Friday, March 21
Hamden, CT
3:00 PM
Quinnipiac University
vs
Marist
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Quinnipiac Bobcats (10-8-1, 5-1 MAAC) vs Marist Red Foxes (7-11, 4-2 MAAC)
Date: Friday, March 21st
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Quinnipiac Baseball Field | Hamden, Conn.
All-Time Series: Marist leads the series, 14-12
Last Matchup: W, 13-9 (April 2, 2023 – Hamden, Conn.)
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Quinnipiac Bobcats vs Marist Red Foxes
Date: Saturday, March 22nd
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Quinnipiac Baseball Field | Hamden, Conn.
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Quinnipiac Bobcats vs Marist Red Foxes
Date: Sunday, March 23rd
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Quinnipiac Baseball Field | Hamden, Conn.
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HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac baseball team will return home to face the Marist Red Foxes in a three-game set in Hamden. The series will kick off on Friday, March 21st, with the first pitch scheduled for 3 PM from the Quinnipiac Baseball Field.
HISTORY VS. MARIST
LOTS OF NEW FACES
NEXT TIME OUT
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Date: Friday, March 21st
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: Quinnipiac Baseball Field | Hamden, Conn.
All-Time Series: Marist leads the series, 14-12
Last Matchup: W, 13-9 (April 2, 2023 – Hamden, Conn.)
Live Stats | Watch | @TheQBaseball
Quinnipiac Bobcats vs Marist Red Foxes
Date: Saturday, March 22nd
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Quinnipiac Baseball Field | Hamden, Conn.
Live Stats | Watch | @TheQBaseball
Quinnipiac Bobcats vs Marist Red Foxes
Date: Sunday, March 23rd
Time: 1:00 PM
Location: Quinnipiac Baseball Field | Hamden, Conn.
Live Stats | Watch | @TheQBaseball
HAMDEN, Conn. – The Quinnipiac baseball team will return home to face the Marist Red Foxes in a three-game set in Hamden. The series will kick off on Friday, March 21st, with the first pitch scheduled for 3 PM from the Quinnipiac Baseball Field.
HISTORY VS. MARIST
- Friday's matchup will be the 27th time the two programs are facing off in their Division I history.
- The Red Foxes lead the series 14-12, but the Bobcats are 9-3 on their home turf.
- The two teams last faced each other in a three-game series back in 2023, where the Bobcats swept Marist at home.
- Marist will enter the weekend series with a 7-11 overall record and a 4-2 record in the MAAC.
- The Red Foxes are coming off a midweek win over FDU, 4-3, on Wednesday afternoon in Wappingers Falls, N.Y. Marist was done 3-1 heading to the last half of the ninth before scoring three to walk off the Knights.
- Kyle Pollack has started all 14 games for the Red Foxes and leads the team with a .333 batting average. Pollack leads the team with two home runs and is fourth on the team with ten RBIs.
- Will Taylor has started five games on the bump and leads the team with an ERA of 2.39. In 26.1 innings pitched, Taylor has recorded 22 strikeouts and has given up 11 runs, seven of those being earned.
- Marist is one of four MAAC teams that hold a record of 4-2 early in the 2025 conference season and currently sit in fifth place.
- The Bobcats last played on Wednesday, March 20th, and lost to the Yale Bulldogs by a final score of 8-2.
- Quinnipiac got on the board first with a run in the second inning before Yale responded with two in the third.
- After Quinnipiac tied it up at two, the Bulldogs would score six unanswered runs to defeat the Bobcats 8-2.
- Six Bobcats recorded hits in the loss and both Alex Irizarry and Johnny Knox drove in a run.
- Sebastian Mueller enters the game on a 19-game hitting streak, having recorded a hit in every game this season.
- Sean McCulloch has reached base safely in 17 straight games and in 17 of 18 games this season.
- Johnny Knox is heating up as he has recorded seven hits in the last five games.
- Quinnipiac has won six of their last eight games and five of six conference contests.
- Batting Average (BA): Sebastian Mueller - .440
- Hits (H): Sebastian Mueller - 33
- Runs Batted In (RBIs): Christian Smith - 34
- Runs Scored (R): Sebastian Mueller - 26
- Home Runs (HR): Christian Smith - 8
- Doubles (2B): Johnny Knox, Kyle Garbowski, Alex Irizarry - 5
- Stolen Bases (SB): Sean McCulloch - 13
- Walks (BB): Sean McCulloch - 17
- Earned Run Average (ERA): Matt Alduino – 7.71* (Minimum requirement of 1IP/G)
- Strikeouts (K): Mike Poncini - 19
- Innings Pitched (IP): Matt Alduino – 21.0
- Wins (W): Matt Alduino, Mike Poncini, Jack Kabel – 2
- Saves (S): Samuel Wright, Ryan Hutchinson, Johnny Knox - 1
- The Quinnipiac Baseball team was picked to finish 4th in the MAAC Preseason Poll.
- Outfielder CJ Willis was the lone Bobcat representative on the Preseason All-MAAC team.
- The senior started 49 games last season and had a batting average of .284.
- Willis hit eight home runs, eleven doubles, and three triples while driving in 42 RBIs.
- Willis Drove in a season-high four RBIs in the win against UMass (5/1).
- The Bobcats return 15 players from last year's team, with 12 of those players seeing game action.
- Gabe Wright, Christian Smith, Kyle Garbowski, CJ Willis, Sebastian Mueller, and James Marino will be key returners on the offensive side of the plate.
- Jack Kabel, Ryan Hutchinson, Mike Poncini, Jack Gannon, Matt Alduino, and Andrew Rubayo will look to make an impact when they toe the rubber.
- Matt Alduino and Andrew Rubayo were named to the NCBWA Stopper of the Year Preseason Watchlist.
LOTS OF NEW FACES
- Quinnipiac welcomes 16 new faces to their campus this season.
- The Bobcats used the transfer portal to fill the holes in their lineup, grabbing Sean McCulloch (Susquehanna), Johnny Knox (Nichols College), Alex Irizarry (Maryland), Josh Lajoie (Lipscomb), Ryan O'Connell (St. Bonaventure), Griffin Seibel (Xavier), Cole Constable (Maryland), Luke Zeisloft (Maryland), Jack Bryan (Trevecca Nazarene), and Nick Balcom (Finger Lakes Community College).
- Quinnipiac also brought in six first years, J.C. Franconere from Sparta, New Jersey, Samuel Wright from Ardmore, Pennsylvania, Austin Ludwig from Schwenksville, Pennsylvania, Ian Nilsen from Easton, Connecticut, Christian Nilsen from Easton, Connecticut, and Matt Park from Bridgewater, New Jersey.
- The Bobcats will open up MAAC play on March 7th as they start a three-game home series against the Iona Gaels.
- Quinnipiac will battle in-state rival Yale on March 19th at Yale (3 PM) and at home against Yale on April 15th (3 PM).
- On April 1st, the Bobcats will travel to Storrs to take on the UConn Huskies in a midweek non-conference matchup.
- Quinnipiac will play their final home series of the season from May 8-12 as the Siena Saints come to Hamden.
- QU will wrap up the regular season at Sacred Heart for a three-game set from May 15-17.
NEXT TIME OUT
- The Bobcats will continue their homestand with a midweek contest against the URI Rams on Tuesday, March 25th. First pitch from the Quinnipiac Baseball Field is slated for 3 PM.
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