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Baseball closes home slate with Florida Atlantic

SAN ANTONIO –Seven seniors will don the navy blue, orange and white for the final time in front of the home crowd as UTSA baseball concludes its 2019 home schedule with a three-game weekend series against Florida Atlantic.
 
The series opens Friday at 6 p.m.at Roadrunner Field. 
 
Bryan Arias, Brad Griggs, Garrett Moon, Karan Patel, Ryan Stacy and Logan Swofford will be honored in a pre-game ceremony Saturday prior to the 4 p.m. first pitch.
 Owls at Roadrunners
Friday • Saturday • Sunday
6 p.m. • 4 p.m. • 11:30 a.m. 
 Roadrunner Field
CUSA.TV Live Stats 
Series History: 15 All-Time Meetings:
UTSA leads 6-9
Home: 5-4 • Road: 1-5 • Neutral: 0-0
Last Meeting: W, 8-1 April 15, 2018
Last Win: 8-1 April 15, 2018
Last Win in San Antonio: 6-0 April 22, 2017
Streak: W 1 • Last 10: 3-7 • Last 5: 2-3
 
Probable Starters:
FAU: RHP Blake Sanderson • RHP Mike Ruff • TBD
UTSA: Karan Patel (3-5, 3.00) • TBD • TBD
 
UTSA Notes:
•    The Roadrunners rank first in Conference USA with 106 doubles, .398 on-base percentage, 27 sacrifice flies. Nationally the doubles are 15thand the on-base percentage is 25th.
•    UTSA sits second in the league with a .299 batting average and 25thin the country.
•    Roadrunner batters were hit 72 times by opposing pitchers, which is second in the league.
•    The offense ranks second in the conference with 486 hits, 329 runs. a .450 slugging percentage and 16 triples.
•    The 6.9 runs per game is third best in the league.
 
FAU Notes: 
•    The Owls sit a-top C-USA in hitting with a .300 team batting average, one-point ahead of the Roadrunners.     
•    Opponents are hitting .289 against the pitching staff, which has surrendered 316 earned runs this season.
•    Blake Sanderson leads the league with seven wins.
 
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