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Gamecock Baseball Faces Jacksonville in Non-Conference Weekend Series
3/22/2018 6:10:00 PM | Baseball
JACKSONVILLE - After a devastating week in Jacksonville and the JSU campus with last Monday's severe weather and tornado that struck the campus, Jacksonville State will look to get back to normalcy with a three-game weekend series with the Dolphins of Jacksonville at Choccolocco Park.
The series gets started on Friday evening at 6 p.m. followed by a pair of 1 p.m. start times on Saturday and Sunday. The Gamecocks, who postponed their midweek contest at Kennesaw State on Wednesday, enter the non-conference series at 12-6 overall after claiming last weekend's series at Eastern Illinois. JSU posted a pair of shutouts to win the series with an 11-0 blanking on Friday and bouncing back in the rubber game on Sunday, 7-0. JU will bring an overall mark of 13-9 after falling to nationally-ranked Florida on Wednesday, 10-3.
All three games will be available on WVOK 97.8 FM and online at JSUGamecockSports.com. Admission is free to all JSU students and all fans 18 years old and younger.
The Gamecocks and Dolphins, former Atlantic Sun Conference foes, renew the series for the first time 2003. The series has been lopsided in favor of JSU with it winning 14 of the previous 16 outings. JSU won the last meeting in 2003, 10-6. Before that win, the Dolphins put together a string of 12 straight wins over the Gamecocks.
JSU ranks among the leaders in NCAA Division I Baseball this season in shutouts with five already this season, including three in the last four games. The Gamecocks rank fourth in the NCAA. Jax State has blanked Southern Illinois (Feb. 18), Radford (Feb. 23), Austin Peay (March 10) and two more last weekend at Eastern Illinois (March 16, 18). It marks the first time JSU has recorded back-to-back shutouts since 2008 against EIU. In the five shutouts this season, the pitching staff has been touched for 21 hits and posted 51 strikeouts in the 45 innings-pitched.
After leading the OVC in earned run average last season, the JSU pitching staff has picked up right where it left off from a season ago as the top pitching staff in terms of ERA. The Gamecock arms enter the weekend with a team ERA of 3.64, just over a full run ahead of Morehead State's ERA of 4.90. JSU has allowed 66 earned runs (77 total) through the first 18 games this season and tallied 145 strikeouts. JSU's Colton Pate ranks third individually with an ERA of 2.54, while Garrett Farmer is listed ninth among the top pitchers in the league. Farmer will pitch the series opener on Friday, while JSU will send Derrick Adams to the mound on Saturday before Pate closes out the weekend on the hill in Sunday's finale.
The series gets started on Friday evening at 6 p.m. followed by a pair of 1 p.m. start times on Saturday and Sunday. The Gamecocks, who postponed their midweek contest at Kennesaw State on Wednesday, enter the non-conference series at 12-6 overall after claiming last weekend's series at Eastern Illinois. JSU posted a pair of shutouts to win the series with an 11-0 blanking on Friday and bouncing back in the rubber game on Sunday, 7-0. JU will bring an overall mark of 13-9 after falling to nationally-ranked Florida on Wednesday, 10-3.
All three games will be available on WVOK 97.8 FM and online at JSUGamecockSports.com. Admission is free to all JSU students and all fans 18 years old and younger.
The Gamecocks and Dolphins, former Atlantic Sun Conference foes, renew the series for the first time 2003. The series has been lopsided in favor of JSU with it winning 14 of the previous 16 outings. JSU won the last meeting in 2003, 10-6. Before that win, the Dolphins put together a string of 12 straight wins over the Gamecocks.
JSU ranks among the leaders in NCAA Division I Baseball this season in shutouts with five already this season, including three in the last four games. The Gamecocks rank fourth in the NCAA. Jax State has blanked Southern Illinois (Feb. 18), Radford (Feb. 23), Austin Peay (March 10) and two more last weekend at Eastern Illinois (March 16, 18). It marks the first time JSU has recorded back-to-back shutouts since 2008 against EIU. In the five shutouts this season, the pitching staff has been touched for 21 hits and posted 51 strikeouts in the 45 innings-pitched.
After leading the OVC in earned run average last season, the JSU pitching staff has picked up right where it left off from a season ago as the top pitching staff in terms of ERA. The Gamecock arms enter the weekend with a team ERA of 3.64, just over a full run ahead of Morehead State's ERA of 4.90. JSU has allowed 66 earned runs (77 total) through the first 18 games this season and tallied 145 strikeouts. JSU's Colton Pate ranks third individually with an ERA of 2.54, while Garrett Farmer is listed ninth among the top pitchers in the league. Farmer will pitch the series opener on Friday, while JSU will send Derrick Adams to the mound on Saturday before Pate closes out the weekend on the hill in Sunday's finale.
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