March 5, 2009
Game Notes 
Listen Live at WMUC Sports
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
After having both its scheduled mid-week contests canceled, the well-rested University of Maryland baseball team travels to Atlanta this weekend for a three-game weekend series with No. 9 Georgia Tech to open Atlantic Coast Conference play.
The Terrapins swept Quinnipiac last weekend to even their season record at 4-4. The Yellow Jackets are 6-1 this season. Both teams enter the series coming off three straight wins and neither squad played midweek.
The first game of the series is scheduled for 4 p.m. Friday with a great pitching matchup in store. Maryland ace Scott Swinson (1-1, 1.69) will take on reigning Freshman All-American Deck McGuire (2-0, 0.60). McGuire has been nothing short of dominant for the Yellow Jackets, striking out 20 batters and only walking one in two starts.
Ian Schwalenberg (0-1, 4.50) will take the mound in Saturday's 2 p.m. start and will face Zach Von Tersch. The series finale is set for 1 p.m. Sunday, with freshman southpaw Matt Fullerton (2-0, 0.96) opposing Brandon Cumpton.
The Terps won the series with then-No. 21 Georgia Tech a year ago, coming from behind in the late innings to win the first two games of the series before dropping a rain-shortened finale.
Maryland is led offensively by its senior trio of Gerry Spessard, Mike Moss and Dan Benick.
Spessard is 10th in the ACC in batting average at .440 and eight in on-base percentage at .545. Spessard also leads the Terps in total bases and RBIs. Moss, a first-year starter behind the plate, is slugging .750 through the season's first two weeks, the 10th-best mark in the ACC. Moss is batting .400 heading into the weekend. Benick is batting .381 in five outfield starts.
The Yellow Jackets are batting .304 as a team and have slugged 10 home runs in seven games, led by Matt Skole's three. Senior Luke Murton is batting an even .500, the third-best average in the league.
Live audio of all three games will be available at WMUCSports.com, with Joey Whelan and Justin Granit calling all the action.
-TERPS-
