northern trip at the conclusion of that year, the championship team was escorted from the train station to Georgetown in a torchlight parade led by a carriage of top university officials and included students on horseback, alumni, students from the three schools, and the college band. They were greeted with fireworks once back on campus. The team was once known as the Stonewalls, and is one possible source of the Hoya Saxa cheer famous among all Georgetown sports teams. [3] Georgetown has yet to make an appearance in the NCAA Division I baseball tournament. From 1987 to 2014, the Hoyas did not even reach the Big East tournament, and it was only in 2023 that they won a Big East tournament game. [4] [5]

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Georgetown's baseball team is the oldest on campus, having formed in 1870. Hoya baseball.jpg
Georgetown's baseball team is the oldest on campus, having formed in 1870.

The Hoyas have played their home games at Capital One Park in Tysons, VA, since 2024. They previously played at Shirley Povich Field, a 1,500 seat stadium located in Bethesda, Maryland and named for Washington Post sports columnist Shirley Povich.

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