2018 HOFSTRA 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, 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 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.

Year Player Round Team 1966 Bill Cheslock 32 St. Louis Cardinals 1967* Ken Singleton 1 New York Mets 1967 Donald Ruris 30 Oakland Athletics 1982 Pat Wallace 26 St. Louis Cardinals 1995 Mike Miller 29 Detroit Tigers 2006 Ricky Caputo 24 Washington Nationals 2010 Ethan Paquette 35 Seattle Mariners 2012 Danny Poma 10 Arizona Diamondbacks 2013 Bryan Verbitsky 3 San Diego Padres *January Draft

MLB Free Agent Signings: Hofstra has also had several players sign as free agents with MLB Teams. Player Team Year Don Taussig 1950 Irving Burton New York Giants 1951 Brant Alyea Cincinnati Reds 1962 Kevin Flynn Washington Nationals 2013 Matt Reistetter Washington Nationals 2013 Matt Ford Tampa Bay Rays 2014 David Leiderman Miami Marlins 2018

HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY PRIDE

No. Name Pos. Ht. Wt. Cl. B/T Hometown/High School 1 Devon Jeffreys IF 5-11 207 Fr. R/R Williamstown, NJ/Williamstown 2 Austin Gauthier IF 5-11 164 Fr. R/R Lorton, VA/South County 3 Jimmy Joyce P/IF 6-2 197 Fr. R/R Wantagh, NY/Wantagh 4 Matt Siedem C 5-8 180 Jr. R/R Broomfield, CO/Silver Creek/West Hills 5 Sean Rausch C/OF 5-11 190 So. L/R Middle Island, NY/Longwood 6 Justin Smith C 6-0 210 So. R/R Lititz, PA/Warwick 7 Tyler White IF 6-1 160 So. R/R Holtsville, NY/St. John the Baptist 8 Kevin O’Connor IF/OF 5-10 180 Jr. R/R Huntington, NY/Harborfields 9 Myles Mensah IF 5-10 185 So. R/R Frederick, MD/St. John’s College HS 10 Steven Foster OF 5-11 175 Sr. L/R Holbrook, NY/Sachem North 11 Andrew Mundy P 6-1 220 Jr. R/R Lake Grove, NY/St. John the Baptist 12 Chris Weiss P 5-10 210 Sr. R/R Ridge, NY/Longwood 13 Daniel Page IF 6-0 182 Jr. R/R Reno, NV/Davonte Ranch/College of San Mateo 14 Grayson Skweres OF 5-10 160 So. L/R Houston, TX/Second Baptist 15 Brad Camarda P 6-0 217 Fr. R/R Dix Hills, NY/Half Hollow Hills West 16 Teddy Cillis OF/P 6-2 215 R-Sr. L/L Latham, NY/Blair Academy/UNCW 17 Parker Quinn IF 6-3 190 Jr. R/R Jupiter, FL/The Benjamin School 18 Jack Anderson P 6-3 183 Fr. L/L Ontario, Canada/Bluevale Collegiate Institute 19 Vinnie Costello IF/OF 6-5 183 So. R/R Pompano Beach, FL/Pompano Beach 20 Kyle Skidmore P 6-2 185 R-Fr. L/L Franklin, MA/Franklin/Bridgton Academy 22 Mikey Riesner SS 5-11 185 Sr. R/R Plainfield, IL/Neuqua Valley/College of San Mateo 23 Avery Combs UT 6-0 201 Fr. R/R Lynchburg, VA/EC Glass 24 Ian Diaz OF 5-10 189 Fr. R/R Philadelphia, PA/Springside Chestnut Hill Academy 25 Rob Weissheier IF 6-4 230 So. R/R Valley Stream, NY/Kellenberg 26 Michael James P 6-1 185 Sr. L/L Brentwood, TN/Brentwood (TN)/Lee Univ. 27 Vito Friscia C 6-3 225 Jr. R/R Valley Stream, NY/Valley Stream Central 28 Seamus Brazill P 6-9 260 R-So. R/R Barnegat, NJ/Barnegat 30 Mike Mirando P 6-4 204 Fr. R/R Islip, NY/Islip 31 Matt Weissheier P 6-6 265 R-Sr. R/R Valley Stream, NY/Kellenberg 32 Jack Berczi P 6-3 190 R-Fr. L/L Ontario, Canada/Abbey Park 34 Peyton Birch P 6-1 220 Fr. R/R Lawrenceville, NJ/Holy Ghost Preparatory 35 Zach Altieri P 6-4 215 Jr. R/R Petersburg, NJ/Ocean City 41 Billy Kral P 6-2 216 Fr. R/R Margate City, NJ/Holy Spirit 45 John Rooney P 6-5 225 Jr. L/L Melrose, NY/Hoosic Valley

Head Coach: John Russo (West Alabama, 2000), Seventh year at Hofstra Assistant Coaches: John Habyan, Matt Wessinger and Brandon Stein

2018 Hofstra Baseball Overall Statistics for Hofstra (as of Mar 11, 2018) (All games Sorted by Batting avg)

Record: 8-2 Home: 0-0 Away: 7-2 Neutral: 1-0 CAA: 0-0

Player avg gp-gs ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi tb slg% bb hp so gdp ob% sf sh sb-att po a e fld% 27 Friscia, Vito .4 1 0 10-10 39 10 16 1 0 2 7 23 .5 9 05181 .4 8 9 0 0 0-0 65 4 0 1.000 25 Weissheier, Rob .3 7 9 9-7 29 3 11 5 0 1 9 19 .6 5 5 1 2 6 1 .4 2 4 1 0 2-2 53 5 0 1.000 22 Riesner, Mikey .3 5 9 10-10 39314400 518 .4 6 2 21110 .4 0 5 0 1 1-2 10 18 3 .9 0 3 16 Cillis, Teddy .3 2 0 7-7 25 4 8 0 1 1 6 13 .5 2 0 3 0 6 0 .3 6 7 2 0 2-3 3 0 2 .6 0 0 2 Gauthier, Austin .2 6 8 10-10 41811201 416 .3 9 04090 .3 3 3 0 1 4-4 14 21 1 .9 7 2 10 Foster, Steven .2 1 4 10-10 42 5 9 1 1 0 1 12 .2 8 6 6 0 7 1 .3 1 3 0 0 0-2 18 0 0 1.000 19 Costello, Vinnie .1 9 2 9-8 263 5 002 311 .4 2 3 50150 .3 2 3 0 1 1-1 11 0 1 .9 1 7 ------13 Page, Daniel .3 1 3 6-4 161 5 111 311 .6 8 81070 .3 5 3 0 0 0-0 2121 .9 3 3 17 Quinn, Parker .1 8 2 6-6 22 1 4 2 0 0 1 6 .2 7 3 1 0 8 0 .2 1 7 0 0 0-0 0 0 0 .0 0 0 1 Jeffreys, Devon .1 6 7 5-5 125200002 .1 6 75140 .4 4 4 0 1 1-2 6101 .9 4 1 4 Siedem, Matt .0 9 1 5-5 11 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 .1 8 2 3 1 2 0 .3 3 3 0 2 0-0 50 4 1 .9 8 2 7 White, Tyler .0 6 3 7-5 162100001 .0 6 32060 .1 6 7 0 1 1-1 11 0 0 1.000 6 Smith, Justin .0 0 0 3-2 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .0 0 0 1 0 2 1 .1 6 7 0 0 0-0 4 0 0 1.000 8 O'Connor, Kevin .0 0 0 2-1 40000000 .0 0 00120 .2 0 0 0 0 0-0 571 .9 2 3 Totals .2 6 6 10 327 46 87 17 3 8 40 134 .4 1 0 39 7 93 4 .3 5 4 3 7 12-17 255 94 12 .9 6 7 Opponents .1 6 5 10 285 22 47 9 0 2 19 62 .2 1 8 40 8 87 7 .2 8 4 1 2 6-9 258 73 15 .9 5 7

(All games Sorted by Earned run avg)

Player era w-l app gs cg sho sv ip h r er bb so 2b 3b hr b/avg wp hp bk sfa sha 45 Rooney, John 0 .0 0 2-0 3 3 0 0/2 0 20.0 900626100 .1 4 322200 12 Weiss, Chris 1 .5 4 1-1 6 0 0 0/1 3 11.2 6 2 2 7 20 1 0 0 .1 5 0 2 0 0 0 0 28 Brazill, Seamus 1 .9 3 1-0 3 2 1 1/1 1 14.0 65368101 .1 3 012000 31 Weissheier, Matt 3 .9 4 1-1 3 3 0 0/0 0 16.0 11 8 7 5 10 4 0 1 .2 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 ------15 Camarda, Brad 0 .0 0 1-0 2 1 0 0/0 0 7.0 3 2 0 4 5 0 0 0 .1 2 5 1 1 0 0 1 26 James, Michael 0 .0 00-03000/003.000022000 . 0 0 001100 35 Altieri, Zach 1 .6 9 2-0 3 0 0 0/0 0 5.1 5 2 1 6 8 1 0 0 .2 5 0 0 0 0 1 0 16 Cillis, Teddy 3 .3 80-03100/018.073348100 . 2 3 311000 Totals 1 . 6 9 8-2 10 10 1 3/2 5 85.0 47 22 16 40 87 9 0 2 . 1 6 5 7 8 3 1 2 Opponents 3 . 5 6 2-8 10 10 0 1/1 2 86.0 87 46 34 39 93 17 3 8 . 2 6 6 3 7 0 3 7 2018 Hofstra Baseball Overall Statistics for Hofstra (as of Mar 11, 2018) (All games Sorted by Fielding pct)

Player c po a e fld% dp sba csb sba% pb ci 27 Friscia, Vito 69 65 4 0 1.000 2 4 1 .8 0 010 25 Weissheier, Rob 58 53 5 0 1.000 11 0 0 .0 0 0 0 0 10 Foster, Steven 18 18 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 .0 0 000 7 White, Tyler 11 11 0 0 1.000 0 0 0 .0 0 0 0 0 6 Smith, Justin 44001.000 0 0 0 .0 0 000 31 Weissheier, Matt 4 0 4 0 1.000 0 1 1 .5 0 0 0 0 15 Camarda, Brad 21101.000 0 1 0 1.000 0 0 12 Weiss, Chris 1 0 1 0 1.000 0 1 0 1.000 0 0 26 James, Michael 11001.000 1 1 0 1.000 0 0 4 Siedem, Matt 55 50 4 1 .9 8 2 0 2 1 .6 6 7 2 0 2 Gauthier, Austin 36 14 21 1 .9 7 2800 .0 0 000 1 Jeffreys, Devon 17 6 10 1 .9 4 1 2 0 0 .0 0 0 0 0 13 Page, Daniel 15 2 12 1 . 9 3 3100 .0 0 000 8 O'Connor, Kevin 13 5 7 1 .9 2 3 3 0 0 .0 0 0 0 0 19 Costello, Vinnie 12 11 0 1 .9 1 7000 .0 0 000 22 Riesner, Mikey 31 10 18 3 .9 0 3 7 0 0 .0 0 0 0 0 45 Rooney, John 9171 .8 8 9001 .0 0 000 16 Cillis, Teddy 5 3 0 2 .6 0 0 0 0 1 .0 0 0 0 0 28 Brazill, Seamus 0000 .0 0 0 0 1 0 1.000 0 0 35 Altieri, Zach 0 0 0 0 .0 0 0 0 1 0 1.000 0 0 17 Quinn, Parker 0000 .0 0 0000 .0 0 000 Totals 361 255 94 12 .9 6 7 12 6 3 .6 6 7 3 0 Opponents 346 258 73 15 .9 5 7 9 12 5 .7 0 6 2 0

Hitting minimums - 1 Games 3.0 TPA/Game Pitching minimums - 1 Games 1.0 IP/Game