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QU Wraps Non-Conference Slate at UMass on Tuesday
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Quinnipiac Bobcats (15-29, 8-12 MAAC) vs. UMass Minutemen (20-24-1, 7-14 A-10)
Date: Tuesday, May 17
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Earl Lorden Field
All-Time Series: 5-8 (Lost last meeting: 16-9, April 24, 2019)
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HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac baseball team returns to action on Tuesday, as the Bobcats wrap its non-conference schedule on the road against UMass. First pitch from Tuesday's contest is set for at 1 p.m. from Earl Lorden Field.
Last Time Out
Date: Tuesday, May 17
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Earl Lorden Field
All-Time Series: 5-8 (Lost last meeting: 16-9, April 24, 2019)
Watch | Live Stats | @TheQBaseball
HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac baseball team returns to action on Tuesday, as the Bobcats wrap its non-conference schedule on the road against UMass. First pitch from Tuesday's contest is set for at 1 p.m. from Earl Lorden Field.
Last Time Out
- QU returns to action after dropping two of three contests against Fairfield
- The Stags took the opening two contests, 10-8 and 13-3, before the Bobcats survived a 16-13 thriller on Sunday
- The Bobcats had five different players drive in at least two runs, led by Ian Ostberg's six RBIs in the game
- The Minutemen enter the contest at 20-24-1 on the season and 7-14 in A-10 contests
- UMass is 8-7 in home contests
- The Minutemen are 0-6 in their last six games
- Drew DeMartino leads the offense with eight homers and 31 RBIs on the season
- Tuesday's contest against UMass will mark the 14th game between the two programs
- The Minutemen hold an 8-5 record over the Bobcats
- The last time the two sides faced off, UMass came away with a 16-9 win over QU in Amherst on April 24, 2019
- Ian Ostberg, Brian Moskey and Anthony Cruz led the offense with two RBIs apiece in the contest
- QU baseball head coach John Delaney announced a new team member, signing six-year-old Cameron Wilson through Team IMPACT in a press conference held in the Mount Carmel Campus Rec Center on Feb. 12
- He will participate in many activities with the baseball team over the next two years, including games, practices, and other team events
- Ian Ostberg made his return to the QU lineup on March 22 against Yale and is batting .310 with six homers, 10 doubles and 31 RBIs in 29 games
- Ostberg went 3-for-5 with two homers, a double and a career-high six RBIs in QU's 16-13 win over Fairfield on May 14
- He went 2-for-4 against Hartford on April 12, adding a double, two walks and three RBI's in the walk-off victory over the Hawks
- He followed with a solo homer in the opening game of the weekend series vs. Monmouth on April 14
- Ostberg went 2-for-4 with a homer and four RBIs in Quinnipiac's win over the Hawks on April 15
- He closed the series with a three-hit performance in the series finale, driving in two runs in the process
- Kyle Maves is batting .285 on the season with 47 hits, 38 runs scored, eight doubles and three triples
- He leads the team in runs scored (38), walks (28), steals (23) and triples (3)
- Maves is tied for third on the team in hits (47)
- Maves has recorded 47 career steals, slotting him third in the program's Div. I record book for thefts
- Jared Zimbardo returned to Hamden for his sophomore campaign and has been lighting it up at the plate
- Boasting a .294 batting average, Zimbardo has notched 45 hits on the campaign
- In his last 19 games, Zimbardo has tallied 20 hits, including five homers and 13 RBIs
- Zimbardo tallied three hits and hit a walk-off single to lead the Bobcats past Bryant in extra innings on April 27
- A transfer from SUNY Cortland, Anthony Donofrio took no time at all to adjust to find his fit in the Bobcats' lineup
- Donofrio is batting .327, boasting 52 hits and 35 runs scored on the season as well
- Donofrio is batting over .375 with four homers, four doubles and nine RBIs over his last 19 games
- In the opening weekend at Saint Joseph's, Donofrio batted .462 with six hits, five RBIs and two stolen bases
- In just his second game in a Bobcats' uniform, Donofrio went 4-for-4 from the plate with two runs scored vs. Saint Joseph's on Feb. 19
- He followed that performance with two hits and four RBIs in an 18-8 victory over Saint Joseph's on Feb. 20
- Donofrio went 4-for-5 against Monmouth on April 16
- Danny Melnick boasts a .353 batting average on the season, which ranks sixth in the MAAC
- Melnick leads the team in batting average (.353), hits (53), slugging percentage (.680), on-base percentage (.425), total bases (102), doubles (16), homers (11) and RBIs (33)
- Over his last 19 games Melnick is batting .453 (34-for-75) with 31 runs scored, 10 doubles, eight homers and 19 RBIs
- He blasted three homers against Fairfield on May 13
- Melnick's three homers in the contest marked the first time a QU player hit three homers in a game since Evan Vulgamore hit three against Saint Peter's on March 31, 2018
- Melnick led the offense in the opening series at Saint Joseph's, batting .600 with six hits, four runs scored and four RBIs in just two games played
- Melnick went 3-for-5 with a double, a run scored and two RBI against Saint Joseph's on Feb. 19
- He followed that performance with three hits, a homer, three runs scored and four RBIs in an 18-8 victory over Saint Joseph's on Feb. 20
- Melnick posted two doubles, two RBIs and five runs scored in a 9-8 win over Hartford in 11 innings on April 12
- Junior Brandyn Garcia has assumed the role of ace of the staff this season
- Garcia leads the staff with four wins on the season and boasts 74 strikeouts in 59.1 innings pitched
- Garcia earned a win in QU's 8-4 victory over St. John's on March 25
- In that contest he tossed six scoreless innings and struck out five en route to his third win of the season
- Garcia earned a win in QU's 6-5 victory over George Mason on March 11
- He logged seven innings and struck out 10 in the start
- The Bobcats will be back in action on Thursday, May 19 when QU opens its three-game series on the road at MAAC foe Niagara
- First pitch from game one is set for 3 p.m.
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