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THE MATCH UP
Due to some adjustments to its schedule, Cincinnati will play seven-inning doubleheaders against Ohio University and Butler University on Tuesday, May 5, and Wednesday, May 6, respectively, at Marge Schott Stadium. The first game of each doubleheader will begin at 4 p.m. Following UC's four mid-week games against Ohio and Butler, the Bearcats will be back on the road for a three-game BIG EAST Conference series at West Virginia.
SCOUTING OHIO
· Ohio was swept this weekend in a three-game Mid-American Conference series leaving the Bobcats with a 22-19 record entering the week.
· The Bobcats are led offensively by Marc Krauss, who leads the team in almost every major offensive statistical category.
· Krauss leads the team with a .406 batting average, 20 home runs, 52 RBI, and 56 runs scored.
· As a team, Ohio has hit 73 home runs, compared to just 51 for its opponents.
· As a pitching staff, the Bobcats have a team ERA of 6.39.
SCOUTING BUTLER
· The Bulldogs are playing their first game in 10 days when they come to Marge Schott Stadium on Wednesday.
· Butler last played on April 26, and fell in Game 2 of its doubleheader with Youngstown St., 6-5.
· Luke Duncan leads the way with a .333 batting average.
· As a team, the Bulldogs are hitting .252, while opponents are hitting .358.
· Mike Hernandez has been one of the top hurlers this season as a freshman. Hernandez has pitched a team-high 50.1 innings and leads the squad with 44 strikeouts.
UC HONORS ONE OF ITS ALL-TIME GREATS
· On Wednesday, April 29, the UC baseball program honored its all-time winningest coach, Glenn Sample, who passed away on Nov. 21, 2008.
· Prior to the game, a video from the "Voice of the Reds", Marty Brennaman, was played and the ceremonial first pitch was thrown out by Sample's grandsons, Maxx Sample and Tory Heithaus.
· Honoring him the best way they knew how, the Bearcats defeated Xavier, 19-3, which included a nine-run fourth inning.
· Chris Peters finished 3-for-4 with two triples and a home run, while Mike Spina also recorded three hits and drove home four runs.
· In the fourth inning, Lance Durham became the first player in Marge Schott Stadium history to hit a home run that landed on top of Fifth Third Arena in a game.
· When all was said and done, Cincinnati finished the game with a season-high 19 runs and boasted a season-best 22 hits.
HILL MAKES HIS MARK
· Senior Michael Hill led the Bearcats to a 4-2 win over USF on Saturday, May 2, handing the Bulls their first conference home loss of the season.
· Hill pitched 8.0 innings, giving up just two earned runs, and matched a season-high with eight strikeouts.
· That start moved Hill into a tie for eighth on UC's career starts chart and his eight strikeouts gave the senior right-handed pitcher 179 career strikeouts, leaving him three strikeouts away from cracking the career strikeouts chart.
· In his last two road starts, Hill has pitched 15.0 innings, given up four earned runs, and struck out 11 en route to picking up two wins.
· Over his last three starts, Hill owns an ERA of 4.19 and opponents are hitting just .254 off him.
IT ONLY TAKES TWO
· Since arriving in Clifton in 2008, Mike Spina has turned himself into one of top players in UC history in only two seasons.
· After hitting 21 home runs last season, Spina has hit 17 this season. His 38 career home runs rank him in a tie for fourth on UC's all-time list. Spina needs one more home run to sit in third on the career home run chart by himself.
· Of the top seven players on Cincinnati's all-time home run list, Spina is the only player on that list not to play four years in the Red and Black.
· Spina also ranks in the Top 10 on UC's career batting average list, on-base percentage list, slugging percentage list, and sacrifice flies list.
· Spina also has driven in 139 runs in his career, which ranks sixth on the school's career RBI list.
· This season, his 17 home runs ranks fourth on the single-season home runs list and he needs just one more RBI to tie for 10th on the single-season RBI list.
KING OF THE HILL
· For almost one month, senior Jake Geglein was tied atop the University of Cincinnati career saves list with Curtis Moak (1998-01).
· Moak was a 25th-round selection by the Cincinnati Reds in 2001 and he finished his career with 15 career saves.
· On Friday, April 17, Geglein recorded a six-out save against St. John's to preserve an 11-8 win and move past Moak on UC's career saves list with 16.
· Geglein added to his career saves mark with saves in UC's last two series' against Villanova and USF.
· Geglein enters the week with seven saves, which places him second in the BIG EAST. His four saves in league play ranks first.
· Geglein ranked second in the BIG EAST with nine saves in 2008.
· With the save at USF on Saturday, May 2, Geglein earned his ninth career save in BIG EAST play. One more save will tie Geglein for fourth in BIG EAST history in saves.
· The BIG EAST career leader in saves is current Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Craig Hansen, who collected 14 saves at St. John's from 2003-05.
ON PACE
· Lance Durham, the son of former MLB player Leon Durham, is in his first season with the Red and Black and has made an immediate impact on the UC program.
· Durham enters the weekend leading the team and ranking first in BIG EAST with a .443 average. Durham is the league leader in hits (81), and on-base percentage (.516).
· In 45 games, Durham has 28 multi-hit games and he has reached base safely in 42 games.
· Durham ranks second on the squad with 43 RBI and has hit seven home runs.
· On March 31 vs. Wright State, Durham went 3-for-5 from the plate, including a three-run home run, and drove in a career-high five runs.
· On April 29 vs. Xavier, Durham hit his seventh home run of the year, which landed on top of Fifth Third Arena becoming the first player to achieve that feat in a game.
· Durham is on pace to finish the season with 101 hits, which would rank first in the UC single-season record book, and his .443 average would be the best single-season mark in school history. Durham needs just three hits to crack the UC single-season Top 10 chart.
· The top single-season batting average in UC history is held by Mark Gabbard, who batted .416 in 1993.
SENIOR SWING
· In the opening 25 games of his senior season, Cameron Satterwhite got off to a rough start hitting .193, with 30 strikeouts.
· Over the past 20 games, Satterwhite has come to life and played a vital role in UC's series wins over Notre Dame, St. John's and Villanova.
· Since the start of the Louisville series on April 3, Satterwhite is hitting .306 (22-of-72), with eight doubles, four home runs, and 20 RBI.
· In the second game of a three-game set against Louisville on April 5, Satterwhite went 2-for-4 with two doubles and four RBI.
· In the series opener against Villanova on April 24, Satterwhite hit two home runs, marking his second multi-home run game of the season.
· Over his past 20 games, Satterwhite has raised his batting average 51 points -- from .193 to .244.
ROOKIE SPOTLIGHT
· Freshman T.J. Jones has been one of the catalysts at the top of the order for UC in the second half of the season.
· After starting the season 1-for-14 (.071), Jones has moved from the bottom of the order to the top of the order.
· In the 29 games since March 20, Jones is second on the team in batting average, hitting .349.
· During that span, Jones leads the team in triples (4) and is third on the team with 23 RBI.
· For the season, Jones is batting .317, which is the sixth best batting average among all freshmen in the league.
· In league play, Jones is tied for second in the conference in triples (3).
· April 17-19 at St. John's was Jones' first weekend as a lead-off man for UC, and he finished the weekend series with a .450 average, one home run, three RBI, a stolen base, and an on-base percentage of .625.
· As a lead-off hitter this season, Jones is batting .365, with one home run and 10 RBI, and owns an on-base percentage of .492.
DOUBLE UP
· Senior Cameron Satterwhite has proven to be a threat to hit for extra bases throughout his career at UC.
· In only three years, Satterwhite ranks in the all-time Top 10 on the UC home runs and doubles charts, and is closing in on the school's career RBI list.
· The Cincinnati, Ohio, native has accumulated 48 doubles in his career and currently sits in seventh place on UC's all-time doubles list with Chris Hamblen (1999-02).
· Satterwhite needs just five RBI to crack UC's Top 10 chart for RBI.
ONE-TWO PUNCH
· Mike Spina and Lance Durham have provided UC with clutch performances this season in the middle of the lineup.
· The duo has combined for 46 multi-hit games and 26 multi-RBI games, including eight four-plus RBI games.
· With runners in scoring position, Spina and Durham have combined to hit .379.
· Durham's and Spina's 24 combined home runs account for 42.9 percent of the team's home runs, while their 103 RBI's account for 34.6 percent of the team's RBI's.
· In Cincinnati's come-from-behind win over Villanova on Saturday, April 25, Spina and Durham hit back-to-back two-out, solo home runs in the bottom of the 10th inning to give UC a 9-8 win.
POWER SURGE
· In UC's 19-3 win over Villanova on April 29, the Bearcats hit four home runs.
· It was the fourth time this season that UC has hit four home runs in a game, with the other occurrences coming against Purdue in the season opener on Feb. 20, against Pittsburgh on March 22, and against Villanova on April 26.
· Cincinnati has hit 56 home runs this season and UC has hit two-plus home runs in 19 of its 45 games.
· The Red and Black are 13-6 on the season when hitting two-plus home runs.
TOUCH 'EM ALL
· In his first season in the Red and Black in 2008, Mike Spina hit a UC single-season record 21 home runs and drove in a UC single-season record tying 79 RBI.
· Through 45 games this season, 17 of Spina's 60 hits have been home runs.
· Spina is averaging one home run for every 10.5 at-bats.
· In the first game vs. Purdue on Feb. 20, Spina hit two home runs to continue where he left off last season and finished the weekend with two home runs and six RBI.
· In the only game played at Davidson on Feb. 27, Spina hit a grand slam in the fifth inning to put UC on top, 9-5, his third home run of the season.
· A first-inning, two-run home run against Miami (OH) on March 4 gave Spina his fourth home run of the season and the 25th of his career.
· In the series finale against Bradley, Spina went 2-for-4 with two home runs and six RBI, as one of his home runs was a grand slam -- his second of the season.
· In his first two at bats in game two of a doubleheader against Western Michigan on March 14, Spina hit two home runs, one of which was a grand slam, upping his home run total to nine. It was Spina's third grand slam this season.
· Against Villanova on April 25, the Bearcats were down 8-7 in the bottom of the 10th and Spina was down in the count, one ball, two strikes. Spina delivered a home run on the next pitch that tied the game at eight, and during the next at-bat Lance Durham hit a solo home run giving UC the win.
· Spina leads the BIG EAST with 17 home runs, and is second in RBI (60).
· 102 games into his UC career, Spina ranks in a tie for fourth on the UC career home runs chart with 38 and ranks sixth in career RBI with 139.
SOPHOMORE SURGE
· In his rookie campaign at UC last season, Justin Riddell played in 40 games and made 35 starts for the Bearcats. In those 40 games, Riddell collected two home runs, 15 RBI, and owned a slugging percentage of .360.
· At the BIG EAST/Big Ten Baseball Challenge Feb. 20-22, Riddell was a tough out as he batted .615, going 8-for-13 from the plate. Riddell led the tournament in home runs (3), total bases (19), and slugging percentage (1.462), while tying for the tournament lead in batting average (.615).
· Riddell was named to the BIG EAST/Big Ten Baseball Challenge All-Tournament team.
· In the eighth inning vs. Dayton on March 10, Riddell opened up a 7-6 lead in the eighth inning with a three-run home run to give UC a 10-6 lead.
· In UC's 4-3 win over Villanova on April 26, Riddell's three-run, third-inning home run proved to be the deciding factor in the win.
· In the Villanova series April 24-26, Riddell had three multi-RBI games.
· Of his 51 hits this season, 18 have gone for extra bases. Riddell has 11 doubles, two triples, and five home runs. He also ranks fourth on the team with a .318 average.