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ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team carries its recent momentum on the road as it faces Glenville State 1:00 p.m. Thursday in a Mountain East Conference doubleheader before concluding the series 1:00 p.m. Monday at Sue Morris Park in Glenville, West Virginia.
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LIVE COVERAGE
Stats: The Glenville State College Sports Information Department will provide live in-game statistics of all four games.
Video: Additionally, live video will be available courtesy of the GSC Sports Information Department.
RECORDS
Concord is 23-10 overall and 13-7 in the league after a four-game sweep of West Virginia Wesleyan that was completed Monday.
Glenville State has a record of 10-26 and is 5-15 in the MEC.
GAINING STEAM
Going back to CU's sweep of Fairmont State in a two-game series on March 30, Concord has won 11 of its last 14 games. The last time the Mountain Lions went 11-3 over a 14-game stretch was last season—February 9-March 24. Additionally by sweeping West Virginia Wesleyan in the four-game MEC South Division series, it marked the first time since March 28-29, 2015 that CU had swept a four-game conference series. Individually, senior outfielder
Evan Webb has 26 of his 35 RBI for the season in the last 14 games while hitting .420 (21-for-50) with 11 extra-base hits. Reigning NCBWA Regional Player of the Week, junior outfielder
Ryan Fralin, is hitting .490 (24-for-49) with 18 RBI in the last 14 games. Senior catcher
Jordan Clark is hitting at a .435 (20-for-46) clip with 13 RBI in the last 14 contests.
MOVIN' ON UP
Senior pitchers
Troy Beckner and
Will Guay each had stellar pitching performances in their starts against West Virginia Wesleyan. Beckner tossed a complete game on Monday as he struck out five batters in seven innings. Meanwhile, Guay fanned six hitters in six innings. Beckner moved with three strikeouts of passing Trey Smith for second all-time in punch outs at CU as he has 212. Guay entered the top 10 with 117 career strikeouts. For Clark, he surpassed 200 career hits on Monday and needs 13 to break into the top 10. Additionally, Clark hit his 31
st career home run, moving him to within one home run of tying Andy Cather for third all-time in program history.
AMONG THE LEADERS
Sophomore infielder
Anthony Stehlin starts the weekend ranked first in on-base percentage in the MEC at .537 while ranking eighth nationally. Additionally, Stehlin is third in the conference in batting average .402. Joining Stehlin in the top 15 in batting average is junior catcher
Jakob Divers (sixth / .391), Fralin (eighth / .389) and Webb (13
th / .363). No other team in the MEC has more than three hitters ranked in the top 15 in average.
WELCOME BACK
Thursday will be the second trip for the Mountain Lions into Sue Morris Park after they played three games in the MEC-PSAC Mixer at the beginning of March, going 2-1. CU defeated Clarion and Mansfield at the MEC-PSAC Mixer by scores of 11-7 and 6-1. Beckner had one of his best outings of the season as he struck out 11 Mansfield hitters in six innings. The last time the Mountain Lions faced Glenville State on the road was during the 2017 season when the offense thrived, scoring 34 runs over four games in a series split. In 2017, Clark had five home runs in the series to go along with 10 RBI.
LATE HEROICS
CU took three of four games from Glenville State last season at Anderson Field including a walk-off victory in game two on a single by junior outfielder
Adam Linkous. Concord is coming off a walk-off sacrifice fly in the 10
th inning to sweep Wesleyan. Junior infielder
Nathan Neff provided the fly ball to plate Clark in a 7-6 win.
GLENVILLE STATE AT A GLANCE
The Pionners have lost seven of their first eight games to begin MEC South Division play with the only win coming against UVa.-Wise two weekends ago. Trevon Smith is among the MEC leaders in home runs with nine while piecing together a .347 batting average. Smith is the only GSC batter with an average above .300. Two of the four games Jesse Weathers has started this season have ben complete games as he has 37 strikeouts in 39 innings on the mound.
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