Emmitsburg, MD - The Wagner College baseball team resumes Northeast Conference (NEC) play this weekend as the Seahawks travel to Emmitsburg, MD to take on the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers in a three-game set.
The series opener from E.T. Straw Family Stadium is set for 3:00 p.m on Friday afternoon with Saturday and Sunday's games beginning at 1:00 p.m. All three games will be streamed on NEC Front Row.
Last Time Out...
- Wagner tied the game at 1-1 on Wednesday at Seton Hall in the top of the fifth before the Pirates scored the go-ahead run in the bottom of the frame and added five more runs across the seventh and eighth inning to defeat the Seahawks, 7-1, from Mike Sheppard, Sr. Stadium at Owen T. Carroll Field.
- Wagner produced six hits on the afternoon, two of which coming from Maimu Kobayashi and Lukas Torres.
- Mike Ruggiero and AJ Vigliotti each added a hit with Vigliotti recording his first career RBI in the process.
Probable Starters...
Friday, April 1, 2022
Wagner - RHP
Frankie Wright (1-3; 8.51 ERA | 24.1 IP, 17 K, 11 BB)
Mount St. Mary's - RHP Bryant Shives (0-1; 11.57 ERA | 18.2 IP, 14 K, 16 BB)
Saturday, April 2, 2022
Wagner - RHP
Daniel Merkel (0-3; 5.25 ERA | 24.0 IP | 8 K, 19 BB)
Mount St. Mary's - RHP Luke Pryor (0-1; 5.06 ERA | 10.2 IP, 9 K, 6 BB)
Sunday, April 3, 2022
Wagner - RHP
Connor Hayden (0-3; 10.91 ERA | 15.2 IP, 11 K, 10 BB)
Mount St. Mary's - RHP Cooper Adams (1-3; 8.38 ERA | 19.1 IP, 19K, 9 BB)
All-Time Against Mount St. Mary's...
- These two teams have met 111 times in program history with Wagner holding a 66-45 edge in the head-to-head series.
- The Seahawks are 27-26 all-time in games against the Mountaineers in Emmitsburg.
- Wagner is 6-4 in their last ten meeting against the Mount.
- Mount St. Mary's took two of three from the Seahawks a season ago at E.T. Straw Family Stadium. Mount St. Mary's took the opener 16-4 before Wagner earned a 16-3 triumph in game two. The Mountaineers secured the series win with a 7-1 victory.
2022 NEC Baseball Standings (As of 3/30/2022)
| SCHOOL |
NEC |
PCT |
OVERALL |
PCT |
STREAK |
| FDU |
3-0 |
1.000 |
9-15 |
.375 |
W5 |
| Central Connecticut |
2-1 |
.667 |
9-6 |
.600 |
L1 |
| Bryant |
2-1 |
.667 |
9-11 |
.450 |
W2 |
| Merrimack |
2-1 |
.667 |
7-12-1 |
.375 |
L1 |
| LIU |
1-2 |
.333 |
14-10 |
.583 |
W1 |
| WAGNER |
1-2 |
.333 |
3-19 |
.136 |
L3 |
| Sacred Heart |
1-2 |
.333 |
2-21 |
.087 |
L2 |
| Mount St. Mary's |
0-3 |
.000 |
4-15 |
.211 |
L4 |
Seahawk Tidbits...
- Maimu Kobayashi leads the Seahawks with a .296 batting average while upping his hitting streak to eight straight.
- The first-year Seahawk is tied for fifth in the NEC in on-base percentage at .444.
- Kobayashi is tied for second in the league with 18 runs scored.
- He is one of three Seahawks to have reached base safely in ten straight games, joining Dante Faicchio and Mike Ruggiero.
- Ruggiero and Faicchio rank among the top ten in the NEC this season in slugging percentage, as Ruggiero has posted a team-leading .547, good for seventh in the league, while Faicchio is at .512, which places him tenth in the conference.
- Faicchio is the team's leader with 24 hits and 18 RBI.
- Ruggiero is tied with Bryant's Alex Lane and CCSU's Noah Martinez for second with five home runs while Faicchio is tied with Sacred Heart's Sam Mongelli, FDU's Tommy Verga and Luke Cantwell for fifth on the home run list with four.
- Wagner ranks 14th in the nation in Toughest Schedule as their past opponents have put up a combined record of 241-141 (.631)
About Mount St. Mary's...
- The Mountaineers are looking to halt a four-game losing streak after dropping its midweek tilt at Bucknell, 11-9, on Tuesday.
- Mount St. Mary's enters play with a 4-15 overall mark and looking for their first NEC win of the season (0-3).
- Thomas Bramley paces the team in average (.358), runs (15), hits (24), triples (2), home runs (7), RBIs (21), and slugging % (.746).
- Cooper Adams and Max Moore are tied for the team lead with 19 strikeouts to highlight the Mountaineers pitchers.
- Moore has limited opponents to just a .157 batting average in 14.2 innings pitched and has the lone save of the save for the Mountaineers.
On Deck For Wagner...
- Baseball will host a pair of midweeks games, beginning on Tuesday, April 5 as the Seahawks welcome Saint Peter's Universtiy to Trenton, NJ at Trenton Thunder Ballpark before heading to Lakewood, NJ to take on Hofstra at ShoreTown Ballpark on Wednesday April 6.
- Both games will start at 3:30 p.m.
