STATESBORO, GA. - After opening the season on the road, Georgia Southern Baseball returns home to face the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets in the 2018 home opener. First pitch between the Eagles (1-2) and Yellow Jackets (1-2) is set for 6 p.m. on Jack Stallings Field at J.I. Clements Stadium. The game is available live on ESPN3 with radio coverage on the Georgia Southern Sports Network.
Single game tickets are available at
GSEagles.com/Tickets, giving fans the opportunity to beat the lines on gameday. Tickets can also be purchased at the J.I. Clements Stadium Box Office, located directly behind home plate at the stadium's main entrance.
GAME NOTES
Georgia Southern
Georgia Tech
TUESDAY (2.20.18)
6:00 p.m. - Jack Stallings Field at J.I. Clements Stadium (Statesboro, Ga.)
RADIO - Ga. Southern Sports Network
VIDEO - ESPN3
LIVE STATS
GS - RHP -
Jacob Parker
GT - LHP - Connor Thomas
QUICK HITS
- The Eagles play at home for the first time in 2018 on Tuesday night against Georgia Tech on ESPN3. Georgia Southern was 21-11 at home last year and 12-5 in non-conference games at home.
- Georgia Southern dropped the final game of the series at Georgia with a walk-off sacrifice fly. The Eagles led 3-2 going into the bottom of the ninth, but a bases loaded walk and a sacrifice fly gave the Bulldogs the Sunday rubber match and the series victory.
- Georgia Southern trails the Yellow Jackets 31-100 in the all-time series including seven-straight losses to the "other" team from Atlanta. The Eagles fell 10-3 to Tech in Statesboro and 12-3 in Atlanta last season.
- Freshman
Noah Searcy completed a rare feat on February 16, 2018. While making his debut with the Eagles, Searcy hit his first collegiate home run with a two-run job that cleared the fence in center field in his first collegiate at bat.
- Redshirt Junior
Matt Geiger joined the Eagles in 2015, pitching well as a freshman. He missed the 2016 season after undergoing surgery. While rehabbing from that surgery, Geiger sustained another injury which kept him out of the lineup for 2017. When he returns to the lineup, he will rejoin the Eagles with more than 1,000 days on the shelf, ranking as one of the longest active injury layoffs in Division I Baseball.
Clay Conway (Delaware) // 4/14/15 to 2/18/18 // 1,041 Days
Matt Geiger (Georgia Southern) // 5/8/15 to Present // 1,020 Days
Alex Daily (Cal State Bakersfield) // 5/15/15 to 2/16/18 // 1,008 Days
Alex McIntosh (Milwaukee) // 5/23/15 to 2/16/18 // 1,000 Days
- Six has been the magic number over the last four years for Georgia Southern Baseball with a 101-14 record when scoring six or more runs. In 2018, the Eagles are 1-1 when scoring six or more.
- Georgia Southern had a banner year in the 2017 MLB draft with five selections to tie the program record for most picks in a single draft season.
Landon Hughes (7th Round - ATL),
Jordan Wren (10th Round - Boston),
Connor Simmons (13th Round - ATL),
Logan Baldwin (21st Round - SF), and
Jacob Condra-Bogan (32nd Round - TOR) made up the draft class, matching the 1996 season with five picks over that season's 40 rounds.
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