On Saturday May 8th, number one seed La Roche will host number nine seed Medaille College in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Championship Tournament quarterfinals. The best-of-three series will begin at 1:00 p.m. A nine-inning third game will be played on Sunday, May 9th at 1:00 p.m. if necessary.

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La Roche News and Notes

• La Roche baseball has been ranked ninth in the Mideast Region in the NCAA's first Regional Rankings released yesterday.
• The Redhawks finished the AMCC regular season 15-1 and captured their seventh straight regular season conference title. All eight other AMCC teams suffered four or more losses in conference play.
• LRU outscored their opponents 156-32 (+124) in 16 games. La Roche has averaged an AMCC best 9.8 runs per game which also ranks 17th in the nation.
• As a unit, the Redhawks pitchers have a 2.05 ERA (1st in AMCC, 3rd in NCAA). LRU owns the top four individual ERA's in the conference. Jake Seymour ranks first with a 0.52, Mike Nuzzo ranks second with a 1.13, Tristan Tinney ranks third with a 1.82 and Zack Oddi ranks fourth with a 2.14.
• La Roche ranks tied for second in the country and first in the conference with a .367 team batting average.
• Among all NCAA D-III teams, the Redhawks rank 8th in doubles per game (2.88), third in slugging percentage (.577), 17th in on-base percentage (.444) and 24th in home-runs/game (1.12)
• Dylan Urban leads the AMCC with a .426 batting average. Six other Redhawks rank in the top 25 and are batting over .300 (Jay Novak, 7th | .409, Nathan Stutz, 12th | .396, Austin Hoffman, 15th | .382, Jason Swope, 20th | . 364, Ryan Lynn, 23rd | .348 and Tristan Tinney, 25th | .343)
• In conference play, Jay Novak ranks tied for first in the conference with 24 RBI and teammate Austin Hoffman ranks third with 23.
• Hoffman, Novak and Urban are tied for second in the conference with 12 extra-base hits a piece.
• Jake Seymour was named the AMCC Pitcher of the Week for the first time in his career on May 3rd.

Medaille News and Notes

• Medaille was the only team in the conference to go winless in conference play at 0-14.
• The Mavericks first win of the season came in the AMCC play-in game over #8 seed Hilbert. Medaille defeated the Hawks in a 12 inning thriller. The Mavericks scored three runs in the top of the 12th to secure the win.
• Jordeyn Lewis leads the team in batting average (.417), hits (25), doubles (6) and triples (2). The leadoff batter has scored a team-high 17 runs.
• Patrick Whelan is the Mavericks best power hitter. Whelan has a team-high 19 RBI, nine more than the next best. He also has five home-runs, a .412 batting average and an .843 slugging percentage.
• The rest of the Mavericks lineup is batting below .275. 
• Medaille has been outscored 180-61 in fifteen games this season.
• On the mound, Medaille has an AMCC worst 11.67 team ERA.

Series History

• La Roche is 11-1 vs. Medaille dating back to the 2013-14 season.
• The last time the Mavericks defeated LRU was on April 4, 2015 in 10 innings by a final score of 8-7.
• The Redhawks have won eight straight games over Medaille