JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The North Florida baseball team (13-9) will return to the diamond on Tuesday when they take on Bethune-Cookman (8-12) in Daytona. The Ospreys will be back home on Wednesday night to begin a two-game series with Darmouth (3-9).
Probable Starting Pitchers
Tuesday Bethune-Cookman: RHP Juan Pizarro (0-1, 8.71 ERA, 10.1 IP, 6 BB, 11 SO)
North Florida: RHP
Frank German (0-2, 7.11 ERA, 12.2 IP, 4 BB, 10 SO)
WednesdayDartmouth: RHP Jackson Bubala (0-2, 13.50 ERA, 8.0 IP, 10 BB, 3 SO)
North Florida: RHP
Matt Vaka (1-1, 6.06 ERA, 16.1 IP, 3 BB, 12 SO)
Thursday
Dartmouth: RHP Clay Chatham (0-3, 8.03 ERA, 12.1 IP, 3 BB, 5 SO)
North Florida: RHP
Bryan Baker (1-2, 1.76 ERA, 30.2 IP, 7 BB, 33 SO
- Tuesday will be the second time in seven days that Bethune-Cookman and North Florida square off at Jackie Robinson Stadium. The Ospreys scored in all but two innings in a 13-1 victory last week.
- Dartmouth and North Florida will meet for the first time in school history. The Ospreys dropped their first ever game against an Ivy league school on March 5, 3-2 to Penn.
- After the midweek series with Dartmouth, the Ospreys will have played four of the eight teams in the Ivy (Brown, Penn, Princeton). The Ospreys are 8-1 all-time against the Ivy leaguers.
- Bethune-Cookman and North Florida will meet for the 25th time on Tuesday. The Ospreys have won four-straight in the series and hold a 17-7 advantage in the all-time series
- Corbin Olmstead was honored with his first Atlantic Sun Player of the Week Award. He has won two A-Sun Pitcher of the Week Awards (2013 & 2015) in his Osprey career.
- Olmstead was 10-for-20 (.500) with three home runs, nine RBIs and seven runs in five games last week.
- Of the 13 wins this season North Florida has come-from-behind in seven of them, including four in the ninth inning or later
- The Ospreys have turned 24 double plays this season, fifth most in the country despite not turning a single double play in the weekend series with Quinnipiac.
- Kyle Brooks has reached base in 16-straight games and Corbin Olmstead is riding a 15-game hit streak.
- Junior Bryan Baker goes into his Thursday start with the lowest ERA in the A-Sun, 1.76
- The Ospreys have reached a season-high 16 hits three times, including the last meeting against Bethune-Cookman
- North Florida has totaled 238 hits this season, the ninth most in the country.
- After starting the season 0-7 in one-run games, the Ospreys have won their last four one-run decisions.
- Besides having the league's second best batting average (.425), Keith Skinner is listed 26th on the country's toughest to strikeout list. Teammate Kyle Brooks is No. 71.
- As a team the Ospreys lead the A-Sun in batting average (.309), runs (146), hits (238) and home runs (5)
Bethune-Cookman: The Wildcats are fresh off a series victory over North Carolina Central this past weekend in Durham. The Ospreys pinned a 13-1 setback on the Wildcats a week ago, the biggest margin in the 24 previous meetings. Bethune-Cookman has won three of their last four games and are led by catcher Clay Middleton who is hitting at a .426 clip.
Dartmouth: After dropping their first six games of the season, the Big Green captured three wins at the Russ Matt Invitational. All 12 games for Dartmouth have been played in the state of Florida, and the first 18 scheduled games of the season will be in the Sunshine State. Dartmouth went 3-3 last week with two wins against Lehigh and another versus Bucknell. Kyle Holbrook leads the team with a .314 batting average while Rob Emery and Justin Fowler are responsible for 11 of the 36 runs batted in.
