🚨🚨🚨 SCHEDULE UPDATE🚨🚨🚨

⚾- With inclement weather expected on Sunday, Saturday's game between Wagner and LIU will now be a doubleheader.

⚾- Both games on Saturday will be nine innings with first-pitch set for 1:00 p.m.

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• Wagner and LIU have met 129 times with LIU holding a 66-62-1 advantage in the head-to-head series. 
• The Seahawks snapped a five-game losing streak to LIU back on April 14, 2019, earning a 6-4 victory the last time these two teams played one another. 
• Wagner erupted for six runs on five hits in the bottom of the second to take the series finale from LIU. 
  • Tyler Sanfilippo and Griffin Schneider each had two hits in that victory while Sanfilippo and Freddy Sabido each had an RBI in the win. 
  • Justin Beyer worked 2.2 scoreless innings before handing the ball off to former Seahawk closer, Nick Robino, for the save.  

• The Seahawks rank ninth in the nation in stolen bases per game, swiping 2.36 per contest. 
• Jared Gillen leads Wagner with a .436 batting average and an OPS of 1.013 (.545 SLG%, .468 OB%). 
  • Gillen ranks 20th in the nation in batting average. 
  • He ranks seventh in the NEC in slugging and sixth in on-base percentage. 
• Mike Ruggiero ranks among the top-15 batters in the conference with a .313 batting average. 
• On the mound, Josh Casado and Ryan Lauk rank first and third, respectively, holding opposing batters to a .155 and .184 batting average. 
  • Lauk ranks third in the league with 34 strikeouts. 
• Kevin Wiseman has five career saves, three coming this season as he sports a 1.54 ERA in 11.2 innings. 
  • He has fanned 20 batters while yielding eight walks.

• LIU enters play with an 8-5 overall record and 6-3 in league contests. 
• The Sharks dropped an 8-7 midweek non-conference matchup at Sacred Heart. 
• EJ Exposito went 4 for 5 with two runs scored and added an RBI. 
• Anthony Warneke, the reigning NEC Player of the Week, and Christopher Wasson each had two hits. 
• Cade Biddle and Wasson combined to draw seven walks on the afternoon. 
• Exposito leads the Sharks with a .389 batting average, a .593 slugging percentage, 21 hits, 16 RBI, and three home runs. 
• Warneke has scored a team-high 15 runs. 
• On the mound, Mike Lazos has notched four wins in 20.1 innings pitched. 
• Rob Griswold has recorded a team-high three saves this season. 
• The trio of Alec Huertas, Jackson Svete, and Lazos have combined to strike out 43 batters, led by Huertas, who has fanned 16 batters in 17.0 innings. .