No. 20 HookC Welcomes UMBC to Town

STORRS, Conn. - The No. 20 UConn baseball (17-6) welcomes the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (11-9) for a three-game series beginning on Friday at 12:05 p.m. at Elliot Ballpark.

Friday's game time has already been moved up due to inclement weather and Saturday's contest will be decided on at a later time. It is currently scheduled to be played at Dunkin' Park in Hartford, home of the Hartford Yard Goats.

Sunday's game will be unchanged with a 1:05 p.m. start time and will be broadcasted on CW20 with Randy Brochu and Joe D'Ambrosio on the call.

UConn is coming off a 17-1 win against Hartford in 7 innings on Wednesday afternoon. The win moved the Huskies to 17-6 on the year, and matches them with the same record 23 games in as last year's 50-win team.

The Huskies enter the sixth weekend of the season leading the BIG EAST Conference in walks (122), runs (183), scoring (8.0), stolen bases (42) and strikeouts per nine (9.4).

Dominic Freeberger leads the way at the plate, hitting .366 with team-high 34 hits and 28 runs batted in. Freeberger, Ben Huber and Luke Broadhurst are all tied for the home run lead with five entering the weekend.

UMBC enters the series at 11-9 on the season with 3-3 record in the America East. The Retrievers were swept at home against Maine but bounced back with a road sweep at Albany last weekend.

Ian Diaz is hitting .362 on the year, leads the team with 29 runs scored and has a ridiculous 21:5 walk to strikeout ratio at the dish this season.

Leewood Molessa provides the punch in the lineup with seven home runs and ranks 27th in the country with 34 RBIs.

This lone meeting between these two programs came in 1997 with the Huskies winning 10-8.

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Players Mentioned

Luke Broadhurst

Dominic Freeberger

Ben Huber

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