No. 20 Baseball Takes on Lamar in Midweek Series

No. 20/29 TULANE GREEN WAVE (13-2, 0-0 AMERICAN) vs. LAMAR CARDINALS (7-8, 0-3 SOUTHLAND)
When:	Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. \| Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.
Where:	Greer Field at Turchin Stadium (5,000) \| New Orleans, La.
Watch:	CST (Tuesday) - ESPN3 Tulane All-Access (Wednesday)
Radio:	WRBH 88.3 FM (Andrew Allegretta)
Stats:	Live Stats
Tulane Coach:	Travis Jewett (Washington State, '93) • 97-92 (4th year)
LU Coach:	Will Davis (LSU, '07) • 77-105 (4th year)
Notes:	Tulane
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NEW ORLEANS, La. – The No. 20 Tulane baseball team returns to the field for a pair of midweek contests, taking on the Lamar Cardinals Tuesday and Wednesday night beginning at 6:30 p.m. at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.

The five-game week commences with a televised broadcast on CST Tuesday with Bob Licht and Roger Cador calling the action from New Orleans. There will be an ESPN3 stream available through WatchESPN and the WatchESPN app, with the game blacked out in the CST viewing area.

Wednesday's game will stream on Tulane All-Access, with radio coverage of both games on WRBH 88.3 FM in New Orleans and through TuneIn and the TuneIn app with Andrew Allegretta. Links to the radio and video broadcast, along with live stats and more can be found at TulaneGreenWave.com.

The Green Wave come into the pair of games riding a seven-game winning streak, the longest for the team this season and sit with a 13-2 overall record after sweeping the Southern University Jaguars over the weekend in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. Tulane extended its winning streak to 16 consecutive wins over the Jaguars, and ending the week 4-0 against a pair of SWAC teams.

The wins helped push Tulane's ranking up in the D1baseball Top 25, moving up to No. 20, while staying put at No. 29 in the Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Top 30.

Tulane's offense has seemed to hit its stride as of late, reeling off a handful of double-digit run performances the last two weeks and scoring no less than seven runs six times over that stretch. Before then, the Green Wave had only done it twice.

That offensive proficiency has pushed the team's overall batting average to .303 on the season, which includes 36 doubles, 10 triples and 13 home runs, driving in 101 RBI of a possible 112 runs scored through 15 total games this year. As a team, Tulane is slugging .490 with a .398 on-base percentage.

Through nearly a third of the season, Green Wave pitchers have been a force on the mound in holding opponents to just 53 runs total, with 37 of those runs being earned. The group has an ERA of 2.47 with three shutouts, already more than each of the last three seasons. The opposition is batting .198 against the Wave, as the team already has 147 strikeouts together.

Lamar comes into the games with a 7-8 overall record, opening Southland Conference play getting swept by Stephen F. Austin last weekend, stifling a team had won four of the five previous games before that.

Tulane has produced five consecutive wins against the Cardinals, including earning two wins Lamar last year in a midweek series by a 9-1 and 22-10 score line.

No. 20/29 Tulane Green Wave (13-2) vs. Lamar Cardinals (7-8)
March 10 – New Orleans, La. (Greer Field at Turchin Stadium)
March 11 – New Orleans, La. (Greer Field at Turchin Stadium)

TV
CST - Tuesday

Live Stream
ESPN3 – Tuesday (Blackout restrictions may apply)
Tulane All-Access

Radio
88.3 FM WRBH
PBP – Andrew Allegretta

Around the Horn
Tulane closes out its season-long home stand this week, beginning with a pair of games against the Lamar Cardinals on Tuesday and Wednesday night in New Orleans.

Tuesday's game is the first of two televised games this year for the Green Wave, airing on CST with Bob Licht and Roger Cador.

Tulane is 9-1 at home this season.

The Green Wave have won each of the last five meetings against the Cardinals.

Tulane won a pair of meetings last year in New Orleans 9-1 and 22-10.

Probable Starters
Tuesday
Tulane – RHP Clifton Slagel
LU – LHP Grason Wright

Wednesday
Tulane – LHP Luke Jannetta
LU – LHP Josh Hranicky

Up Next
Tulane closes out its season-long home stand this weekend, opening a three-game series against No. 12 Long Beach State Friday Night at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium.

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No. 20 Baseball Takes on Lamar in Midweek Series

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Luke Jannetta

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