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2018 HOFSTRA BASEBALL Baseball Contact: Len Skoros GAME NOTES Phone/Email: (516) 765-5584/[email protected] HOFSTRA (8-2) Hofstra Baseball on Twitter: @HofstraBaseball VS. Hofstra Baseball on Facebook: Hofstra Baseball ALBANY (5-4) Hofstra Baseball on Instagram: @HofstraBaseball MARCH 17-18, 2018 HEMPSTEAD, NY FEBRUARY TENTATIVE LINEUP Fri. 23 at Lamar (DH) 1-2 L, 0-3 L # Pos. Name Cl. G-GS AVG HR RBI Sat. 24 at Lamar (DH) 3-2 W (10), 1-0 W 10 CF Steven Foster Sr. 10-10 .214 0 1 March 2 SS Austin Gauthier Fr. 10-10 .268 1 4 Sat. 3 at Norfolk State (DH) 4-0 W, 5-1 W 27 DH Vito Friscia Jr. 10-10 .410 2 7 Sun. 4 at Norfolk State 8-6 W 16 LF Teddy Cillis Sr. 7-7 .320 1 6 25 1B Rob Weissheier So. 9-7 .379 1 9 UMBC Tournament 22 2B Mikey Riesner Sr. 10-10 .359 0 5 Sat. 10 vs. Mount St. Mary’s 11-0 W 13 3B Daniel Page Jr. 6-4 .313 1 3 at UMBC 9-6 W 19 RF Vinnie Costello So. 9-8 .192 2 3 Sun. 11 at UMBC 4-2 W 4 C Matt Siedem Jr. 5-5 .091 0 1 Tue. 13 at Fairleigh Dickinson PPD # Pos. Name Cl. G/GS ERA W-L K IP Sat. 17 Albany (DH) 12 p.m. 45 LHP John Rooney Jr. 3/3 0.00 2-0 26 20.0 Sun. 18 Albany 12 p.m. 31 RHP Matt Weissheier Sr. 3/3 3.94 1-1 10 16.0 Fri. 23 at UNCW* 6 p.m. 16 LHP Teddy Cillis Sr. 3/1 3.38 0-0 8 8.0 Sat. 24 at UNCW* 2 p.m. Sun. 25 at UNCW* 12 p.m. The Matchup: Hofstra hosts Albany in its home opening series. Wed. 28 at Monmouth 3 p.m. The teams will play a doubleheader Saturday and a single game Fri. 30 at Towson* 3 p.m. Sunday. Sat. 31 at Towson* 1 p.m. April BY THE NUMBERS Sun. 1 at Towson* 1 p.m. HOFSTRA ALBANY Wed. 4 Manhattan 3 p.m. .266 Batting Avg. .211 Fri. 6 Delaware* 3 p.m. 327 At Bats 308 Sat. 7 Delaware* 1 p.m. 46 Runs 54 Sun. 8 Delaware* 1 p.m. 87 Hits 65 Wed. 11 at Fairfield 3:30 p.m. 17 Doubles 17 Fri. 13 at Elon* 6 p.m. 3 Triples 3 Sat. 14 at Elon* 4 p.m. 8 Home Runs 3 Sun. 15 at Elon* 1 p.m. 40 RBI 36 Wed. 18 St. John’s 3 p.m. 12 Stolen Bases 8 Fri. 20 Charleston* 3 p.m. 1.69 ERA 5.02 Sat. 21 Charleston* 1 p.m. 8-2 W-L 5-4 Sun. 22 Charleston* 1 p.m. 22 Runs Allowed 48 Wed. 25 at Manhattan 5 p.m. 16 Earned Runs 45 Fri. 27 at William & Mary* 6 p.m. 1 Complete Games 0 Sat. 28 at William & Mary* 4 p.m. 3 Shutouts 1 Sun. 29 at William & Mary* 1 p.m. 5 Saves 2 May 85.0 Innings Pitched 80.2 Tue. 1 at Fordham 7 p.m. 47 Hits Allowed 95 Fri. 4 Northeastern* 3 p.m. 40 Walks 49 Sat. 5 Northeastern* 1 p.m. 87 Strikeouts 74 Sun. 6 Northeastern* 1 p.m. .165 Opponents’ Batting Average .301 Tue. 8 Monmouth 3:30 p.m. Fri. 11 James Madison* 3 p.m. Coaching Staff: John Russo, who had served as the Pride’s Sat. 12 James Madison* 1 p.m. assistant coach for three seasons, is in his seventh year as head Sun. 13 James Madison* 1 p.m. coach. A 2000 graduate of West Alabama, Russo led Hofstra to a school record 34 wins in 2012. The 14th head coach in program Wed.-Sat. 23-26 CAA Championship (Harrisonburg, VA) history, his record currently stands at 136-178 and the 136 wins rank second all-time among Hofstra Baseball coaches. Russo is *CAA Game Times local to site. assisted by former MLB pitcher John Habyan, Matt Wessinger and Brandon Stein. Versus Albany: Hofstra is 8-6 all-time versus Albany. The teams In Season Honors: Seamus Brazill was the CAA Pitcher of met last season in a neutral site series in Salem, Virginia, with the Week on February 27 and was named a National Player of Albany winning all three games (7-6, 4-3, 3-1). the Week by Collegiate Baseball News...Brazill was also a Collegiate Baseball News National Player of the Week on Home Openers: Hofstra is 10-6 in its last 16 home openers. The March 12...John Rooney earned CAA Co-Pitcher of the Week Pride defeated NYIT last season, 14-3. on March 12 and was also a National Player of the Week by Collegiate Baseball News. No-No: Seamus Brazill fired the first no-hitter in program history in a 1-0 win over Lamar on February 25. He went 2018 Home Runs: seven innings, walked four, hit a batter and struck out five. It Vinnie Costello was also the first complete game shutout for a Pride pitcher 3/4 at Norfolk State (Trey Hanchey) Solo since March 31, 2001 (Gerald Auth at Hartford). 3/11 at UMBC (Chase Bailey) Solo Vito Friscia No-No No. 2: John Rooney and Seamus Brazill combined on 3/4 at Norfolk State (Trey Hanchey) 2-Run a no-hitter in an 11-0 win over Mount St. Mary’s on March 3/10 at UMBC (Matt Chanin) 2-Run 10. Rooney threw six innings and struck out eight,, while Teddy Cillis Brazill went the final three innings for the save. 3/10 vs. Mount St. Mary’s (Jordan Geber) 3-run Rob Weissheier Starring Staff: Hofstra pitching ranks second in the nation in 3/10 vs. Mount St. Mary’s (Jordan Geber) Solo ERA at 1.69 as of March 15. John Rooney has not allowed a Daniel Page run in his three starts and six of the eight Pride pitchers used in 3/10 vs. Mount St. Mary’s (Jesse Archambault) 2-Run 2018 have not allowed more than three earned runs. Austin Gauthier 3/10 at UMBC (Matt Chanin) 3-Run NCAA ERA Leaders: 1) Stetson 1.687 Season Openers: Hofstra is 22-39 in season openers. The 2) Hofstra 1.694 Pride has not picked up a season-opening win since a 5-4 3) Louisiana Tech 1.86 victory at Delaware State on February 21, 2002. 4) Texas A&M 1.94 5) UCLA 2.03 Preseason Honors: Hofstra outfielder/pitcher Teddy Cillis was named to the Preseason All-CAA Team as a utility player Streaking: Austin Gauthier has a seven-game hitting streak and infielder Mikey Riesner was an honorable mention and Rob Weissheier and Vito Friscia both have five-game selection. streaks...Vito Friscia has reached base in nine consecutive games. 2018 CAA BASEBALL PRESEASON POLL: 1. UNCW (6 first-place votes) 62 K-Corner: John Rooney fanned a career-best 13 batters over 2. Delaware (3 first place vote) 51 eight shutout innings at Norfolk State on March 3 and has 26 3. College of Charleston 47 strikeouts in 20 innings this season...Chris Weiss struck out 4. Northeastern 43 eight batters in a three-inning relief stint against Norfolk State 5. Elon 37 on March 4 and has 20 in 11 2/3 innings this season. 5. William & Mary 37 7. James Madison 23 Zach Attack: Zach Altieri notched his first career win in 8. Hofstra 13 Hofstra’s 8-6 victory over Norfolk State on March 4. He 9. Towson 11 followed that with a win over UMBC on March 10. New Faces: The Pride has a lot of new faces this season as 13 So Close: Through 10 games, Hofstra is 4-1 in games decided newcomers are on the roster. by two runs or less. Hofstra was 6-12 in such games in 2017 and 5-12 in games decided by one or two runs in 2016. Staff Stets K Record: The Hofstra pitching staff recorded a school record 412 strikeouts in 2017. Junior Teddy Cillis Approaching Milestones: John Rooney needs eight strikeouts established a new single season mark with 96. to become Hofstra’s all-time leader with 197. He currently sits in third place with 189, four behind Justin Romano and seven Dominican Republic Trip: Hofstra played six exhibition behind John Bilello. games against professional academy teams in the Dominican Republic from February 16-19. The Pride went 4-2 on the trip Win Streak: The Pride’s eight-game winning streak is their with wins over the Houston Astros Academy, the Washington longest since a nine-game win streak in 2013. Nationals Academy and two against the Mejia & Neno Baseball Academy. Hofstra dropped a pair of games to the Shutouts: Hofstra’s has two shutouts through seven games Philadelphia Phillies Academy. after not recording one in 51 games in 2017. The school record for shutouts in a season in four, set by the 2012 Pride. Pronunciation Guide: 1 Devon Jeffreys DEV-uhn JEFF-rees 2 Austin Gauthier GAW-thee-er 4 Matt Siedem SEE-dem 5 Sean Rausch roush 9 Myles Mensah MEN-suh 11 Andrew Mundy MUN-dee 14 Grayson Skweres skwers 15 Brad Camarda cuh-MAR-duh 16 Teddy Cillis SILL-iss 22 Mikey Riesner REEZ-ner 24 Ian Diaz EE-en DEE-az 25 Rob Weissheier WICE-high-er 27 Vito Friscia FREE-sha 28 Seamus Brazill SHAY-muss 30 Mike Mirando mer-ANN-doe 31 Matt Weissheier WICE-high-er 32 Jack Berczi BURR-zee 35 Zach Altieri al-TEE-air-ee 41 Billy Kral krahl John Habyan HAY-bee-yin Matt Wessinger WESS-in-jer Brandon Stein stine Hofstra and the MLB Draft: With Bryan Verbitsky’s selection by the San Diego Padres in the third round of the 2013 MLB Draft, Hofstra has had nine players selected since the inception of the draft in 1965.