WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The William & Mary baseball team concludes mid-week play as they welecome Liberty to Plumeri Park for a game on Wednesday, April 27. The game has been moved up to 4 p.m. due to impending inclement weather forcasted for Williamsburg later Wednesday night.

TribeAthletics.com caught up with head coach Brian Murphy to discuss the sweep at Northeastern, the two shutouts, and the upcoming game Liberty. The video feature is available through the above link, or by clicking here.
 

Game Day Information - Game 41 - Liberty
When	Wednesday, April 27 - 4 PM
Where	Williamsburg, Va.
Venue	Plumeri Park
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ON TAP
• The William & Mary baseball team opens its final homestand of the season as they welcome Liberty to Plumeri Park for the final mid-week game of the season. First pitch is set for 4 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27.
• The Green and Gold is looking to equal its best winning streak of the season at four games after a three-game sweep at Northeastern.
 
SERIES HISTORY
• William & Mary and Liberty meet for the 45th time in series history and for the final time in 2016 on Wednesday afternoon.
• The Tribe leads the all-time series 23-21, but the Flames picked up an early season 8-4 victory at home on Feb. 23.
• In that game, sophomore Cullen Large led the Tribe offense with a pair of hits, while classmate Ryan Hall drove in two runs.
 
SCOUTING THE FLAMES                                                                                                                                                                      
• Liberty looks to get back into the win column after dropping the final two games of a Big South set at Presbyterian. The Flames, which enter the week at 21-21 play a pair of mid-week games this week, hosting Virginia Tech on Tuesday.
• As a team they boast a .282 batting average. D.J. Artis leads the Flames with a .381 batting average, he has added six doubles, two triples, a homer, and 26 RBI.  Will Shephard and Andrew Yacyk are tied for the team lead with six homers. The duo are also one and two in the team RBI race with Yacyk driving in 36 and Shephard with 34.
• On the mound, Liberty has put together a 4.90 team ERA. Evan Mitchell anchors the team rotation  with a 2.11 ERA. He has 41 strikeouts, in 59.2 innings. Victor Cole leads the Flames with 56 punchouts. Shane Quarterly leads the team with 20 appearances and has a team-high six saves.
• Head Coach Jim Toman is in his ninth season at the helm of the Flames. He has posted a 318-199-1 record during his tenure.
 
ON DECK
• The final homestand of the season continues when the Green and Gold welcome Delaware to Plumeri Park for a three-game series. The set gets underway on Friday, April 29 at 6 p.m. All three games will be broadcasted on TribeAthletics as part of the enhanced broadcast package.
• Next weekend, W&M hosts Towson for a three-game CAA series. The series opener is set for Friday, May 6 at 6 p.m. The Tribe will also hold its Senior Day celebration that weekend on Sunday, May 8 at 1 p.m.
 
HOW TO SAVE A GAME
• With his save on Saturday, senior Joseph Gaouette recorded his 15th career, which passed John Farrell for the school record. Gaouette has recorded eight saves this season, and is now three saves away from breaking the single-season record of 10 saves.
• For the year, the Reston, Virginia native owns a 3.48 ERA, pitching 20.2 innings, and recording 24 saves.
 
SHEEHAN BODES WELL FOR THE TRIBE
• Freshman Bodie Sheehan has made his transition into the weekend rotation look seamless, so far. In his four weekend starts, he has posted a 6.12 ERA, tossing 25.0 innings, with 14 strikeouts, while opposing hitters are only batting .228 against him.
• Furthermore in his two CAA starts, he has just a 5.12 ERA, tossing 19.1 innings, fanning 14, while limiting opposing batters to a .217 batting average.
• For the season, Sheehan owns a 3-3 record with a 5.47 ERA, heaving 51.0 innings, with 27 strikeouts.
 
POWERED BY POWERS
• For the third time this season, a Daniel Powers start ended up as a Tribe shutout as the junior went seven innings allowing just five hits as W&M completed the sweep at Northeastern.
 • Against James Madison he tossed a career-high 7.1 innings, scattering just three hits, after at Charlotte, Powers nearly did the same thing blanking the 49ers for the first seven innings.
• He hasn't allowed a run in his last 17.1 innings worth of work.
• For his efforts, the Vienna, Va. native was named CAA Pitcher of the Week for the week of April 18.
• Powers has a team-best six wins to go along with 28 strikeouts in 54.2 innings.
 
TRIBE IN THE PROS
• With Opening Day taking place this week all around Major League Baseball, the Tribe has four players on the road to the show.
• Ben Guez is starting his season with the Colorado Sky Socks (AAA – Milwaukee Brewers). Nick Thompson is with the Palm Beach Cardinals (Advanced A – St. Louis Cardinals). Michael Katz is with the St. Lucie Mets (Advanced A – New York Mets), while Ryan Hissey starts with the Lansing Lugnuts (A – Toronto Blue Jays)
 
DOUBLING DOWN
• W&M again is up in the national statistical rankings in doubles and doubles per game. The Tribe ranks 35th in the NCAA with 83 doubles, and 39th with 2.1 doubles a game.
• Individually senior Charley Gould leads the team and ranks 56th in the country with 14 doubles.
 
GOING, GOING GONE
• William & Mary has had two players have multiple home run games this season. Both Josh Smith and Junior Charles Ameer belted two homers in the same game. 

SCORING IN BUNCHES
• The Tribe ranks 56th in the country with 6.7 runs per game, but when the team starts scoring the runs usually come in bunches. W&M has had 23 innings this season, where they have plated four, or more runs.
• Furthermore, the Green and Gold have had five games where they have scored four, or more, runs in multiple innings.
• The most runs W&M has scored an inning this season has been 7 on April 3 against Georgetown, but the Tribe has also scored six runs an inning four times this season. 
 
WALK THIS WAY
•Senior Josh Smith has had some flair for the dramatic this season with both of the Tribe's walk-off hits this season. Against Holy Cross he lifted a sacrifice fly to centerfield that scored Kyle Wrighte on a sacrifice fly. On Saturday against Georgetown, Josh Smith launched a walkoff homer over the centerfield wall sending the Tribe home winners.
 
GETTING ON BASE
• Sophomore Cullen Large currently leads the team with a 24-game on-base streak. He is third Tribe player to have an on-base streak reach 20-plus games joining junior Ryder Miconi (28 games) and senior Charley Gould (27 games).
• Senior  Josh Smith (18 - 12 game active),  freshman Kyle Wrighte (15), sophomore Ryan Hall (13 -12 game active), and junior Charles Ameer (10) have all strung together double-digit on-base streaks.
 
GRAND OLE TIME
• Sophomore Cullen Large launched his and William & Mary's first grand-slam of the season against Richmond March 22.
• Last season the Tribe combined for three grand-slam homers.
 
HALL PASS
• Sophomore Ryan Hall has burst onto the scene for the Tribe as a sophomore. He leads the team with a .348 batting average (54-of-155) with 12 doubles, a triple, two homers, and 23 RBI.
• The Chesterfield, Va. native has been even better in league play. He leads the team with a .382 average (21-for-55) with six doubles in six RBI.
• Hall is the lone Tribe starter not record an error defensively this season.
• He has reached base safely in all but three of the games he's played in this season.
 
WEEKLY AWARDS
• For the second week in a row a Tribe pitcher won the CAA Pitcher of the week, as junior Nick Brown took home the award. He tossed eight shutout innings, while scattering four hits, and fanning eight batters.
• Junior Daniel Powers won the Tribe's fourth weekly award and its first pitcher of the week award for the week of April 18. Powers tossed a career-long 7.1 innings, scattering three hits and no runs, with three strikeouts in a win over JMU.
• Senior Charley Gould was selected as the CAA Player of the Week for the week of March 21, becoming W&M's first weekly award winners. Gould batted .500 (9-for-18) with three doubles, two homers, seven runs scored and nine RBI's in William & Mary's 3-1 week, that included a conference series win at Elon.
• Both junior Charles Ameer and freshman Hunter Smith followed up Gould's weekly award with weekly awards of thier own. Ameer batted .714 (10-for-14) with four doubles, a homer, five runs scored and six RBI's from the leadoff spot, while Hunter Smith hit .571 (8-for-14) with three doubles, a triple, a homer and 10 RBI in William & Mary's three wins last week.