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Baseball Heads Out On The Road For First Time In Over A Month

Truman Baseball Notes (April 9-10, 2016)
Twitter: @TrumanAthletics || @TrumanBaseball || #BewareofDog
 
 
Games #30-33: Truman (12-17, 4-4 GLVC) vs. Maryville (11-16, 2-6 GLVC)
When: Saturday, April 9 || 12:00 p.m. (DH – 9/7)
Sunday, April 10 || 12:00 p.m. (DH – 7/9)
Where: St. Louis, Mo.  || Missouri Baptist Baseball Field   
Live Stats  - may not be available for the series
2016 Stats: Truman || Maryville || GLVC  || NCAA 
 

Twitter: @TrumanAthletics || @TrumanBaseball || #TSUGameDay

Zak Larkin (1st Season) Assistant Head Coach:
 
seasonndGLVC Record: 43-37 || .541 || 2
season (all at Truman)thCareer Record: 158-328 || .322 || 10
Dan DavisHead Coach:
Staff
 
 
The First Pitch:
The Bulldog Baseball team will have to dust off their travel bags as they will hit the road for the first time in over a month when they travel to St. Louis to face Maryville University in a GLVC West Division series. The Bulldogs and Saints will play a four-game series on the campus of Missouri Baptist University due to facility construction on the Maryville campus. The Missouri Baptist Campus is located off of I-64 (Exit 24) Mason Road to North Outer 40 to College Park Drive.
 
Truman is 4-4 in conference action while the Saints are 2-6 through the first two weeks of play. Both teams have similar overall records with the Bulldogs at 12-17 overall and Maryville at 11-16. In team statistics, the Bulldogs are hitting .301 as a team with a 6.84 ERA and a .958 fielding percentage. Truman is leading the GLVC in stolen bases with 47 and have been successful on the base paths 73% of the time. The Bulldogs average 5.3 runs per game.
 
Maryville is hitting .270 as a team with a staff ERA of 5.48 and an overall fielding percentage of .961. The Saints are third in the league in stolen bases with 39 with a 67% success rate. Maryville is averaging 4.8 runs per game.
 
Players to Watch:
For the Bulldogs, junior shortshop Nick Agliolo is fifth in the GLVC in hitting with a .424 batting average and third in on-base percentage at .508. He is tied for fifth in hits with 42 and had a 15-game hitting streak to start the season. Senior centerfielder T.J. Wood leads the conference with 16 stolen bases out of another league leading 19 attempts.
 
Starters senior Mark Roberts and sophomore Kent Frantz are among the league pitchers that have faces the most batters per game. Roberts is second behind Maryville's Tyler Omlid (48.00/g) at 46.92 batters per game this season in his seven starts. Frantz averages 44.91 batters per game and has Truman's only two complete games this season.  
 
Sophomore closer Peter Young already holds the career saves record (13) and now holds the single-season saves record at seven this year. He is tied for second in the GLVC in saves behind Missouri-St. Louis' Austin Simokaitis (10).
 
For the Saints, Zack Ruckman is Maryville's top hitter at .379 and is 9-of-11 in stolen bases. Robbie Gordon is fifth in the league with a 1.80 ERA and opponents are hitting .178 against the hurler who has started six times and has a 3-1 record.
 
Last Year vs. Maryville:
The Bulldogs and Saints closed out the 2015 season with a four-game, three-day series in Kirksville. The two teams split the four games with the Bulldogs winning both nine-inning single games by scores of 3-2 and 4-3 (10 innings) while the Saints won the Saturday doubleheader by scores of 9-5 and 2-0.
 
The Saints pitchers struck out 23 Bulldogs during the series and Truman hit .270 compared to Maryville's .304. Mark Roberts tossed eight innings of shutout ball before Peter Young closed the door in the ninth to preserve the 3-2 win.
 
Maryville got a four-run sixth inning to win game two 9-5 despite committing four errors in the game and Robbie Gordon allowed five hits and struck out nine in a complete-game (7) shutout in game three 2-0.
 
Truman led 3-0 in the finale but Maryville tied the game with three runs in the top of the seventh. Both teams put up zeros  until the bottom of the 10th when Michael Venturella led off with a walk and later scored on a wild pitch.
 
Home Run Homer:
 
Player – Inning/Game (Season/Career HR)
Dave Gambino - 5th Inning Game 3 vs. Lincoln solo (1/7) *
Jason Priest  - 5th Inning Game 3 vs. Lincoln solo (1/1)
Nick Agliolo – 1st Inning Game 8 vs. Bemidji solo (1/1)
Adam Gregorich – 5th Inning Game 12 vs. Lewis Grand Slam (1/2)
Dave Gambino – 3rd Inning Game 14 vs. Lewis one on (2/8)
Mason King – 5th Inning Game 14 vs. Lewis solo (1/1) *
Dave Gambino – 5th Inning Game 17 vs. Missouri Western two-on (3/9)
Jason Priest – 3rd Inning Game 19 vs. Augustana Grand Slam (2/2)
Charlie Kreh – 9th Inning Game 25 vs. Quincy solo (1/1)
Brendan Trimble – 3rd Inning Game 26 vs. Drury solo (1/1) *
Nick Agliolo – 4th Inning Game 26 vs. Drury one on (2/2)
Charlie Kreh – 7th Inning Game 26 vs. Drury solo (2/2) *
Nick Agliolo – 1st inning Game 27 vs. Drury solo (3/3)
Joey Gardner – 2nd Inning Game 27 vs. Drury solo (1/1)*
 
*leadoff home runs
 
The Bulldogs had not hit a grand slam since 2010 but have hit two this season.
 
The three home runs hit against Drury in Game 26 was only the 11th time in school history that a team has hit three or more in a single game. The last was on March 29 at William Jewell. The school record for home runs in a game is seven, done twice. The first was in 1983 against Westminster and the next was in 1993 against Pittsburg State.
 
Quick Hits:
  • Opponents have scored in the first inning of games 14 out of 29 games played and are 8-6 in those games. Opponents have scored first against Truman in 24 games and are 15-9.
  • Opponents have scored the Bulldogs 37-22 in the first inning and the highest scoring inning has been the third at 44-24 in favor of the opponents.
  • Mark Roberts and Tanner Forck have the team's only combine shutout thus far, a 7-0 seven-inning victory over Bemidji State on March 4.
  • Truman has been shutout once this year, an 8-0 loss to Augustana on March 19, a seven-inning game.
  • The Bulldogs are 6-8 in nine-inning games with two needed extra innings (both losses) and 6-9 in seven-inning games with one (a loss) only going five innings due to darkness.
  • Truman has had over 10 hits in 15 games this season with a high of 17 in a victory over Saint Joseph's (Ind.). The Bulldogs are 8-7 in those 15 games, with two being extra inning losses.
  • Nick Agliolo has 13 multi-hit games including a 4-for-6 performance against Southern Indiana.
  • Jason Priest and Brendan Trimble are second on the team with nine multi-hit games.
  • Three Bulldogs have turned in four-hit games. Agliolo against Southern Indiana, Mason King (4-for-4) against Missouri Western and Dave Gambino (4-for-5) against Drury.
  • Agliolo had the longest hitting streak of any 'Dog this year as he hit safely in the first 15 games.
  • Dave Gambino (First Base), Nick Agliolo (Shortstop) and T.J. Wood (Center Field) have played and started each game at those respective positions.
  • Gambino (3rd), Jason Priest (Cleanup) and, Brendan Trimble (5th) have been placed in the batting order in those spots for all 29 games.
  • Mark Roberts (7), Kent Frantz (7), Nate Lukas (4), Brad Molski (4), Adrian Morris (1), Sam Reuter (3), Tyler Spencer (2) and Alex Hoffman (1) have made the pitching starts this season.
  • Truman wrapped up a 22-game home stand last weekend against Drury after playing their first five on the road. The Bulldogs are scheduled to play 31 games in Kirksville this year.
 
Bulldogs In The GLVC:
 
Truman is 5-3-10 in GLVC four-game series since joining the league in 2014. They have one four-game sweep, at Southern Indiana in 2015 and have been swept one time at home against Drury in 2014. The Bulldogs last series win was in 2015 against Missouri S&T (four series ago) and last series loss was at Rockhurst in 2014 (12 series ago).
 
The Bulldogs have had seven doubleheader sweeps in conference play with three coming on day one and four on day two. Truman has swept both day one doubleheaders this season.
 
Opponents have swept Truman nine times in the past three years in doubleheader. Seven of the nine have occurred on the second day of the series, one was the middle day of a three-game set.
 
Career Record Watch:
Mark Roberts is Truman's career leader in innings pitched. Roberts surpassed Kyle Veazey (220.1) earlier this season and has pitched 242.0 innings over the course of 47 appearances and 37 starts. His 11 career wins is fifth in Truman history. He is now in the top 10 of career Bulldogs in appearances while his next start will bring him four away from the all-time record of 42 held by Veazey.
 
Peter Young's 13 career saves is four better than the former record of nine held by Dan Hillen from 2003-2005. Young has converted on all 13 save opportunities in his career.
 
Dave Gambino's 637 putouts is fourth on Truman's career list.
 
 
GLVC West Primer:
 
After two weeks of conference games, a three-way tie exists between William Jewell, Missouri S&T and Rockhurst at 5-3. The Bulldogs, Quincy and Missouri-St. Louis are a game back at 4-4. Drury is next at 3-5 and Maryville brings up the rear at 2-6.
 
Truman (4-4) at Maryville (2-6)
Rockhurst (5-3) at Missouri S&T (5-3)
William Jewell (5-3) at Drury (3-5)
Quincy (4-4) at Missouri-St. Louis (4-4)
 
The top four teams in the division will advance to the GLVC Postseason Tournament in Westfield, Indiana that will run from May 12-15.
 
Preseason Polls:
In the GLVC Preseason Coaches' Poll, Truman was picked third in the West Division behind Quincy and Drury. The Hawks picked up 12 first place votes and had 117 points, Drury had one first place vote and 96 total and Truman had two first place tallies and 91 total votes.
 
 
The University of Indianapolis earned 11 first place votes to sit atop the poll for the GLVC East Division with Southern Indiana gaining the other five first place votes and totaled 105 points.
 
 
This season, the GLVC will play exclusively within their divisions to decide postseason tournament berths. The top four in each Division will gain spots in the tournament to be played in Westfield, Indiana in mid-May.
 
 
Up Next:
The Bulldogs are back out on the road and will head to Rolla to play arguably one of the best teams in the conference in Missouri S&T. Truman took three of four from the Miners last season in Kirksville in a series dampened by rain. The Miners are 18-9 overall winning three of four over Drury and splitting a road series against the nationally-ranked Quincy team last weekend.
 
 
 

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Players Mentioned

Michael Venturella

#16 Michael Venturella

SS/2B
5' 9"
Redshirt Freshman
R/R
Kent Frantz

#3 Kent Frantz

RHP
6' 0"
Sophomore
R/R
Dave Gambino

#6 Dave Gambino

OF/1B
6' 1"
Junior
L/L
Joey Gardner

#14 Joey Gardner

C
6' 0"
Senior
R/R
Adam Gregorich

#9 Adam Gregorich

OF
5' 10"
Sophomore
L/R
Nate Lukas

#25 Nate Lukas

LHP
6' 4"
Sophomore
L/L
Sam Reuter

#22 Sam Reuter

RHP
6' 3"
Junior
R/R
Mark Roberts

#11 Mark Roberts

RHP
6' 1"
Senior
R/R
Tyler Spencer

#29 Tyler Spencer

RHP
6' 190"
Junior
R/R
Brendan Trimble

#7 Brendan Trimble

3B/1B
6' 2"
Sophomore
L/R
T.J. Wood

#10 T.J. Wood

OF
5' 10"
Senior
L/L
Peter Young

#21 Peter Young

RHP
6' 2"
Sophomore
R/R

Players Mentioned

Michael Venturella

#16 Michael Venturella

5' 9"
Redshirt Freshman
R/R
SS/2B
Kent Frantz

#3 Kent Frantz

6' 0"
Sophomore
R/R
RHP
Dave Gambino

#6 Dave Gambino

6' 1"
Junior
L/L
OF/1B
Joey Gardner

#14 Joey Gardner

6' 0"
Senior
R/R
C
Adam Gregorich

#9 Adam Gregorich

5' 10"
Sophomore
L/R
OF
Nate Lukas

#25 Nate Lukas

6' 4"
Sophomore
L/L
LHP
Sam Reuter

#22 Sam Reuter

6' 3"
Junior
R/R
RHP
Mark Roberts

#11 Mark Roberts

6' 1"
Senior
R/R
RHP
Tyler Spencer

#29 Tyler Spencer

6' 190"
Junior
R/R
RHP
Brendan Trimble

#7 Brendan Trimble

6' 2"
Sophomore
L/R
3B/1B
T.J. Wood

#10 T.J. Wood

5' 10"
Senior
L/L
OF
Peter Young

#21 Peter Young

6' 2"
Sophomore
R/R
RHP