2021 LITTLE ROCK BASEBALL Assistant AD/Communications: Rand Champion Phone: (501) 351-3385 Email: [email protected]

2021 LITTLE ROCK BASEBALL Assistant AD/Communications: Rand Champion Phone: (501) 351-3385 Email: [email protected] 2021 SCHEDULE GAMES 14-16 Overall: 6-7 | Sun Belt: 0-0 LITTLE ROCK TROJANS (6-7, 0-0 SUN BELT) FEBRUARY Head Coach: Chris Curry (Arkansas Tech, 2008) 21 at Oral Roberts W 4-3 Record at Little Rock: 135-166 (7th season) 22 at Oral Roberts L 3-7 Overall Record: 135-166 (7th season) 23 at #17 Oklahoma State Canceled 24 at #17 Oklahoma State L 2-7 26 Eastern Illinois L 6-12 TEXAS STATE BOBCATS (8-10, 0-0 SUN BELT) 26 Eastern Illinois L (7) 1-17 Head Coach: Steven Trout (TCU, 2007) 27 Eastern Illinois W 6-5 Record at Texas State: 22-14 (2nd season) Overall Record: 22-14 (2nd season) MARCH 3 Central Arkansas W 5-3 5 at North Alabama L 4-6 6 at North Alabama W 9-1 SERIES INFORMATION TALE OF THE TAPE 7 at North Alabama W 10-3 MEDIA 12 at Auburn L 0-7 LOCATION: Gary Hogan Field | Little Rock, Ark. 13 at Auburn L 0-6 GAME ONE: Friday, March 19 | 4 p.m. .266 AVERAGE .277 14 at Auburn W 12-6 GAME TWO: Saturday, March 20 | 4 p.m. 62 RUNS 116 19 Texas State * 6 p.m. GAME THREE: Sunday, March 21 | 1 p.m. 115 HITS 162 20 Texas State * 6 p.m. WATCH: ESPN+ (Patrick Walsh and Jonathan Farrar) 19 DOUBLES 35 21 Texas State * 1 p.m. LIVE STATS: TrojanStats.com 2 TRIPLES 7 23 at Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3 p.m. 26 at Southern Illinois 6 p.m. TWITTER UPDATES: @LittleRockBSB 10 HOME RUNS 17 27 at Southern Illinois 2 p.m. 55 RBI 106 28 at Southern Illinois 1 p.m. 168 TOTAL BASES 262 30 Arkansas-Pine Bluff 3 p.m. .389 SLUGGING PCT. .448 36 WALKS 84 APRIL 1 at Arkansas State * 6 p.m. 8 STOLEN BASES 24 2 at Arkansas State * 6 p.m. SERIES HISTORY .961 FIELDING PCT. .962 3 at Arkansas State * 1 p.m. SERIES: Little Rock leads, 13-7 5.15 EARNED RUN AVERAGE 5.81 6 at Arkansas 6 p.m. STREAK: Texas State won 1 110.0 INNINGS PITCHED 153.1 7 at Arkansas 4 p.m. FIRST MEETING: May 9, 2014 (Little Rock 3, Texas State 0) 113 HITS ALLOWED 143 9 South Alabama * 6 p.m. LAST MEETING: May 12, 2019 (Texas State 13, Little Rock 9) 82 RUNS ALLOWED 120 10 South Alabama * 6 p.m. LAST WIN IN LITTLE ROCK: May 11, 2019 (W, 9-5) 63 EARNED RUNS ALLOWED 99 11 South Alabama * 1 p.m. LAST WIN IN SAN MARCOS: Mar. 30, 2018 (W, 7-4) 62 WALKS 99 13 at Central Arkansas 6 p.m. CURRY vs. TEXAS STATE: 11-6 100 STRIKEOUTS 155 16 at ULM * 6 p.m. .264 OPPONENT AVG. .244 17 at ULM * 2 p.m. 18 at ULM * 1 p.m. 20 at Ole Miss 6:30 p.m. 23 Louisiana * 6 p.m. PROJECTED STARTERS 24 Louisiana * 6 p.m. Pos. # Player Avg. AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SLG BB SB-ATT 25 Louisiana * 1 p.m. C 28 John Michael Russ .404 47 7 19 0 0 0 19 .404 5 1-2 30 at UT Arlington * 6:30 p.m. 1B 33 Kobe Barnum .310 29 4 9 0 0 2 8 .517 1 0-0 MAY 2B 21 Jorden Hussein .429 35 8 15 2 0 0 2 .486 2 1-2 1 at UT Arlington * 6:30 p.m. SS 2 Eldrige Figueroa .167 48 6 8 4 0 0 4 .250 2 0-2 2 at UT Arlington * 1 p.m. 3B 6 Nathan Lyons .349 43 7 15 4 0 1 4 .512 8 0-1 4 at Ole Miss 6:30 p.m. LF 5 Miguel Soto .182 44 4 8 2 0 0 1 .227 2 2-2 7 at Sam Houston State 6:30 p.m. CF 13 Tyler Williams .306 49 7 15 4 2 2 13 .592 3 2-3 8 at Sam Houston State 3 p.m. RF 7 Noah Dickerson .222 45 9 10 2 0 2 10 .400 7 0-0 9 at Sam Houston State 1 p.m. DH 4 Chris Prentiss .167 36 4 6 0 0 0 1 .167 0 2-2 14 Appalachian State * 6 p.m. 15 Appalachian State * 6 p.m. 16 Appalachian State * 1 p.m. 20 at Georgia State * 5 p.m. PITCHING ROTATION 21 at Georgia State * 3 p.m. 22 at Georgia State * 11 a.m. LITTLE ROCK TEXAS STATE 25-30 Sun Belt Conference Tournament ^ FRI 17 - Aaron Funk (Sr., RHP) 0-2, 17.1 IP, 5.71 ERA vs. 42 - Zachary Leigh (Sr., RHP) 0-3, 19.2 IP, 8.24 ERA SAT 30 - Hayden Arnold (Sr., RHP) 1-2, 18.0 IP, 6.50 ERA vs. 35 - Cameron Bush (R-Fr., RHP) 1-1, 17.0 IP, 4.76 ERA * Sun Belt Conference game | ^ Montgomery, Ala. SUN 25 - Jack DeCooman (R-Jr., LHP) 0-1, 17.1 IP, 5.19 ERA vs. TBD LRTrojans.com NEWS AND NOTES SCOUTING THE BOBCATS DOING IT ALL Texas State is 8-10 on the season heading into the weekend, Sophomore center fielder Tyler Williams is building on the suc- coming off a dominating 16-5 win over Rice Wednesday night cess of his freshman season. The top Sun Belt prospect for 2022 SERIES HISTORY in San Marcos. The Bobcats dropped a weekend series against by D1 Baseball, Williams leads the Trojans in slugging percent- All-Time Series Little Rock leads, 13-7 Houston, going 1-2, and have wins over #9 TCU, Sam Houston age (.592), runs batted in (13), doubles (four), triples (two), Streak Texas State won 1 State and BYU. Texas State’s batters are hitting .277 on the sea- home runs (two) and total bases (29). Williams was home run In Little Rock 6-3 son, second in the Sun Belt, while ranking first in runs scored, shy of hitting for the cycle Sunday at Auburn, going 3-for-5 In San Marcos 7-2 runs batted in and triples and second in home runs. The Bobcats with four RBI and has reached base in all 13 games this season. Neutral 0-2 have six players hitting .300 or better, led by Justin Thompson’s .418 average with 28 hits and 21 RBI, both of which lead the LYONS HEATING UP league. On the mound, Texas State has a 5.81 ERA with oppo- Junior Nathan Lyons’ bat is starting to heat up for the Trojans as LAST 15 MEETINGS nents batting .244 and a combined 155 strikeouts, led by 26 the Bentonville native enters the weekend with a team-best five Date Location Result Score from Friday starter Zachary Leigh. game hitting streak while his eight-straight games of reaching 4/12/15 * Little Rock L 4-10 base is second to Tyler Williams’ 13. Lyons ranks third on the 4/15/16 * San Marcos, Texas W 8-7 LAST TIME OUT team with a .349 average with four doubles, tied with Williams 4/15/16 * San Marcos, Texas W 10-2 After falling in the first two games at Auburn, Little Rock re- and Eldrige Figueroa for the team lead. 4/16/16 * San Marcos, Texas W 7-6 sponded with 11 runs and 14 hits over the final five innings 4/7/17 * Little Rock L 3-7 to rally past the Tigers 12-4 at Plainsman Park Sunday. It was JORDEN IN THE CLUTCH 4/8/17 * Little Rock W 9-4 a stark contrast to the beginning of the series when Little Rock Since joining the starting lineup in the Eastern Illinois series, se- 4/9/17 * Little Rock W 6-5 managed just one run and eight hits in the first 22 innings nior Jorden Hussein has been a key member of the Trojan lineup. 5/25/17 ^ Statesboro, Ga. L 2-3 against Auburn, being shut out 7-0 Friday and 6-0 Saturday. He leads the team with a .429 batting average and has at least 3/29/18 * San Marcos, Texas W 6-3 one hit in eight of the 10 games, including five multi-hit games. 3/30/18 * San Marcos, Texas W 7-4 3/31/18 * San Marcos, Texas L 6-10 ANOTHER YEAR IN THE BELT Hussein went 3-for-5 in the Sunday win over Auburn, scoring 5/24/18 ^ Lafayette, La. L 3-6 2021 marks Little Rock’s 30th year as a member of the Sun Belt three times and ranking second on the team with eight runs. 5/10/19 * Little Rock W (10) 4-3 Conference, joining the league in the 1992 season. The Trojans 5/11/19 * Little Rock W 9-5 have posted an all-time league mark of 268-477, but are 73-73 ALL ABOARD THE RUSS BUSS 5/12/19 * Little Rock L 9-13 in conference play since head coach Chris Curry took the reigns Senior John Michael Russ has emerged as the one of the early * - Sun Belt Conference game | ^ - Sun Belt tournament game of the program. Picked fourth in the west in the preseason poll, season offensive leaders for the Trojans, batting .404 on the sea- the Trojans are coming off a program-best 18-11 mark in Sun son with a team-high 19 hits, all of which have been singles.

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