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AUBURN TIGER BASEBALL GAME NOTES • GAMES 33-35 • AUBURN (18-14, 6-6 SEC) AT VANDERBILT (14-19, 4-8 SEC) Auburn Media Relations • PO Box 351 • Auburn, AL 36849 • Phone: 334-844-9803 • Fax: 334-844-9807 Director of Media Relations: Dan Froehlich • 334-844-9803 • froehdp@auburn.edu www.auburntigers.com • @AUTigerBaesball PITCHING MATCHUPS AUBURN BREAKDOWN FRIDAY, APRIL 13 • 6PM CT • HAWKINS FIELD • WKKR-FM 97.7 • AUBURNTIGERS.COM LIVE AUDIO • CSS Record .......................................................18-14 RHP Derek Varnadore (1-4, 4.93) vs. RHP T.J. Pecoraro (0-0, 2.45) SEC Record ...................................................6-6 Auburn After 33 in 2011 ...................19-14 SATURDAY, APRIL 14 • 2PM CT • HAWKINS FIELD • WMXA-FM 96.7 • AUBURNTIGERS.COM LIVE AUDIO Auburn After 34 in 2011 ...................20-14 RHP Jon Luke Jacobs (4-0, 2.53) vs. RHP Tyler Beede (1-3, 4.79) Auburn After 35 in 2011 ...................20-15 Current Streak ............................................W1 SUNDAY, APRIL 15 • 1PM CT • HAWKINS FIELD • WKKR-FM 97.7 • AUBURNTIGERS.COM LIVE AUDIO SEC Series Record .....................................3-1 LHP Daniel Koger (2-2, 2.03) vs. LHP Kevin Ziomek (2-6, 5.49) Home/Road/Neutral ..........14-7/3-7/1-0 Day/Night .........................................13-9/5-5 Opp. Above/At-Below .500 ....10-10/8-4 HOME-ROAD SPLITS vs. RHS/LHS ....................................14-9/4-5 Auburn has gone 14-7 (.667) at home this season but AUBURN ALL-TIME VS. VANDERBILT vs. SEC West/SEC East .........................6-6/0-0 is just 3-7 (.300) on the road ... The offense has hit .321 Comeback Wins ................................................... 4 inside Plainsman Park, scoring 140 runs (6.7 runs per Auburn leads the all-time series, 78-40, and holds a slight Losses After Leading ......................................... 6 26-24 advantage in Nashville ... Auburn has lost its last game) with 63 extra-base hits (46 doubles, nine triples, Extra Innings .....................................................1-0 four series in Nashville with its last series win coming in eight home runs) while the pitching staff has a 2.39 ERA Ahead after 6/7/8 ...............15-2/16-1/16-2 the 2001 season ... Since then Auburn has gone just 3-9 in Behind after 6/7/8 ......................2-9/2-8/1-9 in 188 innings, striking out 141 (6.75 K/9) ... When Au- Nashville ... Auburn’s last series win anywhere over Van- Tied after 6/7/8 ...........................1-3/0-4/1-2 burn hits the road those numbers change to a .276 team derbilt was in 2009 at Auburn ... Auburn has won just one Auburn/opp. quality start ...............13-4/4-6 batting average and 4.3 runs per game while the pitching of the last seven series played between the two teams. Auburn/opp. errorless.........................3-6/4-4 staff has a 6.00 ERA, averaging just 3.96 strike outs per Auburn/opp. HR .....................................5-7/4-8 game. VANDERBILT (AU leads 78-40) Auburn/opp. score irst....................16-5/2-9 [Last Four Series) Auburn/opp. score 4+ ....................15-6/5-12 COOP-A-LOOP! Date LOCATION Score Result Auburn/opp. score 3 or less ...........3-8/13-2 Auburn/opp. 10+ hits .......................11-5/2-6 4/18/08 * at Nashville, TN 6 3 W Junior irst baseman Garrett Cooper has not only been Feb./Mar./Apr./May ........6-4/10-7/2-3/0-0 4/19/08 * at Nashville, TN 2 8 L getting it done in the ield, where he has a .996 ield- Average time of game ..................................2:40 ing percentage on 282 chances, but the junior has also 4/20/08 * at Nashville, TN 5 9 L reached base safely in 30 of the 31 games he has played 3/27/09 * at Auburn 3 12 L in this year ... He is currently riding an eight-game hit- 3/28/09 * at Auburn 5 3 W AUBURN ON THE AIRWAVES ting streak in which he is hitting .412 (14-34) with two 3/29/09 * at Auburn 11 10 W 4/16/10 * at Nashville, TN 6 11 L doubles, a home run, ive RBIs and seven runs scored ... Auburn will once again live stream most 4/17/10 * at Nashville, TN 12 2 W He has struck out just ive times in those eight games. of its 34 home games on the school’s of- 4/18/10 * at Nashville, TN 2 3 L icial website, www.auburntigers.com. 4/1/11 * at Auburn 6 11 L TWIN KILLINGS 4/2/11 * at Auburn 2 11 L The games also air live on the radio Auburn’s defense turned three double plays on Tuesday 4/3/11 * at Auburn 2 6 L locally on WKKR-FM 97.7 with Rod night against Samford, the fourth time this season Au- Bramblett and Any Burcham as the lead burn has turned three double plays in a game ... Auburn’s at Auburn: AU leads, 41-13 broadcasters. Occassionally Van Riggs middle inielders Creede Simpson and Dan Glevenyak at Nashville: AU leads, 26-24 and Joe Beckwith will assist on the call. have been in on 20 and 19, respectively, of Auburn’s 27 at Neutral Sites: VU leads, 3-2 double plays, which is third in the SEC. SEC Tournament: VU leads, 3-2 Auburn baseball’s twitter feed, @AU- Extra Innings: AU leads, 3-1 TigerBaseball, is ranked among the top DON’T TEST THE BACKSTOPS 60 baseball-speciic twitter feeds in Auburn’s catching duo of Blake Austin and Caleb Bowen JOHN PAWLOWSKI is 3-6 all-time against Vanderbilt, the world according to www.sportsfan- have helped control the opposing running game as they with all nine games coming as the head coach at Auburn graph.com. In collegiate baseball only have thrown out a combined 18 of 47 runners trying to ... He and Vanderbilt Head Coach Tim Corbin were both the following is the third-largest in the assistant coaches at Clemson during their careers ... Paw- steal a base ... As a team Auburn has thrown out 22 run- nation behind only LSU and Texas with lowski was a Jack Leggett assistant from 1994-98 while over 6,800 followers. ners, which leads the SEC ... Austin’s 10 caught stealing Corbin was there from 1994-02 ... Both were on staff by is third in the league while Bowen’s eight are tied for when Clemson went to the College World Series in 1995 Auburn will play a total of eight games fourth. and 1996. on TV this season. The eight televised games are: TELLA ME ABOUT IT JON LUKE JACOBS will be making his third career start Date Opponent Network Time Ryan Tella enters the weekend among the SEC leaders in against Vanderbilt ... Is 1-1 all-time against the Com- Mar. 6 vs. Alabama CSS 7pm batting average (.395, 3rd), slugging percentage (.540, modores, earning a win on Saturday in 2009 and taking Apr. 6 at Alabama FSSO 7pm 11th), on base percentage (.487, 2nd), hits (49, 4th), a Saturday loss in 2011 ... In 12 career innings, he has Apr. 7 at Alabama CSS 3pm triples (2, T-7th), total bases (67, 9th), walks (21, T-8th) struck out 10 while allowing just 13 hits and two walks, Apr. 13 at Vanderbilt CSS 6pm and steals (8, T-5th) ... He is currently riding a seven- surrendering three earned runs in each outing ... He has Apr. 21 South Carolina SPSO 3pm game streak of reaching base safely ... In 32 games this never pitched at Hawkins Field. May 4 at Georgia SPSO 6pm season, he has been on base in all but two of them. May 5 at Georgia CSS 3pm CORY LUCKIE is the only player on this year’s roster that May 10 at Arkansas ESPNU 6:30pm RIDING THE PITCHING played in Auburn’s last win over Vanderbilt ... He threw a complete game ive-hitter on Saturday in 2010 as Auburn Auburn’s pitching staff leads the SEC in ERA in league claimed a 12-2 win in Nashville. games, owning a 3.24 staff ERA, with Arkansas second in the league at 3.38 ... Auburn’s starting pitching has been GAME-BY-GAME RESULTS DATE OPP 1st Pitch W/L SCORE WP LP SV REC. SEC TIME ATT. 2/17 MISSOURI 3:00 W 5-2 Varnadore (1-0) Anderson (0-1) -- 1-0 -- 2:25 3,577 2/19 MISSOURI (Gm 1) 11:00 L 4-6 Emens (1-0) S. Smith (0-1) Walsh (1) 1-1 -- 3:08 2,460 2/19 MISSOURI (Gm 2) 2:43 L 3-4 (7) Ross (1-0) Blatt (0-1) Walsh (2) 1-2 -- 2:10 2,598 2/21 ALCORN STATE 3:00 W 22-0 Jacobs (1-0) Stubbs (0-1) -- 2-2 -- 2:24 2,248 2/22 ALCORN STATE 3:00 W 7-1 Wade (1-0) Peters (0-1) -- 3-2 -- 2:22 2,378 2/24 @#8 Arizona 5:59 L 1-8 Heyer (2-0) Varnadore (1-1) -- 3-3 -- 2:30 2,470 2/25 @#8 Arizona 2:59 L 4-15 Wade (1-0) S. Smith (0-2) -- 3-4 -- 2:44 2,056 2/25 @#8 Arizona 5:25 W 8-3 Koger (1-0) Farris (1-1) -- 4-4 -- 3:23 1,362 2/28 ALABAMA STATE 5:01 W 7-1 Jacobs (2-0) Matthews (0-3) -- 5-4 -- 2:25 2,516 2/29 ALABAMA STATE 5:25 W 12-4 Cochran-Gill (1-0) Melymick (0-1) -- 6-4 -- 3:32 2,049 3/2 $PURDUE 5:00 L 8-9 Mascarello (2-0) D.