ARKANSAS STATE BASEBALL Van Provence Assistant Sports Information Director [email protected] 870-972-2707 870-897-5010 (cell) 870-972-3367 fax 2009 Arkansas State Baseball Schedule Date Opponent Time/Result GAMES 34-35 Feb. 20 Texas State% W, 4-3 Feb. 20 UT-Arlington% L, 5-4 Feb. 21 Siena% L, 5-1 ARKANSAS STATE RED WOLVES (15-18) Feb. 22 Texas State% L, 3-2 Feb. 27 SIU-Edwardsville W, 19-12 vs. Missouri State Bears (18-14) Feb. 28 SIU-Edwardsville Cancelled - Snow April 14 & 15, 2009 6:30 p.m. & 3:00 p.m. March 1 SIU-Edwardsville Cancelled - Snow March 3 at Ole Miss L, 11-5 Tomlinson Stadium & Kell Field (1,200) Jonesboro, Arkansas March 4 at Murray State L, 11-5 March 6 Louisiana-Lafayette* W, 2-0 Radio: 103.9 Earl FM, KBTM 1230 AM & AStateRedWolves.com March 7 Louisiana-Lafayette* L, 3-2 LiveStats Available at AStateRedWolves.com March 8 Louisiana-Lafayette* W, 3-2 March 10 Harris-Stowe State W, 11-1 LEADING OFF: The Arkansas State Red ASU 9-4 in the season’s only meeting. The March 10 Harris-Stowe State W, 3-2 March 13 at Middle Tennessee State* L, 10-8 Wolves play host to the Bears of Missouri series was scheduled for two games, but March 14 at Middle Tennessee State* L, 14-3 State in a two-game midweek series at Tom- game two was rained out. Missouri State March 15 at Middle Tennessee State* L, 10-3 linson Stadium and Kell Field. The series is has won three straight in the series, with the March 16 Williams Baptist W, 17-9 March 17 Ole Miss L, 7-1 scheduled to begin Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. last ASU victory being a 13-3 win in Jones- March 20 at Louisiana-Monroe* W, 14-4 Game two of the series is set for Wednesday boro during the 2006 season. March 21 at Louisiana-Monroe* W, 6-4 at 3:00 p.m. All ASU baseball games may March 22 at Louisiana-Monroe* L, 10-8 March 25 at Southern Illinois L, 10-3 be heard live on 103.9 Earl FM, KBTM 1230 ON THE MOUND FOR ASU: Junior March 27 South Alabama* W, 8-7 AM and online at Derek Riley will take the mound Tuesday March 28 South Alabama* L, 10-3 www.AStateRedWolves.com, with Matt night to open the series for Arkansas State. March 29 South Alabama* W, 7-2 March 30 at Ole Miss L, 9-6 Stolz handling the play-by-play. Live Stats Riley is 0-3 on the season with an ERA of April 1 Southeast Missouri State W, 12-1 for the games may also be accessed online at 8.87. He has given up 23 runs on 30 hits in April 3 Troy* L, 5-2 www.AStateRedWolves.com. 28.1 innings of work, with 10 strikeouts and April 4 Troy* L, 7-3 April 5 Troy* L, 12-7 19 walks. Sophomore Drew Benes will get April 7 at Memphis L, 16-8 THE TEAMS: Arkansas State will take the the start for the Red Wolves Wednesday af- April 8 Memphis W, 8-7 field against the Bears at 15-18 overall. The ternoon. Benes stands at an even 3-3 on the April 10 Chicago State W, 15-0 April 11 Chicago State W, 16-9 Red Wolves stepped out of Sun Belt Confer- year with an ERA of 7.31. He has surren- April 12 Chicago State Rained Out ence play last weekend to host Chicago State dered 23 runs on 30 hits while striking out April 14 Missouri State 6:30 p.m. April 15 Missouri State 3:00 p.m. and defeated the Cougars 15-0 Friday night 18 and walking 16 in 28.1 innings of action. April 17 Western Kentucky* 6:00 p.m. at 16-9 Saturday afternoon. The Sunday April 18 Western Kentucky* 2:00 p.m. game was rained out. Missouri State will DENIED: Six Arkansas State pitchers April 19 Western Kentucky* 1:00 p.m. April 21 at Tennessee-Martin 6:00 p.m. visit Jonesboro with an overall record of 18- combined to throw 22 consecutive scoreless April 22 at Southeast Missouri State 6:30 p.m. 14 that includes a 6-2 mark in Missouri Val- April 24 at New Orleans* 6:30 p.m. ley Conference action. Missouri State is April 25 at New Orleans* 4:00 p.m. April 26 at New Orleans* 1:00 p.m. coming off of a 2-1 series loss last weekend April 28 Tennessee-Martin 3:00 p.m. on the road at Illinois State. Illinois State May 1 at Florida International* 6:00 p.m. edged MSU 8-7 in the series opener before Probable Pitching Matchups May 2 at Florida International* 3:00 p.m. the Bears evened the series with an 8-5 win May 3 at Florida International* 12:00 p.m. Tuesday May 8 Florida Atlantic* 6:00 p.m. Saturday afternoon. A two-run, walk-off May 9 Florida Atlantic* 2:00 p.m. single from Illinois State in the bottom of ASU - RHP Derek Riley (0-3, 8.87 ERA) May 10 Florida Atlantic* 12:00 p.m. MSU - RHP J.C. Casey (1-2, 4.96 ERA) May 12 Murray State 6:00 p.m. the 10th gave ISU a 6-5 win to clinch the se- May 14 at UALR* 6:00 p.m. ries in the Sunday finale. May 15 at UALR* 6:00 p.m. Wednesday May 16 at UALR* 1:00 p.m. ASU - RHP Drew Benes (3-3, 7.31 ERA) May 20-23 SBC Tournament at Troy TBA THE MISSOURI STATE SERIES: Mis- % - UT-Arlington/Hilton Invitational souri State holds a 32-19 advantage in the MSU - RHP Pat Doyle - (1-2, 3.05 ERA) * Sun Belt Conference Game all-time series. When the two teams met All Times Central Time last year in Springfield, the Bears defeated Red Wolves Baseball This Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday ASU vs. ASU vs. ASU vs. ASU vs. ASU vs. Day Practice Missouri St. Missouri St. W. Kentucky W. Kentucky W. Kentucky Off TBA 6:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 2:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. 2009 A-State Baseball1 AStateRedWolves.com innings spanning three games against Mem- 1.000 fielding percentage. 2009 Sun Belt Standings phis and Chicago State April 8-11. The Red As Of April 13 Wolves did not allow a run in the final seven SEASON HIGH FOR HITS: The Red Sun Belt Overall innings of their 8-7, 10-inning victory over Wolves tied their season high with 18 hits in W-L Pct. W-L Pct. Memphis Wednesday, shut out Chicago their 15-0 victory over Chicago State Friday WKU 12-3 .800 25-9 .735 State in nine innings Friday and went the night, then topped the mark when they MTSU 13-5 .722 24-8 .750 first six innings of Saturday’s win without belted out 20 hits in their 16-9 win over the TROY 10-5 .667 22-13 .629 giving up a run. ASU pitchers Chris Bulling- Cougars Saturday afternoon. The 38 hits in ULM 11-7 .611 21-12 .636 ton, Andy Ferguson, Nick Lambert, Chase the two games is the most in any two con- FIU 9-6 .600 20-12 .625 Ware, Jett Jones and Ryan Blackburn all secutive games this season. Following the ULL 8-9 .471 17-15-1 .530 contributed to the streak. Chicago State series, the Red Wolves are ASU 6-9 .400 15-18 .455 also over the .300 team batting mark for the FAU 6-11 .353 17-15 .531 FANNING FOUR: Arkansas State senior first time this season. Arkansas State goes USA 5-10 .333 14-19 .424 Jett Jones struck out four batters in one in- into the Missouri State series hitting .304 as UALR 5-13 .278 9-23 .281 ning during Friday’s 15-0 victory over a team. UNO 4-11 .267 13-21 .382 Chicago State. Jones struck out the first two batters he faced in the seventh inning, and SUN BELT SUCCESS: Although the Red Preseason All-Sun Belt after a dropped third strike allowed his third Wolves are 6-9 in Sun Belt Conference play, strikeout victim to reach base, Jones fanned Arkansas State has picked up a victory in Chase Ware the fourth batter he faced to close out the three of the five series played this season. (Arkansas State, Sr., SP) frame. One week after picking up a series win on Matt Ridings the road at ULM, the Red Wolves defeated (Western Kentucky, Jr., SP) SEASON HIGH FOR K’S: Arkansas South Alabama March 20-22 to earn their Justin Robichaux State pitchers Chase Ware, Jett Jones and first consecutive series victories since clos- (Louisiana-Lafayette, Jr., RP) Josh Storm Ryan Blackburn combined to strike out a ing out the 2007 season with series wins (Troy, Sr., RP) season-high 16 batters in ASU’s 15-0 win over ULM and UALR. The ASU victory over David Doss over Chicago State Friday night. The 16 South Alabama was the Red Wolves’ first se- (South Alabama, Sr., C) strikeouts was just two short of the all-time ries victory over the Jaguars since ASU won Tyler Townsend school record for strikeouts in a single game.