Week 4

First Meeting: 3/27/2013
Series Record: F&M leads 1-0
Streak: F&M +1
Last 10: 1-0
Last F&M Victory: 17-8; 3/27/2013
Last LBC Victory: N/A

Lancaster Bible

Thursday, Mar. 24

3:30 p.m.

F&M put up eight runs in the first two innings in a 17-8 win in the only meeting between the two sides.

First Meeting: 5/6/1899
Series Record: Albright leads 35-26-2
Streak: Tie +1
Last 10: 7-2-1
Last F&M Victory: 16-6; 3/30/2008
Last Albright Victory: 21-5; 3/25/1996

@ Albright

Saturday, Mar. 26

12:00 p.m. & 3:00pm

The two teams put together a real barnburner in a 16-16 tie back in 2009. F&M scored six in the bottom of the ninth to tie, but the game was suspended with two on and one out.

First Meeting: 4/8/1899
Series Record: F&M leads 45-34-3
Streak: LVC +2
Last 10: 5-5
Last F&M Victory: 12-9; 4/20/2008
Last LVC Victory: 9-5; 4/15/12

@ Lebanon Valley

Sunday, Mar. 27

1:00pm

LVC took a 9-5 win back in 2012, putting up four in the first and three in the fifth to clinch.

Game Notes

  • It was an up and down spring break trip for the Diplomats, who finished 3-6 in Florida. When the Diplomats were hot, they were scorching - scoring 15 and 19 runs in two wins.

  • Bobby Falese has absolutely crushed the first few weeks of the season, making huge strides from last season.

            • 2021 (11 games): .220/.319/.341, three doubles, one triple, five runs, two RBI

            • 2022 (14 games): .408/.483/.714, seven doubles, one triple, ten runs, 21 RBI

  • Falese had a monster series against Clarkson, going 5-7 with four doubles and 8 RBI

  • AJ Desautels has found a niche in the lineup for the Diplomats, hitting safely in every game with a plate appearance in Florida. The first-year 2B finished the trip hitting .481 with 13 hits in 27 trips to the plate. He's had multi-hit games in four of his last five appearances.

  • Kyle Roche rounded back into form with a six inning, nine strikeout performance against TCNJ, scattering just two hits in the half-dozen frames.

  • The 15-11 victory against Clarkson marked the first time since the 2018 season that the Diplomats have won a shootout, allowing ten or more runs in a contest. It's just the fourth time under Ryan Horning that F&M won a double-digit game (4-49).

  • F&M looks to get back on the winning track with some winnable contests against a 7-9 Lancaster Bible team, a pair against a 1-13 Albright squad, and a 6-10 Elizabethtown. The toughest contest will be on Sunday at Lebanon Valley, who totes a 9-5 record.

            • The Diplomats have not had a losing record in March since Horning's first year at the helm in 2014 (7-8). The team has finished .500 (7-7) before in 2018.