Concord Stats - Charleston Stats - Live Stats - Live Video
ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team plays a pivotal Mountain East Conference series at Charleston 1:00 p.m. Saturday and 1:00 p.m. Sunday.
LIVE COVERAGE
Stats: The University of Charleston Sports Information Department will provide live in-game statistics for all four games.
Video: Live streaming video will be available for the first two games of the series on Saturday.
RECORDS
The Mountain Lions are 26-13 overall and sit in a tie for second in the MEC South with UVa.-Wise at 15-9. Both teams are one game ahead of West Virginia State in the conference standings.
Charleston leads the MEC South with a mark of 20-4 and is 28-14 overall this year.
AMONG THE NATION'S BEST
Concord enters the weekend with the second-best batting average in all of Division II at .347, trailing only Angelo State's .358 average. CU has six players batting at least .350 this season led by sophomore infielder
Anthony Stehlin who sports an average of .391, sixth in the MEC. Stehlin is sixth in the nation in on-base percentage at .529. Junior infielder
Nathan Neff (.382) and junior outfielder
Ryan Fralin (.379) are seventh and eighth in the MEC in batting average. Senior outfielder
Evan Webb and his .378 average ranks 10
th in the MEC. Junior catcher
Jakob Divers is batting .369 this season while senior catcher
Jordan Clark is hitting .359. Neff has seen a climb in his average as of late. In the last six games, his batting has rose from .340 to .382 and includes two four-hit contests. No other team in the region has more than five players hitting above .350 this season.
SIT 'EM DOWN
Senior pitcher
Troy Beckner struck out 10 batters in his start on Monday as he moved within three strikeouts of passing
Ryan Weatherholtz for first on the all-time strikeout list at Concord. It was the second time this season and third time in his career the Roanoke, Virginia native has recorded double-digit strikeouts. In Tuesday's win at Ohio Valley, sophomore pitcher
Spencer Hoyt fanned 10 batters as he became the fourth CU starter this season to record 10 strikeouts in a game, joining Beckner, senior pitcher
Will Guay and sophomore pitcher
Logan Morrison. The CU pitching staff leads the MEC in strikeouts with 290 and could join last year's team which struck out 319 batters as the only pitching staffs in program history to record 300 strikeouts in a single season.
HOT STICK
In their careers, Clark (.342), Divers (.350) and Webb (.346) are all hitting better than .340 against Charleston in their careers while Clark has added three career home runs. Clark had two home runs in the Glenville State series as he moved into third all-time in home runs at CU with 34. Additionally, the Scott Depot, West Virginia native keeps marching towards 200 career RBI as he has 193 for his career. Clark has at least one RBI in four straight games and five of his last six contests.
LET'S RUN
This weekend's series will pit two of the best base stealing teams in the MEC against each other. Charleston leads the league in stolen bases by a wide margin with 96 steals. Meanwhile, CU is second with 53. Stehlin is the team leader for Concord with 13 steals in 16 chances. Jordan Bailey and Gianfranco Morello have each stolen 18 bases for Charleston. One of the biggest factors in controlling the running game could be Clark behind the plate for the Mountain Lions. This season, Clark has thrown out 13-of-28 base runners which leads the MEC by percentage and trails only Fairmont State's Tyler Hill (14) for most overall. The UC catching duo of Drew Hefner and Nick Wilson have combined to throw out nine base runners in 51 chances.
CHARLESTON AT A GLANCE
The Golden Eagles have won all their MEC series this season with the exception of two-game splits with Fairmont State and Shepherd and most recently a four-game split with UVa.-Wise. In 24 MEC games, Charleston sports a conference ERA of 3.76 with all four weekend starters below four. Overall, Jack Brunetti and Austin Henrich are a combined 12-3 on the mound. Colby Johnson leads UC in average (.362), home runs (eight) and RBI (40). As a two-way player, Brunetti has three home runs and 34 RBI.
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