Stephen F. Austin
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
'Jacks Travel to the Gulf Coast for Southland Series at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
4/17/2019 7:13:00 PM | Baseball
SFA is 4-2 in Southland Conference road games this season, sits 3.5 games back of league lead
Game Thirty-Eight
SFA (16-21, 9-6 Southland) at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi (24-16, 10-8 Southland)
Thursday, April 18 | 6:00 p.m. | Chapman Field (500) | Corpus Christi, Texas
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Pitching Matchup | LHP Jacob Stobart (5-1, 5.55 ERA) vs. RHP Dustin Lacaze (3-2, 3.21 ERA)
Game Thirty-Nine
SFA at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Friday, April 19 | 6:00 p.m. | Chapman Field (500) | Corpus Christi, Texas
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Pitching Matchup | RHP Alex Palmer (3-4, 3.10 ERA) vs. LHP John Gaddis (2-2, 2.35 ERA)
Game Forty
SFA at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Saturday, April 20 | 1:00 p.m. | Chapman Field (500) | Corpus Christi, Texas
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Pitching Matchup | RHP Trayson Kubo (0-1, 7.42 ERA) vs. TBA
LEADOFF HITS
• With one half of its Southland Conference schedule in the books, the SFA baseball team begins a four-game stretch of road games by heading south to battle Texas A&M-Corpus Christi in a three-game league set.
• The Thursday/Friday/Saturday series will take place at Chapman Field in Corpus Christi, Texas, with the first pitch in Thursday's opener set for 6:00 p.m.
• After the first half of Southland Conference play, SFA sits in fourth place in the league standings with 15 conference games left. The 'Jacks are 3.5 games back of league-leading Sam Houston State.
• SFA has done a fine job of bouncing back from a difficult 2018 campaign thus far as the 'Jacks have already tied their Southland Conference win total from last season with 15 league tilts to go. With 19 regular season games left on their docket, SFA is one win away from matching their win total from the entire 2018 season.
• The Thursday-Saturday set at the Islanders represents the 'Jacks' first Southland Conference road action since March 22-24 when SFA took on Central Arkansas in Conway, Ark. SFA is 6-8 on the road this season which includes a 4-2 showing in Southland away contests.
CAMPBELL HEATING UP
• Ever since sophomore outfielder Jared Martin started getting held out of the 'Jacks' lineup with an injury in early April, junior Josh Campbell has stepped in and provided SFA with a jolt of
offense.
• In the month of April, the Angleton, Texas, product is batting .435 (10-for-23) with eight RBI, three doubles and three home runs.
• Those three long balls have pushed Campbell's season total to a team-leading five.
• Nine of Campbell's 16 hits on the year have gone for extra bases and the junior currently boasts a team-leading slugging percentage of .468.
A UHSE-FUL BAT
• Freshman outfielder Brandon Uhse continues to impress in his inaugural collegiate campaign as he leads the 'Jacks in batting average (.315), hits (46) and runs scored (25).
• Over his last four games Uhse is batting .471 (8-for-17) and has scored five runs.
PALMER POWER
• Just one Southland Conference player has amassed more strikeouts than SFA junior Alex Palmer who has turned into the 'Jacks' ace during his first season in a Lumberjack uniform.
• Palmer, a product of Arlington, Texas, has racked up 66 punchouts which is the 39th-highest total among all NCAA Division I pitchers.
• The junior also leads the Southland with nine games started while hit 6.49 hits allowed per nine innings represent the sixth-best figure in the league and the 86th-best in the nation.
DALEY DOSE
• Senior outfielder Nick Daley enters this week's series riding a three-game hitting streak.
• Daley has stolen a team-leading 11 bases this year, upping his career total to 32. That's the fifth-most stolen bases by a single player in the history of the program.
SAVE ME
• As a team, the 'Jacks have amassed 14 saves thus far, a total that's tied for the second-most in a single season in program history.
• A team-leading five of those saves belong to junior right-hander Jeremy Rodriguez who leads SFA and ranks 37th nationally with 19 total appearances on the hill this season.
• Speaking of appearances - and saves - senior left-hander Tyler Starks needs two more appearance to tie Richard Folmer's program record of 96. In terms of saves, Starks has 17 to his credit which are the third-most in program history. With four more he will tie Folmer for the program record in that category, too.
• Four more of the 'Jacks' saves belong to Jesus Gamez who owns the best ERA (1.80) among SFA's pitching staff.
SERIES HISTORY | SFA vs. TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI
Record vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi | 24-19 (.558)
Streak | SFA won one
In Nacogdoches, Texas | 8-9 (.471)
Streak | SFA won one
In Corpus Christi, Texas | 15-8 (.652)
Streak | SFA won one
Last game | at SFA 11, A&M-Corpus Christi 10 (10 inn., April 22, 2018)
SFA runs/per game | 287/6.7
A&M-CC runs/per game | 225/5.2
Last SFA win | April 22, 2018 (at SFA 11, A&M-CC 10)
Last A&M-CC win | April 21, 2018 (at SFA 2, A&M-CC 9)
Cardenas vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi | 19-13 (.594)
SCOUTING TEXAS A&M-CORPUS CHRISTI | ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATISTICS
• When they start their three-game series with SFA, the Islanders will be continuing their season-long nine-game home stand that started with a 16-4 non-conference setback to UTSA Tuesday night.
• Texas A&M-Corpus Christi will be looking to put an end to a four-game losing skid when it hosts the 'Jacks. Over the last four games the Islanders have been outscored 42-10 and were swept at Southland Conference foe Lamar last weekend.
• Despite that, the Islanders possess one of the nation's best offenses as they rank third in the land with 429 hits and eighth with a collective batting average of .312 that leads all Southland Conference squads.
• Leading the way in terms of offense for the Islanders is the duo of Enrique Sanchez, Jr., and Itchy Burts. The former leads the team and ranks fourth in the Southland with a batting average of .382 while the latter owns the fifth-highest batting average in the league at .369.
• Both are in the top 10 nationally in hits this season. Sanchez, Jr., has 63 hits - the fifth-most in the nation - while Burts' 62 are the seventh most in the land.
• Between the two of them, 60 of the team's 220 RBI are represented as Sanchez leads the team with 34 runs driven in. Burts is second, having driven in 26 runs through 40 games played.
• Burts and Luke Marbach (.309/.415/.480) are tied for the team lead in extra-base hits (16) and doubles (13).
• Thursday night starter Dustin Lacaze leads the Islanders' pitching staff in innings pitched (56) and strikeouts (59). No other Texas A&M-Corpus Christi arm has tossed more than 42 frames so far this season.
• Friday evening, John Gaddis will be making his first start of the season for the Islanders. In 15 appearances out of the team's bullpen this season, Gaddis has put up a 2-2 record and had one of the team's four saves to go along with an ERA of 2.35 which is the second-lowest on the team.
• The Islanders' pitching staff possesses a collective ERA of 5.68 which ranks 12th in the Southland.
ON DECK
• Once Easter Sunday concludes, the 'Jacks will dive right back into it with a five-game week that starts on the road. Tuesday evening at 6:35 p.m., SFA heads to Waco, Texas, for a non-conference showdown with Big 12 foe Baylor.
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