The Emory University baseball team will look to put a quick end to a two-game losing streak this weekend, as the Eagles will play a home-and-home series against Covenant College on Friday and Saturday.

The Eagles will host Covenant at Chappell Park on Friday 3:00 PM.  On Saturday, the Emory will travel to Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA for a 2:00 PM at Highland Park.

Coverage
Friday’s game will be webcasted at http://go.emory.edu/Webcasts/BaseWebcast.html, which requires the free version of RealPlayer from real.com to view.  Live statistics for Friday are available at http://www.go.emory.edu/LiveStats/Base/xlive.htm.

There will be live statistics for Saturday’s game at http://athletics.covenant.edu/files/livestats/baseball/xlive.htm.

Emory Eagles
Emory will begin play this weekend with a record of 21-12, after dropping games earlier in the week to Maryville College and Atlanta Christian College.  The Eagles have a record of 13-5 at home and 8-7 away from Chappell Park this season.  Emory is batting .310 as a team with 7.7 runs scored per game, while the pitching staff has an ERA of 4.41 with a .283 opponent’s batting average.  Emory is led by head coach Mike Twardoski, whose 358-160-1 career record is good for a .692 winning percentage, the highest mark among active UAA coaches, 15^th-highest among all active NCAA Division III coaches, and 21^st-best mark among Division III coaches all time to start the season.  Assistant Coaches Bobby Perez, Brian Clark, and Greg McMichael will complete Coach Twardoski’s staff for the 2011 season.

Covenant Scots
Covenant will enter play on Friday with a 17-9 record, following its 11-6 loss to Oglethorpe University on Wednesday.  The Scots are 3-5 on the road this season, but 14-4 at their home park.  The Scots are batting .287 as a team with 7.0 runs scored per game, while their pitchers have a 3.27 ERA with a .265 batting average against.  Covenant is led by head coach Doug Simons, who is 65-136 during his five years with the time.  He is assisted by Tony Stevens, William Russell, Ben Wharton and Craig Kleinmann.

Matchup History
This weekend’s games will be the first ever between the two programs.

Emory Notes
Emory University senior Andrew Cohn has 191 career hits, the 12^th-most in the program’s history, and is nine hits away from becoming the 10^th player in the program’s history with 200 career hits… Freshman Brandon Hannon is on pace to set a school record with a .609 on base percentage, which would best the previous mark of .557 set by Jason Zaremski in 1997… His batting average of .471 currently ranks as the third-best mark in Emory history… Junior Kevin O’Connor’s 33 walks this season are the sixth-most in the program’s history, and 16 shy of Dan Molnar’s record, set in 2009… Emory is batting .346 as a team with a 3.61 ERA in wins, but hitting just .245 with a 5.83 ERA in losses… The Eagles are also scoring 9.7 runs per game in wins this season, compared to 4.3 runs in losses, while allowing just 4.8 runs per game in wins and 8.1 in losses.