UNCG Baseball Visits SoCon Foe Mercer this Weekend
GREENSBORO, N.C.– The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) baseball team heads to Macon, Georgia to face Mercer in a three-game series to continue Southern Conference (SoCon) play.
SPARTAN ESSENTIALS
Who: Mercer
Where: Macon, Ga. | OrthoGeorgia Park
When: Friday, April 28 | 6 PM
Who: Mercer
Where: Macon, Ga. | OrthoGeorgia Park
When: Saturday, April 29 | 2 PM
Who: Mercer
Where: Macon, Ga. | OrthoGeorgia Park
When: Sunday, April 30 | 1 PM
Last Time Out
UNCG beat Hight Point 5-2 in midweek game.
Dosi Jonas hit his 12th home run of the season going 3-for-4 at the plate.
Price King pitched 3.1 innings allowing only one hit and no runs for his first collegiate save.
Scouting the Spartans
The Spartans are 18-23 overall and 5-7 in SoCon play.
UNCG is leading the conference in double plays (42), and double plays per game (1.02).
Nationally, the Spartans are second in double plays, 4th in double plays per game, 62nd in stolen bases (62), 67th in hit by pitch (58), 69th in stolen bases per game (1.51), 81st in base on balls (199).
Dosi Jonas is leading the Spartans with a batting average of .348 (39-for-112) in 33 games, with a team-best 12 doubles.
Jonas, Kennedy Jones (.335), and Daniel Cerda (.319) are the three Spartans batting over .300.
Jonas is leading the conference in home runs per game (0.36) and slugging percentage (0.777) and is second in runs batted in per game (1.24).
Nationally, Jonas is 22nd in slugging percentage, 48th in home runs per game, and 50th in runs batted in per game.
In 56.0 innings pitched, Jake Wolf has a 4.50 ERA with a team-best 31 strikeouts and just 37 runs allowed. He is 3-2 on the mound with one save in 19 appearances.
Jonas leads the Spartans with 12 home runs, while Jones has hit eight. Caleb Cozart and Dallas Callahan have hit six each. Rowan Watt and Cerda have hit four home runs each, while Zack Budzik and Mitchell Smith have hit three home runs a piece and Bradley Bott has one.
Nine Spartans have double-figure RBI, with Jonas leading the team with 41 of the 231 RBIs.
Scouting the Mercer Bears
Mercer has a record of 26-16 overall this season with an 8-4 SoCon record.
The Bears are coming off a 6-3 loss against Georgia Tech on Tuesday evening.
Prior to that game, Mercer went 2-1 against VMI, including a 22-15 victory during the Sunday match up.
Carter Sanford won Collegiate Baseball National and SoCon Player of the Week on April 24.
The Bears are leading the conference in base on balls (212), hit batters (59), home runs (71), and home runs per game (1.69).
Nationally Mercer is 18th in fielding percentage (0.980), 19th in double plays (36), 20th in home runs (71), 24th in sacrifice bunts (27) and hit by pitch (72), 31st in home runs per game, 36th in double plays per game (0.86), 46th in base on balls.
Treyson Hughes is leading the conference in base on balls (35), base on balls per game (0.83), and runs (53). His 53 runs is 17th in the nation.
Eric Toth has a batting average of .347 to lead the Bears in 40 games played going 50-for-144 in at bats. His 12 home runs are second on the team.
Ryan Lobus is leading the conference and 10th nationally in hit batters (13).
Ty Dalley is leading the conference in home runs (13), being one of 13 batters to have a home run this season for the Bears.
In the 53.0 innings pitched Josh Farmer has an ERA of 4.92, with 32 strikeouts, 39 runs given up, and is 4-2 on the mound in 10 appearances with one complete game.
Series History
The Bears lead the series 12-14 with Mercer sweeping the series last season behind scores of 12-8, 5-4 (10 innings), and 20-10 (7 innings),
As the number four seed in the SoCon Tournament, UNCG defeated the second-seeded Mercer Bears on May 28 16-5, and later went on to win the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament with the Spartans’ second title since 2017.
Courtesy of Kelly Couse
Strategic Communications Coordinator
UNC Greensboro