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GEORGIA SOUTHERN EAGLES (24-11, 7-5 SoCon)
UNCG SPARTANS (15-16, 2-6 SoCon)
GAME INFORMATION
Date: Friday-Sunday, April 11-13
Time: 6 p.m., 4:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m.
Site: Statesboro, Ga./J.I. Clements Stadium
Rankings: None
Coaches: GSU - Rodney Hennon (606-391-1/17th), UNCG - Link Jarrett (39-48/2nd)
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Last 10: Ga. Southern 5-5; UNCG 5-5
Series Record: Ga. Southern leads 28-25

STORYLINES
Georgia Southern and UNCG meet for the final time as Southern Conference members in the regular season. The two teams will play their final SoCon weekend series at J.I. Clements Stadium this weekend.
Baseball will be the night cap after the Blue-White spring game on Saturday. The game time was pushed back to 4:30 p.m. to accommodate the spring game.
The last time these two teams met GSU was ranked 22nd in the country by Baseball America. The Spartans, though, got the best of the Eagles winning the final two games to take the series in Greensboro, N.C.
In 11-straight series meetings, the home team has either won or split the series.
GSU holds an impressive 17-4 record at home in J.I. Clements Stadium this year and is a win better than a year ago when they went 16-14.
Freshman infielder Garrett Chapman continues to lead the team with a .379 batting average and is seeking to become the first freshman since 1984 to lead the Eagles in batting average.
GSU will face the top hitting team in the SoCon this weekend. The Spartans are hitting a league-best .308 and boast two .400 hitters.

SERIES HISTORY
Georgia Southern leads the all-time series against UNCG with a 28-25 record.
The two teams have split the last four series with the Eagles winning in 2010 and 2012.
The home team has won or split the season series in the last 11 meetings dating back to 2001. GSU won 5-3 in the series opener that year and 9-3 in game two to take their only series in Greensboro.
A year ago the Eagles, ranked 22nd in the country, won the series opener 8-4 behind Sam Howard but dropped the series after losing 5-4 in game two on a walk-off single from Cambric Moye and 10-6 in the series finale.
GSU won the last meeting in Statesboro in 2012 behind Chris Beck 8-3 in game one and 6-5 on Sunday.
The Eagles are 17-7 at home in the series compared to just 7-15 on the road.

ON THE BUMP
Friday, April 11
LHP Sam Howard (4-3, 1.64) vs. RHP Ryan Clark (1-4, 2.26)
Saturday, April 12
RHP Josh Wirsu (6-2, 3.09) vs. RHP Max Povse (4-2, 6.07)
Sunday, April 13
RHP Ryan Frederick (3-0, 3.25) vs. RHP Dylan Thompson (1-3, 4.25)

TEAM SCOPE
Ga. Southern
Georgia Southern lost just their third game this season on Tuesday when hitting a home run. Kody Adams provided the long ball in the 13-2 loss at Georgia Tech and is one of three Eagles with five home runs this season. GSU is 16-3 when hitting a home run this season and 10-0 when hitting two or more in the same game.
All 24 wins this season have come when Georgia Southern has scored three or more runs in a game. The Eagles are 0-8 when scoring less than three runs in a game.
The Eagles have struggled in close ball games, though, and are just 2-5 in one-run games, but are an impressive 14-3 in five or more run games.
Garrett Chapman is seeking to be the first freshman since Jeff Geer in 1984 to lead Georgia Southern in batting average. Chapman is hitting .379 with four doubles and five home runs in 33 games this season.
Chapman also leads the team with 15 multi-hit games and is currently riding an 11-game reached base streak.
The Eagles have gotten stellar pitching from their one-two punch of Sam Howard and Josh Wirsu. Howard has allowed just six earned runs in 24.1 innings, while Wirsu is coming off back-to-back 13 strikeout games.
GSU is hitting .306 on the season and has accumulated a 3.19 ERA.

UNCG
UNCG improved to 15-16 after a 4-2 win over Wake Forest on Tuesday.
The Spartans are 2-6 in Southern Conference play after being swept by Western Carolina last weekend.
UNCG has lost five-straight conference games after winning the final two games of the Furman series on March 22.
The Spartans are the top hitting team in the SoCon with a .308 batting average and boast a pair of .400 hitters in Sean Guite and Eric Kalbfleisch.
Guite leads the team with a .415 average, eight doubles and is slugging .561 on the year.
Led by Ryan Clark, the pitching staff holds a 4.84 ERA and has allowed just nine home runs this season.
Clark leads the staff with a 2.26 ERA in seven starts and has struck out 41 batters to just 12 walks.

WHO'S HOT
Garrett Chapman is 15 for 39 (.385) in 12 conference games this year. Chapman has six hits in his last 17 at-bats and is one of two Eagles hitting over .300 in the last five games.
Josh Wirsu has struck out a combined 26 batters in his last two starts, a combined 16 innings. Wirsu has allowed 10 hits and four runs over his last two outings and is 3-1 in conference play.

CONNECTION JUNCTION
UNCG has one player that hails from the state of Georgia in Nick Jones. Jones played for Etowah High School in Woodstock, Ga. before joining the Spartans.
Georgia Southern has no players from the state of North Carolina. The last Eagle to hail from the Tar Heel State was Steve Cochrane, who hit .326 with six home runs for the 2011 NCAA Regional and SoCon Tournament Champion squad.

UNCG SERIES AT A GLANCE
Overall: 28-25
Home: 17-7
Away: 7-15
Neutral: 4-3
Unknown: 0-0
Hennon vs Opponent: 29-22
Streak: L2
First Meeting: 3/8/92, Statesboro, L (10) 10-7
Last Meeting: 3/30/13, Greensboro, L 10-6
Last 10 Meetings: 4-6

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