MissouriGames 4-7 | MISSOURI STATE BEARS at TURFACE CLASSIC | Feb. 20-23, 2020 | Clarksville/Nashville/Murfreesboro, STATE Tenn. | KBFL 1060 AM/96.9 FM 5 NCAA College World Series Appearances • 18 Regional Berths • 42 All-Americans • 20 Major Leaguers Eric Doennig, MSU Athletics Communications (Primary Contact) | O: (417) 836-4586 | C: (417) 827-5327 | [email protected] | MissouriStateBears.com | @MSUBearBaseball | MissouriStBears 2020 SCHEDULE TURFACE CLASSIC (2-1) Game 1 ...............................at Austin Peay February Date .......... Thursday, Feb. 20 (3:00 p.m.) 14 at Central Arkansas W, 1-0 Site ................................Clarksville, Tenn. 15 at Central Arkansas W, 6-2 Stadium .... Raymond C. Hand Park (777) 16 at Central Arkansas L, 2-5 Game 2 .....................................at Belmont 20 at Austin Peay@ 3:00 p.m. Date ............... Friday, Feb. 21 (4:00 p.m.) 21 at Belmont@ 4:00 p.m. Site ................................. Nashville, Tenn. @ Stadium ..................E.S. Rose Park (500) 22 at Lipscomb 2:00 p.m. MISSOURI STATE Game 3 .................................. at Lipscomb AUSTIN PEAY 23 at Middle Tennessee@ 1:00 p.m. BEARS (2-1) Date ...........Saturday, Feb. 22 (2:00 p.m.) GOVERNORS (2-1) 25 at Oral Roberts 3:00 p.m. Site ................................. Nashville, Tenn. 28 at Rice 6:30 p.m. Conference ........................Missouri Valley Stadium ............... Ken Dugan Field (750) Conference ..............................Ohio Valley 29 at Rice 2:00 p.m. Head Coach ............................Keith Guttin Game 4 .....................at Middle Tennessee Head Coach .......................Travis Janssen Alma Mater ................... Missouri-St. Louis Date ............. Sunday, Feb. 23 (1:00 p.m.) Alma Mater .......................... Kansas State March (0-0) Career Record ........ 1,281-813 (38th year) Site ...........................Murfreesboro, Tenn. Career Record ............. 226-205 (9th year) 1 at Rice 1:00 p.m. Stadium .....Reese Smith Jr. Field (2,600) Record at MSU .................................same Record at APSU .......... 122-106 (5th year) 3 at Oklahoma State 4:00 p.m. Radio .................... KBFL 1060 AM/96.9 FM 6 MAINE 3:00 p.m. 7 MAINE 2:00 p.m. 8 MAINE 1:00 p.m. 10 ORAL ROBERTS 3:00 p.m. 11 SIU EDWARDSVILLE 3:00 p.m. 13 at UC Irvine 8:00 p.m. 14 at UC Irvine 8:00 p.m. 15 at UC Irvine 3:00 p.m. 18 ALABAMA 3:00 p.m. 20 SAN JOSE STATE 3:00 p.m. BELMONT LIPSCOMB MIDDLE TENNESSEE 21 SAN JOSE STATE 2:00 p.m. BRUINS (2-2) BISONS (3-0) BLUE RAIDERS (0-3) 22 SAN JOSE STATE 11:00 a.m. 24 ARKANSAS STATE 6:30 p.m. Conference ..............................Ohio Valley Conference .............................Atlantic Sun Conference .....................Conference USA 25 ARKANSAS STATE 3:00 p.m. Head Coach ............................Dave Jarvis Head Coach .........................Jeff Forehand Head Coach ............................. Jim Toman 27 at Bradley* 6:00 p.m. Alma Mater ....................... Arkansas State Alma Mater ...................................Belmont Alma Mater ................................. NC State 28 at Bradley* 2:00 p.m. Career Record .......961-746-2 (32nd year) Career Record ........572-528-1 (20th year) Career Record ........ 347-245-1 (11th year) 29 at Bradley* 1:00 p.m. Record at BU ..........637-594-2 (23rd year) Record at LU ............. 361-386 (14th year) Record at MTSU ............. 18-40 (2nd year) 31 KANSAS 6:30 p.m. April (0-0) 3 ILLINOIS STATE* 6:30 p.m. AROUND THE HORN 4 ILLINOIS STATE* 2:00 p.m. 5 ILLINOIS STATE* 3:00 p.m. Pos. Player Ht. Wt. Class B/T G/GS BA/OBP/SLG HR/RBI Notes 7 at Kansas 6:00 p.m. DH Drake Baldwin 6-1 210 Fr. L/R 3/3 .273/.333/.545 1/1 Go-ahead 7th inn. HR Saturday at UCA 9 SOUTHERN 6:30 p.m. 1B Ben Whetstone 6-6 230 Sr. L/R 3/3 .077/.077/.077 0/0 116 consecutive starts at 1B; 94 DPs turned 10 SOUTHERN 6:30 p.m. 2B John Privitera 5-8 170 Sr. L/R 3/3 .300/.300/.400 0/0 139 career starts; 1st Team All-MVC in ‘18 11 SOUTHERN 2:00 p.m. SS Mason Hull 6-0 190 So. R/R 3/3 .200/.273/.200 0/0 Made 50 starts at SS as freshman in ‘19 13 SEMO 6:30 p.m. 3B Grant Wood 5-11 195 Jr. R/R 3/3 .455/.538/.545 0/0 Logged a pair of 2-hit games at UCA 14 at Arkansas 6:30 p.m. RF Dakota Kotowski 6-5 225 So. R/R 3/3 .417/.417/.750 1/4 Drove in runs in all 3 games at UCA 17 EVANSVILLE* 1:00 p.m. CF Jack Duffy 5-10 190 Sr. L/R 3/2 .300/.300/.400 0/0 Recorded 3 hits Saturday at UCA 18 EVANSVILLE* 5:00 p.m. LF Jordan McFarland 6-3 220 Sr. R/R 3/3 .000/.000/.000 0/0 Started all 3 games in LF at UCA 19 EVANSVILLE* 11:30 a.m. C Logan Geha 5-11 190 Sr. R/R 2/2 .167/.286/.667 1/2 2-run HR Saturday at UCA 21 at Missouri 6:30 p.m. OF Greg Ziegler 6-0 185 Fr. R/R 3/1 .333/.333/1.000 1/1 Homered, doubled Sunday at UCA 24 at DBU* 6:30 p.m. OF Mason Auer 6-0 200 Fr. R/R 2/0 .000/.500/.000 0/0 Made MSU debut Saturday at UCA 25 at DBU* 2:00 p.m. IF Anthony Herron Jr. 6-2 240 So. R/R 1/1 .000/.000/.000 0/0 Made 30 starts as freshman OF/DH 26 at DBU* 1:00 p.m. IF Joey Polak 6-3 220 Jr. R/R 1/0 .000/.000/.000 0/0 Ranked 6th in MVC in HR last spring 28 MISSOURI 6:30 p.m. OF Collin Clayton 6-1 175 Sr. R/R 0/0 .000/.000/.000 0/0 7-game hit streak, Feb. 17-27, 2019 May (0-0) 1 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS* 6:30 p.m. Pos. Pitcher Ht. Wt. Class B/T G/GS W-L Sv IP H K/BB BAA ERA 2 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS* 2:00 p.m. RHP Logan Wiley 6-0 190 Sr. R/R 1/1 1-0 0 7.0 3 7/0 .125 0.00 3 SOUTHERN ILLINOIS* 1:00 p.m. RHP Hayden Minton 6-3 190 Fr. L/R 1/1 1-0 0 6.0 2 4/3 .111 1.50 8 at Valparaiso* 3:00 p.m. LHP Peyton Carson 6-4 195 So. L/L 1/1 0-1 0 3.2 7 4/2 .389 9.82 9 at Valparaiso* 1:00 p.m. 10 at Valparaiso* 12:00 p.m. RHP Trey Ziegenbein 6-3 165 So. R/R 2/0 0-0 0 2.2 1 3/2 .125 0.00 14 at Indiana State* 5:30 p.m. RHP Forrest Barnes 6-0 190 So. R/R 1/0 0-0 0 2.0 1 0/1 .200 0.00 LHP Nate Witherspoon 6-4 210 Sr. L/L 1/0 0-0 0 0.1 0 0/0 .000 0.00 15 at Indiana State* 5:30 p.m. RHP Nick Schmidt 6-4 205 So. R/R 1/0 0-0 0 0.0 2 0/0 1.000 0.00 16 at Indiana State* 1:00 p.m. # LHP Hayden Juenger 6-0 175 So. R/R 2/0 0-0 1 2.1 5 3/1 .455 3.86 19-23 at MVC Baseball Championship TBA RHP Matt Russell 6-2 190 So. R/R 1/0 0-0 0 2.0 2 1/0 .250 4.50 Home games played at Hammons Field in BOLD CAPS RHP Ty Buckner 6-1 190 So. R/R 0/0 0-0 0 0.0 0 0/0 .000 0.00 *MVC game LHP Ben Cruikshank 6-4 165 So. L/L 0/0 0-0 0 0.0 0 0/0 .000 0.00 @ SAF Dirt Classic RHP Logan Thomazin 6-2 200 So. R/R 0/0 0-0 0 0.0 0 0/0 .000 0.00 # at Itchy Jones Stadium (Carbondale, Ill.) MISSOURI STATE BASEBALL Games 4-7 | MISSOURI STATE BEARS at TURFACE CLASSIC | Feb. 20-23, 2020 | Clarksville/Nashville/Murfreesboro, Tenn. | KBFL 1060 AM/96.9 FM MISSOURI STATE QUICK FACTS PRIME 9 Founded ............................................................................................1905 Missouri State claimed two of three games from Central Arkansas in the two clubs’ season-opening series in Con- Location ............................................................................ Springfield, Mo. way last weekend, with the Bears’ pitching staff holding UCA to seven runs for the series Address .....................................................................901 S. National Ave. The Bears, who return 19 letterwinner’s from last year’s squad, were picked second in the Missouri Valley Confer- ................................................................... Springfield, MO 65897 ence’s preseason poll by the league’s head coaches Web Site ....................................................................... MissouriState.edu Switchboard .......................................................................(417) 836-5000 Keith Guttin ranks fourth on the NCAA’s Division I wins list for active coaches and 19th all-time with 1,281 President ................................................................................... Clif Smart victories for his 38-year career; he needs 19 wins to catch Fresno State’s Bob Bennett in the 18th spot on the chart Enrollment ......................................................................................26,001 Logan Wiley picked up MVC Pitcher of the Week laurels for the second time in his MSU career on Monday, Nickname ..........................................................................................Bears following 7.0 shutout innings over which he struck out seven UCA batters and scattered three hits in a 1-0 victory School Colors ...............................................................Maroon and White Wiley logged team-leading totals for wins (5), innings pitched (90.2) and strikeouts (82) last spring, and has National Affiliation .............................................................NCAA Division I recorded a 5-0 mark and 1.98 ERA over his last seven starts, dating back to April 19, 2019 Conference .................................................Missouri Valley Conference Thanks to Wiley’s effort Friday, the Bears pitching staff posted MSU’s first opening day shutout since a 2-0 win over Director of Athletics .................................................................