GAME DAY LINKS --
McKENDREE vs. INDIANAPOLIS
Saturday, March 16, 2019, Noon (DH)
Sunday, March 17, 2019, Noon
Hypes Field -- Lebanon, Ill.
WATCH LIVE (Bearcat Sports Network)
LIVE STATS
McKENDREE SEASON STATISTICS
INDIANAPOLIS SEASON STATISTICS
GLVC STATISTICS
(LEBANON, Ill., March 14)--The McKendree University baseball team will play host to the University of Indianapolis for a three-game, Great Lakes Valley Conference series this weekend. The Bearcats and Greyhounds will play a doubleheader Saturday at noon before wrapping up the series with a single contest on Sunday at noon. All three games of the series will be carried live on the Bearcat Sports Network at
www.glvcsn.com/mckendree.
McKendree enters the weekend with a 4-10 overall record. The Bearcats were defeated in two of three games to kick off their GLVC slate last weekend at Bellarmine University. McKendree grabbed a 4-3 victory in the middle game of the series and held a late lead in the finale before the Knights rallied to win the contest by a 5-3 score. On Tuesday, the Bearcats returned to Hypes Field and split a non-conference twinbill with William Jewell. After the Cardinals took the opener, 7-4, McKendree broke out the bats to collect a 6-1 win in game two. The Bearcats belted a season-high four home runs -- including three in the sixth inning -- of Tuesday's nightcap.
Bryce Emery (Harrisburg, IL/Harrisburg) is hitting a team-best .455 entering the Indianapolis series.
Hayden Schaefer (O'Fallon, IL/O'Fallon) is the only other starter batting above the .300 mark at .368.
Andrew Aydt (Wildwood, MO/Eureka) and
Drew Reich (Charlestown, IN/Charlestown) share the team lead in round-trippers with three each. Reich hit homers in each end of Tuesday's doubleheader against William Jewell. Aydt has driven in 10 runs and has draw 10 walks to pace the Bearcats.
On the mound,
Ryan Vogt (Ava, IL/Trico) is the only McKendree hurler to start four games to this point of the 2019 season.
Connor Gilles (High Ridge, MO/Rockwood Summit) -- who allowed just one run and struck out a career-high six batters in five innings of work in the nightcap against the Cardinals -- and
Levi Brening (Coon Rapids, MN/DuQuoin) are each 1-1 on the season. Brening tops the squad with 19 strikeouts while Vogt is close behind with 17.
Following the Indianapolis series, McKendree will be on the road for five straight contests, beginning with a GLVC doubleheader on Wednesday at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.
ABOUT INDIANAPOLIS
The Greyhounds are sitting at 8-6 on the year and are also 1-2 in GLVC play. Indianapolis dropped two of three games in St. Louis last weekend at Maryville University to begin their conference slate. The Greyhounds are under the direction of first-year head coach Al Ready, who was a longtime assistant under former head coach Gary Vaught, who retired following the 2018 campaign.
Macy Holdsworth leads the way at the plate for UIndy with a .397 average, three home runs and 16 RBI. Ryan Simons has posted a .357 batting average in nine starts for the Greyhounds. On the mound, Reid Werner has posted a 2-0 record in four starts with 1.04 earned-run average. In 26 innings of work, Werner has struck out 29 batters. He is second on the Greyhounds' squad in strikeouts. Corey Bates has fanned 30 batters in 26 1/3 innings this season.
The Greyhounds took three of four games last season in Indianapolis. The Bearcats took the third game of the set, 6-4, while UIndy edged McKendree by a single run in two of the meetings.
