SIUE Cougars (31-21, 18-6 OVC) vs.
UT Martin Skyhawks (25-21, 10-14 OVC)
May 14-16
Roy E. Lee Field  / Simmons Baseball Complex
Edwardsville, Illinois

PROBALE STARTERS:
SIUE RHP Spencer Stearns vs. UTM RHP Jacob Sitton
SIUE RHP Tim Teixeira vs. UTM RHP Maxwell Schumacher
SIUE RHP Jase Phillips vs. UTM TBA

TICKET DEAL: Tickets are Buy One Get One Free for the entire series and can be purchased online here.

WINNING WAYS: SIUE has won nine straight game, which is tied with Georgia for the longest active streak in the country. The 31 wins are the most in the Division I era, and the most since 2007 when the Cougars won 37 games.

TITLE TOWN: With one win, the Cougars will clinch their first-ever OVC Regular Season Championship. The last conference title for the Cougars was a Great Lakes Valley Conference title in 2007.

HOW SWEEP IT IS: SIUE has swept their last two weekend series and four total in OVC play (at Morehead St., vs. Tennessee Tech, vs. Lindenwood, 
at Eastern Illinois).

SERIES STUFF: SIUE leads the all-time series 28-20. The Cougars are 19-8 in the series in Edwardsville and have a 25-13 advantage against the Skyhawks in OVC play. SIUE has won seven of the last 10 meetings in the series. 

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: Ryan Niedzwiedz picked up his second Player of the Week award Monday from the OVC and followed it up with a spot on the Baseball America Team of the Week for the second time this season. Terrick Thompson-Allen garnered OVC Player of the Week honors March 23. He was then tabbed as the National Co-Hitter of the Week by the NCBWA March 24. Josh Heyder won his first career OVC Player of the Week award March 16. Niedzwiedz earned his first award March 2. He also was named to Baseball America's Team of the Week March 3.

HOMER HAPPY: SIUE homered 17 times last weekend at Eastern Illinois and lead the OVC and rank 10th in the NCAA with 98 home runs so far this season. The Cougars rank 13th in the country at 1.88 home runs per game. The 98 homers rank second in a Division I season for SIUE. The school record is 99 home runs hit in 2022. Individually, Niedzwiedz leads the league and ranks fourth nationally with 26 home runs. Mack Mitchell ranks third in the league with 15 home runs. 

HOMER RECORDS: Niedzwiedz homered five times last weekend and has the school record 45 for his career at SIUE. Mitchell has hit 37 in his career, to rank second. Niedzwiedz also now owns the single-season record of 26 home runs.

DRIVE ME HOME: With an RBI Tuesday at SIU Carbondale, Niedzwiedz now has 64 which is a new record for a Division I season at SIUE. It ranks fifth most in any season.

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. 

D1 HIT KING: Chase Bloomer became SIUE's Division I hits leader during the series at Eastern Illinois. He now has 238 hits in his career. That ranks sixth all-time.