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ATHENS, W.Va. – The Concord University baseball team puts its seven-game winning streak up against West Virginia Wesleyan when it welcomes the Bobcats to Anderson Field for a four-game Mountain East Conference South Division series 1:00 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
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SERIES HISTORY: Concord leads 46-31
LAST FIVE MEETINGS VERSUS WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN
April 14-15, 2023: Concord 3 – West Virginia Wesleyan 1 (W, 12-6 W, 6-3 L, 9-4 W, 10-6) (Buckhannon, W.Va.)
April 15-16, 2022: Concord 4 – West Virginia Wesleyan 0 (W, 23-1 W, 13-6 W, 21-10 W, 14-2) (Athens, W.Va.)
April 17-18, 2021: Concord 4 – West Virginia Wesleyan 0 (W, 13-3 W, 5-3 W, 6-1 W, 12-3) (Buckhannon, W.Va.)
April 13-14, 2019: Concord 4 – West Virginia Wesleyan 0 (W, 6-2 W, 17-8 W, 12-2 W, 7-6 (10)) (Athens, W.Va.)
April 13-14, 2018: Concord 2 – West Virginia Wesleyan 2 (W, 13-1 L, 8-2 W, 11-3 L, 5-1) (Buckhannon, W.Va.)
CONCORD AT A GLANCE
Overall Record: 17-12
MEC Record: 8-6
Home Record: 13-6
Away Record: 2-5
Neutral Record: 2-1
RECORD WEEKEND
In a four-game sweep of Davis & Elkins Sunday and Monday, Concord set a bevy of program records. In the series opener, the Mountain Lions set a single-game program record with 31 hits as 10 different players had at least two hits. Concord knocked around 11 doubles to set a program record. Junior outfielder
Demetri Jamison and fifth-year senior infielder
Zack Saryeldin both had three doubles. The 44 runs that CU scored in the first two games of the series are the most since posting 44 in a doubleheader sweep of WVU Tech in 2001. Senior infielder
Chris Satcher helped cap the weekend by homering three times in the third game of the series, becoming the first player to hit three home runs in a single game in program history. Satcher became the first CU player to homer five times in a series since Jordan Clark hit five home runs at Glenville State in 2017.
RECORDS PART II
Some program records were also set by the Concord pitching staff versus the Senators. Graduate pitcher
Andrew Neff picked up his 28
th career win Sunday afternoon as he became the winningest pitcher in program history. The MEC record for wins is held by Charleston's Austin Henrich (2017-21) at 31. In the second game of the series, fellow graduate pitcher
Eddie Blake went over 200 career strikeouts as he struck out seven over six innings. He became the sixth pitcher in program history reach the milestone. Freshman pitcher
Jake Robinson collected 10 strikeouts in the final game of the series to become the first CU pitcher with 10 or more strikeouts since junior pitcher
Rylee Nicholas last season at Glenville State.
SEEING ORANGE
The Mountain Lions have won 15 of the last 16 games versus West Virginia Wesleyan dating back to CU's four-game sweep in 2019. In 12 career games against WVWC, Saryeldin sports a .553 batting average (26-for-47). He has scored 22 times and has nine doubles versus the Bobcats. Saryeldin starts the weekend with 56 career doubles, two away from second all-time at CU. Satcher has 12 career RBI in six games against Wesleyan. Neff is a perfect 3-0 against WVWC in his career, picking up 15 strikeouts over 20 career innings. Blake tied his career high with 10 strikeouts two years ago at home against the Bobcats. And n his first career start versus West Virginia Wesleyan last season, Nicholas fanned eight hitters over six innings while allowing one unearned run.
WEST VIRGINIA WESLEYAN AT A GLANCE
Overall Record: 10-18
MEC Record: 5-9
Home Record: 3-7
Away Record: 3-8
Neutral Record: 4-3
SCOUTING THE BOBCATS
The Bobcats are one win shy of tying last year's victory total. Despite playing just 20 games this season, Josh Ayala has 17 RBI in 64 at-bats. Jack Tilton is hitting .333 with seven doubles and 13 RBI. Among qualified pitchers, Hunter Eplin ranks seventh in the MEC in ERA (4.43). Eplin is 3-3 on the mound. Broderick Rohrbaugh has also won three games. Last weekend, WVWC won the first game of the series against West Virginia State before dropping the next three.
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