The Seton Hall Pirates will host the Butler Bulldogs this weekend at Mike Sheppard Stadium at Owen Carroll Field. All three games will stream on FloCollege.com with the final game getting picked up by the BIG EAST Digital Network.
 
Weekend Schedule
Friday, April 25 – 4 p.m.
Saturday, April 26 – 4 p.m.
Sunday, April 27 – 12 p.m.
 
Scouting Seton Hall
The Pirates are 15-26 overall and 2-7 in BIG EAST action. Each conference win came against Creighton with SHU winning game one 8-6 and then the final game 7-6. Seton Hall was swept by St. John's opening weekend of BIG EAST play and they were most recently swept at UConn.
 
Aiden Robbins has the best bat in the lineup with his .417 average. Robbins has 14 doubles, five triples and four home runs for 101 total bases. The RBI and home run leader is Kevin Milewski and AJ Soldra gives SHU three players batting over .300.
 
On the mound, BU is likely to run into Ryan Reich and Cole Hansen. Reich has 40 strikeouts in 41 innings. He is 1-6 on the hill with a 4.61 ERA. Hansen has tossed a team-high 44 innings and had 30 strikeouts. His ERA rests at 5.93.
 
Last Season vs. Seton Hall
The Pirates went 2-1 against Butler last year at Bulldog Park. SHU took game one 7-3 and won the series with a 13-1 win on Saturday. Butler avoided the sweep with a 3-2 win on Sunday. Jack Moroknek doubled and homered to help BU win the game.
 
Bulldogs in South Orange
Butler will send their baseball and softball team to South Orange, N.J. this weekend. The softball team will finish conference play with their trip to play the Pirates, but the Bulldogs still have upcoming series matchups vs. Creighton, UConn and St. John's.
 
BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll Selections
In a 2-2 week, Danny Barbero recorded seven hits, scored six runs and walked four times. Five of his seven hits went for extra bases with the BU slugger coming up with three doubles and two homers. He slugged 1.067 and held a .579 on-base percentage.
 
Nate Rosser made two appearances at Georgetown, ending the weekend with four strikeouts over four innings. He limited the Hoyas to just two hits over the four innings and was credited with the win in Sunday's clinching victory for the weekend series.
 
Best in the BIG EAST
Butler leads the conference in batting average (.293), hits (388), home runs (52), sacrifice flies (27), and slugging percentage (.486).
 
Moroknek Heading into May
Jack Moroknek ranks ninth in the nation in total bases (123), 14th in slugging percentage (.783), and 19th in home runs (15).
 
Bulldog Bits
- Jack Moroknek and Jack Bello rank second and fourth in the league in batting average
- Seton Hall's Aiden Robbins is the league leader at .417
- Robbins leads the league in hits with 65, Moroknek is second at 63, Bello is third at 59
- Bello's 14 doubles are the second-highest total in the conference
- Bello has six RBI's over his last seven games
- Moroknek is second in the BIG EAST in runs scored (47) and RBIs (47)
- Moroknek and Bello each have 21 multi-hit games
- AJ Solomon ranks fifth in the BIG EAST in walks (30)
- Solomon is second in the league in on-base percentage (.479)
- Solomon and Moroknek have reached base safely in nine-straight games
- Moroknek is batting .513 with runners in scoring position
- Ryan Drumm is on a four-game hitting streak
- Drumm has seven hits, six RBIs and three doubles over his last four games
- Six of Butler's wins this year came with Marcus Goodpaster getting the start
- Goodpaster is 1-0 vs. conference foes with a 5.21 ERA
- Goodpaster has gone five, eight and six innings in BIG EAST matchups
- He's the only Bulldog to throw over 10 innings in conference action
- Danny Barbero is batting .348 in BIG EAST play
- Last week, Tate Foxson pinch ran, had a two-RBI hit, and got a win on the mound
- Andrew Hendrickx has struck out four batters in two of his three starts vs. conference opponents
- Moroknek and Tommy Townsend hit two home runs each at Georgetown
- Butler won two BIG EAST weekend matchups in 2023
- BU hasn't won a series against a conference opponent in back-to-back weekends since 2018
 
BIG EAST Standings
Creighton 6-3, 25-12
UConn 8-4, 23-17
Xavier 8-4, 24-19
St. John's 6-3, 20-17
Villanova 4-5, 20-17
Butler 3-6, 14-26
Seton Hall 2-7, 15-26
Georgetown 2-7, 13-27
 
Upcoming BIG EAST Matchups
Georgetown at Xavier
UConn at St. John's
Butler at Seton Hall
Villanova at Creighton
 
Up Next
The Bulldogs will play at Northwestern on Tuesday. Action on B1G+ will get started at 4:30 p.m. Eastern, 3:30 p.m. Central.