BLUEJAY BASEBALL 2011 Creighton (33-12, 10-5) at Evansville (26-17*, 6-8 MVC) • May 13-15 • Braun Stadium at Iowa (18-27*, 7-10 Big 10) • May 17 • Duane Banks Field KOZN 1620 AM Radio (* records as of Wednesday, May 11) Date Opponent Radio Time Probable Pitching Starters Feb. 19 vs.Toledo (Cary, N.C.) W, 5-1 ERA W-L App GS CG IP H R ER BB SO Feb. 19 vs. Canisius (Cary, N.C.) W, 6-3 Creighton Feb. 20 vs. Canisius (Cary, N.C.) L, 1-4 Fri. - Jonas Dufek, RHP 2.46 8-1 13 11 1 80.1 56 24 22 22 92 Feb. 22 at Kansas W, 4-3 (10) Sat. - Ty Blach, LHP 2.77 8-1 14 14 0 74.2 73 24 23 21 68 Feb. 25 at New Mexico W, 4-3 Sun. - TBA Feb. 26 at New Mexico (DH) W, 4-3; W, 10-6 Feb. 27 at New Mexico W, 8-7 (11) March 6 at Arkansas State W, 5-2 Evansville March 6 at Arkansas State W, 6-0 Fri. - Kyle Lloyd, RHP 4.60 4-5 12 12 0 72.1 74 47 37 25 34 March 7 at Arkansas State L, 6-8 Sat. - Cole Isom, LHP 4.95 5-4 12 10 2 67.1 78 38 37 31 31 March 8 at Central Arkansas Cancelled Sun. - Cody Fick, RHP 2.57 6-3 9 9 3 63.0 56 25 18 26 43 March 9 at Central Arkansas L, 7-8 March 11 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE W, 6-0 ** Starters against Iowa are TBA. March 12 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE W, 6-3 March 13 SOUTH DAKOTA STATE W, 13-0 This Weekend’s Opponent March 16 at Air Force (DH) L, 1-2; W, 11-9 March 19 vs. Valparaiso (Edwardsville, Ill.) W, 1-0 Evansville Purple Aces March 19 at Southern Illinois Edwardsville W, 4-3 (10) www.gopurpleaces.com MARCH 21 BRIGHAM YOUNG KOIL 1180 W, 6-5 Record: 26-17*, 6-8 • Location: Evansville, Ind. • Enrollment: 2,699 MARCH 22 BRIGHAM YOUNG KOIL 1180 L, 4-11 MARCH 26 NORTH DAKOTA KOIL 1180 Cancelled Head Coach: Wes Carroll • Alma Mater: Evansville (2001) MARCH 27 NORTH DAKOTA KOIL 1180 Cancelled Career Record: 83-74 • School Record: 83-74 MARCH 28 NORTH DAKOTA STATE KOIL 1180 W, 3-2 2010 Record: 37-22 • Letterwinners returning/lost: 18/11 APRIL 1 PORTLAND KOIL 1180 W, 11-3 APRIL 2 PORTLAND KOZN 1620 W, 12-0 APRIL 3 PORTLAND KOZN 1620 W, 4-3 Tuesday’s Opponent April 5 at Nebraska KOZN 1620 L, 5-8 Iowa Hawkeyes April 8 * at Illinois State KOIL 1180 L, 4-5 www.hawkeyesports.com April 9 * at Illinois State KOZN 1620 W, 8-2 Record: 18-27, 7-10 • Location: Iowa City, Iowa • Enrollment: 30,825 April 10 * at Illinois State KOZN 1620 W, 6-5 APRIL 12 KANSAS STATE KOIL 1180 W, 7-6 Head Coach: Jack Dahm • Alma Mater: Creighton (1989) April 15 * at Indiana State KOZN 1620 W, 4-0 Career Record: 471-519-2 • School Record: 188-245 April 16 * at Indiana State KOZN 1620 W, 9-5 2010 Record: 30-28 • Letterwinners returning/lost: 21/8 April 17 * at Indiana State KOZN 1620 W, 6-5 APRIL 19 NEBRASKA ! KOZN 1620 L, 1-2 Statistical Comparisons APRIL 22 * SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ! KOZN 1620 W,5-4 APRIL 23 * SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ! KOZN 1620 L, 2-3 APRIL 24 * SOUTHERN ILLINOIS ! KOZN 1620 L, 1-2 APRIL 26 KANSAS ! KOZN 1620 W, 5-3 APRIL 29 * BRADLEY ! KOZN 1620 W, 7-3 Category APRIL 30 * BRADLEY ! KOZN 1620 W, 10-1 Average .277 .298 .263 KOZN 1620 MAY 1 * BRADLEY ! W, 16-6 (7) Runs 263 262 221 May 6 * at Wichita State KOZN 1620 L, 0-8 May 7 * at Wichita State KOZN 1620 W, 7-5 Hits 407 443 393 May 8 * at Wichita State KOZN 1620 L, 3-12 Doubles 87 96 66 MAY 10 NEBRASKA (ESPNU) ! KOZN 1620 W, 9-8 Triples 15 12 10 May 13 * at Evansville KOZN 1620 6:00 p.m. Home Runs 34 25 8 May 14 * at Evansville KOZN 1620 2:00 p.m. Stolen Bases 52 79 55 May 15 * at Evansville KOZN 1620 1:00 p.m. ERA 3.64 4.30 4.12 May 17 at Iowa KOZN 1620 6:05 p.m. Saves 13 12 6 MAY 19 * MISSOURI STATE ! KOZN 1620 12:00 p.m. MAY 20 * MISSOURI STATE ! KOZN 1620 7:00 p.m. Runs Allowed 182 211 226 MAY 21 * MISSOURI STATE ! KOZN 1620 1:00 p.m. Earned Runs Allowed 161 182 186 MAY 24-28 MVC TOURNAMENT ! KOZN 1620 TBD Walks 142 162 154 Strikeouts 321 206 291 * - Missouri Valley Conference Game Average Against .248 .270 .282 Home games indicated by BOLD CAPS All Times Central and subject to change Shannon Pivovar, Creighton Sports Information Intern (DH) Denotes Doubleheader 2500 California Plaza • Omaha, NE 68178 ! - Games played at TD Ameritrade Park Omaha O: (402) 280-5801 • C: (402) 650-8687 • F: (402) 280-2495 Email: [email protected] www.gocreighton.com • Page 1 A Closer Look Creighton at Evansville May 13-15, 2011 Evansville, Ind. The Series Creighton and Evansville have met up on the base- Bluejay Career Hitting Statistics vs. Evansville ball field 59 times in the history of the two programs, AB R H RBI 2B 3B HR BB K AVG with the first meeting coming in 1993. The Jays took Trever Adams 11 3 4 5 0 0 2 2 4 .364 that game 4-3 and hold a 37-22 lead over the Purple Aces. Creighton leads one run games 8-4 and is cur- Joey Bowens 4 4 1 1 1 0 0 1 2 .250 rently on a four game winning streak. The Jays are Alex Staehely 10 1 1 3 0 0 1 0 2 .100 14-14 all time when playing in Evansville, 20-6 when Jimmy Swift 26 6 8 6 2 0 0 1 4 .308 playing in Omaha. Scott Thornburg 17 5 6 1 2 0 1 2 6 .353 Meet the Coaches Ed Servais (Creighton) - Ed Servais enters his Bluejay Career Pitching Statistics vs. Evansville eighth season leading the Creighton baseball pro- W-L ERA GS SV IP H R ER BB K gram in 2011. He currently holds a .640 winning Ty Blach 1-0 1.50 1 0 6.0 7 2 1 2 6 percentage (287-161) while at the helm of the Jays, Jonas Dufek 1-0 3.00 2 0 15.0 10 5 5 2 18 which is the second best in school history. Servais Greg Hellhake 2-0 0.00 2 0 8.0 4 0 0 5 5 moved into second in Creighton history in wins by a head coach with his win on Saturday, April 30 over Brandon Koenigstein 1-0 3.38 1 0 8.0 10 5 3 1 6 Bradley, as Jack Dahm had 283 wins as a Bluejay coach. Jack VanLeur 0-0 7.36 0 1 3.2 7 3 3 2 2 Sitting just two wins ahead of Servais is Jim Hendry Mark Winkelman 0-0 0.00 0 1 2.0 1 0 0 1 2 who has a career 289 wins at CU, the most of any Bluejay baseball head coach. Servais has taken the Looking Back Jays to two NCAA Tournaments and has won the Series Under Coach Servais Creighton swept the series last season for the third 18-6 MVC Coach of the Year award three times in his time under head coach Ed Servais (The Jays took seven seasons. all four regular season games in 2004, 2008 and @ Home 11-2 Servais’ teams pride themselves on defense, 2010). The series finale was a slug-fest, with the first as they again ranked among the top teams in the seven runs of the game coming thanks to the long 4/2/04 W 9-4 Nation in defensive fielding percentage last season, ball. Trever Adams put on a clinic offensively, as 4/3/04 W 9-4 boasting a .980 percentage as a team, good for sec- the right fielder went 2-for-5 with two home runs 4/4/04 W 1-0 ond in the nation. Servais has coached three Gold and four RBI. Brandon Koenigstein threw his Gloves in his time at Creighton. 4/5/04 W 11-4 first complete game of the season, going all seven 4/21/06 L 2-9 Servais started his coaching career as an assis- innings in the run-ruled game, allowing five runs on tant at St. Mary’s and then was the first head coach 10 hits. He struck out a season high six batters in 4/22/06 W 13-3 at Viterbo, starting up the program and leading them the game. Four other Bluejays, Elliot Soto, T.J. Roem- 4/23/06 L 1-7 to a 23-6 record in the first year. He then moved mich, Ian Dike and Jimmy Swift, each picked up 4/25/08 W 9-4 back to St. Mary’s as the head coach, went to Iowa two hits on the day. State as an assistant and landed at Creighton as an 4/26/08 W 7-1 4/27/08 W 13-1 assistant from 1998-2003 before being named head Braun Stadium coach in 2004. Servais is assisted by Rob Smith, The Purple Aces call Charles H.