Baseball: WVU Hosts Maryland on Dollar Night
April 23, 2007 06:38 PM | General
April 23, 2007
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – The WVU baseball team, winners in six of its last nine contests, will host non-conference rival Maryland on Tuesday, April 24, at 7:05 p.m., at Hawley Field. Tuesday night’s game will be “Dollar Night” with all tickets, hot dogs, popcorn and Coca-Colas available for purchase for one dollar.
West Virginia (23-13, 6-8 BIG EAST) is coming off a 16-7 blowout victory over Notre Dame in South Bend on Sunday. The Notre Dame win marked the first time that WVU had won in South Bend since 2003 and also ended a 10 game-losing streak to the Irish.
Senior leftfielder Justin Jenkins is riding a school record 35-game hitting streak. Jenkins currently ranks in the top five in the country in doubles per game and leads the BIG EAST in both doubles (20) and batting average (.429). Jenkins also has a team-high 39 RBI and has 110 total bases this year. WVU as a team has the league’s second highest average at .334.
The Mountaineers are expected to throw Josh Whitlock (5-3), who has won his last four outings. Whitlock has gone at least 6.2 innings in those four starts and has only allowed four earned runs in that span.
The Terps (23-20, 7-14 ACC) lost to Duke 4-2, on Sunday to drop their fourth straight conference series. Maryland is currently in the middle of a seven-game road trip with Duke already out of the way and a three-game series with Virginia ahead this weekend.
Sophomore third baseman Mike Murphy has five home runs and 34 RBI to lead the Terps, offensively.
The Terps are 7-12 on the road thus far while WVU is 15-3 at home.
Maryland holds a 30-16-1 advantage over the Mountaineers in the all-time series. The Terps won both games of the home and home series last year with a 10-8 win in College Park and an 11-9 victory in Morgantown. WVU last beat Maryland at Shipley Field in 2004.
