Salukis host NIU and Bellarmine to Itchy Jones Stadium

CARBONDALE, Ill. - SIU hosts Bellarmine and Northern Illinois to Itchy Jones Stadium for a four-game weekend. SIU will play each team twice. Additionally, NIU and Bellarmine will face each other on Friday prior to SIU's evening game against Bellarmine.

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Weekend Schedule

Friday, April 9 (12 p.m.) » NIU vs. Bellarmine
Friday, April 9 (approx. 4 p.m.) » SIU vs. Bellarmine
Saturday, April 9 (2 p.m.) » SIU vs. NIU
Saturday, April 9 (6 p.m.) » SIU vs. Bellarmine
Sunday, April 10 (2 p.m.) » SIU vs. NIU
*Note: Friday's schedule has been adjusted due to forecasted inclement weather in the evening. SIU's game vs. Bellarmine will start approximately 40 minutes after the conclusion of the NIU-Bellarmine game. Follow @SIU_Baseball on Twitter for the most up-to-date scheduling information and weather updates.

STARTING PITCHERS

Friday, April 9 » SIU LHP Tanner Lewis (3-1, 3.43 ERA, 21.0 IP) vs. BEL RHP Jacob Nagel (1-1, 5.29 ERA, 34.0 IP)
Saturday, April 10 G1 » SIU RHP Ben Chapman (5-2, 2.45 ERA, 40.1 IP) vs. NIU RHP Brandon McPherson (1-2, 2.36 ERA, 34.1 IP)
Saturday, April 10 G2 » SIU LHP Brad Harrison (4-0, 4.72 ERA, 34.1 IP) vs. BEL TBD
Sunday, April 11 » SIU TBD vs. NIU LHP Connor Langreder (2-3, 6.15 ERA, 26.1 IP)

AROUND THE HORN

SIU hosts Bellarmine and Northern Illinois to Itchy Jones Stadium for a four-game weekend. SIU will play each team twice. Additionally, NIU and Bellarmine will face each other on Friday prior to SIU's evening game against Bellarmine.
The MVC announced on Thursday that the conference will return to its original non-COVID plan for an eight-team MVC baseball tournament. Prior to Thursday, only the top six teams were going to be eligible for the tournament and play a double-elimination, six-team bracket. Now, all eight teams will make it; the 5-8 seeds will play a single-elimination play-in round; and the final six teams after that will play a six-team double-elimination tournament, just like the 2019 tournament.
The weekend marks the halfway point in the season for SIU and is the final non-conference weekend of the season. It's also the end of a 12-game home stand, and a stretch in which SIU is playing 23 of 24 games at home.
SIU fell out of the national rankings this week after losing five of its last seven games. SIU spent four-straight weeks in the Collegiate Baseball Top-30 poll, the program's first national ranking in 31 years.
J.T. Weber tied the SIU single-game record with eight RBIs in a game vs. Illinois State last weekend. Weber is the fifth SIU player to drive in eight runs in a game, and just the second since 2000.
Magic at The Itch: SIU is in the midst of a 12-game home stand ... SIU is 14-6 at home this season ... SIU is 19-6 at home under head coach Lance Rhodes ... The Salukis are 50-19 in their last 69 home games, which dates back to 2018.
SIU ranks fourth in the nation in home runs with 45. Other national ranks (of 287 teams):
- 2nd in runs scored (238)
- 2nd in sac flies (18)
- 3rd in hits (298)
- 4th in batting average (.319)
- 4th in slugging percentage (.537)
- 6th in on-base percentage (.420)
SIU has scored twice as much as its opponent in 16 games this season (including 7-straight games at one point).
SIU has scored 10+ runs in a game 11 times, and 8+ runs 17 times.

MVC LEADERS (Stat, National Rank)

Tristan Peters in walks (21, 38th)
Peters in hits (42, 8th)
Philip Archer in doubles (11, 4th)
Archer in RBIs (34, 11th)
Archer in total bases (70, 24th)
J.T. Weber in home runs (10, 7th)
Weber in sac flies (4, 8th)
Trey McDaniel in pitching appearances (14, 17th)
McDaniel in saves (5, 17th)
Nick Neville in runs scored (33, 7th)
Ben Chapman in pitching wins (5, 4th)

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Philip Archer

Ben Chapman

Brad Harrison

Tanner Lewis

Trey McDaniel

Nick Neville

Tristan Peters

J.T. Weber

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