Baseball | 3/12/2015 1:51:00 PM
Game Notes
STATESBORO, Ga. – The Georgia Southern baseball team visits Troy this weekend for their first-ever Sun Belt Conference road series.
The first pitch in the three-game set begins Friday at 7 p.m. The series continues with another 7 p.m. start on Saturday and a 2 p.m. first pitch on Sunday. All times are eastern and subject to change.
The Eagles (11-7) continued their mid-week woes and fell to Georgia Tech and North Florida. Georgia Southern is looking to stay hot on the weekend and is 11-1 in weekend series. The Eagles opened Sun Belt play a week ago at home and swept Appalachian State.
The Georgia Southern pitching staff holds a 2.97 ERA in weekend series play and held the Mountaineers to just 10 runs over three games last weekend.
Connor Simmons tossed 6.1 scoreless frames and struck out a career-high eight batters in his start on Sunday, while
Ryan Frederick tossed a combined 3.2 scoreless innings over two appearances.
Head Coach
Rodney Hennon will send the same rotation for a third-straight weekend. The trio of redshirt-sophomore lefthander
Evan Challenger, senior
Tripp Sheppard and freshman lefthander
Connor Simmons have helped the Eagles to a 6-0 record over the last two weekends.
Sheppard (1-1) picked up his first career victory as a starter last weekend and will make his third-straight Saturday start. The senior allowed one run over 5.1 innings and struck out a career-high five batters in the 3-1 victory over Appalachian State.
As a team the Eagles are hitting .256.
Kody Adams leads the team with a .333 batting average, while
Chase Griffin is second on the squad with a .319 average. Griffin has hit three doubles, a home run and driven in 10 runs this season.
The Trojans (7-10) opened the season with three wins against Northwestern State and won four-straight, including wins against North Florida and Samford, before dropping a series to Southern Miss. Troy comes into the weekend seeking its first win since Feb. 27 and has lost seven-straight games.
Head Coach Bobby Pierce will start righthander Corey Childress on Friday, junior college transfer Grant Bennett on Saturday and has not announced a starter for Sunday's game.
As a team Troy is hitting .256 and ranks third in the league in home runs with 11. Trevin Hall leads the squad with a .431 batting average and six doubles. David Hall ranks second on the team with a .308 average and leads the squad with 15 RBI.
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