For the second consecutive season, Kennesaw State kicks off ASUN Conference play with North Florida on tap for a three-game league series. The two teams met last year at Stillwell Stadium and now will partake a weekend clash at Harmon Stadium in Jacksonville, Fla. The Owls and Ospreys are scheduled to begin the series with a 6 p.m. contest on Friday, followed by a 2 p.m. game on Saturday, and the series finale is scheduled for 1 p.m. Sunday. 
 

ON DECK

1. Kennesaw State enters the weekend with an overall record of 11-14 through 25 non-conference games, outscoring opponents 175-161 in those games. The Owls are coming off their lone midweek game with a 10-7 win at Georgia State in Atlanta.
2. The Owls open ASUN Conference play as the reigning 2016 Regular-Season ASUN Champions, going 17-4 a season ago where the Black and Gold won every series for the first time in program history, and the first since FGCU accomplished the feat in 2010. 
3. Head Coach Mike Sansing is the reigning ASUN Coach of the Year, winning his first honors since Kennesaw State joined the ASUN in 2006. He is the second-youngest coach on the 1,000-win list, and is one of 13 active coaches with 1,000 victories who have coaches at least 10 seasons of D-I baseball. 
4. The skipper won his 950th game Thursday (March 16) at Western Carolina, taking a 12-3 non-conference tilt at Hennon Stadium. The win also snapped a three-game losing skid in Cullowhee, N.C. 
5. The Owls return 26 members from 2016, a team that won 17 games in the ASUN and became the first team since 2010 (FGCU) to win each regular-season conference series. 
6. Kennesaw State has been solid on the road this season, entering the weekend with a 4-3 overall record in seven games. The Owls have outscored opponents 57-37 on the road, out-hitting 77-63, and have slugged .465% and totaled an on-base percentage of .408. 
7. Taylor Allum continues his hot bat, leading KSU with a .366 batting average. Allum leads the ASUN in batting average, home runs (10) and RBI (27), while slugging a team-high .756. 
8. Grant Williams has also been hot with the bat in his hands over the past several weeks, and enters the weekend on a 10-game hitting streak. The junior second baseman is hitting .459 over the stretch and has logged six multi-hit games. 
9. Griffin Helms, a junior catcher, is also riding an eight-game hitting streak into the weekend, batting .433 over the stretch. Helms has tallied three multi-RBI games during the eight games, totaling 10 runs driven in on 13 hits, including four doubles, one triple and one HR. 

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