SIUE Cougars (23-21) at Evansville Purple Aces (16-25)
April 28, 4 p.m.
German American Bank Field / Charles H. Braun Stadium 
Evansville, Indiana

PROBABLE STARTERS: SIUE RHP Brady Coon vs. UE LHP Jack Willhite

TIME CHANGE: Tuesday's game time has been pushed up to 4 p.m.

LAST WEEK: SIUE went 2-2, taking a midweek matchup at Mizzou before dropping two of three in a weekend OVC series at Southeast Missouri.

SERIES STUFF: Evansville leads the all-time series 20-12 and has a 16-3 advantage in games in Evansville. UE is 18-7 in the series since SIUE moved to Division I. The Cougars have won the last two meetings.

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 eight more times last week and continue to lead the OVC and rank 18th in the NCAA with 75 home runs so far this season. The Cougars rank 18th in the country at 1.70 home runs per game. Niedzwiedz leads the league and ranks seventh nationally with 19 home runs. Mack Mitchell ranks fourth in the league with 12 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.

HOMER RECORDS: Niedzwiedz hit two home runs at SEMO and has 38 for his career, which is the new career record at SIUE. Mitchell has hit 34 in his career, to rank fourth. Niedzwiedz is four homers away from tying SIUE's single-season record of 23.
HIT RECORD: Chase Bloomer has 221 career hits and ranks fifth on SIUE's Divsion I career list. The record is 231 hits by Keaton Wright (2014-17).