Mount St. Mary's (9-12, 2-6 NEC) vs. Fairleigh Dickinson (4-14, 1-3 NEC)
E.T Straw Family Stadium, Emmitsburg, Md.
Friday, April 1, 2011, 3 pm
Saturday, April 2, 2011, 12 pm (DH)
Sunday, April 3, 2011, 1 pm

MOUNT UPDATE: Mount Update..The Mount won a pair of mid-week home games to move to 9-12 on the season. Sam Nott's pinch-hit two-run drove home the go-ahead runs in the bottom of the eighth in an 8-6 win over UMBC on Tuesday. On Wednesday, the Mount scored three times in the bottom of the seventh to earn a 5-4 win over Navy in a game that was shortened due to rain and snow. Zach Helman leads the Mount with a .413 average while Andrew Caron is hitting .353 with a team-high 18 RBI. On the mound, Max Brittenham is 1-2 with a 2.73 ERA in a team-high 33.0 innings of work.

ABOUT THE KNIGHTS: Fairleigh Dickinson enters the weekend 4-14 overall and 1-3 in the Northeast Conference. The Knights have lost seven in a row singe opening NEC play with a 6-5 win over Quinnipiac on March 18. Brian Dillon leads the Knights with a .384 average ahile Ryan Kresky is hitting .290 with a team-high 17 runs scored. D.J. Robinson is hitting .279 with a team-high 19 RBI. On the mound, Zach Kisling is 1-0 with a team-best 4.15 ERA in 10 relief appearances.

THE ALL-TIME SERIES vs. FDU...The Mount holds a 37-26 lead in the all-time series with FDU. The Knights, however, won three of four from the Mount last season. The Mount is 17-7 against FDU since 2004. Mount St. Mary's has won the past nine meetings between the two teams in Emmitsburg, Md., including four-game sweeps in 2007 and 2009.

LAST YEAR'S SERIES WITH FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON: Fairleigh Dickinson took three of four from the Mount in the season-ending four-game series. The Knights took the first three games of the series before the Mount rallied with 10 runs in the top of the ninth to earn a 12-9 win in the final game of the series. Trailing 9-2 in the top of the ninth in that game, Josh Winter had five RBI in the ninth, including a three-run homer and a go-ahead two-run single. FDU took the opener of the twinbill, 2-1, despite being held to three hits by Costa Kapothanasis. Fairleigh Dickinson swept a doubleheader to open the series, winning 6-5 and 12-8. In the 12-8 win, Ryan Kresky hit a walk-off grand slam to lift the Knights to the win. In the opening game, D.J. Robinson had a walk-off RBI single for FDU.

TRENDING UP: Mark Quaranta is 5-for-8 (.625) at the plate over the past two games and is currently on a seven-game hit streak... Senior right-hander Max Brittenham has a 1.80 ERA over his past five appearances...He is 1-2 with 18 strikeouts in 30.0 innings over that span...Brittenham has tossed back-to-back complete games in his most recent appearances...Andrew Caron is 7-for-10 (.700) over the past three games with four RBI...Caron has a .769 on-base percentage in the three games...Kyle Kane went 4-for-8 (.500) with a pair of doubles in the wins over UMBC and Navy...Kane, a career .318 hitter, raised his average by 48 points to .211...Zach Helman is hitting .526 (20-for-38) over his past 12 games...

CAREER NUMBERS: Mark Quaranta is eighth all-time at the Mount with a .327 career average while Shane Eyler is 13^th with a .320 average...Andrew Caron is 9^th all-time in career slugging percentage (.510)...Eyler is sixth all-time with 104 runs scored with Kane in 11^th with 93...Eyler has 182 career hits, good for fourth all-time at the Mount...Kane is right behind in sixth place with 169 career hits...Eyler's 23 career home runs are fourth all-time at MSM while his 105 RBI are also fourth...Eyler is third all-time with 279 total bases with Kane in eighth with 231...Tommy Flynn is fourth all-time with 31 career stolen bases.

ON THE BASEPATHS: The Mount has been aggressive on the base paths this season, averaging 2.43 steal attempts per game this year. Last year, the Mount averaged 1.45 steal attempts per game. The Mount has 31 stolen bases in 21 games this year after tallying 51 steals in 51 games all of last year. Tommy Flynn leads the team with 10 steals while Brandon Scott is second on the squad with seven.

HELMAN NAMED NEC PLAYER OF THE WEEK: Zach Helman was named the Northeast Conference's Player of the Week on March 21. Helman hit .632 in helping the Mount to a 4-2 record last week. The senior third baseman was 8-for-12 (.667) at the plate in the Mount's four-game series at Wagner. He was 4-for-4 in the Mount's 11-4 win in the third game against the Seahawks. Helman was 4-for-7 in the Mount's doubleheader sweep of UMES earlier in the week.

PRESEASON PICKS: The Mount was tabbed to finish in sixth place in the annual Northeast Conference Preseason Coaches Poll. Central Connecticut State was picked to finish first, followed by Monmouth, Bryant, Wagner, Sacred Heart and the Mount.

UP NEXT: Mount St. Mary's heads to Central Connecticut State next weekend for a four-game NEC series, beginning with a nine-inning game on Friday, April 8, at 3 pm.