Baseball to Host Fall Scrimmages Friday and Sunday
September 17, 2014 | Baseball
Senior infielder Sutton Whiting and the Cardinals will conduct two scrimmages this weekend.
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The Louisville baseball team will close week two of fall workouts with open scrimmages on Friday and Sunday afternoon at Jim Patterson Stadium.
The Cardinals will start the weekend on Friday at 3 p.m., ET, while Sunday's scrimmage is set to begin at 3:30 p.m. Pregame batting practice each day is slated to begin one hour prior to first pitch.
Louisville is tentatively scheduled to host weekend scrimmages every week until the conclusion of fall workouts in mid-October. Dates and times for future scrimmages as well as the annual Pizza Bowl series will be announced throughout the fall.
About Louisville Baseball
Louisville returns 19 letterwinners from its 2014 squad, which finished 50-17 overall, won the program's fifth regular season conference championship in six seasons and hosted NCAA postseason games for the second straight year. The Cardinals defeated Kennesaw State in the Louisville Super Regional to clinch their third CWS berth in eight seasons under the guidance of head coach Dan McDonnell. Louisville, which has hosted six different rounds of NCAA postseason baseball in the last eight years, ended the season ranked as highly as sixth in the national polls.
Leading the list of returnees for Louisville in the 2015 season is junior righthanded pitcher Kyle Funkhouser, a Second Team All-American in 2014 who set a school record for wins finishing 13-3 overall with a 1.94 ERA and 122 strikeouts in 120.1 innings. The Cardinals also return senior infielder and 2014 All-Conference honoree Zach Lucas, talented starting pitchers Anthony Kidston (junior righthander) and Josh Rogers (sophomore lefthander).
In his eight seasons guiding the Louisville baseball program, McDonnell has placed the Cardinals among the nation's elite with the three College World Series berths, four NCAA Super Regional appearances, seven NCAA Regional bids, five conference regular season titles, two conference tournament titles, 14 All-Americans and 359 wins overall (seventh most nationally during that eight-year span).
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