*The Leopards and Black Knights are set for a four-game series this weekend with a doubleheader in West Point on Saturday and a doubleheader in Easton on Sunday. The first games of both doubleheaders are slated for a 1 p.m. first pitch.
*Lafayette enters this weekend's four-game series with a 4-4 overall record and a 3-2 record in Patriot League action. Last weekend they dropped both of their doubleheader games on Saturday to Lehigh before Sunday's doubleheader was postponed due to weather.
*Freshman
Justin Grech leads the way for the Leopards so far this spring, holding a team-leading .346 batting average, .538 slugging percentage, 10 runs scored, nine hits and 14 total bases. Sophomore
Pete Ciuffreda holds a team-high nine RBIs and is tied with senior
Ethan Stern in doubles with three. Stern also holds a team-high six stolen bases. Grech, junior
Dylan Minghini and sophomore
Kyle Chmielewski all have hit one home run so far this season and Grech and Chmielweski have each hit a triple through the Leopards eight games.
*On the mound for the Leopards, sophomore
Jake Bloss leads the pitching staff with a 1.04 ERA while sophomore
Jordan Yoder holds a team-high two wins and 18.0 innings pitched, and sophomore
Nolan Morr has recorded a team-high two saves. Yoder has also struck out the most batters, striking out 19 over his three appearances.
*Nationally as a team, Lafayette is 27
th in on base percentage (0.397) and 11
th in stolen bases per game (2.25). Individually, Grech and Stern are tied for seventh in base on balls per game (1.12), junior
Justin Johnson is 21
st in base on balls per game (1.00), Bloss is 23
rd in ERA (1.04), Grech is 23
rd in on base percentage (0.541), Stern is 32
nd in on base percentage (0.528), Grech is 26
th in runs per game (1.25), Stern is ninth in stolen bases per game (0.75), Johnson is 20
th in stolen bases per game (0.62) and Ciuffreda is 40
th in stolen bases per game, and Bloss is 3
rd in WHIP (0.46).
*As a team in the Patriot League the Leopards are third in base on balls (249) and stolen bases (18), are second in on base percentage (0.397), and are first in stolen bases per game (2.25).
*In the Patriot League individually, Grech and Stern are tied for second in base on balls per game (1.12), Grech is second in on base percentage (0.541) and runs per game (1.25), Stern is tied for first in stolen bases (6) and first in stolen bases per game (0.75), Ciuffreda is second in RBIs per game (1.12), Johnson is second in stolen bases per game (0.62), Bloss is second in ERA (1.04) and first in WHIP (0.46), and Morr is first in saves (2).
*Army enters this weekend's series with a 7-11 overall record and a 3-3 record in Patriot League action. This past weekend they swept Holy Cross in a Saturday doubleheader, 7-3 and 6-5, before Sunday's game in Worcester was postponed due to weather. On Tuesday, the Black Knights defeated University of Rhode Island, 3-2, in a midweek game. Seven Black Knights recorded a hit in the win and starter Patrick Melampy went 3.0 innings, striking out four.
*Junior Nick Manesis leads the Black Knights so far this spring with a .378 batting average and team-leading three home runs and 30 total bases. Sophomore Bennett Smith leads the team in slugging with .700, senior Jeremiah Adams has a team-high 15 runs scored, nine RBIs and seven doubles, and freshman Sam Ruta has a team-high three triples. On the mound, freshman Connelly Early holds a team-best 1.69 ERA, freshman Tanner Greshman holds a team-high two wins, senior Ray Bartoli holds a team-high one save and sophomore Patrick Melampy has pitched a team-high 26.1 innings.
*The Leopards won the last meeting on April 14, 2019, 6-3, in West Point. Army leads the all-time series 94-65-2, dating back to the two squads first meeting in 1896.
