VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton baseball (20-8) begins a non-conference weekend series with Central Connecticut State (21-16) on Saturday. The teams will play a doubleheader beginning at noon on Saturday (9- then 7-inning game) and finish up the series with a nine-game finale at 1 p.m. on Sunday.

Binghamton is coming off a 10-2 loss to Cornell on Wednesday. That loss snapped the team's seven-game win streak. The team was without four regular starters for that game and two starting middle infielders (two of the team's top three hitters) remain injured.

This is the "off" weekend for BU in conference play. Binghamton sits in first place in the America East standings with a 9-2 mark, 2.5 games ahead of second-place UMBC. There are nine conference games remaining.

Freshman second baseman Justin Drpich leads the team with a .396 average and is second with 16 RBI - in just 12 starts. Sophomore third baseman Justin Yurchak is hitting .320. Senior first baseman Brendan Skidmore leads the team with 20 RBI.

Sophomore Nick Gallagher (5-1, 1.58 ERA) will start Game 1 and junior Nick Wegmann (3-3, 2.47) takes the ball for Game 2 on Saturday. Junior Jacob Wloczewski (3-1, 3.06) will pitch Sunday's finale. 

The Blue Devils are on a 12-6 stretch over the last month — a mark that includes a twinbill split with Binghamton four weeks ago. CCSU sits in second place in the Northeast Conference by percentage points with a 12-5 mark, behind only Bryant (10-4) in the seven-team league. CCSU split a four-game set with Bryant last weekend, dropping the first two games before winning the final two.

The team is hitting .252 and has a pitching ERA of 4.22. Junior outfielder Mitch Guilmette leads the team with a .333 average. Junior infielder Dean Lockery is hitting .328 with 11 doubles and 21 RBI. Junior infielder Ryan Costello has five home runs and leads the team with 31 RBI. The weekend starters have been senior lefty Brendan Smith (3-5, 3.67 ERA), sophomore right-hander Mike Appel (1-3, 4.57) and freshman left-hander Ron Grant (2-2, 6.10).

Back on April 2, the teams split a doubleheader in New Britain. Binghamton won the opener 3-0 before CCSU took the nightcap 2-1. The Blue Devils lead the all-time series 5-4.