The Ball State baseball team is set to play at Southern Indiana on Tuesday evening and at home against Oakland City on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
The Tuesday contest in Evansville will be played at 6 p.m. ET (5 p.m. CT) and be broadcast on ESPN Radio 97.7 FM. Wednesday’s game was a late add to the schedule and has a 3 p.m. start time with a WMUN 92.5 FM \/ 1340 AM radio call. A video stream can be found on the WMUN Facebook page for Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Ball State (12-10, 7-2 Mid-American Conference) most recently won a series at Western Michigan over the weekend thanks to a pair of ninth inning rallies. The Cardinals scored five runs in the final frame on Saturday in an 8-6 win and four in the ninth on Sunday for a 7-5 decision.<\/p>\n
Southern Indiana (15-9, 2-1 Ohio Valley Conference) beat Western Illinois on Friday and Sunday to earn a series win to begin the OVC season.<\/p>\n
The Screaming Eagles are proficient in playing small ball, pacing the OVC in both sacrifice bunts (24, No. 5 in NCAA Division I) and getting hit by pitches (47), as the league’s top run-producing team (8.3 runs per game).<\/p>\n
Senior Clayton Slack is the team leader in batting average (.371) while having the second-most hits (33) for USI. Fellow senior Patrick McLellan leads the Screaming Eagles in doubles (eight), home runs (three) and RBI (30) as a .357 hitter.<\/p>\n
Oakland City (23-7, 8-4 River States Conference) is an NAIA member about 30 miles northeast of Evansville. The Mighty Oaks played Purdue last Wednesday in West Lafayette, losing 11-3, before sweeping West Virginia University Institute of Technology across three games last Friday and Saturday.<\/p>\n
Freshman Charlie Hoffman is the team leader in batting average at .409, while junior Eric Correa boasts a .361 average with five homers and team highs in RBI (30) and stolen bases (10).<\/p>\n
Ball State’s next conference series starts on Friday afternoon at home vs Ohio.
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