Spartans Welcome Mountaineers For Three-Game Series
GREENSBORO, N.C. – The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) baseball team hosts West Virginia for a three-game series, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
SPARTANS ESSENTIALS
FRIDAY
Who: West Virginia
Where: UNCG Baseball Stadium
When: Friday, March 17 | 1 p.m.
Tickets: FREE ADMISSION for all regular season home games
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Saturday
Who: West Virginia
Where: UNCG Baseball Stadium
When: Saturday, March 18 | 2 p.m.
Tickets: FREE ADMISSION for all regular season home games
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Sunday
Who: West Virginia
Where: UNCG Baseball Stadium
When: Sunday, March 19 | 1 p.m.
Tickets: FREE ADMISSION for all regular season home games
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Last Time Out
UNCG fell to NC A&T 9-4 on Tuesday afternoon at home.
Mitchell Smith (4-for-5) and Daniel Cerda (2-for-3) had multi-hit games.
Scouting the Spartans
UNCG is leading the conference in double plays (16), double plays per game (0.94), hits (185), and sacrifice flies (12).
Nationally, the Spartans are 12th in sacrifice flies, 17th in double plays, 28th in hits (185), 32nd in double plays per game, 35th in doubles (38), 47th in sacrifice bunts (8), 49th in batting average (0.304), and 59th in runs (132).
Dosi Jonas is nationally ranked 15th and leading the conference in sacrifice flies (3).
Mitchell Smith is 47th in the nation and second in the conference in doubles (7).
Smith is nationally 51st and second in the conference in hits per game (1.67).
Smith is leading the team with a .397 batting average (25-for-63) and 19 RBI in 15 games played. He also has seven doubles and two home runs.
Kennedy Jones is ranked 61st in the nation and second in the conference in hits (26).
Jones is batting .366 (26-for-71) with 17 runs scored, 13 RBI, and two home runs.
He is one of five Spartans batting over .300.
In 27.1 innings pitched, Jake Wolf has a 3.29 ERA, striking out 16 this season.
Rowan Watt has hit three home runs, while five Spartans have two home runs each, including Dallas Callahan, Smith, Jones, Jonas, and Caleb Cozart.
Smith leads the Spartans with 19 of the 119 RBIs.
Scouting the Mountaineers
The Mountaineers are 12-4, with a six-game win streak, including a two-game series sweep of Appalachian State earlier this week.
West Virginia is nationally ranked seventh in stolen bases (47), eighth in stolen bases per game (2.94), 26th in doubles per game (2.44), 30th in total doubles (39), 32nd in triples (6), 34th in sacrifice bunts (9), and 43rd in triples per game (0.38).
The Mountaineers are leading the conference in stolen bases and stolen bases per game.
They are second in the Big 12 in sacrifice bunts and hit by pitch (28).
Third in the Big 12 in doubles, doubles per game, earned run average, triples, triples per game, and win-loss percentage.
J.J. Wetherholt is nationally ranked fourth in both stolen bases (15) and stolen bases per game (0.94), sixth in doubles (9), ninth in hits per game (1.94), 11th in hits (31), 16th in doubles per game (0.56), and 20th in batting average (0.463).
In the conference, Wetherholt is first in doubles, doubles per game, and stolen bases.
Wetherholt is second in the Big 12 in batting average, hits, slugging percentage, total bases and hits per game.
Blaine Traxel is leading the nation in complete games (2), and is also nationally ranked 20th and leading the conference in victories (3).
Tevin Tucker is nationally ranked second in sacrifice bunts (6), and ninth in sacrifice bunts per game (0.38).
Tucker is leading the conference in both sacrifice bunts and sacrifice bunts per game.
Series History
The two teams have met just once before.
West Virginia defeated UNCG 21-11 in Greensboro in 1991.
Courtesy of Kelly Couse
Strategic Communications Coordinator
UNC Greensboro