Baseball Off to Florida for Road Conference Series Against Florida Atlantic

Friday, April 17

Boca Raton, FL

5:30 p.m.

Tulane University

Florida Atlantic

Baseball Off to Florida for Road Conference Series Against Florida Atlantic

Apr 16, 2026 | Baseball

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TULANE GAME NOTES

NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane baseball team (20-18, 6-6 American), after taking two of three conference games against ECU over the weekend and earning a midweek 8-4 victory against Southeastern Louisiana on Tuesday, gets back into league play and travels to take on Florida Atlantic (17-19, 4-8 American) this weekend in Boca Raton, Florida at FAU Baseball Stadium from April 17-19. Game times are 5:30 p.m. (CT), 3 p.m. (CT) and 11 a.m. (CT).

Media
The games against FAU will be broadcasted on ESPN +. The Voice of the Green Wave, Corey Gloor, will call the action on the Tulane Sports Network from Learfield on WRBH 88.3 FM/ Varsity Network on Friday - Sunday. Airtime for the radio/stream for the games is 15 minutes before first pitch.

Pitching Matchup
The Green Wave will start graduate student Trey Cehajic on Friday. The right-hander went 5-2 last year in his second year as a member of the Green Wave. He sported an ERA of 4.89 with 57 strikeouts in 57 innings worked. He has started the first game of the team's weekend series eight times this season and has nine total weekend starts on the campaign coming into the weekend. Overall, he has a 2-3 record, a 7.75 ERA in 38.0 innings thrown. Cehajic has struck out 36 while allowing 20 walks and 51 hits this season.
Florida Atlantic will counter with sophomore James Litman. Litman is 5-3 on the year with 4.25 ERA. He has struck out 50 in 48.2 innings worked. This is his 10th start and appearance of the season.

The Green Wave are slated to start graduate student left-handed pitcher Jake Toporek on Saturday. Toporek is 1-2 on the year with a 2.70 ERA with 35 strikeouts in 31.0 innings worked. He is limiting opponents to a .225 batting average. This is his 15th appearance and fifth start of the season including his fourth conference start. He started and threw 5.1 scoreless innings against Wichita State (4/2). The Wagner University transfer went 8-1 last season with a 3.49 ERA.

The Owls have redshirt sophomore lefty Kide Adetuyi on tap for Saturday. Adetuyi is 1-2 on the year with 57 strikeouts in 44.2 innings pitched. He is limited opponents to a .221 batting average against. This is his 12 appearance and ninth start on the year.

Florida Atlantic is set to start freshman right-handed pitcher Garrett Grant on Sunday. Grant is 1-3 on the year with a 5.50 ERA. This is his 10th start of the season. He has 31 strikeouts in 37.2

Tulane's Sunday starter is to be determined depending on the results and relief pitcher usage through the first two games of the series.

Scouting Florida Atlantic
Florida Atlantic won the road conference series over Memphis last weekend to stop a six-game losing streak. They Owls fell by an 8-6 score to Florida Gulf Coast on Tuesday.

Michael Perazza leads the offense with his .339 batting average

John Martinez is the club leader with 27 RBIs and 44 hits.

Ian Collier is the team leader with seven home runs. Of his 26 hits, 15 have gone for extra bases.

Marshall Lipsey is the top speed threat with 15 stolen bases. He is the club leader with 26 runs scored and 10 hit by pitches.

Zach Kilby is the top reliever. He has appeared in 14 games, thrown 36.1 innings and totaled 40 strikeouts.

John McCormack coaches the program. McCormack is in his 18th year with the Owls. He has a record of 594-391-2 with the program.

Series History
Tulane leads the all-time series with Florida Atlantic 6-3. All nine games of the series have come in the last two years. Tulane won two out of three against the Owls on the road in Boca Raton, Fla. during the 2024 regular season and then defeated FAU by scores of 14-2 and 11-1 in the 2024 AAC Baseball Tournament. Florida Atlantic won two of three over Tulane last season in New Orleans. After dropping the first two games by scores of 16-12 and 10-8 in 2025, Tulane won the final game of the series by a 6-4 margin. The Green Wave defeated the Owls by a 6-3 score in the opening game of the American Baseball Conference Championship with Michael Lombardi setting career-highs with seven innings thrown and 11 strikeouts.

Long Streak Over, New Streak Begins
Jason Wachs saw his 60 game on-base streak ended on Friday, April 10, against ECU after going 0-1 and only reaching base on a catcher's interference in the fourth inning. He did drive in a pair of runs though with a ground out and a sacrifice fly. The 60-game streak dated back to the end of last season. Wachs then promptly started a new streak and went 4-for-8 with a walk in the final two games of the series against the Pirates (4/11-12) and reached base twice by hit by pitches in the game against Southeastern Louisiana (4/14).

Who's Hot in the Last Five Games
Jason Wachs sports a .429 batting average with five runs, six hits, three doubles, four RBIs, nine total bases, a 1.000 slugging percentage, three walks, and a .550 on-base percentage.

Tye Wood is batting .316, seven runs scored, two doubles, two RBIs, three walks, and an on-base percentage of .409

James Agabedis has a .300 batting average with three hits and three walks.

Trent Liolios has five hits, three runs, four RBIs, and eight total bases.

Matthias Haas has driven in five runs.

Trends
Dating back to the end of last season, five of the last 11 hits that James Agabedis has are home runs.

Tulane's pitching staff has yet to allow a triple this season in 38 games. The last time the Green Wave surrendered a triple was the second game of the series against Florida Atlantic last season when the lead-off batter hit a three-bagger to start the game (5/2/25). It has been 50 games (the final 12 last year and the first 38 this year) since the last triple was allowed. Those 50 games have accounted for 478 innings since Tulane last surrendered a triple. Tulane has the longest current streak in the nation as the top teams ahead of the program in the category in Auburn (61 games) and Georgia Tech (53 games) both allowed a triple over the weekend.

Jason Wachs has reached base safely in 37 of the team's 38 games this season.

Nate Johnson is hitting .298 with three home runs and 27 RBIs in the games he starts this year.

Kaikea Harrison leads the team with 12 multiple run scored games.

Tulane sports a 16-8 record this year in games that Hugh Pinkney starts behind the plate.

The program is also 7-4 in games that Matthias Haas starts as the designated hitter.

Haas has started at four different positions this season with five games at first, eight games at third, eight games in right field, and 11 games as the designated hitter.

Nate Johnson has started at three different spots on the infield with seven starts at first, 17 at second, and three at third. He also has batted in eight different spots in the starting lineup order (2nd - 9th).

Tye Wood (LF), Kaikea Harrison (SS), and Tanner Chun (CF) are the only three players on the team to start all the team's games at the same position all season long.

Nate Johnson leads the club with 12 two-out RBIs.

Trent Liolios is batting .800 (4-for-5) with the bases loaded.

The Green Wave are 5-1 in games that Jack Frankel starts on the mound.

Nolan Nawrocki, Brett Rowell, James Agabedis, Matthias Haas, and Hugh Pinkney have the team's only successful pinch hits on the year. On the flip side, the team's pitching staff has limited opponents to 3-for-23 (.130) in pinch-hitting opportunities.

After leading the American Conference last season with 131 doubles as team, Tulane is again among the leaders this season and are currently the league leader in two-baggers with 84 in the first 38 games.

The Green Wave lead the conference in sacrifice bunts (28) and are second in walks (209). The program is fourth in stolen bases (58) and third sacrifice flies (20).

Tulane is fifth in hit by pitches (55) and sixth in ERA (4.80). The team is third in double plays (28) and fourth in fielding percentage (.974)

The program's pitching is averaging an impressive 9.0 strikeouts per game to place fourth in the American Conference. Tulane ranked second in the league in strikeouts a year ago with an average of 9.75 per contest.

The program is fourth in the American in shutouts (1) and sixth in strikeout- to-walk ratio (1.90).

The Tulane pitching staff has recorded 13 games with double figure strikeout totals this season.

Of the 23 new players on the roster this season, 19 have already made their Tulane debuts following the first 38 games of the season. The only newbies that have not appeared in a game this season are RHP Max Mazinter, OF Cole Berge, OF/3B Matthew Major, and RHP Owen Geiss.

Individual Conference Leaders
Tanner Chun leads the American Conference in walks (34). He is third in hit by pitches (13).

Jason Wachs leads in doubles (15) and is third in on-base percentage (.480). He is eighth in walks (29).

Kaikea Harrison is second in doubles (12).

Jack Frankel leads in complete games with one.

Sam Larson leads in appearances (21) and is sixth in saves (3)

Jude Abbadessa is third in appearances (19).

J.D. Rodriguez is third in wins (5) and seventh in ERA (3.66).

James Agabedis leads in sacrifice bunts (7).

Trent Liolios is third in sacrifice bunts (5)

Tye Wood is fifth in stolen bases (15), sixth in sacrifice flies (4), and seventh in sacrifice bunts (4).

Tom Vincent is 10th in saves (2).

Trey Cehajic is tied for the lead in games started (9)

Conference-Only Standouts
In conference-only play, Jason Wachs is hitting .372 with 13 runs, 16 hits, six doubles, a triple, two home runs, nine RBIs, 30 total bases, a slugging percentage of .698 and an on-base percentage of 491.

Tye Wood sports a .318 batting average with 12 runs, 14 hits, three doubles, 12 RBIs, and seven stolen bases.

Jake Toporek is 1-0 with a 3.21 ERA along with 16 strikeouts in 14 innings pitched.

Jack Brafa has thrown in five games with eight strikeouts and a save in 7.2 innings pitched.

Notables from SLU Game - 4/14
Tulane defeated Southeastern Louisiana by an 8-4 score.

Tulane improved to 14-6 in home games this year.

The win raised Tulane's record to 5-2 against in-state opponents.

The program finished the year 4-3 against Southland Conference (SLC) opponents. The school's all-time mark is 311-169 against current schools in the SLC.

Tulane is now 4-1 when wearing blue jerseys.

The Green Wave are now 14-7 when scoring in the first inning and 14-6 when scoring first.

Hugh Pinkney raised his record to 16-8 in starts behind the plate.

The multiple RBI performance was the fifth of the season for Kaikea Harrison.

The Green Wave are 83-42 all-time against Southeastern Louisiana

Cehajic and Wachs Honored By the American
Jason Wachs and Trey Cehajic were named to the American Conference's Weekly Honor Roll, the league office announced on April 13
Wachs helped lead the Tulane offense on the week as he hit .545 with four runs scored, three doubles, six hits and nine total bases. He also walked three times, had an on-base percentage of .600, a slugging percentage of .818 while driving in four runs.

Cehajic helped the pitching staff set the tone in the series victory over the Pirates by going 5.1 innings in the opening game on Friday, April 10. He limited the potent ECU attack, who had been averaging nearly eight runs a game and 10 hits a contest, to one run on four hits. He also struck out two in the victory. It was his first victory since Feb. 27 against Eastern Kentucky.

Overall, this is the seventh and eighth time that Tulane baseball has been honored weekly by the conference this season.

Green Wave Chosen For Fourth and Has Two Named Preseason All-Conference
In a vote of the league's coaches, Tulane was picked for fourth and had two players selected as American Preseason All-Conference. The Green Wave were chosen for fourth overall with 57 points.

The team also saw outfielder Jason Wachs and designated hitter Matthias Haas chosen as Preseason American All-Conference.

The 2026 Schedule
The Green Wave hosts 27 games at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium, along with one neutral-site game in Mississippi and 28 road contests in 2026. Tulane will compete across seven states, including matchups in California, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Kansas, Florida, and North Carolina. Notable opponents include seven teams that participated in the 2025 NCAA Tournament: Southern Miss (2 games), UTSA (3), Creighton (3), East Carolina (3), TCU (3), Mississippi State (1), UCLA (1), and LSU (1).

The 2026 Schedule - Part Two
Tulane is playing games against five teams this season that are ranked in the USA Today's Preseason Coaches' Poll in No. 1 LSU, No. 2 UCLA, No. 6 Mississippi State, No. 10 TCU, and No. 20 Southern Miss.

Uncommon Road Start
Tulane's start on the road this season is the first for the program since 2023 and only the 11th time since 1979 the program has not started the season with games in New Orleans (1979, 1980, 1982, 1993, 2002, 2006, 2013, 2015, 2023, and 2026)

A Brotherly Connection
Tulane has a pair of brothers on the 2026 roster in sophomore infielder Nate Johnson and graduate student infielder Jake Johnson. The two are Tulane's first set of brothers on a team since 2017 when twins Paul Gozzo, a catcher, and Sal Gozzo, an infielder, were playing for the Green Wave. The 2016 team also had brothers on the squad in Ross Massey, a left-handed pitcher, and Alex Massey, a right-handed pitcher.

Who is Back?
The Green Wave return 14 players from the 2025 squad that a made a run to the 2025 American Championship Game for the third straight season this season in James Agabedis (infielder), Kaikea Harrison (infielder), Matthias Haas (infielder/outfielder), Tanner Chun (outfielder), Julius Ejike-Charles (left-handed pitcher/outfielder), Jason Wachs (outfielder), Hugh Pinkney (catcher), J.D. Rodriguez (right-handed pitcher), Nate Johnson (infielder), Will Clements (right-handed pitcher), Michael Devenney (right-handed pitcher), Jacob Moore (right-handed pitcher), Blaise Wilcenski (right handed pitcher), and Trey Cehajic (right-handed pitcher)

Inside the Numbers of the Returners
The team's 14 returning players accounted for 52.7 percent of the runs (204/387), 53 percent of the hits (287/541), 55 percent of the doubles (72/131), 58 percent of the triples (7/12), 45 percent of the home runs (23/51), 49 percent of the RBIs (178/360), 52 percent of the total bases (442/849) and 55 percent of the walks (159/287). On the mound, the club returns 48.4 percent of the wins (16/33), 53 percent of the game started (31/58), 43 percent of the innings (212/532) and 34 percent of the strikeouts (308/547).

Newcomers
Tulane added 23 new players to the roster this year. The list includes seven graduate students (Tye Wood, Brett Rowell, Trent Liolios, Jack Johnson, Jake Toporek, Tom Vincent and Aidan Rath), a senior (Nolan Nawrocki), seven juniors (Jude Abbadessa, Sam Larson, Caden Tarango, Jack Brafa, Beau Sampson, Owen Geiss, and Max Maxinter), four sophomores (AJ Groeneveld, Jack Frankel, Johnny Elliott, and LuisPablo Navarro) and four true freshmen (Bryson Ayala, Cole Berge, Evan Burg and Matthew Major).

The 2025 Season Quick Hitters
Tulane went 33-25 last season and had five American All-Conference selections on the year in Michael Lombardi (P – 1st), Connor Rasmussen (2B – 1st), Gavin Schulz (DH – 2nd), Jason Wachs (All-Freshman) and Tanner Chun (All-Freshman). The five selections are tied with the 2024 team for the most for the program since 2016 (seven).
The team also had three chosen for the league's All-Tournament Team in Schulz, Tayler Montiel and Theo Bryant IV plus a pair on the Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA) All-State Team in Lombardi and Rasmussen.

Additionally, the program had three players selected in the 2025 MLB Draft in Lombardi (Kansas City Royals – 2nd round), Montiel (Arizona Diamondbacks – 12th round), and Rasmussen (Kansas City Royals – 15th round).

2025 Fun Stat Facts
Jason Wachs was ninth in the conference in batting average (.335) and on-base percentage (.457). Wachs and Tanner Chun were tied for 10th in the league in triples (2). Matthias Haas ranked second in the conference in doubles (21) and 26th in batting average (.303). Kaikea Harrison was tied for the conference lead in sacrifice bunts (8) and 38th in batting average (.283). Trey Cehajic and Blaise Wilcenski were tied for 10th in the league in wins (5).

Up Next
Next, Tulane stays on the road and heads to Mississippi to take on No. 20 Southern Miss (25-12) on Tuesday, April 21, at 6 p.m.

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