Wofford opens the 2024 baseball season at home with three games this weekend against two teams. This is the 16th time in the last 18 seasons that the Terriers are opening the season at Russell C. King Field. Wofford will host Towson and Bucknell this weekend, playing the Tigers twice and one game in the middle against the Bison. The Terriers have never faced either opponent, marking the first meetings against each team this weekend. After a 40-19 season last year with a 12-9 SoCon clip, Wofford enters 2024 picked to finish third in the SoCon Preseason Poll. Towson was tabbed 11th in the CAA's preseason balloting, and Bucknell enters 2024 projected to finish second in the Patriot League. There will be five total games in Spartanburg this weekend, as Towson and Bucknell will play one another twice. The Tigers and Bison will play their match-ups around Wofford's games, facing off at noon at Saturday and again at 10:00 a.m. Sunday.
 
PROBABLE STARTERS
Friday, Feb. 16 vs. Towson: LHP Dylan Rhadans vs. RHP Justin Rebok
Saturday, Feb. 17 vs. Bucknell: RHP Zac Cowan vs. RHP Tyler O'Neill
Sunday, Feb. 18 vs. Towson: RHP Braden Hofmeyer vs. RHP Brett Seils
 
QUICK HITS
• Wofford was picked to finish third in the SoCon preseason balloting. Zac Cowan, Brice Martinez and Jack Renwick were all named to the Preseason All-SoCon Team.
• The 2024 campaign will be the first under the leadership of head coach J.J. Edwards.
• Opening Day starter Dylan Rhadans is making his team debut for Wofford, the first Terrier pitcher to make his debut as the game one starter since Scott Summers in 2008.
• The Terriers topped the country last season in a pair of statistical categories: sacrifice bunts (86) and walks allowed per nine innings (2.38)
• Wofford owned one of the best offenses in the nation, ranking 13th in average (.314), 10th in OBP (.422), 12th in scoring (8.5) and 33rd in hits (617).
• 2024 Wofford graduate and SoCon Player of the Year Ryan Galanie was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the 13th round of the 2024 MLB Draft with the 389th overall pick. He was the 18th draft pick in program history.
• Jack Renwick was the best bunter in the nation, topping Division I in 2023 with 28 sacrifices laid down to pace Wofford's national-best 86 sac-bunts. Renwick is already Wofford's career leader in bunts and set the single-season mark for both Wofford and the SoCon.
• Ryan Galanie was named SoCon Player of the Year as a consensus selection, the third Terrier in a row to claim the honor.
• With 153 steals last season, Wofford has stolen 100 or more bases in 10-straight full seasons dating back to 2013, the longest active streak in Division I.
 
THE EDWARDS ERA
It is the dawn of a new era for Wofford baseball, as the program enters its first season under the direction of head coach J.J. Edwards, who had served as an assistant with the program for the past 12 seasons. Associate head coach for the last two years, Edwards was elevated to head coach on July 13, 2023, after longtime Terrier skipper Todd Interdonato accepted the same role at Boston College. Edwards is the 35th head coach in the program's history, which dates back to 1889. Under the tutelage of Edwards, the Terrier offense has ranked in the top three of the SoCon in batting average every season since 2018. Wofford has ranked in the top five nationally in stolen bases in nine of the last 11 seasons and has not ranked below ninth in the country in that span. Each of the last three SoCon Players of the Year have come from Wofford, with Colin Davis (2021), Lawson Hill (2022) and Ryan Galanie (2023) earning the honors. Each of Wofford's last two coaches won their first game as skipper, with Steve Traylor's bunch topping High Point 6-1 in the 2000 opener, and Interdonato's squad dispatched St. Peters 14-3 in the 2008 opener. Edwards will look to make it three in a row when Wofford faces Towson in the 2024 opener.
 
PRESEASON HONORS
The preseason SoCon balloting tabbed Wofford to finish third in the league. Samford was picked in first place, and Mercer was picked in second. Samford received seven of the eight first-place votes, the lone non-Bulldog vote going to Wofford. Three Terriers were honored on the Preseason All-SoCon Team, all three receiving second-team recognition. Zac Cowan, Brice Martinez and Jack Renwick each earned preseason recognition. Notably absent was Dixon Black, who despite receiving Second-Team All-SoCon honors upon the conclusion of last season was snubbed off of the preseason team in 2024.
 
SMALL BALL
Wofford, or Bunt School, uses a combination of stolen bases and sacrifice bunts to advance on the basepaths. Wofford dropped down 86 sac-bunts last season, tops in the nation. Wofford also featured the best bunter in the country, as Jack Renwick's 28 sac-bunts led the NCAA, 15 ahead of the next closest players, four tied with 13 each. Brice Martinez and Marshall Toole were eighth nationally with 12 each, second in the SoCon. With 153 steals, the Terriers were second in the SoCon and fifth nationally. Wofford's 2.59 steals per game checked in at fourth in the country. With 26 steals, Trey Yunger ranked third in the SoCon. Marshall Toole was not far behind with 23 steals in seventh, and Ryan Galanie owned 19 steals for eighth place. The Terriers have secured a 10th consecutive full season with 100 or more steals.
 
BROTHERLY CONNECTION
The Terrier roster once again features a Rhadans, as junior transfer Dylan Rhadans has joined the pitching staff this season. He is the brother of former Terrier hurler Dalton Rhadans, who featured for Wofford from 2020-22. Though both are pitchers, the duo from Acworth, Georgia, have a unique distinction. Dalton was a right-handed pitcher while Dylan is a lefty. Dalton was primarily a closer and spent almost his entire career with Wofford coming out of the bullpen, as his 17 career saves are fourth most in program history. He started only one game in a Terrier uniform - his last. On the other hand, Dylan is slated as the 2024 opening day starter, set to start his very first game as a Terrier.
 
ON DECK
The Terriers remain home for the next four games beginning with a midweek match-up against Kennesaw State at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, February 21. That weekend, Wofford welcomes Fairleigh Dickinson to Russell C. King Field for a three-game set.