GAME DAY LINKS --
McKENDREE at MARYVILLE
Friday, April 5, 2019, 3 p.m.
Saturday, April 6, 2019, Noon (DH)
Weber Field -- St. Louis, Mo.

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(LEBANON, Ill., April 5)--The McKendree University baseball team will make the short trip to St. Louis this weekend for a three-game series at Maryville University. The weather forecast has prompted a change in the look of the three-game set as the teams will play a single game Friday at 3 p.m. before wrapping up the series with a doubleheader Saturday at noon.

McKendree will look to get back on track as it enters the weekend with a 9-19 overall record and a 6-11 mark in Great Lakes Valley Conference play. The Bearcats dropped both ends of a GLVC doubleheader on Wednesday at home to the University of Southern Indiana. 

Three starters are hitting over .300 entering the Maryville series. Bryce Emery (Harrisburg, IL/Harrisburg) leads the trio at .360 while Hayden Schaefer (O'Fallon, IL/O'Fallon) is next at .333. Matt Klosterman (Belleville, IL/Belleville West) rounds out the group with a .310 batting average. Drew Reich (Charlestown, IN/Charlestown) hit his team-leading sixth home run of the season in Wednesday's opener against USI. Reich also took over the team lead in runs batted in with the blast as he sits at 19 on the year. Corey Chambliss (St. Louis, MO/Oakville) has driven in 18 runs, while Andrew Aydt (Wildwood, MO/Eureka) is second on the team with four homers and is third in RBI with 16. 

Andrew Yancik (Glen Carbon, IL/Edwardsville) leads the Bearcats' pitching staff with two victories while Connor Gilles (High Ridge, MO/Rockwood Summit) leads the starting rotation with a 4.56 earned-run average. Ryan Vogt (Ava, IL/Trico) and Levi Brening (Coon Rapids, MN/DuQuoin) have each struck out a team-leading 30 batters heading into this weekend's play. Adam Bunnell (Salem, IL/Salem) has registered three saves to lead McKendree. 

After the Maryville series, McKendree will head to Southern Indiana on Tuesday for a single contest. The Bearcats will then play host to the University of Illinois Springfield next weekend in GLVC action. 

ABOUT MARYVILLE
The Saints are 14-15 on the year and 11-6 in conference play. Maryville swept a GLVC doubleheader Wednesday at home against the University of Missouri-St. Louis and has won three of its last four outings. Like McKendree, Maryville has three regulars in the lineup hitting above the .300 mark, led by Wyatt Elbe at .345. Camdon Mercier is next at .309, followed by Dominic Connolly at .305. Cody Klotz has belted a team-leading eight home runs and is second on the team with 21 RBI. Louis Niemerg has driven in a team-leading 29 runs in just 28 games for the Saints. 

On the mound, Cody Creed leads the Maryville staff with four victories and 43 strikeouts in 40 2/3 innings of work. Cody Siebenberger and Ryan Louck have each registered two victories, while Tanner Marshall leads the Saints with four saves. 

McKendree and Maryville played a four-game, non-conference series early in the 2018 season. The Saints won three of four contests at Weber Field. The Bearcats took the second game of the series, 12-3, back on Feb. 23, 2018.