SFA Hosts Grambling To Open 2010
2/18/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Feb. 18, 2010
vs Grambling (0-0, 0-0 SWAC) - Feb. 19, 2009
vs Grambling (0-0, 0-0 SWAC) - Feb. 20, 2009
vs Grambling (0-0, 0-0 SWAC) - Feb. 21, 2009
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Probable Pitching Matchups
Friday:
SFA - Tyler Herriage, LHP (3-4, 4.47 ERA, 54.1 IP, 43K, 24BB)*2009 JC Stats
Grambling - TBD
Saturday:
SFA - Jared West, RHP (4-3, 5.11 ERA, 61.2 IP, 36K, 31BB)*2009 Stats
Grambling - TBD
Sunday:
SFA - Justin Braddock, RHP (12-1, 3.97 ERA, 81.2 IP, 66K, 10BB)*2009 JC Stats
Grambling - TBD
What To Watch For
- SFA will be opening up its first season without anyone remaining on the roster from the original 2006 roster that brought baseball back in 2006. The `Jacks bid adieu to the remaining players Zach Gardner, Erich Lehmann, Erik Gregersen, Richard Folmer, Jared Schrom, Adam Bosley, Gabriel Garcia-Serrano and Ryan Sinclair at the conclusion of the 2009 season.
- This weekend will mark the first time since SFA brought baseball back that it will play a multiple-game series against a team from the SWAC and is the first time that a team from the SWAC has made its way to Jaycees Field in that same time span. SFA played a single game at Prairie View A&M in 2007 and met up with Mississippi Valley State in Monroe, La., last year. The `Jacks dropped both contests.
- The `Jacks will be starting the season at home for the first time since the 2006 season when it unveiled the new program in front of the home fans with a 6-5 win over Arkansas-Little Rock. That is also the last time SFA won a season-opener.
- There will be plenty of new faces on the diamond this weekend for the `Jacks with only 12 returning players on the 35-man roster for SFA, which is the least amount of any team in the Southland Conference.
- Senior shortstop Tanner Hines enters the season as one of th leaders of this year's team and already through just one season he is in the top 10 in a career statistical category at SFA. He managed to swipe 17 bases last season and enters 2010 in a tie for eighth all-time at SFA in that category. He needs 20 stolen bases this season to tie former teammate Zach Gardner's career mark of 37 that he set last season.
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