ST. BONAVENTURE (0-4) at NEW MEXICO (6-1)
Friday, March 3 – Sunday, March 5
Albuquerque, N.M. – Santa Ana Star Field
TV: Mountain West Network
 
The St. Bonaventure University baseball team will head out on its second road trip of the season with a four-game series at New Mexico, which includes a doubleheader on Saturday. Friday's single game is set for a 2:00 p.m. MT/4:00 p.m. ET start time.
 
OPENING WEEKEND NOTES

• The Bonnies began the 2023 season with a four-game series at Middle Tennessee last weekend.
• Senior designated hitter Thomas Grilli led the Bonnies at the plate, delivering five runs batted in and hitting the team's first home run of the new campaign.
• In his first collegiate series, freshman leadoff hitter Jayce Tharnish went 5-for-15 at the plate, while junior college transfer Adam Rankie was 5-for-16 against Blue Raiders' pitching.
• Graduate student Liam Devine started the final game of the series on the mound, throwing 5.2 solid innings with five strikeouts and allowing just two runs.
• Along with Grilli, Jack Putney, Pierce Hendershot and freshman Evan Dieter each delivered an extra-base hit for St. Bonaventure.
• Left-handed pitcher Kyle Caringi registered a scoreless inning out of the bullpen with a strikeout in the first game of the series.

 
NEW ARMS

• Last weekend's series saw seven of the nine freshman pitchers for the Bonnies compete in their first collegiate game.
• Andrew Ayers, Bobby Finn, Noah Czajkowski, Tucker Fenton, Nathan Klodowski, Chase Playfair, and Jonny Lintell all made appearances on the mound.
• Ayers worked a scoreless seventh inning in the third game of the series against the Blue Raiders.

 
ABOUT NEW MEXICO

• The Lobos are coming off a three-game sweep of Northern Colorado last weekend to give them a 6-1 record. In their first game of the season, they knocked off nationally ranked Oregon State by a score of 7-2.
• Starting pitchers Riley Egloff (10 IP/one earned run/15 strikeouts) and Tristin Lively (12 IP/two earned runs/13 strikeouts) lead the team on the mound.
• At the plate, 2022 All-Mountain West Second Teamer and Preseason All Mountain-West outfielder Lenny Junior Ashby is 11-for-28 this season with runs batted in, while fellow outfielder Jeffrey David has recorded 12 hits in his 30-plate appearances while knocking in 14 runners.
• New Mexico was picked to finish seventh in the Mountain West Conference Preseason Coaches' Poll.

 
UP NEXT
The Bonnies travel to North Carolina to take on Gardner Webb in a four-game series, beginning on Friday, March 10.
 
 
 
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