SERIES INFORMATION
ARKANSAS TECH WONDER BOYS 15-11	No. 8 SOUTHERN ARKANSAS MULERIDERS 23-4
Tuesday, March 29 | 3 p.m. Baswell Field | Russellville, Ark. LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO

RUSSELLVILLE, Ark. – The Arkansas Tech baseball team is back at home to open a four-game homestand starting with a mid-week game on Tuesday afternoon against No. 8-ranked Southern Arkansas. This will be the fourth meeting this year between Tech and SAU as the two played a conference weekend series in Magnolia at the beginning of March. SAU won all three of those games with two coming by just a single run.
 

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SCOUTING SOUTHERN ARKANSAS
 
The Muleriders enter play 23-4 overall and are carrying a six-game winning streak into Russellville. Those six games have all been in conference action as the Muleriders swept weekend series with East Central and Southeastern Oklahoma to stay atop the Great American Conference Baseball standings.

SAU was scheduled to play a mid-week game at Delta State in-between those weekend series, but inclement weather forced the cancelation of that game. Overall, this will be the Muleriders' fourth true mid-week non-conference game. In the previous three, SAU is 1-2 with losses most-recently to Delta State and Arkansas-Monticello. Both of those losses were at home as SAU's lone mid-week win came on the road at Mississippi College.
 
Offensively, the Muleriders are hitting .320 as a team (280-for-874) with 273 runs scored, 58 doubles, 11 triples and 44 home runs. Entering Tuesday, the Muleriders have seven players hitting .300 or better with Jakob Machuca leading the way at .406 (28-for-69).
 
In terms of power numbers, the Muleriders have 12 players with a home run and eight of those have multiple homers. Tucker Burton leads the team in homers with nine. Brandon Nicoll is next with seven followed by Brett McGee's six. Four others have four home runs as well. Nicoll is pacing the team in RBIs with 39. Two other Mulerider hitters have 30 or more RBIs.
 
On the mound, the Mulerider have a 4.07 team ERA and have struck out 251 batters in 216.2 innings of work.
 
In terms of mid-week starting pitching, the Muleriders have used a pair of starters in Jack Liddell and Santos Sosa. Liddell started the first two mid-week games with Sosa getting the ball in the latest start. Combined those two are 1-2 with 23 strikeouts in 24.2 innings of work.
 
Outside of those two and the usual weekend rotation, 10 different pitchers have been used by Southern Arkansas. The most appearances made by a reliever is Chance Bolter with six. He is 3-0 with a save and has a 1.23 ERA. The other two saves have been recorded by Kade Garmany and Sosa.
 

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TECH TIDBITS
The Wonder Boys enter play against SAU 15-11 overall and are looking to bounce back from a weekend in which they were swept on the road at Oklahoma Baptist. Two of those defeats came by a single run, however.
 
This will also be the Wonder Boys' fourth true mid-week non-conference game. In the previous three, Tech is 2-1 with wins over Union and then No. 16-ranked Henderson State. Their first two mid-week games were played on the road and Tech went 1-1. Their home game was last week against Henderson State, a game the Wonder Boys won convincingly 12-6.
 
Offensively, the Wonder Boys enter play against Southern Arkansas hitting .299 as a team (252-for-844) with 175 runs scored, 42 doubles, four triples and 33 home runs. Individually, the Wonder Boys have five batters with at least 40 at-bats hitting .300 or better with Sam Stephenson leading the team at .449 (22-for-49).
 
In terms of power numbers, the Wonder Boys have 10 players with a home run and nine of those have multiple home runs. Tech is currently led by Josh Detweiler's seven homers. Shelby Quiggins is next with six. Evan Hafley leads the team in RBIs with 22. Five other Wonder Boys have driven in at least 15 runs as well.
 
On the mound, the Wonder Boys have a team ERA of 5.15 and have struck out 230 batters in 209.0 innings of work.
 
Patrick Miner, Shane Scott and Will Horton have made up the weekend rotation thus far and are 9-6 combined with 122 strikeouts in 118.0 innings of work. Miner paces the starters with a 5-1 record and a 3.70 ERA with 52 strikeouts in 48.2 innings. Scott is 3-1 with a 4.89 ERA and has 34 strikeouts in 38.2 innings. Horton is currently 1-4 with a 7.92 ERA and has 36 strikeouts in 30.2 innings of work.
 
In terms of mid-week starting pitching, the Wonder Boys have used three different starters in Evan Hafley, Grant Shahan and John Walsh.
 
In relief, the Wonder Boys have notched four saves with Ty Van Meter accounting for three of the saves. He has appeared in eight games and currently has 20 strikeouts in 11.2 innings. In addition to starting a mid-week game, John Walsh and Grant Shahan have been go-to relievers as well for the Wonder Boys.
 
Walsh has made nine relief appearances and is 2-0 with a 3.20 ERA. He has 26 strikeouts in 19.2 innings. Shahan has made eight relief appearances and is 0-2 with a save. He as has a 4.00 ERA and has struck out 20 batters in 18.0 innings.