NASHUA – Now we finally know when and where the Nashua Silver Knights are playing ball.

The team released its 2024 Futures Collegiate League season schedule on Thursday, and, as expected, it will begin the campaign with three straight games at Holman Stadium the weekend of May 24-26, Memorial Day Weekend.

The Knights will take on the Vermont Lake Monsters on Friday, May 24 at 6 p.m. at Holman. Then they host the New Britain Bees on Saturday, May 25 at 6, and conclude the season-opening weekend on Sunday, May 26 at 3 p.m.

The schedule was delayed twice thanks first to the sale of Worcester by Silver Knights owner John Creeedon, Jr. and his family to Worcester-based businessman Frank Vaccaro, and then the sudden news that the Pittsfield Suns will take the 2024 season off due to issues with historic Wahconah Park. In place of the Suns, the league will form a travel team that will play in what were going to be the Suns road games only. That team’s first appearance at Holman will be on June 11. With all of Pittsfield’s home games wiped off the schedule, each FCBL team will play 58 games instead of the planned 64.

“I like that we’re coming out of the gates Friday, Saturday and Sunday at home,” Silver Knights general manager Cam Cook said. “Yes we have less (home) games in July because of the Legion tournament (the American Senior Legion state tourney at Holman July 19-23), but the games we do have are a Thursday, a Friday, a Saturday – all good games.”

However, while that month has 10 home dates, and three Thursdays, there is only one Friday night, but two Saturdays. They also pay for an entire home opening weekend with five straight road games, May 27-June 1.

The Silver Knights have 19 home games combined in May-June, including four Friday nights, usually their fireworks nights.

The team’s final home games are They end the regular season on the road on Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 3 and 4 at Vermont. The playoffs – top four teams via winning percentage – will be Aug. 6 through 10 as of now.

The May-June slate has, including opening weekend, has 13 weekend dates – five Sundays, four Fridays, three Saturdays and one Thursday. Nashua will be home every Tuesday night in June plus two Wednesdays.

There are not one but two Education Day s, back-to-back on Tuesday-Wednesday June 4-5, starting at 10:30 a.m. Those are days created for local schools to attend, and the lone Education Day set a franchise high 4,000-plus crowd in 2023. The opponents are the Brockton Rox both days.

The league is, as usual, taking Mondays off, unless needed for makeup days, although Nashua is at Norwich for a 4 p.m. game on Memorial Day, May 27. The Silver Knights also have three Tuesdays off – May 28, July 16, and 30, and also do not play on Saturday, July 20. Those are days when it was originally slated to head to Pittsfield. The travel team, marked “RW” on the schedule, plays Nashua here four times.

The FCBL All-Star Game is Tuesday, July 23 at Norwich, and the break is only two days (Monday-Tuesday) as the Knights host the Road Warriors on Wednesday, July 24.

Game times remain as usual: 6 p.m. except for Sundays (3 p.m.) and the Education Days. Also, the Silver Knights for the third straight year will play a morning home game on July 4, this year at 11 a.m. vs. the Westfield Starfires.

For more information, contact the Silver Knights. But now there is finally a schedule for the team to be able to sell and fans able to make plans – and buy.

“I am pumped about some of the things we have lined up promotionally,” Cook said. “Monkey Boy, Barstool and Education Day were awesome last year We’ve got a lot of that coming back plus some new things. We don’t have to book four busses to Pittsfield, so that’s a little bit more money we can play around with. … I think fans will be really excited about the feel to the Silver Knights this summer.”

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