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Southeastern NotesNEW ORLEANS, La. – The New Orleans Privateers baseball team (10-23, 2-13 Southland) looks to bounce back off a tough weekend when they face the Southeastern Lions (24-13, 9-6) in a split series, which starts Thursday at Maestri Field at First NBC Ballpark.
The Privateers were swept by Lamar on the weekend and were held to six runs in three games. New Orleans was also limited to a season low two hits in their 6-1 loss in the Saturday game. In 15 conference games, New Orleans is batting .209 with 35 runs scored and opposing Southland pitching staffs have a collective ERA of 1.84.
Samuel Capielano added two hits to his total, and is now at 49 on the season. Capielano is fifth in the conference in hits, and four off of Southland leader, Colt Atwood of Sam Houston State. Since conference play started on Mar. 14, Capielano has only failed to reach base once, and has collected a hit in 12 of 15 Southland contests.
New Orleans is 56-30 all-time against Southeastern, but lost the only meeting against the Lions in 2013, a 7-2 defeat on Apr. 16. The last time New Orleans defeated the Lions was a 9-1 victory on Apr. 27, 2004. The Lions have won six straight since that date in the all-time series. This will be the first time both squads will meet as Southland foes.
The Lions head in winners of eight of their last ten after a 5-0 win in mid-week over South Alabama. Including Tuesday, Southeastern has thrown three shutouts in that span, and has now won six straight mid-week games since losing a two-game series against Ole Miss. Southeastern has three relievers who have 10 or more appearances with an ERA of less than 2.00 (Matt Pittari, Mason Klotz, and Dylan Hills).
Offensively, Southeastern is led by Andrew Godbold who has a team-high 32 RBIs. Godbold had a season-best six runs batted in against Houston Baptist on Mar. 29. Jameson Fisher's .353 batting average leads the team, and he has 23 RBIs. However, in the last eight games Fisher has just two RBIs.The Lions are batting .280 as a team.
First pitch for the opening game of the series on Thursday is at 6:30 p.m. at Maestri Field. Saturday's contest will also be at home while Friday's game will take place in Hammond.
PROBABLE PITCHING MATCH-UPSThursday 6:30 PM: UNO-
Alex Smith RHP (1-5, 4.01) vs. SLU-Kyle Keller RHP (3-2, 2.89)
Friday 6:00 PM: UNO-
Nick Halliday RHP (2-4, 3.35) vs. SLU-Andro Cutura RHP (5-1, 2.28)
Saturday 1:00 PM: UNO-TBA vs. SLU-Tate Scioneaux RHP (5-2, 2.48)
