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Baseball Heads to Southeast Missouri State for Mid-Week Contest

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Baseball Heads to Southeast Missouri State for Mid-Week Contest

Quick Pitches:

• A-State is now 16-8 on the season and 5-1 in the Sun Belt after taking two of three from South Alabama. The Red Wolves are off to their best start since the 2012 campaign.
• Nate Alberius tossed the first complete game of the year for the Red Wolves in Sunday's matchup against South Alabama. The senior gave up just one run on five hits while strik-ing out seven and walking none. The complete game marks the third of Alberius' careeer. • In the weekend series vs South Alabama, A-State recorded 20 runs on 24 hits with 18 RBIs, two doubles and one triple.

• Drew Tipton's 22 stolen bases ranks No.1 in the Sun Belt and No. 2 nationally. Tipton is one stolen base away form breaking top-10 in Arkansas State's all-time stolen bases list. Last weekend he jumped Grant Hawkins for the 12th spot, who had 19 in 2017. A-State currently has a total of 30 stolen base on the year which surpasses 2018's total stolen bases (25).

• Zach Jackson logged his second quality outing of the season against Troy, where he pitched seven innings allowing only three runs on eight hits. Jackson punched out nine while only walking two.
• The Arkansas State bullpen only allowed one run through 14 innings pitched in the series sweep over Troy last weekend.

• Kyle MacDonald ranks top-100 nationally in Toughest batters to strikeout at 56. Alex Howard ranks No.1 in the SBC in HBPs and top-5 nationally in HBPs (12).
• Kollin Stone currently has five saves on the season, which is good for second best in the Sun Belt and 20th in the nation.
• The Red Wolves are tied atop in the Sun Belt with #10 Coastal Carolina.

SEMO History:

• A-State leads the all-time series with Southeast Missouri by a count of 38-33. The series began in 1959 with an A-State 3-1 win. SEMO bouncedback to claim an 11-2 win in the 1960 game, but A-State won five straight contests from 1961 to the first game between the two schools in 1963. The Red Wolves won three games inthe 1962 season against the Redhawks, including a 6-2 win in the Southwest Regional. SEMO broke the streak with 4-0 and 5-4 wins to end A-State's 1963 campaign.

• Arkansas State and Southeast Missouri played in the 1967 NCAA Midwest Regional of the College Division with A-State claiming a 12-6 decision. The Red Wolves defeated the Redhawks in 1968 6-1, but didn't resumethe series for 20 years until SEMO took two games in 1988.
• The two teams have played every season since 1988 with the Redhawks holding a 27-26 advantage.

• The series has been very even lately with head coach Tommy Raffo holding a 9-9 mark against SoutheastMissouri in his career since he took over as head coach in 2009.
• In 2018, The Arkansas State baseball team allowed Southeast Missouri to tie the game in the top of the ninth, but Jacob Jablonski was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom half to send A-State to a
7-6 victory. Nate Alberius posted a quality start with 6.1 innings pitched and three earned runs allowed outof four total. The Little Rock, Ark., native struck out two and walked two before giving way to Payton Lannon, who earned his first hold of the season. He pitched a full inning with two huge strikeouts to end the seventh frame after SEMO had runners on second and third with one out. Jeremy Brown drove in A-State's first run with a sacrifice fly in the third before a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch by Grant Hawkins brought in another. SEMO tacked on another run in the top of the fifth before Andersen's triple to center brought home A-State's third run. Andersen would come around to score on the play to tie it up at 4-4 after an errant throw to third by the Redhawks' cutoff man, Connor Basler.

• in 2017, the two teams played on back-to-back nights with A-State claiming a 10-1 win April 4 in Jonesboro before losing a 10-4 contest in Cape Girardeau, Mo. Bradey Welsh pitched seven innings of one-run ball in the win for the Red Wolves as the team hit eight doubles, one shy of tying the school record, and scored six runs with two outs.

• Garrett Rucker led the offense with two hits and four RBI. The following night SEMO reliever Jared Waldhoff earned the win with 1.2 innings out of the bullpen as the Redhawks scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh to break a 2-2 tie. Chris Caffrey had two hits and three RBI for Southeast Missouri, while Justin Felix led A-State's offense with two hits and two runs driven in.
• Southeast Missouri State in entering the mis-week contest 13-11 and 3-6 in the Ohio Valley Confernce Red-hawks are coming off an 2-1 home series loss to Austin Peay.

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