Little Rock Faces SFA in Midweek Action on Tuesday

Game 33: Little Rock vs. Stephen F. Austin
Date	Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Time	6 p.m.
Location	Little Rock, Ark.
Stadium	Gary Hogan Field
Stats	StatBroadcast
Video	Little Rock All-Access
Full Notes	Little Rock | Stephen F. Austin

LITTLE ROCK – Fresh off a Sun Belt series win, Little Rock baseball (12-20, 5-7 Sun Belt) will wrap up its eight-game homestand against Stephen F. Austin (20-14, 9-3 Southland) at Gary Hogan Field on Tuesday at 6 p.m.
 
Little Rock and SFA met earlier this season with Lumberjacks taking two out of three games in Nacogdoches, Texas. In a series that dates back to 1992, SFA owns the slight series lead at 11-10. A win on Tuesday night for Little Rock would be its first against SFA at home since 2013.
 
The Trojans will throw right-hander Carter Brown (1-1) on Tuesday night. Brown's last start occurred last Tuesday against UAPB as he threw two innings, struck out two and allowed just two hits. His start against the Lumberjacks will be the fourth of the season and third in midweek competition.
 
SFA will start left-hander Erik Nouis (1-1) on Tuesday. Nouis has a 7.11 ERA in 25.1 innings of work and has an opposing batting average of .270. Nouis was the starter in Little Rock's 8-3 win over SFA back in March and went 2.1 innings while allowing two runs on two hits and four walks.
 

• Little Rock will be looking for its first home win against Stephen F. Austin since 2013.
• A win on Tuesday would be the Trojans' first midweek victory of the season.
• At 59 doubles for the year, Little Rock ranks second in the Sun Belt.
• The Trojans are allowing the third-fewest hits per nine innings in the conference at 8.34 — 60th nationally.
• Little Rock's fielding percentage of .976 ranks third in Sun Belt.
• Hunter Owens' batting average of .381 is second in the Sun Belt and 69th nationally.
• Owens' 48 hits rank 33rd nationally and third in the conference.
• Dalton Thomas' 12 doubles lead the Sun Belt and rank 38th nationally while his 0.40 doubles per game also rank first in the conference and 54th nationally.
• Thomas has the longest active hitting streak at seven games while Nik Gifford has the longest active reached-base streak at nine games.
• Dylan Slayton upped his appearances total to 20 this weekend and now ranks first in the Sun Belt and fifth in the nation.
• Little Rock is outhitting opponents .316 to .217 at home this season and .266 to .248 against non-conference opponents.