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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology baseball team is set to host a three-game weekend series with Alma. The Fightin' Engineers will play two games on Friday at 12:00 and 3:00 with one game on Sunday at 1:00.
ROSE-HULMAN GAME NOTES:
* Rose-Hulman come in to this weekend with a 4-3 record on their spring trip to Georgia.
* The Fightin' Engineers have won three straight games with wins over Ferrum and Bridgewater in Georgia as well as a win in their home opener against Greenville on Wednesday.
* Rose-Hulman enters the season with a 44-player roster under the direction of second-year head coach
Adam Rosen.
* The Fightin' Engineers finished last season 28-13 and 12-6 in the HCAC which was enough for a 3rd place finish. The Fightin' Engineers fell to Earlham in the HCAC Championship.
* Rose-Hulman was picked to finish 2nd in the HCAC this season, in a preseason poll of league coaches released in February.
* Rose-Hulman has received preseason notice from Collegiate Baseball Newspaper as they received votes in the NCAA Division III national poll.
* Rose-Hulman will return to the field next weekend for another three-game series at Art Nehf Field against Wisconsin-Oshkosh.
TEAM HITTING LEADERS:
BATTING AVERAGE -
Kade Kline (.483)
ON BASE PERCENTAGE -
Kade Kline (.545)
SLUGGING PERCENTAGE -
Kade Kline (.724)
HITS -
Kade Kline (14)
DOUBLES -
Peter Rogers (3)
TRIPLES -
Dalton Busboom /
Kade Kline (1)
HOME RUNS -
Colter Couillard-Rodak (2)
RBIs -
Kade Kline (9)
RUNS -
Kade Kline (10)
STEALS -
Kade Kline (5)
TEAM PITCHING LEADERS:
ERA -
Evan Chung (0.00)
WHIP -
Josh Erpenbeck (0.63)
WINS -
Josh Erpenbeck /
Evan Chung /
Zacheus Carr /
Alec Lewandowski (1)
OPPONENT BATTING AVERAGE -
Josh Erpenbeck (0.77)
STRIKEOUTS -
Alec Lewandowski (5)
INNINGS -
Josh Erpenbeck (8.0)
OPPONENT NOTES:
* Alma comes in at 4-7-1 on the season with wins in three of their last four against Centenary (LA) and Millsaps.
* Avery Carnicom leads the Scots in nearly every statistical category on the offensive side. In 11 games, he has 7 home runs, a .625 batting average and a 2.000 OPS.
* Freshman Cole Grunwald has added a .333 batting average and .936 OPS to open his collegiate campaign.
* The team overall his hitting .301 with 95 runs in their 12 games.
SERIES HISTORY:
* The Fightin' Engineers are 12-4 all-time against Alma.
* These two teams usually play during the spring trip in Florida with 11 of their all-time meetings in the South.
* The other five meetings have all taken place at Art Nehf Field with the Fightin' Engineers winning four of those.
* Rose-Hulman won the last meeting back in 2019 in a 1-0 pitchers duel in Auburndale, Florida.
* The last Alma win in the series came in 2013 in Florida.
ROSE-HULMAN RECORDS:
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Schuyler Wilcox currently ranks 6th in school history with 6 career saves.
