Baseball Finishes Road Trip Against LSU

Tuesday, May 5

Baton Rouge, LA

6:30 p.m.

Tulane University

LSU

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TULANE GAME NOTES

NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane baseball team (23-26, 8-13 American) finishes up the four-game road trip with the team's final midweek game of the season with a trip to Baton Rouge to take on LSU (28-21) on Tuesday, May 5, starting at 6:30 p.m. at Alex Box Stadium.

Media
The game against LSU will be broadcasted on ESPN+/SEC Network + on Tuesday. The Voice of the Green Wave, Corey Gloor, will call the action on the Tulane Sports Network from Learfield on WRBH 88.3 FM/ Varsity Network. Airtime for the radio/stream for the game is 15 minutes before first pitch.

Pitching Matchup
Neither team has officially announced a starting pitcher for Tuesday.

Scouting LSU
Derek Curiel leads the offense with his .333 batting average, 51 runs, 66 hits, 12 doubles and two triples. He also has six home runs, 43 RBIs, and 12 stolen bases.

Cade Arrambide is hitting .331 with 37 runs, 50 hits, 14 home runs and 39 RBIs.

Jake Brown, despite suffering a potential season-ending injury in April, still leads the team with 16 home runs, 49 RBIs, and 106 total bases.

Devin Sheerin has been the squad's top reliever with a 3-1 mark and four saves plus 48 strikeouts in 31.1 innings thrown in 17 appearances.

William Schmidt is 5-4 with a 3.90 ERA plus 79 strikeouts in 60 innings pitched and 12 starts.

All but one pitcher that LSU has thrown this year has more strikeouts than innings pitched as the Tigers have recorded 579 strikeouts in 424.1 innings thrown.

Jay Johnson coaches the program. Johnson is in his fifth year with the Tigers. He has a record of 218-98 with LSU and a mark of 535-270 in his 14 years as a collegiate head coach. He also has won a pair of College World Series titles during his time at LSU.

Series History
LSU leads the all-time series with Tulane by a 184-131 mark since the first meeting in 1893. The 1893 game, a 10-8 LSU victory, was the first-ever game in Tulane's baseball history. This game will be the first for the programs since LSU defeated Tulane by a 7-2 score in the Baton Rouge Regional in 2023 (6/2/23). The last regular season contest came earlier that year when LSU defeated Tulane by a 11-5 score (4/11/23). The last Tulane victory over the Tigers came in 2018 when the program defeated LSU by a 10-9 score (4/18/18). The last regular season game at LSU in Baton Rouge was a 10-4 loss during the 2018 campaign (3/21/18). The team's last victory over LSU in Baton Rouge came during the 2016 season when program earned a 7-1 victory (3/29/16). That game was the first of four straight Tulane victories covering the 2016 and the 2017 seasons.

Against the SEC
Tulane is 237-375 all-time against current members of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). Many of those games came when Tulane was still a member of the SEC. The most wins for the Green Wave against the SEC has come at the expense of Ole Miss with 39. Tulane first faced an SEC opponent in 1893 against LSU. The only school in the SEC that Tulane has never faced off with is Kentucky.

Long Streak Over, New One Underway
Jason Wachs saw his recent 10-game on-base streak come to an end against Southern Miss (4/28). The 10-game streak followed his earlier 60-game on-base streak that ended on Friday, April 10, against ECU after going 0-1 and only reaching base on a catcher's interference in the fourth inning. He did drive in a pair of runs though with a ground out and a sacrifice fly. The 60-game streak dated back to the end of last season. Wachs then promptly started a new streak and reached base in each of the next 10 games (4/11-4/26) before going 0-for-4 with an RBI against Southern Miss. He picked up a hit in the last game of the series against Charlotte, so he has successfully been on base safely in 71 of his last 75 games played.

Who's Hot in the Last Five Games
Matthias Haas is hitting .438 with seven hits, a home run, and four RBIs.

Nate Johnson sports a .385 batting average with two runs, five hits, two doubles, a triple, and five walks.

Jason Wachs has driven in six runs on his three hits with a home run and a double.

James Agabedis has four hits and four RBIs.

Sam Larson has appeared in three games with a start on the mound and is 1-0 with 6.2 scoreless innings plus nine strikeouts and a save.

Tom Vincent has pitched in three games with four strikeouts in four innings thrown along with a win.

Trends
Dating back to the end of last season, 11 of the last 23 hits that James Agabedis has have gone for extra bases with seven home runs, three doubles, and a triple.

Agabedis also has four multi-hit games in his last 11 starts and 12 games. In that time, he has 15 hits, three doubles, a triple, two home runs, 11 RBIs, 26 total bases, and six walks.

Tanner Chun drew at least one walk in nine straight games (a total of 13 walks in that time) from March 15 – March 28. His nine-game walk streak was tied with Brady Hebert (April 2024) for the longest by a Tulane player the last eight seasons and tied for the longest by an American Conference player since Cincinnati's Josh Hegemann from March – April 2023.

Jason Wachs has reached base safely in 45 of the team's 49 games this season.

Nate Johnson is hitting .286 with three home runs and 27 RBIs in the games he starts this year.

Kaikea Harrison leads the team with 12 multiple run scored games.

Tulane sports an 18-11 record this year in games that Hugh Pinkney starts behind the plate.

Matthias Haas has started at four different positions this season with five games at first, nine games at third, nine games in right field, and 19 games as the designated hitter.

Nate Johnson has started at three different spots on the infield with seven starts at first, 27 at second, and three at third. He also has batted in eight different spots in the starting lineup order (2nd - 9th).

Tye Wood (LF) and Kaikea Harrison (SS) are the only two players on the team to start all the team's games at the same position all season long.

Matthias Haas is the club leader with 13 two-out RBIs.

Trent Liolios is batting .800 (4-for-5) with the bases loaded.

The Green Wave are 5-1 in games that Jack Frankel starts on the mound.

Nolan Nawrocki leads the team with a pair of successful pinch hits. He is one of six players that has registered at least one successful pinch hit this season along with James Agabedis, Matthias Haas, Jack Johnson, Hugh Pinkney, and Brett Rowell. On the flip side, the team's pitching staff has limited opponents to 4-for-27 (.148) in pinch-hitting opportunities.

After leading the American Conference last season with 131 doubles as team, Tulane is again among the leaders this season and are currently the league leader in two-baggers with 106 in the first 49 games.

The Green Wave are second in the conference in sacrifice bunts (34) and walks (255). The program is fourth in stolen bases (69) and sacrifice flies (24) plus sixth in runs (302)
Tulane is fourth in hit by pitches (68) and sixth ERA (5.43). The team is third in double plays (39), third in fielding percentage (.975), and sixth in triples (7).

The program's pitching is averaging an impressive 8.8 strikeouts per game to place fourth in the American Conference. Tulane ranked second in the league in strikeouts a year ago with an average of 9.75 per contest.

The program is fifth in the American in shutouts (1) and seventh in strikeout- to-walk ratio (1.78).

The Tulane pitching staff has recorded 15 games with double figure strikeout totals this season.

Of the 23 new players on the roster this season, 20 have already made their Tulane debuts following the first 49 games of the season. The only newbies that have not appeared in a game this season are OF Cole Berge, OF/3B Matthew Major, and RHP Owen Geiss.

Individual Conference Leaders
Tanner Chun is fourth in the American Conference in hit by pitches (14) and third in walks (38).

Jason Wachs is second in doubles (19) and seventh in walks (34).

Jack Frankel leads in complete games with one.

Sam Larson leads in appearances (26) and is tied for seventh in saves (4).

Tom Vincent is eighth in saves (3).

Jude Abbadessa is third in appearances (24).

James Agabedis is second in sacrifice bunts (8).

Trent Liolios is sixth in sacrifice bunts (6)

Tye Wood is fourth in stolen bases (19) and sixth in doubles (14)

Conference-Only Standouts
In conference-only play, Jason Wachs is hitting .336 with 21 runs, 27 hits, 10 doubles, a triple, five home runs, 16 RBIs, 54 total bases, a slugging percentage of .675, and an on-base percentage of .439.

Trent Liolios is hitting .298 with 15 runs, 21 hits, eight doubles, 14 RBIs, 14 walks, and a slugging percentage of .451.

Matthias Haas is hitting .333 with 11 runs, 22 hits, five doubles, and 12 RBIs

Tye Wood sports a .280 batting average with 16 runs, 23 hits, five doubles, 13 RBIs, and 11 stolen bases.

J.D. Rodriguez is 2-1 in his 27.1 innings.

Sam Larson has three saves and 14 strikeouts in 11 innings worked.

Tom Vincent is 1-0 with 0.00 ERA with a save and three strikeouts in 5.0 innings worked.

Blaise Wilcenski is 2-1 with 3,15 ERA in seven games out of the bullpen and 20.0 innings.

Jack Brafa has thrown in eight games with nine strikeouts and a save in 9.2 innings pitched.

Notables from Charlotte Series - 5/1-3
Tulane lost all three of the team's games on the road in North Carolina.

The first game (5/1), a 10-0 loss, was the first time that Tulane has been shutout this season and the first time the team has been shutout since the first game against South Florida last season (3-0, 3/28/25).

The series opener (5/1) was also the program's first run-shortened loss of the campaign and the first time the team has lost a run-shortened game since falling to Charlotte 12-1 last season (5/16/25).

The three hits for the offense in the first game (5/1) were also a season low for the program.

The triple by Charlotte's Dylan Koontz in the fifth inning of the second game (5/2) was the first that Tulane's pitching staff has surrendered this season. The non-triple streak lasted 59 games and 560 innings dating back to the end of last season.

Trey Cehajic's relief outing in the middle game (5/2) was his first of the season as he had started 11 times this year.

The game's final 8-2 score in the middle game of the series (5/2) was only the fifth time that Tulane had been held to two runs or less this season.

Tulane has now lost the middle game of a weekend series six straight times and are 3-9 overall on the campaign in those situations.
The start on the mound by Sam Larson in the third game (5/3) was his first in a Tulane uniform after 25 relief appearances.
Tulane reached double figures in strikeouts as a pitching staff for the 15th time with 13 punch outs in the third game (5/3).

The 6-2 loss in the third game (5/3) dropped Tulane to 7-19 when the opponent scores first.

The team is also 7-18 in road and neutral site games on the campaign.

The Green Wave are now 34-30 all-time against Charlotte and have lost six straight contests after getting swept in each of the last two regular season series.

Green Wave Chosen For Fourth and Has Two Named Preseason All-Conference
In a vote of the league's coaches, Tulane was picked for fourth and had two players selected as American Preseason All-Conference. The Green Wave were chosen for fourth overall with 57 points. The team also saw outfielder Jason Wachs and designated hitter Matthias Haas chosen as Preseason American All-Conference.

The 2026 Schedule
The Green Wave hosts 27 games at Greer Field at Turchin Stadium, along with one neutral-site game in Mississippi and 28 road contests in 2026. Tulane will compete across seven states, including matchups in California, Alabama, Texas, Mississippi, Kansas, Florida, and North Carolina. Notable opponents include seven teams that participated in the 2025 NCAA Tournament: Southern Miss (2 games), UTSA (3), Creighton (3), East Carolina (3), TCU (3), Mississippi State (1), UCLA (1), and LSU (1).

The 2026 Schedule - Part Two
Tulane is playing games against five teams this season that are ranked in the USA Today's Preseason Coaches' Poll in No. 1 LSU, No. 2 UCLA, No. 6 Mississippi State, No. 10 TCU, and No. 20 Southern Miss.

Uncommon Road Start
Tulane's start on the road this season is the first for the program since 2023 and only the 11th time since 1979 the program has not started the season with games in New Orleans (1979, 1980, 1982, 1993, 2002, 2006, 2013, 2015, 2023, and 2026)

A Brotherly Connection
Tulane has a pair of brothers on the 2026 roster in sophomore infielder Nate Johnson and graduate student infielder Jake Johnson. The two are Tulane's first set of brothers on a team since 2017 when twins Paul Gozzo, a catcher, and Sal Gozzo, an infielder, were playing for the Green Wave. The 2016 team also had brothers on the squad in Ross Massey, a left-handed pitcher, and Alex Massey, a right-handed pitcher.

Who is Back?
The Green Wave return 14 players from the 2025 squad that a made a run to the 2025 American Championship Game for the third straight season this season in James Agabedis (infielder), Kaikea Harrison (infielder), Matthias Haas (infielder/outfielder), Tanner Chun (outfielder), Julius Ejike-Charles (left-handed pitcher/outfielder), Jason Wachs (outfielder), Hugh Pinkney (catcher), J.D. Rodriguez (right-handed pitcher), Nate Johnson (infielder), Will Clements (right-handed pitcher), Michael Devenney (right-handed pitcher), Jacob Moore (right-handed pitcher), Blaise Wilcenski (right handed pitcher), and Trey Cehajic (right-handed pitcher)

Inside the Numbers of the Returners
The team's 14 returning players accounted for 52.7 percent of the runs (204/387), 53 percent of the hits (287/541), 55 percent of the doubles (72/131), 58 percent of the triples (7/12), 45 percent of the home runs (23/51), 49 percent of the RBIs (178/360), 52 percent of the total bases (442/849) and 55 percent of the walks (159/287). On the mound, the club returns 48.4 percent of the wins (16/33), 53 percent of the game started (31/58), 43 percent of the innings (212/532) and 34 percent of the strikeouts (308/547).

Newcomers
Tulane added 23 new players to the roster this year. The list includes seven graduate students (Tye Wood, Brett Rowell, Trent Liolios, Jack Johnson, Jake Toporek, Tom Vincent and Aidan Rath), a senior (Nolan Nawrocki), seven juniors (Jude Abbadessa, Sam Larson, Caden Tarango, Jack Brafa, Beau Sampson, Owen Geiss, and Max Maxinter), four sophomores (AJ Groeneveld, Jack Frankel, Johnny Elliott, and LuisPablo Navarro) and four true freshmen (Bryson Ayala, Cole Berge, Evan Burg and Matthew Major).

The 2025 Season Quick Hitters
Tulane went 33-25 last season and had five American All-Conference selections on the year in Michael Lombardi (P – 1st), Connor Rasmussen (2B – 1st), Gavin Schulz (DH – 2nd), Jason Wachs (All-Freshman) and Tanner Chun (All-Freshman). The five selections are tied with the 2024 team for the most for the program since 2016 (seven).
The team also had three chosen for the league's All-Tournament Team in Schulz, Tayler Montiel and Theo Bryant IV plus a pair on the Louisiana Sports Writers Association (LSWA) All-State Team in Lombardi and Rasmussen.

Additionally, the program had three players selected in the 2025 MLB Draft in Lombardi (Kansas City Royals – 2nd round), Montiel (Arizona Diamondbacks – 12th round), and Rasmussen (Kansas City Royals – 15th round).

2025 Fun Stat Facts
Jason Wachs was ninth in the conference in batting average (.335) and on-base percentage (.457). Wachs and Tanner Chun were tied for 10th in the league in triples (2). Matthias Haas ranked second in the conference in doubles (21) and 26th in batting average (.303). Kaikea Harrison was tied for the conference lead in sacrifice bunts (8) and 38th in batting average (.283). Trey Cehajic and Blaise Wilcenski were tied for 10th in the league in wins (5).

Up Next
Next, Tulane returns to conference play and hosts South Florida (29-18, 8-13 American) from May 8-10. Game times are 6:30 p.m., 6:30 p.m., and 1 p.m.

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