ST. LOUIS, Mo. – The Washington University in St. Louis baseball team, which is receiving votes in the preseason D3baseball.com coaches poll, begins its season on Friday when it travels to Millington, Tenn. for a weekend at the USA Stadium Complex. The Bears are coming off a season in which they advanced to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2021.

Where to Follow
All the Bears' home games at the WashU Softball Field as well as all away UAA games will be streamed exclusively through FloSports. This year, the UAA and FloSports entered into an exclusive, five-year media rights agreement to stream all UAA competition.

FloSports is a subscription-based platform available on desktop, laptop, or tablet. The FloSports app is available for iPhone and Android and is accessible through Roku and Amazon Fire TV.

To view pricing and sign up, click HERE.

All home games will have live stats HERE.

Schedule
 (All dates/times are subject to change)
On the opening weekend, the Bears will have one game on Friday, Feb. 20, one on Saturday, Feb. 21, and one on Sunday, Feb. 22. Each contest is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. on their respective day. On Friday, WashU faces off against Benedictine University, Millikin on Saturday, and No. 15 Webster on Sunday.

The following weekend, WashU will host Coe College for a three-game series with a single game on Saturday, Feb. 28 at 2 p.m. and a double-header on Sunday, Mar. 1 starting at 11 a.m. On Saturday, Mar. 7, the Bears will host a double-header against Illinois Wesleyan at 11 a.m. before a single game against the Titans on Sunday, Mar. 8 at 12 p.m.

The following Wednesday, WashU will play its lone true road non-conference game of the season with a single contest on Mar. 11 at Rose-Hulman at 5 p.m. ET.

A three-game series against Transylvania begins on Friday, Mar. 13, with 2 p.m. start times on Friday and Saturday, and a 12 p.m. start on Sunday, Mar. 15. That Wednesday, the Bears will welcome the Pioneers of Wis.-Platteville for a single game at 3 p.m.

On Saturday, Mar. 21, and Sunday, Mar. 22, WashU will play a double-header each day against Gustavus Adolphus, with the first pitch both days at 11 a.m. The final non-conference contest of the season will take place on Tuesday, Mar. 24, when the Blue Jays of Westminster visit Kelly Field for a 2 p.m. contest.

UAA play begins the following weekend, with a home series against Chicago from Mar. 27-29. Conference series are a single game on Fridays beginning at 3 p.m. (local time), a double-header on Saturday at 12 p.m. (local time), and wrapping up with a single game on Sunday at 11 a.m. (local time).

The following weekend, NYU comes to Irv Utz Stadium for a UAA series from Apr. 3-5, and the final home games of the regular season are the UAA series against Emory from Apr. 10-12.

The final two weekends of the regular season, the Bears are on the road at Brandeis from Apr. 17-19 and at Case Western Reserve from Apr. 24-26.

Personnel 
WashU returns to the field five players who started at least 75% of contests a year ago, along with a pitching staff that went 19-9 last season.

Among the returners are six seniors and a graduate student – Josh Erpenbeck, Alex Ardemagni, Josh Holt, Connor Lindsey, Shane Pellegrino, Miles Quemuel-Labrador, and Isaac Zhang – all of whom played a significant number of innings. Graduate student Chase Brickley joins the Bears after playing previously at Colorado State.

Quemuel-Labrador led WashU in wins last season with six in 42.1 innings of work to go along with 41 strikeouts. Zhang, an All-Association and All-Region selection a year ago, went 3-1 on the mound with just a 2.06 ERA in 43.2 innings of work and 28 strikeouts. Pellegrino, who started all 43 games for the Bears last year, finished the 2025 season with a .258 batting average with six doubles, a triple, and a home run.

Returning for the junior class are team captain Anthony Equale, who played in 33 games, making 29 starts and had 26 hits with three home runs, six doubles, and a .271 batting average, and Townsend Stevenson, who became only the second pitcher in team history to pitch a complete game, no-hitter, and the first to do so with 10+ strikeouts.

Other returning juniors include Bo Ziegler, Owen Block, Miles Birke, Anderson Gomez, Parker Guthrie, and Levi Gingerich.

The sophomore class has seven returnees, who combined for 103 hits, including 13 doubles, three triples, and four home runs. Ryan Soong, Will Taigen, Cooper Greene, and Kevin Stephens each played in 34 games for WashU to lead the sophomores.

Other sophomores include Aiden Dennis, Jay Ronning, and Tyler Phillips.

Joining the squad this year is a talented group of 14 first-years.

The group includes pitchers Maxime Gonzales, Henry Wild, Ford Givens, Dylan Belyea, Stephen Hall, and Will Coffman. Fielding first-years include Liam Murphy, Drew Dillon, Jacob Witte, Chance Cromer, Ashton Bell, Kanten Smith, Eli Sitzer, and Dane Debbrecht.

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