Richmond, Va.— The Toledo baseball team will participate in a tournament hosted by the University of Richmond this weekend, with games scheduled against UR as well as Bryant and Quinnipiac.
 
The Rockets will face the Spiders on Saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. That contest is sandwiched between two 10:00 a.m. games, with UT facing Quinnipiac on Friday morning and Bryant on Sunday morning.

Links for live stats can be found below and, as always, follow along on Twitter at @ToledoBaseball for any and all updates.
 
This will be the final non-conference weekend of the season for the Rockets, who begin Mid-American Conference play next weekend with a three-game series at Bowling Green.

Probable Starters
Friday:  Live Stats | RHP Tyler Poulin vs. LHP Michael Jacob
Saturday:  Live Stats | RHP Lowell Schipper  vs. RHP Doug Smith
Sunday: Live Stats | LHP Vito Morgese vs. RHP Layne Schnitz-Paxton

Last Time Out
Toledo dropped its midweek contest at Wright State on Wednesday, 10-5. The Rockets trailed the whole game and the bulk of its offensive production came in the middle innings. Four UT players tallied two hits: seniors Brad Boss and Riley Campbell and sophomores Chris Meyers and John Servello. Meyers also drove in two runs to lead the team. Senior Axel Bueter was the starting pitcher, and Toledo also got pitching contributions from freshman Jamie Myers, sophomore Kyle Bischoff, junior Austin Calopietro, and senior Jake Stout.
 
Rocket Notes

• Brad Boss has reached base in all 15 games this season. He leads the Rockets with eight multi-hit games.
• Toledo faced off against Richmond in 2017, going 1-1 against the Spiders. Senior Michael Jacob notched his first career save in the 6-4 win at UR that season.
• Barring any weather adjustments, this will be the first weekend that the Rockets have not played a doubleheader.
• John Servello has done a great job setting the table at the top of the UT lineup. In the last six games, he is hitting .360 and has scored nine runs, getting on base at a .448 clip.

Scouting the Competition
Quinnipiac is 4-8 entering Friday's game, having lost four of its last five games, though the Bobcats did record a win over No. 20 Wake Forest earlier in the season. They are hitting .285 as a team and the pitching staff owns an ERA of 6.86. Kevin Huscher is hitting .333 with a team-best 10 RBIs, while Evan Vulgamore is slugging a team-high .553. Tyler Poulin, scheduled to start against UT, has a 5.64 ERA and 27 strikeouts in 22.1 innings.

Richmond is 8-4, but has lost three games in a row. The Spiders are hitting .290 and are led offensively by Jordan Schulefand (.375, 11 R) and Tyler Plantier (.354, 13 RBIs, .542 SLG%). UR is slugging .416 as a team and is outscoring its opponents 85-57. The Spiders' team ERA is 3.91, and Saturday's starter Lowell Schipper sports a 2.79 mark.

Bryant has won three games in a row and sports an 8-6 record coming into the weekend. James Ciliento is the Bulldogs' offensive catalyst, having tallied 20 runs scored, seven stolen bases, and 16 BB/HBP. Gaby Cruz is hitting a team-best .385. Bryant is throwing Vito Morgese against the Rockets on Sunday, and he owns a 5.00 ERA in 18.0 innings, striking out seven and walking 12 so far.