Green Wave, Bearcats Tussle in Cincinnati for Weekend Series

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CINCINNATI, Ohio – Tulane's baseball team hits the road this weekend for three games in the Queen City when it takes on the Bearcats of Cincinnati.

Friday's start time has been moved up to 1 p.m. ET/12 p.m. CT due to expected inclement weather. Saturday's first pitch is still 1 p.m. CT, while Sunday's series finale will be played at 11 a.m CT.

Tulane enters the weekend with a 11-26 overall record with a 4-5 record in American Athletic Conference play. The Bearcats are 15-23 with a 3-6 mark in league play.

SCOUTING THE BEARCATS
Ryan Nicholson leads the team with a .284 batting average to go with a .914 OPS. He also paces the squad in hits (40), doubles (9), home runs (9), total bases (78) and slugging percentage (.553). Kameron Guidry has scored a team-best 24 runs and leads the way with 27 RBI. Landyn Vidourek has drawn 21 walks which is the highest on the team, as is his .391 on-base percentage. Laudren Brooks is 11-for-12 in the stolen base department.

Garrett Harker (0-4, 5.01 ERA), Chase Hopewell (1-4, 5.36 ERA) and Tommy Boba (1-1, 6.75 ERA) look to be the weekend starters for Cincinnati. Harker has struck out 12 against just three walks, while allowing just a .184 batting average against in 10 and one-third innings of AAC action. Hopewell has yielded 13 runs in 14 and two-thirds AAC innings, while Boba has seen just two innings of conference action.

The team is coming off an 11-9 home loss to Indiana on Wednesday and was swept by ninth-ranked ECU last weekend in Greenville, N.C.

LAST TIME OUT FOR THE GREEN WAVE
Visiting Tulane scored seven runs in the first three innings against host New Orleans and held on the rest of the way to register an 8-6 victory over the Privateers Tuesday evening at Maestri Field.

Tayler Montiel (1-0) picked up his first-ever win, hurling three scoreless innings in relief, with two strikeouts and two walks. Gavin Smith recorded his first-ever Division I save, allowing a hit with a strikeout in the ninth frame.

UNO's Connor Macip (1-1) took the loss, giving up three runs on two hits with one strikeout and one walk.

Tulane right fielder Jacob LaPrairie drove in three runs and first baseman Brady Marget added two more as both had two-run homers in the top of the first inning. Catcher Brennan Lambert went 2-for-4 at the plate, while he, LaPrairie and third baseman Simon Baumgardt scored twice.

Shortstop Kasten Furr had the big hit for UNO, a three-run blast to left in the second inning. First baseman Anthony Herron, Jr. had two hits and, like Furr, catcher Jorge Tejada scored twice, as well.

The Privateers answered Tulane's early offense with four runs of its own in the bottom of the second to grab a 5-4 lead but that's when the Green Wave went to work. In the top of the third, LaPrairie tied the game with a double to right and Lambert scored the go-ahead tally on a wild pitch. Second baseman James Agabedis made it 7-5 Wave when he knocked in LaPrairie with a single up the middle.

UNO cut the margin to one with a run in the sixth inning, but Lambert's single to right center in the top of the seventh accounted for the game's final margin.

The Green Wave used seven pitchers and the group recorded 12 strikeouts. Grant Cleavinger's four in one and two-thirds innings led the way.

Tulane's Hebert and Baumgardt now have nine doubles, one off Marget's team lead of 10. Marget's seventh homer moved him within one of both Baumgardt and Jackson Linn, who are both atop that statistical category.

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Green Wave, Bearcats Tussle in Cincinnati for Weekend Series

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James Agabedis

Simon Baumgardt

Grant Cleavinger

Brennan Lambert

Jacob LaPrairie

Jackson Linn

Brady Marget

Tayler Montiel

Gavin Smith

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