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Baseball Preview: Brown 3/10/2006 What?s On Tap Vanderbilt hosts Brown University in the Commodores final non-conference weekend of the year. The schools will open the three-game series tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m. and will continue on Saturday at 2 p.m., before closing out the set on Sunday at Noon. Tickets are available through the Vanderbilt ticket office at (615) 322-GOLD. Series History vs. Brown: This will be the second meeting all-time; VU won 4-1 in 1927. Polls (CB- Collegiate Baseball) (BA- Baseball America) (NCBWA- Writers Poll) Neither team is ranked this week. The Coaches VU’s Tim Corbin is 112-73 in his fourth season as head coach. Radio/TV Teamline will provide the broadcast (Mike Epley, play-by-play) The phone number to dial is 1-800-846-4700/Passcode: 0668. The game will also be shown via the internet as part of the DoreTV package on . Prices for the 2006 season are as follows: Season viewing pass ($45) H Three-game series ($12) H One game only ($5) Tickets Single game ($5- adults, $3- children 17 and under) and season tickets are available through the Vanderbilt ticket office (615) 322-GOLD. Scouting Brown Brown is 0-3 on the year after getting swept by Florida State in its season opener last weekend in Tallahassee. The Bears were outscored 48-12 in the series. BU went 23-19 last year and finished second in the Ivy League with a 14-6 ledger. Junior infielder/pitcher Bryan Tews went 5-for-8 (.625) against the Seminoles, while infielder Dan Shapiro has the lone Bear homer this season. They enter the weekend with a .268 team batting average with four doubles and 12 runs scored. The pitching staff had its struggles against the Top 10 ranked Seminoles and ended the series with a 15.14 ERA and 16 strikeouts to go along with 25 walks. Brown?s rotation for the weekend are a trio of righthanders: Bryan Tews (0-1, 18.90 ERA) on Friday, Shaun McNamara (0-1, 10.38 ERA) on Saturday and Ethan Silverstein (0-0, 7.71 ERA) on Sunday. Of Note: The Bears added a game this week and will take on Creighton Saturday night at Hawkins Field at 7 p.m. |