The Georgia Gwinnett College baseball team will begin defense of the 2021 NAIA national championship on its home diamond as host to one of 10 National Championship Opening Round campus sites. Host sites were announced Monday, May 2, by the national office.

The NAIA Opening Round's Lawrenceville Bracket will be a five-team, double-elimination tournament May 16-19 at the Grizzly Baseball Complex in Lawrenceville, Georgia. The other four teams joining GGC in the tournament and the first-round pairings will be announced next week by the NAIA national office.

The champion from the Lawrenceville Bracket will advance to the Avista NAIA World Series in Lewiston, Idaho, beginning May 26.

This year's selection marks the seventh time that GGC will be hosting a NAIA Opening Round site. The Grizzlies advanced to the World Series when they hosted during the 2019, 2018 and 2014 seasons.

Last year's team began its NAIA national championship run by capturing an Opening Round tournament in Santa Barbara, California, before winning all five games at the 2021 Avista NAIA World Series in Lewiston.

Georgia Gwinnett College, led by Head Coach Jeremy Sheetinger, is ranked No. 11 in the latest NAIA Top 25 poll and takes a 37-14 with a home doubleheader schedule on Tuesday, May 3. The Grizzlies will then take the top seed into the Continental Athletic Conference Baseball Championship tournament, scheduled to play No. 4 seed Iowa Wesleyan University on Saturday, May 7, starting at 3 p.m.