<< 2010 USF Bulls Baseball Game Notes Week 4 | March 12-14 220100 1 0 SSchedulec h e d u l e BBullsulls SSetet TToo WWelcomeelcome MMercerercer FForor TThree-Gamehree-Game SSetet iinn FEBRUARY | 1-2 Neutral | 0-3 Away | 1-5 Overall FFinalinal NNon-Conferenceon-Conference SSerieseries ooff 22010010 14 15 16 17 18 19 L, 6-2 20 L, 9-1 March 19 March 20 March 21 Florida Florida Mercer Mercer Mercer 21 L, 7-6(10) 22 23 24 25 26 L,4-2 27 L,13-2 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 1 p.m. Florida OSU* Illinois* Red McEwen Field - Tampa, Fla. Red McEwen Field - Tampa, Fla. Red McEwen Field - Tampa, Fla. 28 L,4-2 Michigan* USF Communications: Brad Borghetti | 330-883-9506 | [email protected] MARCH | 1-2 Neutral | 2-3 Home | 1-2 Away | 4-7 Overall Tickets: Call the USF athletic ticket offi ce at (800) GoBulls Listen Live on BullsVision: Listen to all of the Bulls baseball games this season on BullsVison. An audio 1 2 L,15-2 3 4 L,7-6(10) 5 L,3-2 6 L, 4-3 subscription to BullsVision is just $4.95 per month or get an entire year for $49.95. Miami # OU % SFA % OU % 7 W, 16-2 8 9 W, 14-7 10 L, 12-6 11 13 L,7-6 13 L,11-9 USF Bulls Mercer Bears W.Ill. % JU JU E. Illinois E. Illinois 46th season of baseball at USF 2010 Record: 13-5 Record: 5-12 14 W, 8-5 15 16 W, 4-0 17 18 19 7 PM 20 7 PM Head Coach Craig Gibson (Mercer ‘85) E. Illinois UCF Mercer Mercer Head Coach: Lelo Prado (Tampa) Career Record:162-168 (6th season) Career Record: 7702-515-2(02-515-2 21st year) at MU: Same 21 1 PM 22 23 7 PM 25 26 7 PM 27 7 PM at USF: 104-87 (Fourth year) Mercer UNF ND ND 28 7 PM 29 30 6:30 p.m. 31 vs. Mercer ND Stetson Friday Probable Starting Pitchers: USF - Randy Fontanez | MU - LHP Brandon Love APRIL Play-by-Play: Joel Godett | Color: Jim Lighthall 1 6:30 PM 2 6:30 PM 3 1 PM Radio/Internet: Live1010 CBS Sports / Live GoUSFBulls.com (BullsVision) UC UC UC Saturday 4 5 6 7 PM 7 8 9 7 PM 10 7 PM Probable Starting Pitchers: USF - LHP Andrew Barbosa | MU -rHP Justice French or Chris Newell UCF GTOWN GTOWN Play-by-Play: Jim Louk | Color: Joel Godett 11 1 PM 12 13 14 15 16 3 PM 17 1 PM Radio/Internet: Live1010 CBS Sports / Live GoUSFBulls.com (BullsVision) GTOWN Rutgers Rutgers Sunday 18 1 PM 19 20 6:30PM 21 7 PM 22 23 7 PM 24 7 PM Probable Starting Pitchers: USF - RHP Matt Stull | MU -LHP David Randall Rutgers Stetson Florida Villanova Villanova Play-by-Play:Playyy by Play: y Joel Godett | Color: Jim Henderson 25 Noon 26 27 7 PM 28 6 PM 29 30 6 PM RRadio/Internet:adio/Internet: Live1010 CBS SSportsports / Live GoUSFBulls.com (BullsVision(BullsVision)) Villanova FGCU Miami SHU MAY 1 6 PM SHU 2 1 PM 3 4 5 6 7 7 PM 8 1 PM SHU St. John’s St. John’s 9 Noon 10 11 12 7 PM 13 14 7 PM 15 7 PM St. John’s UNF UConn UConn 16 7 PM 17 18 19 20 6 PM 21 6 PM 22 Noon UConn Pitt Pitt Pitt 23 24 25 26 27 28 30 BE TRN BE TRN BE TRN BE TRN BE TRN 31 JUNE Regionals | Super Regionals | World Series 1 23456 Region- Super Reg. Super Reg. als THIS WEEK’S PLAYER TO WATCH 7 8 9 10111213 Junior RHP Matt Stull will make his second straight Sunday start for Super Reg. Super Reg. CWS the Bulls with hopes of having a repeat performance of his last outing 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 against Eastern Illinois on 3/15. Stull opened the game by retiring nine CWS CWS CWS CWS CWS CWS CWS of the fi rst 10 batters he faced and not allowing a hit until the fourth 21 22 23 inning. The win marked the fi rst of the season for Stull, evening his CWS CWS CWS record at 1-1. Stull worked 5.2 innings, giving up three runs on just HHomeome ggamesames iinn ggoldold AAwayway ggamesames iinn GGoldold four hits while striking out three. * BIG EAST - Big Ten Challenge (Feb. 26-28) - Clearwater, Fla. / St. Petersburg, Fla. % Sooner Classic (Mar. 4-7) - Norman, Okla. # Florida Four (March 13-15) - Steinbrenner Field 2 > 2010 UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA BASEBALL GAME NOTES A Look at the Weekend The Pitching Matchups Coming off back-to-back wins over Eastern Illinois and UCF, USF ace Randy Fontanez, who has some suffered some tough 2010 Honors and Awards the University of South Florida baseball team will look to keep luck in the early goings, will look for his fi rst win of 2010 when Junior Carlin things rolling as they head into their fi nal non-conference of takes the mound for his usual Friday night start. Preseason All BIG EAST the season when they host Mercer in a three game set at Red Big Ten/BIG EAST Challenege All-Tournament Team McEwen Field on March 19-21. Saturday’s tilt will feature junior walk-on Andrew Bar- Honorable mention bosa looking for his fi rst win of the season as well. The 6’8 Both Friday and Saturday’s contests are slated for a 7 p.m. fi rst southpaw is second on the team in strikeouts(24) and earned Randy Fontanez pitch, while Sunday’s get away game will start at 1 p.m. run average (3.70). He, like Fontanez, has been a victim of BIG EAST Preseason Pitcher of the Year some shaky defense behind as only 10 of the 18 runs he has USF will look to keep momentum rolling as the Bulls have given up have been earned. Opposing batters are hitting .239 to be played at either the University of Tampa or George Stein- rolled up consecutive wins for the fi rst time this season. Last against the crafty lefty, including .192 against left-handed brenner Field, but will now be held on campus at Red McEwen. time out, senior Teddy Kaufman turned in a career effort with batters. nine stellar innings and a personal-high 14 strike outs while The UConn series (May 14-16) will be the only baseball games leading USF to a 4-0 victory over the Knights Tuesday evening In the fi nale, junior RHP Matt Stull will make his second played at George Steinbrenner Field. at Jay Bergman Field. straight Sunday start with hopes of having a repeat perfor- mance of his last outing against Eastern Illinois on 3/15. Stull Construction on the baseball and softball facilities is schedule As a team, USF started to turn things around offensively as opened the game by retiring nine of the fi rst 10 batters he to start during the fi rst week of May. The change in construc- the Bulls are averaging 7.4 runs per game in their last seven faced and not allowing a hit until the fourth inning. The win tion date will not have an impact on the goal of completing games and have collected double digit hits in six of their last marked the fi rst of the season for Stull, evening his record at the facilities prior to the start of the 2011 softball and baseball seven contests. 1-1. Stull worked 5.2 innings, giving up three runs on just four seasons. hits while striking out three. Bulls and Bears Meet for the First Time USF held a ground-breaking for the Pam and Les Muma The meeting marks the fi rst between the two programs. Basketball Center on March 3 and is planning similar events for softball and baseball in the near future. Up Next Following this weekend’s three game set, the Bulls continue Mixed Results in the Mid Week vs. Jacksonville Team History their seven game homestand with a tilt against in-state foe A midweek series against Jacksonville which produced mixed First Season 1966 North Florida on March 23 at 7 p.m., followed by their confer- results for the Bulls. USF defeated Jacksonville on Tuesday All-Time Record 1289-1027-4 ence opening series against Notre Dame on March 26-28 at 14-7, powered by a lineup that collected double-digit hits and All-Time Seasons 45th season Red McEwen Field. runs for the second consecutive game. However Jacksonville Most Wins 52 in 1986 answered by defeating the Bulls 12-6 on Wednesday evening Conference Titles/Last 7 / 1996 (C-USA) Baseball & Softball Staying Home a Little Longer at Red McEwen Field. Conf. Tournament Titles/Last 4 / 1995 (Metro) The USF softball and baseball teams will call their current NCAA Appearances/Last 10 / 2002 venues ‘home’ for a few more games than originally expected. After racking up 18 hits against Western Illinois and 12 hits Last NCAA Tournament Opponent Florida State against Jacksonville on 3/10, USF could only muster fi ve hits Result L, 13-6 The softball team will play its complete schedule at the USF and six runs in a 12-6 loss to the Dolphins on 3/11. Record 2-2, Lost in Regional Championship softball stadium. Three conference matchups: Pittsburgh (April 21), DePaul (April 24-25) and Louisville (May 1-2), will now be Kaufman Strikes Out 14 Knight’s in Complete Game Coaching Staff played at the USF Softball Stadium instead of the originally Shutout of UCF planned Eddie C.