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Baseball Travels to Kennesaw State Wednesday

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GEORGIA SOUTHERN EAGLES (27-16, 9-9 SoCon) 
KENNESAW STATE OWLS (25-20, 11-9 A-Sun)
GAME INFORMATION
Date: Wednesday, April 30
Time: 6 p.m.
Site: Kennesaw, Ga./Stillwell Stadium
Rankings: None
Coach: GSU - Rodney Hennon (610-398-1/17th), KSU - Mike Sansing (972-505/26th)
TV/Video Stream: None
Radio: Georgia Southern Radio Network/GS All-Access
Twitter: @GSAthletics, @GSAthletics_BSB
Facebook: facebook.com/GSAthletics
Live Stats: http://www.sidearmstats.com/kennesaw/baseball/
Last 10: Ga. Southern 4-6; A-Sun 10-0
Series Record: Ga. Southern leads 9-7

STORYLINES
  • Georgia Southern looks to build on their 20-2 win on Sunday when they travel to Kennesaw State Wednesday. First pitch in the mid-week game is set for 6 p.m.
  • The Owls have won 11-straight games and have not lost since April 5th at Florida Gulf Coast.
  • The Eagles were shut out 3-0 and tallied just two hits in the last meeting between these two teams in Statesboro on April 2nd.
  • GSU is 19-9 at home but just 9-9 on the road this season.
  • The Eagles are just 5-5 in mid-week contests.
  • Ryan Cleveland went four for four with six RBI, a double, two walks and two home runs in the series finale at Wofford. 
  • GSU scored 20 runs for the third time this season and the first time since March 2nd in a 20-2 win at Wofford. The last time the Eagles scored 20 or more runs three times in a season was 2009.
  • GSU allowed less than five hits for the first time in the last seven games on Sunday. 

SERIES HISTORY
  • Georgia Southern holds a 9-7 advantage in the 16 game all-time series against the Kennesaw State Owls.
  • Kennesaw State has won three-straight games in the series.
  • The last Georgia Southern win came on the road on May 15, 2012 with a 7-3 victory.
  • The Eagles are 5-3 in the series in road games.
  • The series opened in 2007 with a 7-5 Kennesaw State victory. The two teams have met every year since.

ON THE BUMP
Wednesday, April 30
RHP Will Jackson (2-1, 1.33) vs TBA (0-0, 0.00)

TEAM NOTES
  • The Georgia Southern Eagles lead the Southern Conference in overall wins with 28.
  • GSU ranks in the top four in the conference in batting average (.297), slugging pct. (.445) and on-base percentage (.380).
  • The Eagles lead the league in runs scored (329), hits (476), RBI (294), doubles (88), home runs (47) and total bases (713).
  • The GSU pitching staff leads the SoCon with a 3.33 ERA. 
  • They also lead the league in innings pitched (405.0), strikeouts (363), pick offs (11) and fewest runs allowed (201).
  • The Eagles opened the season with a 15-2 record and posted wins over Georgia and Georgia Tech before dropping their first series of the year to Elon. 
  • GSU split a pair of mid-week games with #13 Clemson and won a SoCon series over Appalachian State the following week.
  • The Eagles have gone 9-12 since and are 1-4 in five SoCon series. Their lone series win came in a sweep of The Citadel.
  • J.I. Clements Stadium crowds rank among the best in the nation this season. A total of 33,492 fans have attended games at GSU this season, which ranks 44th in the NCAA. The average attendance of 1,240 fans ranks 52nd in the nation.

INDIVIDUAL NOTES
  • Garrett Chapman is seeking to become the first freshman since 1984 to lead the team in batting average. Chapman currently is hitting a team-best .353.
  • Chapman leads the team with 17 multi-hit games. Chapman has 12 two-hit games, four three-hit games and one four-hit game.
  • Aaron Mizell leads the team with 11 home runs and is third on the squad with a .314 batting average.
  • Mizell has a hit in eight of his last 10 starts.
  • Stryker Brown has a hit in six-straight games and has reached base in 11-straight contests.
  • Brown leads the team in multi-RBI games with 11 and has hit a career-best seven home runs this season.
  • Brown has never hit better than .257 in a full season but is second on the team with a .335 average in 2014.
  • Chase Griffin has a career-high 12 doubles this season.
  • Matt McCall ranks seventh in career saves and has a career-high seven saves this season.
  • Ben Morgan needs just three more stolen bases to crack the career top-10 list.
  • Jason Richman needs just two more appearances to crack the season top-10 list.

CONNECTION JUNCTION
  • Three Cartersville High School products will meet in Wednesday's game. Georgia Southern's Sam Howard will face his former teammates in Kendall Hawkins and Colin Bennett, who now play for Kennesaw State. 
  • Eagle catcher Chase Griffin will also reunite with his former high school teammate at Lee County, Justin McCalvin, on Wednesday.

KSU SERIES AT A GLANCE
Overall: 9-7
Home: 4-4
Away: 5-3
Neutral: 0-0
Unknown: 0-0
Hennon vs Opponent: 9-7
Streak: L3
First Meeting: 2/20/07, Kennesaw, L 7-5
Last Meeting: 4/2/14, Statesboro, L 3-0
Last 10 Meetings: 7-3

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