Baseball weekend preview - CUSA opener at Marshall

[usmstud]

Weather looks like it will be an issue on Sunday so expect a doubleheader either Friday or Saturday.
Friday - mostly sunny, high 56, WNW wind at 14 mph.
Saturday - mostly cloudy, high 51, NNE wind 4 mph
Sunday - 50% chance of morning rain/snow showers, high 49, WNW wind 6 mph


Batting Average: USM .303, Marshall .249
Earned Run Average: USM 3.17, Marshall 4.47
Fielding Percentage: USM .971, Marshall .963

Southern Miss stats: http://www.southernmiss.com/sports/m-basebl/stats/2015-2016/teamcume.html

Marshall stats: http://www.herdzone.com/sports/m-basebl/stats/2015-2016/teamcume.html

 

[CoastGuardEagle]

They will be playing at a nice field that is home to a minor league baseball team. I attended Southern Miss baseball games there in 2010, 2012, and 2014. However it is 52 miles away from Huntington, WV and there will be very few people at the games. Marshall need to build a baseball stadium that meets the minimum conference standards.

http://www.milb.com/content/page.js...id=40993740&fext=.jsp&vkey=news_t525&sid=t525

 

[usmstud]

Marshall comes into the weekend with a record of 9-6, having won 5 in a row and 8 of their past 9 games. This stretch includes sweeps of Lehigh(3 games) and Brown(4 games) the past two weekends.

The Herd offense scoring 5.9 runs per game are lead by first baseman Tommy Lane with a .369 average. Lane leads CUSA with 6 home runs and is among the conference leaders with 19 runs batted in.

 

[usmstud]

Updated forecast now showing a 70% chance of light showers on Saturday starting around 9:00 AM.

Pitching Probables
Friday - RH Cord Cockrell, Sr. (3-0, 1.73 ERA) vs. RH Chase Boster, Sr. (1-1, 5.56 ERA), 5 pm CT Saturday - RH Jake Winston, Sr. (2-0, 4.64 ERA) vs. RH JD Hammer, Sr. (2-2, 6.56 ERA), 3 pm CT Sunday - LH Kirk McCarty, So. (1-0, 3.80 ERA) vs. Parker Danciu, Jr. (2-1, 7.64 ERA), 10:30 am CT

 

[usmstud]

SCHEDULE CHANGE: This weekends series at Marshall University will see us play a doubleheader on Friday beginning at 1:30pm CST.