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Baseball visits Mount for weekend set
Posted: Apr 24, 2014

Baseball visits Mount for weekend set

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Pitching

Win: Jack Patterson (3-0)
Loss: Karl Lamont (1-5)
Batting
Bryant
2B: Aj Zarozny
3B: none
HR: Tom Gavitt; Buck Mccarthy
Mount St. Mary's
2B: Andrew Frazier
3B: none
HR: none
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GAME NOTES

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.

The Mountaineers received stellar pitching last weekend, holding the Pioneers to just 12 runs in the four games. On the year, however, the Mount has a the league's worst ERA at 6.31. Vincent Molesky is 3-1 with a 2.54 ERA in his last five starts and has allowed two runs or less in each of his last three outings. Seth Schubert earned his first collegiate victory on Saturday at SHU, while Friday starter Karl Lamont and Sunday starter Scott Nickerson both have ERAs north of 5.00.

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.

WHO'S PLAYING?
Through the first 37 games of the season, head coach Steve Owens has used 36 different starting lineups. Owens has used five different leadoff hitters and 11 different hitters have batted sixth at least once on the year. Carl Anderson and Robby Rinn are the only two players to start all 37 games.

SCHLITTER'S NEC DOMINANCE
Craig Schlitter tossed shutout LIU Brooklyn last Friday and has now thrown a shutout in each of his first two league starts this season. His dominance doesn't end there, however. Dating back to last season, Schlitter has allowed one run or less in all 10 of his starts (including postseason) against league opponents. In his career, Schlitter is 16-4 with a 1.54 ERA in 140.1 innings. NEC teams are hitting just .195 against him in his career.