Wildcats Open Home Slate Against William & Mary

MANHATTAN, Kan. – After 11 games away from home to open the 2025 season, K-State baseball will begin its home slate with a three-game series against William and Mary starting on Friday at 3 p.m. at Tointon Family Stadium. The second game of the series is set for Saturday at 4 p.m. with the series finale on Sunday at 11 a.m.

The Wildcats (6-5) will send senior Jacob Frost to the mound for the series opener for the third straight weekend, while lefty Michael Quevedo (2-0) will get the nod on Saturday. Lincoln Sheffield (2-1) is scheduled to start Sunday's series finale.

Maximus Martin, who went 6-for-12 with a 1.404 OPS last weekend, was voted the Big 12 Player of the Week, the conference office announced Monday afternoon. The junior transfer from Georgia State is the second Wildcat to garner a weekly award, joining Sheffield, who picked up Co-Newcomer of the Week honors last week.

The entire series will broadcast on ESPN+ and the ESPN app with Matt Walters and former K-State head baseball coach Mike Clark calling all the action. Coverage is also available on News Radio KMAN (93.3 FM, 1350 AM) with streaming audio at K-StateSports.com/watch.

Season and single-game tickets are now available and can be purchased online at KStateSports.com, or by calling 1-800-221-CATS (2287), or stopping by the K-State Athletics Ticket Office in Bramlage Coliseum.

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GAME #12
K-STATE (6-5, 0-0 Big 12) vs. WILLIAM & MARY (4-8, 0-0 CAA)
Friday, March 7 // 3 PM CT // Tointon Family Stadium
Projected Starters: LHP Jacob Frost (0-0) v. RHP Carter Lovasz (1-0)
Watch: ESPN+ // Matt Walters, Mike Clark
Radio: KMAN // Wade Gerstner, Trevor Hurley
Listen Online: kstatesports.com/watch
Live Stats // Tickets

GAME #13
K-STATE (6-5, 0-0 Big 12) vs. WILLIAM & MARY (4-8, 0-0 CAA)
Saturday, March 8 // 4 PM CT // Tointon Family Stadium
Projected Starters: LHP Michael Quevedo (2-0) vs. RHP Reed Interdonato (0-1)
Watch: ESPN+ // Matt Walters, Mike Clark
Radio: KMAN Online // Wade Gerstner, Jared Goedert
Listen Online: kstatesports.com/watch
Live Stats // Tickets

GAME #14
K-STATE (6-5, 0-0 Big 12) vs. WILLIAM & MARY (4-8, 0-0 CAA)
Sunday, March 9 // 11 AM CT // Tointon Family Stadium
Projected Starters: LHP Lincoln Sheffield (2-1) vs. LHP Ryan Feczko (0-0)
Watch: ESPN+ // Matt Walters, Mike Clark
Radio: KMAN // Wade Gerstner, Jared Goedert
Listen Online: kstatesports.com/watch
Live Stats // Tickets

THE MATCHUP
After 11 games away from home to open the 2025 season, K-State baseball will begin its home slate with a three-game series against William and Mary starting on Friday at 3 p.m. at Tointon Family Stadium ... The second game of the series is set for Saturday at 4 p.m. with the series finale on Sunday at 11 a.m. … The Wildcats (6-5) will send senior Jacob Frost to the mound for the series opener for the third straight weekend, while lefty Michael Quevedo (2-0) will get the nod on Saturday. Lincoln Sheffield (2-1) is scheduled to start Sunday's series finale.

A LOOK AT K-STATE
The Wildcats are coming off a 2-1 weekend at the Frisco Classic, ending an 11-game road trip to start off the year 6-5 … At the Frisco Classic, K-State outscored opponents 28-17 and out-hit opponents 33-25 … The pitching staff boasted a tournament-low 4.82 ERA against opponents combined 7.39, with 31 strikeouts and 11 walks … Maximus Martin was voted the Big 12 Player of the Week after finishing the weekend 6-for-12 (.500) with an impressive 1.404 OPS on his way to earning Frisco Classic All-Tournament honors alongside catcher Bear Madliak … K-State has recorded multi-home run games in four of its last five outings, all with back-to-back performances … The Cats sent out three homers for the second consecutive game while Sunday's contest was the third straight game with multiple blasts.

SCOUTING WILLIAM & MARY
William and Mary enters the weekend series with a 4-8 overall record under first-year head coach Rob McCoy, after expanding its losing streak to five with a loss to then-No. 9 Virginia on Tuesday … the Tribe ended their 2024 campaign 32-26 overall … McCoy spent the past 16 seasons as the head coach at Niagara, finishing as the program's all-time wins leader with 299 … W&M leads the Coastal Athletic Conference with a .315 team batting average, ranking 41^st overall in Division I while the offense is slugging a league-high .439 with an .403 on-base percentage … The offense is led by graduate Derek Holmes (.419/.455/.452) while five additional players are hitting over .300 … Christian Rush has belted a team-high four home runs and leads the Tribe with 16 runs batted in … The pitching staff has a 9.47 ERA with opponents hitting .328 against them … Right-hander Carter Lovasz (1-0, 4.05 ERA), who will get his first start of the season on Friday's, has recorded seven punchouts in each of his three appearances this year .... His 14.18 K/9 ranks 34^th nationally and second in the CAA … Reed Interdonato (0-1, 4.50 ERA) will get Saturday's nod while Ryan Feczko (0-0, 7.84 ERA) will start in Sunday's series finale.

INSIDE THE SERIES
Friday's contest marks the first meeting between the Wildcats and Tribe … K-State is 8-3 all-time against teams from the Coastal Athletic Conference, including a 1-2 record at home.

LAST TIME OUT
In the weekend finale against Nebraska, K-State scored nine runs with 10 hits, one error committed and seven left on base … Sheffield (2-1) picked up the win, surrendering two runs (both earned) on six hits with seven strikeouts in his 6 1/3 innings of work … AJ Evasco, Keegan O'Connor and Martin each homered … Six different players contributed a hit and six different Wildcats had an RBI … English scored a game-high three runs with two walks … K-State hit .300 (6-for-20) with runners on base and .333 (4-for-12) in scoring position, while UNL was 5-for-16 (.313) with runners and 1-for-8 (.125) with men in scoring position.

FRISCO TAKEAWAYS
The Wildcats finished the 2025 Frisco Classic 2-1, outscoring opponents 28-17 and out-hitting opponents 33-25 led by Martin, who went 6-for-12 (.500) with five RBI and five runs scored … The pitching staff boasted a 4.82 ERA against opponents 7.39, with 31 strikeouts and 11 walks … K-State launched eight home runs over the three-day event, with multi-home runs efforts in each game including three on Saturday and Sunday's contests …The Cats have generated multi-home run games in four of its last five games – all including back-to-back efforts … Martin and Bear Madliak earned All-Tournament recognition for their performances in Frisco.

FEBRUARY RECAP
K-State finished the month of February with a 4-5 record ... Martin posted a team-best average of .409 with six runs batted in in February while Dardar led the Wildcats with three home runs ... K-State, which had -7 run differential during the month, while out-hitting opponents with 9.2 hits per game against 8.2... After dropping four of the first five games in February, the finished 3-1 in their last four, while facing five consecutive nationally rank opponents over the last five contests ... K-State hit eight home runs over nine games … The pitching staff boasted a 5.24 ERA with 10.1 strikeouts per nine innings and a 2.07 strikeout-to-walk ratio.

AT THE PLATE
Offensively, the Wildcats lead opponents with a slash line of .277/.395/.442 with 21 doubles and 14 homers … K-State has out-hit opponents in seven of its 11 games this season (6-1), that included a season-high 15 hits with 10 RBI against St. Joseph's (Feb. 16) … K-State has recorded 10+ hits in six games, including in its last four outings … Four players are hitting over .300, led by Maximus Martin (.467) … Martin is 9-for-20 (.450) in his last five games with two doubles and one homer, driving in a team-leading eight RBI and six runs scored … Seth Dardar's .400 average is second on the team, while he has a team-leading nine extra-base hits (6 doubles, 3 home runs), and is followed by AJ Evasco (.389) and Kyan Lodice (.333).

WEEKLY HONORS
K-State baseball's Maximus Martin was voted the Big 12 Player of the Week, the conference office announced Monday afternoon … The transfer from Georgia State is the second Wildcat to garner a weekly award, joining left-hander Lincoln Sheffield, who picked up Co-Newcomer of the Week honors last week … Martin finished the Frisco Classic 6-for-12 (.500) with an impressive 1.404 OPS on his way to earning All-Tournament honors … Drove in a team-leading five RBI at the Frisco Classic and scored a team-best five runs, ranking second overall in the tournament in both categories.

10K
Michael Quevedo helped lead a Wildcat pitching staff that boasted a tournament-best 4.82 ERA and 2.81 strikeout-to-walk ratio ... In his third start of the season, Quevedo punched out a team-season-high 10 batters to pick up the win, that included seven strikeouts looking ... He struck out the side in the third and fifth, while he became the first Wildcat this season to reach double digit strikeouts and seventh player from the Big 12 ... The left-hander picked up the win and finished the day holding SHSU to two earned runs on four hits in his five innings of work – his longest outing of the year.

BIG BAT CATS
K-State has sent out 14 homers this season with eight coming in the last three games … Nine different Wildcats belted a home run this season with four sending out multiple, led by three from Dardar … K-State has turned in five multi-home run games, with three coming in the last three outings … The Cats have generated four back-to-back performances this season … Since 2019, K-State's offense has turned in four of the top five seasons in terms of total home runs in program history, including a single-season record 89 in 2021 … The 89 bombs ranked 11th in the nation and shattered the previous record of 75 set in 1997.

ON THE MOUND
The 2025 K-State pitching staff garners a 3.80 ERA (19 ER, 45 IP), with four players throwing at least 10 innings on the year … Four different players have picked up a win while James Guyette owns the lone save … Opponents are hitting .240 against K-State … K-State pitchers rank fourth in the Big 12 and 43^rd nationally in strikeouts per nine innings at 10.5 … K-State has struck out 113 batters this season and issued 48 walks for a 2.35 strikeout-to-walk ratio … Sheffield has struck out a season-high 21 batters with just one walk for a 21.0 strikeout-to-walk ratio, ranking 12^th overall in the nation.

FROM THE PEN
K-State's bullpen has now thrown seven more innings than its starters (52.0-45.0) ... The bullpen has just three more strikeouts than its starting rotation (58-55), for a 10.1 K/9 rate ... conversely, starters have lower walk rate, averaging 4.4 walks per nine innings while non-starters have a rate of 4.5 ... Opponents are hitting .223 against Wildcat relievers while hitting .257 against starters ... Junior Tazwell Butler, Blake Dean and Guyette each lead the team with five relief outings... Dean and Donte Lewis own the two wins out of the bullpen this season.

A LOOK AT THE NUMBERS
K-State has a season +7 run differential through 11 games averaging 6.7 runs on 9.6 hits ... Cats are undefeated (5-0) when leading after the sixth and 1-2 when tied after six ... K-State is 6-1 when committing one or no errors ... When scoring first, K-State is are 5-2 and 2-2 when scoring in the first inning … K-State has outhit opponents in seven of 11 games this season (6-1) and are 4-0 when limiting opponents to five or less runs … Eight of 1 games have been against right-handed starters (5-3), while K-State is 6-5 overall on the road.

AROUND THE BIG 12
West Virginia (12-0) is the last remaining undefeated teams in the Big 12 Conference … K-State's Maximus Martin (player), Oklahoma State's Harrison Bodendorf (co-pitcher), West Virginia's Griffin Kirn (co-pitcher) and Kansas' Tommy Barth (newcomer) garnered the Big 12 baseball weekly awards for the third week of the season … Oklahoma State is the only Big 12 school represented in the D1Baseball Top 25 poll, ranking No. 25 … TCU and West Virginia are each ranked in the NCBWA Top-25 coming in 21^st and 22^nd.

UP NEXT
K-State will jump back on the road and head to Omaha, Nebraska for midweek contests at Creighton (5-4) and Omaha (3-8) on March 11-12.

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Players Mentioned

Tazwell Butler

Seth Dardar

Blake Dean

AJ Evasco

Jacob Frost

James Guyette

Donte Lewis

Kyan Lodice

Bear Madliak

Maximus Martin

Keegan O'Connor

Michael Quevedo

Lincoln Sheffield

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