DAYTON – After rain spoiled the University of Dayton baseball team's home opener, the Flyers will head to Tallahassee Fla. for three games this weekend against Florida A&M.

The first pitch is scheduled for Friday at 4 p.m. at Moore-Kittles Field. Dayton will then return on Saturday at 2 p.m. before ending the weekend in Florida on Sunday at 11 a.m.

All three contests will include free live stats throughout the game.

WEEKEND SCOUTING REPORT
After an 0-3 weekend in Memphis, the Flyers sit at 3-4 on the season.

"We are looking forward to getting back after it this weekend in the Sunshine State," head coach Jayson King said. "We have another great opportunity ahead of us to play the way we know we are capable of."

SCOUTING THE RATTLERS
Florida A&M enters this matchup with a 1-5 record, dropping five straight contests since an opening day victory over South Florida. The Rattlers dropped two against Mercer before Eastern Illinois took all three games in Tallahassee.

The Rattlers are the second of four programs that made the 2019 NCAA Baseball Championship field on Dayton's schedule after the Flyers split with UNCW during opening weekend. The Rattlers won the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference Championship and fell to Georgia Tech and Coastal Carolina in the Atlanta Regional.

Jared Weber has paced Florida A&M this season, leading the team with a .360 batting average through six games. He along with Tucker Rayburn and Octavien Moyer were position players selected to the 2020 Preseason All-MEAC First Team.

Kyle Coleman is set to start Friday for Florida A&M and was selected as the lone representative of the Rattlers pitching staff for the Preseason All-MEAC First Team. Out of the bullpen, Chandellor Benton, Morgan Mendez, and Jeremiah McCollum have been steady forces, allowing just three runs total in 13.1 innings.

Led by seventh-year coach Jamey Shouppe, the Rattlers were picked to finish second in the MEAC, receiving three first place votes in the process after finishing 22-25 overall in 2019. Shouppe sits at 160-167 as coach of Florida A&M.

PROBABLE PITCHERS
Game 1 – Hunter Wolfe (1-0, 0.75) vs. Kyle Coleman (0-0, 9.00)
Game 2 – Ben Olson (0-0, 3.60) vs. Josh Hancock (1-1, 4.15)
Game 3 – Cole Pletka (1-1, 8.00) vs. Josh Barr (0-1, 5.40)

KEY STATS
This will mark the first matchup between the first two programs.

Six Dayton pitchers enter the weekend without an earned run allowed in 2020.

Three Flyers are hitting .300 or better going into the Florida A&M series with Mariano Ricciardi leading the way hitting .400.

Benjamin Blackwell leads the team with five steals this season. The sophomore owns five of the ten steals the Flyers have this season.