Baseball | 5/6/2016 2:33:00 AM
New Orleans (26-17, 10-11 Southland) vs. Abilene Christian (13-28, 8-16 Southland)
Crutcher Scott Field
Abilene, TX
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Starting Pitchers
Friday, April 29: RHP
Garrett deMeyere (ACU) vs. Riley Hodge (UNO)
Saturday, April 30: LHP
Aaron Mason (ACU) vs. Undecided (SFA)
Sunday, May 1: RHP
Kyle Carroll (ACU) vs. Undecided
(SFA)
ABILENE – The ACU Wildcats host New Orleans this weekend in the team's final three-game Southland Conference homestand of the season.
The series gets started Friday with a single game at 6 p.m., followed by a 6 p.m. game Saturday and the series final at 1 p.m. Sunday.
The Wildcats enter the series at 13-28 overall and 5-16 in Southland play, while the Privateers are 26-17 and 10-11. ACU was swept at home last weekend by Stephen F. Austin as the red-hot Lumberjacks won by the scores of 11-2, 13-4 and 7-2.
ACU is led offensively by junior infielder
Russell Crippen, who is hitting .326 with three home runs and a team-leading 17 RBI. Freshman
Mark Pearson is hitting .264 with eight RBI, while junior outfielder
Braxton Wilks is hitting .225 with a team-high 17 RBI.
The Wildcats lost their starting catcher
Alex Copeland last week after he caught a foul ball off the collarbone, breaking it and requiring a season-ending procedure to repair the injury.
The Wildcats' rotation this weekend should be its normal three of RHP
Garrett deMeyere (2-7, 4.01 ERA) on Friday, followed by LHP
Aaron Mason (5-4, 3.15 ERA) on Saturday and RHP
Kyle Carroll (3-6, 3.86 ERA) in the series finale Sunday.
The Privateers are 26-17 overall and 10-11 in the Southland heading into this weekend's series. The Privateeers had won seven straight before dropping two of three game against Central Arkansas last weekend.
New Orleans leads the league in batting average (.311) and is second in runs scored (316), while ACU is 12th in batting average (.248) has scored the fewest runs in the league (145).
However, ACU's pitching staff is fifth in the league in ERA (4.37) and opposing runs allowed (216), while New Orleans is 12th in the league in ERA (5.57) and 11th in runs allowed (272).
UNO's Dakota Dean is fourth in the league in batting average at .359 to go along with five home runs and 30 RBI.
