College Baseball Program of the Day #012: Blinn College Buccaneers 4 straight trips to the JUCO World Series. 1 national title. 1 national runner-up finish in 2026. 2027 and 2028 players, Blinn College in Brenham, Texas is one of the most reliable winners in junior college baseball. Under head coach Dusty Hart, Blinn has won the Region XIV South title, the Region XIV South Regional and the Mid-South District in every season since he arrived in 2023, and has reached the NJCAA Division I World Series four years in a row, all program records. Their finishes in Grand Junction: fourth in 2023, national champions in 2024, fifth in 2025, runner-up in 2026. The 2026 season: 49-14 overall, the program's highest win total under Hart (46 in 2023, 47 in 2024, 48 in 2025, 49 in 2026) No. 3 ranked entering the World Series, the No. 2 seed Went 4-2 in Grand Junction and fought out of the loser's bracket to reach the title game, falling 8-5 to top-ranked Johnson County SS Jacob Bohacek hit 16 home runs on the year, including 4 at the World Series. 1B Drew Britton hit his 10th of the season in the title game RHP Dylan Thompson was named Pitcher of the Tournament after two complete games, and 2B Hunter Smolinski was named Defensive Player of the Tournament Thompson, Smolinski, Bohacek and 3B Ryley Leininger made the World Series All-Tournament Team The 2024 title team set World Series records for hits (101) and runs (86). Tanner Reaves had a tournament-record 18 hits and 7 doubles, and Cade Climie scored a tournament-best 15 runs and won the inaugural Kirby Puckett Memorial MVP. Blinn beat Northwest Florida State 12-5 in the final. In 2025, catcher Ethan Gonzalez tied the World Series single-game record with six hits and set the tournament batting average record at .700 (14-for-20). The pipeline is the point. Blinn sent 9 players from the 2025 team to NCAA Division I programs, and 15 players from the 2024 title team signed with four-year schools, 12 of them at Division I. The school has won 53 national championships across all sports since 1987. Head coach Dusty Hart is 766-329 as a head coach. Before Blinn he spent 17 seasons at Grayson College, where he won the 2008 NJCAA Division I World Series. He was the 2008 NJCAA National Coach of the Year, the 2024 NJCAA DI ABCA/ATEC National Coach of the Year, and has won 11 region coach of the year awards. 25 of his players have been drafted by MLB teams. He played shortstop at Grayson and UT Pan American. Pitching coach Chase Van Dyk and assistant Greg Evans round out the staff. @BlinnBaseball @BlinnAthletics @DustyHart @Chasevandyk National Baseball Recruiting | @natlbbrecruit