THIS WEEK: Three of four Chipola teams hit the road looking for big wins

MARIANNA, Fla. – The Indians & Lady Indians will look to build on last week's 9-4 combined win-loss tally starting Wednesday and wrapping up the week on Saturday.

BASEBALL THIS WEEK

#12 Chipola Baseball (8-5) starts off the week with a 9-inning game at home against Enterprise State Community College. The Boll Weevils stunned the Indians on the road last week, scoring four runs in the bottom of the ninth to start the Indians on a three-game losing streak. After a pair of losses to #20 Walters State on Friday and Saturday, Chipola regrouped to defeat Columbia State, 7-3, on Saturday night then shut out the Chargers on Sunday morning, 3-0.

Baseball Schedule:

Wednesday         vs. Enterprise State                         Jeff Johnson Field             2 PM

Friday                   vs. East Mississippi                          Jeff Johnson Field             11 AM

Friday                   vs. Wallace-Dothan                         Jeff Johnson Field             2 PM

Saturday              vs. East Mississippi                          Jeff Johnson Field             10 AM

Saturday              vs. Coastal Alabama-South           Jeff Johnson Field             6 PM

All baseball games will be livestreamed here: CHIPOLA ATHLETICS ON HUDL ($)

WOMEN'S & MEN'S BASKETBALL THIS WEEK

Chipola's Basketball teams have put themselves in position to be in sole possession of first place in the Panhandle Conference at the end of the week and strengthen their postseason resumes. The teams will travel to Raider Arena on Wednesday to take on Northwest Florida then travel to Hartsell Arena in Pensacola to face the Pirates.

The #3 Lady Indians (23-1; 5-1) sit behind #2 Northwest Florida in the NJCAA rankings, hold the #1 spot over the #2 Raiders in the FCSAA Coaches' Poll, and the two rivals are dead even at 4-1 atop the Panhandle Conference standings. Chipola defeated the Raiders, 67-57, on January 25 at The Milt. With a win, the Lady Indians can take the season series with the Raiders for the first time since the 2016-17 season when Chipola won all three games.

Having already won the season series with the Lady Pirates, the Chipola women will look for the sweep when they head to Pensacola State on Saturday. Chipola defeated the Lady Pirates, 65-56, in Pensacola on January 11, and then won 61-44 in Marianna on February 1. Chipola has not swept the Lady Pirates since the 2019-2020 season.

The #11 Chipola men's basketball team (19-5; 4-2) will look to keep pace with the #16 Pirates atop the Panhandle Conference standings on Wednesday when they travel to face #18 Northwest Florida in Niceville. Although the Pirates have defeated the Indians twice this season and have one more win in conference, the Indians are even with the Pirates in the loss column at two. Chipola controls its own destiny and can sit alone in first position with a pair of wins this week. The Pirates host Gulf Coast on Wednesday night.

Chipola won the first meeting with the Raiders, 67-57, on January 25, in Marianna and will look to win the season series on Saturday for the sixth consecutive year. The Raiders last won the series when they took two of three from Chipola during the 2018-2019 season. Northwest Florida is coming off of a 76-50 loss to Gulf Coast on Saturday that dropped the Raiders into a third-place tie with the Commodores in the conference standings. The Indians have won their last five games inside Raider Arena, going 2-0 against the Raiders in the 2023-2024 regular season and winning three games to take the 2034 FCSAA/Region VIII title, including another victory over the home team in the Championship game.

The Indians' kryptonite this season has been the league-leading Pirates of Pensacola State. Chipola's only two conference losses of the season have come to the Pirates. Chipola fell in the first conference game of 2025 on January 11 in Pensacola, 62-50, then lost at home, 71-63, on February 1. It was the first time a Donnie Tyndall-led Chipola team has lost back-to-back to a conference opponent and only the second time the Indians have lost a season series with a conference opponent under Coach Tyndall. Chipola has not been swept in a conference series since the Raiders won all three games in the 2016-2017 season.

Basketball Schedule:

Wednesday         @ Northwest Florida       Raider Arena      WBB 5:15 PM     MBB 7:30 PM

Both games will be livestreamed here: Northwest Florida Watch Live ($)

Saturday              @ Pensacola State           Hartsell Arena    WBB 2 PM           MBB 4 PM

Both games will be livestreamed here: Pirate Network

SOFTBALL THIS WEEK

The Lady Indians completed a successful 5-1 weekend to move to 8-2 on the season. Chipola's sixth win of the season, a 7-4 victory over Northwest Shoals last Saturday morning, gave Coach Kelly Brookins her 100^th career win.

After dropping the first game of a doubleheader to St. John's River on Thursday night at home, the Lady Indians took game two, 13-5, to start a five-game win streak.

In the Visit Dothan Invitational played at James Oates Park in Dothan, Alabama, the Lady Indians went 4-0 starting with a 14-6 win over Heartland Community College from Normal, Illinois. The Hawks are coached by first-year head coach Krystal Goodman, a Chipola softball alum. Goodman played for former Chipola head coach Belinda Hendrix at Chipola from 2016-2018. She was a two-time First Team All-American and the 2018 NJCAA Division I Pitcher of the Year.

On Saturday, Chipola won three games on a long day in Dothan. The Lady Indians started out at 10 AM with the win over Northwest Shoals from Muscle Shoals, Alabama then turned around and defeated another team from Alabama, Shelton State out of Tuscaloosa, 7-2. The Lady Indians concluded the tournament with a 4-3 walk-off win over #21 Lake Land College from Mattoon, Illinois.

Chipola will travel to Fort Myers this weekend to participate in the Paradise Cove Tournament hosted by Florida SouthWestern State College. The competition will wrap as the Lady Indians take on three opponents ranked in the NJCAA Preseason Top 25.

Softball Schedule:

Friday                   vs. #1 Indian River State                Lee Health Park                11:45 AM CST

Friday                   vs. #7 Florida SouthWestern         Lee Health Park                2:00 PM CST

Saturday              vs. Miami Dade College                 Lee Health Park                9:30 AM CST

Saturday              vs.#8 College of Southern Idaho  Lee Health Park                11:45 AM CST

All games will be livestreamed here: CHIPOLA ATHLETICS ON HUDL ($)