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Weekend Preview: Eagles Travel No. 19 Clemson
March 17, 2016 | Baseball
BC returns to action hoping to improve on program-best start
THE FACTS
MATCHUP: Boston College (12-3, 2-1 ACC) at No. 19 Clemson (13-3, 2-1 ACC)
WHERE: Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, S.C.
WHEN: Friday, March 18 at 6:30 p.m. | Saturday, March 19 at 4 p.m. | Sunday, March 20 at 1 p.m.
RECORD vs. CLEMSON: Clemson leads the series, 22-8
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HOW TO FOLLOW
ESPN3 Links: Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Live Stats: Friday | Saturday | Sunday
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THE MATCHUP
Pitching Matchups
Friday: RHP Mike King (3-0, 1.30 ERA) vs. RHP Clate Schmidt (3-0, 3.15 ERA)
Saturday: LHP Jesse Adams (2-0, 4.91 ERA) vs. LHP Charlie Barnes (1-2, 4.76 ERA)
Sunday: RHP Jacob Stevens (2-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. TBA
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Scouting the Tigers
THE SERIES
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE EAGLES
MATCHUP: Boston College (12-3, 2-1 ACC) at No. 19 Clemson (13-3, 2-1 ACC)
WHERE: Doug Kingsmore Stadium in Clemson, S.C.
WHEN: Friday, March 18 at 6:30 p.m. | Saturday, March 19 at 4 p.m. | Sunday, March 20 at 1 p.m.
RECORD vs. CLEMSON: Clemson leads the series, 22-8
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HOW TO FOLLOW
ESPN3 Links: Friday | Saturday | Sunday
Live Stats: Friday | Saturday | Sunday
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THE MATCHUP
Pitching Matchups
Friday: RHP Mike King (3-0, 1.30 ERA) vs. RHP Clate Schmidt (3-0, 3.15 ERA)
Saturday: LHP Jesse Adams (2-0, 4.91 ERA) vs. LHP Charlie Barnes (1-2, 4.76 ERA)
Sunday: RHP Jacob Stevens (2-0, 0.00 ERA) vs. TBA
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Scouting the Tigers
- Clemson also start the Atlantic Coast Conference season 2-1, earning the series victory at Wake Forest last weekend. The Tigers enter the weekend after adding two non-conference wins at The Citadel.
- They are 8-1 at Doug Kingsmore Stadium with the lone loss coming in the 2016 opener to Maine, 4-3. The Tigers bounced back to win the three-game series with 9-4 and 19-2 victories.
- CU is ranked 19th in the in the D1baseball.com Poll, 21st USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll and 25th by NCBWA.
- The Tigers are led by freshman Seth Beer, who is hitting .426 with 23 hits, 22 RBIs and seven home runs. He hit four bombs in the three-game set at Wake Forest.
- BC will face right-hander Clate Schmidt in the Friday night contest. He is 3-0 with a 3.15 ERA in four starts. He has allowed 16 hits, seven runs – all earned – 11 walks and 17 strikeouts over 20 innings in 2016. In the Tigers' 6-5 victory against the Demon Deacons, he threw 2.2 innings, allowing four hits, three runs, three walks and struck out two.
- Lefty Charlie Barnes will start on Saturday. He is 1-2 with a 4.76 ERA in four starts. He leads the Tigers with 27 strikeouts, but has allowed 21 hits, 16 runs – 12 earned – and six walks over 22.2 innings. In his last start, Barnes shouldered the loss at Wake, throwing 6.1 innings and allowing six hits, six runs – all earned – two walks with nine Ks.
THE SERIES
- Clemson holds a 22-8 series advantage over Boston College since the Eagles joined the Atlantic Coast Conference in 2006.
- BC has won two of the last six meetings, taking one game in each series over the last two years.
- The Eagles are 3-5 in one-run games against the Tigers and 3-4 in two-run games, but just 2-7 when one team wins by five runs or more.
- Head Coach Mike Gambino earned his first win against the Tigers the last time the Eagles were in Clemson in 2014, with a 3-1 victory in the final series of the season. The Eagles dropped the final game, 10-9, in 13 innings after holding a 9-3 lead in the ninth.
- Last year, BC won the second of the three game series, 8-7, in Chestnut Hill. Junior RHP Justin Dunn earned the win and senior LHP Jesse Adams the save.
- Clemson is now led by first-year head coach Monte Lee, whom the Eagles have never faced. He was at the helm of College of Charleston for the last seven years.
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE EAGLES
- BC is 12-3 for the first time in program history (dating back to 1973).
- With the impressive start, the Eagles were ranked 22nd by Collegiate Baseball - the first rankings in school history.
- Senior Joe Cronin picked up ACC Player of the Week accolades, as well as NEIBA Player of the Week and NCBWA Hitter of the Week honors for his .526 batting average, 1.211 slugging percentage and .609 on-base percentage over the five games. Cronin is currently fifth in BC record books with five career triples and eighth with 89 career walks.
- Junior right-handers Mike King and Justin Dunn earned the 20th and 23rd spots, respectively, on d1baseball.com's power pitching rankings for starting and relief pitching, respectively.
- Freshman RHP Jacob Stevens has yet to allow an earned run through 22.2 innings, one of just 10 pitchers in the nation to do so and the only one in the ACC.
- Senior RHP John Nicklas has tallied three win in six appearances. In 8.1 innings of relief, he has allowed just two hits, two walks and has yet to give up a run of any kind. He leads all relievers with 11 Ks. With his 68th career appearance in the shutout victory over the Wolfpack on Sunday, Nicklas is now tied for 10th in BC record books.
- Redshirt sophomore RHP Bobby Skogsbergh returned to action for the first time on Feb. 21 since March 24, 2015 as an injury sidelined him after only three appearances last season. In three of his first four outings, he retired the side in order. He threw 2.1 scoreless innings against NC State, allowed just two hits, one walk and struck out four while recording the final out of the 1-0 victory on Sunday to tally his first career save.
- Junior Michael Strem saw his eight-game hit streak came to an end in Saturday's 3-2 loss to NC State on an 0-for-2 day with a sac bunt and a walk, but he has reached base in the last 10 games, racking up 11 hits, four runs, two walks and seven RBIs.
- Sophomore Jake Palomaki has recorded at least one hit in the nine of the 15 games this season, bringing his two-year total to at least one hit in 41 of the 65 games played at BC. He has also reached base in 51 career contests.Â
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