Tuesday, May 1
Champaign, Ill.
6 p.m.
Southern Illinois University
at
Illinois
Salukis face Illini on Tuesday in Champaign
04/30/2018 | 4:22:00 | Baseball
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS (24-20) at ILLINOIS (25-14) // May 1, 2018 // 6 p.m. // Champaign, Ill. (Weather) // Illinois Field (1,500 // Turf) // SIU Game Notes PDF
Southern Illinois takes a four-game winning streak into a mid-week contest against Illinois on Tuesday night at 6 p.m.
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PROBABLE STARTERS
SIU RHP Dylan Givens (4-0, 2.50 ERA, 36.0 IP)
ILL RHP Cyrillo Watson (0-1, 5.68 ERA, 12.2 IP)
AROUND THE HORN
Southern Illinois takes a four-game winning streak into a mid-week contest against Illinois on Tuesday night at 6 p.m.
Follow The Game » Watch ($) | 105.1-WVZA | Listen Online | Live Stats
PROBABLE STARTERS
SIU RHP Dylan Givens (4-0, 2.50 ERA, 36.0 IP)
ILL RHP Cyrillo Watson (0-1, 5.68 ERA, 12.2 IP)
AROUND THE HORN
- Southern Illinois visits Illinois on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
- A video stream will be available through BTN2Go, which requires a subsription. Find a link to the game on SIUSalukis.com/baseball/schedule.
- SIU leads the all-time series, 39-38. Illinois--then ranked No. 24 nationally--won two of three in Carbondale earlier this season.
- SIU and Illinois face each other for a weekend series in addition to a single mid-week game each season. Since 2013...
- The weekend series have been split -- the teams are 8-8 on the weekends against each other, and each team has won three of six total weekend series.
- Illinois has won five-straight mid-week games over SIU.
- Southern's last mid-week win over Illinois came in 2012.
- SIU is 10-1 in mid-week games this year.
- Since March 5, SIU is 20-4 against unranked opponents.
- During mid-week games, Southern Illinois is outscoring its opponents 94-44 in 11 games. The Salukis have stolen 40 bases, compared to opponents seven steals.
- Logan Blackfan had a 21-game hitting streak snapped on Friday at Evansville, the longest for any SIU player since Chris Serritella had a 24-game hitting streak in 2012.
- Blackfan's 21-game hitting streak is the second-longest in the MVC this year and 11th longest in the nation.
- His 21-game hitting streak is tied for the fourth-longest in program history.
- Nikola Vasic has reached in 40 of the last 41 games. He was one of 31 players nationally to reach base in every game in the month of March.
- After his 27-game reached base streak was snapped against Valpo, Vasic immediately started a new 13-game reached base streak, which is active.
- Dylan Givens is slated to make his sixth career start. He enters the game with an active 14-inning scoreless streak. He pitched seven shutout innings in each of his last two starts.
- As a starting pitcher (five starts), Givens has a 1.71 ERA in 26.1 innings. He is limiting opponents to a .204 average and has struck out 20, while walking just five.
- Alex Lyon is the reigning MVC Player of the Week.
- Lyon went 7-for-14 with two doubles, a triple, five RBIs and five stolen bases in SIU's weekend sweep at Evansville
- Lyon earned Player of the Week for the second time this season -- he was also the reigning MVC Player of the Week when SIU and Illinois played in Carbondale in mid-March
- SIU ranks sixth in the nation with 28 sacrifice flies.
- SIU ranks fourth in the nation with 107 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 challenge the school record of 139 stolen bases.
- Connor Kopach (25) ranks ninth and Alex Lyon (24) ranks 13th nationally in stolen bases.
- Kopach has 76 career stolen bases, which ranks second among all active players in the country.
- Four of the top six base stealers in the MVC are Salukis. Kopach (1st), Alex Lyon (2nd), Nikola Vasic (4th), and Addison Fugitt (6th).
- SIU has led the MVC in double plays turned in four of the last five years. SIU currently leads the MVC in 2018, which would be the fifth time in the last six seasons the Salukis led the league in turning double plays.
MVC LEADERS
- Logan Blackfan in RBIs (52)
- Blackfan in home runs (10)
- Blackfan in total bases (105)
- Connor Kopach in stolen bases (25)
- Michael Baird in ERA (2.99)
- Baird in innings pitched (75.1)
- Trey McDaniel in appearances (21)
- Ryan Netemeyer in saves (8)
- Team in hits (409)
- Team in triples (11)
- Team in sacrifice flies (28)
- Team in stolen bases (107)
- Team in turning double plays (37)
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