EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The University of Southern Indiana baseball team concludes the 2018 regular season this weekend with a Great Lakes Valley Conference four-game series at the University of Indianapolis Friday and Sunday in Indianapolis. Game times for Friday and Sunday's doubleheaders are slated for 11 a.m. (CDT) each day.
Game coverage of the Screaming Eagles' baseball games this season can be found on
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SCREAMING EAGLES BASEBALL NOTES:
Late game heroics in 2018. After Tuesday's ninth-inning walk-off 6-5 win over the University of Missouri-St. Louis, USI has won 11 games this spring with runs in its final at-bat (seven times) or in walk-off fashion (four times) out of its 26 total victories.
USI hitters on a roll in the last 11 games. USI has won nine of its last 11 games, including a series win over top-10 University of Tampa and Division I University of Evansville. The Eagles are hitting .341 as a team in the last 11 games, led by senior utility player
Nick Gobert (Jasper, Indiana), who is batting .385, and junior designated hitter/infielder
Jayden Beshears (Evansville, Indiana), who is batting .381. Freshman center fielder
Bryce Krizan (Mt. Vernon, Indiana), who also is batting .375, leads the team with 11 stolen bases, while senior leftfielder/first baseman
Drake McNamara (Mt. Vernon, Indiana), who is batting .371 over the last three weeks, has a team-high 17 RBIs.
Fleming is first Eagle to complete cycle. USI junior second baseman
Jacob Fleming (Evansville, Indiana) became the first Eagle to complete the cycle (home run, triple, double, and single) in the 22-1 win over McKendree University.
Among the national leaders. USI freshman centerfielder
Bryce Krizan (Mt. Washington, Kentucky) has a team-high 35 stolen bases that ranks first in the GLVC and third in the NCAA Division II. Senior leftfielder/first baseman
Drake McNamara also leads the GLVC and ranks 13
th nationally with a team-high 19 doubles. USI ranks 10
th in the nation in doubles plays, 14
th in triples, and 25
th in stolen bases per game.
McNamara closing on single-season home run mark. USI senior leftfielder/first baseman
Drake McNamara has a team-high 10 home runs after hitting a pair in the win over the University of Missouri-St. Louis Tuesday and has four in the last 11 games. McNamara needs four more to tie
Kevin Brown and Dylan Mooney for the USI single-season record of 14. Brown hit 14 in 1993, while Mooney matched the feat in 2010.
USI at the plate this season. Senior first baseman/leftfielder
Drake McNamara leads USI hitters in 2018 with a .390 batting average and a team-high 53 RBIs, 19 doubles, and 10 home runs. Senior utility player
Nick Gobert (Jasper, Indiana), who has seen action at first base, third base, right field, and senior rightfielder
Buddy Johnson (Shelbyville, Kentucky) are second and third on the team with .357 and .356 batting averages, respectively. Gobert and Johnson are second and third on the team in RBIs with 41 and 39, respectively.
USI on the mound this season. USI senior right-hander
Nick Coudret (Newburgh, Indiana) leads the team with five victories, while senior utility player
Nick Gobert follows with four wins. Junior lefthander
Chase Partain (Evansville, Indiana) has a team-best 3.33 ERA among the starting pitchers, while senior right-hander
Kyle Griffin (Morganfield, Kentucky) has a team-high 60 strikeouts.
Moving up the charts. Senior first baseman/leftfielder
Drake McNamara and senior third baseman/shortstop
Sam Griggs (Evansville, Indiana) are moving up the USI all-time record book.
The Eagles lead the all-time series with the Greyhounds, 54-52, after sweeping a four-game set at the USI Baseball Field in 2017.
is USI's all-time winningest coach with a record of 436-231 (.654) in 10-plus seasons and is 584-355 (.622) in 15-plus seasons all-time as a head coach. He has been named the ABCA Division II Coach of the Year twice (2010 and 2014) after leading the Screaming Eagles to a pair of national championships and the ABCA Division II Midwest Region Coach of the Year after leading USI to the regional crown in 2016. Archuleta also has earned a pair of GLVC Coach of the Year awards (2011 and 2014) at USI.