Conway, Ark. - Hendrix has announced its 2026 baseball schedule. The Warriors will play a 40-game schedule that features ten conference series as Hendrix returns to the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference after a 12-year tenure in the Southern Athletic Association.
RJ Thomas' squad will start the season at home with a three-game non-conference series against Westminster (Mo.) before diving right into conference play with a road series against St. Thomas (TX) that will be played at Sam Houston State in Huntsville, Texas.
The Warriors return home for three consecutive weekend series in Conway, including two conference series versus the University of the Ozarks and Centenary, with a four-game nonconference set versus Redlands sandwiched in-between.
Mid-March sees Hendrix head west to Texas for back-to-back series in the Lonestar State. The Warriors will play in Kerville, Texas in the program's first-ever meeting with Schreiner before heading back to Texas the following weekend for a three-game set with McMurry in Abilene. They will then return home to host Concordia Texas before hosting their first midweek contest of the season versus East Texas Baptist.
After a road series at the University of Dallas to begin the month of April, the Warriors will host a midweek bout versus Lyon on April 8 before hosting Texas Lutheran April 10-11. Another midweek game at Lyon, this time in Batesville, Ark., will prelude the Warriors' final two regular season conference series of the season. Hendrix heads to LeTourneau April 16-18 before returning home to close out the regular season with a three-game set versus Austin College.
The 2026 SCAC tournament will be staged April 30 - May 3 in Cleburne, Texas at La Moderna Field, the home of the Cleburne Railroaders of the American Association.
Hendrix lost several key contributors from its starting lineup that led the Warriors to a top-four finish in the SAA last season but returns five 2025 All-SAA selections, including
Dylan Kalmus, who finished fifth in the league last season with a 3.23 ERA in 11 starts, recording 56 strikeouts in 61.1 innings pitched.
Aiden Leggett joined Kalmus on the All-SAA second team last season, pitching to a 1.54 WHIP in 42.1 innings with 52 strikeouts, with opposing hitters hitting just .188 against the lefty.
Austin Rabago slashed .345/.420/.458 last season and finished tied for second on the team with 36 runs batted-in.
