Baseball Travels to Wichita State for League Series

Friday, April 6

Wichita, Kan.

12 p.m.

Tulane University

Wichita State

Baseball Travels to Wichita State for League Series

Apr 5, 2018 | Baseball

TULANE GREEN WAVE (12-18, 3-3) at #22 WICHITA STATE (20-6, 1-2)
When:	Friday, Noon \| Saturday, 2 p.m. \| Sunday, 12:30 p.m.
Where:	Wichita, Kan. \| Eck Stadium
Watch:	WatchESPN.com / Cox Kansas
Radio:	88.3 FM WRBH (Todd Graffagnini) \| TuneIn Radio
Stats:	Live Stats
Tulane Coach:	Travis Jewett (Washington State, '93) • 39-49 (2nd year)
Wichita State Coach:	Todd Butler (McNeese, '91) • 126-134 (5th year)
Notes:	Tulane \| Wichita State
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WICHITA, Kan. – Tulane baseball plays a three-game American Athletic Conference series at Wichita State Friday through Sunday at Eck Stadium. Game times are noon Friday, 2 p.m., Saturday and 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Friday's game was moved up to noon from the originally scheduled 6 p.m. time due to the threat of inclement weather Friday evening.

The Green Wave and Shockers have played 10 times, but are meeting on the baseball field for the first time as conference rivals. Tulane is concluding a stretch this weekend of 11 of 15 games on the road that began March 16 at Long Beach State.

The games can be seen nationally on WatchESPN.com via Cox Kansas all weekend, and will be broadcast on 88.3 FM WRBH and the TuneIn Radio app. Links to live video and live stats will be available through TulaneGreenWave.com.

SERIES HISTORY
Tulane and Wichita State have played 10 times. Tulane leads the series, 6-4. The teams last played in 2014, when the Green Wave won two of three games in New Orleans. In 2012, the Shockers won two of three games in Wichita while the Wave won two of three in New Orleans in 2011. Tulane won the first meeting, in 1993, 5-3, in an early season tournament in Hawai'i.

QUICK HITS
• Tulane is playing 11 of 15 games away from home between March 16-April 8, including the Wichita State series.
• Tulane's 61 doubles rank 22nd in the nation and its average of 2.03 doubles/game ranks 40th.
• Tulane has 80 extra base hits among its 253 hits – 32 percent of its hits have gone for extra bases.
• Tulane has produced 53 2-out RBI – 38 percent of its 132 RBI this season have come with two outs.
• Grant Witherspoon is on a nine-game reached base streak. Ty Johnson has reached base in six consecutive games and Sal Gozzo has reached base in five straight contests.
• Sam Bjorngjeld ranks fourth nationally in appearances (19); Connor Pellerin ranks 42nd in appearances (15). Bjorngjeld leads The American in appearances while Pellerin ranked third in the conference.
• Grant Witherspoon ranks 31st nationally in walks (24). He leads The American in walks along with Wichita State's Greyson Jenista.
• Kaleb Roper's .197 Opponent BA is fourth in The American
• Grant Witherspoon has 13 multiple hit games. Hoese and Artigues have nine multiple hit games, Matt Rowland has eight, and Sal Gozzo and Ty Johnson each have seven multi-hit games.
• Twelve different players have multiple hit games, and 10 different players have multiple RBI games this season.
• Witherspoon leads the team with eight stolen bases while Artigues has five, and Gozzo and Ty Johnson have four stolen bases apiece. The Green Wave are 28-for-34 in stolen bases.
• The Green Wave have turned 24 double plays this season.
• Keagan Gillies has allowed a total of six earned runs in his last five starts, spanning 31.2 innings. He has a 1.71 ERA with 25 strikeouts to nine walks in those five outings (2-2 record).
• Seven position players and nine pitchers have seen their first action at Tulane this season, and seven of those position players have started a game. Twelve of those players have seen their first Division I action.

PITCHING MATCHUPS
Friday
Tulane: RHP Kaleb Roper | Jr. | 3-3, 3.72 ERA, 7 APP, 7 GS, 38.2 IP, 28 H, 16 ER, 38 K, 19 BB
WSU: RHP Codi Heuer | Jr. | 5-0, 3.23 ERA, 7 APP, 7 GS, 39.0 IP, 27 H, 14 ER, 45 K, 18 BB
Saturday
Tulane: RHP Ben White | Gr. | 0-2, 6.19 ERA, 10 APP, 4 GS, 32.0 IP, 38 H, 22 ER, 19 K, 12 BB
WSU: RHP Liam Eddy | Fr. | 5-1, 2.06 ERA, 7 APP, 7 GS, 39.1 IP, 29 H, 9 ER, 30 K, 8 BB
Sunday
Tulane: RHP Keagan Gillies | So. | 2-3, 2.59 ERA, 7 APP, 7 GS, 41.2 IP, 30 H, 12 ER, 31 K, 13 BB
WSU: RHP Tommy Barnhouse | So. | 2-2, 2.95 ERA, 11 APP, 2 GS, 18.1 IP, 12 H, 6 ER, 23 K, 4 BB

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