SIUE Cougars (22-19, 11-4 OVC) at
Southeast Missouri Redhawks (29-12, 10-5 OVC)
April 24-26
Capaha Field
Cape Girardeau, Missouri

SIUE PROBABLE STARTERS
RHP Tim Teixeira
RHP Spencer Stearns
RHP Jase Phillips

STANDINGS: SIUE is tied with Little Rock atop the Ohio Valley Conference standings at 11-4. SEMO is just a game back at 10-5.

MIDWEEK: SIUE came back from a 3-0 deficit to defeat Missouri Tuesday night. SIUE hit four homers on the way to an 11-5 victory over the Tigers.

SERIES STUFF: SEMO leads the all-time series 42-30. The Redhawks are 25-10 at home in the series and 28-11 since the Cougars joined the OVC. The last series win for SIUE came in 2019.

START ME UP: The Cougars started 8-0 in OVC play, marking the program's best start to a conference season. The previous best was a 6-0 start in 2015.

PLAYERS OF THE WEEK: Terrick Thompson-Allen became the third SIUE player to garner OVC Player of the Week honors March 23. He was then tabbed as the National Co-Hitter of the Week by the NCBWA Marcg 24. Josh Heyder won his first career OVC Player of the Week award March 16. Ryan Niedzwiedz earned the award March 2. He also was named to Baseball America's Team of the Week March 3.

HOMER HAPPY: SIUE homered four times at 
Mizzou and continue to lead the OVC and rank 15th in the NCAA with 71 home runs so far this season. The Cougars rank 16th in the country at 1.73 home runs per game. Niedzwiedz leads the league and ranks 13th nationally with 17 home runs. Mack Mitchell ranks sixth in the league with 11 home runs. In 2025, SIUE led the league with 77 home runs which was second most in the program's Division I history. The school record is 99 home runs in 2022.

RECORD WATCH: Niedzwiedz hit two home runs at Western Illinois and has 36 for his career, which is the new career record at SIUE. Mitchell has hit 33 in his career, to tie for fourth. The previous record of 35 home runs was shared by Brady Bunten and Brock Weimer.
HARD NINE: The Cougars hit a single-game school-record nine home runs March 20 at Morehead State. SIUE hit 19 home runs in the the three-game weekend series sweep of the Eagles. 

EDWARDSVILLE SLUGGERS: SIUE is second in the OVC and rank 32nmd nationally in slugging percentage (.502). Niedzwiedz is second in the OVC and is 30th in the NCAA with a .723 slugging percentage.