Sunday, April 9
Sal Maglie Stadium//Niagara Falls, NY
8:30 PM
Quinnipiac University
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Niagara University
QU Baseball Resumes MAAC Play At Niagara On Apr. 9-10
4/7/2017 1:50:00 PM | Baseball
Quinnipiac University Bobcats (10-15, 3-3 MAAC) at Niagara University Purple Eagles (13-10, 4-2 MAAC)
Dates: Sunday Apr. 9, 2017 (DH: 9 Inn., 7 Inn.) | Monday Apr. 10, 2017 (9 Inn.)
Location: Bobo Field | Niagara, NY
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HAMDEN, Connecticut - The Quinnipiac men's baseball team will look to bounce back this weekend as they return to MAAC play against the Niagara Purple Eagles this week in a three-game series. Quinnipiac is coming off mid-week loss against the Central Connecticut State University, 6-3. With the loss, the Bobcats snapped their three-game winning streak.
LAST TIME OUT
The Bobcats late-inning push to tie the game Wednesday was not enough as Quinnipiac lost to Central Connecticut, 6-3. The Bobcats were led by Mike Palladino (Rockville Centre, New York), who extended his on-base streak to 11 games with a double in top of the ninth inning. Liam Scafariello (Southington, Connecticut) followed Palladino's double by jolting a ball over the left field wall for his 11th home run on the year. However, the Bobcats wouldn't be able to muster up anymore magic, falling to the Blue Devils, 6-3.
SCOUTING THE NIAGARA UNIVERSITY PURPLE EAGLES
LIAM GOING LONG
DEPTH IN THE 'PEN
STREAKS AND STUFF
BATTEN NAMED MAAC PLAYER OF WEEK
Shortstop Matthew Batten (Shelton, Connecticut) was named the MAAC Baseball Player of the Week, the league office announced on Tuesday, March 14. Batten tallied seven hits over three games in a weekend series at VMI, hitting 7-for-13 in total, scoring four runs and driving in three more. Batten went 1-for-5 on March 10, 3-for-5 on March 11, and 3-for-3 on March 12.
Dates: Sunday Apr. 9, 2017 (DH: 9 Inn., 7 Inn.) | Monday Apr. 10, 2017 (9 Inn.)
Location: Bobo Field | Niagara, NY
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HAMDEN, Connecticut - The Quinnipiac men's baseball team will look to bounce back this weekend as they return to MAAC play against the Niagara Purple Eagles this week in a three-game series. Quinnipiac is coming off mid-week loss against the Central Connecticut State University, 6-3. With the loss, the Bobcats snapped their three-game winning streak.
LAST TIME OUT
The Bobcats late-inning push to tie the game Wednesday was not enough as Quinnipiac lost to Central Connecticut, 6-3. The Bobcats were led by Mike Palladino (Rockville Centre, New York), who extended his on-base streak to 11 games with a double in top of the ninth inning. Liam Scafariello (Southington, Connecticut) followed Palladino's double by jolting a ball over the left field wall for his 11th home run on the year. However, the Bobcats wouldn't be able to muster up anymore magic, falling to the Blue Devils, 6-3.
SCOUTING THE NIAGARA UNIVERSITY PURPLE EAGLES
- The Purple Eagles enter the weekend riding a 13-10 record, including a 4-2 record in the MAAC.
- Niagara swept Saint Peter's last weekend before dropping a mid-week matchup against St. Bonaventure.
- The Purple Eagles have three players (Greg Cullen, Tanner Kirwer and Peter Battaglia) hitting over .300 this season. The three batters have also combined for 53 RBIs.
LIAM GOING LONG
- First baseman Liam Scafariello has 11 home runs in the Bobcats' first 25 games of the 2017 season, making him the 12th player in Quinnipiac history to hit 10 home runs in a season.
- The 11 homers has Scafariello tied for sixth overall in the nation heading into the week.
- The heavy-hitter from Connecticut has homered three times in the past four games.
- The last player to reach 10 home runs in a season was Vincent Guglietti in 2015, who did so in 56 games.
- Scafariello is also riding a three-game hitting streak where he is batting .455 (5-for-9) in his last three appearances.
- The sophomore transfer from San Jacinto College is 23-for-97 from the plate so far with 21 RBI's. Scafariello was named MAAC Baseball Player of the Week on Tuesday, Feb. 21 after opening the season with five homers in the first four games.
DEPTH IN THE 'PEN
- The Bobcats are 7-0 this season when leading after 8.
- Four different Bobcats' pitchers have an ERA under 4.00 so far this season over multiple appearances out of the bullpen:
- Mike Davis (Sandy Hook, Connecticut): 11 appearances, 13.2 IP, .66 ERA, 5 Saves
- Mike DellaMedaglia (Somers, New York): 8 appearances, 9.1 IP, 2.89 ERA
- Chris Enns (Canton, Connecticut): 9 appearances, 17.1 IP, 3.12 ERA
- Nick Paasch (Tolland, Connecticut): 7 appearances, 8.2 IP, 3.12 ERA
STREAKS AND STUFF
- Senior Mike Palladino (Rockville Center, New York) has reached base safely in 11 straight games – the longest current streak and the second longest of the year after Joseph Burns' (Shelton, Connecticut) 13-game streak earlier this year.
- The Bobcats have struck for six or more runs in 10 out of the 18 games played, where the Bobcats are 6-4 in those games.
- Matthew Batten (Shelton, Connecticut) leads the team with nine multiple-hit games, while Burns sits second with eight, including the only four-hit performance of the season. Moskey and Nelson both tote seven multi-hit appearances.
- Scafariello also lead the team with five multiple-RBI games. Ryan Nelson (Knoxville, Tennessee) is second on the team with four.
- With his appearance in both games of a doubleheader on Monday against Marist, senior Matthew Osieja (Wyckoff, New Jersey) became just the third pitcher in Quinnipiac history – joining Matthew Lorenzetti '16 and Mike Spahr '05 – to appear in 60 games on the bump for the Bobcats. Lorenzetti and Spahr are tied with 63 appearances for the most in program history.
- Mike Davis' (Sandy Hook, Connecticut) five saves this season are tied for the fourth most in a single season in Quinnipiac history, tying Gregory Egan in 2015 and Spahr in 2005.
BATTEN NAMED MAAC PLAYER OF WEEK
Shortstop Matthew Batten (Shelton, Connecticut) was named the MAAC Baseball Player of the Week, the league office announced on Tuesday, March 14. Batten tallied seven hits over three games in a weekend series at VMI, hitting 7-for-13 in total, scoring four runs and driving in three more. Batten went 1-for-5 on March 10, 3-for-5 on March 11, and 3-for-3 on March 12.
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