May 8, 2009

Bronx, N.Y. - The Fordham baseball team will begin a seven-game home stand by hosting the University of Richmond, tonight, at 7:00 PM, in the first of three games between the Rams and the Spiders at Houlihan Park.

Due to the Atlantic 10 Softball Championships at Bahoshy Field, the video streaming may not begin at the beginning of the game. There will be both audio commentary from 90.7 WFUV announcers along with play-by-play GameTracker coverage.

Fordham's 10-11 Atlantic 10 record puts them in seventh place and one game behind the sixth-place University of Massachusetts while Richmond enters the series with a 9-12 Atlantic 10 record that places them in ninth place in the conference.

On the hill for the Rams' will be J.P. Mack with a 5-2 record and a 4.14 ERA. In his last start, Mack went the distance against the University of Rhode Island, giving up only four runs in his third complete game of the year. He will square off against Richmond's Stephen Owens with a 4.50 ERA and has won his last two starts.