GREENSBORO, N.C. – The UNC Greensboro (UNCG) baseball team hosts West Virginia for a three-game series, on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  

SPARTANS ESSENTIALS
FRIDAY        
Who: West Virginia  
Where: UNCG Baseball Stadium 
When: Friday, March 17 | 1 p.m. 
Tickets: FREE ADMISSION for all regular season home games
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Saturday
Who: West Virginia
Where: UNCG Baseball Stadium 
When: Saturday, March 18 | 2 p.m. 
Tickets: FREE ADMISSION for all regular season home games
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Sunday 
Who: West Virginia 
Where: UNCG Baseball Stadium 
When: Sunday, March 19 | 1 p.m. 
Tickets: FREE ADMISSION for all regular season home games
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Last Time Out

• UNCG fell to NC A&T 9-4 on Tuesday afternoon at home.
• Mitchell Smith (4-for-5) and Daniel Cerda (2-for-3) had multi-hit games.

Scouting the Spartans

• UNCG is leading the conference in double plays (16), double plays per game (0.94), hits (185), and sacrifice flies (12).
• Nationally, the Spartans are 12^th in sacrifice flies, 17th in double plays, 28^th in hits (185), 32^nd in double plays per game, 35^th in doubles (38), 47^th in sacrifice bunts (8), 49^th in batting average (0.304), and 59th in runs (132).
• Dosi Jonas is nationally ranked 15^th and leading the conference in sacrifice flies (3).
• Mitchell Smith is 47^th in the nation and second in the conference in doubles (7).
• Smith is nationally 51^st and second in the conference in hits per game (1.67).
• Smith is leading the team with a .397 batting average (25-for-63) and 19 RBI in 15 games played. He also has seven doubles and two home runs.
• Kennedy Jones is ranked 61^st in the nation and second in the conference in hits (26).
• Jones is batting .366 (26-for-71) with 17 runs scored, 13 RBI, and two home runs.
• He is one of five Spartans batting over .300. 
• In 27.1 innings pitched, Jake Wolf has a 3.29 ERA, striking out 16 this season. 
• Rowan Watt has hit three home runs, while five Spartans have two home runs each, including Dallas Callahan, Smith, Jones, Jonas, and Caleb Cozart.
• Smith leads the Spartans with 19 of the 119 RBIs.

Scouting the Mountaineers

• The Mountaineers are 12-4, with a six-game win streak, including a two-game series sweep of  Appalachian State earlier this week.
• West Virginia is nationally ranked seventh in stolen bases (47), eighth in stolen bases per game (2.94), 26^th in doubles per game (2.44), 30^th in total doubles (39), 32^nd in triples (6), 34^th in sacrifice bunts (9), and 43^rd in triples per game (0.38).
• The Mountaineers are leading the conference in stolen bases and stolen bases per game.
• They are second in the Big 12 in sacrifice bunts and hit by pitch (28).
• Third in the Big 12 in doubles, doubles per game, earned run average, triples, triples per game, and win-loss percentage.
• J.J. Wetherholt is nationally ranked fourth in both stolen bases (15) and stolen bases per game (0.94), sixth in doubles (9), ninth in hits per game (1.94), 11^th in hits (31), 16^th in doubles per game (0.56), and 20^th in batting average (0.463).
• In the conference, Wetherholt is first in doubles, doubles per game, and stolen bases. 
• Wetherholt is second in the Big 12 in batting average, hits, slugging percentage, total bases and hits per game.
• Blaine Traxel is leading the nation in complete games (2), and is also nationally ranked 20^th and leading the conference in victories (3). 
• Tevin Tucker is nationally ranked second in sacrifice bunts (6), and ninth in sacrifice bunts per game (0.38).
• Tucker is leading the conference in both sacrifice bunts and sacrifice bunts per game.  

Series History
The two teams have met just once before. 

West Virginia defeated UNCG 21-11 in Greensboro in 1991.