STATESBORO, GA. - Georgia Southern Baseball leaves the Peach State for the first time this week for a pair of games in Charleston against The Ctiadel and the College of Charleston. The Eagles have won four-straight over both the Bulldogs and Cougars entering the 2018 season. Georgia Southern is at The Citadel at 5 p.m. on Tuesday night, and faces the College of Charleston on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
GAME NOTES
Georgia Southern
The Citadel
College of Charleston
WEEKEND SCHEDULE
TUESDAY (2.27.18)
Georgia Southern at The Citadel
5:00 p.m. - Riley Park (Charleston, S.C.)
RADIO - Ga. Southern Sports Network
VIDEO - NONE
LIVE STATS
GS - RHP -
Griffin Davis
CIT - RHP - Alex Bialakis
WEDNESDAY (2.28.18)
Georgia Southern at College of Charleston
4:00 p.m. - Patriots Point Complex (Mount Pleasant, S.C.)
RADIO - Ga. Southern Sports Network
VIDEO - NONE
LIVE STATS
GS - TBA
COFC - TBA
QUICK HITS
- Georgia Southern plays a pair of midweek games in the Holy City against Charleston's current and former member of the Southern Conference. The Eagles have won four straight over both the Bulldogs and Cougars over the last two seasons.
- A six run eighth inning blew open the series finale against Fairfield as the Eagles took an 8-5 win over the Stags. The win gave the Eagles their first sweep since March 11-12, 2016 when the Eagles took all three against Appalachian State. It was the first non-conference sweep since the Eagles took three over Georgia in 2015.
- The 2018 campaign is the fourth since the Eagles left the Southern Conference and a yearly weekend series against the "Low Country Puppies." The Eagles are 50-40 all-time against The Citadel, and have won the last four contests. The Eagles took a 7-3 win last year in Charleston, and a 1-0 victory a day later at the friendly confines.
- One of Georgia Southern's other former SoCon foes, College of Charleston exited the league a year earlier than the Eagles, but the teams have continued to maintain a yearly midweek series. The Eagles have won four-straight over the Cougars and trail 32-34 in the all-time series.
- After not sweeping a series in 2017, Georgia Southern opened 2018 with a sweep in its first home series. The Eagles took all three games over Fairfield, an NCAA Tournament team from 2016 and the defending MAAC Regular Season Champions.
- 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.
- Six has been the magic number over the last five years for Georgia Southern Baseball with a 103-14 record when scoring six or more runs. The Eagles were 30-6 last year with 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.
- Georgia Southern's 2018 roster features more than a score of new student-athletes set to make their debut for the Blue and White in the upcoming contests. Of the 23 newcomers, 16 are freshmen and seven are transfers. Transfers
Tristan Roberts (Presbyterian College) and
Blakely Brown (Georgia) are ineligible for 2018 due to NCAA transfer rules.
COMING UP NEXT
Another former member of the Southern Conference is on the docket this weekend with Elon visiting Statesboro for the return leg of a two season hom-and-home series. The Eagles took two of three last season against the Phoenix in Alamance County. First pitch is set for Friday night at 6:30 p.m.
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