{"id":194639,"date":"2026-03-17T08:14:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194639\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T08:14:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T08:14:16","slug":"samford-baseball-travels-to-jacksonville-state-for-tuesday-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/194639\/","title":{"rendered":"Samford Baseball Travels To Jacksonville State For Tuesday Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                     <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/documents\/2026\/3\/16\/19_Jax_State_away.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GAME NOTES&#8211;SAMFORD AT JAX STATE (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>BIRMINGHAM, Ala.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u2013 The Samford University baseball team will play at Jacksonville State Tuesday at 3 p.m. at Rudy Abbott Field at Jim Case Stadium. The game can be seen live on ESPN+.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSamford is scheduled to start right-handed pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/noah-berry\/10686\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10686\" target=\"_blank\">Noah Berry<\/a> on the mound Tuesday night. Berry enters the game with a record of 1-1 and an ERA of 2.08.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSamford and Jacksonville State have played 92 previous times, with JSU holding a 56-36 series lead. Last season, the teams met twice, with JSU winning both games. Prior to last season&#8217;s games, Samford had won four games in a row in the series.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSamford comes into the week with a record of 7-11. The Bulldogs dropped two-of-three games to Little Rock over the weekend. Samford won game one of the series, 5-4, but dropped the last two games, 5-1 and 12-2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSamford has been led at the plate so far this season by <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/jake-souders\/10704\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10704\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Souders<\/a>, hitting .415 (27-of-65) with two home runs and eight RBI. <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/luke-boykin\/10711\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10711\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Boykin<\/a> leads the team in both home runs with five and in RBI with 17. <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/gus-gandy\/10692\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10692\" target=\"_blank\">Gus Gandy<\/a> is hitting .322 (19-for-59) with three doubles, two home runs and five RBI. <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/baseball\/roster\/cade-carr\/10689\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"10689\" target=\"_blank\">Cade Carr<\/a> has a .310 (18-of-58) average with three doubles, two home runs and 15 RBI.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nJacksonville State enters Tuesday evening&#8217;s game with a record of 17-3 overall and 3-0 in Conference USA. The Gamecocks swept a series at Sam Houston over the weekend, winning the games by scores of 3-1, 18-7 and 4-3.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Gamecocks have been led at the plate so far this season by Jaxon Pate, hitting .389 (21-for-54) with five doubles and 11 RBI. Grayson Ashe leads Jacksonville State in home runs with four and in RBI with 24.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTuesday&#8217;s game can be seen live on ESPN+ and live stats will also be available. For links to follow all of Samford&#8217;s games this season, click on the following link: <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/sports\/baseball\/schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2026 SCHEDULE<\/a>.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nFOLLOW THE BULLDOGS<br \/>\nFor the latest news and information on Samford baseball, visit the official website for Samford Athletics at <a href=\"https:\/\/samfordsports.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SamfordSports.com<\/a>. Fans can also follow the Bulldogs on social media at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SamfordBaseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\/SamfordBaseball<\/a> (Facebook), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/samfordbaseball\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SamfordBaseball<\/a> (Instagram) and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SamfordBaseball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SamfordBaseball<\/a> (Twitter).\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; GAME NOTES&#8211;SAMFORD AT JAX STATE (PDF) BIRMINGHAM, Ala. \u00a0\u2013 The Samford University baseball team&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-194639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}