LR, UCA Square Off at Dickey-Stephens on Tuesday

Game 41: Little Rock vs. Central Arkansas
Date	Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Time	6 p.m.
Location	North Little Rock, Ark.
Stadium	Dickey-Stephens Park
Stats	SIDEARM Stats
Video	TBA
Full Notes	Little Rock | Central Arkansas

LITTLE ROCK – The Rock 'n' Roar Rivalry will continue on Tuesday night as Little Rock baseball (14-26) faces Central Arkansas (22-18) at Dickey-Stephens Park in North Little Rock. Gates will open at 5 p.m., with first pitch set for 6 p.m.
 
Full concessions will be available and students can attend the game for free with a valid student ID. Adult general admission tickets are $10 and child admission tickets are $7. Alumni can take advantage of discounted $7 general admission tickets if they purchase them from the Little Rock ticket office prior to tomorrow's game.
 
At Dickey-Stephens Park, Little Rock has the all-time lead over Central Arkansas at 2-1. All three games at Dickey-Stephens have been decided by two runs or less. UCA took its first victory against Little Rock at DSP last year with a close 7-6 win. The Trojans' last victory against the Bears at DSP came in 2013 as Little Rock came away with a 5-3 win. The very first game in 2012 went into extras and saw the Trojans come away with a walk-off 9-8 win.
 
Tuesday night will be the 74th all-time meeting between Little Rock and Central Arkansas. UCA took the first meeting of this year's series with a 12-3 win in Conway in mid-March.
 
The Trojans will go with right-hander Carter Brown (2-1) for the third midweek game in a row, and the Bears will throw right-hander Jacob Murray (1-1) for the first time since April 11.
 

• A win against UCA would snap the Trojans' three-game skid against the Bears.
• All three games at Dickey-Stephens Park featuring the Trojans and Bears have been decided by two runs or less.
• A win would be the Trojans' first at a neutral site since 2013 against Central Arkansas at Dickey-Stephens Park.
• Little Rock leads the Sun Belt with 80 doubles this season and ranks 39th nationally.
• Hunter Owens and Dalton Thomas are tied for the most doubles in the Sun Belt this season with 14 each.
• Reliever Dylan Slayton continues to lead the Sun Belt with 25 appearances this season — third most in the nation — and has tied his appearance total from last season.
• Little Rock's pitching staff is on pace to break the single-season strikeout record of 438 and need to average more than 6.4 strikeouts per game for the rest of the regular season.
• Trojan pitchers have tallied 342 strikeouts this season — 8.55 per game.
• The Trojans' .976 fielding percentage ranks third in the Sun Belt and 45th nationally.
• Little Rock has allowed the fourth-fewest hits per nine innings in the Sun Belt this season at 8.68.
• Zach Baker has made 94 consecutive starts and has a 12-game reached-base streak.
• Dalton Thomas has reached base safely in 21 consecutive non-conference games.