Baseball visits Mount for weekend set
SMITHFIELD, R.I. – The Bryant University baseball team heads to Emmitsburg, Md., this weekend to face Mount St. Mary's in a four-game Northeast Conference series. It gets underway on Friday, April 25 with a first pitch scheduled for 3:00 p.m. at E.T. Straw Family Stadium.
THE SERIES
Bryant and Mount St. Mary's will be meeting for the fifth-straight year, with the Bulldogs owning a commanding 14-2 lead in the all-time series. The Mountaineers won two of the first three meetings but the Black and Gold have won the last 13 dating back to the 2010 season.
SCOUTING THE MOUNTAINEERS
Mount St. Mary's is coming off a big series victory over NEC power Sacred Heart last weekend. The Mountaineers snapped a 17-game losing streak at the hands of the Pioneers in the second game of the series and went on to win the final three games in Bridgeport to even their league record at 6-6.
Offensively, the Mount is hitting .271 and features the top hitter according to average in the league in Andrew Clow. He's hitting .416 with two home runs, 21 RBI and 18 runs scored. Kory Britton is hitting .337 with six doubles and 20 RBI and Zach Hostetter leads the team with nine doubles. The Mount is averaging exactly five runs per game this season.
LAST TIME OUT
The Bulldogs used a four-run fourth to open a 7-1 lead and then withstood a Rhode Island rally to defeat the Rams, 11-7, on Tuesday at Conaty Park. The Bulldogs rapped out 13 hits in the contest but needed a strikeout with the bases loaded in the ninth to finally put the game away. The top four hitters in the lineup accounted for nine hits, six RBI and seven runs scored and sophomore James Davitt earned his first collegiate victory with three solid innings in his first-ever start.
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SCHLITTER'S NEC DOMINANCE