Baseball Hosts Two Mid-Week Games
4/15/2013 9:04:52 PM | Baseball
GAME INFORMATION
Date: Tues.-Wed., April 16-17
Time: 6 p.m., 6 p.m.
Site: Statesboro,Ga./J.I. Clements Stadium (3,000)
TV/Video Stream: gseagles.com/watch-listen
Play-by-Play: Ryan Chambers; Analyst: Kris Draper
Baseball Radio Network: gseagles.com/watch-listen
103.7 FM - WBMX - Metter/Statesboro
900 AM - WJLG - Savannah
1370 AM - WLOP - Jesup
Play-by-Play: Ryan Chambers; Analyst: Kris Draper
Live Stats: gseagles.com
Twitter Updates: @GSAthletics/@GSScores
Series: Ga. Southern leads MER 115-44-2, KSU 9-5
Statesboro: Ga. Southern leads 27-7, 4-2
Away: Ga. Southern leads 19-12-1, 5-3
Neutral Site: Series tied 2-2, No Meetings
Unknown: Ga. Southern leads 42-13-1, N/A
First Meeting: 4/8/48 -W; 2/20/07 - L, 7-5
Last Meeting: 3/12/13 - W,10-8; 3/6/13 - L, 5-0
Last Season Series Win: 2000, None
Last Season Series Loss: 1999, None
Streak: 4 wins, 1 loss
STORY LINES
Georgia Southern (21-14, 10-8 SoCon) will host a pair of mid-week games against Mercer (29-10, 10-5 A-Sun) and Kennesaw State (19-18, 8-7 A-Sun) at J.I. Clements Stadium this week.
It will be Scout Night at the ballpark on Tuesday and Baseball Bingo night on Wednesday. Scouts and their families can receive a $4 ticket to the Mercer game and fans will be able to win a prize on Wednesday by playing baseball bingo.
All three games can be heard on the Georgia Southern Radio Network and will be streamed online for free by visiting gseagles.com/watch-listen.
The Eagles will send Josh Stevenson to the mound Tuesday. Stevenson is 1-2 with a 5.67 ERA in six starts this season. In his last outing at Charleston Southern, he allowed one run over six innings to earn the win in a 3-2 victory. Stevenson struck out six and allowed just five hits.
Freshmen Michael McClellan and Clint Taylor made their debuts over the weekend against The Citadel. McClellan started on Sunday and went one-for-three, while Taylor made two appearances out of the bullpen and allowed one run over three innings.
Robbie Dodds has nine hits over his last 21 at bats and is hitting .429 in his last five games.
The trio of T.D. Davis, Chase Griffin and Ben Morgan have combined for 16 of the team’s 21 home runs.
Georgia Southern has yet to hit a home run in the month of April. The Eagles hit 14 in March.
Chase Griffin has started all 35 games behind the plate for the Eagles this season. In his two-year career, Griffin has started 82 times as the team’s catcher. He and first baseman T.D. Davis are the only two Eagles to start every game this season at the same position.
WATCH & LISTEN
All Georgia Southern home games will be video streamed on gseagles.com/watch-listen for free. The stream will carry the Georgia Southern Radio Network’s feed with long-time play-by-play voice Ryan Chambers and color commentator Kris Draper on the call.
The Radio Network will also air the entire baseball schedule on 103.7 FM in Metter/Statesboro, 900 AM in Savannah and 1370 AM in Jesup.
WEEKEND RECAP
Georgia Southern was swept in a three-game series by The Citadel.
The Eagles went scoreless in the first two games before scoring a pair of runs on Sunday.
Justin Hess tossed nine scoreless innings on Saturday but left with a no decision after GSU fell 1-0 to the Bulldogs in extra innings.
Freshmen Michael McClellan and Clint Taylor made their debuts over the weekend against The Citadel. McClellan started on Sunday and went one-for-three, while Taylor made two appearances out of the bullpen and allowed one run over three innings.
QUICK HITS
Georgia Southern is off to its best start in league play since 2005. The Eagles opened Southern Conference play that season with nine-straight wins but finished 18-11 after winning just 9 of their last 20 league contests.
The Eagles sit seven games above .500 and have only fallen below .500 twice this season.
Georgia Southern is 14-0 this season when recording as many hits or more than their opponent. The Eagles are 10-0 when out-hitting the opponent.
Chase Griffin is the only Eagle with 10 or more multi-hit games and 10 or more multi-RBI games. Griffin has 12 multi-hit games and 10 multi-RBI games.
Stryker Brown is five for 11 (.455) with a double and four RBIs off the bench this season.
Georgia Southern is 16-2 when scoring six or more runs and is 16-4 when allowing five runs or less.
The Eagles are 18-1 when leading after the fourth inning and 16-0 when leading after six frames.
GSU is 16-3 when Arthur Owens is the starting designated hitter. Owens is hitting .333 with five doubles and 10 RBIs in 20 games as the team’s designated hitter.
Georgia Southern ranks 36th in total attendance (29,852) and ranks 42nd in average attendance (1,492) in the nation.
In his 16th season at the helm of a Southern Conference program, head coach Rodney Hennon is the second winningest active coach in the SoCon.
MERCER SERIES HISTORY
Georgia Southern holds a 115-44-2 edge in the 163 game all-time series.
The series opened in 1948 with an Eagle win on April 8.
Georgia Southern holds a 27-7 mark in the series in Statesboro.
Head Coach Rodney Hennon is 14-6 all-time against Mercer.
GSU snapped a three-game Mercer winning streak in the series earlier this year.
KENNESAW STATE SERIES HISTORY
Georgia Southern holds a 9-5 advantage in the all-time series against Kennesaw State.
The Eagles are 4-2 all time against the Owls in Statesboro.
GSU had won seven-straight games against Kennesaw State before losing 5-0 in Kennesaw earlier this year.
The two teams met for the first time on Feb. 20, 2007 in Kennesaw, Ga. a year after Kennesaw
State began playing at the Division I level.
Shawn Payne hit Georgia Southern’s last cycle on April 27, 2011 at Stiwell Stadium. After striking out and walking in his first two at-bats, Payne homered in the fourth inning, tripled in the sixth, singled in the seventh and doubled in the ninth inning for the program’s first cycle since 2008.
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