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NCAA Baseball Buffalo faces Saint Bonaventure and Canisius

UB Travels to Saint Bonaventure for a mid week pair of games!

By Tim Riordan

Take two?

While UB gets readdy for what could be a season defining series against Kent they have some make up work to do. First UB will travel to Saint Bonaventure to play a Tuesday doubleheader to make of for weather cancelled games earlier this season. Then the Bulls will host Canisus in a grudge match against the Griffs.

Saint Bonaventure is led by Jason Radwan, at 414 he is about the best non power hitter in the A10. As a whole the Bonnies lack power hitting. With 7 home runs on the year they are nearly the worst team in college baseball when it comes to putting the ball over the fence. They are, however, pretty good at small ball, effectively using sacrifice plays to move runners around.

Canisius is one of the better hitting teams in the nation, as UB found out in the earlier meeting this year. The Griffs have a lot of high percentage batters and as a team are hitting well over 300 while putting up more than seven runs per game.

In the last game UB led well into the middle innings until Canisius found their footing and proceeded to score pretty much every inning. As with the last game the key will be taking advantage of their pitching while limiting fielding mistakes. The Griffs will likely get their hits, no need to help them out.

Almost as important as winning these games will be escaping with a reseted pitching staff. UB's season could swing one way or the other based on how they manage Kent this upcoming weekend.

Buffalo vs Canisius and Saint Bonaventure

@ Saint Bonaventure
10-17 (3-7 A10)
 vs Canisius
22-10 (4-5 MAAC)

Buffalo
18-14 (8-4 MAC)


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Rank Buffalo Category St. Bona Rank Category Rank Canisius
184 0.263 Batting avg 0.269 157 Batting avg 18 0.31
139 5.3 Scoring 4.9 187 Scoring 19 7.1
175 153 Runs 117 256 Runs 36 220
222 251 Hits 214 277 Hits 63 321
149 1.59 Doubles /G 1.5 174 Doubles /G 60 1.94
181 46 Doubles 36 253 Doubles 62 60
77 0.31 Triples /G 0.04 292 Triples /G 7 0.52
81 9 Triples 1 292 Triples 10 16
61 0.55 Home Runs /G 0.29 175 Home Runs /G 136 0.35
71 16 Home Runs 7 201 Home Runs 126 11
97 0.381 Slugging % 0.343 206 Slugging % 35 0.43
191 0.9 Stolen Bases /G 0.58 263 Stolen Bases /G 13 2.32
198 26 Stolen Bases 14 275 Stolen Bases 13 72
128 116 Base on Balls 77 274 Base on Balls 56 138
61 30 Sacrifice Bunts 8 286 Sacrifice Bunts 54 31
123 34 Hit by Pitch 17 274 Hit by Pitch 19 52
40 17 Sacrifice Flies 14 83 Sacrifice Flies 131 12
104 3.83 Earned Run avg 6.21 272 Earned Run avg 135 4.17
243 5.6 Strikeouts /9I 6.6 151 Strikeouts /9I 112 7
114 8.99 Hits Allowed /9I 11.07 270 Hits Allowed /9I 66 8.48
151 3.72 Walks Allowed /9I 4.95 270 Walks Allowed /9I 28 2.72
197 0.96 Fielding % 0.963 165 Fielding % 127 0.966
200 0.66 Double Plays /G 0.58 241 Double Plays /G 243 0.58
217 19 Double Plays 14 279 Double Plays 231 18
140 0.358 On Base % 0.341 217 On Base % 12 0.412
213 1.51 SO / BB Ratio 1.34 245 SO / BB Ratio 34 2.57
111 0.552 WL Pct 0.375 220 WL Pct 47 0.677
124 1.41 WHIP 1.78 280 WHIP 42 1.24

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