Trojans Return to Sun Belt Play Against Texas State

Game 30: Little Rock vs. Texas State
Date	Friday, April 7, 2017
Time	6 p.m.
Location	Little Rock, Ark.
Stadium	Gary Hogan Field
Stats	StatBroadcast
Video	Little Rock All-Access
Full Notes	Little Rock | Texas State

LITTLE ROCK – Looking for its first Sun Belt Conference series win this season, Little Rock baseball (10-19, 3-6 Sun Belt) will welcome Texas State (19-11, 6-3 Sun Belt) to Gary Hogan Field for a three-game series beginning on Friday at 6 p.m. The series will continue on Saturday at 2 p.m., before wrapping up on Sunday at noon.
 
Fans will have the chance to purchase Little Rock Trojans merchandise and apparel on the concourse at Friday night's game.
 
Little Rock has the all-time series lead against Texas State at

Game 31: Little Rock vs. Texas State
Date	Saturday, April 8, 2017
Time	2 p.m.
Location	Little Rock, Ark.
Stadium	Gary Hogan Field
Stats	StatBroadcast
Video	Little Rock All-Access
Full Notes	Little Rock | Texas State

7-2 since 2014 and has never dropped a series to the Bobcats. The last time Texas State visited Gary Hogan Field in 2015, it left with a series loss as Little Rock took two out of three games. Last season, the Trojans dealt the Bobcats a three-game sweep in San Marcos.
 
The Trojans will start the same weekend rotation as last week with right-hander Cory Malcom (2-1) on Friday, right-hander Ryan LeMoine (0-3) on Saturday and lefty Chandler Fidel (2-3) on Sunday.
 

Game 32: Little Rock vs. Texas State
Date	Sunday, April 9, 2017
Time	12 p.m.
Location	Little Rock, Ark.
Stadium	Gary Hogan Field
Stats	StatBroadcast
Video	Little Rock All-Access
Full Notes	Little Rock | Texas State

The Bobcats will throw the same rotation as last weekend also with right sophomore right-hander Connor Reich (1-2) on Friday, sophomore lefty Wes Engle (2-0) on Saturday and freshman right-hander Nicholas Fraze (3-1) on Sunday.
 

• A series win for Little Rock would give the Trojans their fourth consecutive series win over Texas State — something Little Rock has never done against a Sun Belt Conference opponent since joining the league in 1992.
• A series sweep would be the second straight against Texas State. The last time Little Rock swept a particular Sun Belt opponent in back-to-back seasons was against ULM in 2010 and 2011.
• Hunter Owens has the second-best batting average in the Sun Belt at .377 and has reached base safely in 11 consecutive games.
• Owens has multiple hits in 13 games this season and is the only Trojan with 10 or more.
• A win on Friday for Cory Malcom would give him 14 career wins — tying with Chance Cleveland and Brad Cherry for the fifth-most victories in program history.
• Malcom hasn't allowed a home run in 74.2 innings dating back to last season.
• At 9.7 at-bats between strikeouts, Bryce Dimitroff is the fifth-toughest player to strikeout in the Sun Belt and ranks 146th nationally.
• Little Rock's fielding percentage of .977 ranks second in the Sun Belt and 40th nationally.
• The Trojans' 53 doubles for the year rank second in the Sun Belt.
• Little Rock is hitting .274 as a team this season — fifth in the Sun Belt.
• The Trojans have tallied the fourth-most home runs in the conference this season with 23.
• Trojan pitchers have the third-lowest opposing batting average in the Sun Belt at .249 and have allowed the third-fewest hits this season with 239.
• Little Rock has allowed the fewest home runs among Sun Belt schools this season with 11.

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