Saturday, February 22
Jacksonville, AL
2:00 p.m.
Central Michigan University
at
Jacksonville State
Photo by: Benjamin Suddendorf
Chippewas Begin Weeklong Road Trip In Alabama
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CMU to play Jacksonville State, Arizona, Rhode Island next week
MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. – The Central Michigan baseball team will spend the next seven days on the road, traveling to two cities to play eight games against three opponents.
The Chippewas open their road trip with a four-game series against Jacksonville State in Jacksonville, Ala.
The series kicks off with a doubleheader on Saturday at 2 p.m. Game three is on Sunday (2 p.m.) and the series concludes on Monday (3 p.m.).
CMU will then head to Tucson, Ariz. where it will play two games each with Arizona and Rhode Island later in the week.
The Chippewas are 3-1 after their season-opening series last weekend at UNLV. They won three straight games to start the year before dropping the series finale.
Walks, Hits and Runs
The Chippewas are ninth in the nation in bases on balls after they drew 33 last weekend. CMU was third in the nation in walks last year with 386 and scored a program-record 511 runs, ranking seventh nationally in that category. They scored an average of 8.4 runs per game.
Sticking with the same approach worked out well for the Chippewas over opening weekend as they averaged 10 runs per in their first four games.
In addition to drawing walks, the Chippewas tallied 45 hits in their opening series, the most among MAC teams on the season-opening weekend. They are 27th in the nation in hits.
Hitting Leaders
CMU's Chase Rollin and Zach Gilles are first and second among MAC players in RBI with eight and seven, respectively. Gilles and CMU slugger Griffin Lockwood-Powell are among four players tied for the conference lead with seven hits.
CMU shortstop Zavier Warren, an All-American last season, leads the conference in runs with seven, is tied for the league lead with six walks, and is tied for sixth in the conference with six hits.
Freshman Zach Lechnir finds himself among the conference leaders after hitting a home run in his first collegiate series. His slugging percentage of .900 puts him second in the conference in that category. He's also seventh in the MAC with a .571 on-base percentage.
Lockwood-Powell hit .438 at UNLV and posted an on-base percentage of .591. He ranks seventh in hitting and sixth in on-base percentage in the league. He is tied for seventh in the league with four RBI.
Pitching Leaders
CMU junior right-hander Jordan Patty tops the MAC in multiple categories after he threw seven innings of shutout ball in an 8-0 win at UNLV.
He is tied for the league lead in ERA (0.00) and hits allowed (1) while standing alone at the top of the conference in opponent batting average (.048) and innings pitched (7). His six strikeouts place him tied for ninth in the league.
Chippewa reliever Grant Frazer is one of five MAC pitchers to have recorded a save on the weekend. CMU's Cameron Brown struck out seven in his start at UNLV, placing him fifth in the conference in strikeouts.
Scouting
Jacksonville State lost the first two games of a three-game series with Missouri before taking the finale for its first win of the season. The Gamecocks defeated UAB, 5-3, on Wednesday and are 2-2.
The Gamecocks have turned eight double plays across their first four games, leading the nation in that category.
Jacksonville State senior Alex Webb has a .786 slugging percentage after hitting two home runs through four games. Webb, a left-handed hitting catcher, hit .304 with nine home runs and earned All-Ohio Valley Conference First Team honors in 2019, when the Gamecocks won both the league regular-season and tournament championships and then went 2-2 in the Oxford, Miss. Regional of the NCAA Tournament.
Pitching Matchups (CMU starter listed first)
Saturday, game 1: Brown (0-0, 8.31 ERA) vs. Dylan Hathcock (0-1, 5.40); game 2: Patty (1-0, 0.00) vs. Isaiah Magwood (0-0, 0.00); Sunday, J.T. Rogoszewski (0-0, 9.00) vs. Michael Gilliland (0-0, 27.00); Monday, TBD vs. TBD.
The Chippewas open their road trip with a four-game series against Jacksonville State in Jacksonville, Ala.
The series kicks off with a doubleheader on Saturday at 2 p.m. Game three is on Sunday (2 p.m.) and the series concludes on Monday (3 p.m.).
CMU will then head to Tucson, Ariz. where it will play two games each with Arizona and Rhode Island later in the week.
The Chippewas are 3-1 after their season-opening series last weekend at UNLV. They won three straight games to start the year before dropping the series finale.
Walks, Hits and Runs
The Chippewas are ninth in the nation in bases on balls after they drew 33 last weekend. CMU was third in the nation in walks last year with 386 and scored a program-record 511 runs, ranking seventh nationally in that category. They scored an average of 8.4 runs per game.
Sticking with the same approach worked out well for the Chippewas over opening weekend as they averaged 10 runs per in their first four games.
In addition to drawing walks, the Chippewas tallied 45 hits in their opening series, the most among MAC teams on the season-opening weekend. They are 27th in the nation in hits.
Hitting Leaders
CMU's Chase Rollin and Zach Gilles are first and second among MAC players in RBI with eight and seven, respectively. Gilles and CMU slugger Griffin Lockwood-Powell are among four players tied for the conference lead with seven hits.
CMU shortstop Zavier Warren, an All-American last season, leads the conference in runs with seven, is tied for the league lead with six walks, and is tied for sixth in the conference with six hits.
Freshman Zach Lechnir finds himself among the conference leaders after hitting a home run in his first collegiate series. His slugging percentage of .900 puts him second in the conference in that category. He's also seventh in the MAC with a .571 on-base percentage.
Lockwood-Powell hit .438 at UNLV and posted an on-base percentage of .591. He ranks seventh in hitting and sixth in on-base percentage in the league. He is tied for seventh in the league with four RBI.
Pitching Leaders
CMU junior right-hander Jordan Patty tops the MAC in multiple categories after he threw seven innings of shutout ball in an 8-0 win at UNLV.
He is tied for the league lead in ERA (0.00) and hits allowed (1) while standing alone at the top of the conference in opponent batting average (.048) and innings pitched (7). His six strikeouts place him tied for ninth in the league.
Chippewa reliever Grant Frazer is one of five MAC pitchers to have recorded a save on the weekend. CMU's Cameron Brown struck out seven in his start at UNLV, placing him fifth in the conference in strikeouts.
Scouting
Jacksonville State lost the first two games of a three-game series with Missouri before taking the finale for its first win of the season. The Gamecocks defeated UAB, 5-3, on Wednesday and are 2-2.
The Gamecocks have turned eight double plays across their first four games, leading the nation in that category.
Jacksonville State senior Alex Webb has a .786 slugging percentage after hitting two home runs through four games. Webb, a left-handed hitting catcher, hit .304 with nine home runs and earned All-Ohio Valley Conference First Team honors in 2019, when the Gamecocks won both the league regular-season and tournament championships and then went 2-2 in the Oxford, Miss. Regional of the NCAA Tournament.
Pitching Matchups (CMU starter listed first)
Saturday, game 1: Brown (0-0, 8.31 ERA) vs. Dylan Hathcock (0-1, 5.40); game 2: Patty (1-0, 0.00) vs. Isaiah Magwood (0-0, 0.00); Sunday, J.T. Rogoszewski (0-0, 9.00) vs. Michael Gilliland (0-0, 27.00); Monday, TBD vs. TBD.
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