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 (7-9) at MERCER (12-5) Game 17 | Road 9 MARCH 14, 2018 - ORTHOGEORGIA PARK (MACON, GA.) Overall Record ..................................................................7-9 Sun Belt Record ................................................................0-0 THE GAME SEARCY SWINGS HIS WAY INTO THE Georgia Southern is back in the Peach State this week Home Record ....................................................................5-3 RECORD BOOKS and ventures to the Gnat Line for a Wednesday night Freshman Noah Searcy completed a rare feat on Road Record ......................................................................2-6 game at OrthoGeorgia Park against the Macon Bears. February 16, 2018. While making his debut with the Streak ............................................................................. Lost 3 The Eagles are 1-0 in the newly renovated stadium Eagles, Searcy hit his first collegiate home run with a Last 5 Games .....................................................................2-3 which opened for the 2017 season. two-run job that cleared the fence in center field in his first collegiate at bat. Last 10 Games ...................................................................4-6 LAST GAME Day Record .........................................................................5-5 Georgia Southern dropped the final game of the GEIGER COUNTER Night Record .....................................................................2-4 Southern Miss series by a 8-2 margin to suffer the Redshirt Junior Matt Geiger joined the Eagles in 2015, VS MERCER weekend sweep to the Golden Eagles. The Eagles pitching well as a freshman. He missed the 2016 sea- dropped the opening two games by one run, each, son after undergoing surgery. While rehabbing from 2017 ......................................................................................2-0 but saw Southern Miss score eight runs over three that surgery, Geiger sustained another injury which Streak ...................................................................................W4 innings to blow the game open kept him out of the lineup for 2017. When he returns All-Time ................................................................... 109-43-1 to the lineup, he will rejoin the Eagles with more than HEAD COACH RODNEY HENNON MERCER SERIES HISTORY 1,000 days on the shelf, ranking as one of the longest Georgia Southern leads the series with Mercer 109- active injury layoffs in Division I Baseball. 19th Year at GS .......................................................651-446 43-1 in a series that dates back to at least the 1948 21st Year Overall ................................................732-484-1 season. The Eagles have won four-straight in the Clay Conway (Delaware) All-Time vs. Mercer ....................................................... 18-8 series overall, and four-straight in Macon. The Ea- 4/14/15 to 2/18/18 ................................1,041 Days GEORGIA SOUTHERN HISTORY gles won last season’s corresponding fixture 15-7 in Matt Geiger (Georgia Southern) Macon as Jordan Wren drove in eight runs, one off a 5/8/15 to Present .........................1,040 Days All-Time Record (75th season) .............. 2134-1398-11 school record. Alex Daily (Cal State Bakersfield) SUN BELT STANDINGS (3-11-18) 5/15/15 to 2/16/18 ................................1,008 Days EAST DIVISION ANDERSON HAS A DAY Alex McIntosh (Milwaukee) Sophomore Matt Anderson had himself a day in 5/23/15 to 2/16/18 ................................1,000 Days TEAM TOTAL SBC PCT GB the second game against Southern Miss. The Eagle GAST 11-4 - - - backstop went 4-for-4 to post a career-best day at SIX OR MORE PLEASE TROY 11-5 - - - the plate and recorded the first four-hit game for the Six has been the magic number over the last five CCU 12-6 - - - Eagles since Logan Baldwin logged four hits in the years for Georgia Southern Baseball with a 104-14 re- USA 9-7 - - - Sun Belt Tournament against Texas State last season. cord when scoring six or more runs. The Eagles were GS 7-9 - - - 30-6 last year with six or more. APP 4-9 - - - LOCAL FLAIR Georgia Southern’s win over Holy Cross on March 7 2014 .....................31-2 WEST DIVISION features a special footnote. Three of the Eagles’ six 2015 .....................16-3 TEAM TOTAL SBC PCT GB pitchers to throw in the game came from Statesboro 2016 .....................23-2 TXST 9-4-1 - - - High School, marking the first time in the Coach Hen- 2017 .....................30-6 ULM 10-5 - - - non Era that one school produced three players in a 2018 .......................5-1 ASU 7-5 - - - single game. Braxton Johns, Griffin Davis, and Austin TOTAL ........ 105-14 Kleinlein each pitched for their hometown team as LR 8-8 - - - the good guys took a 10-5 win. JUST A LITTLE DRAFTY IN HERE... UL 6-9 - - - Georgia Southern had a banner year in the 2017 UTA 4-9 - - - SWEEPING INTO 2018 LIKE... MLB draft with five selections to tie the program re- PRONUNCIATIONS After not sweeping a series in 2017, Georgia South- cord for most picks in a single draft season. Landon ern opened 2018 with a sweep in its first home se- Hughes (7th Round - ATL), Jordan Wren (10th Round - Christian Avant A-vant ries. The Eagles took all three games over Fairfield, an Boston), Connor Simmons (13th Round - ATL), Logan Chandler Corley CORE-lee NCAA Tournament team from 2016 and the defend- Baldwin (21st Round - SF), and Jacob Condra-Bogan Brian Eichhorn IKE-horn ing MAAC Regular Season Champions. (32nd Round - TOR) made up the draft class, match- Jaxxon/Jeddediah Fagg Just like you think... ing the 1996 season with five picks over that season’s Matt Geiger GUY-ger GIVE US AN EARLY LEAD... 40 rounds. Eric Goldstein gold-STEEN In 2017 Georgia Southern did well to hold on to their Mason McWhorter mc-WAR-tur leads. The Eagles were 28-1 when leading after six in- Austin Kleinlein KLINE-line nings, 28-1 when leading after seven and 33-0 when leading after eight. The Eagle bullpen blew just two GS SPORTS NETWORK saves in 2017. 107.3 FM // WMCD // Statesboro 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 W - 3/14 Mercer 6 p.m. Macon, Ga. None RHP Cole Whitney (0-1 - 0.71 ERA) RHP Sawyer Gipson-Long (2-0, 3.74 ERA) F - 3/16 Louisiana 6:30 p.m. STATESBORO ESPN3 RHP Brian Eichhorn (0-0 - 4.03 ERA) TBA Sa - 3/17 Louisiana 3 p.m. STATESBORO True Blue TV RHP Seth Shuman (2-1 - 2.89 ERA) TBA Su - 3/18 Louisiana 11 a.m. STATESBORO True Blue TV RHP David Johnson (1-1 - 4.71 ERA) TBA 5 First Round Draft Picks | 13 Conference Championships | 14 NCAA Regional Appearances | 2 College World Series Appearances 2018 Georgia Southern Baseball Game Notes 2018 GEORGIA SOUTHERN ROSTER PITCHERS POS B/T YR HT WT HOMETOWN PREVIOUS SCHOOL MAJOR 3 Zach Cowart RHP R/R JR 6-1 206 Garfield, Ga. Emmanuel County Institute Management 8 Griffin Davis RHP R/R FR 6-2 201 Statesboro, Ga. Statesboro H.S. Sport Management 9 Seth Shuman RHP/INF R/R SO 6-1 195 Valdosta, Ga. Valdosta H.S. Sport Management 12 Zach Strickland RHP R/R SO 6-2 213 Waycross, Ga. Ware County H.S. Sport Management 14 Lawson Humphries RHP L/R JR 5-10 193 Phenix City, Ala. Glenwood H.S. History 16 *Tristan Roberts LHP L/L SR 6-0 190 Canton, Ga. Sequoyah H.S./Presbyterian College Psychology 17 Seth Johnston LHP L/L FR 6-3 185 Snellville, Ga. South Gwinnett H.S. Economics 18 Eric Goldstein RHP R/R SO 6-2 180 Dallas, Ga. North Paulding H.S. Mechanical Engineering 19 Chase Cohen RHP R/R JR 6-1 183 Alpharetta, Ga. Alpharetta H.S. Management 23 Cole Whitney RHP R/R JR 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 FR 6-6 195 Johns Creek, Ga. Chattahoochee H.S. Mechanical Engineering 32 Braxton Johns RHP R/R SO 6-0 195 Statesboro, Ga. Statesboro H.S./East Georgia Finance 34 Austin Kleinlein RHP R/R FR 6-4 215 Statesboro, Ga. Statesboro H.S. Sport Management 35 Hayden Harris LHP L/L FR 6-0 175 Grovetown, Ga. Grovetown H.S. Management 36 *Austin Hohm RHP R/R FR 5-7 157 Snellville, Ga. Brockwood H.S. Marketing 37 David Johnson RHP R/R FR 6-2 170 Tucker, Ga. Homeschooled Undeclared 39 Matt Geiger RHP R/R R-JR 6-0 178 Alpharetta, Ga. Milton H.S. Sport Management 40 Jacob Parker RHP R/R R-FR 6-7 243 Monroe, Ga. Bethlehem Christian Academy Sport Management 44 Brian Eichhorn RHP R/R JR 6-0 220 Richmond Hill, Ga. Richmond Hill H.S. Information Technology 46 *Blakely Brown RHP R/R R-JR 6-0 175 Statesboro, Ga. Statesboro H.S./Georgia Interdisciplinary Studies CATCHERS POS B/T YR HT WT HOMETOWN PREVIOUS SCHOOL MAJOR 5 Matt Anderson C R/R R-SO 5-11 187 Evans, Ga. Evans H.S. Exercise Science 11 Cody Shook OF/C R/R FR 6-3 205 Lithia, Fla. Newsome H.S. Sport Management 41 Christian Avant C/OF R/R FR 6-0 170 Tifton, Ga. Tift County H.S. Undeclared INFIELDERS POS B/T YR HT WT HOMETOWN PREVIOUS SCHOOL MAJOR 2 Chandler Corley OF/INF R/R SR 6-0 170 Martinez, Ga. Lakeside Evans H.S./Armstrong State Mechanical Engineering 4 Mason McWhorter INF L/L SO 6-1 193 Cumming, Ga. West Forsyth H.S. Sport Management 9 Seth Shuman RHP/INF R/R SO 6-1 195 Valdosta, Ga. Valdosta H.S. Undeclared 13 Jason Swan INF R/R FR 6-1 175 Jacksonville, Fla.