Cougars Resume CAA Play This Weekend Against JMU

Friday, April 16

Patriots Point

6:00 PM

College of Charleston

James Madison

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4/15/2021 2:05:00 PM | Baseball

COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON (13-14, 5-4 CAA) vs JAMES MADISON (5-7, 2-1 CAA)
Game No. 28 | Friday, April 16 | 6:00 p.m. | Mt. Pleasant, S.C. | Patriots Point
Game No. 29 | Saturday, April 17 | 2:00 p.m. | Mt. Pleasant, S.C. | Patriots Point
Game No. 30 | Sunday, April 18 | 1:00 p.m. | Mt. Pleasant, S.C. | Patriots Point

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Probable Pitchers
Friday | 6:00 pm ET: RHP Ty Good (2-3, 4.06 ERA, 46 K) vs. RHP Liam McDonnell (1-0, 5.94 ERA, 13 K)
Saturday | 2:00 pm ET: RHP Trey Pooser (2-1, 3.49 ERA, 21 K) vs. TBD
Sunday | 1:00 pm ET: TBA vs. RHP Justin Showalter (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 5 K)

CHARLESTON, S.C. --- The College of Charleston baseball team resumes its Colonial Athletic Association schedule this weekend when the Cougars welcome James Madison to Patriots Point for a crucial three-game series. First pitch on Friday evening is scheduled for 6:00 p.m.

Weekend Preview
The Cougars have won four of their last five including a 13-6 victory over Clemson on Tuesday evening. James Madison has not played since its 2-1 series win against the Cougars on April 2-3 in Harrisonburg, Va.

Scouting James Madison
The Dukes enter the weekend with a 5-7 overall record and a 2-1 mark in CAA play. James Madison is batting .268 as a team with 10 homers and a .418 slugging percentage in 12 games.

Fox Semones leads the Dukes with a .433 batting average while Travis Reifsnider has clubbed three homers and driven in nine runs. Friday starter Liam McDonnell is 1-0 this season with a 5.94 ERA and 13 strikeouts in 16.2 innings pitched over four appearances including three starts.

Series History
Charleston leads the all-time series, 19-9. James Madison snapped an eight-game Cougar winning streak in the all-time series with back-to-back wins on April 2 and 3 before Charleston won the series finale, 3-1, on April 4.

Last Five Games in Series
W, 3-1 4/4/21 in Harrisonburg, Va.
L, 4-7 4/3/21 in Harrisonburg, Va.
L, 3-9 4/2/21 in Harrisonburg, Va.
W, 10-8 4/7/19 in Harrisonburg, Va.
W, 6-5 4/6/19 in Harrisonburg, Va.

Last Time Out
The Cougars defeated Clemson in consecutive seasons for the first time in program history with a 13-6 win over the Tigers on Tuesday. Tanner Steffy hit the first two home runs of his collegiate career as he and Luke Stageberg each drove in three runs to pace the offense. William Privette also allowed only one run and struck out six over 4.2 innings in his first collegiate start.

Finding Their Groove
The Cougars have done their fair share of scoring with two outs with nearly 50 percent (68 of 144) of their total runs coming with two down. More than 42 percent (55 of 129) of the Cougars' RBI have come with two outs led by senior Harrison Hawkins, who has accounted for 17 of those RBI and leads the team with a .351 batting average with runners in scoring position. The Cougars have scored 64 total runs with two outs including 51 over the last 15 games.

Slinging Southpaw
Freshman southpaw Connor Campbell has slotted in as the Cougars' Sunday starter over the last two weekends and shined, going 2-0 while allowing one run on 11 hits and striking out 13 in 14 innings of work. The Mason Neck, Va. native has compiled a 4-1 record with a 2.86 ERA and 37 strikeouts in 34.2 innings over 11 appearances this season.

Hammering Homers
The Cougars' bats have begun to awaken in a big way over the last five games with nine home runs and 21 extra base hits in that span. Four Cougars have accounted for all of those home runs including a three-homer effort for leadoff man Joseph Mershon in a doubleheader against Tennessee Tech last Saturday. The Cougars have homered at least once in each of the last seven games for the first time since the 2015 season.