Nashville, Tenn.— Vanderbilt will close out its fall baseball practice this weekend with the three-game Black and Gold Series at Hawkins Field.

The roster was split into two squads last night by the captains of the two teams (Gold- Cody Crowell and Matt Meingasner) (Black- Carter Hawkins and Tyler Rhoden).

The series will begin tomorrow night at 6 p.m. and will continue on Friday night at 6 p.m. The teams will take Saturday off before closing out the set on Sunday at 1 p.m.

The games are free to the public and will be an early showcase of a team that should be ranked among the Top 20 clubs in the national preseason polls.

The Commodores return seven offensive starters, highlighted by 2006 Freshman of the Year Pedro Alvarez and also have a solid pitching staff anchored by All-American southpaw David Price.

Catcher: Carter Hawkins (Sr), Shea Robin (Jr)

Infield: Brad French (Jr), Alex Feinberg (Jr), Ryan Flaherty (Jr), Alex Hilliard (Fr), Russell Brewer (Fr)

Outfield: Ryan Davis (Jr), Kurt Lipton (So), Jonathan White (So), Diallo Fon (RS Fr)

Pitching: RHP: Casey Weathers (Sr), Tyler Rhoden (Jr), Josh Zeid (So), Brett Jacobson (So). LHP: Cameron Betourne (Jr), Jason Cunningham (Jr), Mikie Minor (Fr), Richie Goodenow (Fr)

Inactive players: Stephen Goldburg and Ryan Roberts.

Coached by Erik Bakich

Catcher: Jay Moreland (RS Fr), Andrew Giobbi (RS Fr)

First Base: Adam Cronk (So)

Infield: Matt Meingasner (Sr), David Macias (Jr), Pedro Alvarez (So), Brian Harris (RS Fr)

Outfield: Dominic de la Osa (Jr), Parker Hanks (Jr), Steven Liddle (Fr), Jordan Wormsley (Fr)

Pitching: RHP: Nick Christiani (So), Matt Shao (RS Fr), Caleb Cotham (Fr), Mark Lamm (Fr), LHP: Stephen Shao (Sr), David Price (Jr), Steven Schwartz (Jr), Cody Crowell (Jr)

Inactive players: Ty Davis

Coached by Blake "The Snake" Allen

Thursday, October 19- 6 p.m.

Friday, October 20- 6 p.m.

Sunday, October 22- 1 p.m.