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The Alcorn State Braves baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate baseball program of Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi, United States.The program's first season was in 1959, and it has been a member of the NCAA Division I Southwestern Athletic Conference since the start of the 1963 season.
The field is named for Bill Foster, former Negro leagues baseball player, member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and Alcorn State head baseball coach from 1960 to 1971. The stadium is named for Willie McGowan, head baseball coach from 1972 to 2009. [1] [2] In 38 years as Alcorn State's coach, McGowan won over 700 games. [3]
Alcorn State University was the first black land grant college in the country. Mississippi's Reconstructionist legislature, dominated by Republicans sympathetic to the cause of educating the formerly enslaved, was established on the site of Oakland College, a college that had gone defunct due to the Civil War. [9]
The Alcorn State Braves and Lady Braves represent Alcorn State University in Lorman, Mississippi in intercollegiate athletics. They field 15 teams including men's and women's basketball, cross country, golf, tennis, and track and field; women's-only soccer, softball, and volleyball; and men's-only baseball and football.
Brandon Antonio Rembert (born October 17, 1998) is an American Major League Baseball scout and former college baseball outfielder for the Alcorn State University Braves. [1] [2] In February 2022, he was hired by the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball as a Minor League Baseball Operations Assistant.
Davey Whitney Complex is a 7,000-seat multi-purpose arena and physical education center in Lorman, Mississippi.It was built in 1975 and is home to the Alcorn State University Braves men's and women's basketball teams and women's volleyball team.
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