North Florida Baseball Game Notes www.UNFOspreys.com | @UNFOspreys | facebook.com/NorthFloridaOspreys Baseball Contact: Scott Fitzgerald | [email protected] | O: (904) 620-4029 | C: (908) 246-6818 B A S E B A L L April 17-19, 2015 | Game 41-43 North Florida vs Jacksonville Dusty Rhodes Field at Harmon Stadium Jacksonville North Florida Head Coach: ............................Tim Montez Head Coach: ...........................Smoke Laval 2015 Overall Record ...........................17-19 2015 Overall Record ...........................28-12 2015 Conference Record .......................3-3 2015 Atlantic Sun Record ......................6-3 Current Streak ...................................... W-1 Current Streak ....................................... W-2 Last 5 Games ..........................................2-3 Last 5 Games ..........................................4-1 Last 10 Games ........................................5-5 Last 10 Games ........................................9-1 Game Information 2015 SCHEDULE / RESULTS TV: n/a Jacksonville Forecast Overall: 28-12 | Atlantic Sun: 6-3 Radio: 1010XL (UNF) & 92.5 (JU) High Low Precipitation Home: 19-5 | Away: 6-4 | Neutral: 3-3 Streak: W-1 Live Stats: unfospreys.com/coverage.aspx Fri. Apr 17 79 67 10% Date Opponent Time/Result Location: Jacksonville, Fla. Sat. Apr 18 82 70 50% Fri. 2/13 VMI L, 1-3 Sat. 2/14 VMI W, 16-11 Stadium: Harmon Stadium Sun. Apr 19 87 71 100% Sun. 2/15 VMI L, 1-2 PROBABLE PITCHING Matchup Wed. 2/18 The Citadel W, 16-9 Fri. 2/20 vs. Nicholls St.# L, 3-4 (10) Date Teams Pitcher 2015 Stats (W-L, ERA, IP, BB, SO) Fri. 2/20 vs. So. Mississippi # W, 3-2 Friday North Florida Evan Incinelli (Sr. RHP) 3-2, 3.51 ERA, 33.1 IP, 8 BB, 22 SO Sat. 2/21 vs. Troy # L, 1-2 Jacksonville Michael Baumann (Fr. RHP) 4-0, 2.13 ERA, 50.2 IP, 19 BB, 55 SO Sun. 2/22 vs. St. Louis # W, 8-5 Wed. 2/25 Georgia Southern W, 5-4 Saturday North Florida Bryan Baker (So. RHP) 4-2, 3.26 ERA, 38.2 IP, 20 BB, 31 SO Fri. 2/27 vs. St. John’s L, 6-8 Jacksonville TBA n/a Sat. 2/28 vs. St. John’s W, 14-2 Sunday North Florida Matt Vaka (Fr. RHP) 2-0, 1.72 ERA, 31.1 IP, 11 BB, 10 SO Sat. 2/28 at Charleston So. L, 4-5 (13) Tue. 3/3 at FAU L, 7-8 (12) Jacksonville Justin Russell (R-Sr. RHP) 2-5, 5.40 ERA, 48.1 IP, 15 BB, 37 SO Wed. 3/4 at FAU L, 2-3 Sat. 3/7 Fairfield W, 6-3 Out of the Box... Sat. 3/7 Fairfield W, 7-4 Midweek Wrap Up: The Ospreys exploded for 13 runs, including nine in the first two trips to the plate in a 13-3 Sun. 3/8 Fairfield W, 11-2 Wed. 3/11 at Georgia Southern W, 13-3 win over Florida A&M on Tuesday night. Junior Corbin Olmstead hit a pair of home runs and tied a career best Fri. 3/13 Brown W, 7-3 with six RBIs. Freshman Zach Drury pitched the first four innings, holding the Rattlers hitless while striking out Sat. 3/14 Brown W, 15-12 five. Reliever John Suskauer held the no-hitter for another inning and a third before surrendering the first hit in Sat. 3/14 Brown W, 9-4 Sun. 3/15 Brown W, 16-6 the top of the sixth. Wed. 3/18 at Jacksonville W, 3-2 Fri. 3/20 Bradley W, 12-4 Sitting on 599: North Florida Head Coach Smoke Laval has 599 career wins coming into Friday night’s game. Sat. 3/21 Bradley W, 8-4 Sat. 3/21 Bradley L, 3-4 (7) A Jacksonville University graduate, Laval is in his fifth season at the helm of the Ospreys after coaching stops Tue. 3/24 Savannah St. W. 13-1 (6) at LSU (five seasons) and the University of Louisiana-Monroe (seven seasons). Laval is North Florida’s Divi- Wed. 3/25 at Bethune-Cookman W, 11-5 (11) sion I leader in wins with 149 and led the Ospreys to a D-1 best, 40 wins in 2013. Fri. 3/27 Florida Gulf Coast * L, 7-9 Sat. 3/28 Florida Gulf Coast * L, 4-7 Sun. 3/29 Florida Gulf Coast * W, 6-5 2015 Mayor’s Cup: This will be the second time the Dolphins and Ospreys have met this season. Back on Thu. 4/2 Northern Kentucky * W, 7-2 Mar. 18 the Ospreys held on to a 3-2 victory at John Sessions Field to capture the first ever Mayor’s Cup. Fri. 4/3 Northern Kentucky * W, 7-4 Sat. 4/4 Northern Kentucky * W, 12-5 Sunday’s scheduled starter, Matt Vaka pitched 4.2 scoreless innings and Corbin Olmstead recorded a six-out Tue. 4/7 Bethune-Cookman W, 3-2 save. Wed. 4/8 at Florida A&M W, 5-4 Fri. 4/10 at Lipscomb * W, 4-3 Sat. 4/11 at Lipscomb * L, 3-11 A-Sun Rankings: As a team the Ospreys lead the Atlantic Sun in nine different categories: batting average Sun. 4/12 at Lipscomb *. W, 8-0 (.303), runs (300), hits (423), triples (14), home runs (37), slugging percentage (.456), ERA (3.95), fielding Tues. 4/14 Florida A&M W, 13-3 percentage (.983) and double plays (42). Fri. 4/17 Jacksonville * 6:00 p.m. Sat. 4/18 Jacksonville * 1:00 p.m. NORTH FLORIDA PROJECTED STARTERS Sun. 4/19 Jacksonville * 1:00 p.m. POS. NAME AVG. GP-GS AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI BB SB-SBA Tue. 4/21 at UCF 6:00 p.m. Wed. 4/22 at The Citadel 6:00 p.m. C Keith Skinner .304 29-26 102 15 31 6 0 1 19 12 0-0 Fri. 5/1 at Stetson * 6:30 p.m. 1B Ryan Roberson .298 34-34 131 23 39 10 1 4 38 8 1-1 Sat. 5/2 at Stetson * 6:30 p.m. 2B Patrick Ervin 303 39-38 142 30 43 3 1 0 16 17 0-2 Sun. 5/3 at Stetson * 1:00 p.m. Wed. 5/6 at Savannah St. 6:00 p.m. 3B Trent Higginbothem .353 39-39 156 37 55 9 0 6 42 14 1-1 Fri. 5/8 at USC-Upstate * 6:00 p.m. SS Kyle Brooks .267 26-26 105 26 28 4 1 0 12 9 3-4 Sat. 5/9 at USC-Upstate * 1:00 p.m. LF Nick Karmeris .287 36-31 108 22 31 6 1 3 22 13 3-4 Sun. 5/10 at USC-Upstate * 1:00 p.m. Tue. 5/12 UCF 6:00 p.m. CF Donnie Dewees .399 39-39 158 54 63 8 7 11 46 17 17-20 Thu. 5/14 Kennesaw St. * 6:00 p.m. RF Garrick Ferguson .283 36-32 113 26 32 7 2 1 16 11 4-5 Fri. 5/15 Kennesaw St. * 3:00 p.m. DH Corbin Olmstead .292 35-32 130 27 38 11 1 8 25 11 1-1 Sat. 5/16 Kennesaw St. * 1:00 p.m. *Bold Indicates Team Leader | Statistics through 4/16/15 * – Denotes Atlantic Sun Conference game # - Cox Diamond Invitational 2015 North Florida Baseball www.unfospreys.com B A S E B A L L North Florida Quick Facts ADDITIONAL NOTES 300-run Mark: The Ospreys scored their 300th Olmstead Player of the Week: For the second General run of the year in the win over Florida A&M on time in his career, Corbin Olmstead was named Name ..................... University of North Florida Tuesday. Ranked second in the country in runs, the A-Sun Pitcher of the Week on Apr. 13. He Location: ..............................Jacksonville, Fla. North Florida is one of two teams (Jackson saved all three of the Ospreys’ one-run victories Founded / Opened: ......................1965 / 1972 State-316) to score 300 or more runs this sea- and extended his unearned run streak to 26 Enrollment ............................................16,357 son. Last season was the only year in the D-1 innings. He shared the award Kennesaw State’s Nickname ............................................Ospreys era that the Osprey did not score 300 runs. Travis Bergen who pitched a complete game Colors ................................ Navy Blue & Gray shutout and struck out nine against Northern Facility ..................... Harmon Stadium (1,000) Speed vs. Speed: This weekend’s series in- Kentucky. Dimensions ...................................................... cludes the A-Sun’s top two base stealers, Donnie Surface .................................................. Grass Dewees and Angelo Amendolare who are both Votes in NCBWA Top 30: For the first time this Affiliation ................................ NCAA Division I tied for the league-lead with 17. season the Ospreys received votes in a national Conference ...................................Atlantic Sun poll. The National Collegiate Baseball Writers President ...........John Delaney (Florida, 1977) Happy at Harmon: On Monday, the Ospreys of America had them as one of 26 teams to get Director of Athletics ..... Lee Moon (VMI, 1970) improved to 19-5 at home, which is the sec- votes outside the top 30. Athletics Department Phone .. (904) 620-2833 ond highest win total at home in the D-1 era (2006-present). RPI: North Florida cracked the top-100 in the History latest NCAA RPI rankings coming in at No. 83. First Season of Competition (D-I) .1988 (2006) River City Rumble History: Historically, Jack- They have the highest ranking of any Atlantic All-Time Record: ............1,029-549 (27 years) sonville has enjoyed much of the success in a ri- Sun team. Conference Titles ........................................14 valry that began in 1988.