Baseball set for Showdown With Cal State Fullerton

TULANE GREEN WAVE (4-0, 0-0 AMERICAN) vs. CAL STATE FULLERTON (2-2, 0-0 BIG WEST)
When:	Friday, 9 p.m. CT \| Saturday, 8 p.m. CT \| Sunday, 3 p.m. CT
Where:	Goodwin Field (3,500) \| Fullerton, Calif.
Watch:	N/A
Radio:	WRBH 88.3 FM (Friday, Saturday), Sports 1280 AM (Sunday) (David Gascon)
Stats:	Live Stats
Tulane Coach:	Travis Jewett (Washington State, '93) • 88-90 (4th year)
ULL Coach:	Rick Vanderhook (Trinity, '03) • 300-180 (9th year)
Notes:	Tulane
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NEW ORLEANS, La. – The Tulane baseball team will take its 4-0 record in 2020 and head to sunny California to take on the Cal State Fullerton Titans in a three-game weekend series beginning Friday night at Goodwin Field.

The trio of games gets underway Friday night at 9 p.m. CT, with game two set for 8 p.m. CT Saturday and the finale Sunday at 3 p.m. CT. David Gascon will call all of the action from California, with games one and two airing on WRBH 88.3 FM, with Sunday's finale airing on Sports 1280 AM.

A link to live stats, as well as a live audio stream of the series can be found on the baseball schedule page at TulaneGreenWave.com.

The Green Wave head into the matchup with the Titans looking to remain unbeaten, as for the second consecutive year the team is entering the second weekend of the season with a 4-0 record. Tulane started the 2019 winning each of its first five games of the year before suffering its first defeat.

The team goes into the weekend off the back of a 9-6 victory over the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin' Cajuns Wednesday night at Russo Park in Lafayette, scoring eight of its nine runs over the course of the first two innings. Tulane plated five runs in the first and three more in the second, holding off a rally by the Cajuns midway through the game to pull out the victory.

Tulane is hitting .299 on the season through the first four games, while the pitching staff is holding teams to a .192 clip with a 2.57 ERA so far.

Ty Johnson and Grant Mathews lead the way for the Green Wave with six hits each so far this season, with Johnson leading the team in average with a .545 mark, while Mathews has eight of Tulane's 27 RBI this year.

The team will forge ahead with the rotation of Braden Olthoff, Jack Aldrich and Donovan Benoit on the mound for the weekend, as the trio was tagged for only four earned runs last weekend.

Cal State Fullerton began the year taking two of three games against Stanford but fell in the midweek to San Diego State on the road. The Titans took two of three games against Tulane the last time the two sides met back in New Orleans in 2018, with Fullerton owning an 11-3 record against the Green Wave in the all-time series.

Tulane Green Wave (4-0) vs. Cal State Fullerton Titans (2-2)
Feb. 21 – (Goodwin Field)
Feb. 22 – (Goodwin Field)
Feb. 23 – (Goodwin Field)

TV
None

Live Stream
None

Radio
Friday – WRBH 88.3 FM
Saturday – WRBH 88.3 FM
Sunday – Sports 1280 AM

PBP – David Gascon

Around the Horn
Tulane looks to remain unbeaten on the year as the team travels to California to take on the Fullerton Titans at Goodwin Field.

The Green Wave are opening the season 4-0 for the second consecutive year. Last year's team opened the year 5-0.

Tulane is coming off of a 9-6 victory over the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin Cajuns at Russo Park Wednesday night.

The Wave scored eight runs in the first two innings, scoring five runs in the first to open the contest.

Tulane has scored six or more runs in each of the last three games.

Probable Starters
Friday
Tulane – RHP Braden Olthoff
CSF – RHP Tanner Bibee

Saturday
Tulane – LHP Jack Aldrich
CSF – RHP Kyle Luckham

Sunday
Tulane – RHP Donovan Benoit
CSF – RHP Joe Magrisi

Up Next
Tulane opens a stretch of home games next Wednesday night, opening the annual Pelican Cup series with the New Orleans Privateers at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.

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Baseball set for Showdown With Cal State Fullerton

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Players Mentioned

Jack Aldrich

Donovan Benoit

Ty Johnson

Grant Mathews

Braden Olthoff

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