Southern Illinoise University Athletics
Baseball travels to Eastern Illinois Wednesday
04/27/2010 | 12:00:00 | Baseball
April 27, 2010
By Jason Clay
www.SIUSalukis.com
Game No. 41: at Eastern Illinois
Southern Illinois (18-22) at Eastern Illinois (11-26)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Game Time: 3 p.m. CT
Location: Charleston, Ill. - Coaches Stadium (500)
Radio: Saluki Radio Network with Mike Reis on WFRX 1300-AM beginning at 2:45 p.m.
Live Stats: www.SIUSalukis.com
Radio Streaming: Saluki All-Access
Weather Forecast: 68 degrees, mostly sunny
Quick Hits:
• SIU scored three runs in the eighth inning to come back and beat EIU, 9-8, in the first meeting in Carbondale back on March 24.
• Head coach Dan Callahan is 9-2 all-time against EIU, the team he coached from 1989-94 (had a 153-158-1 record at EIU).
• Southern Illinois leads the all-time series with the Panthers, 53-27-1.
• The Salukis have allowed 26 runs in their last two games and all but five of those runs were scored in just two innings.
• Since SIU's six-game winning streak from March 28-April 6, the Salukis have gone just 3-8.
• The Salukis are hitting .266 as a team in the last 10 games.
• Southern is 7-3 against teams from the OVC this year and its next four games are against OVC teams (the Dawgs host SIU-Edwardsville this weekend for a three-game series).
