SPARTANBURG, S.C. -- The North Florida baseball team returns to ASUN Conference play as the Ospreys travel to USC Upstate for a three-game series at Harley Park beginning Friday at 6 p.m. The teams will also play Saturday at 2 p.m and Sunday at 1 p.m.

UNF Game Notes (PDF)

GAME DAY CENTRAL
WHAT: North Florida (31-15, 10-2 ASUN) at USC Upstate (19-25, 3-9 ASUN)
WHERE: Harley Park (500)
WHEN: Friday, May 5 (6 p.m.) | Saturday, May 6 (2 p.m.) | Sunday, May 7 (1 p.m.)
THE SERIES: UNF 42-7
LAST MEETING: In last year's series, UNF swept the series at Harmon Stadium on May 13-15 (G1 UNF 15-4 | G2 UNF 10-3 | G3 UNF 13-6)... The last series in Spartanburg, UNF swept the series again (G1 UNF 8-2 | G2 UNF 12-6 | G3 UNF 8-2)

FOLLOWING THE ACTION
LISTEN: 1010 XL (AM)
LIVESTATS: UpstateSpartans.com

MOUND MATCH-UPS
Friday
UNF - Austin Drury (LHP, 4-2, 3.58 ERA, 37.2 IP, 14 BB, 33 K)
Upstate - Conner Campbell (RHP, 2-3, 4.09 ERA, 44.0 IP, 11 BB, 42 K)

Saturday
UNF - Frank German (RHP, 5-0, 1.73 ERA, 41.2 IP, 13 BB, 43 K)
Upstate - Kevin Hickey (RHP, 3-5, 4.55 ERA, 57.1 IP, 18 BB, 44 K)

Sunday
UNF - Brad Deppermann (RHP, 2-1, 5.72 ERA, 28.1 IP, 5 BB, 23 K) 
Upstate - Blake Whitney (RHP, 5-5, 6.26 ERA, 54.2 IP, 27 BB, 66 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 Lipscomb series marks UNF's first back-to-back road games of the year and also the first hotel stay for the team this season
- UNF has not lost a weekend series this season including a series sweep 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 10 weekend series so far this year
- UNF has been most explosive in the 2nd inning (43 runs)... Ospreys are outscoring opponents 83-40 over the first two innings of games
- Ospreys have held 14 opponents under 3 runs scored, owning an 13-1 record when accomplishing that feat
- UNF is 17-2 when scoring first and own a 10-3 record when tallying runs in their first at-bat
- STREAKING: Thibideau extended the team's longest current hit streak to 11 games and has hits in 17 of the last 18 games... Patrick Ervin has reached base in 15 straight games he has played... Berry has reached base in 39 of the 41 games he has played....  Merritt and Gurrola top the squad with 21 multi-hit games this season, while Ervin is right behind with 19
ASUN RISING: North Florida leads the ASUN Offensive rankings in Batting Avg, Runs, Hits, RBI, Doubles, Slug%, On Base%...  On the Mound, UNF leads the conference in ERA, runs allowed and runners picked off, second in saves and earned runs 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 (1st), Chris Thibideau (3rd), Alex Merritt (5th), Yahir Gurrola (7th).. Gurrola tops the league charts in Hits, Runs, RBI, and Total Bases and is second in Doubles and third in Slug%... Ervin also owns the ASUN's highest on-base percentage
- FACE THE NATION: UNF is currently listed in NCAA Top 50 for Batting Avg (20th), Hits (10th), Runs (T33th), Doubles (20th)... Gurrola ranks 10th in runs and T15th in hits, 28th in total bases... Thibideau is T26th in Doubles

SCOUTING USC UPSTATE
Roster | Schedule | Statistics | Notes

UP NEXT
North Florida travels to Stetson for the next to last ASUN series of the season starting on May 12 in Deland, Fla.