CORAL GABLES, Fla. – Fresh off the heels of a Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) series sweep of Mississippi Valley State, Bethune-Cookman Baseball travels south down I-95 on Wednesday evening to face off against the University of Miami inside Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.
 
Bethune-Cookman will look to throw junior right-hander Julian Carrasquilla (0-1, 3.46 ERA) on the mound against Miami graduate student right-hander Reese Lumpkin (2-2, 6.57 ERA) for the Hurricanes.
 


What: Game Thirty-Three
Who: Bethune-Cookman (17-15) at Miami (17-16)
When: Wednesday, April 9, at 6 p.m.
Where: Coral Gables, Fla. – Alex Rodriguez Park at Mark Light Field (5,000)
 
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IN THE RANKINGS
▪ Bethune-Cookman is not ranked in this week's D1Baseball.com Top 25
▪ Miami (Fla.) is not ranked in this week's D1Baseball.com Top 25
 


▪ Andrey Martinez was named SWAC Co-Hitter of the Week, as well as Co-Newcomer of the Week.
▪ Over the weekend, Martinez registered six home runs in a series sweep of Mississippi Valley State in Sanford, Florida.
▪ Across the season, B-CU has stolen 67 bases in 85 attempts, including Sergio Rivera with 18 of 20, respectively.
▪ Jorge Rodriguez leads the Cats in batting average with a .415 mark, while Martinez owns a .380 average and Darryl Lee with a .370 clip.
▪ Five different Wildcats have five or more home runs – Martinez (10), Rodriguez (6), Jesus Vanegas (6), Lee (5) and Armani Newton (5).
▪ Projected starter Julian Carrasquilla has a 0-1 record on the year in 11 outings and 13 innings worked overall.
▪ When leading after six innings, B-CU is 14-1 on the season.
▪ Lee is riding a team-high 22-game on-base streak, as well as a 10-game hitting streak for the Wildcats.
 

BCU VS. MIAMI SERIES
▪ Miami holds a commanding 35-7 lead in the series dating back to 1983.
▪ In 2009, Bethune-Cookman won two-of-three in a series against Hurricanes – marking the first-ever series win for the Cats in the series.
▪ B-CU claimed a 6-4 win over the Canes last year in Coral Gables.
▪ The Hurricanes have won nine of the last 10 in the series.
 

SCOUTING MIAMI
▪ Miami (Fla.) comes in at 17-16 overall after a series win away to Pittsburgh in Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) play over the weekend.
▪ The Hurricanes are 4-4 in midweek games across the season.
▪ Fabio Peralta leads the Canes in batting average (.349), followed by Derek Williams (.346) and Jake Ogden (.341).
▪ Four different players have five or more home runs – Bobby Marsh (7), Derek Williams (6), Daviel Cuvet (5) and Dorian Gonzalez Jr. (5).
▪ UMiami is averaging 6.8 runs per game.
 

RECAPPING B-CU'S LAST GAME (vs. Mississippi Valley State)
After MVSU stranded two to open the first, Lee got the Wildcats started with a leadoff triple, coming around to score on Andrey Martinez's second homer in as many at-bats and third of the day as the Cats took an early 2-0 lead. A Delta Devils double-play cut off a second inning threat before B-CU made it 3-0 on another Martinez RBI, this time scoring Reinaldo Plascencia from third and forcing an MVSU call to the bullpen.
 
Mississippi Valley got on the board in the fourth with four straight base hits to open the top half of the inning and trimming the deficit to 3-2. B-CU broke things open in the bottom of the inning as Sergio Rivera sent a solo shot to left for the fourth run for the Wildcats. After a walk and an error, Andrey Martinez homered yet again - his second of the game, fourth of the day, and third straight at-bat with an RBI - to make it 7-2. 

The Wildcats poured it on in the fifth after another MVSU pitching change, loading the bases with no one out for a Villafane sacrifice fly. Lee singled in the ninth run of the game, while a double steal one batter later put the Cats in double-figures. Martinez came through for the fourth straight at-bat with an RBI, plating Lee to make it 11-2. B-CU turned to the bullpen in the sixth as All-SWAC reliever Pablo Torres made his season debut, striking out two in the top of the inning.
 
The Wildcats got into run-rule range in the bottom of the sixth without recording a hit as the Delta Devils relief core hit four batters with a walk to put B-CU up, 13-2. Down to potentially their final three outs, the Delta devils rallied in the seventh for three runs on three hits with help from two B-CU errors to prolong the contest as they pulled back under the 10-run threshold at 13-5.
 
Bethune-Cookman used another sacrifice fly to push the lead back up to 14-5 in the bottom of the seventh, but a flyout stranded the potential game-ending run at third. The Wildcats ended things early in the eighth after a leadoff hit batter, Daniel Figueroa double, and an RBI fielder's choice by Andrey Martinez to close things out at 15-5.
 
Edwin Sanchez got his fourth win of the year after five innings of two-run ball in which he scattered seven hits and a walk with four strikeouts. Torres and Yoansell Diaz finished out the rest of the game, with Diaz working two scoreless innings of one-hit ball with four strikeouts.
 


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