#26 Emory Baseball to Play at Oglethorpe, Host Sewanee this Week

The 26^th-ranked Emory University baseball team will face a pair of regional foes this week, traveling to cross town rival Oglethorpe University on Tuesday at 7:00 PM, and hosting the University of the South (Sewanee) at 3:00 PM on Wednesday at Chappell Park.

Coverage
For Tuesday’s game at Oglethorpe, there will be live statistics available at http://www.oglethorpe.edu/athletics/live_stats/baseball/mens/xlive.htm and there will be a live audio broadcast at http://client.stretchinternet.com/client/oglethorpe.portal#.

Wednesday’s home game against Sewanee will be webcasted at http://go.emory.edu/Webcasts/BaseWebcast.html, and requires the free version of RealPlayer from real.com to view.  Live statistics for Friday are available at http://www.go.emory.edu/LiveStats/Base/xlive.htm.

Emory Eagles
With just eight games remaining in the regular season for Emory, the Eagles will look to extend their two-game winning streak to improve their chances at a bid to the NCAA Division III Tournament.  Emory will begin the week with a record of 23-12 following their sweep of a home-and-home series with Covenant College last weekend.  The Eagles are 4-4 in road games this season and 14-5 at home.  Emory is led by head coach Mike Twardoski, whose 360-160-1 career record is good for a .692 winning percentage, the highest mark among active UAA coaches, 15^th-highest among all active NCAA Division III coaches, and 21^st-best mark among Division III coaches all time to start the season.  Assistant Coaches Bobby Perez, Brian Clark, and Greg McMichael will complete Coach Twardoski’s staff for the 2011 season.

Oglethorpe Stormy Petrels
Oglethorpe will enter play on Tuesday with a record of 16-14 overall, including an 11-8 record at home this season.  The Stormy Petrels are batting .289 as a team during the year with an average of 5.9 runs per game, while the pitching staff has a 4.92 ERA with a .269 opponents’ batting average.  Oglethorpe is led by eighth-year head coach Dan Giodano, who has a record of 104-206 with the team.  He is assisted by Tim Ernst and former Emory assistant Steven Argo.

This will be the rubber game of the three-game season series between the two teams, after the squads split a pair of games during the season’s opening weekend.  On February 12^th at Chappell Park, Emory defeated Oglethorpe 14-4 behind five innings of four-hit baseball from starter Chris Monaco and four RBIs from Andrew Cohn.  The next day at Anderson Field, the Eagles fell 7-5 to the Stormy Petrels despite another pair of RBIs from Cohn.  The Eagles are 38-15 all time against Oglethorpe.

Sewanee Tigers
The Tigers currently stand at 10-17 on the season, including a 1-11 record on the road in 2011.  As a team, Sewanee is batting .320 with an average of 7.1 runs per game, while the Tigers’ pitchers have a 6.93 ERA and are allowing opponents to hit .287 against them.  Sewanee is led by head coach Scott Baker, who is 127-257 during his 11 seasons with the team.  He is assisted by Adrian Norris.

Emory is 33-4 all time against Sewanee, including a 22-6 win at the University of the South last season.  During last year’s game, Jonathan Reilly was four-for-five with six RBIs and a double, while Patrick Riebsame, Andrew Cohn and Jay Page all hit home runs.

Emory Notes
Patrick Riebsame drove in five runs during the Eagles’ 10-3 win over Covenant College on Saturday, the most in a single game by an Eagle this season… Riebsame has 10 multiple RBI games this season for the Eagles, the most on the team… Brandon Hannon has reached base safely in 24-straight games… Emory has scored 10 or more runs in 12 games this season, going a perfect 12-0 in those games… The Eagles have won 24 games in a row when they score in double-digits, dating back to April 14, 2009.