JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The North Florida baseball hosts Jacksonville in the River City Rumble for the final ASUN series of the year. The Ospreys are one win away from collecting the Old Wooden Barrel for the most team season wins over the Dolphins. The weekend series is sponsored by Bank of England.

UNF Game Notes (PDF)

GAME DAY CENTRAL
WHAT: Jacksonville (31-21, 14-4 ASUN) at North Florida (32-20, 11-7 ASUN)
WHERE: Dusty Rhodes Field at Harmon Stadium (1,000)
WHEN: Thursday, May 18 (6 p.m.) | Friday, May 19 (4 p.m.) | Saturday, May 20 (1 p.m.)
THE SERIES: JU 35-26
LAST MEETING: The Ospreys scored three runs in the 9th and then plated the winning runs in the top of the 13th, to claim the 2017 Mayor's Cup matchup, 7-5 over JU on Mar. 8 at Sessions Stadium... In last year's series, the two teams spilt a four-game series with JU winning the ASUN series 2-1 (G1 UNF 10-6 | G2 UNF 7-4 | G3 JU 6-2 | G4 JU 8-0)... The last series in Harmon Stadium, UNF took the series 2-1 (G1 JU 3-2 | G2 UNF 16-7 | G3 UNF 17-7)

FOLLOWING THE ACTION
WATCH: ASUN TV (Thursday, Friday, Saturday)
LIVE STATS: UNFOspreys.com

MOUND MATCH-UPS
Friday
UNF - Austin Drury (LHP, 6-2, 2.83 ERA, 70.0 IP, 26 BB, 57 K)
JU - Chris Gau (RHP, 2-4, 4.11 ERA, 57.0 IP, 11 BB, 50 K)

Saturday
UNF - Frank German (RHP, 8-1, 2.44 ERA, 70.0 IP, 23 BB, 66 K)
JU - Michael Baumann (RHP, 4-3, 2.56 ERA, 73.1 IP, 29 BB, 88 K)

Sunday
UNF - Cooper Bradford (RHP, 1-2, 2.49 ERA, 47.0 IP, 19 BB, 48 K)
JU - Casey Kulina (LHP, 4-1, 2.67 ERA, 70.2 IP, 27 BB, 63 K)

NOTEWORTHY
- Ospreys opened the 2017 season with 26 of first 32 games at home including seven consecutive weekends of home series
- UNF dropped its first back-to-back weekend series of the season against USC Upstate (May 5-7) and Stetson (May 12-14). 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 12 weekend series so far this year.
- UNF has been most explosive in the 2nd inning (45 runs)... Ospreys are outscoring opponents 89-43 over the first two innings of games
- Ospreys have held 16 opponents under 3 runs scored, owning an 18-4 record when accomplishing that feat
- UNF is 23-6 when scoring first and own a 16-4 record when tallying runs in their first at-bat
- STREAKING: Dalton Board leads the team with a seven-game hit streak... Alex Merritt holds a 10-game on base streak.. Chris Thibideau has hits in 20 of the last 24 games... Patrick Ervin has reached base in 17 of 19 games... Chris Berry has reached base in 43 of the 46 games he has played... Merritt leads UNF with 23 multi hit games, while Yahir Gurrola is right behind with 22.
ASUN RISING: North Florida leads the ASUN Offensive rankings in Batting Avg, Runs, Hits, RBI, Doubles, and second in Total Bases...  On the Mound, UNF leads the conference in ERA, runs allowed and runners picked off, earned runs allowed and doubles allowed... UNF also features the top fielding team in the conference and have committed the fewest errors
- Four Ospreys are ranked in ASUN Top 10 for hitting: Patrick Ervin (2nd), Alex Merritt (5th), Chris Thibideau (9th), Yahir Gurrola (10th).. Gurrola tops the league charts in Hits, Runs, RBI, Doubles and Total Bases and is fourth in Slug%... Merritt is in the top 10 in: Hits (T3), Runs (T4), RBI (T4) and Total Bases (9)... Thibideau is in the top 10 in: Total Bases (2), Runs (T4), Hits (6), Slug % (7) and HR (T8).
-FACE THE NATION: UNF is currently listed in NCAA Top 50 for Hits (T21th), Batting Avg (29th), Doubles (T39th), ERA (32nd)... Gurrola ranks T17th in runs and T45th in hits, T49th in total bases and T50th in Doubles

SCOUTING Jacksonville
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UP NEXT
North Florida will travel to DeLand, Fla. to play in the ASUN Championship Tournament.