Baseball Opens Conference Play at Cincinnati

TULANE GREEN WAVE (17-8, 0-0) vs. CINCINNATI BEARCATS (9-14, 2-1)
When:	Friday, 5 p.m. \| Saturday, 1 p.m.\| Sunday, 11 a.m.
Where:	Marge Schott Stadium \| Cincinnati, Ohio
Watch:	Live Video
Radio:	88.3 FM WRBH (Todd Graffagnini)
Stats:	Live Stats
Tulane Coach:	Travis Jewett (Washington State, '93) • 69-72 (3rd year)
UC Coach:	Scott Googins (Ohio Wesleyan) • 37-42 (3rd year)
Notes:	Tulane \| Cincinnati
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NEW ORLEANS – The Tulane Green Wave baseball team will stay on the road and open American Athletic Conference play this weekend with a three-game series against the Cincinnati Bearcats at Marge Schott Stadium.

The series opener for the team will be streamed online through Bearcats TV, with a link to the video stream at TulaneGreenWave.com. Todd Graffagnini will provide play-by-play on WRBH 88.3 FM locally in the New Orleans area.

The Green Wave head into conference action looking to bounce back after suffering a 7-6 defeat at the hands of the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin Cajuns Tuesday in Lafayette, snapping the team's five game winning streak in the process. After playing 12 successive games at home before opening a string of five games on the road, the team comes into the weekend with a 17-8 overall record.

Tulane's offense got a solid performance, producing double-digit hits for the 15^th time this season, but the team left a host of base runners in the game against the Cajuns as the hosts tied the game before winning in walk-off fashion.

The Green Wave showed their mettle by plating six runs to battle back from a 4-0 hole after the first half of the game was played, getting a big swing from Grant Mathews who hit his third home run of the year to knot the game at 4-4 before getting two more runs in the inning to take the team's only lead of the game.

Kody Hoese extended his hitting streak to 17 games on Tuesday, as the junior leads the team in home runs, RBI, total bases and slugging percentage. Frankie Niemann continues to lead the team with a .434 batting average, while Trevor Jensen leads the group with 15 multi-hit games, earning his fourth three-hit game of the year on Tuesday.

Tulane had gotten a solid string of innings from their pitchers up until Tuesday, and will be looking to get back to solid, shutdown innings against the Bearcats this weekend paced by their trio of starters in Kaleb Roper, Keagan Gillies and Chase Solesky.

Roper was named to The American weekly honor roll after his 12-strikeout performance against HBU last weekend, as the senior has a 3.44 ERA and 42 strikeouts in 36.2 innings to go along with his 3-2 record.

Gillies is looking for his first win as he had his longest outing of the season last week in pitching 6.2 innings and allowing just two runs with six strikeouts against the Huskies. Gillies has struck out 26 while only allowing eight walks in 2019.

Solesky produced consecutive dominant starts as the sophomore struck out nine to help clinch the sweep last Sunday, with his record sitting at 2-1 and combining for the team's only shutout of the year so far.

Tulane has had a 43-11 record against the Bearcats throughout the series history, winning the last two series against Cincinnati heading into the showdown this weekend. The Bearcats come into the weekend with a 9-14 overall record, taking two of three last weekend against the Houston Cougars in Texas to open league play.

Tulane Green Wave (17-8, 0-0) vs. Cincinnati Bearcats (9-14, 2-1)
March 29 – 5 p.m. (Marge Schott Stadium)
March 30 – 1 p.m. (Marge Schott Stadium)
March 31 – 11 a.m. (Marge Schott Stadium)

TV
None

Live Stream
Bearcats TV

Radio
WRBH 88.3 FM
PBP – Todd Graffagnini

Pitching Matchups
Friday
Tulane: Kaleb Roper
UC: A.J. Kullman

Saturday
Tulane: Keagan Gillies
UC: TBD

Sunday
Tulane: Chase Solesky
UC: Garrett Schoenle

Around the Horn
Tulane begins American Athletic Conference play this weekend with a three-game series against the Cincinnati Bearcats at Marge Schott Stadium in Cincinnati.

The Green Wave are 51-44 since joining The American.

Tulane and Cincinnati are opening league play for the second consecutive season.

The Green Wave will be looking to open league play with a series victory for the third straight season in 2019.

The squad is looking to open league play with a road series victory for the first time since the 2014 season.

Up Next
Tulane closes out its road trip by opening the Pelican Cup in-season series with the New Orleans Privateers on Tuesday at Maestri Field.

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Players Mentioned

Keagan Gillies

Kody Hoese

Trevor Jensen

Grant Mathews

Frankie Niemann

Kaleb Roper

Chase Solesky

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