May 3, 2005

KINGSTON, R.I. - The University of Rhode Island baseball team looks for its 11th-straight win when the Rams host Holy Cross at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday at Bill Beck Field.

Rhode Island has won 10-straight games and 16 of its last 17 to improve to 24-15 overall and 15-3 in the Atlantic 10. The Rams are coming off a three-game sweep of Saint Joseph's after an 8-4 win Monday in Philadelphia that clinched Rhody's third-straight berth in the Atlantic 10 Tournament.

Tuesday's game is the first of six-straight home games. Rhode Island hosts Quinnipiac on Thursday and then faces Fordham in a three-game Atlantic 10 East Division showdown this weekend. Rhode Island would clinch its third-straight East Division title by taking two of three games from Fordham.

Sophomore Adam Perkins (Hudson, N.H.) will get the start against Holy Cross. Perkins is 7-1 on the season, just one win shy of the single-season record for wins (8) held by former Ram Pete Kehoe and current junior Zack Zuercher (Warwick, R.I.). Perkins has a 2.77 ERA and threw a nine-inning no-hitter against Iona on April 12 that earned him Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week honors.

Sophomore Scott Brown (Portland, Maine) will look to extend his hitting streak to 17 games, which would tie teammate Matt Sullivan (Nashua, N.H.) for the second longest hitting streak in school history. Sullivan hit safely in 17 games earlier this season, but sophomore Ryan Cunningham (Centreville, Va.) did Sullivan one better with an 18-game hitting streak that ended on April 16 against Temple.

Rhode Island leads the Atlantic 10 with a .271 team batting average and has nine players hitting over .300.

Tuesday's game can be followed on Gametracker here at GoRhody.com