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GEORGIA SOUTHERN BASEBALL GAME NOTES Ga. Southern Athletics Communications | P.O. Box 8085 | Statesboro, Ga., 30460 Contact: AJ Henderson | [email protected] | (o) 912-478-5071 (m) 912-678-5052 GEORGIA SOUTHERN AT A GLANCE GEORGIA SOUTHERN at AUBURN Games 1-2-3 | Road Games 1-2-3 FEBRUARY 15-16-17, 2019 - PLAINSMAN PARK (AUBURN, ALA.) Overall Record ..................................................................0-0 THE SERIES EAGLES RETURN 11 STARTERS Sun Belt Record ................................................................0-0 The Eagles open the 2019 season this weekend with Georgia Southern enters 2019 with a full house of Home Record ....................................................................0-0 the program’s first weekend series against the Au- returners. The Eagles bring back nine of 10 position Road Record ......................................................................0-0 burn Tigers. The series is the first of two for the Eagles starters and two of four starting pitchers. to be played in the Yellowhammer State along with Streak .................................................................................... L1 the May 3-4-5 set against Troy. 30 WINS AGAIN IN 2018 Last 5 Games ........................................................................... Georgia Southern Head Coach Rodney Hennon has Last 10 Games ......................................................................... LAST GAME consistently reached the 30 win mark in his career, Georgia Southern was eliminated from the 2018 Sun crossing the threshold 20 times in his 21 total sea- Day Record .........................................................................0-0 Belt Baseball Tournament on a 12-0 run-rule defeat sons and 18 of 19 years at Georgia Southern. The Night Record .....................................................................0-0 to South Alabama. The Jags scored nine runs in the Eagles have twice reached 42 overall wins in 2001 opening two innings and added three more in the (42-20) and 2009 (42-17). The last time the Eagles VS AUBURN seventh to send the Eagles back to Statesboro. reached 40 wins was the 2014 season when GS went 2018 ......................................................................................0-0 40-23 with the SoCon’s automatic bid into the NCAA Streak .................................................................................... L2 AUBURN HISTORY Tournament and a trip to the Tallahassee Regional. All-Time ...............................................................................0-2 Georgia Southern is 0-2 all-time against the Tigers, The 2018 Eagles finished with a 30-26 overall record. dropping a 2000 postseason game (11-5) and a mid- HEAD COACH RODNEY HENNON week contest in 2009 (8-6). OUR ERK IS YOUR ERK 20th Year at GS .......................................................674-463 To Georgia Southern fans, the name Erk Russell stirs 22nd Year Overall...............................................755-501-1 OPENING WEEKEND VS THE SEC True Blue emotions, but the venerable coach, who This weekend’s series marks the fifth time in the led the Eagles to three FCS National Championships, All-Time vs. Auburn .........................................................0-2 last 10 years that the Eagles have opened the year got his start on the Plains. Russell lettered in four GEORGIA SOUTHERN HISTORY against an SEC team. Georgia Southern took two of sports, hit .154 for the Tigers in 1949 and coached three from Georgia in 2013 and 2014. The Eagles took Auburn for four seasons (1959-62), posting a 59-37-1 All-Time Record (75th season) .............. 2154-1412-11 the middle game of the series with Georgia in 2016 record. He left the Tigers in 1963, working a year at SUN BELT STANDINGS and 2018. Vanderbilt before becoming the Defensive Coordina- tor at Georgia in 1964, where he served until 1980. EAST DIVISION THROWN INTO THE FIRE He came to Statesboro in 1981, restarted a football TEAM TOTAL SBC PCT GB In the four recent series against SEC foes to open the program that lay dormant for 40 years, and turned CCU 43-19 23-7 .767 - year, Georgia Southern has sent out six pitchers to the Eagles into a football powerhouse. When he re- TROY 42-21 19-11 .633 4.0 make their Georgia Southern debut. The Eagles are tired after the 1989 season, Russell owned an 83-22- 3-3 in those games. This weekend Braden Hays and 1 record, and FCS Championships in 1985, 1986 and GS 30-26 18-11 .621 4.5 Daniel Collins will make their debut outings with the 1989. USA 32-25 18-11 .621 4.5 Eagles. GAST 26-29 10-19 .345 12.5 SIX OR MORE PLEASE APP 18-36 9-21 .300 14.0 2013 ......... Jason Richman - FR ........... W (11-2) Six has been the magic number over the last five 2014 ......... Josh Wirsu - JR.......................L (3-11) years for Georgia Southern Baseball with a 118-16 re- WEST DIVISION 2014 ......... Ryan Frederick - SO ........... W (18-4) cord when scoring six or more runs. The Eagles were TEAM TOTAL SBC PCT GB 2016 ......... Chase Cohen - FR ..................W (5-3) 18-3 last year with six or more. UL 34-25 18-12 .589 - 2016 ......... Brian Eichhorn - FR .................L (1-5) 2018 ......... David Johnson - FR ................L (3-4) 2014 .....................31-2 TXST 30-28-1 16-14 .533 2.0 2019 ......... Braden Hays - FR ................................. 2015 .....................16-3 LR 28-28 15-14 .517 2.5 2019 ......... Daniel Collins - SR ............................... 2016 .....................23-2 ASU 20-32 11-19 .367 7.0 2017 .....................30-6 UTA 22-35 11-19 .367 7.0 SHUMAN EARNS PRESEASON NOD 2018 .....................18-3 ULM 23-31 10-20 .333 8.0 After posting an 8-5 record in 2018, Seth Shuman TOTAL ........ 118-16 claimed his second-straight Preseason All-Sun Belt PRONUNCIATIONS Conference nod. Shuman recorded a 4.41 ERA with WE ARE GEORGIA SOUTHERN Christian Avant A-VAN-t (rhymes with van) 95 strikeouts in 98.0 innings of work. With no disrespect to our colleagues in Atlanta, we are Georgia Southern, not Georgia State. We don’t Mason McWhorter mc-WAR-tur FOURTH IN PRESEASON POLL ask for much; heck we think we’re pretty easy to deal Austin Kleinlein KLINE-line After earning the third spot in the 2017 and 2018 Sun with. All we really ask is for media covering the Eagles JP Tighe sounds like TIE Belt East Division Preseason Polls, Georgia Southern to get our name right. You can call us Georgia South- fell to fourth place int he 2019 poll, just behind Troy ern, GS or the Eagles, just please don’t call us Georgia GS SPORTS NETWORK which earned an At-Large bid to the NCAA Tourna- State or GSU! 107.3 FM // WMCD // Statesboro ment a year ago. 630 AM // WBMQ // Savannah 1370 AM // WLOP // Jesup TuneIn App // Ga. Southern Eagles Sports Network GSEagles.com/Watch UPCOMING GAMES/PROBABLES Date Opponent Time (ET) Location TV/Stream GS Starter Opponent Starter F - 2/15 at Auburn 7 p.m. Auburn, Ala. SEC Network+ 9 - Seth Shuman (JR - RHP) 13 - Davis Daniel (JR - RHP) Sa - 2/16 at Auburn 3 p.m. Auburn, Ala. SEC Network+ 46 - Braden Hays (FR - LHP) 32 - Tanner Burns (SO - RHP) Su - 2/17 at Auburn 1 p.m. Auburn, Ala. None 47 - Daniel Collins (SR - RHP) 36 - Kyle Gray (R-JR - LHP) Tu - 2/19 Georgia Tech 6 p.m. STATESBORO ESPN+ TBA TBA F - 2/22 West Virginia 6:30 p.m. STATESBORO ESPN+ TBA TBA 5 First Round Draft Picks | 13 Conference Championships | 14 NCAA Regional Appearances | 2 College World Series Appearances 2019 Georgia Southern Baseball Game Notes 2019 GEORGIA SOUTHERN ROSTER PITCHERS POS B/T YR HT WT HOMETOWN PREVIOUS SCHOOL MAJOR 9 Seth Shuman RHP R/R JR 6-1 195 Valdosta, Ga. Valdosta H.S. Sport Management 12 Zach Strickland RHP R/R JR 6-2 213 Waycross, Ga. Ware County H.S. Sport Management 14 Lawson Humphries RHP L/R SR 5-10 193 Phenix City, Ala. Glenwood H.S. History 16 Tristan Roberts LHP L/L SR 6-0 190 Canton, Ga. Presbyterian College Psychology 17 Tyler Owens RHP R/R JR 6-2 190 Sylvania, Ga. Screven County H.S./East Georgia Sport Management 23 Cole Whitney RHP R/R SR 6-4 195 Campbell Hall, N.Y. Goshen Central H.S./St. John’s/Catawba Valley C.C. Criminal Justice 25 Nick Jones LHP L/L SO 6-6 195 Johns Creek, Ga. Chattahoochee H.S. Mechanical Engineering 27 Rhett Gay RHP R/R SO 6-1 245 Warner Robins, Ga. Emanuel County Institute Accounting 32 Braxton Johns RHP R/R JR 6-0 195 Statesboro, Ga. Statesboro H.S./East Georgia Accounting 33 Joe Nahas RHP R/R JR 6-1 175 Frackville, Pa. Marian Catholic H.S./UMBC/Chesapeake College Management 34 Austin Kleinlein RHP R/R SO 6-4 215 Statesboro, Ga. Statesboro H.S. Construction Management 35 Hayden Harris LHP L/L SO 6-0 175 Grovetown, Ga. Grovetown H.S. Management 36 Austin Hohm RHP R/R R-FR 5-7 157 Snellville, Ga. Brookwood H.S. Marketing 37 David Johnson RHP R/R SO 6-2 170 Tucker, Ga. Homeschooled Marketing 40 Jacob Parker RHP R/R R-SO 6-7 243 Monroe, Ga. Bethlehem Christian Academy Sport Management 42 Jonathan Edwards RHP R/R FR 6-6 180 McDonough, Ga. Eagles Landing H.S. Sport Management 44 Aidan McAlister LHP L/L FR 6-2 145 Suwanee, Ga. Lambert H.S. Sport Management 46 Braden Hays LHP R/L FR 6-3 195 Stone Mountain, Ga. Parkview H.S. Exercise Science 47 Daniel Collins RHP R/R SR 6-4 190 Guyton, Ga. Coastal Homeschool/Montreat Communications CATCHERS POS B/T YR HT WT HOMETOWN PREVIOUS SCHOOL MAJOR 5 Matt Anderson C R/R R-JR 5-11 187 Evans, Ga. Evans H.S. Exercise Science 19 JP Tighe C R/R FR 6-1 215 Dalton, Ga. Dalton H.S. Sport Management 41 Christian Avant UTL R/R SO 6-0 170 Tifton, Ga. Tift County H.S. Management 45 Chandler Davis C L/R FR 6-0 195 Eastman, Ga.