The Emory University Baseball team will face Berry College for the second time this season on Tuesday, as the Eagles will go for the season sweep against the Vikings at 6:00 PM in Mount Berry, Georgia.
Coverage
There will be both live stats and video of Tuesday's game, with links to both available at http://livestats.prestosports.com/berry/.
Emory Eagles
The Eagles took two out of three games at Hendrix College last weekend to open a five-game road trip, the team's longest stretch of road games during the season. Emory now stands at 15-13 during the year, including a mark of 7-4 in road games. The pitching staff has been one of the strengths of the team this season, pitching to a 3.56 ERA (currently tied for the 10th-lowest single-season mark in the program's history), while limiting the opposition to a .284 batting average. Emory is hitting .277 as a team this year, and averaging 5.7 runs per game.
Emory head coach Mike Twardoski, currently has a record of 404-192-1 during his 14-year career at Emory. Twardoski has led the squad to eight UAA Championships, seven NCAA Tournament Appearances and three Division III World Series trips, including a second-place finish in 2007. He began the year as the 22nd-winningest active coach in Division III and the 27th-best Division III coach all-time with a .685 winning percentage.
Berry Vikings
The Vikings are 13-17 overall this season, and will enter Tuesday's game looking to turn around their recent play, having lost six of their last seven contests, all of which have taken place on the road. Berry is coming off a rough weekend in Montgomery, Alabama, during which they were swept by Huntingdon College. The team has a 9-7 record in home games this season. Berry is hitting .277 as a team, while scoring an average of 5.7 runs per game, and its pitching staff has an ERA of 5.93 with an opponents' batting average of .299.
Berry is led by head coach David Beasley, who is now in his 16th season with the program, and has a career record of 484-329-1. He is assisted by Shane West and pitching coach Dillon Napoleon.
Matchup History
On March 26th, Emory defeated Berry 3-1 at Chappell Park, as six Eagle pitchers limited the Vikings to just one run on five hits. Junior Daniel Iturrey drove in two runs during the game, while sophomore Wes Peacock and junior Brandon Hannon each had a pair of hits.
Emory has now won two of its last three meetings with Berry, and stands at 2-7 all-time in the series, including a 2-3 record since the Vikings began their transition to Division III in 2010. Emory is 1-3 all-time at Berry, with the one win, a 7-4 victory, coming on opening day of the 2012 season.
Emory Notes
Emory junior Jared Kahn will enter Tuesday's game with a 14-game hitting streak, the second-longest this season by an Eagle… He is batting .438 (21-for-48) with 20 runs scored and nine stolen bases during the stretch… Kahn has also scored at least one run in 10-straight games (and in 19 of the 27 games he's played in this year), and stolen at least one base in four-consecutive contests… Sophomore Dylan Finer has a 2.12 ERA in his four starts, the lowest ERA by an Emory starter this season… Over his last four appearances, Finer is 2-0 with a 0.54 ERA, allowing just one earned run over 16.2 innings pitched… Emory now stands at 13-1 in 2013 when it scores at least six runs in a game… The Eagles are 7-1 when they score in the first inning, and 12-4 when the team scores first.