FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 1-3, 2019 GAME NOTES #SWORDSUP 6-1 0-0 - / - / - / - 1-3 0-0 - / - / - / - OVERALL SOUTHLAND RANKING (D1B / NCBWA / BA / CB) OVERALL IVY RANKING (D1B / NCBWA / BA / CB) - vs - JOHN STUPER 515-584-3 BLAKE DEAN 96-87-1 HEAD COACH RECORD AT UNO, 4TH SEASON bulldogs HEAD COACH RECORD AT YALE, 27TH SEASON privateers NEW ORLEANS VS HOW TO TUNE IN SERIES AT A GLANCE 2019 SCHEDULE (H: 5-1; A: 1-0; N: 0-0) GAME yale Video : https://bit.ly/2EfrHyQ OVERALL 0-0 (6-1 Overall, 0-0 Southland Conference) #8-10 New Orleans, La. • Maestri Field• Audio: https://bit.ly/2TodUzH Streak --- Mar. 1-3 • 6:00 p.m./12:00 p.m./12:00 p.m. Audio Play by Play: Manny Pepis Last Meeting --- Date Opponent Time/Result Stats: https://bit.ly/2X3Rlzb FEBRUARY (6-1) 15 Michigan State L, 4-8 FIRST PITCH TALE OF THE TAPE 16 Michigan State W, 4-1 • Pearce Howard was named the first Southland Hit- 17 Michigan State W, 6-4 ter of the Week of the 2019 season on Feb. 19 How- 22 Chicago State1 W, 16-8 ard went 6-for-10 with four RBI against Michigan St. 1 23 Rutgers W, 7-2 • Salo Iza homered twice in the three-game series 1 24 Butler W, 2-1 against Michigan State. Iza had three homers all of 26 at #23 Southern Miss W, 2-1 2018 at Palm Beach State. MARCH (0-0) .289 BATTING AVG. .286 1 Yale 6:30 p.m. • Head coach Blake Dean is four wins away from 100 2 Yale 12:00 p.m. as a head coach. If the Privateers get to the 10-win 41 RUNS 22 3 Yale 12:00 p.m. mark before Game 13, Dean would be the third 6 at Jackson State 6:00 p.m. fastest to reach the century mark in wins in program 68 HITS 40 8 at Nicholls * 6:00 p.m. history. Only Ron Maestri (153 games) and Tom 9 at Nicholls * 6:00 p.m. Schwaner (160) reached the mark faster. 21 DOUBLES 6 10 at Nicholls * 2:00 p.m. • The Privateer pitching staff collectively smashed 12 at Louisiana 6:30 p.m. 15 at Northwestern State * 6:30 p.m. the program single season record for strikeouts. UNO 2 TRIPLES 0 16 at Northwestern State * 2:00 p.m. pitchers recorded 580 Ks. The previous record was 17 at Northwestern State * 1:00 p.m. 511. 4 HOME RUNS 1 19 South Alabama 6:30 p.m. • New Orleans hitters drew nine walks in the season 20 at South Alabama 6:30 p.m. opener vs. Michigan State. It was the most walks 35 RBI 19 22 Sam Houston State * 6:30 p.m. drawn in a game since 2/18/18 (10 vs. Southern). 23 Sam Houston State * 2:00 p.m. • Collin Morrill is on a 12-game hitting streak span- 24 Sam Houston State * 1:00 p.m. .404 OBP .387 26 Southern 6:30 p.m. ning back to 2018. Morrill is four games from entering 29 at UIW * 6:30 p.m. the top 10 in the program’s longest hitting streaks. 6 STOLEN BASES 9 30 at UIW * 2:00 p.m. PROBABLE STARTERS 31 at UIW * 1:00 p.m. 2.43 EARNED RUN AVG. 12.00 APRIL (0-0) NEW ORLEANS OPPONENT 2 2 Tulane 6:30 p.m. RHP-Brayson Smith (0-0, 1.80)...............................RHP-Scott Politz (1-0, 0.00) STRIKEOUTS/ 3 Jackson State 6:30 p.m. RHP-Chris Turpin (2-0, 0.00)..........................LHP-Kumar Nambiar (0-1, 17.18) 55 24 5 Southeastern * 6:30 p.m. RHP-Steven Swift (0-1, 3.86)..............................RHP-Alex Stiegler (0-1, 17.36) 4 SAVES 1 6 Southeastern * 2:00 p.m. Quick Hits: Smith threw an inning in the midweek victory over Southern 7 Southeastern * 1:00 p.m. Miss...Turpin has allowed just one walk over his two starts, both wins... 10 at Southern 6:30 p.m. Swift threw 4.0 innings in a no-decision vs. Butler at the Allstate Sugar Bowl .227 OPPONENT BA .374 12 at McNeese * 6:30 p.m. Baseball Classic. 13 at McNeese * 3:00 p.m. PROBABLE LINEUP 14 at McNeese * 1:00 p.m. POS. NO. PLAYER B/T AVG. HR RBI NOTES 16 Tulane 2 6:30 p.m. 18 at Missouri State 6:30 p.m. 2B 29 Salo Iza R/R .154 2 3 Hit .302 at Palm Beach State in ‘18 19 at Missouri State 6:30 p.m. CF 5 Wade Raburn L/L .318 0 3 97 runs scored in 75 games at Odessa JC 20 at Missouri State 2:00 p.m. C 24 Beau Bratton L/R .320 0 4 Preseason First Team All-Conference 24 Southern Miss 6:30 p.m. LF 4 Luther Woullard R/R .355 0 7 .425 BA at Jones County CC last season 26 Lamar * 6:30 p.m. 1B 12 Collin Morrill L/R .370 1 4 Led Privateers in runs scored last year (47) 27 Lamar * 2:00 p.m. DH 16 Tresten Kennard R/R .192 0 0 All-Region & All-Conference at Odessa (‘18) 28 Lamar * 1:00 p.m. RF 43 Gaige Howard L/R .444 0 0 4 BB in last 2 games of Sugar Bowl Classic 30 at Tulane 2 6:30 p.m. 3B 6 Antonio Gauthier L/R .182 0 1 .398 BA, 10 HR in senior year at Barbe HS MAY (0-0) 3 Abilene Christian * 6:30 p.m. SS 3 Darren Willis R/R .259 0 5 Started all 61 games last year 4 Abilene Christian * 2:00 p.m. 5 Abilene Christian * 1:00 p.m. NEW ORLEANS yale 7 Southern 6:30 p.m. LEADERS LEADERS 10 HBU * 6:30 p.m. Batting Avg.............P. Howard .................... .600 Batting Avg.............B. Wagner .................... .538 11 HBU * 2:00 p.m. Hits ........................L. Woullard .................. 11 Hits ........................S. Whiteman ................ 8 12 HBU * 1:00 p.m. RBI .........................2 Tied ........................... 7 RBI .........................B. Wagner .................... 3 14 at LSU 6:30 p.m. Home Runs ............S. Iza ............................ 2 Home Runs ............B. Wagner .................... 1 16 at Stephen F. Austin * 6:30 p.m. Total Bases .............C. Morrill...................... 16 Total Bases .............B. Wagner .................... 11 17 at Stephen F. Austin * 2:00 p.m. Runs .......................S. Iza ............................ 8 Runs .......................S. Whiteman ................ 5 18 at Stephen F. Austin * 1:00 p.m. Stolen Bases ..........G. Howard.................... 2 Stolen Bases ..........S. Whiteman ................ 4 Wins.......................C. Turpin ...................... 2 Wins.......................S. Politz ........................ 1 Strikeouts ..............M. Oset ........................ 12 Strikeouts ..............K. Nambiar ................... 6 ERA ........................C. Turpin ...................... 0.00 ERA ........................S. Politz ........................ 0.00 * Southland Conference game | 1 Allstate Sugar Bowl Classic | 2 Pelican Cup CONNECT ON SOCIAL MEDIA 2 COLLEGE WORLD SERIES 7 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS 89 MLB DRAFT PICKS @Privateers_BSB 2019 @Privateers_BSB RAISING THE BARR PRESEASON SOUTHLAND John Barr picked up his first save as a Privateer against Rutgers. So far this season, ALL-CONFERENCE TEAMS Barr has worked 8.0 innings and allowed one run. Barr recorded a 2.04 ERA, the eighth lowest in a single season in program history. Opponents hit a miniscule first team .204 off of him last year. The Waynesboro, Pa. native also registered 68 strikeouts, C Beau Bratton New Orleans Jr. second most on the team. 1B Tyler Smith Central Arkansas Sr. 2B Kyle Bergeron UIW Jr. CLOSING TIME SS Ethan Valdez Nicholls Sr. 3B Jake Georgiades Stephen F. Austin Sr. Reeves Martin has already racked up three saves this season, bringing his career OF Itchy Burts Texas A&M-CC Sr. total to 15, second most in program history. Martin was lights out in the pen. Last OF Eddy Gonzalez UIW Sr. year as a sophomore, Martin recorded nine saves. Martin had 55 strikeouts in 47.1 OF Hunter Hearn Sam Houston State Sr. innings pitched. DH Dalon Farkas Abilene Christian Sr. UTIL Cole Coker Lamar Jr. KNOCKED FROM THE RANKS P Corey Gaconi Southeastern Sr. P Carlisle Koestler Southeastern Sr. The win against Southern Miss was the fifth versus a ranked school in the Blake P Jerry Maddox Northwestern State Sr. Dean era. Coach Dean has guided the Privateers to wins over the following schools when ranked: Southern Miss (twice), LSU (twice), and Texas. second team HOW SWEET IT IS C Drake Osborn Texas A&M-CC Jr. The Privateers went 3-0 in the Allstate Sugar Bowl Baseball Classic this past week- 1B Ryan Flores UIW So. end. In two seasons of hosting the event, the Privateers are 5-1 with their only loss 2B Cody Grosse Southeastern Sr. coming against Iowa last year. SS Manny Vasquez Stephen F. Austin Sr. 3B Enrique Sanchez Texas A&M-CC Sr. LOUISIANA SATURDAY NIGHT OF Clayton Harp Sam Houston State Sr. OF Pearce Howard New Orleans So. Saturday starter, Chris Turpin has been automatic in his first two starts as a Priva- OF Shane Selman McNeese Sr. teer. He shut out Michigan State over six innings in the opening weekend. Turpin DH J.P. Lagreco Northwestern State Sr. then followed with six innings and one hit allowed against another Big Ten op- UTIL Derek Scott Abilene Christian Sr. ponent in Rutgers. Turpin has issued just one walk in his first two starts of the 2019 P Aidan Anderson McNeese Sr. campaign. P Ridge Heisler Northwestern State Sr. P Hayden Wesneski Sam Houston State Sr. LUCKY SEVEN presesaon poll Once again, the Privateers were picked seventh in the preseason poll by the South- 1.