The UCF baseball team will return to Jay Bergman Field on Friday after beating No. 25 Miami this week on the road to take on the Cincinnati Bearcats (8-11) in the start of American Athletic Conference play.
The first pitch for the Knights (10-12) is set at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, 4 p.m. on Saturday and the series wraps up with a 1 p.m. start time on Sunday. Friday night will start off with two pitchers who have played stellar thus far in the season, the Knights will start Eric Skoglund (2-0, 2.19 ERA) Friday against Ryan Atkinson (2-0, 1.93 ERA). Skoglund earned American Athletic Conference pitcher of the week honors after his three-hit shutout victory last week.
This will be the first time the Knights have taken on the Cincinnati Bearcats and will not be the first as both teams are members of the American Athletic Conference.
If the Knights want to beat the Bearcats, they will rely on the hitting of SS Tommy Williams who is leading the American with five home runs on the season.
