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Regional Preview: Dunn Starts Friday vs. Tulane
June 02, 2016 | Baseball
The Eagles set to take on the Green Wave in first NCAA Tournament game in seven years
THE FACTS
MATCHUP: No. 3 seed Boston College (31-20) vs. No. 2 seed Tulane (39-19)
WHERE: Swayze Field at Oxford-University Stadium in Oxford, Miss.
WHEN: Friday, June 3 at 4 p.m. EST
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HOW TO FOLLOW
ESPN 3: http://es.pn/1UaFB4c
Live Stats: http://bceagl.es/V0uI300Pjfg
Twitter:Â @BCBirdball
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THE MATCHUP
Pitching Matchup
RHP Justin Dunn (3-1, 1.35 ERA) vs. RHP Emerson Gibbs (6-3, 2.44 ERA)
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Scouting the Green Wave
THE SERIES
EAGLES IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE EAGLES
OF NOTE
WHAT'S NEXT
MATCHUP: No. 3 seed Boston College (31-20) vs. No. 2 seed Tulane (39-19)
WHERE: Swayze Field at Oxford-University Stadium in Oxford, Miss.
WHEN: Friday, June 3 at 4 p.m. EST
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HOW TO FOLLOW
ESPN 3: http://es.pn/1UaFB4c
Live Stats: http://bceagl.es/V0uI300Pjfg
Twitter:Â @BCBirdball
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THE MATCHUP
Pitching Matchup
RHP Justin Dunn (3-1, 1.35 ERA) vs. RHP Emerson Gibbs (6-3, 2.44 ERA)
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Scouting the Green Wave
- Fifteenth-ranked Tulane is the No. 2 seed in the Oxford Regional, also earning an at-large bid to the 2016 NCAA Tournament. The Green Wave is 39-19 with a 15-7 record in American Athletic Conference. It went 2-2 at the league tournament. Tulane is making its 21st appearance in the NCAA Regionals.
- The Green Wave is led by Stephen Alemais with a .318 batting clip, 62 hits and 35 runs. He is also 17-for-22 on stolen-base attempts.
- Jake Willsey and Jeremy Montalbano hold the slugging power for Tulane with 10 and 11 home runs, respectively. Montalbano has driven in 43 while Willsley has 31 RBIs on the season.
- Friday starter RHP Emerson Gibbs holds a 6-3 record with a 2.44 ERA. In 15 starts – 103.1 innings – he has allowed 82 hits, 35 runs – 28 earned – 22 walks and has 83 strikeouts. In his last outing, he went seven innings against Houston, allowed four hits, four runs, three runs and struck out five in a 5-3 loss in ACC Tournament.
- Some of Tulane's signature wins include an 11-10 victory over then No. 23 Arizona in February, two victories over Regional host LSU and a split with Regional host Louisiana Lafayette.
- The only common opponent the Eagles and Green Wave shared in 2016 is Connecticut. BC dropped a 9-4 decision on March 29 in the home opener while Tulane split a two-game series in Storrs in April. Gibbs picked up the win in the 14-5 victory, pitching six innings, allowing four hits, two unearned runs and two walks with seven Ks.
THE SERIES
- This will be the second time the two teams face off, the first in the postseason.
- In 2010, BC opened the season in New Orleans and took the first two games, 8-5 and 12-0, before the Green Wave avoided the sweep with a 14-6 victory in game three.
EAGLES IN THE NCAA TOURNAMENT
- BC earned an at-large bid to the 2016 NCAA Tournament for the 11th time in program history. It is the first time the Eagles earned a bid since 2009.
- The last time the Eagles made the field of 64, they defeated Texas State, 8-7, in a comeback win in Austin before battling host Texas in the longest game played in NCAA history. Texas earned a 3-2 victory in 25 innings and BC fell, 4-3, to Army to exit the tournament.
- A record 10 ACC teams made the tournament, including a record six host sites. BC earned series wins against three of those hosts: Louisville and Virginia at home and NC State in Raleigh. The Eagles lost to FSU in the series-opening game before weather cancelled the rest of the weekend. They dropped all three games to Clemson in South Carolina. The 10 teams also tied an NCAA record and are the most from any conference in the field.
- For the first time ever, five New England teams – BC, Bryant, Connecticut, Fairfield and Rhode Island – are in the field.
- The Eagles are 19-21 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and have earned a spot in the College World Series four times (1953, 1960, 1961, 1967).
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE EAGLES
- The Eagles' 31 overall wins are the most since the Eagles went 34-26 in 2009 and the 13 ACC wins are the most since 2010, when they were 14-16. They also won a program-best six conference series.
- BC is 8-9 against teams ranked in the top 25 and 4-3 against top-10 teams.
- The Eagles began the season 8-0, the best start in program history. They won 10 of their 15 regular-season games, including five of the final six ACC series.
- The Eagles earned a spot in the ACC Baseball Championship for the first time since 2010 and the third time since BC joined the league in 2006.
- Junior right-hander Justin Dunn will get the start in the first game. He has made six starts this season and with a 1.22 ERA, 32 strikeouts and just 12 walks in those outings. He recorded his first career complete game and struck out a career-high nine in the 8-3 victory at No. 22 Georgia Tech on May 21. He earned ACC Pitcher of the Week honors for his performance.
- Sophomore Donovan Casey fractured a bone in his left hand on April 10 in the victory over Virginia. He returned to the mound on May 4 and is expected to see his first action in right field and at the plate in the Regional. Casey was batting .276 with 27 hits, nine RBIs and four stolen bases as the Eagles' four-hole hitter before his injury. He was third on the team with a .298 batting clip as a freshman.
- Junior Johnny Adams is 35-for-95 (.368) with 14 runs and 20 RBIs in the last 25 games. His career-long 14-game hit streak came to an end in the second game of the doubleheader against Georgia Tech, but it tied for sixth in BC record books.
- Junior Nick Sciortino was moved to the second spot in the batting order for the Notre Dame series and he is 23-for-75 (.307) with 15 runs, 10 RBIs, five doubles, two home runs, 12 walks and five HBPs since. He has also caught an ACC-leading 17 baserunners stealing.
- Sophomore Jake Palomaki has reached base in 44 of the Eagles' 51 games - including the last 11 - to bring his two-year total to getting on base in 82 career contests. He also has a hit in eight of the last nine games. His 46 walks in 2015 is a BC single-season record while his 39 walks this season is tied for second. His 85 career walks ranks 11th on BC's all-time list. He has stolen 19 bases this year, tied for third in BC record books, and his 34 career swipes is three away from the top 10.
- Senior Logan Hoggarth has reached base in the last 11 games, with a hit in 10 of the contests, tallying 15 hits, six runs, five RBIs and six walks in that span.
OF NOTE
- Richard Cross (play-by-play) and David Dellucci (color) will be calling the games at the Oxford Regional on WatchESPN and the SEC Network . Dellucci, the 13-year Major Leaguer, and BC associate head coach Jim Foster were teammates and roommates in the Baltimore Orioles farm system.
- D1Baseball.com tabbed the Oxford Regional the strongest in the field of 64. The outlet named BC's starting rotation the best of the four contenders and noted, "This is an uncommonly tight-knit group whose chemistry and toughness are perhaps its greatest assets."
WHAT'S NEXT
- In the first round of the NCAA Tournament, 16 schools host double-elimination style Regionals. No. 5 Ole Miss will take on Pact-12 champion Utah in the second game (8 p.m. EST) on Friday. The winners will face off on Saturday at 6 p.m. EST and the losing teams will play at 2 p.m.
- Junior RHP Mike King (7-4, 3.15 ERA) will pitch on Saturday for BC.
- The Eagles have never faced the Rebels or Utes in program history.
- All games are broadcast on WatchESPN and the SEC Network . Check bceagles.com for the most up-to-date live stats links.
- The complete Regional bracket can be found here.
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