STATESBORO, GA. - After dropping all three games to No. 15 Southern Miss last weekend, Georgia Southern Baseball is back in the Empire State of the South this week for four games, beginning with a Wednesday night trip to Mercer at 6 p.m. The Eagles and Bears have squared-off 153 times in recorded history with the Eagles leading 109-43-1. Wednesday's game can be heard live on the Georgia Southern Sports Network with
Danny Reed and
Colin Lacy on the call.
GAME NOTES
Georgia Southern
Mercer
WEEKEND SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY (3.14.18)
6:00 p.m. - OrthoGeorgia Park (Macon, Ga.)
RADIO - Ga. Southern Sports Network
VIDEO - None
LIVE STATS
GS - RHP -
Cole Whitney (0-1 - 0.71 ERA)
MER - RHP - Sawyer Gipson-Long (2-0, 3.74 ERA)
QUICK HITS
- Georgia Southern is back in the Peach State this week and ventures to the Gnat Line for a Wednesday night game at OrthoGeorgia Park against the Macon Bears. The Eagles are 1-0 in the newly renovated stadium which opened for the 2017 season.
- Georgia Southern dropped the final game of the Southern Miss series by a 8-2 margin to suffer the weekend sweep to the Golden Eagles. The Eagles dropped the opening two games by one run, each, but saw Southern Miss score eight runs over three innings to blow the game open.
- Georgia Southern leads the series with Mercer 109-43-1 in a series that dates back to at least the 1948 season. The Eagles have won four-straight in the series overall, and four-straight in Macon. The Eagles won last season's corresponding fixture 15-7 in Macon as
Jordan Wren drove in eight runs, one off a school record.
- Sophomore
Matt Anderson had himself a day in the second game against Southern Miss. The Eagle backstop went 4-for-4 to post a career-best day at the plate and recorded the first four-hit game for the Eagles since
Logan Baldwin logged four hits in the Sun Belt Tournament against Texas State last season.
- Georgia Southern's win over Holy Cross on March 7 features a special footnote. Three of the Eagles' six pitchers to throw in the game came from Statesboro High School, marking the first time in the Coach Hennon Era that one school produced three players in a single game.
Braxton Johns,
Griffin Davis, and
Austin Kleinlein each pitched for their hometown team as the good guys took a 10-5 win.
- 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.
- 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.
COMING UP NEXT
Following Wednesday's trip to Bibb County, the Eagles will return to Jack Stallings Field at J.I. Clements Stadium for the opening weekend of league play as Louisiana comes to Statesboro. The Eagles have won three-straight over the Ragin' Cajuns, and hold a 6-5 lead in the all-time series.
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