Baseball to Play Huntingdon Twice in Weekend Series
The Emory University baseball team will look to build on the
momentum created after winning the UAA Championship earlier in the
week, as the Eagles will wrap up their season series with
Huntingdon College with 1:00 PM games on Saturday and Sunday at
Chappell Park.
Coverage
Both games will have a video webcast and live
statistics. The webcasts, available at http://go.emory.edu/Webcasts/BaseWebcast.html,
require the free version of RealPlayer from real.com to view.
Live statistics for the games are available at http://www.go.emory.edu/LiveStats/Base/xlive.htm.
Emory Eagles
Emory is now 13-7 on the season, including a 5-2 record at
home. The Eagles are hitting .296 as a team this season with
7.7 runs per game, while the pitching staff has an ERA of 4.86,
allowing opponents to hit for a .283 average. Emory is led by
head coach Mike Twardoski, whose 350-155-1 career
record is good for a .692 winning percentage, the highest mark
among active UAA coaches, 15th-highest among all active
NCAA Division III coaches, and 21st-best mark among
Division III coaches all time to start the season. Assistant
Coaches Bobby Perez, Brian Clark,
and Greg McMichael will complete Coach
Twardoski’s staff for the 2011 season.
Huntingdon Hawks
Huntingdon will enter this weekend’s games with a
14-4 record, including a 6-1 mark in road contests. The Hawks
are batting .315 as a team this season with 8.4 runs scored per
game, while their pitched have an ERA of 3.06, holding opponents to
a .234 batting average. Huntingdon is led by head coach D.J.
Conville, who is assisted by Joey Holcomb and Scott
Mularz.
Matchup History
On March 2nd of this season, Emory came away
with a 10-7 win over Huntingdon in Montgomery, AL, behind home runs
from Patrick Riebsame and Kevin
O’Connor, and six strong innings on the mound from
starter Paul Schwendel. Emory is 21-10 all
time against Huntingdon, including a mark of 8-4 at Chappell
Park.
Emory Notes
Emory closer Mike Bitanga recorded a pair
of saves at the UAA Tournament, and now has five total this season
through 20 team games… The five saves are already the
eighth-most in a single season in the program’s history, and
halfway to the program record of 10, set by Keith Meizler in
2004… Junior Jonathan Reilly saw his
11-game hitting streak come to a close on Monday against Washington
University (Mo.), the season-best streak by an Eagle… The
longest current hitting streak by an Emory player belongs to
freshman Brandon Hannon, who has hit safely in
eight straight games… Senior Andrew Cohn
has driven in eight runs over his last two games, and has three
games of four RBIs this season… Emory’s one-hitter
against Brandeis on March 12th marked the fewest hits
allowed by the Eagles in a game over the last 10 years.
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