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NCAA Baseball Buffalo Travels to Western Michigan

Don't let Western Michigan's record fool you, the Bronco's played a rather difficult out of conference schedule and have hit their stride over the past month. Last weekend the Bronco's swept Bowling Green to open up MAC play and on Tuesday they followed up by putting down Michigan of the Big Ten.

They also owe UB one for the unexpected early exit they were handed in last seasons MAC Baseball Championship.

After getting though the hard part of their schedule, in which they hit well under 240, the Broncos' bats have come alive. WMU is hitting .295 over the last five games and have scored 36 runs. Andrew Sohnis batting 380 on the year putting him near the top 100 or so hitters in the country.

The main threats at the mound for WMU are Patrick Borlik and Mike Moyer who are each have RPI's well under three.

Buffalo is trying to bounce back after letting Canisius creep back into a game the Bulls seemed to have in hand. UB's starters have been playing very well of late but the teams Bull Pen has struggled. The Bats have been consistent led by Jason Kanzler who entered the week with six home runs and 28 RBI's. Those numbers put him in the top 25 nationally among division one players.

This weekends games -

Day Opponent Location Time Links
Friday
@ Western Michigan
Hyames Field 3:00 Live stats
Saturday @ Western Michigan Hyames Field 1:00 Live stats
Saturday @ Western Michigan Hyames Field 3:30 Live stats



Buffalo at Western Michigan

Western Michigan
Record: 8-15 (3-0 MAC)

Buffalo
Record: 12-11 (2-1 MAC)

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Fri March 8 6:00 PM

Rank Actual Category (3/24) Actual Rank
143 0.268 Batting Average 0.229 267
127 5.4 Scoring 3.1 277
133 119 Runs 69 260
166 196 Hits 167 230
118 1.68 Doubles / G 0.73 292
118 37 Doubles 16 285
83 0.32 Triples / G 0.05 275
72 7 Triples 1 262
50 0.59 Home Runs / G 0.09 271
57 13 Home Runs 2 257
86 0.392 Slugging Percentage 0.262 290
169 0.95 Stolen Bases / G 1 157
165 21 Stolen Bases 22 154
73 94 Base on Balls 53 273
44 23 Sacrifice Bunts 26 26
84 28 Hit by Pitch 18 202
33 13 Sacrifice Flies 3 268
115 3.92 Earned Run Average 5.52 245
186 6.4 Strikeouts / 9in 4.8 282
103 8.84 Hits Allowed / 9in 10.91 263
173 3.92 Walks Allowed / 9in 4.52 232
200 0.959 Fielding Percentage 0.955 240
135 0.77 Double Plays / G 0.86 87
125 17 Double Plays 19 88
93 0.368 On Base % 0.297 288
185 1.63 SO-to-Walk Ratio 1.05 274
117 0.545 WL Pct 0.318 244
126 1.42 WHIP 1.71 255