SAINT JOSEPH’S UNIVERSITY 2015 Series Notes

Contact: Joe Greenwich • Phone: 610-660-1738 • Fax: 610-660-1724 • Email: [email protected] • www.sjuhawks.com 2015 SCHEDULE/RESULTS Overall: 10-14 • Atlantic 10: 3-2 Saint Joseph’s Hawks FEBRUARY (10-14 overall, 3-2 Atlantic 10) Fri. 20 at Loyola Marymount ...... W, 2-1 Sat. 21 at Loyola Marymount ...... L, 7-3 at Loyola Marymount ...... L, 10-0 at Sat. 28 at USC Upstate ...... L, 5-1 at USC Upstate ...... L, 12-5 Rams MARCH Sun. 1 at USC Upstate ...... L, 3-0 (10-12-1 overall, 3-3 Atlantic 10) Fri. 6#vs. Illinois State ...... L, 7-2 Sat. 7#vs. Indiana ...... L, 3-2 Sun. 8#vs. Lehigh ...... L, 9-2 Tue. 10 # vs. Florida International . . . W, 11-5 Wed. 11 # vs. Seton Hall ...... L, 16-9 April 10-12, 2015 Fri. 13 WAGNER ...... W, 7-2 Sun. 15 NORTHEASTERN ...... W, 2-0 Tue. 17 at Bucknell ...... W, 9-2 Wed. 18 MONMOUTH ...... W, 11-4 GAME DAY Sat. 21 * GEORGE WASHINGTON . . Canceled VENUE: (Kingston, R.I.) Sun. 22 * GEORGE WASHINGTON . . . . . L, 2-1 * GEORGE WASHINGTON . . . . W, 6-0 SURFACE: Field Turf Tue. 24 & PENN ...... L, 4-2 AUDIO STREAMING: Links available at SJUHawks.com Wed. 25 at Saint Peter’s ...... Postponed VIDEO STREAMING: None Fri. 27 * at George Mason ...... W, 9-0 LIVE STATS: Links available at SJUHawks.com Sat. 28 * at George Mason ...... W, 4-3 Sun. 29 * at George Mason ...... L, 6-2 ALL-TIME SERIES: Rhode Island leads, 56-37-1 LAST MEETING: May 18, 2013: Rams 10, Hawks 5 APRIL HAWKS’ NEXT GAME: Wednesday, April 15 vs. Saint Peter’s Thu. 2 at Villanova ...... L, 6-5 Fri. 3 BRYANT ...... L, 13-8 Tue. 7&at Lafayette ...... W, 8-6 (F/7) HAWK HEADLINES Fri. 10 * at Rhode Island ...... 3:00 p.m. • Saint Joseph’s heads to Kingston for the first time in four years for a three-game set at Bill Sat. 11 * at Rhode Island ...... 1:00 p.m. Sun. 12 * at Rhode Island ...... Noon Beck Field. The Rams took two out of three back in April of 2011. Wed. 15 SAINT PETER’S ...... 3:30 p.m. • It’s been nearly two years since the two teams previously met in a three-game set at Fri. 17 * VCU ...... 3:00 p.m. Sat. 18 * VCU ...... 2:00 p.m. Smithson Field, but in 2012, the Hawks took three out of five from Rhode Island, including a Sun. 19 * VCU ...... 1:00 p.m. pair of games at the Atlantic 10 Championship. Tue. 21 vs. Villanova ...... TBA Wed. 22 at Delaware ...... 3:00 p.m. • John Brue is tied for the league lead in home runs with eight thus far in 2015. A year ago, Fri. 24 * at Dayton ...... 3:00 p.m. Sat. 25 * at Dayton ...... 1:00 p.m. Brian O’Keefe led the Hawks with seven for the entire season. Sun. 26 * at Dayton ...... 11:00 a.m. Tue. 28 at Rider ...... 3:30 p.m. Wed. 29 at Monmouth ...... 3:00 p.m. PROBABLE STARTERS Saint Joseph’s Rhode Island MAY Friday: RHP Tim Ponto LHP Steve Moyers Fri. 1*LA SALLE ...... 3:00 p.m. (1-4, 3.77 ERA) (0-4, 5.40 ERA) Sat. 2*LA SALLE ...... 2:00 p.m. Sun. 3*LA SALLE ...... 1:00 p.m. Saturday: RHP Pat Vanderslice LHP Tyler Wilson Tue. 5 DELAWARE ...... 3:00 p.m. (3-3, 1.86 ERA) (3-0, 1.45 ERA) Fri. 8*at St. Bonaventure ...... 3:00 p.m. Sat. 9*at St. Bonaventure ...... Noon Sunday: LHP Joe Manion RHP Lou Distasio Sun. 10 * at St. Bonaventure ...... Noon (2-1, 3.99 ERA) (2-4, 6.54 ERA) Tue. 12 VILLANOVA ...... 3:00 p.m. Thu. 14 * SAINT LOUIS ...... 3:00 p.m. Fri. 15 * SAINT LOUIS ...... 3:00 p.m. LAST TIME OUT... Sat. 16 * SAINT LOUIS ...... 11:00 a.m. ...Saint Joseph's ended a three-game skid with an abbreviated 8-6 win over Lafayette on Wed. 20 + Atlantic 10 Championship Thu. 21 + Atlantic 10 Championship the road on Tuesday afternoon. SJU took an early lead in what was a fairly wild affair before Fri. 22 + Atlantic 10 Championship Sat. 23 + Atlantic 10 Championship falling behind, 6-4, after four innings. The Hawks hung a four-spot on the board in the fifth to take the lead for good, and the game was called in the top of the seventh inning after Home games in CAPS at Smithson Field # – Snowbird Classic (Port Charlotte, Fla.) heavy rains moved through the Easton area. Deon Stafford finished the day 3-for-4 with a & – Liberty Bell Classic game * – game home run, three runs scored, and three driven in, coming up just a single short of the cycle. + – Atlantic 10 Championship (Arlington, Va.) Last week, the Hawks took on Villanova and Bryant during their weekend off from (##/##) – Rankings in NCBWA/ Baseball America polls All times Eastern and subject to change Atlantic 10 play. The Wildcats scored four times in the top of the eighth to pull out a 6-5 win on Thursday, while Bryant used a seven-run eighth en route to a 13-8 win on Friday. 2015 SAINT JOSEPH’S BASEBALL SERIES NOTES

FRIENDLY CONFINES: John W. Smithson Field, now in its fourth NICE WORK, ROOK: Freshman Justin Aungst made his collegiate season, is the home of Saint Joseph’s baseball. The field features debut on February 20 and made it count, tossing three shutout a synthetic AstroTurf 3D GameDay Grass surface and a dirt pitch - innings of relief and earning the win as SJU opened the season ing mound; the turf is the industry-standard surface that is cur - with a 2-1 win at Loyola Marymount. Aungst was later named rently in use by the Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays of the the Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week for his efforts. American League. Located on the James J. Maguire ‘58 Campus, the facility also features spacious dugouts, elevated bullpens in YOU’RE MY BOY, BRUE: John Brue hit .400 over a four-game right field, a press box, and bleacher seating for 400 spectators. stretch, with five runs scored, seven RBI, and two home runs as Fans can also watch from along the fence down each of the foul the Hawks went 3-1 from March 10-15. Brue was voted the Big 5 lines and from the berm in right center field. The opening of the Baseball Player of the Week. ballpark brought varsity baseball back to Hawk Hill for the first time since 1958. STEFAN CAN DO EVERYTHING : Senior third baseman Stefan Kancylarz had a well-rounded week at the plate between March PUTTIN’ ON THE FRITZ: The Hawks have increased their win total 17 and 22 as he notched a double, a triple, and a home run part in each of Fritz Hamburg’s six previous seasons as head coach. of a 7-for-15, six-RBI performance and a 1.446 OPS. He was The Hawks have averaged better than 23 wins per season under named the Big 5 Baseball Player of the Week for his efforts. Hamburg, the highest mark in school history, and Hamburg cur - rently ranks as Saint Joseph’s second-winningest baseball coach SLICING AND DICING: Sophomore Pat Vanderslice had his sec - of all-time. ond consecutive strong performance against George Washington on March 22. He tossed seven shutout innings, allowing just four CLIMBING THE RANKS: With the Hawks’ 11-5 triumph over hits and two walks while striking out two in a 6-0 SJU victory. Florida International on March 10, head coach Fritz Hamburg Vanderslice shared Big 5 Co-Pitcher of the Week honors. recorded his 143rd career victory, all in a Hawk uniform. That moved him into second place on SJU’s all-time wins list, trailing TOP-SHELF BRUE: Junior outfielder John Brue has hit eight home only Chris Loschiavo, who recorded 184 wins with Hawks from runs through the first 24 games of the season, tied for the league 1987-96. lead as of April 9. WELCOME BACK: David Valesente, a 2010 graduate of Saint YOU DA MAN(ION): Junior southpaw Joe Manion had quite the Joseph’s, has returned to Hawk Hill as a volunteer assistant coach week from March 23-29. He threw two perfect innings during a for a second season. Fifth in program history with 216 career midweek game against Penn before shutting out George Mason hits, Valesente spent three seasons in professional baseball, for eight innings on March 27. For the week, Manion tossed 10 including a stint with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization. shutout innings and allowed just four hits and two walks to go Coincidentally, Valesente’s father, George, coached SJU head with six strikeouts en route to a 1-0 record and Big 5 Pitcher of man Fritz Hamburg when he was an undergrad at Ithaca College. the Week laurels. BIG (5) MEN ON CAMPUS: Formed in 2006 as the Diamond Five, Philadelphia Big 5 Baseball aims to increase exposure for college baseball in the Philadelphia area. The organization selects a Pitcher and Player of the Week throughout the year and names an All-Big 5 Team and award winners at the end of the season. A list of Saint Joseph’s weekly award winners appears in the box at the bottom of this page.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Coaches around the Atlantic 10 have Weekly Honors taken notice of the resurgence of the Saint Joseph’s baseball pro - The following Hawks have earned weekly honors this season: gram, voting the Hawks fifth in the conference’s preseason poll. It is SJU’s highest preseason league ranking in recent memory. Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week • February 23: Justin Aungst CENTURIONS CLUB: Senior Stefan Kancylarz ranks 11th in pro - gram history with 199 career hits. He is the only active Hawk to Big 5 Player of the Week • March 16: John Brue reach the 100-hit plateau in his Saint Joseph’s career. • March 23: Stefan Kancylarz • March 30: John Brue FOR WHOM THE (LIBERTY) BELL TOLLS: 2015 marks the 24th year of the annual Liberty Bell Classic, a tournament featuring Big 5 Pitcher of the Week Saint Joseph’s and seven other Division I schools in the area. The • March 23: Pat Vanderslice * • March 30: Joe Manion championship game is held at Citizens Bank Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies. The Hawks have now * – shared award made five appearances in the championship game, winning the title in two of the last three seasons (2012, 2014). 2015 SAINT JOSEPH’S BASEBALL SERIES NOTES

AROUND THE A-10: Here’s a look at the rest of the Atlantic 10 ATLANTIC 10 STANDINGS schedule for the weekend: (as of April 9) Davidson at Fordham La Salle at Saint Louis Atlantic 10 Overall Dayton at George Washington St. Bonaventure at Massachusetts 1. Richmond 8-1 17-9 George Mason at VCU 2. George Washington 6-2 18-10 Idle: Richmond * 3. Saint Louis 4-2 21-11 VCU 4-2 17-13 *Teams denoted as “idle” may play non-conference series during 5. Saint Joseph’s 3-2 10-14 their weekend off from conference play. 6. Massachusetts 5-4 8-10 7. La Salle 3-3 14-16-1 SAINT JOSEPH’S RECORD WHEN... Rhode Island 3-3 10-12-1 ...scoring first: 8-5 9. Davidson 4-5 14-12 ...leading after three innings: 6-2 10. George Mason 3-6 12-17-1 ...leading after six innings: 8-3 11. Fordham 2-4 10-19 ...leading after seven innings: 9-1 12. Dayton 2-7 9-21 ...leading after eight innings: 9-0 13. St. Bonaventure 0-6 11-9-2 ...trailing after three innings: 1-9 ...trailing after six innings: 0-9 ...trailing after seven innings: 0-12 ...trailing after eight innings: 0-14 ...tied after eight innings: 0-0 ...playing extra innings: 0-0 ...playing a one-run game: 2-3 ...scoring 10 runs or more: 2-0 ...scoring three runs or less: 2-10 ...allowing 10 runs or more: 0-4 ...allowing three runs or less: 7-3 ...facing a left-handed starter: 5-4 ...facing a right-handed starter: 5-10

TALE OF THE TAPE Saint Joseph’s Rhode Island Team Batting Average: .254 (11th in the A-10) .257 (10th in the A-10) Earned Run Average: 4.70 (8th in the A-10) 4.50 (7th in the A-10) Opponents’ Batting Average: .261 (6th in the A-10) .247 (5th in the A-10) TEAM LEADERS Batting Average: Matt Maul, .352 Ryan Olmo, .357 Home Runs: John Brue, 8 Mike Corin, 3 Runs Batted In: John Brue, 29 Mike Corin, 23 Runs Scored: John Brue, 20 Tim Caputo, 16 Walks: Stefan Kancylarz, 14 Mike Corin/Derek Gardella, 13 Hit By Pitch: John Brue/Brian Lau, 4 Three with 3 Stolen Bases: Taylor Boyd, 7 Mike Sherburne, 12 Slugging Percentage: John Brue, .684 Mike Corin, .526 On-Base Percentage: Stefan Kancylarz, .436 Ryan Olmo, .472 Earned Run Average: Lansing Veeder, 1.69 Brendan Doonan, 0.00 Appearances: Jack Stover, 11 Brad Applin, 9 Innings Pitched: Pat Vanderslice, 38.2 Tyler Wilson, 37.1 Strikeouts: Pat Vanderslice, 31 Tyler Wilson, 33 Wins: Pat Vanderslice, 3 Tyler Wilson/Blaise Whitman, 3 Losses: Tim Ponto, 4 Lou Distasio/Steve Moyers, 4 Saves: Lansing Veeder, 3 Three with 1