SPRINGFIELD – Missouri State baseball will host its 15th annual First Pitch Night on Saturday, Jan. 25, with a reunion of the 2015 Bears headlining the event.
 
First Pitch Night will take place at the Bill Rowe Training Facility at Hammons Field at 5:30 p.m., to help the Bears kick off the 2025 season, which opens Feb. 14 with a three-game series at Sam Houston.
 
Individual tickets are on sale now for $25 each with payments processed by Masterful Events in the following ways:

1. To pay by credit card, email your ticket request to MasterfulEventsMO@gmail.com to begin the process.
2. To pay by check, make out to Masterful Events and send to this address:
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         5695 South Nettleton
         Springfield, MO 65810

Special rates for youth teams are available by contacting Director of Special Projects Keith Guttin at KeithGuttin@MissouriState.edu or 417-425-0218. Any additional questions can also be directed to Guttin.
 
Highlighting the evening's festivities will be a program featuring the 2015 Bears, with players including Jake Burger, Jon Harris, Matt Hall, MSU first-year head coach Joey Hawkins and Tate Matheny in attendance among numerous others.
 
The 2015 Bears won a school-record 49 games and earned the No. 8 national seed in the NCAA Tournament. MoState hosted an NCAA Regional at Hammons Field, sweeping through that weekend to reach a school-record 19 consecutive victories. The Bears ended the year one win away from Omaha with a three-game series loss in the Super Regional at Arkansas.
 
Missouri State caught fire in mid-March of that season, winning 39 of 43 games en route to sweeping the Missouri Valley Conference regular season and tournament championships and ascending to as high as No. 6 in the national rankings. Four Bears earned All-America honors and four received specialty awards from the Missouri Valley Conference at season's end.
 
The 2025 Bears will be on hand to sign autographs, and silent and live auctions featuring sporting and non-sporting memorabilia and other giveaways will be conducted. A dinner buffet is included in the night's events.
 
First Pitch Night ends a special day for the MSU Baseball program. That morning, former head coach Keith Guttin and his long-time pitching coach Paul Evans will be inducted into the Missouri State Athletics Hall of Fame, as will Ken Brown, who played for the Bears from 1965-67.
 
Additionally, season tickets for the Bears' 28-game home schedule went on sale this week. Fans can purchase season tickets online at this link. For additional information, call Duane Miller at (417) 836-8899, the main MSU Athletics ticket office at (417) 836-7678, or visit the box office at Great Southern Bank Arena during normal hours.