Media Contact: Eric Peterson 2019 Brown Baseball Email: [email protected] Office: 401-863-7014 Cell: 978-270-6348 Weekend Notes Pizzitola Sports Center, Providence, R.I. brownbears.com • @BrownU_Baseball • @brownathletics • facebook.com/brownbaseball 2019 SCHEDULE/RESULTS 0-0 Overall / 0-0 Ivy League Games 1-3 0-0 Home / 0-0 Away / 0-0 Neutral February 22-23, 2019 Louisville, Ky FEBRUARY jim patterson stadium 22 at Louisville 2 PM TV: acc network extra Brown Bears No. 8 Louisville cardinals at Louisville 6 PM 23 at Louisville 1 PM 0-0, 0-0 IVY 2-2, 0-0 ACC MARCH LEADING OFF 1 at Presbyterian 2 PM 2 at Presbyterian 11 AM BROWN BASEBALL THIS WEEK at Presbyterian 2 PM The Brown baseball team will open the 2019 season this weekend when the Bears visit No. 8 Louisville 3 at Presbyterian 1 PM for a three-game series in Kentucky. Due to possible inclement weather, Friday’s doubleheader will now start at 2 PM and the first pitch for the Saturday’s finale will be at 2 PM. All three games will broadcast 8 at Jacksonville 6 PM on ACC Network Extra. 9 at Jacksonville 1 PM at Jacksonville 4 PM QUICK HITS 10 at Jacksonville 1 PM - Brown will open the 2019 season with 11 straight road games before the Bears host Fairfield on March 15 Fairfield 3 PM 15 to start a four-game series. 16 Fairfield 11:30 AM - The Bears welcome back 21 letterwinners from last year’s team in addition to seven newcomers to make Fairfield 3 PM up the 2019 squad. 17 Fairfield 1 PM - Brown has captured a win in its season opener twice in the last three years. 23 Yale* 11:30 AM - Brown returns both All-Ivy honorees from last year’s team in Parke Phillips and Will Tomlinson. Yale* 3 PM BEARS BRING BACK EXPERIENCE 24 Yale* 12 PM Brown returns plenty of experience from the 2018 team, including seven everyday starters, as well as all 26 Bryant 3 PM three members of the weekend rotation. Parke Phillips paced the Bears at the plate last season with a .329 27 at Bryant 3 PM batting average, including a .375 clip in Ivy League play, en route to All-Ivy honors. Garett Delano and 30 at Penn* 11:30 PM Willy Homza paced the Bears in home runs (6) and doubles (12), respectively, while Delano also led the at Penn* 3 PM way with 25 runs scored. 31 at Penn* 12 PM APRIL Tomlinson also garnered All-Ivy honors as he led the pitching staff with three wins, a 2.91 ERA and lim- 6 at Cornell* 11:30 AM ited opposing hitters to a .186 batting average. Delano, who split duties between left field and the mound, had a team-high 38 strikeouts. Garner paced all pitchers with 59.1 innings pitched as a freshman in 2018. at Cornell* 3 PM 7 at Cornell* 12 PM 10 Bryant 3:30 PM 13 Dartmouth* 11:30 AM PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS (2018 final stats) Dartmouth* 3 PM Name W-L ERA IP H ER BB-K B/AVG Notes 14 Dartmouth* 12 PM Collin Garner (RHP) 1-3 3.94 59.1 57 35 22-30 .260 Led team in IP Will Tomlinson (RHP) 3-2 2.91 43.1 27 15 23-29 .186 Honorable Mention All-Ivy 20 at Columbia* 11:30 AM Garett Delano (RHP) 2-3 4.07 55.1 66 25 18-38 .293 Led team in strikeouts at Columbia* 3 PM 21 at Columbia* 12 PM 27 at Princeton* 11:30 AM PROBABLE STARTERS (2018 final stats) at Princeton* 3 PM POS Name CL AVG. R H HR RBI OB% Notes 28 at Princeton* 12 PM CF Joe Lomuscio SO .264 21 33 2 20 .326 Team-high 3 triples 30 Maine 3:30 PM INF Willy Homza SR .257 16 37 1 11 .325 12 doubles MAY C/DH Parke Phillips JR .329 12 26 1 6 .418 Second Team All-Ivy LF Garett Delano JR .266 25 38 6 14 .338 .441 sluggling percentage 4 Harvard* 11:30 AM C/DH Mark Sluys SR .272 9 25 2 11 .352 .402 slugging percentage Harvard* 3 PM INF Rich Ciufo JR .241 16 34 2 11 .301 Second on team in doubles 5 Harvard* 12 PM RF Calvin Farris JR .265 7 18 1 11 .366 23-game reached-base streak 1B Cameron Deere JR .209 14 27 1 16 .313 All-Ivy as a freshman * - Ivy League INF Elliot Ginns JR .300 0 3 0 1 .417 9 appearances last season Home Games in BOLD 2019 BROWN BASEBALL QUICK FACTS Scouting Louisville Breakout Season for Phillips Eighth-ranked Louisville (2-2) went 1-2 Parke Phillips put together a breakout GENERAL INFO in the opening weekend against UConn campaign as a sophomore in 2018 when Location ....................................... Providence, R.I. and then downed Eastern Kentucky in he led the team with a .373 batting aver- Founded.......................................................... 1764 midweek action. The Cardinals went 45- age in Ivy League play, appearing mostly 19 in 2018 and advanced to the champi- at catcher. He also posted a .482 slugging Enrollment ..................................................... 9,073 onship round of an NCAA Regional for percentage in league played and had an Nickname ...................................................... Bears the seventh straight season. Louisville 18-game reached-base streak during the Colors ................Seal Brown, Cardinal Red, White was predicted to win the ACC in the 2019 season. Affiliation ................................... NCAA Division I preseason poll and junior Logan Wyatt was named to the preseason watch list for Academic Honors Conference ........................................... Ivy League the 2019 USA Baseball Golden Spikes Right-handed pitcher JJ Sliepka was rec- Athletic Director .................................. Jack Hayes Award. Wyatt is off to a good start as he ognized for his academic excellence at President ...................................... Christina Paxson hit .462 in the opening four games with the end of last season when he earned Co- five RBIs, while three other players are SIDA First Team Academic All-District batting over .300 to open the season. accolades. An economics concentrator, PROGRAM INFO Nick Bennett earned the team’s lone win Sliepka enjoyed a strong Ivy League sea- First Season .................................................... 1863 during the opening weekend against Con- son in 2018, when he put together a 1.69 National Champs ..................3 (1879, 1896 , 1907) necticut as he allowed just two hits over ERA over 12 league appearances. five innings of work. EILB Champs ....................................................... 2 New Coach on the Staff Ivy League Champs ........................2 (1959, 2007) 2019 Captains Matt Perper joined the Bears as an assis- NCAA Tournament ...................................1 (2007) - Seniors Willy Homza and Mark Sluys tant coach in February of 2019. Perper and junior Rich Ciufo will serve as cap- comes to Brown from UMass Lowell, tains for the 2019 campaign. where he served as an assistant coach for Home Field ...Attanasio Family Field at Murray Stadium - Homza started all 36 games for the the 2018 season, and helped the River Dimensions .......................343(L), 391(C), 341(R) Bears last season as the team’s primary Hawks to a 25-win season and the No. shortstop and finished the season second 2 seed in the America East postseason on the team in batting average during Ivy tournament. He also coached at Southern COACHING STAFF League play. New Hampshire, Iona and Western Con- Head Coach ....... Grant Achilles (Wake Forest ’06) - Sluys split time between catcher and necticut. Years at Brown ..................................................... 5 designated hitter last season, starting 25 Record at Brown ......................................... 57-111 games, and ended the season ranked third Home of the Bears on the team in slugging percentage with Brown will play its third full season at career highs in hits, doubles and RBIs. Attanasio Family Field at Murray Sta- Assistant Coach/Hitting - Ciufo has been a mainstay in the Brown dium in 2019. The synthetic turf playing ................Mike McCormack (Worcester State ’08) infield over his first two seasons and start- surfaces at both baseball and softball were built in 2017 and replaced the grass Assistant Coach/Pitching ....................................... ed all 36 games last season as the team’s second baseman. He finished second on playing fields at both locations. The up- ............................ Jonathan Grosse (Kutztown ’11) the Bears in doubles and also set career dated facility includes sunken dugouts, a Volunteer Assistant highs in hits, home runs, RBIs and runs. tension netting backstop system, expand- ........................ Matt Perper (Western Connecticut) ed batting tunnels and bullpens, and a Four Drafted in Last Three Years new and improved scoreboard and press Brown has had four players selected in box. In addition, the grandstand at Atta- TEAM INFO the MLB Draft over the last three years, nasio Family Field at Murray Stadium 2018 Overall Record ..................................... 11-26 including at least one in three straight includes chair backs and bench seating, Home ............................................................... 4-11 years. In addition to RHP Reid Anderson, while enhanced sight lines behind the who was selected by the Yankees last mesh backstop provides a first-rate view- Away ............................................................... 7-15 year, Rob Henry (Milwaukee Brewers, ing experience for fans. Neutral ............................................................... 0-0 2017), Christian Taugner (Milwaukee Brewers, 2017) and Austin French (Los 2016 Ivy League .................................... 6-15 (8th) Angeles Dodger, 2016) were also drafted. All-Ivy Second Team ....................... Parke Phillips Double Duty All-Ivy Honorable Mention ................................... Garett Delano was a fixture on the mound ....................................................... Will Tomlinson and at the plate for the Bears as a sopho- more last season. The Florida native made Letterwinners Returning .................................... 21 nine starts as a member of the weekend Position Starters Returning .................................. 7 rotation, leading the staff with 38 strike- Newcomers .........................................................