DELAND, Fla. -- The North Florida baseball team takes to the road for back-to-back road ASUN Conference series for the first and only time this season when they travel to Stetson for the second-last series of the regular season.

UNF Game Notes (PDF)

GAME DAY CENTRAL
WHAT: North Florida (32-17, 11-4 ASUN) at Stetson (22-26, 10-5 ASUN)
WHERE: Melching Field ant Conrad Park (2,500)
WHEN: Friday, May 12 (6:30 p.m.) | Saturday, May 13 (6:30 p.m.) | Sunday, May 14 (1 p.m.)
THE SERIES: UNF 23-21
LAST MEETING: In last year's series, UNF swept the series at Harmon Stadium on April 15-17 (G1 UNF 6-2 | G2 UNF 5-3 | G3 UNF 5-0) before falling in the ASUN Tournament (7-6)... The last series in DeLand, UNF swept the series again (G1 UNF 11-6 | G2 UNF 9-1 | G3 UNF 5-0)

FOLLOWING THE ACTION
WATCH: ESPN3 (Friday, Sunday)
LIVE STATS: GoHatters.com

MOUND MATCH-UPS
Friday
UNF - Austin Drury (LHP, 6-2, 3.02 ERA, 62.2 IP, 24 BB, 51 K)
Stetson - Brooks Wilson (RHP, 3-5, 2.88 ERA, 84.1 IP, 31 BB, 107 K)

Saturday
UNF - Frank German (RHP, 8-0, 2.16 ERA, 66.2 IP, 21 BB, 62 K)
Stetson - RHP Jack Perkins (RHP, 5-4, 2.76 ERA, 84.2 IP, 26 BB, 94 K)

Sunday
UNF - TBA
Stetson - RHP Logan Gilbert (RHP, 8-0, 1.98 ERA, 68.1 IP, 22 BB, 90 K)

NOTEWORTHY
- Ospreys opened the 2017 season with 26 of first 32 games at home including seven consecutive weekends of home series... This weekend's Stetson series marks UNF's first and only back-to-back road ASUN series of the year.
- UNF dropped its first weekend series of the season against USC Upstate (May 5-7). The Ospreys have series sweeps of Penn (Mar. 3-5), NJIT (Apr. 13-15) and FGCU (Apr. 21-23)... The Ospreys split both of their four-game series this year against Northeastern and Rutgers
- North Florida has claimed the opening game in 8 of their 11 weekend series so far this year.
- UNF has been most explosive in the 2nd inning (45 runs)... Ospreys are outscoring opponents 88-43 over the first two innings of games
- Ospreys have held 15 opponents under 3 runs scored, owning an 13-2 record when accomplishing that feat
- UNF is 23-3 when scoring first and own a 16-3 record when tallying runs in their first at-bat
- STREAKING: Chris Thibideau has hits in 18 of the last 21 games... Patrick Ervin has reached base in 15 straight games he has played... Berry has reached base in 41 of the 43 games he has played....  Yahir Gurrola tops the squad with 22 multi-hit games this season, while Alex Merriss is right behind with 21 and Patrick Ervin has 19.
ASUN RISING: North Florida leads the ASUN Offensive rankings in Batting Avg, Runs, Hits, RBI, Doubles, and Total Bases. They are second in Slug%, On Base%...  On the Mound, UNF leads the conference in ERA, runs allowed and runners picked off, second in earned runs allowed and doubled allowed... UNF also features the top fielding team in the conference and have committed the fewest errors
- Three Ospreys are ranked in ASUN Top 10 for hitting: Patrick Ervin (2nd), Yahir Gurrola (5th) and Chris Thibideau (8th).. Gurrola tops the league charts in Hits, Runs, RBI, Doubles and Total Bases and is second Slug%... Thibideau is second in Double and Total Bases.
-FACE THE NATION: UNF is currently listed in NCAA Top 50 for Hits (17th), Batting Avg (22nd), Doubles (T26th), ERA (39th) and Runs (T45th)... Gurrola ranks T14th in runs and T20th in hits, T21th in total bases and T30th in Doubles... Thibideau is T47th in Doubles.

SCOUTING STETSON
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North Florida returns to Harmon Stadium to host Jacksonville in the River City Rumble weekend series starting on May 18.