Saluki Baseball Heads To Austin Peay for Mid-Week Action

Wednesday, March 4

Clarksville, Tenn.

3 p.m.

Southern Illinois University

Austin Peay

03/03/2020 | 1:30:00 | Baseball

By: Brandon Lindholm, SIUSalukis.com

Southern Illinois (7-5) at Austin Peay (4-7) | Tuesday, Mar. 3 | Clarksville, Tenn. (Raymond C. Hand Park) | SIU Game Notes |

The Southern Illinois Saluki baseball program travels to Clarksville, Tenn. to face the Austin Peay Governors in mid-week action on Tuesday. First pitch is set for 3 p.m. at Raymond C. Hand Park.

PROBABLE STARTERS

SIU LHP Blake Begner (1-1, 15.88 ERA, 5.2 IP)
AP RHP Peyton Jula (0-0, 8.22 ERA, 7.2 IP)

AROUND THE HORN

Southern Illinois is 1-1 in mid-week games this season, having lost earlier in the year to Belmont (4-3) before picking up a win against Murray State (2-1) last week. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m. at Raymond C. Hand Park. Live stats and audio will be available on SIUSalukis.com/baseball/schedule.
Southern and Austin Peay are tied in the all-time series at 7-7. The Salukis last victory over the Governors came on Mar. 12, 2019 in a 3-2 decision in Carbondale. The Salukis won four-straight over Austin Peay over span of nearly two years (4/10/13-3/25/15).
SIU went 1-1 against Austin Peay in mid-weeks last season.
Blake Begner will start on the mound for the Salukis. He's making his first start since Feb. 23, when he went one-third inning against Seattle University and gave up five earned runs on four hits.
The Salukis won their second road series of the season after exploding for a 22-5 win over Morehead State in the series finale on Sunday. Southern become the first team to beat Morehead State in a series in their own park since 2018. The Saluki bats were hot all weekend long, as Southern collected 49 hits over the series.
SIU's 25 hits on Sunday were its most since 2004.
Senior infielder Phillip Archer became the first Saluki in 10 years to record four extra base hits (3 doubles, 1 triple) on Feb. 29.
Senior infielder Ian Walters leads the team in batting average (.429) and is tied for team leads in hits (21), doubles (5), triples (1) and RBIs (12). He has recorded a hit in each of the past nine games, dating back to a Feb. 16 matchup with Jackson State.
Nick Neville extended his on-base streak to 12 games after going three of six from the plate. The South Carolina transfer knocked in five RBI's in the win, notching a new career-high.

MVC LEADERS

Ian Walters in batting average (.429)
Ian Walters in doubles (5)
Matthew Steidl in earned runs average (0.00)
Ian Walters in hits (21)
Team in base on balls (61)
Team in batting average (.279)
Team in double plays (11)
Team in doubles (28)
Team in fielding percentage (.984)
Team in hit by pitch (19)
Team in hits (116)
Team in runs (89)
Team in sacrifice flies (6)
Team in scoring (7.4)
Team in stolen bases (26)
Team in triples (3)