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AUSTIN PEAY (16-12) at SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (14-13) // April 4, 2018 // 3 p.m. // Carbondale, Ill. (Weather) // Itchy Jones Stadium (2,000 // Turf) // SIU Game Notes PDF

Saluki Baseball hosts Austin Peay on Wednesday at 3 p.m. Admission is free as to everyone as a part of Southern Illinois Appreciation Week. The Salukis are going for a mid-week sweep of Austin Peay in the home-and-home series after SIU won 16-7 in Clarksville on February 20.

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SIU RHP Dylan Givens (1-0, 4.26 ERA, 12.2 IP)
APSU RHP Brandon Vial (1-0, 6.58 ERA, 26.0 IP)

AROUND THE HORN

Southern Illinois hosts Austin Peay on Wednesday, April 4, at 3 p.m. CT. The game was originally scheduled for Tuesday, April 3, but was moved to Wednesday due to thunderstorms.
The game is Southern's first home mid-week game of the season. The Salukis are 5-1 in mid-week games this year, all on the road.
SIU won the first game against Austin Peay 16-7 on February 20. The Salukis are trying to sweep a home-and-home mid-week series from Austin Peay for the first time since 2014.
SIU leads the all-time series, 25-15.
The SIU-APSU mid-week matchups have traditionally been high scoring.
- Since 2013 (11 games), the winning team has scored double-digit runs nine times, with the two exceptions being SIU's 3-0 win in 2014 and APSU's 4-0 win last season, both in Carbondale.
Southern Illinois is coming off a 2-1 series win at Illinois State last weekend in the first conference series of the year. In the first game of that series (a 6-4 SIU win)...
- SIU head coach Ken Henderson recorded his 200th career win as a head coach
- SIU closer Ryan Netemeyer set Southern's career saves record with his 31st career save
The Salukis are 11-5 in their last 16 games after starting the year 3-8. Of Southern's five losses in the last 16 games...
- 2 came against nationally ranked Illinois
- 2 came in extra innings
- 1 came on a bottom-of-the-ninth walk-off (at Illinois State G3)
SIU is 5-0 against OVC schools during mid-week play this year. SIU's only mid-week loss came at Arkansas State.
Nikola Vasic did not reach base in the first two games of the season. Since then, he's hit in 23 of 25 games and reached base in all 25.
SIU ranks fourth in the nation with 69 stolen bases.
- Last year's SIU team stole 100 bases, which led the MVC by 42 and ranked 14th nationally.
  - This year's team is on pace to steal about 140 bases.
- Connor Kopach ranks second in the nation with 19 stolen bases. For context, 89 Division I baseball programs have fewer steals as a team this season than Kopach does individually.
- Four of the top five base stealers in the MVC are Salukis. Kopach (1st), Nikola Vasic (3rd), Alex Lyon (4th), and Addison Fugitt (5th).
During mid-week games, Alex Lyon is hitting .450 and Connor Kopach is hitting .417.
SIU's offense is taking 5.41 free bases per game this season (walks or HBP). Last year's rate was 4.3 free bases per game (+1.1 improvement this year). The 2018 "free-base rate" is currently second-best in program history, behind 1980's 7.16 free passes per game.
SIU has led the MVC in double plays turned in four of the last five years.

MVC LEADERS

Connor Kopach in hits (44)
Kopach in triples (3)
Kopach in stolen bases (19)
Nikola Vasic in sac flies (4)
Trey McDaniel in appearances (14)
Team in hits
Team in sac flies
Team in stolen bases
Team in fewest walks allowed

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