Thursday, May 16
Fairfax, VA
3 p.m.
Davidson College
at
George Mason
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Wildcats Visit George Mason to Close Regular Season
5/15/2024 2:33:00 PM | Baseball
Coming off a weekend sweep of St. Bonaventure, the Davidson baseball team will conclude its regular season schedule with three games at George Mason this weekend.
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The Atlantic 10 Conference series will begin Thursday at 3 p.m., and with inclement weather in the forecast for Saturday, the teams will play a Friday doubleheader beginning at 12:02 p.m.Â
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LATEST ON THE 'CATS
• Davidson enters the weekend 22-27 overall and 8-13 in the Atlantic 10 after last weekend's home sweep of St. Bonaventure.
• The Wildcats are currently 10th in the league standings.
• The sweep of the Bonnies was the Wildcats' first in league play and their third A-10 series win (Saint Joseph's, Richmond). Davidson also swept non-conference foe Siena and won a non-conference series against Villanova.
• The 20-win season is the Wildcats' 10th consecutive, excluding the pandemic-abbreviated 2020 campaign.
• The Wildcats lead the A-10 with 70 home runs and rank third in walks (251) and slugging percentage (.466).
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PUTNAM LEADING THE WAY
• Wildcats first baseman Eli Putnam continues to set the offensive standard in the A-10.
• He's the league leader in home runs (16), runs (56), RBIs (57), total bases (130) and slugging percentage (.695).
• Putnam's home run total this season ranks fifth on the program's all-time single-season list.
• He enters the weekend five RBIs shy of Trevor Candelaria's single-season Davidson record, set at 62 in 2022.
• Putnam also ranks third in the A-10 with a 1.158 OPS and 67 hits, fourth with 15 doubles and fifth with a .385 average. Â
• Catcher/DH Jacob Friend ranks second in the A-10 with 42 walks. He is also fifth in on-base percentage (.473), seventh in OPS (1.025) and 10th with 10 home runs.
• Catcher/DH Noah Jouras is hitting .322 and is second in the A-10 with four triples.
• Third baseman Joe Haney homered in all three games of the St. Bonaventure series.
• Outfielder Cider Canon is hitting .315 with seven home runs and 26 RBIs since joining the lineup.
• Pitcher Wilson Perkins is third in the league with a 4.87 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
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SCOUTING THE PATRIOTS
• George Mason is 20-30 overall and 6-15 in the A-10 a year after winning the A-10 Tournament as the No. 6 seed.
• The Patriots have lost their last four games and seven of eight. That includes getting swept by A-10 foe Saint Joseph's last weekend.
• Also in league play, the Patriots have gone 0-3 against Saint Louis, 1-2 against Richmond, Dayton, UMass and VCU and 2-1 against George Washington.
• Outfielder Jordan Smith is hitting .344 with 17 doubles, three triples, eight home runs and 51 RBIs.
• Infielder Carson Pracht is hitting .306, and outfielder James Quinn-Irons has a team-high 12 home runs to go with 41 RBIs.
• Infielder South Trimble is the A-10 leader with 30 stolen bases.
• Pitcher Konner Eaton is atop the A-10 with an 11.64 strikeout-to-walk ratio and is third with 75 strikeouts.
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SERIES HISTORY
• Davidson has a 10-7 advantage in a series that dates to 1969.
• The Patriots won last year's A-10 Tournament meeting 15-11.
• In the teams' most recent series in 2022, the Wildcats won two of three against the Patriots in Davidson. Days later at Wilson Field, Davidson then earned a win over them in the A-10 Tournament.
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The Atlantic 10 Conference series will begin Thursday at 3 p.m., and with inclement weather in the forecast for Saturday, the teams will play a Friday doubleheader beginning at 12:02 p.m.Â
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LATEST ON THE 'CATS
• Davidson enters the weekend 22-27 overall and 8-13 in the Atlantic 10 after last weekend's home sweep of St. Bonaventure.
• The Wildcats are currently 10th in the league standings.
• The sweep of the Bonnies was the Wildcats' first in league play and their third A-10 series win (Saint Joseph's, Richmond). Davidson also swept non-conference foe Siena and won a non-conference series against Villanova.
• The 20-win season is the Wildcats' 10th consecutive, excluding the pandemic-abbreviated 2020 campaign.
• The Wildcats lead the A-10 with 70 home runs and rank third in walks (251) and slugging percentage (.466).
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PUTNAM LEADING THE WAY
• Wildcats first baseman Eli Putnam continues to set the offensive standard in the A-10.
• He's the league leader in home runs (16), runs (56), RBIs (57), total bases (130) and slugging percentage (.695).
• Putnam's home run total this season ranks fifth on the program's all-time single-season list.
• He enters the weekend five RBIs shy of Trevor Candelaria's single-season Davidson record, set at 62 in 2022.
• Putnam also ranks third in the A-10 with a 1.158 OPS and 67 hits, fourth with 15 doubles and fifth with a .385 average. Â
• Catcher/DH Jacob Friend ranks second in the A-10 with 42 walks. He is also fifth in on-base percentage (.473), seventh in OPS (1.025) and 10th with 10 home runs.
• Catcher/DH Noah Jouras is hitting .322 and is second in the A-10 with four triples.
• Third baseman Joe Haney homered in all three games of the St. Bonaventure series.
• Outfielder Cider Canon is hitting .315 with seven home runs and 26 RBIs since joining the lineup.
• Pitcher Wilson Perkins is third in the league with a 4.87 strikeout-to-walk ratio.
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SCOUTING THE PATRIOTS
• George Mason is 20-30 overall and 6-15 in the A-10 a year after winning the A-10 Tournament as the No. 6 seed.
• The Patriots have lost their last four games and seven of eight. That includes getting swept by A-10 foe Saint Joseph's last weekend.
• Also in league play, the Patriots have gone 0-3 against Saint Louis, 1-2 against Richmond, Dayton, UMass and VCU and 2-1 against George Washington.
• Outfielder Jordan Smith is hitting .344 with 17 doubles, three triples, eight home runs and 51 RBIs.
• Infielder Carson Pracht is hitting .306, and outfielder James Quinn-Irons has a team-high 12 home runs to go with 41 RBIs.
• Infielder South Trimble is the A-10 leader with 30 stolen bases.
• Pitcher Konner Eaton is atop the A-10 with an 11.64 strikeout-to-walk ratio and is third with 75 strikeouts.
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SERIES HISTORY
• Davidson has a 10-7 advantage in a series that dates to 1969.
• The Patriots won last year's A-10 Tournament meeting 15-11.
• In the teams' most recent series in 2022, the Wildcats won two of three against the Patriots in Davidson. Days later at Wilson Field, Davidson then earned a win over them in the A-10 Tournament.
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