WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The William & Mary baseball team welcomes Delaware to Plumeri Park for a three-game Colonial Athletic Association series this weekend. Due to impending inclement weather late Saturday night and all day Sunday, the series will now consist of a single game on Friday, April 29 at 6 p.m., and a doubleheader on Saturday, April 30 with game times at 11 a.m. and 4 p.m.

TribeAthletics.com caught up with head coach Brian Murphy to discuss the Liberty game, two strong conference weekends in a row, and the upcoming series with Delaware. The video feature is available through the above link, or by clicking here.
 

Game Day Information - Game 42-44 - Delaware
When	Friday, April 29 - 6 PM Saturday, April 30 - 11 AM Saturday, April 30 - 4 PM
Where	Williamsburg, Va.
Venue	Plumeri Park
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Stats	William & Mary | Delaware | CAA
Game Notes	William & Mary | Delaware  | CAA
Probable Pitchers (Tribe vs. Opponent)	RHP Nick Brown vs. RHP Ron Marinaccio LHP Bodie Sheehan vs. LHP Brandon Walter RHP Daniel Powers vs. TBA
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ON TAP
• The William & Mary baseball team welcomes Delaware to Plumeri Park for a three-game Colonial Athletic Association series. The set gets underway Friday, April 29 at 6 p.m., and concludes with a doubleheader on Saturday, April 30 at 11 a.m., with the second game starting around 4 p.m.
• The Green and Gold is looking to get back into the win column after faltering in its mid-week finale against Liberty on Wednesday afternoon.
 
SERIES HISTORY
• William & Mary and Delaware meet for the 49th-51st times in series history this weekend at Plumeri Park. W&M leads the all-time series 22-16, but the Blue Hens swept all four games from the Tribe last season, including a game in the CAA Tournament.
• Last season, sophomore Ryan Hall led the Tribe against the Blue Hens, batting .500 (8-for-16). He added two doubles and four RBI. Classmate Cullen Large also had a good series against Delaware, batting .400 (8-for-20) with three RBI and two doubles.
 
SCOUTING THE BLUE HENS
• Delaware returns to CAA play after a weekend off as they travel to Williamsburg this weekend. The Blue Hens have won four of their last five games and have a 25-16 record, but are 4-8 in league action.
• UD has combined for a .306 team batting average so far in 2016. Kyle Baker leads the team with a .397 batting average. He has added nine doubles a triple and 15 RBI. Jordan Glover leads the team with 45 RBI, while Nick Patten has a team-high eight homers. The Blue Hens have combined for 34 homers on the year.
• On the mound, the team has combined for a 5.47 ERA. Brandon Walter anchors the rotation with a 3.23 ERA. He has 61.1 innings with a team-high 63 strikeouts. Colman Vila and Nick Spadafino lead the team with 19 appearances. Colman leads the team with four saves.
• Jim Sherman is in his 16th season in Newark. He has posted a 468-388 record at Delaware, and a 686-516 record during his 23-year coaching career.
 
ON DECK
• Next weekend, W&M closes out the home portion of its schedule and 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.
• The Green and Gold closes its regular season with six straight on the road starting at West Virginia with a doubleheader on Friday, May 13 at 4 p.m.
 
FACE LIFT
• The W&M baseball program has a new toy that is located behind the third base wall in the brand new Plumeri Park Practice Facility, which opened right before the spring season thanks in large part to a generous gift from Tribe baseball alum Joe Plumeri.
•The indoor facility will overlook the field, running up the third base line, and will provide the program with over 5,700 square feet of crucial "all-weather" practice space. With wall-to-wall artificial turf there will be space for three 15 feet by 75 feet areas for batting and pitching, complete with netting and pitching mounds.  Additionally, there will be areas for specialized training equipment for strength, speed, agility and skills development.
• This weekend will serve as the offical grand opening of the new facility with a special ceremony taking place on Saturday.

LETS PLAY TWO!
• W&M played a pair of doubleheaders on its trip to California. Due to impending inclement weather this weekend the Tribe will now play a double header against Delaware .
• The final double dip will come on May 13 at West Virginia.
• W&M is currently 1-3 in doubleheader games.

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 38th with 2.1 doubles a game.
 
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 24 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 five 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 25-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 - 13 game active),  freshman Kyle Wrighte (15), sophomore Ryan Hall (13 - 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 .354 batting average (56-of-158) with 13 doubles, a triple, two homers, and 24 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.