GAME INFORMATION
ARKANSAS TECH WONDER BOYS 28-17	UNION BULLDOGS 13-28
Tuesday, April 25 | 3 p.m. Fesmire Field | Jackson, Tenn. LIVE STATS | LIVE VIDEO

FIRST PITCH
With one more weekend left in the regular season, the Arkansas Tech baseball team is set to hit the road and play their final non-conference game of the year and will take on Union University for the second of two games against one another.
 
The mid-week game is slated to start on Tuesday afternoon starting at 3 p.m. Live coverage for the game can be found at: www.ArkansasTechSports.com/coverage.
 
The Wonder Boys and Bulldogs have met six times in a series that dates back to 1999. With Tuesday's game at Union, the two will now have played twice a year in 2019, 2022 and 2023. Tech won the previous meeting this year, 12-2 in seven innings, and are 5-1 in the all-time series.
 

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TALKING TECH                                                       
The Wonder Boys enter their mid-week game on the road at Union with an overall record of 28-17. Tech is coming off a series win this past weekend at home against Southeastern Oklahoma. In that series, the Wonder Boys lost the opening game 8-5, but bounced back to win the next two games, 10-3 and 2-1, respectively.  
 
Overall, the Wonder Boys enter their mid-week game with the Bulldogs hitting .316 as a team (477-for-1,511) with 375 runs scored, 92 doubles, 16 triples and 35 home runs. Sam Stephenson currently leads the team in batting average at .397 (56-for-141) and is one of eight players that have scored at least 30 runs this season. Sawyer Duddleston is currently pacing the team in runs scored with 49.
 
Keaton Ranallo has been providing the best power production thus far and is leading the team in home runs with 10. Ranallo also has 16 doubles and two triples to post a .642 slugging percentage, which is tops on the team. Eight other Wonder Boys have hit home runs this season with Duddleston, Stephenson, Markos Cabranes, Logan Schwenke and Nick Jones all having multiple homers.
 
On the RBI front, the Wonder Boys have a total of five players with 30 or more RBIs and four that have surpassed 40. Duddleston is leading the team in RBIs with 47 while Ranallo is second with 46.
 
On the mound, the Wonder Boys have a team ERA of 6.32 and have struck out 309 batters in 357.1 innings of work.
 
John Gray, Emiliano Mata, Jack Rector, Gerald Pintarich, Ethan Fritz, Marshall Brown, Tyler Sardelli JT Cafferty, and Grant Shanan have made starts on the mound thus far. Gray, Shahan and Mata started this past weekend against Southeastern Oklahoma. Fritz has made six mid-week starts this season accounting for all of his starts
 
In terms of the bullpen for the Wonder Boys, Will Horton has made the most relief appearances thus far with 21. Mason Griffin has seven of the team's nine saves for the Wonder Boys. He has appeared in 14 games and has a 3.66 ERA with 21 strikeouts in 19.2 innings of work.
 
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 526. He earned the milestone 500^th win in the series opener vs. No. 13-ranked Central Missouri back in February.
 

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SCOUTING UNION
The Bulldogs enter the mid-week game against Tech with a 13-28 overall record. Union is coming off being swept in their weekend series against Alabama-Huntsville and have lost five-straight overall.
 
Statistically, the Bulldogs enter their game with Tech hitting .262 as a team (335-for-1,277) with 335 runs scored, 51 doubles, 10 triples and 16 home runs. The leading hitter in terms of average so far is Alex Hardy at .309 (34-for-110).
 
Union has eight players who have hit a home run this season with five leaving the yard on multiple occasions. A trio of hitters, Mitch Sisk, Grayson Swanson and Grant Ross, are tied for the team lead with three. Sisk also leads the team in RBIs with 25
 
On the mound, the Bulldogs have a 7.53 team ERA and have struck out 234 batters in 326.1 innings of work.
 
The Bulldogs have had nine pitchers start games. Sam Poindexter, Lane Evans, and Eli Snelson made starts past weekend against Alabama-Huntsville. Evans also made the start in Union's last mid-week game which was played against Harding last week.
 
Outside of that arms, the Bulldogs have used 12 other pitchers in various roles. Ethan Orwig has the most relief appearances with 19 and is 0-0 with an 8.85 ERA in 20.1 innings of work. As a team, Union has registered four 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.