SAN ANTONIO – UTSA's baseball team will return home this weekend to face the newly-minted #23 ranked Charlotte 49ers in a weekend Conference USA series.
The series will be played over the April 1 weekend and features the C-USA preseason No. 4 team, Charlotte. The 49ers (17-7, 4-2 C-USA), were voted two spots higher than UTSA (15-10, 2-4 C-USA) in the preseason poll.
The two squads share no common opponents, but Charlotte is coming off of a weekend series where they visited C-USA preseason favorite (and No. 18 ranked) Old Dominion and took two of three against the Monarchs, losing the only game in extras by one run.
This will be the eighth series between the two schools with the Roadrunners holding a 4-3 series advantage. The 49ers however hold the head-to-head advantage over UTSA 11-10. The Roadrunners are 3-5 against Charlotte in games played in San Antonio.
UTSA enters the weekend series coming off of back-to-back midweek victories at both UIW and #11 TCU. The Roadrunners needed extra to take town UIW, 6-5 while the offense exploded at #11 TCU and the Roadrunners won 12-8.
The 49ers enter the weekend series boasting the third-best record in the conference as well as a weekday victory over the College of Charleston where Charlotte won 9-0.
Miscellaneous Notes
- UTSA enters the weekend series having the fifth-highest batting average (.294) in all of Conference USA and ranks 50th nationally.
- Catcher Sammy Diaz currently owns the twelfth-best batting average in Conference USA as he's hitting .356.
- Pitcher Luke Malone owns the lowest ERA in all of Conference USA with a 1.17. That ERA ranks 16th nationally.
- Senior outfielder Ian Bailey is tied for second among CUSA players with eight homeruns on the year. Bailey's 33 hits on the year rank him ninth-best in the conference.
- Senior Jonathan Tapia has scored the fourth-most runs in the conference with 28. Tapia has cranked out the fifth most doubles in C-USA with ten.
Weekend Information
Friday, April 1 at 6 p.m.
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Saturday, April 2 at 2 p.m.
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Sunday, April 3 at 12 p.m.
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All games will take place at Roadrunner Field and will be broadcast on CUSA.tv.
UP NEXT: UTSA will be back in action on Wednesday, April 6, as they host the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks at Roadrunner Field. First pitch is set for 6 p.m. and the matchup will be streamed on CUSA.tv.
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