Michigan to Host Penn State for Three-Game Conference Series

Promotions

March 30
• Student Org Day -- Student organizations are welcome to attend and check in at the marketing table. The group with the highest percentage of members present will receive a donation.

March 31
• Wolverine Kids Club Day -- Wolverine Kids Club members are invited to attend and can earn bonus points for participating.
• Mini Bat Giveaway -- The first 150 Kids Club members to check in will receive a Michigan Baseball mini bat.
• Post-Game Kids Run The Bases (Presented by Blue Cross Blue Shield) -- Kids in 6th grade and under can run the bases at Ray Fisher Stadium after the game.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- The University of Michigan baseball team (13-11, 5-4 Big Ten) hosts a Big Ten Conference series against Penn State (16-8, 5-4 Big Ten) at the Wilpon Complex, home of Ray Fisher Stadium. The series begins Friday (March 29) at 4 p.m., continues Saturday (March 30) at 2 p.m., and concludes Sunday (March 31) at 1 p.m. All three games will be streamed live on B1G+.

• Michigan is 13-11 overall and 5-4 in the Big Ten. The Wolverines opened conference play with a series win over Illinois before dropping a home series to USC. Last weekend, U-M won its series at Purdue, claiming the opener and finale. Most recently, Michigan fell in a midweek contest to Eastern Michigan.

• Sophomore transfer Colby Turner has started each of the last 10 games and is the team's second-best hitter during that span. He's gone 14-for-35 with seven runs and a team-leading 16 RBIs. Turner has added three home runs, seven extra-base hits and four walks. On the season, he is hitting .291 with 19 RBIs and a .509 slugging percentage.

• Senior Cole Caruso is hitting .273 — 30 points higher than last season — and is tied for the team lead with six home runs, already surpassing last year's total. Against Purdue, he hit a homer in both games of the doubleheader, going 4-for-12 with five runs and six RBIs. He added two hits and two RBIs in the midweek game against Eastern Michigan.

• Junior Mitch Voit is slashing .416/.531/.764 through 24 games and is the only Wolverine to start every game this season. He has reached base in 23 of 24 games and carries a 22-game on-base streak. Voit leads U-M in runs (24), hits (35), doubles (11), RBIs (29), and total bases (66). He is also a perfect 9-for-9 in stolen bases after tallying five total in his first two seasons.

• Graduate transfer Benny Casillas is hitting .392 — nearly 100 points higher than last year — and has reached base in all 22 starts. He has recorded hits in 17 of those games, including a five-hit outing against Eastern Michigan. Casillas has scored 22 runs and drove in three on his first triple of the season at Purdue.

• Senior Will Rogers is contributing on both sides of the ball, batting .256 with six extra-base hits and a 3.91 ERA across 23.0 innings on the mound. He ranks second in the Big Ten and 12th nationally with five saves — four of which were longer than one inning. Rogers' five saves also set a new single-season record for U-M seniors.

• Junior David Lally Jr. leads the team in ERA (2.87) and is second in innings pitched (31.1). His ERA ranks eighth in the Big Ten. Last weekend, Lally Jr. threw a career-high seven innings, allowing two earned runs in a win over Purdue. He has struck out 23 and held opponents to a .218 batting average.

• Junior Kurt Barr struck out a career-high 10 batters in five innings at Purdue, including five of the first six he faced. Barr leads the team with 32 strikeouts in 23.2 innings and holds a 2-2 record. In his career, he owns a 3.88 ERA, an 8-6 record, and 109 strikeouts over 137.0 innings.

• Penn State enters the weekend 16-8 overall and 5-4 in Big Ten play. The Nittany Lions opened the year in Puerto Rico and have picked up conference series wins over Indiana and Northwestern. They dropped their most recent Big Ten series to Michigan State. U-M leads the all-time series 56-52, having won last year's regular-season series. However, Penn State has taken the last two meetings — both in the Big Ten Tournament.