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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. -- The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology baseball team continues their 2024 spring trip on Tuesday evening. The Fightin' Engineers battle Dubuque on Tuesday evening at 5:30 PM for the first game of their Russ Matt Invitational.

ROSE-HULMAN GAME NOTES:
* Rose-Hulman baseball continues their eight game spring trip with five games in Orlando in the next five days.
* The Fightin' Engineers finished their season opening series with Emory with a 1-2 overall record. Rose-Hulman won the first game on Saturday by a score of 11-9, but they fell 11-6 and 16-4 in the final two games.
* The Fightin' Engineers will continue their Southern trip in Orlando, Florida with five games in the 2024 RussMatt Invitational against Dubuque (Feb. 27), Moravian (Feb. 28), Grove City (DH on Mar. 1), and Houghton (Mar. 2).
* Rose-Hulman opens their third season under head coach Adam Rosen as the Fightin' Engineers look to bounce back from a 23-21 season in 2023 that included a 13-9 record in the HCAC.
* The Fightin' Engineers return the majority of their lineup including seven of their top eight in plate appearances from last season. Rose-Hulman also returns 84% of their innings on the mound last season including 36 of their 44 starts in 2023.
* Rose-Hulman returns a pair of all-conference players from last season's team including Kade Kline (2nd-Team) and Michael Yager (Honorable Mention).
* Colter Couillard-Rodak has been outstanding at the plate for Rose-Hulman to start the season with a slash line of 0.417 / 0.563 / 0.980. He also leads the team with 5 hits and 4 stolen bases.
* Kade Kline has a 1.442 OPS in the opening three games of the season. He hit a pair of home runs in the season opener against Emory on Saturday, and he currently leads the team in slugging percentage, home runs, RBIs, walks, and extra base hits.
* Rose-Hulman has struggled on the mound this season, but Ian Kline and Michael Yager led Rose-Hulman with a pair of good starts to open the season.
* Rose-Hulman was selected fourth overall in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference preseason poll. The Fightin' Engineers received 62 poll points.
* After their spring trip, the Fightin' Engineers return to action with a three-game series against Calvin on March 15 and 16.

DUBUQUE NOTES:
* Dubuque enters Tuesday's game at 6-1 overall and on a two-game winning streak
* The Spartans won the opening series of the year with a three-game sweep of Lyon College.
* Dubuque currently sits at 3-1 in the Russ Matt Invitational in Orlando with wins over Carthage (8-7), Alma (7-1), and Grove City (9-7). Their lone loss came to Alma on Monday by a score of 5-3.
* As a team, the Spartans have struggled at the plate with a slash line of .250 / .340 / .367, but they are averaging 7 runs and 9 hits per game.
* The Eagles have been perfect on the base paths this season going 9-9 on stolen base attempts.
* Colin Husko leads the team with a .389 batting average and .577 on-base percentage to start the year. He has an OPS of 1.188 with 7 hits, 6 walks and 2 hit by pitches in 26 plate appearances.
* Jake Cekander leads the team with three extrabase hits on the year. He is hitting .368 with a .926 OPS.
* Luke Burgos and Maguire Fitzgerald also come into the game with an OPS over .900. Burgos leads the team with 5 RBIs, and Fitzgerald leads the team with 6 runs scored.
* On the mound, the Spartans have been lights out with a 1.97 ERA and a 1.20 WHIP. They only have two pitchers on the team who have allowed more than 1 earned run on the season.
* Charlie Jaeger has been the ace on the mound for the Spartans with a 0.69 ERA in two starts.
* Johnny Blake has struck out 17 batters in his two starts this season, and he has a 3.60 ERA, the second-highest on the team.
* Dubuque comes in with 8 errors in their 5 games, but they have not come back to hurt
the Spartans with only 2 unearned runs on the season.
* The Spartans come in at 3-1 in games that have been decided by three runs or less. They are also

2024 TEAM HITTING LEADERS (Min. 1.5 AB/Game):
BATTING AVERAGE - Colter Couillard-Rodak (0.417)
ON-BASE PERCENTAGE - Colter Couillard-Rodak (0.563)
SLUGGING PERCENTAGE - Kade Kline (0.909)
HITS - Colter Couillard-Rodak / Connor O'Connell (5)
DOUBLES - Ryland Hixon / Connor O'Connell / Peter Rogers (1)
TRIPLES - N/A
HOME RUNS - Kade Kline (2)
RUNS - Colton Brown (5)
EXTRA BASE HITS - Kade Kline (2)
RBI - Kade Kline (5)
STOLEN BASES - Colter Couillard-Rodak (4)
WALKS - Colter Couillard-Rodak / Kade Kline (4)
HIT BY PITCHES - Josh Erpenbeck (1)

TEAM PITCHING LEADERS (Min. 0.5 IP/Game)
GAMES - Tyler Orr (2)
STARTS - Ian Kline / Alec Lewandowski / Michael Yager (1)
INNINGS - Ian Kline (4.2)
WINS - Schuyler Wilcox (1)
ERA - Brad Nardi (0.00)
WHIP - Tyler Orr (1.29)
SAVES - Jonathan Oliger (1)
STRIKEOUTS - Ian Kline / Michael Yager (6)
K/BB - Tyler Orr / Brady Strawmyer (Infinity)
K/9 - Michael Yager (12.46)
BB/9 - Tyler Orr / Brady Strawmyer (0.00)
OBA - Michael Yager (0.250)

SERIES HISTORY:
* Dubuque leads the all-time series between the two teams with a 1-0 mark against the Fightin' Engineers.
* Dubuque won the first and only meeting between the two schools with a 9-7 victory in 2022.
* Rose-Hulman led the game 5-3 in 2022, but they allowed one run in the eighth and five in the ninth to fall 9-7.
* Dalton Busboom went 3-5 in the last meeting with Dubuque, and Kade Kline went 2-5.

ROSE-HULMAN CAREER RECORDS:
* Schuyler Wilcox - T-6th in school history with 6 career saves

HCAC STANDINGS / NEXT GAME:
Transylvania - 0-0 (3-0) - Mar. 2 vs. DePauw (DH)
Anderson - 0-0 (4-2) - Mar. 2 vs. Knox (DH)
Earlham - 0-0 (2-1) - Mar. 2 vs. Kalamazoo (DH)
Manchester - 0-0 (1-1) - Feb. 27 at Huntington
Franklin - 0-0 (1-2) - Mar. 1 vs. Hope
Hanover - 0-0 (1-2) - Feb. 27 vs. Eastern
Mount St. Joseph - 0-0 (1-2) - Mar. 2 vs. Ohio Wesleyan (DH)
Rose-Hulman - 0-0 (1-2) - Feb. 27 vs. Dubuque
Bluffton - 0-0 (0-0) - Mar. 3 vs. Baldwin Wallace
Defiance - 0-0 (0-0) - Mar. 4 vs. Alvernia