PO7-5341 USI BASEBALL SCHEDULE *GLVC Games; Home Games In Gray; Road Games In White; All Times are CST; USI SCREAMING EAGLES Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday feb QUICK FACTS 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 8 at Armstrong Atlantic St., 10 a.m. (DH) GENERAL Name of school: University of Southern Indiana 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 R 8 at Armstrong at Henderson City/population: Evansville/280,000 (Metro area) Atlantic St., 10 St., noon (DH) Founded: 1965 u a.m. Enrollment: 9,939 (Fall 2007) 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 AR Nickname: Screaming Eagles at Henderson Holiday Inn/USI Holiday Inn/USI School colors: Red, White, Blue St., noon (DH) Invitational Invitational Arena/capacity: USI Baseball Field/500 Affiliation: NCAA II 24 25 26 27 28 29 y Holiday Inn/USI vs. Conference: Great Lakes Valley Invitational Oakland City, President: Dr. H. Ray Hoops 1 p.m. Alma mater, yr.: Eastern Illinois, ‘62 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Athletic Director: Jon Mark Hall Alma mater, yr.: Murray State, ‘90 1 vs. Grand Athletic Department phone: 812/464-1846 Valley St., Athletic Trainer: Brian Zolner noon (DH) Athletic Trainer’s phone: 812/465-1298 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Training Room phone: 812/464-1955 vs. Grand vs. Wayne St., Valley St., noon (DH) M noon HISTORY 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 AR First Yr. Of Baseball: 1971 vs. Wayne St., at Oakland vs. UW- Overall All-Time Record: 853-790 (.519) noon City, 1 p.m. Parkside, Noon(DH)* Yrs. in NCAA Regionals/Last: 7/2006 ch Last post-season opponent: Tampa (NCAA II 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 vs. UW- vs. Quincy, vs. Quincy, Championship) Parkside, noon(DH)* noon(DH)* Result: L 8-1 noon(DH)* 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 COaching Staff vs. Ky. at SIU at SIU Wesleyan, Edwardsville, Edwardsville, 1 Head Coach: Tracy Archuleta noon (DH)+ 7 p.m. p.m. (DH) Alma Mater, Yr.: Metropolitan State College of 30 31 Denver, 1997 at SIU Record at USI: 43-23 (1 Year) Edwardsville, noon* Career Record: 191-147 (6 Years) Baseball Office Phone: 812/464-1943 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Best Time/Day to reach Coach: Mornings 1 2 3 4 5 Assistant Coaches: Joel Weaver; Dustin Murray, at Ky. vs. Missouri Chris Marx Wesleyan, 1 S&T, noon p.m. + (DH)* 2007 Team InfOrmatiON 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Overall Record: 43-23 APRIL vs. Missouri vs. Bellarmine, at Rockhurst, Conference Record: 24-15 (2nd GLVC/4th GLVC S&T, noon 1 p.m.+ noon (DH)* (DH)* Tournament) Final ranking last year: 4th Nationally 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Lettermen returning/lost: 21/9 at Rockhurst, vs. vs. Lewis, noon (DH)* St. Joseph’s, 1 p.m. (DH)* 1 p.m.+ SPOrts INFOrmatiON 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Sports Information Director: Ray Simmons vs. Lewis, at Bellarmine, vs. Mo.- vs. Mo.- noon (DH)* 3 p.m.+ St. Louis, St. Louis, SID Office phone: 812/465-1622 7 p.m.*# 1 p.m. (DH)* Home phone: 812/402-6435 Assistant Sports Information Director: 27 28 29 30 vs. Mo.- at Dan McDonnell St. Louis, Northern Ky., Office phone: 812/465-1121 noon 1 p.m. Home phone: 812/303-6287 Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday SID fax: 812/465-7094 1 2 3 Press box phone: 812/465-7064 at Drury, noon SID mailing address: 8600 University Blvd. (DH)* Evansville, IN 47712 MEDIA INFOrmatiON 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 at Drury, noon Great Lakes Great Lakes Great Lakes Radio station: WSWI (AM) Valley Conference Valley Conference Valley Conference MA (DH)* Tournament Tournament Tournament Radio contact person: Andrew Bolin Address: 8600 University Blvd. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Evansville, IN 47712 Great Lakes NCAA Division II NCAA Division II NCAA Division II Valley Conference North Central North Central North Central Office phone: 812/464-1836 Tournament Regional Regional Regional` y 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 Newspaper: Evansville Courier & Press NCAA Division II NCAA Division II Newspaper contact person: Jacob Bennett North Central National Regional Championship Address: 300 E. 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Box 268 Evansville, IN 47702-0268 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Office phone: 812/464-7505 NCAA Division II NCAA Division II NCAA Division II NCAA Division II NCAA Division II NCAA Division II NCAA Division II National National National National National National National Championship Championship Championship Championship Championship Championship Championship HOME GAMES AWAY GAMES + at GCS Park Sauget, IL 2008 BASEBALL SEASON OUTLOOK NCAA II Championship Series: 2007 NCAA II North Central Regional Champion: 2007 NCAA II Tournament: 1979, 1983, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1994, 2007 GLVC Championships: 1983, 1985, 1993 GLVC Regular Season Championships: 1992, 1993 The University of Southern Indiana baseball team enters 2008 the arm injury that sidelined him last season and will be ready hoping to do something it has never had a chance to do in the to take a shot at the starting rotation this spring. history of the program: Return to the NCAA Division II National To add depth to the starting rotation, Archuleta has added junior Championship Series. left-hander Patrick Crider and junior right-hander P. J. Thomas. The Screaming Eagles are coming off an incredible run to end Crider comes to USI from John A. Logan College, where he was the 2007 season. The squad won a school record 43 wins, 2-2 with a 2.98 ERA and 42 strikeouts in 14 games. reached the GLVC Tournament for the first time since 2001; Thomas transferred to USI from Wabash Valley College where won its first NCAA II North Central Regional after reaching the he played for the Warriors the last two seasons. He was 6-5 regional for the first time since 1995; and finished tied for third last season with a 5.66 ERA in 16 games and 68.1 innings of in the national championship series. work. The right-handed hurler also struck out a WVC-high 66 The Eagles reached all of these objectives in their first season batters. under Head Coach Tracy Archuleta. Archuleta directed the The Eagles even have added depth in the bullpen. Eagles to a 43-23 overall record last year, 25 victories better than the 18-33 mark in 2006. The projected closer is junior right-hander Shaun Larsen. Larsen, who originally signed with Indiana State University out For an encore, Archuleta will have 20 returning players and 12 of high school, comes to USI from John A. Logan and was 2-2 newcomers in 2008. with a 2.10 ERA in 16 games. PITCHING Another candidate for innings out of the bullpen is sophomore A key to USI’s run in the 2007 NCAA II Tournament was pitching. right-hander Derek Dever. Dever comes after playing for The USI hurlers were 6-2 in the tournament and had a 3.34 ERA Johnson County Community College (Overland Park, Kansas) in 70 innings of work. in 2006. He was 1-4 with a 4.14 ERA in 27 innings and 11 appearances. The Eagles look to senior left- hander Cory Julian to lead the Joining Larsen and Dever in the pen are senior right-hander staff and pick up where he left off Aaron Schmitt, junior right-hander Michael Dewig, and last season. Julian led the staff freshman right-hander Trevor Leach. with a 2.10 ERA and tied a USI INFIELDERS single-season record for wins with an 8-3 record. The good news is USI returns three of four starters from last year’s infield. The senior southpaw also was The bad news is the only starter not nearly perfect in the post-season returning is All-American second (GLVC and NCAA Tournament) baseman Darin Mastroianni, who going 3-0 with a 0.32 ERA and 21 was drafted by the Toronto Bluejays strike outs in 28 innings of work. after last season. Julian did not allow a run in the NCAA II Tournament and was 2-0 Mastroianni was a major part of with a save. He was recognized for the USI offense, batting .409 with his efforts by being named to the an NCAA II-best and USI record 64 stolen bases in 2007. He also batted All-Regional Tournament and All- USI Senior LHP Championship Series teams. .516 in the NCAA II Tournament last Cory Julian spring. On the right side of the mound, the Eagles return senior right-hander A leading candidate to fill the hole up Jeremy Kehrt. Kehrt was a perfect 6-0 last season for USI, the middle is junior infielder Kevin becoming a part of the starting rotation for the first time as O’Hair. O’Hair was USI’s starting an Eagle. He also was named to the All-Regional Tournament shortstop last season, setting a USI Junior Infielder team after pitching eight shutout innings in the North Central school record with 202 assists and Kevin O’Hair championship game. combined with Mastroianni to turn 58 double plays. He also batted .248 Returning starting pitchers joining Julian and Kehrt are for the season and .256 in the post-season. sophomore right-hander Casey Geiger and junior right-hander Matt Nichols. Geiger attempts to make the move to the starting Also returning in the infield are seniors Matt Pleiss and Josh rotation after going 3-1 with a 2.20 ERA during his first season. Malone; and junior Alex Thieroff.