BUFFALO – The D'Youville University baseball team travels to Wilmington, Delaware this weekend as they gear up for a four-game set with Goldey-Beacom College.
 
D'Youville vs. Goldey-Beacom
Friday, March 15^th – 2:00 p.m.
Wilmington, DE
 
D'Youville vs. Godley-Beacom (DH)
Saturday, March 16^th – 12:00 p.m.
Wilmington, DE
 
D'Youville vs. Godley-Beacom
Sunday, March 17^th – 12:00 p.m.
Wilmington, DE
 
Last Time Out
The Saints split a two-game series with Virginia State with a 5-1 win on Tuesday and a 14-8 loss on Wednesday. In their 5-1 win, Billy Morris (Lancaster, N.Y.) threw seven innings of one-run ball, allowing just three hits and striking out ten batters. Blaise Kolbert (Lancaster, N.Y.) came in in relief of Morris and threw two shutout innings, striking out two. With a single in the second inning, Jeremy Glinski (Sloan, N.Y.), tallied his 139^th career hit, a new school record. Alex Dzimian (Lakeview, N.Y.) recorded two hits and drove in a run for the Saints. In their 14-8 loss, Chris Neino and Caden Strobel (Pittstown, Pa.) each picked up three hits, new career-highs for both players. Morris and Glinski both had two hits and drove in two runs. Kyle Blunt (Watford, Ontario) got his first start of the year on the mound and threw 2.2 innings, allowing just one run on one hit and two walks.
 
Saints Stats

• DYU enters the contest with an 8-6 record
• The Saints have the second-best team batting average in the ECC (.290), have the highest slugging percentage (.451), second in home runs (12), and first in doubles (26)
• DYU's pitching staff has the second-best ERA in the ECC (4.84) and are first in strikeouts (102)
• Jon Simpson (Grand Island, N.Y.) leads the ECC in home runs (6) and RBI (22)
• Glinski tops the ECC in slugging percentage (.857) and OPS (1.472) and is second in batting average (.457)
• Chris Auclair (Baldwinsville, N.Y.) is sixth in the ECC in ERA (2.35) and fifth in strikeouts (15)
• Morris is third in the ECC in strikeouts (19) and eleventh in ERA (4.42)

 
About Goldey-Beacom

• The Lightning enter the series with an 11-7 record and are coming off a doubleheader sweep of Staten Island
• Garrett Musey leads the team in batting average (.462) and slugging percentage (.897)
• Darin Miller leads the team in hits (24) and RBI (18)
• In five starts, Justin Jump leads the pitching staff with a 1.65 ERA and 29 strikeouts