This week: Notre Dame College travels to the University of Indianapolis for a three-game series scheduled for Friday and Saturday, February 22 and 23. The doubleheader on Friday and single game on Saturday are both scheduled to start at 11 a.m.
Records: The Falcons are 0-4 this year after playing a four-game series at Tusclum to start the 2019 season. UIndy is 3-0 after a series against Wisconsin-Parkside.
Coaches Corner: Len Barker is in his eighth season as the head coach at Notre Dame. Barker is 152-189-1. Al Ready is in his debut season as the head coach at Indianapolis. Ready spent the last 11 seasons as an assistant coach and is also a former Greyhound player. As an assistant coach, his team had a record of 319-184. So far he is 3-0 as a head coach.
Rankings: Neither team was ranked in the February 19 National College Baseball Writers' Association Poll.
Series History: Notre Dame is 4-7 against Indianapolis in a series dating back to 2013. This will mark the fourth year in a row that Notre Dame has played an early series at UIndy. In 2018, the Falcons took a trip to Indianapolis to play the Greyhounds and Quincy University. NDC only played one game against UIndy, winning 4-3 in 11 innings.
Noting the Falcons: Notre Dame's first day of the season started off slow, with a 15-0 and 7-4 loss. But the Falcons were able to rebound a bit on day two. NDC came up short in its third and fourth games at Tusculum, but the team held a lead in each game. Notre Dame's senior duo
Zach Santoro and
Rick Phillips were the offensive leaders over the first weekend as both players recorded five hits in 13 at bats for a .385 average. Along with
Nick Farrell,
Matt Richards and
Lukas Thompson, the Falcons had five players who got on base at least a third of the time.
Noting the Greyhounds: Indianapolis's leadoff hitter, Macy Holdsworth, was able to get on base twice in each of the team's three games this season. Holdsworth was joined at the top of the lineup by Hunter Waning who batted second in the Greyhounds' final game of last week. Waning started the series batting sixth and sat out the second game. Holdsworth has totals of six hits, four runs and six RBIs in three games while Waning has four hits, four runs and six RBIs in two games. The UIndy pitching staff has also performed well in the team's first series as nine pitchers have ERAs under 4.00 and six pitchers have yet to allow an earned run.
