GAME INFORMATION
ARKANSAS TECH WONDER BOYS 10-5	UNION BULLDOGS 7-7
Tuesday, February 28 | 3:30 p.m. Baswell Field | Russellville, Ark. LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO

FIRST PITCH
The Arkansas Tech baseball team is back at home this week and will kick-off a four-game homestand with a mid-week clash against Union University of the Gulf South Conference on Tuesday afternoon starting at 3:30 p.m. from Baswell Field.
 
Live coverage for the game can be found at: www.ArkansasTechSports.com/coverage.
 
The Wonder Boys and Bulldogs have met five times in a series that dates back to 1999. The two have recently played twice a year in 2019 and 2022 and are scheduled to play twice again this year. In terms of the all-time series record, Tech holds a 4-1 lead over Union and have won four-straight.
  TALKING TECH
The Wonder Boys enters Tuesday's mid-week game against Union with an overall record of 10-5. Tech has won eight of its last nine games and is coming off a series win at Southern Nazarene. The Wonder Boys bookended the series with victories as they won the opener 15-2 in seven innings and the finale 17-9.
 
Overall, the Wonder Boys enter play against Union hitting .302 as a team (152-for-503) with 124 runs scored, 29 doubles, five triples and 18 home runs. Brandon Bunton currently leads the team in batting average at .385 (15-for-39). Cade McBride and Keaton Ranallo are tied for the most doubles on the team with five each. Ranallo is also currently pacing the team in home runs with five. He is also tied for first in RBIs with Sawyer Duddleston at 17. Three other Wonder Boys have double-digit RBI totals.
 
Duddleston, Sam Stephenson and Logan Schwenke all have multiple home runs with Stephenson and Duddleston having three.
 
On the mound, the Wonder Boys have a team ERA of 6.18 and have struck out 108 batters in 119.1 innings of work.
 
John Gray, Emilano Mata, Jack Rector, Gerald Pintarich and Ethan Fritz have made starts on the mound thus far. Gray, Mata and Pintarich started this past weekend while Fritz has made the start for the first two mid-week games.
 
Aside from those five who have made starts, 11 other pitchers have taken the mound for the Wonder Boys in relief roles. Will Horton has the most relief appearances thus far with seven. Marshall Brown has logged the most innings in relief with 16.2 to his credit. Mason Griffin has three of the team's four saves for the Wonder Boys. Pintarich has the other.
 
Leading the Wonder Boys once more is Dave Dawson. The all-time winningest coach in Tech Baseball history, Dawson enters his 14th year in the dugout for the Wonder Boys. In his previous 13 seasons, Dawson has guided amassed a 380-269 record. He has also had six seasons with 30 or more wins which includes the 2014 season in which he led the team a program-record 44 wins and hosting rights for that year's Central Region Tournament.
 
Overall, Dawson is in his 18th year as a head baseball coach at the collegiate level as he spent four years as head coach at Kansas Wesleyan and totaled 118 wins. Dawson's combined win total at Tech and Kansas Wesleyan stand at 508. He earned the milestone 500^th win in the series opener vs. No. 13-ranked Central Missouri back in February.
  SCOUTING UNION
Union enters the mid-week game against Tech with a 7-7 overall record. The Bulldogs are coming off a series win against No. 17-ranked West Florida. In that series, the Bulldogs were run-ruled in the opener 16-0, but bounced back to take the final two games, beating the Argonauts, 9-8 and 3-1.
 
Statistically, the Bulldogs enter the game against Tech hitting .228 as a team (92-for-403) with 68 runs scored, 13 doubles, five triples and eight home runs. The leading hitter from the everyday lineup in terms of average so far is Carson Chavies at .304 (14-for-46).
 
Three Bulldogs hitters have registered double-digit RBIs and are paced by Mitch Sisk and with 11 RBIs. Grayson Swanson, Grant Ross, Will Allen Smith are tied for the team-lead in home runs with two. Two others have hit homers.
 
On the mound, the Bulldogs have a 7.12 team ERA and have struck out 88 batters in 110.0 innings of work.
 
The Bulldogs have had six pitchers start games with Lane Evans, Sam Poindexter, Mitch Sisk and Ryan Evans each making multiple stars. L. Evans, Poindexter and R. Evans made starts past weekend against West Florida.
 
In addition to the six that have made at least one start, the Bulldogs have used eight other pitchers in relief roles. Jack Rasmussen has two of the team's three saves
 
Union is led by Casey McGehee, who is in his first season with as head coach of the Bulldogs. An eight-year veteran of Major League Baseball, McGehee was a tenth-round draft pick of the Chicago Cubs in 2003 after a lauded career at Fresno State University.