DE PERE - St. Norbert College's baseball team was the last Green Knights squad to see action in 2020 before the spring sports season was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Norbs' '9' will be the first to return in 2021 when it faces Crown College in a doubleheader at 4 p.m. Saturday at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.

The Green Knights went 2-1 over three games in 2020 before having their season terminated. St. Norbert won two of three games at the Millikin University Tournament, with the last game a 5-2 win over Loras College on March 8 - a total of 356 days between games.

St. Norbert returns six players who were in the starting lineup against Loras - senior outfielders Jack Maastricht and Lucas Reynolds, senior infielder Peyton Jack, junior catcher Isaac Gerhardt and sophomore infielders Trevor Reinhardt and Sebastien Dubois.

The Green Knights are making their first appearance at U.S. Bank Stadium. St. Norbert last played indoors on May 8, 2004 when it swept a Midwest Conference doubleheader from Lawrence University at then-Miller Park in Milwaukee. St. Norbert played five doubleheaders at U.S. Bank Stadium's forerunner, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, with the last coming in a doubleheader sweep of Elmhurst College on March 22, 1997.