STATESBORO, GA. - Fresh off a three game sweep over rival Appalachian State, Georgia Southern Baseball will travel to face Georgia Tech on Tuesday night in Atlanta. The Eagles put their season-best four-game win streak on the line as they look to snap an eight game skid against the Yellow Jackets. The game can be seen live on ACC Network + on the ESPN app or at WatchESPN.com.
GAME NOTES
Georgia Southern
Georgia Tech
TUESDAY (3.27.18)
6:00 p.m. - Russ Chandler Stadium (Atlanta, Ga.)
RADIO - Ga. Southern Sports Network
VIDEO - ACC Network +
LIVE STATS
GS - RHP -
Zach Cowart (1-0 - 13.50 ERA)
GT - LHP - Brant Hurter (1-1 - 7.82 ERA)
QUICK HITS
- Georgia Southern makes its annual trip to Russ Chandler Stadium on Tuesday night looking to keep a season-best four game win streak alive. The Eagles fell 7-1 to the Yellow Jackets earlier this season in Statesboro.
- The Eagles scored 10 unanswered runs to take an 11-4 win over Appalachian State and complete a three-game sweep over their rivals from the High Country. The Eagle bullpen shut down App State, allowing just one hit and a walk in the final six innings of work.
- Georgia Southern trails 101-31 in the all-time series with Georgia Tech and has dropped the last eight contests to their in-state foe. Georgia Southern's last win on the Flats came on March 19, 2013 when the Eagles took a 5-4 victory over the Ramblin' Wreck.
- Georgia Southern's sweep over Appalachian State was the first sweep in league play since March 11-12, 2016 when the Eagles swept the Mountaineers in Boone. The Eagles won 14 of the 20 series during that span, but none in a clean fashion.
- Redshirt Freshman
Blake Simmons got off to a slow start to his career for the Eagles at the plate, going 0-for-5 in the season's first 19 games. The native of Macon got an opportunity in the series finale against Louisiana with the starting nod. Simmons went 3-for-4 with two RBIs, opening his account at the plate and raising his average to .333.
- For the first 19 games of 2017, the job description for junior
Cole Whitney was middle relief and spot starts during the week. On March 18th, Whitney got the call to enter game three against Louisiana in the third inning and quickly put out the fire. He went on to throw a career-high five and a third innings, striking out six and retiring the final 12 batters to take his first win in an Eagle uniform.
- The March 14th loss to Mercer was a big night for the long ball with three Eagles going deep at OrthoGeorgia Park.
Matt Anderson and
Steven Curry each hit their first collegiate home runs, while
Chandler Corley hit his second with the Eagles this season. The three home run haul was a season-high for the Eagles.
- 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 the longest active injury layoff in Division I Baseball when he returns.
- Six has been the magic number over the last five years for Georgia Southern Baseball with a 108-15 record when scoring six or more runs. The Eagles were 30-6 last year with six or more.
COMING UP NEXT
It is a condensed week for the Eagles who face Coastal Carolina in a Thursday-Friday-Saturday series on Jack Stallings Field at J.I. Clements Stadium. The battle between the top two teams in the East Division starts on ESPN3 on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. The final two games of the series will be shown on True Blue TV, and start on Friday at 6:30 p.m. and Saturday at 1 p.m.
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