USF Baseball Hosts St. John’s In BIG EAST Finale

[Brad]

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USF BASEBALL

USF Baseball Hosts St. John’s In BIG EAST Finale

TAMPA, Fla. (May 16, 2007) – The University of South Florida baseball team will host St. John’s May 17-19 at Red McEwen Field in the final week of the 2007 regular season. The Bulls and Red Storm will meet at 6 p.m. on both Thursday, May 17 and Friday, May 18, then at 1 p.m. Saturday for the regular season finale.  

USF will recognize five seniors, including Nick Cardieri, Chris Delaney, Yuri Higgins, Danny Otero and Ty Taborelli, prior to the game on Saturday.

Listen to Friday and Saturday’s games live on the USF Press Pass, with Jim Louk and Garrett Woolvard calling the play-by-play.  

St. John’s leads the all-time series with USF 3-1, with all four games being played last season. The Bulls won the first outing 3-2, but dropped the next two 19-0 and 4-3 in Queens during the 2006 regular season. Ten days after the 4-3 loss, the Bulls lost 6-4 to the Red Storm in the BIG EAST Baseball Championship held in Clearwater, Fla.

This week USF was the fifth team to clinch a berth in the 2007 BIG EAST Conference Baseball Championship held at KeySpan Park in Brooklyn, N.Y. The Bulls are 31-22 overall and 12-12 in league play this season.  

St. John’s is atop the conference leaderboard with an 18-6 league record and a 37-14 overall clip.  

In 53 games, the Bulls are batting .285 with 503 hits, including 19 home runs, eight triples and 78 doubles. USF has driven in 305 RBI and scored 342 runs while posting a .393 on base percentage. On the mound, the Bulls own a 4.55 ERA, allowing 498 hits, but striking out 364.  

St. John’s leads the league in batting with a .334 average. The Red Storm has connected on 34 home runs, 12 triples and 116 doubles in 51 outings. STJ has scored 416 runs and driven in 383 RBI. The St. John’s pitching staff owns a 3.39 ERA, striking out 364 and allowing 444 hits.  

After the three-game set with St. John’s, USF will await their seed for the 2007 BIG EAST Conference Baseball Championship held May 22-26 in Brooklyn, N.Y.

[JoeB]

Senior Day this Saturday.  Need everyone to come out and support the team for the last home game, as they get ready for the Big East Tourney in Brooklyn.

[JoeB]

Let's go Danny!  Need a quality start tonight versus the hottest hitting team in the Big East.  Everyone of their starters have a batting average over .300 .  In fact, all but two players on their bench have at least a .300 batting average.  Very impressive offense.  

But quality pitching always beats quality hitting!

Go Bulls!