Postgame Notes: Xavier 5, Michigan 3
3/4/2012 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 4, 2012
• Sophomore RF Michael O'Neill extended his hitting streak to a team season-best 10 games with a fourth-inning single. O'Neill stole second and scored to tie the score 1-1. He has nine stolen bases.
• O'Neill, who is hitting .480 (24-for-50), was 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored. He has 10 multi-hit games this season.
• O'Neill has hits in 55 of his 66 games as a Wolverine with 26 multi-hit games, 39 stolen bases, 16 doubles and seven homers in his U-M career.
• O'Neill leads the team in hits (24), doubles (8), homers (5), runs batted in (16) and average (.480). He shares the lead of nine stolen bases with CF Patrick Biondi.
• Sophomore 1B Brett Winger, who is hitting .357 (15-for-42), was 2-for-4 with a pair of singles for his fourth multi-hit game of the season. He has eight career multi-hit games. Winger extended his hit streak to six games with his second-inning single.
• Senior catcher/DH Coley Crank, who is hitting .243 (9-for-37), was 2-for-4 with two RBI. Crank has 11 RBI this season and 119 in his U-M career.
• Junior co-captain CF/2B Patrick Biondi, who is hitting .256 (11-for-43), was 1-for-4 with a double on Sunday. Biondi is the lone Wolverine to have reached base in all 12 games this season and he shares the team lead with nine stolen bases.
• Freshman 2B Eric Jacobson, son of former Wolverine All-American 2B Jeff Jacobson (1980-83), made his first career start. Jacobson, who is hitting .167 1-for-6, became Michigan's fifth true freshman to earn his first career hit in 2012 -- a third-inning single.
