Friday, February 23
College Station
3 p.m.
Texas A&M
vs
Cornell
Photo by: Texas A&M Athletics
SERIES PREVIEW: Cornell
Feb 22, 2018 | Baseball
COLLEGE STATION, Texas – The No. 11 Texas A&M Baseball continue their season-opening, nine-game homestand with a series against the Cornell Big Red. The schedule for the series has been adjusted with a doubleheader slated for Friday, starting at 3 p.m. and finishing with Saturday's regularly-scheduled 2 p.m. contest.
Every game of the series is available for viewing on SEC Network + with Will Johnson and Mark Johnson on the call. SEC Network + provides digital-only events to SEC Network subscribers through WatchESPN and the ESPN app on smartphones, computers, tablets and connected devices (Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One). All three games will air on SportsRadio 1150/102.7 The Zone with a combination of Dave South, Scott Clendenin and Kevin Hurley on the call.
Texas A&M is playing host to an Ivy League opponent for the fifth consecutive season. The Maroon & White are 10-0 against the league since 2014, including series sweeps against Brown (2017), Yale (2016) and Dartmouth (2015), along with a midweek victory against Columbia in 2014.
The Aggies are looking to continue their recent string of stellar play in February. The last five seasons, the Aggies own a 3-6-3 mark the opening month, including 4-0 this season. Pepperdine accounted for two of the losses, including 2-1 in College Station in 2017 and 7-5 in Malibu in 2016. The other loss came against Sacramento State (1-0) in 2014.
Texas A&M's offense has been led by the one-two punch of Zach DeLoach and Michael Helman at the top of the order. Through four games, the do the duo is a combined 18-for-33 (.545) with five walks, two HBP, 15 runs, 3 doubles, two triples, four home runs and nine RBI. The pair has accounted for 42.9% of the team's hits and 57.7% of the team's runs. They've combined for a .625 on-base percentage and 1.121 slugging percentage.
DeLoach, the reigning SEC Freshman of the Week, is 11-for-14 (.786) at the plate the last three games. He put in an epic performance Tuesday, hitting for the cycle and tying the Aggie single-game record for runs with five. A solid performance this weekend would put him in line to become just the second player to ever earn SEC Freshman of the Week in consecutive weeks and the first to earn the award in the first two weeks of the season.
Texas A&M entered the week ranked from 10th to 11th in the four nationally recognized polls. The Maroon & White are ranked 10th by Baseball America and D1Baseball.com and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and 11th by the USA Today Coaches Poll.
#11 TEXAS A&M AGGIES (4-0) vs CORNELL BIG RED (0-0)
Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park (6,100) • College Station, Texas
PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS (2017 Stats for Cornell)
• FRIDAY GAME ONE: #32 Stephen Kolek (Jr., RHP, 1-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. #9 Tommy Morris (Sr., RHP, 2-2, 4.60 ERA)
• FRIDAY GAME TWO: #18 Chandler Jozwiak (Fr., LHP, 0-0, 9.00) vs. #23 Tyler Fernandez (Sr., LHP, did not pitch in 2017)
• SATURDAY: #34 Mitchell Kilkenny (Jr., RHP, 1-0, 2.84 ERA) vs. #36 Tim Willittes (Sr., RHP, 4-3, 6.12 ERA)
Every game of the series is available for viewing on SEC Network + with Will Johnson and Mark Johnson on the call. SEC Network + provides digital-only events to SEC Network subscribers through WatchESPN and the ESPN app on smartphones, computers, tablets and connected devices (Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One). All three games will air on SportsRadio 1150/102.7 The Zone with a combination of Dave South, Scott Clendenin and Kevin Hurley on the call.
Texas A&M is playing host to an Ivy League opponent for the fifth consecutive season. The Maroon & White are 10-0 against the league since 2014, including series sweeps against Brown (2017), Yale (2016) and Dartmouth (2015), along with a midweek victory against Columbia in 2014.
The Aggies are looking to continue their recent string of stellar play in February. The last five seasons, the Aggies own a 3-6-3 mark the opening month, including 4-0 this season. Pepperdine accounted for two of the losses, including 2-1 in College Station in 2017 and 7-5 in Malibu in 2016. The other loss came against Sacramento State (1-0) in 2014.
Texas A&M's offense has been led by the one-two punch of Zach DeLoach and Michael Helman at the top of the order. Through four games, the do the duo is a combined 18-for-33 (.545) with five walks, two HBP, 15 runs, 3 doubles, two triples, four home runs and nine RBI. The pair has accounted for 42.9% of the team's hits and 57.7% of the team's runs. They've combined for a .625 on-base percentage and 1.121 slugging percentage.
DeLoach, the reigning SEC Freshman of the Week, is 11-for-14 (.786) at the plate the last three games. He put in an epic performance Tuesday, hitting for the cycle and tying the Aggie single-game record for runs with five. A solid performance this weekend would put him in line to become just the second player to ever earn SEC Freshman of the Week in consecutive weeks and the first to earn the award in the first two weeks of the season.
Texas A&M entered the week ranked from 10th to 11th in the four nationally recognized polls. The Maroon & White are ranked 10th by Baseball America and D1Baseball.com and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association and 11th by the USA Today Coaches Poll.
#11 TEXAS A&M AGGIES (4-0) vs CORNELL BIG RED (0-0)
Olsen Field at Blue Bell Park (6,100) • College Station, Texas
PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS (2017 Stats for Cornell)
• FRIDAY GAME ONE: #32 Stephen Kolek (Jr., RHP, 1-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. #9 Tommy Morris (Sr., RHP, 2-2, 4.60 ERA)
• FRIDAY GAME TWO: #18 Chandler Jozwiak (Fr., LHP, 0-0, 9.00) vs. #23 Tyler Fernandez (Sr., LHP, did not pitch in 2017)
• SATURDAY: #34 Mitchell Kilkenny (Jr., RHP, 1-0, 2.84 ERA) vs. #36 Tim Willittes (Sr., RHP, 4-3, 6.12 ERA)
| SCHEDULE | Friday, 3 p.m. & 6:30 p.m. • Saturday, 2:00 p.m. |
| RADIO | SportsRadio 1150/102.7 The Zone • A combination of Dave South, Scott Clendenin and Kevin Hurley on the call |
| LIVE VIDEO | SEC Network + (WatchESPN credentials required through cable provider) • Will Johnson (play-by-play), Mark Johnson (color analyst) |
| LIVE AUDIO | RadioAggieland.com |
| LIVE STATS | tamu.statbroadcast.com (PCs); tamustats.com (mobile devices) |
| RANKINGS | Texas A&M – 10th (BA, D1B, NCBWA), 11th (USAT); Cornell – unranked For the sake of consistency, Texas A&M uses the USA Today Coaches Poll in releases. |
| SERIES HISTORY | Series tied 1-1 |
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