Game | Date/Time | Location | Media |
vs. St. Bonaventure - Game 1 | Friday, April 15 - 3 p.m. ET | Woerner Field Dayton, Ohio | Live Audio Live Stats |
vs. St. Bonaventure - Game 2 | Saturday, April 16 - 1 p.m. ET | Woerner Field Dayton, Ohio | Live Audio Live Stats |
vs. St. Bonaventure - Game 3 | Sunday, April 17 - 12 p.m. ET | Woerner Field Dayton, Ohio | Live Audio Live Stats |
* Before and during Sunday's game against St. Bonaventure, UD SAAC is hosting Alex's Lemonade Stand, raising money for Childhood Cancer Research. It will be located at Woerner Field. Fans are invited to purchase lemonade with proceeds going to the foundation.WEEKEND PREVIEW• The University of Dayton baseball team will return to Atlantic 10 play this weekend with a three-game series at home against St. Bonaventure. Friday opens up the set at 3 p.m. with game two Saturday at 1 p.m. and the finale Sunday at 12 p.m.
• The Flyers are now 11-22 this season and 3-6 in the A-10. Dayton has a 5-7 home record and coming off a tough 4-3 loss to Ohio at Woerner Field on Tuesday. Prior to that, the Flyers had won two straight at home. Head coach
Tony Vittorio is coming off his 200th A-10 win of his career last Sunday.
• St. Bonaventure enters the week after four days off and a 14-11-1 record overall. The Bonnies are 2-4 in league play and currently riding a two-game winning streak. Head Coach Larry Sudbrook is in his 31st year at the helm. SBU is 5-2-1 in true road games this season.
WHO TO WATCH - DAYTON• The Flyers are batting .242 as a team, with a .341 slugging percentage and a .321 on-base percentage. UD has stolen 29 bases and driven in 131 RBI with 69 extra-base hits.
• The leaders for Dayton are
Robbie Doring, who has a .328 average, eight home runs, and 22 RBI, and
Nick Ryan, who has seven extra-base hits and 15 RBI.
Aaron Huesman and
Mark Giesler have both driven in 13 runs apiece as well.
• Dayton's pitching staff has combined for an ERA of 4.78 with 193 strikeouts and 123 walks in 282 1/3 innings of work.
• The starting rotation for this weekend will be
Charlie Dant (2-3, 5.35 ERA, 16 K's) on Friday,
Zach Beaver (2-5, 4.38 ERA, 31 K's) on Saturday, and reigning Co-Rookie of the Week
Austin Cline (1-2, 4.54 ERA, 39 K's) on Sunday.
• The Flyers have a team fielding percentage of .962 with 45 errors and 28 double plays
WHO TO WATCH - THE OPPONENT• St. Bonaventure offensively is batting .255 as a team with a .337 slugging percentage and a .346 on base percentage. The Bonnies have 36 doubles, five triples, and seven home runs this season in 26 games.
• Tyler Walter leads the Bonnies with a .354 average with 29 hits while Taishi Terashima has 36 hits and a .343 average. Â
• The pitching rotation for SBU will be Connor Grey (2-3, 3.00 ERA) on Friday, Brandon Schlimm (3-3, 2.51 ERA) on Saturday, and Aaron Phillips (2-1, 1.49 ERA) on Sunday.
• Defensively, the Bonnies have a .966 field percentage with 34 errors.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST– DAYTON, Ohio
Friday– Sunny, High of 72 degrees, low of 47 degrees, 0% chance of rain, Wind at 11 mph
Saturday– Sunny, High of 72 degrees, low of 47 degrees, 0% chance of rain, Wind at 10 mph
Sunday– Sunny, High of 76 degrees, low of 51 degrees, 0% chance of rain, Wind at 5 mph
LAST MEETINGDayton and St. Bonaventure did not meet last season, but met in April of the 2014 season for a three-game series. The Bonnies won two of the three; with a score of 10-9 and 13-4. Dayton won the final game of the series with a 5-1 victory.
LAST OUTINGThe Flyers started slow, but scored 12 runs over the seventh and eighth innings in a 13-2 win at Bowling Green on Wednesday. Dayton had 14 hits from nine different players with Doring and Echols driving in three runs each.
The Bonnies won two games out of a three game series against the University of Massachusetts. The Bonnies rallied from an early deficit twice during the three game home stand; improving to 14-11-1 on the season.
200 CONFERENCE WINS FOR VOn April 10 in a 9-6 win over George Mason, Coach Vittorio reached yet another milestone with his 200th Atlantic 10 win of his career. With over 650 wins on his collegiate head coaching resume, V has added another noteworthy win with his 17th years in the A-10.
CLINE EARNS ROOKIE OF THE WEEK HONORSFreshman pitcher
Austin Cline was named Atlantic 10 Co-Rookie of the Week on April 11 for his efforts in the win over George Mason in the series finale. Cline struck out 14 batters in 6 1/3 innings, which ties a modern era record for Dayton.
ON THE BIG STAGEDayton will have three games televised statewide on Time Warner Cable Sports Channel this season. The Flyers played Toledo on March 22 already and Ohio on April 12. The next televised game is vs. George Washington on April 22.
UP NEXTThe Flyers will travel to Toledo on Tuesday and Northern Kentucky on Wednesday. Both games are 3 p.m. start times.
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