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Bobcats Open Three-Game Weekend Set vs. St. John's on Friday
3/16/2023 8:43:00 AM | Baseball
Quinnipiac Bobcats (5-8, 0-0 MAAC) at St. John's Red Storm (10-5, 0-0 BIG EAST)
Date: Friday, March 17
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Kaiser Stadium - Queens, N.Y.
All-Time Series: St. John's leads series 2-1
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Quinnipiac Bobcats vs. St. John's Red Storm
Date: Saturday, March 18
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: QU Baseball Field - Hamden, Conn.
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Quinnipiac Bobcats at St. John's Red Storm
Date: Sunday, March 19
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Kaiser Stadium - Queens, N.Y.
Live Stats | Watch | @TheQBaseball
QUEENS, N.Y. – The Quinnipiac baseball team returns to action this weekend with a home-and-home three-game series with St. John's. The Bobcats will open the series at St. John's on Friday at 1 p.m. before returning to Hamden on Saturday for the 2023 home-opener. Quinnipiac will wrap the series in Queens on Sunday at 1 p.m.
LAST TIME OUT
HISTORY VS. ST. JOHN'S
SCOUTING THE RED STORM
ENTER THE BASHMAN
CALL ME MAVES
WELCOME TO QU CAM
Date: Friday, March 17
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Kaiser Stadium - Queens, N.Y.
All-Time Series: St. John's leads series 2-1
Live Stats | Watch | @TheQBaseball
Quinnipiac Bobcats vs. St. John's Red Storm
Date: Saturday, March 18
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: QU Baseball Field - Hamden, Conn.
Live Stats | Watch | @TheQBaseball
Quinnipiac Bobcats at St. John's Red Storm
Date: Sunday, March 19
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Kaiser Stadium - Queens, N.Y.
Live Stats | Watch | @TheQBaseball
QUEENS, N.Y. – The Quinnipiac baseball team returns to action this weekend with a home-and-home three-game series with St. John's. The Bobcats will open the series at St. John's on Friday at 1 p.m. before returning to Hamden on Saturday for the 2023 home-opener. Quinnipiac will wrap the series in Queens on Sunday at 1 p.m.
LAST TIME OUT
- The Bobcats continued their 2023 campaign this past weekend, going 1-2 on the road at Fordham
- The Rams took the first two games of the series 3-2 and 6-4
- Quinnipiac bounced back to take game three 3-2
HISTORY VS. ST. JOHN'S
- The Red Storm own a 2-1 record all-time against the Bobcats
- St. John's has claimed victory in each of the last two contests
- The last time these two sides faced off, St. John's came away with a 7-4 victory over Quinnipiac in Hamden on March 27, 2022
- Ian Ostberg led the offense with two RBIs
SCOUTING THE RED STORM
- St. John's enters the contest at 10-5
- The Red Storm are currently riding a three-game win streak, boasting a 22-3 win over LIU in its last time out this past Wednesday
- Tate Ballestero and David Glancy leads the offense with four homers and 14 RBIs apiece
ENTER THE BASHMAN
- Junior Sebastian Mueller is off to a hot start in 2023
- Mueller leads the Bobcats in batting average (.333) and on-base percentage (.447)
- Mueller ranks third on the team with 13 hits
- Mueller led the Bobcats' offense at the Snowbird Classic, batting .500 (4-for-8) with four singles over the weekend
- Last season he logged three homers and 15 RBIs
CALL ME MAVES
- Kyle Maves returns as a grad student for his fifth season
- He tallied three hits, including a triple on the opening weekend at the Snowbird Classic
- Last season, Maves held a career-high .275 batting average
- Set career-high marks in 2022 in hits (50), doubles (8), runs scored (41), RBIs (22) and stolen bases (23)
- Led the team with three triples in 2022
- Maves has recorded 54 career steals, slotting him second in the program's Div. I record book for thefts
- Jared Zimbardo returns to Hamden for his junior campaign
- Zimbardo is batting .280 and ranks second team lead in hits with 14
- He boasts a team-best five doubles on the season
- Zimbardo batted a career-best .307 and boasted 50 hits and an on-base percentage of .380 last season
- He recorded career highs in runs scored (28), doubles (11), triples (2), home runs (6), RBIs (24), and stolen bases (7)
- His 50 hits were tied for third on the team last season
- Anthony Donofrio was the lone Quinnipiac player to earn All-MAAC Preseason honors heading into 2023
- Donofrio is batting .313 on the season
- He's tied for the team lead with 15 hits on the season
- Donofrio leads the team with three homers and 11 RBIs
- In a 4-0 weekend for the Bobcats at UMES, Donofrio batted .412 with seven hits, including two doubles, two homers, and six RBIs
- Donofrio boasted a slugging percentage of .882% and recorded five runs scored in the series sweep over UMES
- He tallied at least a hit in each contest, including two in all but one contest.
- Last season, Donofrio earned All-MAAC Second Team honors as an outfielder
- Donofrio batted .343 in 2022, boasting a team-best 61 hits while adding 11 doubles, seven homers, two triples, and 25 RBIs
- Donofrio was a menace on the basepaths, swiping 15 bags last season
- Donofrio averaged nine strikeouts per nine innings pitched, in just over 4.0 innings of work.
- Donofrio closed the 2022 campaign in solid fashion, batting over .390 in his final 23 games of the year
- During that span, he totaled six homers, six doubles, 13 RBIs and 25 runs scored
WELCOME TO QU CAM
- 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, 2022
- He will participate in many activities with the baseball team over the next two years, including games, practices, and other team events
- The Bobcats will be back in action on Wednesday, March 22, when QU travels to take on in-state foe Yale at 3 p.m.
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