QU Baseball's Game At UMass Cancelled; Bobcats Will Play At Hartford On Thursday, Apr. 27

Thursday, April 27

Fiondella Field//West Hartford, CT

2:30 PM

Quinnipiac University

University of Hartford

QU Baseball's Game At UMass Cancelled; Bobcats Will Play At Hartford On Thursday, Apr. 27

4/25/2017 4:38:00 PM | Baseball

By: QU Sports Information

QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY BOBCATS (14-23) at
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD HAWKS (14-19)
Date: Apr.27, 2017
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: West Hartford, Connecticut
Rink: Fiondella Field

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Due to inclement weather, Quinnipiac's non-conference game at UMass that was scheduled for Wednesday, Apr. 27 has been canceled. Quinnipiac has added a game and will travel to the University of Hartford for a non-conference match-up at Fiondella Field in West Hartford, Connecticut on Thursday, Apr. 27 at 3 p.m.

THEIR LAST TIME OUT
Quinnipiac is coming off a three-game Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference sweep of Saint Peter's in which the Bobcats' out-scored the Peacocks, 25-2, in 15 innings. The Bobcats took the first game, 13-1, before sweeping the following afternoon's doubleheader, 5-1 and 7-0.

Brian Moskey and Liam Scafariello were both 5-for-9 (.556) in the series. Scafariello also had a home run, four RBI, four runs scored and three doubles while Moskey scored five runs.
Matthew Batten was 5-for-12 (.417) with three doubles and four RBI while Ryan Nelson was 6-for-14 (.400) with a home run, three RBI and four runs scored.
Andre Marrero was 2-for-3 with a double and three RBI in the final game of the series.
Seven different Bobcats accounted for an 8-for-11 showing in stolen bases for the series.
All three Quinnipiac starters – Chris Enns, Robbie Hitt and Taylor Luciani – picked up the win. Enns gave up one unearned run in seven innings while striking out six; Hitt held Saint Peter's scoreless while scattering five hits and striking out five and Taylor Luciani had the seven-inning complete game with one run on five hits and four strikeouts.
Andrew Workman, Mike Davis and Wyatt Hamilton cleaned up four innings out of the pen, allowing three hits and holding Saint Peter's scoreless.

MILESTONES AND STREAKS
• Matthew Batten stole his program-record 62nd career stolen base at Iona He currently stands at 64 career stolen bases.
• Batten also continues his journey up the all-time charts as his 237 career hits, which ranks fourth all-time behind Tim Binkoski '05 (244) as well as Ryan Rizzo and Wilson Matos (238).
• Batten is also tied with Steve Kulpa '93 for 6th all-time in career runs scored with 131 behind Joe Zangari '00 (144), John Delaney '08 (139), Tim Belcher '97 (137), Tim Binkoski '07 (136) and Nate Noyes '00 (134).
• Batten also stands at 95 career RBI's and trails Brian Magee '05 for 10th place with 97. There have been nine players in Quinnipiac's Division I history to drive in 100 runs, with Joe Poletsky '11 being the last.
• Matthew Osieja broke the all-time appearances record when he make his 64th career trip to the mound against UCOnn on Tuesday. Osieja broke the record for most appearances by a pitcher that was held by Matthew Lorenzetti '15 and Mike Spahr '05 of 63. He currently stands at 65 career appearances.
• With a home run against Saint Peter's this weekend, Liam Scafariello now stands at 13 for the year, good for third all-time. He recently passed Randy Gress '07, Jeff Mainetti '07 and Peter Kummerfeldt '09, who all homered 12 times in 2007. Scafariello trails Joe Zangari (16) and Nate Noyes (14) for the single-season record.

LEADERS
• Matthew Batten currently leads Quinnipiac in batting average (.308), on-base percentage (.365), hits (45), doubles (10), stolen bases (12), multiple-hit games (14), and owns the longest reached-base safely streak (17 games) and the longest hitting streak (11).
• Liam Scafariello leads the Bobcats in slugging percentage (.601), runs scored (27), RBI (28), home runs (13), total bases (83), walks (20) and multiple-RBI games (7).
• Ryan Nelson has put together a career year in his fifth season with the Bobcats. Nelson is batting .285 with a .411 slugging percentage as well as accumulating 43 hits, 19 RBI, seven doubles, four home runs and six stolen bases. Nelson is also second in the line-up in multiple-hit games (12) and multiple-RBI games (6). Nelson is also batting .316 in 15 MAAC games while leading the team with 18 hits.
• Brian Moskey checks-in with a .287 average while also posting a .404 slugging percentage and a .344 on-base percentage. Moskey has scored 23 runs while ranking second with 21 RBI. He also ranks second with seven doubles and third in home runs (3). Moskey also has 11 multiple-hit games.
• Joseph Burns has hit at a .275 clip while ranking second behind Batten with a .352 on-base percentage. Burns also ranks among the team leaders in runs scored (20), hits (39), RBI (15), home runs (3), walks (16) while also putting together 10 multiple-hit games.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE
Quinnipiac will host Canisius for a three-game MAAC series this weekend. The Bobcats and Griffs play two on Saturday, Apr. 29 with a nine-inning game at 12 p.m. followed by a seven-inning game that scheduled to start 30 minutes after the first game's completion. They'll play the third and final game of the set on Sunday, Apr. 30 with a nine-inning affair set for 12 p.m.