Baseball to Play Mid-Week Games against DePauw & Centre
The Emory University baseball team will be back in action this
week, hosting DePauw University and Centre College on Tuesday and
Wednesday at Chappell Park. Both games are slated for 3:00 PM
starts.
Coverage
Both games will have a video webcast and live
statistics. The webcasts, available at http://go.emory.edu/Webcasts/BaseWebcast.html,
require the free version of RealPlayer from real.com to view.
Live statistics for the games are available at http://www.go.emory.edu/LiveStats/Base/xlive.htm.
Emory Eagles
Emory University will begin the week with a 14-8 record,
including an 8-3 record in home games this season. The Eagles
are now batting .303 as a team with an average of eight runs per
game, and have scored at least six runs in 11-straight games.
Emory’s pitchers have an ERA of 4.73 this season, and have
held opponents to a .282 batting average. Emory is led by
head coach Mike Twardoski, whose 351-156-1 career
record is good for a .692 winning percentage, the highest mark
among active UAA coaches, 15th-highest among all active
NCAA Division III coaches, and 21st-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.
DePauw Tigers
DePauw is 7-11 during its 2011 campaign, including a mark
of 2-7 on the road this season, and will face LaGrange College on
Monday before playing the Eagles on Tuesday. The Tigers have
lost six-straight games, including three in a row to Rhodes College
last weekend, each decided by two runs or less. DePauw is
batting .288 as a team this season, averaging 4.5 runs per game,
while its pitching staff has held opposing hitters to a .259
batting average with a 3.81 ERA. The Tigers are led by
second-year head coach Jake Martin, who is 33-28 at the
team’s helm. He is assisted by P.J. Mitchell, Matt
Pustay, and Eric Bowman.
Emory is 10-4 all time against DePauw, with all 14 games having
been played at Chappell Park. Last season, the Eagles fell to
the Tigers 9-4, despite a two-for-four day at the plate from
Ryan Jones.
Centre Colonels
Centre will enter the game on Wednesday with an overall
record of 6-12 on the season, including a 0-2 mark in road
games. The Colonels have lost four-straight games and six of
the last eight, including a three-game weekend sweep at the hands
of Birmingham-Southern College last weekend. Centre is
batting .222 as a team this season, while averaging 3.4 runs scored
per game, while its pitching staff has an ERA of 3.57 and an
opponent’s batting average of .259. Centre is led by
head coach Mike Pritchard, who has a career ledger of 100-141
during his seven years with the squad. He is assisted by Kyle
Wynn.
Emory is 3-0 all time against Centre, with all three games having
been played at Chappell Park. The two teams last met during
the 2009 season, with the Eagles defeating the Colonels 11-0 on a
two-hit effort by the Emory pitching staff. In the game,
Jay Page (then a freshman) was two-for-three with
a double, three RBIs, and a run scored.
Emory Notes
Paul Schwendel’s 10 strikeouts against Huntingdon
College on Saturday were a career high for the junior and the most
by an Emory pitcher since 2007… Brandon
Hannon extended his hitting streak to 10 games on Sunday,
one game shy of the high mark by an Eagle this season… The
freshman leads all Emory players with 34 hits this season…
Patrick Riebsame currently has a nine-game hitting
streak, while Andrew Cohn has hit safely in his
last eight games… During the nine-game hitting streak,
Riebsame is batting .472 (17-36) with three doubles, three triples,
four home runs, 14 runs batted in, 12 runs scored and five stolen
bases… Out of Emory’s eight losses this season, four
have been by two runs or less, and three have been one-run
losses… Emory has won 20-consecutive games when the team
scores in double digits.
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