Feb. 28, 2005
FAIRFIELD, Conn. -
Baseball Notebook No. 1
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Record: 0-0 (0-0 MAAC)
Last Week: Idle
This Week: Sat., March 5 -Fairfield at Virginia Commonwealth Sun., March 6 -Fairfield at Virginia Commonwealth (DH)
FAIRFIELD, Conn.--The Fairfield University baseball team opens the 2005 campaign this weekend with a three-game series at Virginia Commonwealth. Fairfield will also stay in the Old Dominion State, with single nine-inning games at Liberty (3/9), and Radford (3/10), before ending the spring break trip with a three-game series at George Mason (3/12-3/13).
Fairfield will begin its fifty-fifth season of intercollegiate baseball this spring, after the program's inception in the 1951 season.
Quick Hits: **Fairfield is 1-3 against VCU lifetime **Fairfield was chosen eighth in the MAAC Preseason Coaches Poll. **Head Coach John Slosar begins his 21st season, as the skipper of the Fairfield University baseball team. **Tim Dugan and David Soucy were selected the co-captains of the 2005 team. **Last season Fairfield was 16-27 overall and 11-16 in the MAAC. **Fairfield pitchers allowed the fewest amount of hits (414), runs (244), earned runs (185), walks (110), home runs (16), and doubles (80) in the MAAC. **The Fairfield pitchers finished second in the MAAC with a 4.73 earned run average.
Around the MAAC: Canisius opens the season with a three-game series at Marshall ... Iona faces Norfolk State, and Binghamton. LeMoyne travels to George Washington for a three-game series ... while Manhattan is heading to Texas Christian for a three-game series ... Marist is at Tulane for three games ... Niagara is at Charlotte ... Rider hosts Army for three-games, Saint Peter's is at Coppin State ... And Siena has a four-game series at Central Florida.
On Deck:
Fairfield will meet Liberty and Radford on Tuesday and Wednesday in a pair of nine-inning games.
