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SAINT JOSEPH’S UNIVERSITY2015 Baseball Series Notes
2015 SCHEDULE/RESULTSOverall: 6-‐9 • Atlantic 10: 0-‐0
FEBRUARYFri. 20 at Loyola Marymount . . . . . . W, 2-‐1Sat. 21 at Loyola Marymount . . . . . . . L, 7-‐3
at Loyola Marymount . . . . . . L, 10-‐0Sat. 28 at USC Upstate . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 5-‐1
at USC Upstate . . . . . . . . . . . L, 12-‐5
MARCHSun. 1 at USC Upstate . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 3-‐0Fri. 6 # vs. Illinois State . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 7-‐2Sat. 7 # vs. Indiana . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 3-‐2Sun. 8 # vs. Lehigh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 9-‐2Tue. 10 # vs. Florida International . . . W, 11-‐5Wed. 11 # vs. Seton Hall . . . . . . . . . . . . . L, 16-‐9Fri. 13 WAGNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W, 7-‐2Sun. 15 NORTHEASTERN . . . . . . . . . . W, 2-‐0Tue. 17 at Bucknell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . W, 9-‐2Wed. 18 MONMOUTH . . . . . . . . . . . . W, 11-‐4Sat. 21 * GEORGE WASHINGTON . . 3:00 p.m.Sun. 22 * GEORGE WASHINGTON. . . . . . Noon
* GEORGE WASHINGTON . . 3:00 p.m.Tue. 24 & PENN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Wed. 25 at Saint Peter’s . . . . . . . . . 3:30 p.m.Fri. 27 * at George Mason . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Sat. 28 * at George Mason . . . . . . . 2:00 p.m.Sun. 29 * at George Mason . . . . . . . 1:00 p.m.
APRILThu. 2 at Villanova . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:15 p.m.Fri. 3 BRYANT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 a.m.Tue. 7 & at Lafayette/Villanova . . . . . . . . TBAFri. 10 * at Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Sat. 11 * at Rhode Island. . . . . . . . . 1:00 p.m.Sun. 12 * at Rhode Island . . . . . . . . . . . . NoonTue. 14 & LBC Championship Game . . . . . TBAWed. 15 SAINT PETER’S . . . . . . . . . 3:30 p.m.Fri. 17 * VCU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Sat. 18 * VCU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:00 p.m.Sun. 19 * VCU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:00 p.m.Tue. 21 vs. Villanova . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBAWed. 22 at Delaware. . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Fri. 24 * at Dayton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Sat. 25 * at Dayton . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:00 p.m.Sun. 26 * at Dayton. . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 a.m.Tue. 28 at Rider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:30 p.m.Wed. 29 at Monmouth . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.
MAYFri. 1 * LA SALLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Sat. 2 * LA SALLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2:00 p.m.Sun. 3 * LA SALLE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:00 p.m.Tue. 5 DELAWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Fri. 8 * at St. Bonaventure . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Sat. 9 * at St. Bonaventure . . . . . . . . . NoonSun. 10 * at St. Bonaventure . . . . . . . . . NoonTue. 12 VILLANOVA . . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Thu. 14 * SAINT LOUIS . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Fri. 15 * SAINT LOUIS . . . . . . . . . . . 3:00 p.m.Sat. 16 * SAINT LOUIS . . . . . . . . . . 11:00 a.m.Wed. 20 + Atlantic 10 ChampionshipThu. 21 + Atlantic 10 ChampionshipFri. 22 + Atlantic 10 ChampionshipSat. 23 + Atlantic 10 Championship
Home games in CAPS at Smithson Field# – Snowbird Classic (Port Charlotte, Fla.)
& – Liberty Bell Classic game(Championship at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia, Pa.)
* – Atlantic 10 Conference game+ – Atlantic 10 Championship (Arlington, Va.)
(##/##) – Rankings in NCBWA/Baseball America pollsAll times Eastern and subject to change
Contact: Joe Greenwich • Phone: 610-‐660-‐1738 • Fax: 610-‐660-‐1724 • Email: jgreenwi@sju.edu • www.sjuhawks.com
GAME DAYVENUE: John W. Smithson Field (Merion Station, Pa.)SURFACE (CAPACITY): AstroTurf 3D GameDay Grass (400)AUDIO STREAMING: Links available at SJUHawks.comVIDEO STREAMING: NoneLIVE STATS: Links available at SJUHawks.comALL-‐TIME SERIES: George Washington leads, 29-‐15LAST MEETING: March 23, 2014: Colonials 4, Hawks 3HAWKS’ NEXT GAME: Tuesday, March 24 vs. Penn (Liberty Bell Classic)
HAWK HEADLINES• Saint Joseph’s opens conference play on a four-‐game winning streak and having won fiveof its last six. On the flip side, after a hot start, George Washington has lost four of six.• Junior outfielder John Brue is the reigning Big 5 Baseball Player of the Week after driving inseven runs and scoring five over the course of four games between March 10-‐15.• The Hawks and Colonials met on the first weekend of conference play in 2014 as well. SaintJoseph’s took the first two games of the series before George Washington pulled out thefinale at Barcroft Park.
PROBABLE STARTERSGeorge Washington Saint Joseph’s
Saturday: RHP Bobby LeWarne RHP Tim Ponto(3-‐1, 4.26 ERA) (1-‐2, 1.89 ERA)
Sunday (Game 1): RHP Robbie Metz RHP Pat Vanderslice(1-‐0, 0.47 ERA) (1-‐2, 1.80 ERA)
Sunday (Game 2): RHP Shane Kemp RHP Justin Aungst(2-‐1, 2.87 ERA) (1-‐0, 1.98 ERA)
LAST TIME OUT......Saint Joseph's ran its winning streak to four with an 11-‐4 rout of Monmouth at
Smithson Field on Wednesday. Reigning Big 5 Player of the Week John Brue hit his team-‐leading fifth home run of the year and Stefan Kancylarz added three hits for the Hawks, whoscored in five consecutive innings between the second and the sixth.
On Tuesday, the Hawks traveled to Bucknell and cruised past the Bison, 9-‐2. PeterSitaras was 2-‐for-‐4 with three runs scored in the game, while Deon Stafford was 2-‐for-‐3 witha pair of runs scored of his own.
Last weekend, SJU won its first two home games of the season over Wagner andNortheastern. After a 7-‐2 win over the Seahawks on Friday, Pat Vanderslice, Jack Stover, andLansing Veeder combined for a three-‐hit, 2-‐0 shutout of Northeastern on Sunday.
George Washington Colonials(9-6 overall, 0-0 Atlantic 10)
atSaint Joseph’s Hawks
(6-9 overall, 0-0 Atlantic 10)
March 21-22, 2015
FRIENDLY CONFINES: John W. Smithson Field, now in its fourthseason, is the home of Saint Joseph’s baseball. The field featuresa synthetic AstroTurf 3D GameDay Grass surface and a dirt pitch-‐ing mound; the turf is the industry-‐standard surface that is cur-‐rently in use by the Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays of theAmerican League. Located on the James J. Maguire ‘58 Campus,the facility also features spacious dugouts, elevated bullpens inright field, a press box, and bleacher seating for 400 spectators.Fans can also watch from along the fence down each of the foullines and from the berm in right center field. The opening of theballpark brought varsity baseball back to Hawk Hill for the firsttime since 1958.
PUTTIN’ ON THE FRITZ: The Hawks have increased their win totalin each of Fritz Hamburg’s six previous seasons as head coach.The Hawks have averaged better than 23 wins per season underHamburg, the highest mark in school history, and Hamburg cur-‐rently ranks as Saint Joseph’s second-‐winningest baseball coachof all-‐time.
CLIMBING THE RANKS: With the Hawks’ 11-‐5 triumph overFlorida International on March 10, head coach Fritz Hamburgrecorded his 143rd career victory, all in a Hawk uniform. Thatmoved him into second place on SJU’s all-‐time wins list, trailingonly Chris Loschiavo, who recorded 184 wins with Hawks from1987-‐96.
WELCOME BACK: David Valesente, a 2010 graduate of SaintJoseph’s, has returned to Hawk Hill as a volunteer assistant coachfor a second season. Fifth in program history with 216 careerhits, Valesente spent three seasons in professional baseball,including a stint with the Pittsburgh Pirates organization.Coincidentally, Valesente’s father, George, coached SJU headman Fritz Hamburg when he was an undergrad at Ithaca College.
BIG (5) MEN ON CAMPUS: Formed in 2006 as the Diamond Five,Philadelphia Big 5 Baseball aims to increase exposure for collegebaseball in the Philadelphia area. The organization selects aPitcher and Player of the Week throughout the year and namesan All-‐Big 5 Team and award winners at the end of the season. Alist of Saint Joseph’s weekly award winners appears in the box atthe bottom of this page.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Coaches around the Atlantic 10 havetaken notice of the resurgence of the Saint Joseph’s baseball pro-‐gram, voting the Hawks fifth in the conference’s preseason poll.It is SJU’s highest preseason league ranking in recent memory.
CENTURIONS CLUB: Senior Stefan Kancylarz ranks 11th in pro-‐gram history with 188 career hits. He is the only active Hawk toreach the 100-‐hit plateau in his Saint Joseph’s career.
FOR WHOM THE (LIBERTY) BELL TOLLS: 2015 marks the 24thyear of the annual Liberty Bell Classic, a tournament featuringSaint Joseph’s and seven other Division I schools in the area. Thechampionship game is held at Citizens Bank Park, home of MajorLeague Baseball’s Philadelphia Phillies. The Hawks have nowmade five appearances in the championship game, winning thetitle in two of the last three seasons (2012, 2014).
STARTING OFF RIGHT: Saint Joseph’s has won its conferenceopener in all six of Fritz Hamburg’s seasons on Hawk Hill, and willaim to continue the streak on Saturday. In five of those six sea-‐sons, the Hawks have started league play 2-‐0.
NICE WORK, ROOK: Freshman Justin Aungst made his collegiatedebut on February 20 and made it count, tossing three shutoutinnings of relief and earning the win as SJU opened the seasonwith a 2-‐1 win at Loyola Marymount. Aungst was later namedthe Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week for his efforts.
YOU’RE MY BOY, BRUE: John Brue hit .400 over a four-‐gamestretch, with five runs scored, seven RBI, and two home runs asthe Hawks went 3-‐1 from March 10-‐15. Brue was voted the Big 5Baseball Player of the Week.
HEATING UP: After a slow start to the season, the Saint Joseph’sbats have come around in a major way. The Hawks scored 17runs through their first nine games before breaking out for sevenin more in five of their last six. SJU has scored 49 runs in its last50 innings at bat.
TOP-‐SHELF BRUE: Junior outfielder John Brue has hit five homeruns through the first 15 games of the season, tops in the Atlantic10 through March 20.
2015 SAINT JOSEPH’S BASEBALL SERIES NOTES
Weekly HonorsThe following Hawks have earned weekly honors this season:
Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Week• February 23: Justin Aungst
Big 5 Player of the Week• March 16: John Brue
AROUND THE A-‐10: Here’s a look at the Atlantic 10 schedule forthe first conference weekend of the season:
George Mason at Richmond Massachusetts at DaytonLa Salle at Davidson Rhode Island at Saint LouisIdle: Fordham, St. Bonaventure, VCU*
*Teams denoted as “idle” may play non-‐conference series duringtheir weekend off from conference play.
SAINT JOSEPH’S RECORD WHEN......scoring first: 4-‐2...leading after three innings: 4-‐1...leading after six innings: 5-‐1...leading after seven innings: 6-‐0...leading after eight innings: 6-‐0...trailing after three innings: 1-‐6...trailing after six innings: 0-‐7...trailing after seven innings: 0-‐9...trailing after eight innings: 0-‐9...tied after eight innings: 0-‐0...playing extra innings: 0-‐0...playing a one-‐run game: 1-‐1...scoring 10 runs or more: 2-‐0...scoring three runs or less: 2-‐7...allowing 10 runs or more: 0-‐3...allowing three runs or less: 4-‐2...facing a left-‐handed starter: 3-‐2...facing a right-‐handed starter: 3-‐7
TALE OF THE TAPESaint Joseph’s George Washington
Team Batting Average: .235 (10th in the A-‐10) .272 (6th in the A-‐10)Earned Run Average: 4.74 (9th in the A-‐10) 4.02 (4th in the A-‐10)Opponents’ Batting Average: .252 (6th in the A-‐10) .246 (4th in the A-‐10)
TEAM LEADERSBatting Average: Stefan Kancylarz, .365 Robbie Metz, .377Home Runs: John Brue, 5 Kevin Mahala, 2Runs Batted In: John Brue, 13 Bobby Campbell, 13Runs Scored: John Brue, 15 Joey Bartosic, 15Walks: Stefan Kancylarz, 13 Three with 5Hit By Pitch: Stefan Kancylarz/Brian Lau, 4 Brandon Chapman, 3Stolen Bases: Taylor Boyd, 4 Joey Bartosic/Robbie Metz, 8Slugging Percentage: John Brue, .667 Andrew Selby, .617On-‐Base Percentage: Stefan Kancylarz, .522 Joey Bartosic, .433Earned Run Average: Jack Stover/Lansing Veeder, 0.00 Craig LeJeune, 0.00Appearances: Jack Stover, 7 Eddie Muhl, 7Innings Pitched: Pat Vanderslice, 20.0 Bobby LeWarne, 25.1Strikeouts: Pat Vanderslice, 21 Bobby LeWarne, 25Wins: Six with 1 Bobby LeWarne, 3Losses: Three with 2 Jacob Williams, 2Saves: Lansing Veeder, 2 Eddie Muhl, 4
2015 SAINT JOSEPH’S BASEBALL SERIES NOTES
ATLANTIC 10 STANDINGS(as of March 20)
Atlantic 10 Overall1. Davidson 0-‐0 10-‐5
Dayton 0-‐0 6-‐12Fordham 0-‐0 6-‐12George Mason 0-‐0 7-‐9George Washington 0-‐0 9-‐6La Salle 0-‐0 9-‐10Massachusetts 0-‐0 0-‐5Rhode Island 0-‐0 4-‐6Richmond 0-‐0 7-‐7St. Bonaventure 0-‐0 9-‐2Saint Joseph’s 0-‐0 6-‐9Saint Louis 0-‐0 13-‐7VCU 0-‐0 9-‐9
Saint Joseph's BaseballStatistics Summary for Saint Joseph's (as of Mar 18, 2015)
(All games)
Record: 6-9 Home: 3-0 Away: 2-5 Neutral: 1-4 Atlantic 10: 0-0
Date Opponent Score2/20 at LMU W 2-12/21 at LMU L 3-72/21 at LMU L 0-102/28 at USC Upstate L 1-52/28 at USC Upstate L 5-123/1 at USC Upstate L 0-33/6 vs Illinois State L 2-73/7 vs Indiana L 2-33/8 vs Lehigh L 2-93/10 vs FIU W 11-53/11 vs Seton Hall L 9-163/13 WAGNER W 7-23/15 NORTHEASTERN W 2-03/17 at Bucknell W 9-23/18 MONMOUTH W 11-4
Player avg gp-gs ab r h 2b 3b hr rbi bb hbp so sb-attKANCYLARZ, Stefan . 3 6 5 15-15 52 5 19 2 2 1 11 13 4 10 0-1
MAUL, Matt . 3 3 3 15-15 54 9 18 0 0 0 8 6 0 10 2-2
BRUE, John . 3 1 6 15-15 57 15 18 1 2 5 13 6 3 21 1-1
STAFFORD, Deon . 2 9 2 13-12 48 9 14 3 2 0 6 7 0 14 0-1
COGHLIN, Charlie . 2 2 9 12-10 35 2 8 0 0 0 5 1 1 9 0-0
JADACKI, Cal . 2 0 8 15-14 53 6 11 1 0 1 3 5 1 15 1-1
SITARAS, Peter . 2 0 0 12-10 30 8 6 0 0 0 2 7 1 11 1-1
LAU, Brian . 1 9 5 12-11 41 4 8 3 0 0 4 1 4 15 0-1
BOYD, Taylor . 1 4 3 13-12 42 4 6 0 0 0 2 6 1 11 4-4
--------------------SHANK, Nate . 2 8 6 5-1 7 1 2 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 0-0
CUOCI, Dominic . 1 5 2 10-8 33 2 5 0 0 0 1 1 1 17 0-0
GIACALONE, Marc . 1 1 1 6-5 18 1 2 1 0 0 3 3 0 7 0-0
FUHRMANN, Nick . 0 0 0 3-3 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0-0
VEEDER, Lansing . 0 0 0 4-4 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 7 0-0
GORMAN, Joey . 0 0 0 5-0 4 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 1 0-0
PATER, Ryan . 0 0 0 4-0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 0-0
VISELLI, David . 0 0 0 2-0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0-0
TRISLER, Dusty . 0 0 0 2-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0-0
Totals . 2 3 5 15 497 66 117 11 7 7 59 65 16 161 9-12
Opponents . 2 5 2 15 496 86 125 33 3 4 74 62 26 99 12-18
LOB - Team (128), Opp (125). DPs turned - Team (13), Opp (7). IBB - Team (2), Brue1, Kancylarz 1, Opp (7). Picked off - Maul 1, Boyd 1, Veeder 1.
Player era w-l app gs cg sh sv ip h r er bb soVANDERSLICE, Pat 1 . 8 0 1-2 4 4 0 0 0 20.0 17 9 4 3 21PONTO, Tim 1 . 8 9 1-2 4 4 0 0 0 19.0 11 7 4 12 12PALLANTE, Tyler 6 . 8 9 0-2 5 4 0 0 0 15.2 22 12 12 5 8--------------------STOVER, Jack 0 . 0 0 1-1 7 0 0 0 0 9.0 3 1 0 5 5VEEDER, Lansing 0 . 0 0 0-0 5 0 0 0 2 6.0 4 1 0 2 6POWLES, Steve 0 . 0 0 0-0 1 0 0 0 0 1.0 0 0 0 0 1AUNGST, Justin 1 . 9 8 1-0 5 2 0 0 0 13.2 14 7 3 6 16MANION, Joe 6 . 3 5 1-1 4 1 0 0 0 11.1 11 9 8 4 6MCCARTHY, Tim 6 . 4 3 0-0 6 0 0 0 0 7.0 9 6 5 4 3KELLY, Ryan 6 . 7 5 0-1 6 0 0 0 0 6.2 8 6 5 3 6DeVINCENZO, Zach 7 . 7 1 0-0 3 0 0 0 0 4.2 5 5 4 3 2WEIDMAN, Darren 9 . 0 0 1-0 5 0 0 0 0 5.0 6 5 5 3 3CUOCI, Dominic 11.25 0-0 3 0 0 0 0 4.0 5 5 5 5 4HOLCOMB, Jason 15.43 0-0 3 0 0 0 0 2.1 5 4 4 2 2HASKINS, Matt 16.20 0-0 2 0 0 0 0 1.2 2 3 3 1 2MORELLA, Matt 27.00 0-0 4 0 0 0 0 2.0 3 6 6 4 2Totals 4 . 7 4 6-9 15 15 0 1 2 129.0 125 86 68 62 99
Opponents 4 . 0 5 9-6 15 15 0 2 4 131.0 117 66 59 65 161
PB - Team (5), Lau 3, Stafford 2, Opp (2). Pickoffs - Team (2), Kelly 1, Stafford1, Opp (3). SBA/ATT - Stafford (9-11), Lau (3-7), Vanderslice (2-5), Ponto (2-4),Aungst (2-3), Holcomb (2-2), Kelly (2-2), Pallante (1-1), Cuoci (1-1).
Score by innings 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TotalSaint Joseph's 4 4 6 8 18 14 5 5 2 66Opponents 7 9 8 3 17 13 13 11 5 86
Win-loss breakouts: Day 5-8; Night 1-1; vs Left 3-2; vs Right 3-7;1-run games 1-1; 2-run games 1-0; 5+run games 4-5; Extra inns 0-0; Shutouts 1-2.Current streak: Won 4; Longest winning streak: 4; Longest losing streak: 8.Attendance: Home 359 (avg 119); Away 1587 (avg 132); Total 1946 (avg 129).
* = Conference game
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