Stephen F. Austin
Prairie View A&M
SFA Starts Four-Game Home Stand with Non-Conference Matchup against Prairie View A&M
4/24/2019 8:39:00 AM | Baseball
SFA goes for season sweep against Panthers
Game Forty-Two
SFA (18-23) vs. Prairie View A&M (16-26)
Wednesday, April 24 | 6:00 p.m. | Nacogdoches, Texas | Jaycees Field (1,000)
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Pitching Matchup | RHP Tony Grabowske (1-2, 4.15 ERA) vs. TBA
LEADOFF HITS
• Only seven home games remain on the SFA baseball team's schedule and the 'Jacks will play over half of them this week when they return to Jaycees Field to start a four-game home stand against non-conference foe Prairie View A&M.
• First pitch in the second matchup between the 'Jacks and Panthers this season is set for 6:00 p.m. Wednesday evening.
• During his team-leading five-game hitting streak, senior infielder Jake Georgiades is batting .437 (7-for-16) with both of his doubles on the year and a pair of RBI. Through that stretch, the College Station, Texas, product has driven his batting average up by 30 points. He needs 17 more hits to get to an even 100 for his SFA career.
• Freshman Brandon Uhse continues to lead SFA in batting average (.307), hits (50) and runs scored (28). The Grand Prairie, Texas, product had his seven-game hitting streak snapped at 19th-ranked Baylor Tuesday evening by going 0-for-3.
SERIES HISTORY vs. PRAIRIE VIEW A&M
Record vs. Prairie View A&M | 5-3 (.625)
Streak | SFA won one
In Nacogdoches | 4-0 (1.000)
Streak | SFA won four
In Prairie View, Texas | 1-3 (.250)
Streak | SFA won one
Last Game | at Prairie View A&M 5, SFA 8 (March 19, 2019)
SFA Runs/Per Game | 74/9.3
Prairie View A&M Runs/Per Game | 51/6.4
Last Prairie View A&M Win | March 20, 2018 (8-2)
Last SFA Win | March 19, 2019 (8-5)
Cardenas vs. Prairie View A&M | 3-2 (.600)
SAVE IT
• A strong bullpen has been a staple of SFA so far this season as the 'Jacks have recorded 14 saves throughout their 18 triumphs so far in 2019.
• Five of those saves have been credited to junior right-hander Jeremy Rodriguez who leads the Southland Conference and ranks 30th nationally with 21 total appearances out of the 'Jacks' bullpen.
• Four more saves have each gone to Jesus Gamez and Tyler Starks.
• Last Saturday in SFA's series finale at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Starks pitched one-third of an inning and made his 96th appearance. That tied Richard Folmer's program record for career appearances and with one more Starks will take over as the program's leader in that statistical category.
APPROACHING 100
• A group of SFA players are approaching the 100-hit mark for their respective careers.
• Junior Josh Campbell has 85 hits in his career and needs 15 more to get to triple digits.
• Senior Jarrod Huber has 76 hits in his career and needs 24 more to get to triple digits.
• Sophomore Jared Martin has 84 hits in his career and needs 16 more to get to triple digits.
• Senior Jake Georgiades has 81 hits in his career and needs 19 more to get to triple digits.
• Senior Manny Vasquez has 88 hits in his career and needs 12 more to get to triple digits.
SIX-WIN STOBART
• Junior left-hander Jacob Stobart recently upped his team-leading win total to six games after tossing seven innings of one-run baseball in the 'Jacks' series opener at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi last Thursday evening.
• Stobart's six wins on the hill represent the team lead and are the second-most by any Southland Conference pitcher so far this season. Those six wins also help Stobart rank 36th nationally in pitching wins.
SOUTHLAND SHUTOUTS
• Just one team in the Southland Conference (Northwestern State) has racked up more shutout wins than the 'Jacks this season. SFA ranks 40th in the nation in shutout victories with a trio of them.
• Those three shutout wins have all come in Southland Conference play and have helped SFA tie the program mark for the highest number of shutout wins in conference play in a single season.
SCOUTING PRAIRIE VIEW A&M | ROSTER | SCHEDULE | STATISTICS
• Over the last 11 days, Prairie View A&M has won four of its last six games and three of its last four to up its record to 16-26 overall. The Panthers' stop in Nacogdoches is the third game of a six-game road swing that started a doubleheader at Huston-Tillotson one week ago.
• Prairie View A&M is 6-13 in road contests this season and 0-5 against Southland Conference adversaries on the road. The Panthers have lost at Houston Baptist twice, at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi once and at Lamar one time.
• Senior Daniel Lingua continues to lead the Panthers in a multitude of offensive categories including batting average (.395), on-base percentage (.505), hits (60), walks (31) and runs scored (42).
• The other primary offensive threat boasted by Prairie View A&M is freshman Alex Martinez. The first-year man is batting .327/.398/.609 with 51 hits and 50 RBI. Martinez lead the Panthers in extra-base hits (23), doubles (12) and home runs (10).
• No Prairie View A&M arm has an ERA of lower than 5.49. As a team, the Panthers' ERA stands at 8.76 and teams are batting .339 against Prairie View A&M pitching.
• Kyle Smith (4-3, 5.49 ERA) is the team's leader in wins as well as the staff's lowest ERA man. He leads the team with 62 1/3 innings pitched and is one of just two Prairie View A&M players who have tossed more than 50 frames this season.
ON DECK
• Just one-and-a-half games back of first place in the Southland Conference standings, the 'Jacks continue their four-game home stand by playing host to longtime Southland and Louisiana rival Northwestern State in a three-game series this weekend. Friday night's series opener is set for 6:30 p.m. at Jaycees Field.
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