Southern wraps up road stretch at Belmont

Tuesday, February 27

Nashville, Tenn.

4 p.m.

Southern Illinois University

Belmont

02/26/2018 | 4:46:00 | Baseball

SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (2-5) at BELMONT (3-4) // Feb. 27, 2018 // 4 p.m. // Nashville, Tenn. (Weather) // ES Rose Park (500 / Turf) // SIU Game Notes PDF

The Southern Illinois baseball team travels to Bemont on Tuesday for a mid-week game. The game marks the end of a season-opening eight-game road stretch for SIU. After the Belmont game, Southern Illinois plays 13 of its next 17 games at Itchy Jones Stadium.

The SIU-Belmont game will have an audio stream that is available at SIUSalukis.com/baseball/schedule. First pitch is scheduled for 4 p.m. CT. Brad Harrison, who picked up his first career win last Tuesday at Austin Peay, will make the start for Southern Illinois.

PITCHING PROBABLES // Audio | Stats (Provided by Belmont)

SIU LHP Brad Harrison (1-0, 5.40 ERA, 5.0 IP)
BEL LHP Justin Fowlkes (0-1, 3.60 ERA, 5.0 IP)

AROUND THE HORN

Southern Illinois faces Belmont on Tuesday at E.S. Rose Park in Nashville, Tenn. The game will have an audio stream that can be found at SIUSalukis.com/baseball/schedule.
SIU and Belmont have only played nine times. Belmont leads the all-time series, 5-4, after winning both mid-week matchups last year.
Last year, Belmont beat SIU 18-17 in the game played in Nashville. The 35 combined runs were the fifth-most in SIU history. SIU trailed 18-9 after six innings but got within 18-17 in the ninth before falling.
Brad Harrison, who will be SIU's starter in 2018, pitched in both games against Belmont last year, throwing a combined 2.1 innings of no-hit baseball.
Harrison is making his second start of the season. He threw five solid innings at Austin Peay last week (4 H, 3 R) to earn his first collegiate victory.
Harrison limited opponents to a .228 average last year, the third-best mark on the team (min. 20 innings). He limited Austin Peay to a .211 average last week in his first pitching appearance of 2018.
Neither team has won three-straight games in the series. Belmont is going for its third-straight win after taking both games last year.

MID-WEEK MATCHUPS

Southern Illinois struggled in mid-week action last season, going 3-10, including a pair of losses to Belmont (SIU was 24-20 on the weekends). This year, SIU is 1-0 in mid-weeks after a 16-7 win at Austin Peay last Tuesday.

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